#figurative painting
Jared Weiss, People Will Say What a Cheerful Guy I Must Be, 2017, oil on canvas, 15 x 14 inches, form & concept
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Made a NEW Figure Art Facebook Group. It’s fun seeing others’ work and talking art. Join us: https://goo.gl/JEQ2Mh
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![“Blanca at Five Guys (Madrid)” - 201970x100cm oil on canvasOriginal available[Art prints available]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/b1846f87d2b07eac63828c25e4943aed/331015ed7c5252ba-99/s1280x1920/e60c4b2f88434ab790345f058cac75f190841891.jpg "“Blanca at Five Guys (Madrid)” - 201970x100cm oil on canvasOriginal available[Art prints available]")
“Blanca at Five Guys (Madrid)” - 2019
70x100cm oil on canvas
Original available
[Art prints available]
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![“Waiting for Eros” - 201950x70cm oil on canvasOriginal available[Art prints available]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/309ad1caa3524b001853a1597603ec68/cf88a41038d1843e-77/s1280x1920/d623d86eb5765b2839739dc60bee0f2689424e97.jpg "“Waiting for Eros” - 201950x70cm oil on canvasOriginal available[Art prints available]")
Check out my instagram page for the link to my interview with this gorgeous and magical creature, the painter Adrienne Stein! And support us with a Follow!
www.instagram.com/templeofapelles
“I indulgently like to imagine Adrienne as a whip-smart Disney character quietly spending her days surrounded by heavy books, blooming plants, and candle-lit altars, perhaps with a wolf curled at her feet, turning out these magical paintings. But let’s hear about Adrienne Stein’s world from the painter herself!”
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Which painting does this mysterious hand come from? Click below to see the full, wonderful painting!
https://templeofapelles.com/2017/03/07/13-hands-from-famous-paintings/
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Do you know which paintings these famous hands come from?
https://templeofapelles.com/2017/03/07/13-hands-from-famous-paintings/
“A well painted hand can convey a depth of emotion, character, and intention only comparable perhaps to the eyes of a figure. In the musculature of a hand, it’s flush, the lines of its fingers, the wrinkles and creases, a viewer reads comfort or struggle….”
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Jacques-Emile Blanche—Julia Stephen,1889.
The French artist Jacques-Emile Blanche painted this portrait after a photograph of Julia Stephen taken by her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron (the celebrated photographer and Pre-Raphaelite model), between 1864and1867. The sitter is famous in her own right for being the mother of writer Virginia Woolf, painter Vanessa Bell, and the founder of the Bloomsbury group, Thoby Stephen.
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Almeida Júnior—Saudade,1899.
Saudade is an untranslatable Portuguese word. First attested in the late 13th century, saudade today connotes a melancholic feeling of incompleteness, wishful longing for wholeness, desire for presence as opposed to absence, yearning for the return of what has gone, such as experiences and pleasures once lived.
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Frank Auerbach—Head of E.O.W.,1957.
‘E.O.W.’ - Estella (Stella) West - began posing regularly for Auerbach in the early 1950s, and continued to do so until 1973. By then he had completed about 80 drawings and paintings of her.
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