John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)
A Mermaid
1900
Oil on canvas (96,5 x 66,6 cm)
Royal Academy of Arts
It is possible that Waterhouse's painting of A Mermaid was inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem The Mermaid (1830) which includes the lines:
Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Tennyson's poem goes on to describe the mermaid seeking and finding love among the mermen:
Of the bold merry mermen under the sea.
They would sue me, and woo me, and flatter me,
In the purple twilights under the sea;
But the king of them all would carry me,
Woo me, and win me, and marry me.
However Waterhouse was also interested in the darker mythology of the mermaid as an enchantress. Mermaids traditionally were sirens who lured sailors to their death through their captivating song. They were also tragic figures as mermaids could not survive in the human world which they yearned for and men could not exist in their watery realm, so any relationship was doomed. In Waterhouse's painting no sailors are depicted so that despite being a 'siren' the mermaid is shown as an alluring rather lonely figure, albeit with a fish tail. The atmosphere evoked is one of gentle melancholy as the mermaid sits alone in an isolated inlet, dreamily combing out her long hair with her lips parted in song. Beside her is a shell filled with pearls, which some believed to be formed from the tears of dead sailors.
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For Colour Collective this week, with #Raisin
QUIETUDE
64x45cm acrylic & oil on canvas
shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 🤞
🔗 link to gallery website in my bio
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#art #painting #cityscape #infrastructure
#ccraisin #sunshineonstone
The other Royal Academy entry. Wish me luck! #royalacademy #art
Visiting the #RoyalAcademy this morning, I discovered for the first time (to my shame) the copy there of #Leonardo's #LastSupper - https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-last-supper it's not only v early, it's nearly complete (only top bit is missing). Just amazing, and much better than the sadly degraded original now... #art
As interesting as the paintings themselves (at least to me) is an artist’s processes and equipment. I may have become a little excited seeing JMW Turner’s travelling watercolour box. #GhostOnTour #RoyalAcademy
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAT9XwJICwU/?igsh=MXgyeXM0Y2xqeXJjaQ==
#RoyalAcademy slammed for anti-#Palestine censorship after painting removal https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/07/30/royal-academy-palestinian/
#RoyalAcademy #Entertainment Master Teacher Christopher Elton – Never Ending Impetus https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/articles/master-teacher-christopher-elton-never-ending-impetus-12850/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Must watch ❣️ :
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'ROYAL ACADEMY' (2004) - 'A talented elderly artist tries to get her painting accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London.
The documentary was screened at 26 film festivals worldwide and was broadcast multiple times on PBS. It won Best Documentary at several festivals and won 2 Emmy Awards.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339im_YOfaA #documentary #EmmyAward #culture #arts #RoyalAcademy
There's something missing here ... https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/michelangelo-leonardo-raphael #art #RoyalAcademy #TMNT
I’m looking at trains to London in October as there’s an exhibition I’d like to see at Royal Academy of Arts.
The cost, even off peak, is absolutely prohibitive.
Until this country gets public transport right, we will continue to kill this planet. There’s an unpopular truth for you.
It makes me so. fucking. angry.
So now I just won’t go. Which reinforces my feeling of living to work rather than working to live. Fucking brilliant.
This one from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is a sort of reverse of the Dadaist "found object" idea. Instead of using a found object as art, make art that looks like a found object. This is a bronze, painted to look like polystyrene and sticky tape. It was realistic enough that it fooled me until I read the catalogue! [and I am still not convinced that it's not a double-bluff]
"Veg Box" Gavin Turk. Yours for £90k, but you have to collect, 'cos it's pretty heavy!
One of two Trump-related artworks in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This one was very, very, uncanny valley
"Donald Trump Helmet Head" John Humphries, fiberglass and Acrylic. Edition of 5 at £120,000 if you fancy one!
Another from the Young Artist's show.
Leo, age 17
Sphere
Oil paint on polystyrene
This piece is an oil painting on a sphere, made with the goal of representing an omnidirectional image as a painting. The subject matter is of the London Underground and was based on a picture that I took with an omnidirectional camera. It comes from a series of paintings taking place in non-Euclidean space.
Visited the Royal Academy summer show yesterday while family went to Wizard of Oz (Why didn't I have a ticket? It's complicated!)
Some interesting works I'll toot later, but probably my fave was one of the young artist's, Gabriel, age 14, Commentary of the Crown... about our new King and former Prince...
Lloyd Strickland, How Leibniz tried to tell the world he had squared the circle, Historia Mathematica, Volume 62, 2023, Pages 19-39, ISSN 0315-0860, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2022.08.004. #OpenAccess #OA #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Leibniz #Manuscript #Huygens #RoyalAcademy #Research #Article #STEM @histodon @histodons @science
Rob Murray on #RoyalAcademy Summer Exhibition #KeirStarmer #BorisJohnson #RishiSunak - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
🔴 Red dot at the RA!
Really chuffed to hear my painting has SOLD at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition!
13 June - 20 August
TILT
90x64cm acrylic & oil on canvas
royalacademy.org.uk
#art #painting #cityscape #infrastructure #summerexhibition #onlyconnect #RoyalAcademy #London
Absolutely thrilled to hear my painting has been selected for this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition : 13 Jun - 20 Aug
TILT
90x64cm acrylic & oil on canvas
royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2023
#art #painting #cityscape #infrastructure #onlyconnect
#RoyalAcademy #SummerExhibition #London
@termofvenery Dazzle camouflage was applied to shipping by the #RN during #WW1 to contemporary times.
* Artists from the #RoyalAcademy painted scale models and tests were conducted
* #SSArgyllshire a merchant ship in Wellington, New Zealand during WW1
* #HMSTamar, a River-class ship with her new dazzle paintwork. A first since #WW2.
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