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Drinking in Wester Art for St. Patrick’s Day
I did a fun blog about beer and wine in western art. There is also a video of this topic in my Artsy Sister Youtube channel. Do not forget to give a like and subscribe. The first depiction of liquor was in a Sumarian tablet. They were drinking beer. Beer was also popular in ancient Egypt. The first recorded worker strike happened cause the Egyptians were not getting their kegs of beer. In Greece, Wine was more popular. They even had Bacchus the God of wine. Jesus’s first miracle was turning water into wine. In medieval ages, wine was considered...
Romance Paintings by Various Artist
Romance paintings are pretty similar. Kissing only became more common in modern art. It was rare to see a couple kissing. Then again, kissing was something intimate. A painting was consider prude if it showed behavior commonly seen in the bedchambers. Flirtation paintings became popular in the Rococo period. They got a resurgence in the 18th century. All in all, I wanted to show you a healthy display of romance. You can see a video of this blog in my Artsy Sister Youtube channel. Please give a like and subscribe. If the paintings, I chose artworks by my favorite painters....
Dreams in Western Art
Dreams in the old days was threated as visions of the future. One of the oldest dreams and interpretation was in the epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh has a dream of the future and Enkiku interprets the dream. In Greece, the Oracle of Delphi interpreted dreams and she gave predictions. She was in operation up until the fall of the roman empire. In the middle ages, the only dreams that got recorded or painted had to have religious significance. Dead people were allowed to appear in dreams as well. After the Enlightenment period, dreams lost their religious significance. With psychology becoming...
Dragons in Wester Art
The first western dragon was the Primordial Goddess of Chaos Tiamat. She was defeated by the God Marduke. He strung up her body over the sky. The rain is her blood. You can see the initial traces of the traditional Western Dragon. It has the wings, the horns and the 4 legs. The tail is bird like and so is her feathery body. In the Greek times, the dragons got quite varied. They became more associated with reptiles, like snakes. The Greeks created the cliché of the damsel in distress taken by the dragon or monster. In medieval times, only...
Children in Western Art
Today, I wanted to blog about kids in western paintings. During medieval times, the only kid that was painted was baby Jesus. It was rare for him to resemble anything remotely human. These artworks were mainly done by the church. So, monks living in the mountains could not find children to model for them. Then again, they were not interested in realism. When the Renaissance came, children started appearing in somewhat realistic forms in art. They were mostly idealize. You only saw them more often in paintings of nobles and Kings. These high ranking folks wanted to show that their...