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| Kawase Hasui - Moon over Izura (Izura no tsuki), 1952 |
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Martinus Rørbye - View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight, c.1835-36
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| Martinus Rørbye - View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight, c.1835-36 |
Martin Agaard – Ship in the moonlight, c. 1880s-1910s
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| Martin Agaard – Ship in the moonlight, c. 1880s-1910s |
John Everett Millais - The Lost Piece of Silver (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ), 1864
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| John Everett Millais - The Lost Piece of Silver (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ), 1864 |
It took Millais seven years to design twenty images inspired by New Testament Parables for the Dalziel Brothers, and the resulting prints are considered pinnacles of wood engraved illustration. The artist wrote to his publishers, "I can do ordinary drawings as quickly as most men, but these designs can scarcely be regarded in the same light—each Parable I illustrate perhaps a dozen times before I fix [the image]." After completing a design, Millais transferred it to a woodblock coated with Chinese white for skilled engravers to carve. Finally, he reviewed proofs and final adjustments were made before the final printing. The Parable of the Lost Piece of Sliver (Luke:15:8-10), tells of a woman with ten coins who loses one, then diligently searches for it. Pre-Raphaelite ideals shaped the combination of detailed naturalism and down-to-earth imagery to produce a work distinctly different than most religious art of the period.
Ruknuddin - Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes) ca. 1690–95
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| Ruknuddin - Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes) ca. 1690–95 |
The artist Ruknuddin has combined creatively a number of ragamala texts to make this evocative masterpiece. Following artistic precedent and the texts, he shows an ascetic “in penance, adorned, gray [with ashes]” listening to a disciple, who is described as “a young man beauteous in every limb,” playing the rudra vina. Another ragamala text tells us the disciple is “an ascetic, whose mind is drowned in meditation on Shiva . . . crowned by the white moon.”
John Atkinson Grimshaw - View of Southwark Bridge at Night
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| John Atkinson Grimshaw - View of Southwark Bridge at Night |
Although his early work was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite technique of his fellow Leeds artist, J. W. Inchbold, Grimshaw later painted in a less meticulous and more atmospheric manner. During the 1880s, he painted a series of views of the Thames, many showing the river by moonlight in a manner not unlike the nocturnes of Grimshaw’s neighbour in Chelsea, J. A. McN. Whistler.
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