The painting is fascinating and filled with symbolism. The detail of the reflections in the mirror give us a tantalising look into that room from a different perspective.
The absence of table legs is a detail that most folks don't notice when looking at the painting. Their omission is a compositional device.
You're welcome... Peder Mørk Mønsted is one of my favorite painters. He is really so talented. I love collecting paintings and there is a huge archive in my computer at the moment. I'd be glad to share them here in this thread. 5 more paintings by Peder Mørk Mønsted: Peder Mørk Mønsted - "a danish spring landscape with new-leaved beech trees" Peder Mørk Mønsted - "frederiksberg have" (palace garden) Peder Mørk Mønsted - "autumn in dyrehaven (the deer forest)" Peder Mørk Mønsted - "spring landscape with water" Peder Mørk Mønsted - "harvest near tulstrup" (view of tulstrup near knudsø. harvest scene on a sunny day)
To be honest, I'm not a fan of him. But his "self-portrait at the age of twenty eight" is very beautiful in my opinion. I especially like that painting. 5 artworks by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528): Albrecht Dürer - "self-portrait at the age of twenty eight" Albrecht Dürer - "portrait of hieronymus holzschuher" Albrecht Dürer - "the virgin and child ('the madonna with the iris')" Albrecht Dürer - "young hare" Albrecht Dürer - "praying hands"
5 paintings by Edward Hopper (1882-1967): Edward Hopper - "gas" Edward Hopper - "office at night" Edward Hopper - "western motel" Edward Hopper - "cape cod evening" Edward Hopper - "high noon"
Sorry to be so basic and predictable, but another Dali for me - Suburbs of the Paranoiac Critical Town... I've had this painting up at every house I've lived at. I have to have a copy close to me - it just resonates like that. I can spend hours looking at it - and I do.
My other favourite painting is this one by Modigliani - I'm smitten by most of his portraits of Jeanne, but this one in particular haunts me. I picked up my first copy of it back in my early 20s and it's been a painting I haven't been able to let go of it since. I didn't know the story of Jeanne and Modigliani for many years, but I could and should have guessed, just by the picture. She's been a very good friend over the years.
Wonderful - I adore Dürer. I haven't attempted very much art myself in my life, as I'm simply not very good - but when I did try it, it was copying the lines and textures in Dürer's famous praying hands, which I found fascinating, and the way he captures the folds of robes, like in this picture - my favourite of his... he had such an eye for detail regarding shadow, layers and depth. I always found hands one of the hardest things to draw - I don't know why, I just struggle with them - and so spending time with Dürer really helped with that, because he could draw hands better than anyone.
If I'm not mistaken, "praying hands" and "young hare" are his most famous works. Along with his self-portraits... "Melencolia I" is a large 1514 engraving by Dürer and it is also a well-known artwork. Albrecht Dürer - "melencolia I"
5 more paintings by Edward Hopper: Edward Hopper - "summertime" Edward Hopper - "sunlight in a cafeteria" Edward Hopper - "hotel lobby" Edward Hopper - "the sheridan theatre" Edward Hopper - "ground swell"
5 more paintings by Peder Mørk Mønsted: Peder Mørk Mønsted - "grönskande vårlandskap med sittande barn vid strandkant" Peder Mørk Mønsted - "spring landscape in a village in tyrol" Peder Mørk Mønsted - "meran, castle winkel" Peder Mørk Mønsted - "beach scene from hellebæk with a view to helsingborg and kronborg" Peder Mørk Mønsted - "unloading stone from a barge at ouchy, lac leman"
5 paintings by Frederik Marinus Kruseman (1816-1882): Frederik Marinus Kruseman was a Dutch painter who specialized in Romantic style landscapes. In his output of approximately 300 to 350 paintings, only three still-lifes are known and the rest are landscapes. He also made a large number of drawings. Frederik Marinus Kruseman - "summer landscape with animals and churchyard" Frederik Marinus Kruseman - "a winter landscape with wood faggots" Frederik Marinus Kruseman - "winter landscape with skaters near a castle" Frederik Marinus Kruseman - "winter landscape with children playing on the ice" Frederik Marinus Kruseman - "winter landscape with figures"
Hans Andersen Brendekilde is underrated, he is not that famous but his artworks are wonderful in my opinion. 5 paintings by Hans Andersen Brendekilde: A little info about him: Hans Andersen Brendekilde (1857-1942) was a Danish painter. Brendekilde initially worked in a social realist style describing the plight of the rural proletariat in paintings such as his famous "Worn Out" depicting an elderly farmworker lying fallen on his back in the furrowed field. Later his style became more religious, and eventually he mostly portrayed idyllic village life. Hans Andersen Brendekilde - "spring. a young couple in a rowing boat on odense å" Hans Andersen Brendekilde - "fishing boy" (angelnder junge) Hans Andersen Brendekilde - "cutting christmas trees" (juletræsfældning) Hans Andersen Brendekilde - "two children feeding birds in the snow" Hans Andersen Brendekilde - "en skovtur ved odense å"
August Friedrich Schenck - "anguish" Alejandro DeCinti - "el rapto de europa" Hubert Sattler - "niagara falls" Bernardo Bellotto - "a capriccio river landscape with a church to the left" Willem Claesz. Heda - "still life with a gilt cup"
Eduard Gaertner - "city hall at thorn" Mykola Pymonenko - "a victim of fanaticism" Anders Zorn - "our daily bread" (vårt dagliga bröd) Émile Renouf - "the helping hand" (un coup de main) Tim Cox - "waiting for dad"
The one of my wife in our living room, painted by a friend (a friend whose paintings go for £10-20k at a time, not a mate that dabbles in watercolours!)
Heinrich Gogarten - "sunset over a winter landscape" (abendrot über einer winterlandschaft) August Malmström - "the old and the young sweden" Anton Melbye - "a view of the port in istanbul" David Brackman - "h.m.s. victory, the stern view, as she breaks through the enemy line and engages the french vessels either side of her" Edward Hoyer - "shipping on the bosphorus by moonlight"
Hans Fredrik Gude - "the jetty at feste near moss" Carl Frederik Aagaard - "lodge on lake como" Lionel-Noël Royer - "vercingetorix throws down his arms at the feet of julius caesar" Jean-Eugène Buland - "parent's happiness" (bonheur des parents) Edward Antoon Portielje - "knotting the net"
Václav Brozík - "children in the woods" (deti v lese) Francesco Bergamini - "a valuable lesson" Luigi Monteverde - "the prank" Briton Rivière - "fidelity" Bogdan Willewalde - "general gebhard leberecht von blücher and cossacks in bautzen, 1813"
Eugène von Guérard - "lake wakatipu with mount earnslaw, middle island, new zealand" Adolphe Lacomblé - "cattle in a landscape" Eugène Girardet - "the passing caravan" Giovanni Battista Torriglia - "a happy family" (the thread of life) Arthur John Elsley - "well on the mend"
