Website review: waterhouse
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crimsonragdoll rated 6 weeks ago- waterhouse is truly one of the all time greats...i have several prints of his work next to my desk...the softness and at the same time the intensity with which the paintings were brought to life will always fascinate me...
- paintlady rated 3 months ago
- sensuous, serene, surreal. best of the PRB
- intotheplanet rated 3 months ago
- best Pre-Raphaelite artist ever.
- MellonCollie rated 13 months ago
- Beautiful paintings!
- faxenkaetzchen rated 18 months ago
- wow, those paintings are amazing! its was hard to choose one!
- ericthehamster rated 23 months ago
A wonderful selection of pictures by the Victorian painter John Waterhouse, who was heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ("PRB"). For more about the painter and his paintings see also here and here.
Thanks to Pattenicus, who knows I love PRB paintings.
I have chosen this one to display - it is of the Lady of Shallot, a character from the Arthurian stories, with which the PRB were particularly taken (I enjoy these too, so perhaps that partly explains why I like these paintings).
Funnily enough, there was a programme on BBC R4 only last week on the subject of the Lady of Shallot, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem in particular. They also played extracts from Loreena McKennitt's song of the same name (words are Tennyson's - go to her webstie to hear an extract - it is from the album "The Visit").
The Lady of Shallot is cursed only to look at life and the world through the reflection of a mirror. When she looks directly at someone (Lancelot as it happens - he caused a lot of bother), the curse is upon her and she dies.
The poem is in full here. I have included an extract (it is a long poem, but wonderful!)
There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shallot.
And moving thro' a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot:
There the river eddy whirls,
And there the surly village-churls,
And the red cloaks of market girls,
Pass onward from Shallot.
Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,
An abbot on an ambling pad,
Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad,
Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad,
Goes by to tower'd Camelot;
And sometimes thro' the mirror blue
The knights come riding two and two:
She hath no loyal knight and true,
The Lady of Shallot.
- phocks rated 24 months ago
- One of my friends Katja had a print of this on her wall. In my adolescence it once - for some unknown reason - held endless fascination for me. Only recently have I become interested in the ancient greek stories from which these paintings take their inspiration. You can find out a bit more from the Hylas Wikipedia article. Hylas and the Nymphs
- prema108 rated 25 months ago
- Beautiful paintings.
- Sweetwyne rated 25 months ago
Very nice!
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