Stuff Collected from drafts. I have been contemplating getting one of the paintings by the Staithes Group of Artists, they are smudgy and do not have the clarity I like but then they are so evocative of this part of the North-East coast, probably too expensive though. There is one of Flowergate in Whitby where the cottage used to be, the Abbey would always greet you on the hill above the buildings. Sometimes I get really homesick for Whitby, much to Paul's surprise. Both Staithes and Robin Hood Bay have the same 'feel' as the painting below. I cannot say that the coast line is beautiful only that it is rugged and the cluster of cottages as you walk down to the beaches greet you in their homeliness, though of course so many are holiday cottages
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| Arthur Friedenson RA - Staithes Beck |
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"It is hardly coincidental that so many of Japan’s cultural traditions — including haiku, tea ceremony, calligraphy, and flower arrangement — cultivate a special awareness of both the season and the present instant of focused attention. Buddhist philosophy holds that the entire world is continually recreated, moment by moment. Entering that evanescent instant of creation, one can’t help but be simultaneously aware of its transience."
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| Anna Alma Tadema |
One of the highly detailed, miniaturist watercolour interiors painted by Alma-Tadema's artistically gifted daughter, Anna, shows the drawing room at 1a Holland Park. She was influenced in technique and subject matter by her father and his second wife Laura, her stepmother, but her interior views are her most individualistic works. This example was painted in April 1887 at the house owned by the Coronio family, adjoining Alecco Ionides' much admired Morris-decorated 'Aesthetic' dwelling. Rossetti's red and black chalk study of Marianna visible on the left of the painting, was owned by Aglaia Coronio; it is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. The drawing room painting was shown at Grosvenor Gallery in 1887, along with Laura Alma-Tadema's 'Always Welcome'.
I like the Staithes school a lot. And Alma Tadema was at one time also a favourite but somehow not any more. My walls are covered in original paintings as I was married for thirty nine years to an artist - and have many of his paintings and those of friends.
ReplyDeleteWell our walls are covered with several Japanese prints, so I feel good old country scenes now and then might not come amiss. There is the stark feel of the b/w photography in artwork up ere in the North;), so a smudgy Yorkshire painting would be fine. I also feel that Anna Tadema is over the top, I am admiring her attention to detail though.
ReplyDeleteOne of the Staithes painter was called Rowland Hill... no not that one who started the postal service!