#Tree Branches

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Day Dream

Artist: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828–1882)

Date: 1880

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Description

The sitter for this painting was Jane Morris, the wife of William Morris, who often posed for Rossetti. At the time this was painted Rossetti was involved in an illicit love affair with Jane. He shows her sitting in the branches of a sycamore tree and holding a sprig of honeysuckle. This sweet-smelling climbing plant symbolized the bonds of love for the Victorians, and Rossetti may have included it here as a subtle reference to the relationship between artist and model. Rossetti was also a poet, and the title relates to his poem of the same name which ends:

She dreams; till now on her forgotten book Drops the forgotten blossom from her hand.

[galleryofart]

The Wood Gatherers

Artist: John William North (British, 1842–1924)

Date: 1869

Medium: Watercolor and gouache with scratch-away and touches of shell gold

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Description

John William North’s watercolors of the rural landscape of Somerset unite the seemingly contradictory states of minutely rendered detail with atmospheric effects. Herbert Alexander, the artist’s biographer, described the artist’s interpretation of nature as similar to that of a poet, suggesting rather than describing: "In watercolor and oil an effect of intricate detail is found on examination to be quite illusive - multitudinous form is conjured by finding and losing it in endless hide-and-seek till the eye accepts infinity."

[vtatters]

[imiging]

by Rand Wilding, johnandbearartist.tumblr.com

Daily original photographs and creations selected by the imiging team!

bird on a branch

[marejadilla]

Kamille Corry, “Persimmon”, oil on panel. B. 1966, Houston, Texas.  

[sunshinesmymedicine]

Candy sky. 🍬

[thekeymonster]

Curious Companions - Sketchbook 2022

If you like my artwork and would like to help support me I’m on Patreon, I run and Etsy Shop and I Sell Prints.

[karina-333]

[huariqueje]

Abandoned Amusement Park - Jaana Paulus , 2024.

Finnish, b. 1963 -

Woodcut and gilding

[tofreezetime]

sometimes, I wonder

what it is that I see inside myself

[cliriq]

my valentine

[toacody]

Vultu-ya-ku

A graceful scavenger.

Source

Creator: 5412bobross

[michaelnordeman]

Lights, Camera, Stillness. Värmland, Sweden (October 17, 2020).

[gina025]

Slice of sunshine

[sunshinesmymedicine]

Frozen. 🧊🪵🌾