Sorry, this isn’t a display of my paintings. It’s a display of those dedicated artists associated with the Neo-Raphaelite movement. The purists of that class painted illustrative, ornate works that could be cold and stand-offish in nature. However, there were many who added their own style to the original Neo-Raphaelite style to produce some truly stirring works.
1. Note William Adolphe Bouguereau’s knowing children and Waterhouse’s flitting Ophelia’s.
2. Herbert Robert’s “The Old Temple” is a painting I’ve actually seen at the Art Institute in Chicago. It spans a full wall, giving one a real feeling of depth and otherworldliness.
3. The woman in “The Mirror” really wanted to take a selfie, but cameras hadn’t been invented yet.
4. I feel really sorry for the man in “Faded Laurels.”
I know you said this wasn’t your paintings, but it made me wonder, do you paint?
Yeah, although I don’t really know any technique. I like oils especially, but they’re a hassle to clean up. Do you paint?
Mhm. I do acrylics. I actually started an oil painting recently, but its not going very fast, mostly cause it takes about a week and a half to dry :\ And it probably doesn’t help that my room feels like an igloo. I don’t really know techniques either, I just kinda make it up. Learn as I go. /Get frustrated for a few days and then figure it out./
In the second half of this semester I’m going to take an acrylics painting class with Ivy Tech and then maybe I’ll understand how to do it better, but from what I’ve read, there aren’t really rules to painting with acrylics 🙂
haha; that class sounds fun. Yeah; I kinda improvise w art a lot, mixing media and doing things im not supposed to w supplies. Sometime u should show me ur art 😉