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| The Wave 1896 |
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| Bouguereau's Self-Portrait, 1879 |
There is something about Bouguereau's paintings that creep me out a bit, but in the kind of way that I don't mind. Kind of like a haunted house. It scares you, yet, it's fun and you enjoy it. The Wave is perhaps one of the most unbelievable paintings I have ever seen. Her skin is luminous, the water is see through, it looks like it was taken with a camera. Yet the coldness of the colours makes it off somehow.
And his self-portrait? Don't his eyes seem hollow? Glossy, scary, un-real? I'm so intrigued.
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| The Harvest 1882. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo |
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Pissarro's Self-Portrait, 1873
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| La Grande Odalisque, 1814 The Louvre, Paris |
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| Self-Portrait at age twenty-four, 1804 (revised 1850) Musée Condé |
What a looker the little Ingres painter is! But seriously, at 24 to be an accomplished painter like this amazes me! I studied his Odalisque in University and saw it in Paris. The colours and the richness of the fabrics, as well as the composition of positive and negative space, it is crisp and perfect.
