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| Elisabeth Sonrel (French painter) 1874 - 1953 Our Lady of the Cow Parsley, s.d |
I came across this painter in a 'female artists' thread. At first I dismissed it as too pretty by far, a french artist in Arts and Craft Design. Then I noticed how she had painted the cow parsley. When I see cow parsley it is delicately fingered into many tiny flowers, she had 'blobbed' it for convenience sake probably and it did not look like the wild flower.
Then my second reaction to myself was choosy bitch, I could no more put paint to paper as she had done. The thing that stands out though is the commercialism of the art and the painter's effort to sell a pretty picture.
It does seem from the Pre-raphaelites, that it was the male artist who sold an idea of beauty in women, with flaming, plentiful hair , garlanded with flowers a muse arising from the past.
Sonrel has been compared or at least 'in the style' of Botticelli, and it brought back the memory of 'The Birth of Venus'. Now before I get shot for sheer pig ignorance, I hate this painting, it is so foolish in its conception. The figures are like posed dolls, the faces painted on. It is artificial.
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| The Birth of Venus by Botticelli |
I fell out of love with a lot of paintings through my life, the Pre-Raphaelites just one school, and if I had to choose what I truly liked it would be an illustrator in black and white. A calm picture capturing what you want to see.
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Too fussy this Sonrel one and artless in its depiction of sex.
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