Weekly Gallery Visit
Mar. 23rd, 2005 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ladydraykona!
This is The Nightmare, by Hnery Fuseli from 1781. Fuseli was a Swiss artist, and to quote from Mark Hardens Artchive (www.artchive.com) "Fuseli's enigmatic, dreamlike Nightmare was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790, bringing him wide public acclaim and instant fame. The unsettling subject matter and treatment reveal the disparate influences of Classicism (engendered by his study of Michelangelo), the grotesque, as seen in the work of Arcimboldo, and the work of William Blake." I picked it for you because of its incredibly gothic overtones as well as sensuality, both of which I thought you would enjoy.
ladydraykona!This is The Nightmare, by Hnery Fuseli from 1781. Fuseli was a Swiss artist, and to quote from Mark Hardens Artchive (www.artchive.com) "Fuseli's enigmatic, dreamlike Nightmare was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790, bringing him wide public acclaim and instant fame. The unsettling subject matter and treatment reveal the disparate influences of Classicism (engendered by his study of Michelangelo), the grotesque, as seen in the work of Arcimboldo, and the work of William Blake." I picked it for you because of its incredibly gothic overtones as well as sensuality, both of which I thought you would enjoy.
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