_Arts

A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros (Français : Jeune Fille se Defendant Contre L'amour) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: A Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros Deutsch: Eine junge Frau verteidigt sich vor Eros Français : Jeune Fille se Defendant Contre L'amour Italiano: Una giovane ragazza che si difende da Eros Year: 1880 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_A_Young_Girl_Defending_Herself_Against_Eros_(1880).jpg This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.

Symbolism (1880-1895) Symbolism began as a reaction to the literal representation of subjects preferring to create more suggestive and evocative works. It had its roots in literature with poets such as Baudelaire believing ideas and emotions could be conveyed not only through the meaning of words but also in their sound and rhythm. The styles of the Symbolist painters varied considerably, but they shared many of the same themes particularly a fascination with the mystical and the visionary. The erotic, the perverse, death and debauchery were also regular interests for the Symbolists. The leading figures of the movement included the two French men, Odilon Redon and Paul Gauguin, but Symbolism was not limited to France with other practitioners including the Norwegian Edvard Munch, the Austrian Gustav Klimt and the British Aubrey Beardsley. The movement also known as Synthetism flourished from around 1885 and continued until 1910. It was an important move away from the naturalism of the...

Tonalism Tonalism (about 1880 to 1915), a distinctive style of low-toned atmospheric landscape painting, developed a sizable following among American artists in the 1880s. This first generation of tonalist artists, most born after 1845, and many foreign trained in Paris and Munich, broke with the prevailing school of Hudson River artists and their large detailed panoramic views of the American scenes. Many streams of influences fed into the growing taste for a more intimate, poetic, and expressive style of landscape art, relying on soft-edged broadly painted tonalities to communicate emotion. Initially influenced by French Barbizon painting by way of American exponents George Inness (1825-1894), William Morris Hunt (1824-1879), American tonalist painters tended to use a neutral palette of predominantly cool colors: green, blue, mauve, violet, and a delicate range of intervening grays, carefully modulated to produce a dominant tone. Preferred subjects were scenes of dawn or dusk, risi...

The Bather Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: The Bather ( Español: Bañista; Français : La Baigneuse; Русский: Купальщица ) Year: 1879 Technique: Oil on canvas Links http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilliamBouguereau-TheBather-(1879).jpg This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. Oil paintings of women | 1879 paintings | Female nude in paintings | Paintings of sitting women | Paintings of adolescent girls | Females looking down | Paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Nude sitting women in art

The Birth of Venus Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Date: 1879 The Birth of Venus (La Naissance de Vénus) is one of the most famous paintings by 19th century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It depicts not the actual birth of Venus from the sea, but the transportation of Venus in a shell (a visual metaphor for the vulva) from the sea to Paphos in Cyprus. For Bouguereau, it was truly a tour de force. The canvas stands at just over 9'10" (3m) high, and 7'2" (2.2m) wide. The subject matter, as well as the composition, resembles the rather more famous rendition of this subject, Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, as well as Raphael's painting, The Triumph of Galatea. The painting is currently held in the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco as part of the Birth Of Impressionism exhibition. References http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_The_Birth_of_Venus_(1879).jpg http://en.w...

Bath of Psyche Français : Le Bain de Psyché Artist: Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896) Title: The Bath of Psyche (Français : Le Bain de Psyché) Year: 1879 Technique: Oil on canvas http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1890s_Frederick_Leighton_-_Bath_of_Psyche.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Frederic_Leighton This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

La Pose Artist: Luis Ricardo Falero Title: Français : La Pose Year: 1879 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 160.6 × 85 cm (63.23 × 33.46 in) Source: www.artrenewal.org http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Falero_Luis_Riccardo_La_Pose.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_women_looking_at_viewer http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_women_by_posture This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.