Original Fine Art Paintings - Venice, Rome

Venice 1b Framed Original Multimedia Painting Fine Art. GrlFineArt Save                  Venice 1b Framed Original Multimedia Painting Fine Art. In the early 1950's we were overseas for about 4 years, my father worked for post-war recovery under the Marshall Plan. We took several trips there, where I took the black and white photos which are the basis of these current art works. Venice 2b Original Photo... Original Photo, Multimedia Fine Art. I took the original photo, black and white, back in the early 1950's. In this art work, I have worked on brightness/contrast and added some color tints. ...nice effect, I think. Venice 2b Framed Original Multimedia Painting Fine Art. Venice 2b Framed Original Multimedia Painting Fine Art.

Retro, Shannon and Eva, Frederick, Maryland...

Portrait of Shannon, Young Woman Working in a Bar; a Fine Art Traditional-Modern Painting.   (click title above for print-on-demand...)   A traditional styled portrait of a young woman, Shannon, a favorite bartender. Frederick, Maryland; painted probably about 10 or 12 years ago... row2...

Sunna Jazz Trio - Fine Art Original Painting, Oil on Linen. Original Fine Art  Oil Painting, 22" x 28" This was some years ago, "Rawbar" (if I remember right???), Frederick Maryland. They had a lovely sound... The original is for sale; here is a picture showing it framed, together with an online gallery link. Fine Art Traditional Modern Oil Painting of a Woman Eva I (detail).   (click title above for print-on-demand...) A favorite bartender, I painted it probably about 10 years ago, Frederick, Maryland... I've always liked to paint portrait-style "people" and groups "ourselves", usually of people I know, and not by commission ... I like impressionist motifs, but prefer my own more modern painting style, often using thin paints to let the underlying light and colors shine through .

Traditional-Modern Fine Art - Ourselves I

Fine Art Traditional Oil Painting, Tess...   (click title above for print-on-demand...) A traditional-modern painting, oil on paper, Tess, in her stable with her cats... Original Oil Painting. 20.000 x 36.000 inches. My current sites and links... Sites...   ... Fine Art Paintings   ... Traditional- Fine Art   ... Fine Art Nudes       - Fine Art Female Nudes       - Fine Art Nude Paintings...   ... Home Decor   ... Online Fine Art Blogs...   ... fine-art-paintings-digital-art   ... traditional-modern-art   ... fine art nude Online...   ... absolutearts   ... fineartamerica   ... ARTFLAKES   ... Imagekind   ... artq   ... picassomio  facebook...   ... FINE ART NUDE Paintings   ... Fine Art And Digital Art  google+...   ... Fine arts paintings Org   ... Classic Online Art Nudes and Goddesses   ... with circles "artists art", "traditional modern art"; you can also find me by searching on google+, g linsenmayer Or, online, search "g linsenmayer"...

Sunna Jazz Trio - Fine Art Original Painting, Oil on Linen. Original Fine Art  Oil Painting, 22" x 28" This was some years ago, "Rawbar" (if I remember right???), Frederick Maryland. They had a lovely sound... The original is for sale; here is a picture showing it framed, together with an online gallery link. Stevie Nicks as Rhiannon... a Traditional Modern Original Painting.   (click title above for print-on-demand...) An Original Fine Art Digital Image... Stevie Nicks as Rhiannon, in a traditional-modern style. Lots of ledgend here, you can find it all on the internet.

Traditional-Modern Fine Art - Portraits I - G. Linsenmayer

Jen Mona Lisa 2012   GrlFineArt Save   ... an original acrylic/oil on paper, after (obviously) a motif of da Vinci. I've always liked to paint portrait-style "people" and groups "ourselves"; these are not by commission (with only one exception, and I decided no more...). Vermeer (see below, right) and a few other Dutch painters began to popularize the idea of paintings "ordinary people"  as art  works themselves, instead of commissioned portraits for wealthy nobility, merchants, and so forth. This idea was strongly taken up later by the impressionists and post-impressionists. Mona Lisa or La Gioconda (da Vinci) Two Sisters or On the Terrace "Renoir worked on the painting on the terrace of the Maison Fournaise, a restaurant located on an island in the Seine in Chatou, the western suburb of Paris. The painting depicts a young woman and her younger sister seated outdoors..." La Gioconto - "   The sitter, Lisa del Giocondo was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The painting is thought to have been commissioned for their new home, and to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea..."; "The ambiguity of the subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic..." The last quoted comment is widely repeated. I myself, having painted a fair number of portraits, don 't find anything "enigmatic" at all, she's simply in a self-contained mood, feeling right about maybe herself, her life, and being painted. Madras Rouge, The Red Turban - Madras Rouge, The Red Turban, 1907, Barnes Foundation. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show ...  The woman depicted is the painter's wife, Amélie Noellie Parayre Matisse. < h1 lang="en"> Henri Matisse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henri-... was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original ["style"] Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists ... responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture [in the post-impressionist era]...

Portrate of Crissy   This is an original digital print, a portrait of a young woman, Gulf Coast Florida Girl with a Pearl Earring -  "considered a Vermeer masterpiece" "Critics have often noted that the women in Vermeer's paintings cannot be considered beauties in the conventional sense of the word. ... The qualities that we attribute to Vermeer's work as a whole apply equally to the women they picture: paintings and personages share dignity, equilibrium and [are] exceptional of both vivid presence and abstract purity" ... Vermeer - Girl With a Red Hat "None of the women who modeled for Vermeer's paintings have ever been identified even though some seemed to have posed more than once ... we know nothing else about their lives. Modern scholarship generally holds that they were not painted as portraits except, perhaps, A Lady Writing in Washington. Even Vermeer's four bust-length figures, including the illustrious Girl with a Pearl Earring, were not intended as portraits ... (my own underlining)

20th Century - American Art

Twentieth Century American Traditional-Modern Art

I've always liked early 20th century American art, before our art world got taken over by abstraction and similarly somewhat inane art movements. "Controversy soon became a way of life ifor American artists. In fact, much of American painting and sculpture since 1900 has been a series of revolts against tradition. "To hell with the artistic values," announced Robert Henri 1865–1929). He was the leader of what critics called the Ashcan school of painting, after the group's portrayals of the squalid aspects of city life. "American realism became the new direction for American visual artists at the turn of the 20th century. The Ashcan painters George Bellows, Everett Shinn, George Benjamin Luks, John Sloan were among those who developed socially conscious imagery in their works. ... " . George Bellows... "George Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He was an only child, born four years after his parents married, at the ages of fifty and forty respectively. His mother, Anna Wilhelmina Smith, was the daughter of a whaling captain. ... an original a "Bellows attended Ohio State University from 1901 until 1904. There he played for the baseball and basketball teams, and provided illustrations for the Makio, the school's student yearbook. He was encouraged to become a professional baseball player, and he worked as a commercial illustrator while a student and continued to accept magazine assignments throughout his life. Despite these opportunities in athletics and commercial art, Bellows desired success as a painter. He left Ohio State in 1904 just before he was to graduate and moved to New York City to study art."

Georgia O'Keeffe Red Poppy Traditional-Modern Art ...Georgia O’Keeffe painted in what I think of as Traditional-Modern She was a believer in (her personal view) of traditional motifs, accomplished in her own unique modern style. "She attempted to imbue all of her works— from her schematic images of the New York skyline to her magnified, closely cropped flower paintings—with an expressive, organic vitality. She was drawn increasingly to painting nature, especially the expansive, light-bathed landscape of th Southwest,..." Edward Hopper - New York Movie  Edward Hopper - A movie theater in New York... "Paintings such as Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942) convey a mood of loneliness and desolation by their emptiness or by the presence of anonymous, non-communicating figures. But of this picture Hopper said: `I didn't see it as particularly lonely... " My current sites and links... Sites...   ... Traditional-Modern Fine Art   ... Fine Art Paintings   ... Fine Art Nudes - Original Custom Digital Prints on Sale...   ... Original Fine Art Nude Paintings and Digital Art Blogs...   ... traditional-modern-art   ... fineartnude Online...   ... absolutearts   ... fineartamerica   ... artq   ... picassomio

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist "Motif"

Art as "Motifs of Real Life"...

My own art has always been influenced by the idea of "motif" and "real life".  Much of abstract, post-abstract, and "contemporary" art lacks these directions, ending up "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing", or worse, nothing but trivial decoration.

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists used "Real Life" motifs (i.e., "what the painting is about"), sharply in contrast to the idealized "not real" subject matter of established academicism,  to see more, go here - "Impressionist - Post Impressionist Motifs" ... my current web sites: My Sites...   Fine Arts Paintings and Digital Art   Online Fine Art   Traditional-Modern Fine Art   Original Fine Art Nude Paintings and Digital Art   Fine Art Nudes - Original Custom Digital Prints on Sale... Blogs...   fine arts paintings   fine art nude   traditional-modern art   fine art painters	I like to think of my artwork motifs quite specifically.  That is, the works here are not "portrait of a woman"; they are Eva and Shannon.	EVA SHANNON

Post-Impressionism - Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin is another early "traditional-modern" painter.  He maintained a lot of the impressionist ideas of motif; i.e., art relating to, in the 19th century , "modern" outlooks on the real world, but with his own post-impressionist style. "Modern" here is in contrast to pre-impressionist art, which was so often (but not always) so banal.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

"Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin ... was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetic style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse ..."

Gauguins art encompassed a wide variety of motif (see thumbnails below), I am showing here a few of his Tahitian pictures.

When will you marry? (Tahitian: Nafea faa ipoipo?)  1892 "... the front figure indulges in dreamy fantasies, the rear figure is imbued with something rigid and rule-bound. The front woman stretches herself, her facial features stylized and simplified. The rear female figure ... face is painted with individual features and represents the center of the image. ..." I sometimes (almost always???) think that art academics get carried away... To me, as a painter, and with a son and daughter, this could more basic; there is mom, or aunt, and daughter; daughter looks like daughter, mom looks like mom, neither of them really are sure they want to be sitting there getting painted. Gauguin apparently was very mercurial, full of ups and downs, maybe mostly downs.  Many of his pictures seem to reflect Gauguin, in this way; not necessarily those being painted.	Parau api, (Two Women of Tahiti) Tahitian Women on the Beach Two Tahitian Women
Concerning Gauguin's impact on Picasso John Richardson wrote, "The 1906 exhibition of Gauguin's work left Picasso more than ever in this artist's thrall. Gauguin demonstrated the most disparate types of art—not to speak of elements from metaphysics, ethnology, symbolism, the Bible, classical myths, and much else besides—could be combined into a synthesis" His self-portraits are obviously how he wants to see himself.  One thing I find interesting is how often his other portraits  look sort of like Gauguin; this is actually quite noticeable for many other artists also. He also did a lot of paintings and art having to do with his notions of religious and mystic symbolism; this stuff is highly rated by art historians and critics, but I myself am not a believer in that kind of art...