Tag Archives: Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller

children being cute

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

Children being cute as a metaphor for superficiality. The new image of the child being born in innocence and the painter to capture that ripe moment of angelic realm before the inevitable gradual tarnishing of the soul. It was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bartolome esteban murillo, Diego Velazquez, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, george smith painter, Hermann Hesse, hesse the prodigy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, murillo spanish painter, Norman Rockwell, Seville Baroque School, shirley temple, Sigmund Freud, Zubaran painter | Leave a comment

the undraped: Of anecdotal interest

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Dave

There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading →