Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Russell Cotes museum, Bournemouth

Gilded peacock cornicing - Dining room

Frith - RamsgateSands 1854
Crowded as fuck
Covered up Muslim style

Rossetti
Venus Verticordia 1864
Cf Klimt - gilding
 Theatrical - scenery, layers
Jane Morris? Strong face - Alexa Wilding
His only nude in oil

I want an indoor fountain
Main Hall cf Leighton House

The first funeral 
Louis Ernest  Barrias - Fr
Adam & Eve mourners? Abel
1890-00
Bronze
Eve moving
Abel beautiful

The Silent Evening hour
Joseph Farquharson
A woodland light you can't capture - like the pine avenue in Bournemouth today

Leighton
Perseus & Andromeda study 1892

Victorian intensity

Pharaohs Daughter
John adams-Acton 1865
Marble
Bad relief in base of bust

Cleopatra
Eugenio Lombardi lateC19
Marble

Her first love
G Sheridan knowles
Is a bunny - provocative hint of emerging sexuality in male eye

Psyche at throne of Venus
E matthew hale
Interesting power rel & composition (tall canvas)

Midsummer
Albert Moore
1887
Mixture of allegory and realism
Sleepy
Graphical comp
Egyptian profiles
Powerful use of orange
Aesthetic movement
Symbolist
Sig & date on vase

Jezebel
Byrne shaw
Irish?
Black women look Polynesian
Suggestive flowers cf okeefe
She was nude originally 

The moorish proselytes
Edwin Long
Converting Muslims in Granada 1500

Aurora Triumphans <86
Evelyn de Morgan
Luminescent
Leighton Ho
Androgynous middle angel

The bathers alarmed
Solomon  j Solomon
So many Vic paintings excuses for female nudity & voyeurism

Atkinson grimshaw
An Autumn idyll *
V distinctive light & palette

Judith
C h landelle
Pupil of delaroche
Cf Klimt
Suende

Arthur hughes
Little one who straight has come 
Cf Burne Jones - angelic stairway
Shades of nativity

Good news & bad news
John bagnold burgess
Hardy - letters

The bather *
Thomas Ronaldson
C1930
I'm a sucker for De dos - Horst
Ingres
Scott Fitzgerald

Spray
Harold Williamson 
1940
Bold angle
Laura knight 


The mannequin
<1938
Andreas Carse
Cf Frith - crowd

William roberts
The happy family
1924
Clash between subject & style 

Christopher Nevins
1917
The war profiteers
Theatrical lighting
Grosz 









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