Computer Animation Arts

Time for something a little bit dark and a little bit sexy... " Franz Von Stuck was am influential German Symbolist / Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect born at Tettenweis near Griesbach in Lower Bavaria, Germany, the son of a miller. He was noted for his treatment of erotic and comic aspects of mythological themes ... Stuck's subject matter was primarily drawn from mythology, inspired by the work of Arnold Böcklin . Large, heavy forms dominate most of his paintings and point toward his proclivities for sculpture. His seductive female nudes, in the role of the femme fatale , are a prime example of popular Symbolist content … by the time of his death, Stuck's importance as an artist in his own right had almost been forgotten: his art seemed old-fashioned and irrelevant to a generation shattered by the First World War. Stuck generally remained lost to public memory until the late 1960s when a renewed interest in Art Nouveau brought him to attention once...

A break from all the recent abstraction; introducing John White Alexander and his sensuous, light-suffused portraits... John White Alexander "began his career in New York in 1875 as a political cartoonist and illustrator for Harper’s Weekly ... Alexander's stylistic development falls into several distinct stages. His early landscapes and genre scenes of the 1870s bear the stamp of Wilhelm Leibl's Munich realism as espoused by Duveneck and William Merritt Chase . His fluid brushwork resembled that of Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez , painters he deeply admired. After his return to the USA in 1881 and under the influence of Whistler , he favoured a more limited palette and experimented with the evocation of mood through shadow and gesture… His brushwork became less painterly and more concerned with suggesting abstracted shapes. He also adopted a very coarse-weave canvas, the texture of which became an important element in his mature work. By applying thinned-down paint...

In a way, we're all a bit immune to Klimt - maybe because we've seen his work reproduced too often on tablemats and as fridge magnets and on coffee mugs - but just look at these images. There's something stark and vampiric about Klimt's women - an iciness and siren's intent. But really, it's the texturing that encourages me to showcase him here. Feast your eyes! " Gustav Klimt first made himself known by the decorations he executed… for numerous theatres and above all … for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he completed, in a coolly photographic style, the work begun by Makart . At the age of thirty he moved into his own studio and turned to easel painting. At thirty-five he was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession ; he withdrew eight years later, dismayed by the increasingly strong trend towards naturalism . The coruscating sensuality of Klimt's work might seem in perfect accord with a society which recognized itself in thos...