30-11-2020, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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One of my favourites is 'The Lady of Shallot' the detail is beautiful...https://artsandculture.google.com/as...00000001%7D%7D
30-11-2020, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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There is a story to this Meg John Milais painted the banks of the river in summer but continued to paint Orphelia in winter .The poor model lay in a bathtub of water warmed by a small heater underneath .
Unfortunately Milais was so engrossed in his painting he often forgot to keep the heater going and the water went cold . Poor Lizzie ( who was married to Dante Rossetti ) caught her death and her father billed Milais for her medical expenses .
On a personal note she is ( very ) distantly related to my husbands family .
Although a lovely paining I wouldn't want it on my wall.
30-11-2020, 01:40 PM
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I have always wondered what Waterhouse intended when he painted Hylas and the Nymphs.Taken from Greek and Roman legend, Hylas was seduced into the water by the Nymphs and never heard from again.
The painting was removed from the Manchester art gallery, along with post cards of the painting, due to objection by feminists but the public outcry against its removal soon caused the gallery to relent and re-hang it.
Quite a history of censorship of that painting, beyond the art itself.
30-11-2020, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by bakerman
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I have always wondered what Waterhouse intended when he painted Hylas and the Nymphs.Taken from Greek and Roman legend, Hylas was seduced into the water by the Nymphs and never heard from again.
The painting was removed from the Manchester art gallery, along with post cards of the painting, due to objection by feminists but the public outcry against its removal soon caused the gallery to relent and re-hang it.
Quite a history of censorship of that painting, beyond the art itself.
That was one of several "artistic nude" posters which adorned my seedy bedsit walls in the late 1960's ......
30-11-2020, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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Just an excuse to paint young girls in the nud i expect .
However, I still wonder if Waterhouse was saying something about women and potential danger.
30-11-2020, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy
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Hulas should have had more sense than go into a pool with a bunch of dubious young girls
Perhaps when I get time I'll try to locate the origins of the legend, and then I may be able to decipher Waterhouse's thinking.
What the heck, something interesting to do during lockdown.
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