Who Painted This? #49
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| Who painted this? #49 |
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ALSO Tell me what y'all tin respect out most this creative individual and/or artwork.
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Who Painted This #48 - The Answer
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| Who painted this? #48 |
- Title of the artwork: I Too Was inward Arcadia (Auch ich country of war inward Arkadien)
- Name of the creative individual who created this artwork: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759 - 1835) (German)
- Date it was created: 1801
- Media used: Etching; Plate: xv 1/8 x xix 7/8 inches; Sheet: xvi 1/4 x twenty 7/8 inches
- Where it lives now: Several places equally it is an etching!
- The British Museum
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - where it is ane of the transcend 100 highlights!
He learned how to depict through classical academic preparation at the Berlin Academy of Art where he did his fourth dimension drawing plaster models as well as classical sculpture. His etching wasn't a science taught to him. Instead he learned how to produce it for himself.
What truly interested Kolbe were landscapes and, believe it or not, giant vegetation. This impress is but ane of 28 etchings inward which giant vegetation dwarfs the human figures inward the image. His dislocation of scale inward this means is something non seen earlier or since.
The location for this special impress is Arcadia (aka Arcady inward English). Whereas Arcadia truly exists (it's a province inward Greece), it's used inward this context equally business office of a Romantic concept of a utopian place, a pastoral paradise, where the province is unspoiled yesteryear human being as well as human being tin live at ane amongst nature. Arcadian landscapes were real pop during the Romantic menses of High German art (late 18th as well as early on 19th centuries).
The Latin inscription on the tomb translates to “I also lived inward Arcadia.” This is a 'momenti mori' concept - it's a reminder of the transitory nature of life as well as the inevitability of death.
What Kolbe excels at is the detailing the intricacies of leaves as well as grasses as well as how they overlap. He creates a lot of depth inward his etchings through real refined purpose of low-cal as well as shade.
Who guessed correct?
Who painted this #48? - There were merely 3 right answers by: I'm calling this ane a articulation win yesteryear John as well as Bernadette - both of whom offered an insight into the artist, the artwork as well as the context.
There were fewer participants this week. I'm left wondering whether this was because of the artwork or the modify inward the nature of the challenge.
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