Next

We Love Paintings

The Rejected Network

Andy's Bubble

We Love Sculptures

Anonymous asked: can you post a picture of yourself?

Andy

D:

38 notes | 1 year ago

169

Antonio Mancini
Il Saltimbanco
1879
Oil on canvas
203.8 x 110.8 cm
Vance N. Jordan Collection
___
Mancini worked at the forefront of Verismo, an indigenous Italian response to nineteenth-century realism, producing haunting portrayals of circus performers, street musicians, and impoverished children taken from the streets of Naples. After suffering a disabling mental illness, Mancini settled in Rome, and with the support of American and Dutch patrons managed for many years to eke out a precarious existence. The artist John Singer Sargent, who famously declared Mancini to be the greatest living painter, eventually introduced him to a circle of wealthy English patrons for whom he produced notable society portraits. Many of Mancini’s paintings incorporated thick impasto, whose glittering light effects he enhanced by adding bits of glass, metal foil, and other materials.
Philamuseum.org

169 notes | 1 year ago

306

Albert Bierstadt (American, b. Germany, 1830-1902)
Storm in the Mountains
1870
Oil on canvas
96.52 x 152.72 cm (38 x 60 1/8 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

306 notes | 1 year ago

3255

ricp:

which-witch
Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-BouveretOrpheus’ Sorrow

3,255 notes | 1 year ago

381

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)An Arab and his DogsOil on canvas187537.5 x 55 cm(14.76” x 21.65”)Private collection

381 notes | 1 year ago

233

Ann Marshall
Katherine2005Oil and Collage on Canvas30 x 40”

233 notes | 1 year ago

384

Anders Zorn
The Love Nymph
1885
Water colour and gouache on paper
106,5 x 64,5 cm

384 notes | 1 year ago

215

Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924)VirginitéOil on canvas60 x 73 cm(23.62” x 28.74”)Private collection

215 notes | 1 year ago

76

David Roberts
Der Eingang zum goldenen Tempel in Baalbeck
1841
Oil on wood
74.9 × 62.2 cm (29.5 × 24.5 in)
Royal Academy of Arts, London
___
David Roberts (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). This work, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.

76 notes | 1 year ago

234

Arturo Rivera
EL OLVIDADO A.P.
Oil / canvas
38.97 x 28.74 in
1993

234 notes | 1 year ago

260

Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924)Pierrot’s EmbraceOil on canvas

260 notes | 1 year ago

149

David Ohlerking

149 notes | 1 year ago

223

missfolly:

Not at Home, by Eastman Johnson, ca. 1873

223 notes | 1 year ago

53

Tres Personajes, by Rufino Tamayo
1970
___
Rufino Tamayo is an artist of great importance for contemporary culture in Mexico. The contributions of his work are seen not only in the field of color, but also in his innovative and personal iconography, which he constructed with creative, original elements from the Pre-Hispanic art of Mexico.Tamayo also cultivated certain inspired and spontaneous forms of popular art, and incorporated into his paintings eclectic features from some of the international vanguards from the beginning of the 20th century. With these elements and his prodigious talent, he achieved a unique and new poetics that saturates one of the most captivating pictorial oeuvres in the history of modern art in Mexico.The art of Tamayo manifests, through its symbols, metaphors and poetic imagery, his reflection on universal topics such as the absolute, the relative, and the sublime, expressed in the duality of human nature.
Museotamayo.org

53 notes | 1 year ago

Personal favourite paintings (June, 2011)

1) Humana Hera, by Lamberto Melina

2) Mutter - Du hier? (Mother, Is It You?), by Gottfried Helnwein

3) The Ponte dei Pugni, Venice, by William Logsdail

4) Dance, by Giampaolo Ghisetti

5) Salomé, by Pierre Bonnaud

6) Dizziness, by Iman Maleki

7) Megan Kimber

Wow, that was difficult…

23 notes | 1 year ago