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Part 4 of my "Four Elements" set. I find the Fire picture the most hypnotic, just like I find real fire, perhaps it's because I'm a fire sign?
I was day dreaming when I came up with the image of the swirls that were a bit like waves and as I was painting Water (part 2) I decided to paint the four elements as a quartet.
Acrylic on canvas covered hard board 1- x 8 ins
Tolle Stimmung beim Hip-Hop-Tanzworkshop mit Four Elements und beim Grünen Sommerkino in der Postgarage mit „Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter“!
Foto: J.J. Kucek
The Four Elements Exhibition
Casa Cor PR 2008 - Brazil
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Exposição os Quatro Elementos
Casa Cor PR 2008 - Brasil
One of the four elements...
Fire.
View the other elements here:
Earth www.flickr.com/photos/29776295@N02/6190790030/in/photostr...
Water www.flickr.com/photos/29776295@N02/6190787416/in/photostr...
Wind www.flickr.com/photos/29776295@N02/6190269885/in/photostr...
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Four Elements@Donaukanaltreiben 2011
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From the Rotonde d''Apollon Into the Galerie d'Apollon, in the Petite Galerie
The architect Louis Le Vau designed this huge circular room, today known as the Rotonde d''Apollon (Apollo Rotunda), in 1660. The painter Charles Errard supervised its decoration (only the stuccos were executed in 1659 by Francesco Caccia). Used as an audience chamber by Louis XIV, the "salon du Dôme" (Dome Room) became the "Cabinet des tableaux du Roi" (King's Cabinet of Paintings) in 1682. From 1692 to 1793 it was part of the premises of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which every August 25 used it to present works by pupils competing for the Grand Prix.
The unfinished decoration was completed during Louis XVIII's reign. The cupola illustrates the theme of the sun with Merry-Joseph Blondel's The Fall of Icarus. The arches are devoted to the four elements, symbolised by mythological scenes: Earth, Fire, and Water by Auguste Couder, and Air by Merry-Joseph Blondel. Each scene is separated from the next by a trompe-l'oeil bas-relief by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse. The stuccos were restored and completed by Francesco Belloni*.
The Petite Galerie itself is an iconic wing of the Louvre. This was created in the second half of the 16th century under the command of Charles IX as a single storey hall. But construction wasn’t completed as internal conflicts locked France up in more important matters. As the century came to a close, the Petite Galerie got its second storey — and this is where the Galerie d’Apollon would eventually go. Before then, however, there was the Galerie des Rois, which showed artwork owned by Henry IV. Anne of Austria enjoyed the bottom floor as a summer apartment, which is why it has been lavishly decorated since the 1650s (some of this still survives today).
[Louvre Guide]
On 6th February 1661, flames ripped through the splendid Petite Galerie dating from the reign of Henri IV. Henri’s grandson, Louis XIV, immediately set about constructing an even more beautiful gallery to replace it and entrusted its design to the architect Louis Le Vau. The young king, aged twenty-three, had recently chosen the sun as his emblem, and so this became the theme of his new gallery, named after Apollo, the Greek god of the sun and the arts.
Charles Le Brun, First Painter to the king, was commissioned to design the decoration. He called on the finest artists to create it. The Galerie d’Apollon – the first royal gallery in France – was a laboratory for aesthetic and architectural experimentation which, twenty years later, served as a model for an icon of French classicism: the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles.
Le Brun decorated the gallery’s vaulted ceiling with paintings of Apollo driving his chariot across the sky. Those along the central axis show the sun god’s journey, marking the different times of the day from Dawn to Night. These are surrounded by a whole cosmos of images and symbols of everything that is influenced by variations in the sun’s light and heat (the hours, days, months, seasons, signs of the zodiac and continents). The ‘Gallery of Apollo’, with its lavish carved and painted decoration, gave visual form to the sun’s power over the whole universe, magnifying the glory of the Sun King.
However, it was not long before Louis XIV began to leave Paris and the Louvre behind in favour of Versailles, where he and his court eventually settled for good. The gallery’s decoration was not completed until two centuries later, in 1850, under the direction of architect Félix Duban. To decorate the centre of the ceiling, Delacroix was commissioned for a 12-metre wide painting; the result, Apollo Slaying the Serpent Python, is a manifesto of French Romanticism. The wall decoration was also completed, with portrait tapestries of 28 monarchs and artists who had built and embellished the Louvre palace over the centuries.
The royal collection also includes the Crown Jewels. The so-called ‘Côte de Bretagne’ spinel, which once belonged to Anne de Bretagne, is the oldest of the gems to have survived a tumultuous history involving theft, dispersal and sale. Three historical diamonds – the Regent, the Sancy and the Hortensia – formerly adorned royal crowns or garments. The spectacular 19th-century jewellery sets in the collection include emerald and diamond pieces that once belonged to Empress Marie Louise.
[Musee du Louvre]
Taken in the Louvre
The Musee du Louvre, in Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre)
Built over the Louvre fortress (itself founded by Philip II in 1190), the Louvre Palace was the chief residence of French kings from 1546, under Francis I until 1682, when Louis XIV moved to Versailles. Although Louis moved the household, the royal collection remained in the palace and in 1692 it was joined by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, remaining there for 100 years. The palace became a museum following the French Revolution, at the instruction of the National Assembly, and the Musee du Louvre opened 10 August 1793.
Michelle Kaskovich
assemblage: origami and beeswax; salvaged metal wine bottle top; repurposed drawer pulls.
6inx5inx3in
2010
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Four Elements@Donaukanaltreiben 2011
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Water is symbolised by a mermaid sitting among reeds and bulrushes with a sphere in her hand. Her arm is supported by an urn from which water gushes. At the bottom of her tail are shells. Behind her is the trident of the sea god Neptune.
The sphere refers to the waters covering the Earth, while Neptune’s trident alludes not only to the sea god’s dominion over the oceans, but also to the fact that at that time the Dutch ruled the seas.
Water bears a boat on her shoulders. She is seated in an aquatic setting, amid reeds and fishes. On her left is a pike (a freshwater fish); below her feet are a saltwater fish and various crustaceans. Next to her lie an oar and a rudder.
Water is the second heaviest element, after earth. The boat, oar and rudder may allude to the profitable maritime and river trade, but are also symbols of good governance or oeconomia.
Air is represented by a winged woman holding clouds in her hands. She is surrounded by flying birds of many species, including an eagle. On her head is a crown of stars and another star is visible behind her.
Air is the third of the four elements and is found above the Earth but below the stars.
Tolle Stimmung beim Hip-Hop-Tanzworkshop mit Four Elements und beim Grünen Sommerkino in der Postgarage mit „Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter“!
Foto: J.J. Kucek
Limestone
Probably by Jean-Pierre DeFrance (1694-1768)
French (Rouen), about 1750-60
One of a series representing the Four Elements, which stood in the park of the Chateau de Mussegros at Ecouis, near Rouen in Normandy.
Tolle Stimmung beim Hip-Hop-Tanzworkshop mit Four Elements und beim Grünen Sommerkino in der Postgarage mit „Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter“!
Foto: J.J. Kucek
silo feat.
Four Elements@Donaukanaltreiben 2011
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Tolle Stimmung beim Hip-Hop-Tanzworkshop mit Four Elements und beim Grünen Sommerkino in der Postgarage mit „Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter“!
Foto: J.J. Kucek
The Four Elements Exhibition
Casa Cor PR 2008 - Brazil
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Exposição os Quatro Elementos
Casa Cor PR 2008 - Brasil
silo feat.
Four Elements@Donaukanaltreiben 2011
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Air is holding a chameleon, an animal which was thought to live on air only. Stars are depicted in the background.
Design by Van Campen based on a description given by Cesare Ripa in his book Iconologia (1593) for the design of Air; sculpted by Artus Quellinus.
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Four Elements@Donaukanaltreiben 2011
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silo feat.
Four Elements@Donaukanaltreiben 2011
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silo feat.
Four Elements@Donaukanaltreiben 2011
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Tolle Stimmung beim Hip-Hop-Tanzworkshop mit Four Elements und beim Grünen Sommerkino in der Postgarage mit „Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter“!
Foto: J.J. Kucek
Air is holding a peacock, her hair is blowing in the wind. In her left hand she is holding a chameleon, an animal which was thought to live on air only. Clouds and stars are depicted in the background.
Design by Van Campen based on a description given by Cesare Ripa in his book Iconologia (1593) for the design of Air; sculpted by Artus Quellinus.
Tolle Stimmung beim Hip-Hop-Tanzworkshop mit Four Elements und beim Grünen Sommerkino in der Postgarage mit „Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter“!
Foto: J.J. Kucek