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Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed', also known as The Bather, is a name given to four nearly identical oil paintings on canvas by English artist William Etty. The paintings illustrate a scene from James Thomson's 1727 poem Summer in which a young man accidentally sees a young woman bathing naked and is torn between his desire to look and his knowledge that he ought to look away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musidora:_The_Bather_%27At_the_Doubtful_Breeze_Alarmed%27

Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (1843, this version painted 1844, exhibited 1846) was arguably Etty's last significant history painting. William Etty - Tate Britain, London The scene shows: Musidora standing in shallow water, nude except for a white cloth She is turning or reacting to a sound, capturing the moment of alarm described in the poem A richly painted wooded landscape with loose, atmospheric brushwork Etty's characteristic luminous flesh tones contrasting with the darker, earth-toned landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Etty#/media/File:Etty_%E2%80%93_Musidora-_The_Bather_'At_the_Doubtful_Breeze_Alarmed'.jpg

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Hi, I'm Karen, an artist from Germany who works with traditional media - watercolor, ink, soft pastels, acrylic...
My favorite subjects are animals, especially cats and birds, flowers, landscapes and colorful abstracts.

Find my work here: https://karenkasparartprints.com/

Find all my links here: https://karen-kaspar-fine-art.jimdosite.com/

A small black cat peeks curiously out from behind a group of colorful pumpkins and gourds. The pumpkins come in different shapes, colours and sizes. Only the head and one front paw of the cute kitten behind it can be seen. The cat seems to enjoy playing hide and seek. The bright warm colors create a cozy and playful autumn atmosphere. Black cat peeking behind pumpkins is a hand-painted watercolour by artist Karen Kaspar.
Butterfly and Pink Zinnias is a watercolor painting in landscape format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. In a summer garden, Zinnias blossom in bright pink. While the flowers and the green leaves are mainly depicted abstractly, one Zinnia blossom is more realistically worked out. An orange butterfly approaches this blossom. The picture is painted in a loose fresh style.
A black cat sits in wait in the grass. You can only see her head and her green eyes with which she fixes her prey. The expressive acrylic painting is painted in a square format with loose brushstrokes, the background is abstracted in shades from ochre, brown and yellow to green and blue.
Little Robin is an acrylic painting in contemporary square format by artist Karen Kaspar. A cute fluffy little European Robin bird is sitting on a branch and is looking to the left side.The background is abstracted in vibrant shades of pink.

How This Fairytale Painting of Doomed Lovers Became a Victorian Sensation
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Frederic William Burton's 19th-century masterpiece "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs" illustrates one of the most tragic medieval love stories.

by Annikka Olsen

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/burton-the-meeting-on-the-turret-stairs-2723484

More about Burton:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_William_Burton

Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs, by Frederic William Burton. The painting depicts an intimate, poignant moment between two lovers in a narrow medieval turret stairway. On the left stands Hellelil, a medieval noblewoman dressed in a magnificent flowing gown of deep, vibrant blue. On the right is Hildebrand, a knight or warrior in full medieval armor: He wears chainmail covering his head (a mail coif), arms, and legs Over the chainmail is a rich crimson or burgundy surcoat decorated with elaborate gold embroidery or tooling showing heraldic or decorative patterns A large sword hangs at his side, suspended from an ornately decorated belt and scabbard with intricate metalwork His legs are wrapped in cloth bindings (leg wrappings or hose) over the mail Brown leather boots His head is bowed, and his eyes are closed, lost in the embrace One armored hand reaches around to hold Hellelil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meeting_on_the_Turret_Stairs#/media/File:Hellelil_and_Hildebrand,_the_meeting_on_the_turret_stairs,_by_Frederic_William_Burton.jpg

Now that I’ve followed seven painting tutorials by Bob Ross, here is my first attempt at painting a landscape using what I learned. Bob encourages his viewers to use his techniques to create their own worlds, and so I used my own color choices and composition here, made up entirely from my imagination. Bob uses a lot more brown and gray than I like to paint. So I let loose and used brighter colors. Unlike Bob, I used a set of five basic mixing colors of Royal Talens gouache in CMYKW. This little painting is 4.5” square on cotton paper.

Landscape panting of sunset with clouds, hills, trees, shrubs, and water.