just to appreciate V

I studied a series of these woodcuts by Holbein the Younger for a piece of coursework I did concerning danse macabre (dance of death) and the role it played in 'ars moriendi' (the art of dying), which was a 14th century cultural phenoma caused essentially by the devastation of the plague coupled with the fear of dying badly and suffering from torment in purgatory, or worse, hell.

Not analysising I promise: This one really amuses me because the abbot (the dude that is not a skeleton) is supposed to be holy man, and clerics were supposedly the models of religious example in the community and demonstrating the best way to die, is stubbornly refusing to go with death and is about to lob his bible at the comical skeletal figure of death. I guess death just isnt having any of it...

just to appreciate IV

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, 1562

just to appreciate III

Botticelli, La Primavera, 1500

just to appreciate II

Klimt, The Three Ages of Woman, 1905

Just to appreciate I

I have issues about analysing art, mainly because I know very little about it and sometimes I think (agree with me or not as you will) that it sometimes subtracts from the piece itself if you over analyse it... well that is what I think anyway! Still my lack of knowledge doesn't stop me from liking pieces of art or hating it but still appreciating it nonetheless... so here are a few of my favs.... to keep my blog ticking over!





So just enjoy...

Henri Matisse, Nu bleu 1, 1952

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