Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

Less is more in these delicate, fleeting paintings of nature by leading 20C Chinese artist Zhao Shao’an ~ Orchid / Bees and Flower

On his exile to Elba, Napoleon vowed he’d return to Paris the next year, just as his favourite flower, the violet, did each spring. Here, Canu celebrates that return in March 1815 by hiding silhouettes of Napoleon, his son & 2nd wife Marie Louise in bunch of violets (Clues at R)

Among the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards, here’s three striking images dealing with seas and lakes ~ Sur la Mer (Roberto Corinaldesi) ■ Video to Jacks (Kam Moon Lai) ■ Flamingo fly over Lake Magadi, Kenya (Hong Chen) https://t.co/bxvtFy49QJ

Well-travelled 19C Anglo-Australian artist Charles Condor depicts beaches in three countries ~ Beach at Ambleteuse, France / Hot Sands, Mustapha, Algeria / Holiday at Mentone, Melbourne

How an artwork evolves ~ Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream shows despairing man on wallowing boat, with circling sharks, distant waterspout & oblivious schooner on horizon. But I really also like the immediacy of his preliminary watercolour sketches, at R

From our cobwebbed archive ~ details of frescoes from the House of the Golden Bracelet in Vicolo del Farmacista, Pompeii 1st C (now in Naples Archaeology Museum) ~ and the golden bracelet itself https://t.co/rhGSoVCLng

Look and learn ~ the underrated 16C Florentine artist, Andrea del Sarto, gives us a free lesson in how to do chalk sketches

Notice the difference between Frederic Leighton’s sketch for his ‘Captive Andromache’ (1888) and the finished painting? In the sketch, all the figures are nude ~ a sort of ‘undress rehearsal’ ~ later he would add the clothing and paint the final result

English 18C landscape artist Francis Towne failed 11 times to get elected to the Royal Academy / forgotten for more than 100 years / now ultra-fashionable. These watercolours remind me, oddly, of Japanese woodblock prints ~ Ambleside ■ Tarpeian Rock, Rome ■ Tivoli (1780s)

God’s outstretched life-creating finger in Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam unconsciously echoes languid gesture of Pharaoh Akhenaten’s consort Kiya, maybe pointing to presence of wildfowl during hunt 3,300 years ago (fragment)
https://t.co/sJSqmT3Dmh ; and https://t.co/Nb3mAKVCdx