#flame painter

[zlatokryletz]

Some museums are observing the Birds Day today so here's the wonderfully magical petroica the pink robin to celebrate it🪶 Not a joke at all, despite what such an unusual electric colour might suggest😄

[thesitharts]

uh oh, new art program just dropped

[rendnotmyheart]

Literally Grantaire and Enjolras make me insane because what do you mean Grantaire believes in nothing, but he believes in Enjolras??? Insaneeeeeeee

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Venus Verticordia

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

Date: 1864–1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Dorset, England

Description

The title of the painting refers to a quotation from the Roman poet Ovid, who describes one of Venus’ attributes as being able to assist Roman women to turn their hearts towards virtue and modesty. This does seem somewhat contradictory for such a heavily sensual and sexual image, but perhaps it is a warning of the dangers of sexual obsession.

The painting is heavy in symbolism. Venus is surrounded by flowers, the roses represent love, while the honeysuckle symbolizes sexual desire and lust. The golden fruit may be seen as the fruit that tempted Eve and led to Adam’s downfall in the Garden of Eden. Alternatively, it may be interpreted as the Apple of Discord from the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris. In both stories, the presence of a tempting fruit in the company of a beautiful women leads to the downfall and death of men.

Venus points Cupid’s arrow at her own breast to show how she will inflict its power over others. A blue bird in the top right corner foretells doom. The moths or butterflies drawn to the light of Venus’ halo, only to perish, illustrate the brevity of life. There is a golden aura around her head, her hair is long and flaming red. A hair colouring favoured by Rossetti, the other Pre-Raphaelites and their followers. Red hair was chosen because of its rarity, and associations with excessive emotions for example sexual desire.

[inkspottie]

Ooooohhh the scrunklies!!

[evelynmlewis]

I saw where you emanate / I held my hand to take / a piece of it with me Passed through me like gamma rays / it burned my soul to see / a thing with such beauty

-Stratosphere, Starset

[strickenspirit]

The nights draw in, cold and dark.

[arinewman7]

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame

Georges de La Tour

Oil on canvas, ca. 1640

[artandthebible]

God Writing Upon the Tables of the Covenant

Artist: William Blake (English, 1757 - 1827)

Date: ca. 1805

Medium: Pen and ink and watercolour over pencil on paper

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

Flames and trumpeting angels frame the statuesque figure of God who is seen from behind. Towering over the kneeling Moses, God raises his arms and prepares to inscribe the Ten Commandments on the stone tablets before him. The subject was inspired by an episode in the Old Testament Book of Deuteronomy. This is one of eighty watercolours of Biblical subjects Blake produced between 1800 and 1809. They were made for Thomas Butts, a military clerk, who shared his philosophies and whose son Blake taught to engrave.

[zlatokryletz]

Some elements of residual wintry magic❄️✨ PS + Flame Painter.

[lavenoon]

"hi love you need better coping mechanisms and also maybe to leave the city sometimes because its stuffy and putting you on edge so will you come burn some marshmallows with me in the woods"

@naffeclipse I continue <3

*self insert is not a girl (he/ she)

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic!

[eorzeas-okayest-smn]

garuda, lady of the vortex !

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Flaming June

Artist: Frederic, Lord Leighton (British, 1830–1896

Date: 1895

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

According to Leighton, the composition was inspired by the posture of a tired model. He elaborated her sinuous pose and then added sheer orange draperies. Her skin flushed by the sun, she is transformed into a personification of summer heat. The image reflects Leighton’s allegiance to artistic ideals that emphasized harmonious color and form over narrative. This and Lachrymae (hanging nearby) were the last great pair of paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, in 1895. Critics raved, but tastes soon changed; Flaming June did not regain its fame until the Museo de Arte de Ponce acquired it in the 1960s. The frame is a reconstruction of the lost original designed by the artist.

[escapismsworld]

"Flaming June"

Frederic Leighton

1895

[ed13d1]

blessed be your eternal light

by Christos Bokoros

[pharaohsketches]

dancing flames