{"id":162,"date":"2020-11-07T00:44:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T00:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/?p=162"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:13:07","slug":"johnwaterhouse-melancholic-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/2020\/11\/07\/johnwaterhouse-melancholic-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"John Waterhouse; Melancholic Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pale skin, bright hair and in depth detailed faces that illustrate such emotion on a piece of canvas.  John William Waterhouse\u2019s depictions of women being portrayed in such romantic and melancholic scenes are so touching to my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lady of Shallot – 1888<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Waterhouse was an English painter during the Victorian era, his specialty most well known are his large-scale paintings of classical mythological subjects.  There is some sort of underlying emotion that lays beneath his paintings, be it the slightly pale glow that illuminates his figures or the distinct longing look in each of his subjects eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the beginning of Waterhouse\u2019s artistic career he pursued sculpture while studying at the Royal Academy in London.  In 1874 he shifted his major to painting, \u2018Sleep and His Half-Brother Death\u2019 being one of the earliest pieces that made Waterhouse realize his potential in the field of painting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boreas – 1903<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Waterhouse\u2019s pieces knew how to pull at the strings of the mind and knew how to make melancholy so beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.thecultureconcept.com\/john-william-waterhouse-beauty-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/John-William-Waterhouse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pale skin, bright hair and in depth detailed faces that illustrate such emotion on a piece of canvas.  John William Waterhouse\u2019s depictions of women being portrayed in such romantic and melancholic scenes are so touching to my heart. Waterhouse was an English painter during the Victorian era, his specialty most well known are his large-scale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/michellelussier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}