tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.comments2023-12-06T13:31:17.163+00:00The Painting of MelancholiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-27344521396217383782023-01-15T16:28:13.542+00:002023-01-15T16:28:13.542+00:00I was aware of the prevailing mood before and duri...I was aware of the prevailing mood before and during the Reformation, and Luther himself occasionally suffered from depression, but until I saw this piece yesterday, I had no idea of his relationship with Luther! Years ago, I purchased a huge treatise by an Oxford Don which I occasionally turned to. Now depression is the world's second killer, and this painting acquires a new significance Jihe Songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09224387465679841014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-63120206402283605772022-05-01T00:13:20.522+01:002022-05-01T00:13:20.522+01:00she's a "voluptuous' *male word) woma...she's a "voluptuous' *male word) woman; but what about the pathosformulae is seductive? she's sad, abandoned, grieving, deceived and positioned like a memorial figure on a tomb. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-41617364102809639092022-04-14T17:03:11.184+01:002022-04-14T17:03:11.184+01:00This is good site to spent time on .I just stumble...<br />This is good site to spent time on .I just stumbled upon your informative blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your very well written blog posts. I will be your frequent visitor, that's for sure.<br /><br /><a href="https://expresspaint.ca/commercial-painting/" rel="nofollow">commercial painters Toronto</a><br />Amelia Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04682828396293674731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-91193773015884382532022-02-03T13:22:41.282+00:002022-02-03T13:22:41.282+00:001xbet korean - legalbet.co.kr
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So I guess the women didn't leave him un...Edit:<br />So I guess the women didn't leave him until later, they divorced in 1891 and the woman in the bottom left was his former mistress.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10439824881280897673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-4097209419127026932015-05-28T20:53:12.462+01:002015-05-28T20:53:12.462+01:00Another biographical note, the woman in the bottom...Another biographical note, the woman in the bottom right is Hodler's ex-wife and the woman in the bottom left is Hodler's lover, both of whom left him.<br /><br />It is my understanding that this was a major catalyst in Hodler's psychological break.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10439824881280897673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-81986784721114135652015-03-04T21:53:13.677+00:002015-03-04T21:53:13.677+00:00It is a wonderful painting I would like to see by ...It is a wonderful painting I would like to see by my own eyes. I find your interpretation very perceptive. In my feeling there is a plethora of light streaming through a wood and being reflected on the surface of the water. if I hadn't read your analysis, I had thought of a painting by Jerome Bosch : a soul on the way to the heaven, to the eternal light whilst crossing a dark tunnel. The Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-31730837060552250812015-02-10T09:28:53.874+00:002015-02-10T09:28:53.874+00:00Thanks for stopping by Peter.Thanks for stopping by Peter.Blackdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917019570643578121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-65130968052063932982015-02-10T02:16:07.548+00:002015-02-10T02:16:07.548+00:00i enjoyed your review very much Blackdog...
your d...i enjoyed your review very much Blackdog...<br />your description of Peter Balke's style and methods expressed his melancholy feeling when he painted it...<br />....peter<br />....peter:)http://petermeilleur.shutterchance.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-72437378384876583842012-06-23T16:06:29.463+01:002012-06-23T16:06:29.463+01:00this is now in st.lucia church ,piazza duomo, orty...this is now in st.lucia church ,piazza duomo, ortygia,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-10319130773516726392011-02-24T18:04:59.409+00:002011-02-24T18:04:59.409+00:00I'm writing about Kiefer's deployment of H...I'm writing about Kiefer's deployment of Hebrew (-in-transliteration)in a bigger project on the appearances of Hebrew in (non-Jewish) art; have published a couple of pieces, the first on English works in the 1200s, another on Bermejo,(itself part of tracing the script's uses in art of Flanders/Spain).<br />I wondered whether you'd gone any further with Kiefer or come across Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12251014673757485380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-2741232434511973782010-10-04T11:54:31.971+01:002010-10-04T11:54:31.971+01:00Thanks for that Philine - I had thought of stoppin...Thanks for that Philine - I had thought of stopping after 100 posts with Melencholia I, but will continue for now with the monthly postings.<br /><br />Yes I too thought Icarus, but the face is definitely Artaud, I think he was to theatre what Goddard was to film (I am not very knowledgeable about theatre at all).<br /><br />I have seen a few of Quinn's paintings now and he is definitely Blackdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917019570643578121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-36354645694557100042010-10-03T16:03:36.557+01:002010-10-03T16:03:36.557+01:00Thanks for the thoughtful comment Alec, it is a go...Thanks for the thoughtful comment Alec, it is a good point about her posture and I also feel he had a point to make.Blackdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917019570643578121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-60545363914015500762010-10-03T10:27:22.911+01:002010-10-03T10:27:22.911+01:00At first my eyes have been magically captured by t...At first my eyes have been magically captured by the idealised views of an Italian landscape reminding of paintings by Claude Lorrain indeed (and I thought of the picturesque Stourhead Landscape Garden, "a Living Work of Art", inspired en detail by CL, too), but then I discovered all the different things of decay/ decline and destruction or vandalism on the left side of this painting - Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-75048299069046782262010-09-09T18:14:48.805+01:002010-09-09T18:14:48.805+01:00Dürer's Allegory of Melancholy is surely one o...Dürer's Allegory of Melancholy is surely one of the most famous engravings which challenged scholars, scientific persons, artists...- I admire how much information and interpretation you did sum up in your short and learned essay! This etching accompanied me during some parts of my life, esp. during my time as student of Friedrich Ohly who followed the Aby Warburg School and Panofsky's Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-50975583946253594562010-08-16T23:33:24.854+01:002010-08-16T23:33:24.854+01:00I've always thought there's a lot of suppr...I've always thought there's a lot of suppressed rage in the woman in this picture. The line of her back is hard and straight, not bowed outwards as one would imagine if she had really been relaxed against the chest of drawers. The unthinkingly complacent pose of the man is in stark contrast. I've never seen this picture discussed in feminist terms, but I think it says a lot about the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-66156061573782820622010-08-03T21:21:20.692+01:002010-08-03T21:21:20.692+01:00It is no "bearskin", it is only the - to...It is no "bearskin", it is only the - too dark- shadow (!) of the man- I saw another reproduction of this painting where you can see that! http://nga.gov.au/exhibition/edwardians/Detail.cfm?MnuID=3&SubMnuID=2&BioArtistIRN=25105&IRN=127653Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-71249561767083039072010-08-01T07:26:05.502+01:002010-08-01T07:26:05.502+01:00a very precise-careful and very sensitive descript...a very precise-careful and very sensitive description and analysis of this painting which may tell a story and depicture some human attitudes and feelings we may understand well, indeed, though it is also a reflection of a zeitgeist feeling (1914 -before WWI), esp. in the 'Bürgertum' we know from literature, too- you mentioned Moravia and Virginia Woolf, I thought of Flaubert's Madam Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-82783519290111369582010-06-29T09:29:57.166+01:002010-06-29T09:29:57.166+01:00I wish I had seen the room with the sower painting...I wish I had seen the room with the sower paintings - it is one of my favourite compositions. Agree about the fascination of his letters - something we have lost these days (letter writing) that intimacy isn't found in Blogs on the internet!Blackdoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13917019570643578121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-77286192148383920942010-06-28T13:15:53.752+01:002010-06-28T13:15:53.752+01:00another letter to Theo, 5th Sept. 1889:
"A re...another letter to Theo, 5th Sept. 1889:<br />"A reaper, the study is all yellow, terribly thickly impasted, but the subject was beautiful and simple.8 I then saw in this reaper – a vague figure struggling like a devil in the full heat of the day to reach the end of his toil – I then saw the image of death in it, in this sense that humanity would be the wheat being reaped. So if you like it’sPhiline Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8995898277235098805.post-14339038783071625392010-06-27T10:07:44.465+01:002010-06-27T10:07:44.465+01:00This is a very fine description and analysis of t...This is a very fine description and analysis of this famous, almost iconic painting by Vincent van Gogh - I saw it myself in the Amsterdamse exhibition "The Colours of the Nights" (!)- there was an own room showing only some of his sower- paintings- and there is a special relationship to the "blessing of corn" Van Gogh was always fascinated by- life and death combined -also Philine Kleinknechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18370437261050391305noreply@blogger.com