#naturalist painter

[xpuigc-bloc]

Malcolm T. Liepke

[liturgical-agenda]

detail from The Familiar Birds, 1921 by Émile Friant

[jadafitch]

APRIL! 

[myteaplace]

Orpheus’ Sorrow, 1876, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret  (1852-1929)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Albrecht Dürer

The Great Piece of Turf

1503

Watercolor and gouache heighted with white, mounted on cardboard.

[art-portraits]

Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt

Artist: Joseph Karl Stieler (German, 1781–1858)

Date: 1843

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Charlottenhof Palace, Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring. Humboldt and Carl Ritter are both regarded as the founders of modern geography as they established it as an independent scientific discipline.

[i12bent]

Johannes Boesen (August 5, 1847 - 1916) was a Danish landscape painter in the tradition from Vilhelm Kyhn. He trained at the Academy, traveled abroad, exhibited at Charlottenborg and even sold to the Royal family, but by now he is largely forgotten as so many naturalist artists.

Above: Forest Scene with Road and Deer, 1878 - oil on canvas (Privately owned)

[therealmarsond]

[makingqueerhistory]

Selected Works from Henry Scott Tuke

Henry Scott Tuke was an English painter renowned for his maritime scenes and depictions of young men, often in a naturalistic and intimate style. There is something nostalgic about many of Tuke's works — his vibrant use of color and light perfectly captures the idyllic and carefree essence of youth.

In his personal and professional life, Tuke met and befriended many fellow artists such as John Singer Sargent, and talented poets, including Oscar Wilde and John Addington Symonds. He traveled often in circles with other Uranian — the term in use at the time for gay men — artists. While Tuke's art prominently features nude young men, his works aren't sexually explicit. Most of his works show young men in the foreground but the star is clearly the sea.

Tuke's legacy is celebrated for its artistic merit and its subtle challenge to the conventions of his time, particularly posthumously. Around the 1970s, his body of work was rediscovered by gay artists, art collectors, and art historians — including Sir Elton John!

You can find these works and more in our gallery!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

Hells Yeah I love the light source u chose for this piece!! works real well with the eye glow. also really love the highlight u did on his sleeve garter I enjoy looking at it so much

@bacchuschucklefuck this was a really fun challenge, I loved figuring out the colors and details on him!

[antonio-m]

Self-portraits by Émile Friant (1863-1932). French naturalist painter. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, FR. oil on canvas

[xpuigc-bloc]

Landscape with a creek

oil on canvas

Andreas Achenbach

German, 1815-1910

[boobookittenartblog]

Magpies Roosting by Charles Tunnicliffe (1901-1989, UK).

An internationally renowned naturalistic painter of birds and other wildlife, Tunnicliffe spent most of his working life on the Isle of Anglesey, off the north-west coast of Wales.

[whencyclopedia]

Black Figure Pottery

Black Figure Pottery is a type of Greek pottery named after the colour of the scenes painted on vessels. It was first produced in Corinth c. 700 BCE and then adopted by pottery painters in Attica, where it would become the dominant decorative style from 625 BCE. Athenian vases then dominated the Mediterranean pottery market for the next 150 years.

Besides Attica and Corinth, Laconia was a third, albeit minor, producer of the style in the first half of the 6th century BCE. The more than 20,000 surviving black figure vases and vessels of varied form make it possible not only to identify artists and studios, but they also provide the oldest and most diverse representations of Greek mythology, battle scenes, and religious, social, and sporting practices. The pottery vessels are also an important tool in determining the chronology of archaeological sites and the history of ancient Greece in general. The style was eventually replaced by red-figure pottery.

Development

Evolving from the earlier geometric designs on pottery, the black-figure technique depicted animals (more favoured in Corinth) and human silhouette figures (preferred by Athenian painters) in naturalistic detail. Before the firing process, a brilliant black pigment of potash, iron clay, and vinegar (as a fixative) was thickly applied to entire vases or part of the vessel. This black gloss also gave a slight relief effect. Parts of the painted area were then scraped away where not required, leaving a design in silhouette. Additional details such as muscles and hair were added to the figures using a sharp instrument to incise through the black to reveal the clay vessel beneath and by adding touches of red and white paint. Vessel borders and edges were often decorated with floral, lotus, and palmette designs.

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[frog-ology]

Today in "historical naturalists had issues with frogs", I give you the first English description ever written for Amphibia:

"Among no animals do we meet with beings of a more singular form than in the Amphibia; some of which present appearances so unusual, so grotesque, and so formidable, that even the imagination of the poet or painter can hardly be supposed to exceed the realities of Nature."

- George Shaw, General Zoology, 1802

[the-cricket-chirps]

Albrecht Durer

Three studies of a bullfinch

1543