If you have any request to alter your reproduction of The Magic Circle 1886, Each oil painting is created by hand using only the finest canvas and oil paints available. The Certificate of Authenticity which arrives with every painting provides an assurance and verifies the authenticity of the hand painted fine art reproduction you purchased. Real Oil Paints, Real Brushes, Real Artists, Real Art. © 2003 - 2022 - All Rights Reserved, original content, do not copy without permission. In The Magic Circle Waterhouse seems to have created a patchwork reproduction of fragments of myth and legend into a celebration of mystery and beauty. By the end of the century Waterhouse had established a fervent interest in magic and the occult, particularly in the guise of femme fatales, a recurring theme throughout his life. Beginning first as a painter in the neo-classical style, and attempting to produce true-to-life reproductions of the ancient world through a close attention to archaeological artefacts, Waterhouse began to portray the Classical past through the lens of the everyday. Although an ambiguous canvas, The Magic Circle is a transitional work painted at a time that Waterhouse, who had begun first as a painter in the neo-classical style, started to portray the mythical world through the lens of the everyday.Īs a young man Waterhouse entered the Royal Academy Schools and at the close of his studies he was already exhibited at the institution’s prestigious annual Summer Exhibition. Yet within the confines of her delineated sphere, objects of beauty flourish. Beyond her the landscape is fraught and ominous, littered with animals and obstacles usually associated with evil or foreboding. A witch-like woman or prophetess, adorned in an ambiguous style, stands bearing a crescent-shaped symbol while drawing a protecting circle around herself. The Magic Circle is an early Waterhouse painting, reflecting the young artist’s love affair with the exotic, orientalised figure. Main Menu > HELP > Requests and Commissions. 16th and 17th Century European Paintings.John's Wood Art School, joined the St John's Wood Arts Club, and served on the Royal Academy Council. In 1895 Waterhouse was elected to the status of full Academician. In 1883 he married Esther Kenworthy, who herself exhibited her own flower paintings at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. He actually painted three different versions of this character, the first in 1888. Waterhouse's most famous painting is "The Lady of Shalott", a maiden who dies of grief when Lancelot will not love her. The painting was very well received, leading him to exhibit at the RA almost every year thereafter until his death in 1917. In 1874, at the age of 25, Waterhouse submitted the classical allegory Sleep and His Half-Brother Death to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. His early works were of classical themes in the spirit of Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton, and were exhibited at the Royal Academy. During his early years he studied under his father before entering the Royal Academy schools in 1870. When he was 5 the family moved to South Kensington. He was born in Rome to William and Isabela Waterhouse, both painters themselves. Because of this, he has been referred to as "the modern Pre-Raphaelite", and incorporated techniques borrowed from the French Impressionists into his work. He was one of the final Pre-Raphaelite artists, being most productive in the latter decades of the 19th century and early decades of the 20th, long after the era of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. John William Waterhouse was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter who is most famous for his paintings of female characters from Greek and Arthurian mythology.
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