Red hair in Paintings: December 2011

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Extra much red hair

This post will show paintings where the red hair take a greater importance, than other parts of the picture

Sandys

This picture called Helen of Troy is fantastic!

Alexei Alexejewitsch Harlamoff

John William Godward

Sandys again

This girl is red blond like I used to be, not a real redhead! But if someone saw her together with blond girls they would say she is a redhead.

Helene Schjerfbeck

Paul Cesar Helleu

This is actually only half his picture. I don't know why it is always shown this way, when it is double this size.

Helleu's picture in real size

This gives the impression of the size of my Grandmothers hair A woman close to 80 with this much and long hair was impressive , but that it kept it's colour and never turned white was even more impressive.

Henry Edmond Ross

This picture is simply called "The Hair"

John Everett Millais

Theodor Axentowicz

Unpleasant snake!

Frank Cadogan Cowper

Whenever a child came close to my father he would would point out. "Close your mouth and look intelligent."
A persons privacy can easily be invaded by others . One way is when someone step over Your line of integrity.
One of those Integrity borders seem to be tress passed , if you walk around with open mouth close to someone else.
Another is to touch people you do not know or stand too close to them when You speak.
To pick your nose in others company or clean teeth or nails with a toothpick as also extremely impolite
This picture give me a feeling that it has passed my borders and I get irritated by that silly open mouth.
When I paint young children this is one of the problems. .It is okay that they never sit still, but that they do not close their mouths is a fact that make them look unappealing.

Edward Munch

The Sin, Munch painted several pictures with red haired women, I will add some others to the next posts.

Michail Vrubel

Edgar Degas

Edward Munch

Munch also made some lithographs of this motive two of them can be seen below, I found them in the wonderful Norwegian Auction site called Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner http://www.gwpa.no/ For those of You who have 100000$ free to spend this is where You find quality Art.

Wladyslaw Slewinski

Sandys

Who bites flowers??

Rossetti

This picture has a problem. One doesn't understand whom the closest hand belong to. The hand which is further away can be accepted as belonging to the girl, but the hand which is closer could belong to someone else. I think this is a mistake. If I had painted this picture I would have painted part of the the sleeve green like the jacket, this way there would be no conflict.

Gauguin

Franz von Stuck

William Orpen

Ferdinand Hodler

Sir Alma Tadema

Monday, December 12, 2011

Red haired boys

There are of cause more pictures of red haired girls, but I found some boys too.

Bela Onodi

Portrait of Gypsy boy

William Merritt Chase

De Predis

Early Dutch Portrait

Arthur Hughes

Gustave Caillebotte

Portrait of Camille Daurelle

Michael John Angel

Hugo Simberg

Victor Gabriel Gilbert

August Fornasier

Philipp Otto Runge

Unusual picture in German Romanticism. When I studied in Copenhagen I was still young and very emotional and very drawn to Romantic Art. I and 2 fellow students admired Delacroix and German Romantics like Runge, Füssli, Friedrich and Carl Rothman. In 1981 after I moved to Sweden and started the Academy my parents gave me a book I had longed for " Philipp Otto Runge oder die geburt einer Neuen Kunst"
Look at description of the picture above on http://www.german.leeds.ac.uk/RWI/2001_02project2/RP3.htm
Runge made several portraits of red haired children.

Red haired Girls

Many fine pictures of red haired girls can be found between children pictures in the site http://iamachild.wordpress.com/ What I bring here I found on auction sites in the Internet or trough searching for artist names in the Internet or in my my books, which I then scanned.

Some old copy after Velasquez

This little copy I found in a German Auction site not long ago It is clearly a copy of Velasquez picture

But it is a sweet copy where the artist tried to make his own picture.

Velasquez

Alma Tadema

Sir Clausen

I think it often happens that the eyes are placed a little wrong or they are given too much attention , painted too dark or clear or a little bit too big , so they stand out like two holes in the portrait. It is very hard to paint a children portrait since their faces are so rounded and have so few shapes, and the eyes are rather big.

Since it is almost only eyes nose and mouth it is very important that they get the right angel according to the hidden cranium.Else they kind of swim upon the cranium and doesn't sit in right.

The portrait is nice, but it has one eyes which is placed wrong .

Eero Järnefelt

Gauguin

This is a funny picture where he obviously didn't have time to work as much on his daughter as on the big wooden Grail, perhaps she got tired of modeling for him or the jar was more interesting?

Gauguin

A rather unknown picture, I have many Gauguin books and have never seen this picture before.

Emilie Munier

Emma Heerdt

Ferdinand Hodler

Sarah Purser

Here is a portrait where the eyes were not over painted. they fit in both in grey tone and in colour.

Samsonov

Khnopff

As an artist who paint children I will say that every children painting contain a choice when it comes to the size of the child in the surrounding. In this picture You get a precise feeling of the age of this child is because the door nob is so high above her. And still she is rather thin compared to her height.

I love this white /grey type of painting that was so perfected by Hammershøj

I think that Knopff must have seen Hammershøj's paintings which were famous in his time.

Jan Toorop

A great Easter picture 3 red haired girls in colours of Easter daffodils.

Johan Frankenberger

Many portraits of children in this period make the child look too old in the face

If you only look at the face and nit the size of the body she could easily be thought of as being more than 15 years old. when she actually is no more than 4-5 the most.