#ArtSaturday John William Waterhouse 1849-1917
English painter, worked in in the Pre-Raphaelite style after it was out of style pic.twitter.com/ndouWp3hZU— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) March 10, 2018
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Pre-Raphaelite painters formed 1848 by painters Hunt, Millais, Rossetti: wanted to reform artMagic Circle pic.twitter.com/lkWteuV7dd
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Pre-Raphaelites believed classical poses of Raphael had had corrupting influence on academic teaching of artWaterhouse at easel pic.twitter.com/bhoyv4CL3V
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Waterhouse borrowed techniques from the Pre-Raphaelites and also from his contemporaries, the ImpressionistsCirce Invidiosa pic.twitter.com/52fxdh6Rsa
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His paintings are known for his depiction of women from Greek myths & Arthurian legends, something popular with Pre-Raphaelite paintersCirce Offering the Cup to Odysseus pic.twitter.com/QP9QKb5J6B
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His first exhibited painting, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, was hugely popular with critics and public pic.twitter.com/jQSEGu168V— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) March 10, 2018
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Waterhouse and his work were hugely popular in London art scene1876: After the Dance was given the prime position in the summer exhibition pic.twitter.com/1FdR1fSiAi
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Some critics believe Waterhouse’s popularity may have led to his paintings becoming larger as his career progressedTristan and Isolde with the Potion pic.twitter.com/BOTiT1elti
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Waterhouse is often considered a “Pre-Raphaelite” painter, though that movement had passed, due to his fondness for painting beautiful women, often femme fatales, who were mostly from classical mythology or Arthurian legendsLamia & Soldier pic.twitter.com/uPpPlCbKcp
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Waterhouse painted females from various famous myths, stories, and tales, but he seemed drawn to women featured in brutal or tragic storiesLamia (version 2) pic.twitter.com/wHUyczyXn9
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Waterhouse found the “beauty or calm” in these brutal and tragic stories, say some critics. Waterhouse’s audience may have been more classically educated so may have known more of these stories on which paintings were basedDiogenes pic.twitter.com/gfEmv4o0Dv
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St Eulalia (martyred during Roman Empire) displays the body without showing any horrific injuries that were the cause of the victim’s death and without showing any contortions of body, which seems almost as if it were sleeping (albeit in public in winter) pic.twitter.com/l0DgaR3qzl— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) March 10, 2018
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A Roman Offering pic.twitter.com/F5zsffCWky
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Boreas pic.twitter.com/Y6pBxpsM4u
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Cleopatra pic.twitter.com/90ASx5vKF2
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Destiny pic.twitter.com/jORVksWaBm
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Enchanted Garden pic.twitter.com/y1v2yi7VAM
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Even Waterhouse’s “grieving” women are perfectly coiffed and dressed, wearing jewelry, even visiting a tombGone But Not Forgotten pic.twitter.com/pMrUniwZRQ
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This painting depicts Jason and Medea after Jason has told his wife Medea that he is leaving her for a younger woman because, though calm, she is preparing the poison with which she will kill their two sonsJason and Medea pic.twitter.com/dlV3S26wlU
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Dolce Far Niente pic.twitter.com/TMWdRpqe8s
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci pic.twitter.com/aw4iSjXg2i
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All of Waterhouse’s works are in Public Domain, which means images can be used without paying Permissions FeesSpring Spreads One Green Lap of Flowers pic.twitter.com/NICkYsAa5o
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Waterhouse didn’t often portray Christian storiesThe Annunciation pic.twitter.com/Isc8x8DP25
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The Charmer pic.twitter.com/WKnugluIsg
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The Crystal Ball pic.twitter.com/DAfAY0VRrT
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Waterhouse rarely painted pictures featuring only malesThe Favorites of Emperor Honorius pic.twitter.com/VHZXG6Qqf9
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The Missal pic.twitter.com/Ax7ZewqVxP
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The Remorse of Emperor Nero After the Murder of His Mother pic.twitter.com/jyR2ChjyMs
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The Shrine pic.twitter.com/mDIGp0st9m
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The Soul of the Rose (also known as Sweet Rose) pic.twitter.com/4IOArsaXAt
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A Mermaid pic.twitter.com/NW0Rqg9MMp
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Penelope and the Suitors pic.twitter.com/J8BrfsFoD0
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Miranda (from Shakespeare’s The Tempest) pic.twitter.com/wnGRu0wUl3
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Waterhouse’s more popular Miranda (from Shakespeare’s The Tempest), version 2 pic.twitter.com/1nIvC073tM
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One of Waterhouse’s favorite subjects was Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who went mad from grief after Hamlet broke off their engagement and who, accidentally or intentionally, drowned herselfOphelia, 1910 pic.twitter.com/VixT0UZWoM
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After Hamlet wrongly accused Ophelia of treachery toward him, she went mad and brought everybody flowers (symbolic of their crimes) before she drownedOphelia, 1889 pic.twitter.com/LkYWhlVXwR
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Hamlet treated Ophelia quite shabbily, which led to her despair, madness, and death by drowning, which may have been suicideWaterhouse’s most famous Ophelia, with flowers and water, 1894 pic.twitter.com/2rQXq8OeEe
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Waterhouse’s Ophelia gets more physically active at later dates, with her actually seeming to be walking in final versionOphelia, three versions: 1889, 1894, 1910 pic.twitter.com/NcBRpYmKbv
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Lady of Shallot another of Waterhouse’s favorite subjects: he did 3 paintings of her. Lady Shallot the major character in Tennyson poem: she lives isolated in a tower until she views Sir Lancelot from afarLady of Shallot Looking at Lancelot pic.twitter.com/7Tf071xYZX
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Lady of Shallot lives under some mysterious cures: she is forbidden to look directly upon the world; instead, she must view it through a mirror and weave “shadows of the world”I Am Half-Sick Of Shadows, Said The Lady Of Shallot pic.twitter.com/8R1ZkaGcT3
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Once the Lady of Shallot leaves her tower and floats down the river toward Camelot, she is doomed to die because of curse. Lancelot sees her for the first time after her death, when he pronounces her “lovely”Waterhouse’s most famous Lady of Shallot pic.twitter.com/dnNvFLsMz0
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The Lady of Shallot, 3 versions, showing the most important moments of her life: seeing Lancelot in the real world (not via mirror), becoming sick of the “shadows” in her reflected world, before her death after she leaves her tower & attempts to join world pic.twitter.com/bVlXy7LqXi— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman, Ph.D. (@Alexandria_SZ) March 10, 2018
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In Boccaccio’s Decameron, a group of beautiful, wealthy aristocrats retire to the country to escape the Plague; they entertain themselves telling stories
10 people tell a story/day for 10 days = 100 stories
influenced Chaucer’s Canterbury TalesDecameron pic.twitter.com/c1AC2msYDU
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When Ulysses was attempting to return home after Trojan War, he was cursed to wander 20 years. Sirens drove men mad with their song: Ulysses stuffed ears to mute their singing and lashed himself to mast to guide shipUlysses and the Sirens pic.twitter.com/gtg34F9bKn
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In Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Pyramus and Thisbe are a classical Romeo & Juliet, forbidden to wed due to family rivalry, but who fall in love anyway by whispering to each other through the crack in a garden wall. Their story does not end wellThisbe pic.twitter.com/uMJbHTMfv8
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Also from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Hylas goes to get a drink of water and the Nymphs of the water become so enamored of him that they don’t want him to leave: they pull him into water so he can be with him, and he drowns.Hylas and the Nymphs pic.twitter.com/ENIYvhwLuO
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Naiads (Nymphs) were Greek water spirits. They were always female and frequently dangerous since the men they loved drowned in their stories. Naiads & Nymphs represented the danger of female sexuality in Victorian period, as in dangerous to menNaiad pic.twitter.com/zgDWCcBOSS
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Also from Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Narcissus is beautiful young man who “rejects” women & sexuality, then falls so in love with himself after seeing his own image in water that he ignores Echo, who loves him but can only repeat his wordsEcho and Narcissus pic.twitter.com/inM55pn8T9
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Though forbidden to do so, Pandora opened the box that contained all the evil things that plague mankind, releasing evil into world, closing box against just as final thing remained: Hope.Pandora pic.twitter.com/1ftat6ngEU
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1915: Waterhouse became gravely ill with cancer. He died 2 years laterNymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus pic.twitter.com/U87cHS5zfH
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