There is a wonderful thought-provoking quality about myths. Something that rings true interwoven in a fairy tale which is timeless. A sort of mixture between a dream and reality.
This picture is about Pomona and Vertumnus a nature god who could assume any shape, and here he is wooing the nymph Pomona. At the beginning he tried to befriend her by disguising himself as an old woman but when this failed, he revealed his true identity as a youthful god; here he is, at the moment when he has just removed his mask.
I liked the idea of painting this myth because I love the story, plus I wanted to paint figures in a landscape and this seemed to be the perfect setting to do both. On the right Cupid sits on the ground next to her and his arrows lie on the ground.
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I think this advert is very funny, considering that Pomona doesn't have any shoes nor hand-bag and she seems quite happy withoout them. Its a sign of our times I guess, to commercialise everything. The irony of it all. Oh well.. maybe I will paint bubbles next time and another company will come to advertise their soap.
Maria, maybe you can paint a series of myths and rake in some money from product placement. Think of it : Dionysos arrives on Naxos and woos Ariadne with a pair of Louboutin shoes. Charon takes people across the river Styx on a P&O ferry. Perseus cuts off the Gorgon's head with a Black and Decker hedge trimmer. But don't have Icarus flying by Easyjet - bad publicity!
Ha,ha,ha the wings fell off! you are very witty Robert. The Black and Decker is too gory. I hadn't realised that the spam had gone on to the previous thread as well. I suppose spams are the modern goblins! playful and mischivious. Which myth for BP?
I think maybe getting rid of the oil could be one of the labours of Hercules. Of course, he'd have to do it right. I mean, the job with the Augean stables might go wrong.
"Well done,Hercules, you've got rid of all the horse dung - but now the whole stable is covered in oil."
King Augeas had it easy cleaning his dirty stables. It will take a real Herculean task to clean the gulf.
Curiously enough, yesterday when we were at the Lever gallery I noticed that Mr. Lever did exactly what you just said. He bought several good paintings and converted them into adverts. Millais was furious when he found out that one of his paintings had been turned into an advert for soap! Mr. Lever also bought a beautiful painting by Albert Chevallier Taylor called: 'Dress Rehearsal' its a bride trying on her white wedding dress, when the painting became an advert he renamed the wedding dress adding the line 'As Good As New'
They do it with music too. Beethoven's been used to advertise electricity. Wagner has promoted razor blades. But thanks to the remote control it's easy to switch channels when adverts come on, that way when I switch back most of them are gone and I can keep it on mute until the programme returns.
Well, in all truth, most people wouldn't like to have an advert hanging on their walls but having said that, Toulouse-Lautrec posters are still as popular today as they were 100 years ago and you can still see them having from some cafeteria walls.
I think at one time the Metropolitan Line had reproductions of 1920s and 30s adverts at their stations. Nice elegant stuff. Nowadays advertising screams with the subtlety of a hammer.
Yes, this is true. The nicest ones are train posters and also sea-side places, I think there are collectors for these kind of posters.
Maria, I've always thought that the opening titles on Poirot are very artistic. I suppose the creators wanted to reflect the atmosphere of 1930s art and design, with its emphasis om modernity and geometrical shapes. Anyway, it certainly looks very stylish.
Hello Robert, art Deco from the 1920's past the 1930's. Yes, very stylish with geometrical forms.
Nice photo you've posted there, Maria, of you and Peter in Ireland.
Thanks Robert. We had great fun filming for the series with Laura and Kostas who captured some of these cheerful moments.
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