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À la découverte de Satan et…L’Art du Diable
C’est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent! Satan, Belzébuth, Lucifer… Le Diable possède de multiples noms et visages qui étaient une grande source d'inspiration pour les artistes.
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SATAN, BEELZEBUB, LUZIFER – Der Teufel in der Kunst
Auf dieselbe Weise hat die Beschäftigung mit dem Teufel in der Literatur oftmals Künstler inspiriert, die den Teufel mithilfe von Bildern austreiben wollten; dazu gehören insbesondere die Werke von Dante Allighieri und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Im 19. Jahrhundert fühlte sich die Romantik zunächst von dem mysteriösen und ausdrucksvollen Gehalt des Themas angezogen und setzte die Verherrlichung der Böswilligkeit fort.
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Exploring Satan and…Art of the Devil
"The Devil holds the strings which move us!". Literature dealing with the Devil has long offered inspiration to artists wishing to exorcise evil through images, especially the works of Dante and Goethe.
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The Story of Lingerie (Part 2)
Many women indulge in lingerie to please men. Yet, ever since Antiquity, women have always kept lingerie hidden away under outer garments. Thus, lingerie must be more than erotic bait. Authors Muriel Barbier and Shazia Boucher have researched iconography to explore the relationship of lingerie to society, the economy and the corridors of intimacy.
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Erotic Art Photography
This Erotic photo art collection presents erotic photographs from the beginning of photography until the years just before World War II. It explores the evolution of the genre and its origins in France, and its journey from public distrust to the large audience it enjoys today.
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L’art D’utamaro
Le texte ci-dessous est l’extrait du livre Utamaro (ASIN: B016XN18M6) écrit par Edmond de Goncourt, publié par Parkstone International. Parcourir les albums japonais est une véritable initiation, au cours de laquelle on est particulièrement ébloui par la splendeur d’Utamaro. Ses planches somptueuses frappent l’imagination par son amour de la femme, qu’il enveloppe si voluptueusement dans les grandes étoffes japonaises, dans des plis, des contours, des chutes et des couleurs si recherchées que le cœur défaille à les regarder, à se figurer ce qu’elles représentent de jouissances exquises pour le peintre. Car le vêtement féminin révèle la conception qu’un peuple a de l’amour et cet amour n’est lui-même qu’une forme de la pensée supérieure cristallisée…
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The Art of Utamaro
The text below is the excerpt from the book Utamaro (ASIN: B016XN18LC), written by Edmond de Goncourt, published by Parkstone International. To leaf through albums of Japanese prints is truly to experience a new awakening, during which one is struck in particular by the splendour of Utamaro. His sumptuous plates seize the imagination through his love of women, whom he wraps so voluptuously in grand Japanese fabrics, in folds, contours, cascades and colours so finely chosen that the heart grows faint looking at them, imagining what exquisite thrills they represented for the artist. For women’s clothing reveals a nation’s concept of love, and this love itself is but a form of lofty thought crystallised…
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Epiphany – Three Kings’ Day Celebration
The text below is the excerpt from the book Christ in Art, written by Ernest Renan, published by Parkstone International. Jesus was born in Nazareth, a small town in Galilee, which before him was unknown. All his life he was designated by the name of “Nazarene,” and it is only by an awkward detour that the legend succeeds in fixing his birth at Bethlehem. We shall further on see the motive of this supposition and how it was the necessary consequence of the Messianic character attributed to Jesus. The precise date of his birth is unknown. It occurred under the reign of Augustus, towards the year 750 of Rome, probably sometime in the…
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Shelley’s art Musings – Spotlight on William Blake
When I think about William Blake, I instantly think of the film “Red Dragon” – you know the one where the character Francis Dolarhyde is obsessed with the painting and kills his family to try and gain the same strength as the creature depicted. The film was inspired by the book “Red Dragon” by Thomas Harris and was a lead into the Hannibal Lector stories. While this is where the majority of us will recognise the work from, Blake was more than just a painter, he was also a poet and a printmaker, who turned his back on formalised religion and created his own personal complex mythology. Blake was largely…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Spotlight on Auguste Rodin
There are many historical events that have happened in November, on the 12th November 1944, 32 British Lancaster bombers finally sank the German battleship, the Tirpitz after 2 years of trying. On the same day in 1946 the first drive through bank was opened in the USA. Also, on this day in 1840 Auguste Rodin was born and would change the face of sculpture for those who would be set to follow. The founder of modern sculpture was born in Paris and was largely self-educated until he attended the Petite Ecole at the 14. He had started to teach himself to draw at the age of 10, which held him…
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