#Alfred Stevens

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Archaic Words: Colours

for your next poem/story

Adarnech - colour like gold

Albyn - white

Argentine - silver

Ashied - made white

Aureat - golden

Bicollede - blackened

Blackbrown - brunette

Blewing - blue paint

Bleye - blue

Brune - brown

Camet - silver

Ende - a blue colour

Falwe - yellow

Florrey - a blue dye

Gaudy green - a light green colour

Ginger - a pale red colour

Gold-hewen - of a golden colour

Gridelin - a sort of colour composed of white and red

Grisard - grey

Grizle - a darkish grey

Inde - azure-coloured

Minim - a kind of brown tawny colour

Parvenke - a pink

Pear-coloured - red

Purpuring - having a purple colour

Sangronie - blood-red colour

Shay - a light colour

True blue - the best blue colour

Tuly - a kind of red or scarlet colour

Umber - a sort of brown colour

Vermaile - red

Virent - green, unfaded

Watchet - a pale blue colour

Whity brown - a pale dusky brown

Yvor - ivory

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Winter, 1877

Alfred Stevens

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Young Woman Reading (1856) by Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (1823-1906), oil on canvas, Private Collection

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going through alfred stevens' paintings and came across one piece of a lady with a tiny dog on her arm

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Alfred Stevens, Después del baile

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Alfred Stevens (1823-1906, Belgian) ~ Reclining Partial Nude, n/d

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art history moodboard – mina harker

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visit the art museum

The Sick Girl – Félix Vallotton // Vampire – Edvard Munch // The Letter – Alfred Stevens // Trompe l’œil: A Quodlibet with Letters and a Roll of Blue Paper – Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts // Portrait of a Russian Actress – Konrad Krzyżanowski // Allegory of the Eucharist – unknown artist // Study in Red (Emily Gertrude Littlejohns Bartlett) – Charles William Bartlett // Young Woman Writing a Letter – Federico Zandomeneghi // Illustration from La Morte Amoureuse – Eugène Decisy and Paul Albert Laurens

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The Cup of Tea, Alfred Stevens. 1874.

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The Porcelain Collector

Artist: Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906)

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

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"Moonlight seascape"(1892) by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906,Belgian)

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Title: Moonlit seascape

Artist: Alfred Stevens

Date: 1892

Style: Impressionism

Genre: Marina

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How to Describe Clothing in Writing

Creating vivid descriptions for a story or character is a mark of a great writer. One specific form of descriptive writing that particularly affects setting and characterization is the portrayal of characters’ clothing.

Writing Tips: Describing Clothes

Clothing descriptions work best when they appear organically in the course of the narrative. The story should never halt in place so that you can shoehorn in a bunch of sartorial descriptions. Here are some writing tips to help you use clothing descriptions in your creative writing:

Integrate clothing into your initial character description. The first time readers meet a character, they should get a sense of how they dress.

Study articles of clothing to make sure you know what they look like. This will help you choose the right words to describe them. For example, it would be appropriate to describe a chiffon dress as “sheer” or “thin,” but it would be clumsy to describe it as “threadbare” because chiffon is not cheap.

Pick outfits that fit the setting you’re writing about. If you’re describing an elegant ball, you might want to place a character in a form-fitting strapless evening gown, as this is a common piece for formal dances. Describing the clothing reinforces the setting you’ve chosen.

Blend clothing into job descriptions. If you’re describing a monk at work, you could note how the loose-fitting sleeves of his frock draped onto a table. If you’re describing a superhero in an action scene, describe the flow of their cape or the stiffness of their boots.

Let your characters change outfits. Show a character arc by marking how a character’s clothing changes over the course of your story. If a character in a YA novel starts out wearing ill-fitting khaki slacks with enormous pleats and ends that same novel wearing a denim jacket with an “anarchy” pin on the lapel, we know they’ve undergone some major changes.

Use clothing to set characters apart. Represent the difference between two characters by describing the differences in their clothing. Let’s say you’re describing two characters interviewing for the same job: One wears a sporty, ruched, A-line dress, and the other wears jeans and a sweatshirt. The reader can infer aspects of both characters’ personalities and make a comparison between two characters.

Reasons to Describe a Character’s Clothing

A character’s clothing is a window into so many aspects of their lives. From a character’s clothes, readers can make inferences about the following:

Clothing reveals a character’s personality. A knee-length fur coat and a corduroy jacket are both forms of outerwear, but it’s quite unlikely they’d be worn by the same kind of person. Readers can deduce a character’s style and personality from the clothes they wear.

Clothing implies a character’s wealth. Is your novel’s main character comes from a working-class background, it’s more likely they’d wear a t-shirt and jeans than a lavish and expensive piece of clothing. Just as in real life, clothing indicates status and wealth.

Clothing shows a character’s point of view toward the world. Clothing can reveal a character’s views on the world. If someone puts on a graphic t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, it implies that they could hardly care less about offending other people. Meanwhile, a character who wears a dressy button-down shirt with a single-breasted plaid jacket seems like the old-fashioned type. Maybe they’re heading to a mixer at the country club?

Clothing suggests the time and place in which a character exists. As part of your worldbuilding process, you’ll want to be as precise as possible about your book’s setting and time period. This doesn’t just apply to historical fiction; it applies to all forms of writing. For instance, if you’re writing a battle scene set during the Revolutionary War, you might need to study the physical descriptions of britches and pantaloons. But if your scene is set in a present-day battlefield, you might describe a soldier as wearing camouflage with a tag hung from a necklace. Simply by changing the clothing description, you’ve marked a massive distinction between these two war stories.

Source ⚜ More: Notes ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs ⚜ References: Fashion

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Palm Sunday, ca. 1862

Alfred Stevens

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~ Alfred Stevens, The Parisian Sphynx (1870) (detail)

This painting depicts French artist and model Victorine-Louise Meurent. She is mostly known as the model for many of Edouard Manet's paintings, including Olympia and Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe; however, she was a successful artist in her own right, and was accepted to the Salon of 1876 when Manet was not.

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'after the ball,' alfred stevens, oil on canvas, 1874.

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Alfred Stevens.