Klassísk fegurð týnd í hugsun
Klassísk fegurð týnd í hugsun eftir breskan málara William Clarke Wontner (1857 – 1930), portrettmálari Akademíunnar, Klassík og rómantískir stílar.
Þetta er fallegt af ungri konu sem stendur í bogadregnum hluta marmaraveggs sem skilur hana frá skóginum fyrir aftan hana og vatnspollinum sem er fyrir framan hana.
Hún hallar sér upp að veggnum í djúpri íhugunarhugsun þar sem hún horfir út í fjarska og hvílir handleggina á nokkrum skikkjum sem eru settar á syllu mableveggsins..
Hún er í hreinum hvítum ruðningskjól sem er haldið á sínum stað á vinstri öxlinni og er með stórt leðurbelti með málmskraut sem fer um mittið og niður á milli fótanna endar í skúffu.
A Classical Beauty Lost In Thought is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
Upplýsingar hér að neðan fengnar af Wikipedia.org
Wontner was born in Stockwell, Surrey, the son of the architect, designer and renderer William Hoff Wontner (1814 – 1881) and Catherine Smith.
Wontner received his earliest art education from his father; and under the direction of his father, worked with John William Godward (1861 – 1922), a noted exponent of what would become known as the Greco-Roman style.
Godward was an acquaintance of the Wontner family and being only five years older than Wontner, became fast friends with him.
Around 1885, Wontner began teaching at the St John’s Wood Art School, after he had moved to Hamilton Garden Square; and was a minor painter who was part of the neo-classical movement in England, led by Alma-Tadema.
Wontner style favored seductively languorous women painted against classical or oriental marbled backdrops and sometimes with garden backgrounds; mostly in standing poses.