JOHN GODWARD: Painting Natural Beauty and Grace of Women
April 2nd 2010 05:35
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Sitting and sleeping women are handy subjects for the painters who wish adoring the God-gifted beauty of women.
The Art: When the colour-loaded brush of a painter runs on a canvas, it does not remain mute. It speaks. It sings a song along with the rhythm of the colours. And when we look at such a painting, we have our choices, desires and purposes. These purpose are as varied as the number of the people seeing it. For most of the people the work of art, a painting or a sculpture, is an object to look at and get enjoyed and be pleased. But for a creative artist, a painting, or any piece of artwork, is an allegory. It is because in a painting the figures are intended to personify a variety of abstract ideas and the thinking.
The Message: If we know the story told through the painting, the imagination that a painter had in mind becomes clearer to our minds. After that the details of a painting function as a page of a book. The artists of western countries, mainly European, seem heavily preoccupied with painting the natural body of female and males. They have made the human body an important, a key building block of their art. In Eastern countries, barring India, the figurative paintings are still a taboo.
John William Godward (1861 – 1922), a painter with a difference, was a British painter. He was a Victorian Neo-classicist painter and a follower in theory of Frederic Leighton. Most of the Godward paintings were featuring the women in Classical dresses. His collection of artworks is rich with the paintings of many semi-clothed and unclothed females. READ FURTHERYour text goes here
Sitting and sleeping women are handy subjects for the painters who wish adoring the God-gifted beauty of women.
The Art: When the colour-loaded brush of a painter runs on a canvas, it does not remain mute. It speaks. It sings a song along with the rhythm of the colours. And when we look at such a painting, we have our choices, desires and purposes. These purpose are as varied as the number of the people seeing it. For most of the people the work of art, a painting or a sculpture, is an object to look at and get enjoyed and be pleased. But for a creative artist, a painting, or any piece of artwork, is an allegory. It is because in a painting the figures are intended to personify a variety of abstract ideas and the thinking.
The Message: If we know the story told through the painting, the imagination that a painter had in mind becomes clearer to our minds. After that the details of a painting function as a page of a book. The artists of western countries, mainly European, seem heavily preoccupied with painting the natural body of female and males. They have made the human body an important, a key building block of their art. In Eastern countries, barring India, the figurative paintings are still a taboo.
John William Godward (1861 – 1922), a painter with a difference, was a British painter. He was a Victorian Neo-classicist painter and a follower in theory of Frederic Leighton. Most of the Godward paintings were featuring the women in Classical dresses. His collection of artworks is rich with the paintings of many semi-clothed and unclothed females. READ FURTHERYour text goes here
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