Post on 16-Feb-2017
Portrait
MastersSandro Botticelli
Mikhail Vrubel
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Valentin Serov
Paula Rego
Gerhard Richter
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor
Sandro Botticelli
(Italian, 1445-1510)
Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century because he emphasized flat color and pattern instead of deep shadow and modeled realism (e.g., late Michelangelo or Leonardo).
But since1900 his work has been recognized for its breathtaking linear grace and voluptuous pattern.
Leonardo
Botticelli
Birth of Venus 1475
Primevera, 1482
Detail from The Trials of Moses, Sistine Chapel
Vrubel was a member of the Symbolist movement of French, Russian and Belgian poets and painters.
Symbolism was a reaction to naturalism and realism, anti-idealistic styles which attempted to represent reality in its gritty manifestations -- to elevate the humble and the ordinary over the ideal. As a reaction, Symbolism favored spirituality, the imagination, and dreams.
Mikhail Vrubel (Russian 1856 – 1910)
Vrubel
Vrubel
Jules Bastien-LepageFrench, 1848-1884
Bastien-Lepage was a "Naturalist“ in his love of Nature and the abundance of organic patterns and shapes.
He was an “Impressionist” in that his work covered a similar range of subject matter as that of Impressionism, but using tighter, more traditional brushwork.
He was a “Romantic” in his love of strong epiphanies of intense feeling bordering on religious ecstasy or deep melancholy ennui.)
Bastien-Lepage “At Harvest Time”
Bastien-Lepage
Bastien-Lepage
Bastien-Lepage
Valentin Serov
(Russian, 1865 – 1911) Serov’s portraits were notable for their psychological intensity. His favorite models were actors, artists, and writers. He tried to capture a sense of movement by combining linear drawing with decorative color and spontaneous brush.
Serov
Serov
Serov
Serov
Gerhard Richter1932-
Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, following the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.
Paula Rego
(English, 1935- ) Rego’s work often reflects an assertive feminism, colored by folk-themes.
Her style is often compared to cartoon illustration. As in cartoons, animals are often depicted in human roles and situations. Her later work adopts a more realistic style, but sometimes keeps the animal references — the Dog Woman series of the 1990s, for example, is a set of pastel pictures depicting women in a variety of dog-like poses (on all fours, baying at the moon, etc.).
Clothes play an important role in Rego's work, as pieces of her visual story-telling. Many of the clothes worn by models and mannequins in her work are representative of the frocks she wore as a child in Portugal. She has favored pastels over oils for much of her career.