I certainly have great affection for Richard Armitage, which is still a bit weird to me. Not because it’s weird to have great fondness for someone well-known who you don’t know. I’ve had several celebrities whom I think of fondly. Jack Lemmon was the first one. He did so many wonderful pieces. I remember the first time I saw Some Like It Hot. I was smitten with Jack Lemmon. I think I was about 11…
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Yet another example where a nymph transforms into a tree (see also Phyllis and Demophoön, 1905). Here Daphne is fleeing from Apollo’s advances because she decided to remain a virgin. To help her, she is turned into a laurel tree by her father, the river-god Peneus who is represented by the river in the background. Apollo continued to admire the laurel tree and used his eternal youth to prevent the leaves from withering.
The work is clearly inspired by the marble statue of Bernini from Galleria Borghese in Rome. Waterhouse never managed to sell this painting and that is probably also because the art critics reviewed it in a very negative way. They criticized in particular the feeble representation of Apollo.
This was painted over an older painting. It’s nice to work into paint that’s dry sometimes, to get clean unmixed layers happening. I don’t experience this often because I like to finish a painting as fast as I can. Sometimes I think I’d be better off working in acrylics. —– We are the Forest 2018 oil on canvas 80cm x 60cm —– #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #painting #pittura #dipinto #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #artecontemporaneo #artecontemporanea #arteitaliana #arte #kunst #artcontemporain #nycart #canadianart #torontoart #montrealart #vancouverart #hamont #portrait #mythology #arthistory #daphne #woodnymph #dryad #truenature #forestspirit #trasformation #atonement #persephone #goddess
The rectangular panel represents the entire decorated area of a floor and was found together with another mosaic in an olive grove at Daphne-Harbiye in 1937. In Roman times, Daphne was a popular holiday resort, used by the wealthy citizens and residents of Antioch as a place of rest and refuge from the heat and noise of the city. American excavations at Daphne in the late 1930s uncovered the remains of several well-appointed houses and villas, including the one that contained this mosaic. At its center is a panel (emblema) with the bust of a woman, decked out with a wreath of flowers around her head and a floral garland over her left shoulder. Traditionally identified as Spring, the figure is probably the representation of a more generic personification of abundance and good living, well suited to the luxurious atmosphere created at Daphne by its rich patrons.
it says shaggy has absolutely no ambitiom whatsoever. even ghe damned dog has some sort of life goal and he wants to eat dog treats for the rest of eternity. shaggy doesnt give a Fuckk. fun Scoobe-Doo™ trivia for the whole family: shaggy is a fucking nihilist
