Painting
Swarthmore, PA
We looked at portraits in my Renaissance Rome seminar today. I particularly enjoyed the Raphaels. The women are always portrayed with kind of stubby hands and MASSIVE sleeves. It was a status symbol of sorts. Nicer clothes reflected on your husband's wealth and status. Cloth was also hugely expensive, so they used to either sew lightly or tie things together, so it could be reused to make a new dress. Sleeves were almost always tied on.
I loved the way the artists treated cloth in their paintings. I also just really like drawings or paintings of cloth. This one here - my comforter - kind of looks like a painting.
-Jing
København H Station, København
There's just something about train stations that I cannot find words to describe;
a ceaseless, shadowy magic.
-Darell
-june.
4 comments:
two lovely pictures.
Jing: I think I know exactly what you mean when you talk about cloth textures. Out of all the things in the world I enjoy drawing clothing folds the most.
June: Woo, confrontation! I love the man's hands.
haha, it was just a student talking with a lecturer...definitely no malicious confrontation.
:)
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