Showing posts with label Pompeii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pompeii. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Follow Me, watercolor

Follow Me, watercolor, 9x14, available.
Pliny's One-Man encyclopedia: born in the year 23 of our era,  he read taking notes, because, he said: "no book is so bad as not to contain something good." Pliny wrote a masterpiece of information called Historia Naturalis, around the year 50 A.D. He wrote about "everything known to exist throughout the earth". In the year 79 he was in the Bay of Naples, with his 17 year old nephew, when the Vesubius started erupting. He died, like everybody else in Pompeii. He was 56 years old.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Cuisine de Nat & Fred

Cuisine de Nat & Fred, watercolor, 4x6" (10x15cm.) As I paint everywhere I go, when I was in Chantilly and Paris last week, I did this small watercolor of my friend's kitchen.
Styles in Painting, by Paul Zucker, wonderful book. The author compares same genre paintings from different painters, and different times, sometimes different centuries. Great idea, amazing results! In the "Three Graces" category, for example, he compares "The Three Graces" in a Pompeiian mural from the year 70 A.D., with Raphael's, Botticelli's, Vasari's and Rubens' "Three Graces". Your homework: find and look at these paintings, and send me a message: which of the four painters I've mentioned copied almost exactly from the Pompeiian mural?
Cocina de Nat & Fred, acuarela. Como yo pinto en todas partes donde voy, cuando estuve en Chantilly y Paris la semana pasada, hize esta pequena acuarela de la cocina de mis amigos.
Styles in Painting, (Estilos en Pintura) de Paul Zucker, fantastico libro. El autor compara el mismo genero de pinturas de diferentes pintores y distintas epocas, a veces siglos. Gran idea, resultados asombrosos! En la categoria "Las Tres Gracias", por ejemplo, el compara "Las Tres Gracias" en un mural de Pompeya del ano 70, con "Las Tres Gracias" de Raphael, Botticelli, Vasari, y Rubens. Tu tarea: encuentra y mira con cuidado estas pinturas, y enviame un mensaje: cual de estos cuatro pintores que he mencionado copio casi exactamente del mural de Pompeya?