Vilhelm Hammershoi
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alexandralVilhelm Hammershoi (15.05.1864 – 13.02.1916) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
His art sometimes is called "dispassionate" and "purist" but this is strangely at odds with my own impression from it. I would have called his art to be "moody" and "atmospheric" but at the same time it is full of light. It gives me a feeling of disquiet. I often find myself staring at his works as if I stare long enough I find a secret of each painting. Hammershoi almost always painted his models from behind as if to hide the expressions on their faces and he often painted shadows. His most famous model was his wife Ida and though I seem numerous paintings of her I still feel that I don't really know how her face looks like. Was she pretty? Melancholic? It seems that she was..
Few of my favourite paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi:
A Lady reading in an interior:
A room with a piano and woman in black:
A woman reading by a window (My favourite painting of his – I wish I knew what this lady is reading!)
A woman sewing in an interior:
Bedroom:
Interior with a girl at the clavier:
Interior with a woman reading a letter:
Interior with back view of young woman:
London Street:
Rest
White Open Doors
Light:
I made some icons from his paintings. They are free to share. Preview:
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His art sometimes is called "dispassionate" and "purist" but this is strangely at odds with my own impression from it. I would have called his art to be "moody" and "atmospheric" but at the same time it is full of light. It gives me a feeling of disquiet. I often find myself staring at his works as if I stare long enough I find a secret of each painting. Hammershoi almost always painted his models from behind as if to hide the expressions on their faces and he often painted shadows. His most famous model was his wife Ida and though I seem numerous paintings of her I still feel that I don't really know how her face looks like. Was she pretty? Melancholic? It seems that she was..
Few of my favourite paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi:
A Lady reading in an interior:
A room with a piano and woman in black:
A woman reading by a window (My favourite painting of his – I wish I knew what this lady is reading!)
A woman sewing in an interior:
Bedroom:
Interior with a girl at the clavier:
Interior with a woman reading a letter:
Interior with back view of young woman:
London Street:
Rest
White Open Doors
Light:
I made some icons from his paintings. They are free to share. Preview:
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02. 03. 04.05.
06. 07. 08.09.
10. 11. 12.13.
14. 15. 16.
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Date: 2007-08-21 02:57 pm (UTC)(perhaps that sounds a bit strange, but I always associate images with sound. For instance Michaelangelo is for me always the sound of thunder.)
Oh, I absolutely agree! I also often associate images with sounds (and I agree about Michelangelo) and even smells. This must be the way our brain works - connected centres are engaged together.
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Date: 2007-08-21 09:13 pm (UTC)Absolutely - good art appeals to all the sense.
I find that the art I truly love is the art that manages this - that gives me sounds, smells and feelings of sensation in addition to something beautiful to look at. One of my favourites in that aspect is Michaelangelo's Pieta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelangelo%27s_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned.jpg).
It is one of the most beautiful sculptures I know. Now rationally I know it is marble and therefore cold, but emotionally I find myself thinking it is warm - like skin. It is very odd!
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Date: 2007-08-26 09:22 pm (UTC)It is one of the most beautiful sculptures I know. Now rationally I know it is marble and therefore cold, but emotionally I find myself thinking it is warm - like skin. It is very odd!
Oh, I love this sculpture! I don't know why but I generally have this strange feeling about marble – it certainly looks much warmer then it really is and when I touch it I get this "Oh, how cold. Why?" feeling..