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~ detail from Frodo in Caravaggio’s “The Lute Player”
Yes, it’s time for a new manip, this one based on the Baroque master, Caravaggio. ( Full entry )
ETA #1:
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ETA #2:
( About Caravaggio's second boy-model, 'Cecco' )
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~ detail from Frodo in Caravaggio’s “The Lute Player”
~ Detail of Frodo in Girodet’s “The Geography Lesson”:
Yes! In honor of Hobbit Month, I have made a new Frodo Art Travesty. As soon as I saw his painting, even with the globe and the straight-haired Bilbo, I wanted to make Girodet's "The Geography Lesson" into an art manip....( Read more... )
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~ Frodo in “Sappho and Alcaeus”, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, CROPPED.
Note: Some large, high-resolution images will make this entry time-consuming to open on dial-up; my apologies. Also, you will need to scroll over to center the manip on your screen, as it is quite wide.
I thought I’d lift my head from reading and reviewing MEFA competition fics and post a Frodo Art Travesty I made last week. I had meant to save it for “Hobbit Month,” but, what the heck?
This manip is based on a painting by 19th century Dutch-born English artist, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), called "Sappho and Alcaeus".
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~ detail from Elijah Wood in "The Tailor", by Giovanni Moroni.
I've been in a creative funk. ( Read more... )
I wish to present my first (and last? -- who knows how long he'll continue to wear his hair and beard this way) Elijah Wood Art Travesty. ( Read more... )
~ 'Faun and Bacchante', by W. A. Bouguereau, 19th cent., detail.
Warnings: NOT WORKSAFE. By no means sleazy, but it is a nude painting. Depends on your workplace.
So, then. I'm back from my trip. Once I had gone through my mail, I had meant to get right to work on my next chapter. But it's too darned hot! I can't get serious about writing anything. Catching up on my f-list, I saw an entry from Frodosweetstuff, putting out a call for hobbit-oriented posts. I thought, what about a manip...?
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A new “Frodo as St. Sebastian” manip....
(I got a little carried away fiddling with this manip and made two versions. I am unable to choose which I finally preferred, so I am posting both.)
~ Detail of Frodo as St. Sebastian, by Francesco del Cairo.
As you art fans know, St. Sebastian is a favourite subject in Western art. Since the Renaissance, he has typically been depicted as stripped and bound to a post or column, pierced by arrows....
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The pathos of this manip is highly suited to the poem jan-u-wine made for it. Written from Ioreth's point of view, it's a gorgeous poem, simple, spare, and eloquent.
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(I got a little carried away fiddling with this manip and made two versions. I am unable to choose which I finally preferred, so I am posting both.)
~ Detail of Frodo as St. Sebastian, by Francesco del Cairo.
As you art fans know, St. Sebastian is a favourite subject in Western art. Since the Renaissance, he has typically been depicted as stripped and bound to a post or column, pierced by arrows....
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The pathos of this manip is highly suited to the poem jan-u-wine made for it. Written from Ioreth's point of view, it's a gorgeous poem, simple, spare, and eloquent.
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~ Detail of Frodo in Bronzino’s portrait of Ugolino Martelli.
I couldn't resist. I had to do one more Art Travesty based on a painting by Bronzino, his portrait of Ugolino Martelli....
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~ Detail of Frodo as Agnolo Bronzino’s ‘Ludovico Capponi’.
Warning: Very long post, more like a "mini-essay".
Last night I was restless. I stayed up late and re-did a manip that had been bothering me. It had been made from another portrait by Agnolo Bronzino (1503—1572). I had done it to indulge my pleasure in seeing Frodo in fancy dress.
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Discussion of Frodo’s Dreme (or, The Sea-bell), and related matters.
Tolkein wrote a preface for the Tom Bombadil collection, very droll. In it he submitted the poems to various forms of literary criticism in vogue at the time, assessing their genres, conjecturing as to who wrote them, when, and how they were passed down -- just as if they were real works of ancient literature discovered in a dusty under-used Oxford library.
To start, here’s a snippet from Tolkien’s ‘Tom Bombadil’ Preface [The emphases in italics are mine]....
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~ detail from "Frodo in His Study"
My "new" Frodo manip is actually a re-do, but a re-do from the ground up....
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~ Detail of Frodo in Bronzino's "Portrait of an Unknown Man"
Just when I was supposed to be working on something else, I stumbled across a lovely portrait by a wonderful Italian portrait painter of the 16th century, Agnolo Bronzino. The pose, the lighting, the colours, the sheer expertise of the painting: I loved it all. I wondered at once how it would do as a Frodo manip....
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~ Detail from Frodo in "The Death of Chatterton."
I re-did some older Art Travesty manips....
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Since posting my new "Frodo Art Travesty" manip...
Frodo and the Enamoured Woman (detail below), one of the Tolkien friends with whom I correspond, jan-u-wine, was inspired to write a poem to go with it. She is a writer of very perceptive, very fine LotR poetry (a link to her works appears below her poem).
What she wrote for this manip was so evocative to me of what might have transpired in the mind of Frodo when faced with the spectacle of such love for him in the face of another, I decided to edit it into my entry.
Here it is....
Frodo and the Enamoured Woman (detail below), one of the Tolkien friends with whom I correspond, jan-u-wine, was inspired to write a poem to go with it. She is a writer of very perceptive, very fine LotR poetry (a link to her works appears below her poem).
What she wrote for this manip was so evocative to me of what might have transpired in the mind of Frodo when faced with the spectacle of such love for him in the face of another, I decided to edit it into my entry.
Here it is....
The Fields of Forever by jan-u-wine
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Crop of new manip:
This week while looking for tasteful photographs of lovers (to use as models for my erotic illustrations, should I ever make them), I found a head-and-shoulders painting-like photograph of two lovers, a man and a woman. It made me squee with manip-making excitement.
So, in honour of March 25, the day the Ring went into the fire, I present to you my latest Frodo Art Travesty manip....
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This week while looking for tasteful photographs of lovers (to use as models for my erotic illustrations, should I ever make them), I found a head-and-shoulders painting-like photograph of two lovers, a man and a woman. It made me squee with manip-making excitement.
So, in honour of March 25, the day the Ring went into the fire, I present to you my latest Frodo Art Travesty manip....
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aussiepeach made for mariole ("the Ripper")'s birthday (visit her LJ to check it out - bwahahaha!), I decided to make the "Pulp Fiction Frodo" manip I'd been planning to do for weeks. I'd been saving it for a rainy day. (O.K. so it's not raining, it's snowing.)
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Happy Birthday, Mariole:
Ripper Extraordinaire!
You made me do it....
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Inspired by the wonderfully trashy book cover
aussiepeach made for mariole ("the Ripper")'s birthday (visit her LJ to check it out - bwahahaha!), I decided to make the "Pulp Fiction Frodo" manip I'd been planning to do for weeks. I'd been saving it for a rainy day. (O.K. so it's not raining, it's snowing.)( Read more... )
Happy Birthday, Mariole:
Ripper Extraordinaire!
You made me do it....
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Oh, squeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
I thought I would never find a painting that would inspire me to make another Art Travesty manip. But, while I was in my "Frodo Art Travesty" album, adding the titles, dates, and artist's names for each manip, I had to check a few things in Google art sites. In the process, I found there was yet another, earlier version of Cupid and Psyche painted by William Bouguereau. The result? More manips. I will present the original from last year, plus two versions of the new one.
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~ Here is a work-safe crop of the manip I made last year, from Bouguereau's 1895 "Abduction of Psyche":
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Frodo and art fans, here are the two manips I made from it this evening, each preceded by a work-safe version, for the purposes of posting them in the "browser version" that appears for my Friends List.
I love how Psyche is really, really swooning in the version below. (And who would not?) I adore the ravishing blue colour of Cupid's draperies, too, not to mention the stirring suggestion of an upward sweep, or thrust, to those drapes. *Oh, yes* (Obviously, this Cupid means business once he gets Psyche up to his bower on Mt. Olympus.)
~ Frodo as Cupid in Bouguereau's 1889 Cupid and Psyche, Frodo facing Psyche, work-safe crop:
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~ Frodo as Cupid in Bouguereau's 1889 Cupid and Psyche, face forward, work-safe crop:
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I thought I would never find a painting that would inspire me to make another Art Travesty manip. But, while I was in my "Frodo Art Travesty" album, adding the titles, dates, and artist's names for each manip, I had to check a few things in Google art sites. In the process, I found there was yet another, earlier version of Cupid and Psyche painted by William Bouguereau. The result? More manips. I will present the original from last year, plus two versions of the new one.
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~ Here is a work-safe crop of the manip I made last year, from Bouguereau's 1895 "Abduction of Psyche":
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Frodo and art fans, here are the two manips I made from it this evening, each preceded by a work-safe version, for the purposes of posting them in the "browser version" that appears for my Friends List.
I love how Psyche is really, really swooning in the version below. (And who would not?) I adore the ravishing blue colour of Cupid's draperies, too, not to mention the stirring suggestion of an upward sweep, or thrust, to those drapes. *Oh, yes* (Obviously, this Cupid means business once he gets Psyche up to his bower on Mt. Olympus.)
~ Frodo as Cupid in Bouguereau's 1889 Cupid and Psyche, Frodo facing Psyche, work-safe crop:
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~ Frodo as Cupid in Bouguereau's 1889 Cupid and Psyche, face forward, work-safe crop:
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Greetings! I have just returned from visiting family, "back east". While I was out there I was able to use the internet services that were available in the public library. Although there was never enough time to read all my mail, I did look at my LJ.
I noticed that all of my manips and screencaps seemed wan and pale on all of the library's machines. Boo hoo hoo! The monitor I use at home is rather old. Too old, it seems. I have the "bright" turned all the way up, but everything looks loads darker on my machine. I was shocked to see how different my work looked on newer, very much brighter monitors.
Therefore, I re-did every one of my Frodo Art Travesties, darkening them considerably, re-naming them, and reloading them into the Photobucket album.
If you have any favourites that you have saved, you may want to re-save them. I apologize for the fact that I will have broken links to images posted in threads (such as the "New Frodo's Harem" thread at K-D). My Art Travesty link is in my signature there, however, so no fan of the manips need suffer. *grin* (Note that there are three pages; I apologize that the names of the prints are truncated by Photobucket.)
Now, then. As an "I'm back" gesture, I have made a new manip.
Here's a detail from it:
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I noticed that all of my manips and screencaps seemed wan and pale on all of the library's machines. Boo hoo hoo! The monitor I use at home is rather old. Too old, it seems. I have the "bright" turned all the way up, but everything looks loads darker on my machine. I was shocked to see how different my work looked on newer, very much brighter monitors.
Therefore, I re-did every one of my Frodo Art Travesties, darkening them considerably, re-naming them, and reloading them into the Photobucket album.
If you have any favourites that you have saved, you may want to re-save them. I apologize for the fact that I will have broken links to images posted in threads (such as the "New Frodo's Harem" thread at K-D). My Art Travesty link is in my signature there, however, so no fan of the manips need suffer. *grin* (Note that there are three pages; I apologize that the names of the prints are truncated by Photobucket.)
Now, then. As an "I'm back" gesture, I have made a new manip.
Here's a detail from it:
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Muse Frodo has made the slightest intimations that he might be back to help me out of my "I can't go on!" hole regarding Threshold. I am so relieved! I actually feel like getting on with it, although the holidays and travelling will slow me down quite a bit.
Here's Frodo now, reluctantly leaving the Shire behind just to come visit me in Minnesota.
He doesn't look any too happy about it, does he? Not only was Rudbeckia Goodbody about to offer him a choice spot right beside her before the fire, the colour of her dress set his eyes off nicely, too. Frodo is a wonderful hobbit for making personal sacrifices, though. I am so grateful.
~ With a heavy heart, Frodo leaves hearth and home to visit Mechtild .... From the Limbourg Book of Hours, "February":
~ Mechtild
Here's Frodo now, reluctantly leaving the Shire behind just to come visit me in Minnesota.
He doesn't look any too happy about it, does he? Not only was Rudbeckia Goodbody about to offer him a choice spot right beside her before the fire, the colour of her dress set his eyes off nicely, too. Frodo is a wonderful hobbit for making personal sacrifices, though. I am so grateful.
~ With a heavy heart, Frodo leaves hearth and home to visit Mechtild .... From the Limbourg Book of Hours, "February":
~ Mechtild
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Yes, STILL procrastinating, but having such fun:
I have made a NEW "Frodo Art Travesty" manip.
I think this one may be my favourite yet....
Here's a cropped, work-safe version of it:
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An artist and manipper whom I know from K-D, Whiteling, posted an image St. Sebastian from the Italian Baroque that I thought absolutely swoon-inducing. Not only was it a wonderful example of Baroque painting, dramatically lit, with great textures and a stunning contraposto pose, the painter had done marvelous draperies around the loins, giving his Sebastian a decidedly endowed and *virile* look. Yes, this St. Sebastian made me go *thud*.
I thought, "Heavens! What a fantastic Frodo Art Travesty manip he would make!"
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I have made a NEW "Frodo Art Travesty" manip.
I think this one may be my favourite yet....
Here's a cropped, work-safe version of it:
( Read more... )
An artist and manipper whom I know from K-D, Whiteling, posted an image St. Sebastian from the Italian Baroque that I thought absolutely swoon-inducing. Not only was it a wonderful example of Baroque painting, dramatically lit, with great textures and a stunning contraposto pose, the painter had done marvelous draperies around the loins, giving his Sebastian a decidedly endowed and *virile* look. Yes, this St. Sebastian made me go *thud*.
I thought, "Heavens! What a fantastic Frodo Art Travesty manip he would make!"
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~ Leighton, Fredric - Fisherman and the Siren, 1858, detail.
(Looking for some het Frodo, Undine decided to go right to the source....)
Because a decent answer to a fellow-LJ'er's question about where to talk about Frodo. I had mentioned "The Harem," so she wanted to know a little more about that. She also wanted to know where to find fic about Frodo -- het fic. My reply turned out to be so huge, I decided to make it into an LJ entry, so that it would all fit in one place ( -- and I could find it again; I would like to have an easy place to go to find these links again myself).
Notice: To anyone who happens to read this and knows other good rec sources, or feels there are things I didn’t present properly that I should correct, please let me know in the Comments section. Thanks!
About Frodo’s Harem….
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Where to look for het Frodo fanfiction. ( Read more... )
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