Joy of beautiful paintings

[alexandral]

Art of Mikhail VrubelOne of my most beloved painters, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel, was born in my home city, Omsk, Siberia in 1856. His manner of painting is wonderfully unique and influenced by Late Byzantine style, though he is considered to belong to Art Nouveau wave

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[jenlev]

wow, these are incredible. and i wonder if they'd sometimes light the rooms these are in with candles so we could see them the way he did....even though the patina on the bronze would still shift the look. athough as i type this....i really haven't a clue if that's true. ;)

[alexandral]

I think you are definitely right - there must be a difference for different lighting conditions and candles add particular eerie feel to old paintings because the light of the candles shift and makes them look "alive". Though I suspect that the bronze powder has completely darkened now and may be adds some greenish tint.

[jenlev]

it's too bad, because i'm thinking he wasn't going for the green look. ;)

things like this make me wonder how people would feel about this technological world if they came forward in time.

[alexandral]

things like this make me wonder how people would feel about this technological world if they came forward in time.

This what I think A LOT recently. To think of, even take myself 8 years ago. If I just went 8 years forward and saw how I will chat with the people all around the globe and watch all things I never had an access to at that time (like Asian dramas) and read Russian books and newspapers on-line!! I wounder what I would have thought.

[endlessdeep]

These are stunning. I could stare at them for hours.

The blue cloth on the Demon looks almost transparent.

The Swan is fascinating. At first glance her gown just looks like a white gown and she has huge eyes. Then you look at her gown again and realize the cloth blends into feathers and she's floating on a lake.

I'd like to see "Azriel" in it's original size.

[alexandral]

I am so glad you like them!

The blue cloth on the Demon looks almost transparent.

I imagine how it looked when the painting was just finished, with the shimmering bronze. This painting is actually HUGE (many of Vrubel's paintings are big) and absolutely takes your breath away.

I'd like to see "Azriel" in it's original size.

I don't remember seeing this painting before, but I fell in love with it.

[teh_haley]

The Swan Princess stole my heart. I don't know how to explain it but it has that something, I mean, it's shiny, it seems like you can see her with his eyes, like you can feel how he was attracted by his 'princess', I don't know, maybe it's me, I'm too emotional, but I love that painting.

[alexandral]

like you can feel how he was attracted by his 'princess', I don't know, maybe it's me, I'm too emotional, but I love that painting.

You can see how much hee loves her!! This is my favourite painting too, and "Demon" the second.

[alexandral]

I am so glad you like his art!!! It is very personal to me, I was so happy to show his paintings this summer to my little daughter, in Tretyakov gallery in Moscow where almost all of these paintings "live" . But she loved his ceramics the most. :D Vrubel did some wonderful ceramic sculptures.

That is fascinating. I wonder how this might have changed the visual of the paintings.

I imagine this must have been similar to the effect we get using silver/gold paints, very shimmering. I would love to go back in time and be able to see the paintings as they were back then!

[alexandral]

He did ceramc sculptures as well?

They are very interesting, rather Egyptian-looking.. He had some very interesting influences!!