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As threatened (hee!) some old non-furry art -
Back in my early teens i rediscovered what what then a very obscure style from the turn of the previous century - Art Nouveau - and it's leading stylist, Alphonse Mucha. Started trying to incorporate some of that style into some of my drawings
This pic from near end of teens - i wuz 19 in March '79 - punk rock was nearly dead, power-pop was going strong (Elvis Costello, Blondie, Joe Jackson) and New Wave was lurking.... Fantasy art was going out of style...i was starting to do abstract work - and in another year my best friend and fellow artist would die from primitive chemo-therapy then i'd go pro in the animation biz....so this phase was sort of both Gothic (art in the ruins) and the end of childhood....i'll be posting some more pics from this phase this week....
And i had already been doing anthro art since i was 10 or so - long before any furry genera existed.
And there is an anthro remake of this pic in the works, so it ain’t exactly off-topic..
And colour versions of both in the works.
And it's india ink on paper approx 4 x 8 1/2 in.
And no, i don't remember what pens....
And, yeah, if you do the math i'm...messed-up -, - cuz i still feel like i'm 18 or something, and wondering when the hell i'm going to grow-up and get old.
Back in my early teens i rediscovered what what then a very obscure style from the turn of the previous century - Art Nouveau - and it's leading stylist, Alphonse Mucha. Started trying to incorporate some of that style into some of my drawings
This pic from near end of teens - i wuz 19 in March '79 - punk rock was nearly dead, power-pop was going strong (Elvis Costello, Blondie, Joe Jackson) and New Wave was lurking.... Fantasy art was going out of style...i was starting to do abstract work - and in another year my best friend and fellow artist would die from primitive chemo-therapy then i'd go pro in the animation biz....so this phase was sort of both Gothic (art in the ruins) and the end of childhood....i'll be posting some more pics from this phase this week....
And i had already been doing anthro art since i was 10 or so - long before any furry genera existed.
And there is an anthro remake of this pic in the works, so it ain’t exactly off-topic..
And colour versions of both in the works.
And it's india ink on paper approx 4 x 8 1/2 in.
And no, i don't remember what pens....
And, yeah, if you do the math i'm...messed-up -, - cuz i still feel like i'm 18 or something, and wondering when the hell i'm going to grow-up and get old.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Human
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Size 797 x 1280px
File Size 116.2 kB
i didn't have any conscious symbolism involved for the falling rose - but that doesn't mean there isn't symbolism there - the over all picture sets a rather wistful mood - the forgotten dropped rose, the bare tree, she's looking away - distracted by something/someone as one hand starts to raise...she's young, beautiful, sitting in a tree as if she were still a child.... her clothes hinting back at some fantasy of classical Rome or Greece, ...the mood that all the swirling curving lines creates...
Each viewer will find different meanings in those symbols. i see it as an image about transience - the bloom of youth, the barren tree, the cut dead rose (thorns removed) either given by friend or lover/would-be-lover - forgotten -, something new capturing her interest...That description in turn might be a meta-symbol for our mind/awareness - the fickle fleeting quality of our awareness dropping one interest and looking to another - after all, mind/thought was anthropomorphized in classical times as the young girl/goddess (whatever she was, i don't recall) Psyche, the tree and branches our thoughts and logics - somewhat cold and barren while awareness is alive and young, blah blah blah etc...
Someone else might just see it as a young woman who forgetful, sad, diatracted; another might feel she's dropped the rose because she's learned that her lover is untrue...
Pictures like this are like poems or song lyrics that are sort of vague - and everyone can see in them what their own feeling/mood/etc suggest.
Each viewer will find different meanings in those symbols. i see it as an image about transience - the bloom of youth, the barren tree, the cut dead rose (thorns removed) either given by friend or lover/would-be-lover - forgotten -, something new capturing her interest...That description in turn might be a meta-symbol for our mind/awareness - the fickle fleeting quality of our awareness dropping one interest and looking to another - after all, mind/thought was anthropomorphized in classical times as the young girl/goddess (whatever she was, i don't recall) Psyche, the tree and branches our thoughts and logics - somewhat cold and barren while awareness is alive and young, blah blah blah etc...
Someone else might just see it as a young woman who forgetful, sad, diatracted; another might feel she's dropped the rose because she's learned that her lover is untrue...
Pictures like this are like poems or song lyrics that are sort of vague - and everyone can see in them what their own feeling/mood/etc suggest.
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