Oh, thanks so much Estë. Your comments are always a balm to the weary screencapper and poet. And I love your icon. In fact, I asked for a frameable copy to put on my wall! But I hadn't noticed the similarity with the end credits Frodo drawing, but I can see something. Maybe it demonstrates how much both Alan Lee and Whiteling respect the tradition of drawing from which they come, all the way back to the Renaissance. Lee and Whiteling are both such super draftsmen (draftspersons?), able to render recognizably, with great sensitivity and grace of line and shadow, and yet capture a bit of the essence of their subjects for us to see and contemplate.
Just because you like art and art talk, here's what I told Whiteling her "Estë the Gentle" called to mind for me, Da Vinci's study of a head for his "Leda and the Swan":
But Whiteling wrote back, if I am not mistaken, telling me that she thought her drawing resembled more the women's faces in the work of 16th cent. Italian painter Bernadina Luini. I looked his paintings up and it was an "Ah ha!" moment. Here are crops from his paintings of the Virgin (first two), St. Catherine, and Salome:
The serenity of their expressions, and the light that seems to illuminate them from within is very, very beautiful. I wish he'd painted Frodo! :) I was so grateful to Whiteling for pointing me towards this painter.
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Date: 2007-11-15 01:56 pm (UTC)Just because you like art and art talk, here's what I told Whiteling her "Estë the Gentle" called to mind for me, Da Vinci's study of a head for his "Leda and the Swan":
But Whiteling wrote back, if I am not mistaken, telling me that she thought her drawing resembled more the women's faces in the work of 16th cent. Italian painter Bernadina Luini. I looked his paintings up and it was an "Ah ha!" moment. Here are crops from his paintings of the Virgin (first two), St. Catherine, and Salome:
The serenity of their expressions, and the light that seems to illuminate them from within is very, very beautiful. I wish he'd painted Frodo! :) I was so grateful to Whiteling for pointing me towards this painter.
~ Mechtild