Long time no see, I will skip all the excuses and stuff, cause it's not really why you're here, i mean you're not here to read about my life. I was wandering if continuing posting as i did before makes sense, as i would prefer to contemplate and somehow get more into some pieces rather than just show a few pretty/interesting paintings without a word. I don't know. But again then i don't have the knowledge or anything. I will think about it. And for the time being I'm leaving you with this small collection of paintings you've probably seen on my tumblr if you follow it and if  not you have a chance now. Enjoy and have a nice day (:

    Apples  by Myron G. Barlow

Gate to paradise (detail)  by Wilhelm Bernatzik

Still Life with meat by Monet

Oysters by Édouard Manet

Despatches - is he Mentioned by Edgar Bundy

Flowers

Still lifes with flowers, enjoy;)
Actually flowers are kinda nice subject. In my granny's house are some unfortunately tacky flower paintings, of course flower paintings are usually made especially for sale, but there are good paintings of flowers and some of them are even quite interesting. Well i guess that from everything you can make a tacky and ugly thing.;d

Mary Davidson Still Life Against the Light

Francis Campbell

Antonio Dzhanilyatti

Vincent van Gogh Still Life - Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers

Konstantin Korovin A Parisian Balcony

Nicolae Grigorescu Apple Blossom

Odilon Redon Anemones and poppies in a vase

Vasily Surikov Bouquet

Paul Gauguin Basket of flowers

Edouard Vuillard Anemones in a Chinese

Martiros Saryan Bouquet in a blue vase

David Burliuk Bouquet and mountains Colorado

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli Bouquet of flowers

Oleksandr Bogomazov Bouquet of flowers

Vincent van Gogh Red poppies and daisies

Tristan and Iseult

Brush the mold from Yseult's hair and face:
     And you will find that swarthy furious gold
     Still smoldering under the blanket of black mold;
And you will find those eyelids frail as lace;
Eyes like blue stones washed in a windy place;
     That mouth whose glowing motion once controlled
     Cornwall and Lyonnesse; that throat as cold
As a long curve in water, white as a vase
Of moon-swept ivory: you will discover
     That body whose keen pallor was a sword
Unsheathed only for one lord and lover,
     Flashing only for one lover and lord:
Your eyes will blur to find with sharp surprise
Tears burning on her eyelids and her eyes!

~Yseult by Joseph Auslander (1924)

Tristan and Isolde by John Duncan (1866-1945)

Tristan and Isolde by Herbert James Draper (1901)

Tristram Carried His Love Away by Thomas Mackenzie (1920)

Tristram and Isolde Drinking the Love Potion by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1867)

Tristram and Isoude by Evelyn Paul (1920)

Wagner Girdle: Tristan Dies by Alexander Fisher (1893-1896)

Reunion in Death by August Spieß (1892)

 Tristram and Iseult by Sindey Meteyard (1868-1947)

Isolde by Aubrey Beardsley (Illustration in Pan, Berlin 1900)

La Belle Iseult by William Dyce (1853)

Sir Tristram Assults King Mark by Howard Pyle (1905)

Sir Tristram Gave Her a Ring by Arthur A Dixon (1921)

The Death of Sir Tristan, from The Story of Tristan and Isolde, William Morris & Co. by Ford Madox Brown

The Death of Tristram by Marianne Stokes 1902

They Went into Their Country of Benoye by William Russel Flint (1927)

Tristan and Isolde by Salvador Dali (1944)

by Yoshitaka Amano (1980s)

Seperation by August Spieß (1892)

Tristan by Nicholas Roerich (1912)

Yseult la Blonde by Gaston Bussière (1900)

Tristan and Isolde with the Potion by John William Waterhouse (1916)

 Tristan and Isolde by Edmund Leighton (1902)

Medieval French story about Tristan and Iseult made a great comeback during the Arthurian Revival in the 19th and early 20th Century. The lovers inspired not only the Pre-Raphaelites, who were so keen on taking inspiration from Arthurian legends, but also Art Nouveau artist, or surrealist like Dali, not mentioning the book illustrators, who treated the subject very differently, as you can see.

Salome

Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

~Oscar Wilde Salome

 

Filippo Lippi The Feast of Herod Salome's Dance (1464)

Andrea Solario Salome with the head of St. John the Baptist (1507)

Guido Reni Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (1635)

Aubrey Beardsley The Climax(Illustration for Wilde's Salome) (1893)

Wilhelm Trübner Salome (1897)

Franz von Stuck Salome (1906)

Gustav Klimt Judith II (Salome) (1909)

Aleksandra Ekster Costume design for Salome (1917)

John Vassos Illustration for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' (1927)

Manuel Orazi Salome (1930)

Erte Salome (20th Century)