Fine Art Friday

Well, this may not be exactly Fine Art, but it is what I have been looking at this past week (I need a little eye-roll emoticon here, and then a blushing one!) is Fan Art. Oh yeah - I can blame this one on my daughters - right?

Deviant Art has some weird stuff but it has a lot of hysterical fanart - and there is one artist I really like! She calls herself Makani, does a lot of Harry Potter stuff and has her own HP site, Accio Brain (hee hee!!). Her stuff makes me think of Disney, Betty and Veronica and Liberty's Kids. The picture of Draco and Pansy was in black and white - one of my daughters colored it in.

This next one had me rolling - I had forgotten how funny Lost can be!


It doesn't look like she does any Farscape stuff, though. So, here is a Farscape thing by some other artist at DA -

Fan Art - funny stuff!

Fine Art Friday

Here is a painting by an artist I had never heard of - William-Adolphe Bouguereau. I like his paintings; they are sweet but not sentimental and they are true-looking.

So, I went over to the Met site to see if they had any paintings by Bouguereau and they did. Here is one I remember seeing -

Fine Art Friday

This painting, of the Comtesse d'Haussonville, is just....breathtaking. The artist is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and I had never heard of him before I saw this painting at the Frick Collection. I just stood there for a while, captivated.

Here is another one by Ingres, which is in the Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -


I remember being so excited when I first saw this - I just knew that it was an Ingres, and I am not an art person who knows things like that!

Fine Art Friday

I had always liked this painting, but seeing it up close and personal for the first time a few years ago made a world of difference! I think that the Lehman Collection may be my favorite section of the Met and this may be my favorite painting in it.

Renoir's paintings are so - lush. Here is an online gallery of his work - so much beauty!

ETA: Gideon Strauss on Renoir.

Fine Art Friday

Another good idea!




Van Gogh is not really my favorite artist, but I love this picture! I bought a print and had it framed for the baby's room when I was pregnant with my first child. Now it hangs in my bedroom.