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Fire Emblem Three Houses Playing Billiard
I did a poll to decide the next fire Emblem fanart. I asked what game should the Fire Emblem characters play. The winner of the poll was Billiard. So, I looked for a new Billiard painting. It just happened to be another dogs playing Billiard. I chose for the fanart Hilda, Edelgard, Yuri, Sylvain and Claude. They seemed like the most likely to play this game. They are also being sneaky about it, since they are playing for money. It is taking place in the Abyss. All the sketchy stuff takes place there. The game started with just 4, but...
Kinuko Y Craft Fairy Tales Illustrations
Kinuko Y. Craft is a Japanese born artist. She does illustrations for plays and fantasy wallpapers. She also likes to illustrate fairy tale books. She has won many awards for her artwork. This first review focuses on her fairy tale artworks... for the most part. I hope you like them a lot. Anyhow, the first illustration shows Sleeping Beauty. All around her we see flowers growing. She has been asleep for a pretty long time. The organic looking flowers were made art nouveau. This illustration is a fantasy version of the Adam and Eve story. Here Eve is getting the...
Myth Paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Today, I wanted to review so mythological paintings. I am using the myth term broadly. It saves the the trouble of putting on the title Greek and Roman paintings. In any case, this first painting shows the Queen Zenobie. She is well known for nearly defeating the Romans. In this painting, her luck had finally run out. She had tried running away from the Romans. She nearly drowned in the river side. Here, the shepherds are taking care of her. It is interesting the differences in attires between the Queen and the shepherds. In this painting, we see a maiden...
Genre Paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau
The first painting focuses on a poor girl. Whenever rich people used to sow the fields, the leftovers was given to the poor. Here, we see a poor girl carrying whatever she could. The maiden herself is very pretty. It is a pity that she was born poor. In this painting, we see an updated version of the good shepherd. This time we see "The Shepherdess". She is gracefully taking care of the baby of her sheep. The way she carries it has a graceful quality about it. Overall, she kinda embodies a rustic, modern version of the Virgin Mary. ...
Bible Paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905) 5 Stars
Today, I wanted to review a lot of paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau. Bouguereau was a classical painter. He painted in the style of realism classical subjects. This guy made his career during the realism ,impressionism and post impressionism movements. In a way, he was being advant garde. Part of being, ahead of your time involved innovation. Bouguereau was very innovative in his classical paintings. He made believable the impossible. Aside from classical subjects, he did genre paintings with Biblical overtones. In doing so, he update Bible themes for the modern audience. Yet, what made him really famous was his...