Flowers Of Water
Flowers Of Water c1900 by French Painter Elisabeth Sonrel (1874 – 1953); and illustrator of the Art Nouveau style; who’s works included allegorical subjects, mea lilo ma faatusa, ata ma laufanua.
This is a wonderful art nouveau illustration of a young maiden with long red hair standing in a pond as she holds on to the branch of a tree gathering water lilies.
She is dress in a flowing tunic, that flows off her shoulders and has a water lily wrapped around her hair.
In the background of the illustration we can see man green tress and in the foreground are large leaves with orange flowers that have a purplish color at there centers.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available online as a lomi tapoleni lomi.
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Elisabeth Sonrel (1874 Tours – 1953 Faamaufaailoga) o se tusiata Farani ma se tusiata i le Art Nouveau style. O ana galuega sa aofia ai mataupu faafaatusa, mea lilo ma faatusa, ata ma laufanua.
O ia o le afafine o Nicolas Stéphane Sonrel, o se tusiata mai Tours, ma maua ai ana aoaoga vave mai ia te ia. Mo nisi suʻesuʻega na alu ai o ia i Pale o se tamaititi aʻoga a Jules Lefebvre i le Ecole des Beaux-Arts..
I totonu 1892 sa ia valiina lana galuega tipiloma, ‘Pax et Labor’, o se galuega e va'aia i le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours. Mai lena taimi na ia faʻaalia i le Salon des Artistes Français i le va 1893 ma 1941, o ana fasi pepa saini o vali vai tetele i se faiga Pre-Raphaelite, lea na ia taliaina ina ua mavae se malaga i Florence ma Roma, mauaina o tusiata Renaissance – o nisi o ana galuega o loʻo i ai uiga manino o Botticelli. O ana atavali sa masani ona musuia e Arthurian romance, Dante Alighieri’s ‘Divine Comedy’ and ‘La Vita Nuova’, autu faale-Tusi Paia, ma talatuu anamua. Her mystical works include ‘Ames errantes’ (Faleoloa o 1894) and ‘Les Esprits de l’abime’ (Faleoloa o 1899) and ‘Jeune femme a la tapisserie’.
I le Exposition Universelle o 1900, o le autu autu o le Art Nouveau, o ia 1895 painting ‘Le Sommeil de la Vierge’ (Moe o le Taupou), na maua le pine apamemea, ma le taui Henri Lehmann o 3000 francs by L’académie des Beaux-Arts.[3] Mai 1900 aga'i atu na fa'atapula'aina lana atavali i ata, laufanua matagofie o Brittany, ma le su'esu'ega fuga mai lea taimi i lea taimi.
Sa ia faia pea ni malaga vali i Brittany, musuia e le vaomatua o Brocéliande, ma mai 1910 i nofoaga eseese i le gataifale e pei o Concarneau, Plougastel, Pont-l’Abbé and Loctudy, e masani ona nonofo i fale talimalo ma o faatasi ma se tasi pe toalua tamaiti aoga. Na ia valiina le tele o galuega i Le Faouët aʻo leʻi fausia se fale i La Baule i le 1930s. E masani lava ona galue ile vali vai ma gouache, na ia mauaina se sapalai saunia o faʻataʻitaʻiga i teine talavou i le eria, ma maua ai Bretons e masani ona faauo, faamaoni ma le talitonu ia te ia lava.
O lana faaaliga mulimuli i le Salon sa i 1941 i le matua o 67. O loʻo i ai foi se faʻamaumauga o lona faʻaalia i Liverpool. I ona uluai tausaga na gaosia ai e Sonrel ni pepa lautele, pepa meli ma ata, i le Art Nouveau style.
