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**Count Boso** · 31-05-20, 11:00

Nice. Not sure about the red cherubim - they look a bit devilish!

**vinteuil** · 31-05-20, 12:32

Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post

In the absence of gallery visits I've been enjoying this app which presents a different painting every day.

Today's is a beautiful, very modern-looking 15th cent. Madonna by Jean Fouquet.

... that is very lovely, thank you. The wikipedia page provides a possible explanation of the odd colour of the cherubim :

Melun Diptych - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melun_Diptych

My contribution for today is the self-portrait by Luis Egidio Meléndez de Rivera Durazo y Santo Padre [1716-1780] wch I have been using as my avatar :

File:Self-portrait Holding an Academic Study by Luis Meléndez (detail)-2.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_Holding_an_Academic_Study_by_Luis_Mel%C3%A9ndez_(detail)-2.jpg

Meléndez is better known for his dream-like perfect still-lifes, but I have always loved the self-portrait, now in the Louvre.

Luis Egidio Meléndez - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Egidio_Mel%C3%A9ndez

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**jayne lee wilson** · 31-05-20, 12:41

what about something by Ciurlionis.......

ciurlionis - Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=ciurlionis&client=safari&rls=en&sxsrf=ALeKk02Ajdi1IQXMY_VqD-IiUplNORqrrw:1590928696467&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRh8Oej97pAhUMM8AKHZo9Cu8Q_AUoAXoECBkQAw&biw=1440&bih=812

Perhaps a not so tranquil Tranquillity?.... bit like lockdown staring back at you.... facing you with....yourself the one you keep hidden.....and then...something alien.....

File:Mikalojus Ciurlionis - Tranquility (Ramybe).jpg - Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mikalojus_Ciurlionis_-_Tranquility_(Ramybe).jpg

extraordinary depth of suggestion.....could be an art director for scifi films....

**Count Boso** · 31-05-20, 12:41

Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

... that is very lovely, thank you. The wikipedia page provides a possible explanation of the odd colour of the cherubim :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melun_Diptych

Well, I'm blowed! Thanks for that - the left hand panel I knew very well.

**gurnemanz** · 31-05-20, 13:19

Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

... that is very lovely, thank you. The wikipedia page provides a possible explanation of the odd colour of the cherubim :

Melun Diptych - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melun_Diptych

Thanks for that link with interesting background detail. I had not realised it was originally a dyptich - only viewable as such twice since it was split up in the 18th cent.

**gurnemanz** · 31-05-20, 13:37

Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post

Perhaps a not so tranquil Tranquillity?.... bit like lockdown staring back at you.... facing you with....yourself the one you keep hidden.....and then...something alien.....

File:Mikalojus Ciurlionis - Tranquility (Ramybe).jpg - Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mikalojus_Ciurlionis_-_Tranquility_(Ramybe).jpg

extraordinary depth of suggestion.....could be an art director for scifi films....

When I saw it I thought of Whistler's famous Battersea Bridge, painted a few years earlier. https://londonist.com/2013/11/histor...and-the-thames

We have a nice reproduction of his Nocturne: Blue and Silver on our bedroom wall. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...-lights-n03420

**jayne lee wilson** · 31-05-20, 13:40

Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post

When I saw it I thought of Whistler's famous Battersea Bridge, painted a few years earlier. https://londonist.com/2013/11/histor...and-the-thames

We have a nice reproduction of his Nocturne: Blue and Silver on our bedroom wall. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...-lights-n03420

Fascinating crosslights (almost literally..

) the bridge, the poor weak human overwhelmed by the industrial structure of their own creation....almost like a tripod from War of the Worlds....

Blue & Silver.... really lovely..... a little closer to some degree of serenity.... I only wish I could find it, for more than a few minutes at a time...but Art is the great salvation....OK....Nature too....& Cats....

What is that strange little symbol in the lower right of Blue & Silver? Like a golden dragonfly on a dark rectangular ground...?

**oddoneout** · 31-05-20, 15:34

Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post

Fascinating crosslights (almost literally..

) the bridge, the poor weak human overwhelmed by the industrial structure of their own creation....almost like a tripod from War of the Worlds....

Blue & Silver.... really lovely..... a little closer to some degree of serenity.... I only wish I could find it, for more than a few minutes at a time...but Art is the great salvation....OK....Nature too....& Cats....

What is that strange little symbol in the lower right of Blue & Silver? Like a golden dragonfly on a dark rectangular ground...?

Whistler's characteristic butterfly signature on the right.

According to the Tate blurb.

**jayne lee wilson** · 31-05-20, 17:45

Originally posted by oddoneout View Post

According to the Tate blurb.

So I can find that signature.....

whistler signature - Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=whistler++signature&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiGsMup097pAhVG4BoKHXj8A-MQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=whistler++signature&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzICCAAyBggAEAcQHjIGCAAQBxAeMgYIABAFEB4yBggAEAUQHlDpqgJYqrMCYNu8AmgAcAB4AYABmwGIAekEkgEDOC4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=nezTXsbtEMbAa_j4j5gO&bih=812&biw=1440&client=safari

.....but googlimaging for it in other paintings..... much more mysterious....what lies hidden...

**jayne lee wilson** · 31-05-20, 19:41

I loved the Howard Hodgkin paintings for the JEG Brahms cycle, especially this one......

Amazon.co.uk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Deutsches-Requiem-German-SDG706/dp/B006M51FJ2

**Edgy 2** · 31-05-20, 20:03

I've been obsessed with Joan Miró ever since seeing the Harlequin's Carnival in a Penguin Guide to Modern Art (I think) when I was in my early teens.
I've seen quite a bit of his work in Barcelona

Carnaval d'Arlequin (Carnival of Harlequin) | Buffalo AKG Art Museum

https://www.albrightknox.org/artworks/rca19408-carnaval-darlequin-carnival-harlequin

“Carnival of Harlequin” is a climactic work from a series of paintings Joan Miró infused with the color scheme and landscape of his native Catalonia, Spain. The curious figure depicted in the central-left portion of the canvas with a half-red, half-blue mask and diamond pattern on his tunic references Italy’s commedia dell’arte. In this popular form of theater, the Harlequin is a foolish stock character who is perpetually unsuccessful in love. Artists often used the Harlequin as a stand-in for themselves. Miró came to know of this tradition through the work of Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). At the time Miró created this painting he had so little money that all he could afford to serve a friend for dinner were radishes. He described coming home at the end of a day without food and, in a kind of trance, drawing the forms that were the genesis of this painting. Hence, the hole in Harlequin’s stomach may allude to Miró’s own poverty and hunger. The other characters throughout the composition, however, seem to be having a wonderful time. It is believed that the title of the painting refers to Mardi Gras, the celebration that precedes fasting during the season of Lent in the Catholic liturgical calendar. Many revelers have characteristics of both humans and animals, and some are anthropomorphized objects, such as the ladder with an eye and ear. The hybrid creatures are playing, singing, dancing, and celebrating, with music literally in the air.

**jayne lee wilson** · 31-05-20, 20:36

This is pretty stunning too...

Sociedad De Filosofía Aplicada - "El campo labrado", (1923) de Joan Miro. Museo Guggenheim, NY (EEUU). Imagen de Life and Art | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Sociedadefilosofiaplicada/photos/a.894558867286038/1071530132922243/?type=1&theater

"El campo labrado", (1923) de Joan Miro. Museo Guggenheim, NY (EEUU). Imagen de Life and Art

**Edgy 2** · 31-05-20, 21:20

Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post

This is pretty stunning too...

https://www.facebook.com/Sociedadefi...type=1&theater

Marvellous

The Blue paintings ,The Farm,so many great things

Triptych Bleu I, II, III, 1961 by Joan Miro

https://www.joan-miro.net/blue.jsp

**Joseph K** · 01-06-20, 06:52

Ernst - The Eye of Silence

Dali - Swans Reflecting Elephants

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