Michel Laraさんのイラストまとめ

The Norwegian Romantic painter Peder Balke (1804-1887) sought to capture the dark sublimity of Nordic seascapes in the ominous luminosity of The North Cape (Nordkapp) by moonlight.

de Chirico infused his metaphysical art with the melancholia of loss depicting Greco-Roman statuary strewn on a dream-like modern landscape.

In "The Uncertainty of the Poet" 1913 an unimagined space is created by 3 dissimilar objects: Aphrodite torso, bananas & a distant train.

Four exquisite kachō-e or bird-and-flower paintings by Japanese artist Ohara Koson [1877-1945]

Lux in Tenebris

Under light
eternal

human shadows
come and go

Abbott Handerson Thayer- Angel of the Dawn 1919

Views of French port cities: Marseille-Bordeaux-La Rochelle-Toulon by French landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet painted between 1754-1765 as part of a series of French sea ports commissioned by King Louis XV.

Four Renaissance faces drawn by Italian masters: Bonsignori, Mantegna [2,3] & Bellini.

The mark of genius in a draughtsman is not solely the accuracy of facial features but the striking immediacy of the sitter allowing the spectator to catch a glimpse of his personality.

Human Condition XXIII

Man reaches for certainty
of what's bodily real

only to find shifting walls

the existential uncertainty
of the mind.

John Constable-Male Nude-1808

The Semiotics of the Male Nude Stance: Pensive-Defiant versus Pensive-Melancholic

Two male nudes by Edme Bouchardon [1698-1762]

Giorgio de Chirico was fascinated by the majestic bella figura of the horse in his "Cavalli in riva al mare" cycle of paintings. He seems to infuse their trotting with a summoning power of bringing back the timeless ruins of the Classical past.

Demeter

Black earth
she roams

poppy goddess
she mourns

her daughter
lost

on the unlit shores
of no return.