Ferris
A Fixture
Hi All,
If I ever had a candidate for ending on the shelf of shame, this was the one, so it is with great relief and a fair dose of pride that I’d like to present to you the completion of my Pompeii project!
Started around 2014, with many pauses and restarts, I can finally end this project and place it in the cabinet.
I am fascinated by Pompeii and the view it gives into daily life of the Romans. It is like a time capsule and, when wandering the streets of the site and with a bit of imagination, one can almost see and hear Romans going about their business.
I am not the first to be fascinated like this. In the 19th century, when extensive scientific excavations were done at the Pompeii site, the public and artists were similarly inspired. This resulted in numerous well-known depictions of roman life in drawings and paintings, which were in popular demand. Many of these are now considered 'romantic', showing idealized or stereotypical depictions and should not be considered as scientific reference.
However, one painter stood out and that was Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Dutch-born, but more at home in England, he took extreme care to make his paintings historically accurate. Where others interpreted references rather loosely, filling in gaps with imagination, he took his examples from collected artifacts and careful study of museum pieces and the historical site itself. On top of this, he was an extremely skilled painter
While thinking about doing a figure in a Pompeii setting I realized I was as much in awe with Alma-Tadema's work as with Pompeii itself and in this project I tried to capture the spirit of both: Pompeii and Alma-Tadema's paintings.
Perhaps a bit of a long ramble, but you can’t imagine how momentous it feels to me to get this one over the finish line and out of my head. I nearly threw it against the wall more than once and started to fear this one was one of those things ‘you’d always like to do but never get round to’….. Such relief to be done with it!
For info on materials, construction and painting here are the WIP threads:
Part 1: https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/pompeii-garden.82737/
Part 2: https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/pompeii-garden-part-2.276669/
Sculpting ….perhaps the toughest part: https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/roman-girl.547164/
Cheers,
Adrian
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If I ever had a candidate for ending on the shelf of shame, this was the one, so it is with great relief and a fair dose of pride that I’d like to present to you the completion of my Pompeii project!
Started around 2014, with many pauses and restarts, I can finally end this project and place it in the cabinet.
I am fascinated by Pompeii and the view it gives into daily life of the Romans. It is like a time capsule and, when wandering the streets of the site and with a bit of imagination, one can almost see and hear Romans going about their business.
I am not the first to be fascinated like this. In the 19th century, when extensive scientific excavations were done at the Pompeii site, the public and artists were similarly inspired. This resulted in numerous well-known depictions of roman life in drawings and paintings, which were in popular demand. Many of these are now considered 'romantic', showing idealized or stereotypical depictions and should not be considered as scientific reference.
However, one painter stood out and that was Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Dutch-born, but more at home in England, he took extreme care to make his paintings historically accurate. Where others interpreted references rather loosely, filling in gaps with imagination, he took his examples from collected artifacts and careful study of museum pieces and the historical site itself. On top of this, he was an extremely skilled painter
While thinking about doing a figure in a Pompeii setting I realized I was as much in awe with Alma-Tadema's work as with Pompeii itself and in this project I tried to capture the spirit of both: Pompeii and Alma-Tadema's paintings.
Perhaps a bit of a long ramble, but you can’t imagine how momentous it feels to me to get this one over the finish line and out of my head. I nearly threw it against the wall more than once and started to fear this one was one of those things ‘you’d always like to do but never get round to’….. Such relief to be done with it!
For info on materials, construction and painting here are the WIP threads:
Part 1: https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/pompeii-garden.82737/
Part 2: https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/pompeii-garden-part-2.276669/
Sculpting ….perhaps the toughest part: https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/roman-girl.547164/
Cheers,
Adrian
Click on for larger images
