Musidora
Musidora c1825 by American Painter Asher Brown Durand (1796 – 1886); sem var hluti af rómantíklistahreyfingunni og var útskrifaður frá Hudson River School. Asher’s main focus was on landscape paintings.
Þetta er beautiful nude portrait engraving of a young woman in a lush forest that has removed all of her outer garments, which included her hat, scarf, and dress.
She is partially covered by sheer garment that is falling off her right shoulder and that is covering the front of her waist and right leg as it falls to the floor; and that she is holding in place on the front of her waist with her left hand.
She has laid her cloths at the base of a tree that is not to far behind her as she looks off into the distant sky that is illuminating her, as she is positioned slightly turned to her left; while she leans on a medium sized boulder with the palm of her right hand that is by an embankment of a large pond.
By the embankment are an assortment of flowers and plants, as well as smaller trees; and in the distance is a dense concentration of tress, and water flowing to an arched opening in the trees where we can see light illuminating the area.
Mussidora eftir Asher B. Durand is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase online as a listprentun á rúlluðum striga.
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Durand was born in and died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village). He was the eighth of eleven children, and his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.
Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 til 1817 and later entered into a partnership with the owner of the company, Charles Cushing Wright (1796 – 1854), who asked him to manage the company’s New York office.
He engraved the Declaration of Independence for John Trumbull during 1823, sem skapaði orðspor Durand sem einn af bestu leturgröftum landsins.
Durand hjálpaði til við að skipuleggja New York Drawing Association á meðan 1825, sem yrði National Academy of Design; hann myndi þjóna samtökunum sem forseti frá 1845 til 1861.
Áleturgröftur Ashers á seðla voru notaðar sem andlitsmyndir fyrir fyrstu frímerki Bandaríkjanna, the 1847 röð. Ásamt Kýrusi bróður sínum greypti hann einnig eitthvað af því sem næst kom 1851 mál.
Aðaláhugamál hans breyttist úr leturgröftu yfir í olíumálun um 1830 með hvatningu verndara hans, Luman Reed. Á meðan 1837, hann fylgdi vini sínum Thomas Cole í skissuleiðangur til Schroon-vatns í Adirondacks-fjöllum og skömmu síðar fór hann að einbeita sér að landslagsmálun..
Hann eyddi sumrum við að skissa í Catskills, Adirondacks, og Hvítu fjöllin í New Hampshire, gera hundruð teikninga og olíuteikninga sem síðar voru felldar inn í fullunna akademíuverk sem hjálpuðu til við að skilgreina Hudson River School.
Durand er sérstaklega minnst fyrir ítarlegar myndir sínar af trjám, Rocks, og laufblöð. Hann var talsmaður þess að sækja beint úr náttúrunni af eins miklu raunsæi og hægt var. Durand skrifaði, “Látum [listamanninn] samþykkja nákvæmlega hvað sem er [Náttúran] kynnir hann þar til hann skal, í gráðu, hafa orðið náin við óendanleika hennar ... aldrei láta hann vanhelga helgi hennar með vísvitandi fráhvarf frá sannleikanum.”
Eins og aðrir listamenn Hudson River School, Durand trúði því líka að náttúran væri ólýsanleg birtingarmynd Guðs. Hann lýsti þessu viðhorfi og almennum skoðunum sínum á myndlist í ritgerð sinni “Bréf um landslagsmálun” í The Crayon, tímarit í New York um miðja 19. öld. Wrote Durand, “[T]he true province of Landscape Art is the representation of the work of God in the visible creation…”
Durand is noted for his 1849 painting Kindred Spirits which shows fellow Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant in a Catskills Mountains landscape. This was painted as a tribute to Cole upon Cole’s death during 1848, and as a gift to Bryant.