Saturday, August 27, 2011

Saturday Salon: A Favorite Painting or Two....or Three...! Men in Art.

Self Portrait - Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote (1869 - 1937)

Self Portrait - Francesco Hayez (1791 - 1882)

Self Portrait - Lord Frederick Leighton (1830 - 1896)

Self Portrait -  Paul Gaughin (1848 - 1903)

Portrait of A Bedouin Arab by John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Lord John and Lord Bernard Stuart by Anthony Van Dyck (1591 - 1641)

Portrait of Max Jacob by Modigliani

Portrait of Lord Ribblesdale by John Singer Sargent

Man in Railroad Car by J.J.J. Tissot

Laugh by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)

Portrait of Pieter van den Broecke by Franz Hal (1580 - 1666)

Young Man in Repose by John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Willem van Heythusen by Franz Hal 

Portrait of John J. Pershing by Philip Alexius de Laszlo (1869 - 1937)

Frederick Leighton by J.J.J. Tissot

McSorley's Bar by John Sloan (1871 - 1951)

Lately I seem to have been posting mostly women as subjects in art as well as a predominance of women painters, so today I thought I'd do the opposite. Just to keep things lively.

Men in Art. Not one artist, but several. Not one specific school of painting but many. I think these paintings prove (if it needed proving) that in art, men can be just as ornamental as women.

Frederick Gustavus Burnaby by J.J.J. Tissot (1836 - 1902)

8 comments:

  1. I think I like Lord Ribblesdale the best! He's very distinguished. Have you read Strapless? It's about John Singer Sargent's Madame X.

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  2. Lauren: I like that one too though he is very forbidding. My favorite first last and always will be the Burnaby portrait by Tissot.

    Though there's something about all these paintings that I like very much.

    Madame X is a wonderful portrait. Without or without the strap. :)

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  3. There's also Paul Cezanne, who seemed to have painted many self-portraits.

    My favorites are Gaugain, Modigliani and Cezanne, having grown up with a mother who loved French impressionists and those who followed.

    Our house was lined with their paintings and a few others.

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  4. Kathy: I absolutely adore when artists do self-portraits. It really gives you a link into their thinking and their own vision of themselves.

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  5. Tissot is one of my favorite artists, and his Man in Railroad Car looks uncannily like my husband!

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  6. Tissot is a favorite of mine as well, Cathy. LOVE his work.

    Man in A Railroad Car has so many wonderful details in it. Maybe you need to get a copy of this to hang in your house? :)

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  7. Nah... I got the real thing, even if he isn't ticklish!

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