It wasn't until I was an adult that mother gave me the book that Beardsley illustrated from which she and father chose my middle name.
Posted on 03/15/2018 11:43:13 AM PDT by mairdie
Paintings, jewelry and furniture by Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Charles Dana Gibson, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Carolus Duran, Louis Welden Hawkins, Eugene Grasset, Francois Raoul Larche, Georges de Feure, Walter Crane, Heinrich Vogeler, Louis Majorelle, Maxfield Parrish, and Manuel Orazi.
Music by Joseph Blanchard, a gentleman I met who composes and plays for hospital patients. An absolutely wonderful man.
newrep, I've already gathered your Remington and organized it. I'm only waiting on the Dvorak CD to arrive to pick some subsections of the 4th movement.
jmacusa, the pre-Raphaelites are still on my list, but I haven't found any Bach quartets I've liked that match their mood, so haven't been gathering yet. That search DID lead me to the saxophone Bach so I still count it as successful.
Really hope you enjoy this one. I'm learning a lot doing them.
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One of my favorite art periods. I know everybody hates Barbra Streisand (with good reason) but she’s got an extraordinary collection of French art nouveau including original theater posters.
One of my favorite movies is Victor/Victoria, partly for the glorious Parisian furniture and hotel decor.
I love the old Poirot episodes with David Suchet because of the 30s styling. It’s so well done.
Thank you for working on the Remington/Dvorak.
Wow, this is one of your most fascinating videos yet. The music has the nostalgic flavor of Belle Epoque era saloon tunes and is very appropriate for these exquisite artworks. Great job!
My deepest thanks. I’ve always wanted to go back and take more art history classes, and this is sort of a way to do it for myself. I’m sorry my PING to you didn’t work. I put an E in nw. Sigh. And apologies.
I enjoyed collecting the Remington. It kept reminding me of family history. Grandfather was a cowboy with six shooter and Stetson who fought in the Spanish American War, and great grandfather was in the Cavalry in Kansas during the Civil War. Father was raised on a ranch in Colorado, and other grandmother on a ranch in Montana, where she used to visit an elderly Indian “chief” in her ponycart. It was absolutely fun to collect the pictures! And it will be roughly chronological, too.
>>old Poirot episodes
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very lovely.
#1. Notice that Mucha illustrates the female figure at a normal weight. She is shown at what in today’s judgemental world would be called ‘heavy’. I say, not so. These women are shown in the flower of their beauty.
#2. Aubrey Beardsley produced some exquisite pen and ink pieces. He may have used Scratchboard (black ink over plasterboard) for some. It’s almost certain that he used Croquille pen tips or C-3 pen tips for most others.
Aubrey was a good friend of controversial poet Oscar Wilde.
It wasn't until I was an adult that mother gave me the book that Beardsley illustrated from which she and father chose my middle name.
That’s Art Deco. Art Nouveau is a bit more romantic and soft than the geometric Art Deco. It’s from an earlier period. But I agree V/V has some nice set designs.
To create clear and clean lines with slight fluctuations of width, I always found it best to draw while using my arm or elbow as the movement tool. Sort of like using the elbow as a center of a Compass. I rarely drew from my wrist forward. That was too limiting, too crimping, unless the final forms had to be small.
Yes, but you had skill. I had NONE!
Maxfield Parrish!!
Another one of my ‘heroes’ from that era.
As different from the average poster artist as can be.
Max took what was grand in nature and made it grandiose.
Some would consider most his pieces as Candy-Coated Visions from Heaven. The vistas of sunny skyscapes make the heart beat faster.
That’s lovely.
This is wonderful. I’m a big Art Nouveau fan so I really appreciate your effort.
Infinite thanks, iceskater. I’ve really been enjoying putting these together.
Once I developed my techniques for sorting images into date directories, and then dividing the great ones from the good ones into sub directories, the actual video making wasn’t too bad.
The REAL effort is going to come in the Tiffany windows. So far here I just have to take out some backgrounds on the statues and get rid of white space around prints. The Tiffany windows are all TALL!! so the perspective is off, which means almost every one will need perspective adjustment. Basically, you build a rectangular frame, then you distort the image until it fits into the rectangle. A pain, but really worth it for the result.
Again, I’m so very glad you like these.
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