Achilles - a drawing I'm sorry I have to abandon

Someone said: a work of art is never finished, it's abandoned.
I worked 1 week on this one. The contemplation part is as beautiful as the drawing part. I stare at the page, then at the sketch, then at one detail, as they slowly emerge. And I wait, till I see another part becoming clear. And when version 1.0 is finished, 2 more days of staring, changing a line, a dot, using a magnifier to see where the paper fabric allows me to add or subtract a value. I never get enough of refining, changing until poor Achilles shouted: stop it, move on!

Achilles

 

December 15, MMXI

Lurking

Michelangelo and the Marble Block

finished today, Dec 14, 2011

Michelangelo and the Marble Block

Finished Dec 11, 2011

Snow White (La Camionista)

A Guy that Takes his Time

I don’t like rushing. At times I’m in a buzzing crowd and feel I’m standing in a time bubble: I observe the people rushing around me, texting, missing on things without knowing, just to catch up on other stuff they hope for.

That’s also true for some art. Though Rembrandt is not my most favourite, his drawings and paintings suck me into their time bubble: I slow down and observe, the more I look, the more I discover, the border between what is actually there and what my mind makes up blurs to a maximum.

I like drawing dark and in that dark a lot of life, quiet, secret, discreet, shy details that reveal a whole new world, if you take the time to discover it.

Art du jour

Charles André van Loo aka Carle

Ernest Pignon - portrait of Pasolini

Golzius

Art du jour

Ludovico Carracci - boy serving at table

Bernini

Burini - pupils

Antonio Canova - male nude

art du jour

Johan Tobias Sergel - Faune, 1774

Antonio de Bellis - Saint Sebastian

Duncan Grant

Raffaello - Jupiter and Ganymede

Art du jour

Charles (?) Dickson - soldier

Kitaj - male nude drawing

thomas hart benton drawing

Touluse Lautrec male portrait

Art du jour

Chen Danqing 

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte  La Paye des moissonneurs

Matisse male nude

Menzel-Adolph-Von-Schlafender-Mann

Latest productions (dec 2011)

Cybersex

Caveman had Time

Art du jour

As my image collection became huge, mainly from scanning books and grabbing the web, I decided to share on my blog, hopefully each day, one image of various art categories.

Cagnacci - portrait of a blind boy

Albert Birkle

Chen Kevin

Antoine Lecomte du Nouy