Welcome to a place of quiet light. You've found a place that is just the opposite of a fast forward world. Here are images that bid one to stop, breath and spend some time. Press "pause." Every so often I'll post a painting of mine or add thoughts, images and tips. Please add your own poems, art, photographs, thoughts. "To live simply takes a complicated heart." -LaRue
Labels: art, beauty. art. romance, Bouguereau, fine art, oil painting, painting, poetry, pre-raphaelite, sensual, Vermeer, Waterhouse
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I mean by a picture, a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a better light than any light that ever shone - in a land that no-one can define or remember, only desire - and the forms divinely beautiful" - Edward Coley Burne-Jones Thomas Groth is an uncommon figure artist. A classically trained draftsman, Groth works in pastel, oil, charcoal or prismacolor. His paintings recall the lush colors and figure work of the Pre-Raphaelites. The figures exist neither in the past nor the present; they are archetypes occupying a timeless world. Here is a world of tranquility, harmony, dreams and dreamers. Figures of sensuous innocence live here - geishea, mermaid, angels and daydreamers. The art bids one to stop for a moment, to push pause and then move on refreshed-a respite in an often overloaded, time-poor world. Groth's references points are primarily late 19th and early 20th century painters and movements including J.W. Waterhouse, Robert Henri, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Newlyn School.
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