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in the styles of Gustav Klimt and a little bit of Alfons Mucha.I've actually been doing a decent amount of drawing, but I haven't been uploading any of it here haha whoops QuQ
You don't have to read the rest of this description but if you wanna hear about some of the research I did for this go ahead!
Sooo this was a project for my Western Art History Survey II class. It was almost a semester-long thing; pick a thing and relate it to one of the artists or movements or whatever that we go over and make a piece (with a 1 page artist statement) or write a paper about it.
I chose to paint a portrait of Joan of Arc à la Klimt and Mucha because Joan was a seriously kickbutt lady and I felt that Klimt's intense and powerful work would be fitting, but at the same time Joan was highly respected and virtuous lady, so I chose to depict her face and stuff more in Mucha's style 'cause he had a way of making ladies look beautiful and attractive and sexy without making it quite as vulgar as Klimt.
I mean the culture Klimt was surrounded by was incredibly promiscuous all the time and he was definitely a product of that, so I don't think it would've been fitting to depict the face of a saint like he would've? haha
and I'm not bernini so
ahh art school water you doing to me
dEVIANT ART THIS IS NOT A PIN-UP NO
my professor got her face right up to the print I made of this and she was like THIS IS DIGITAL--? yes yes it is
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Firedblue In reply to Mamudoon [2013-04-17 00:50:21 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much! I just picked a few shades I liked from one of Klimt's things QuQ
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Firedblue In reply to Scout-Rendezvous [2013-04-16 18:08:09 +0000 UTC]
Ahh that's so cool! *u* I was talking about this with one of my friends who was raised Catholic and she said Joan of Arc was her confirmation saint too :'D
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Firedblue In reply to Scout-Rendezvous [2013-04-16 23:01:42 +0000 UTC]
and all the people said amen
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fj203rj0f2 [2013-04-16 04:18:56 +0000 UTC]
ahh i love that kinda sparkly klimt-y look to it *u*
this is super pretty haha
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Firedblue In reply to fj203rj0f2 [2013-04-16 23:01:28 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much bb QuQ
you're super pretty heehehe
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ChaosDisclosed [2013-04-16 03:12:39 +0000 UTC]
Joan of Arc is one of my favorite figures in history, I think you really did her justice here. 83 Great job! ^^
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Firedblue In reply to ChaosDisclosed [2013-04-16 03:45:33 +0000 UTC]
Ahh man thank you!
Haha I found out after I finished this that her hair was actually black whoop
I wanna do another just-face portrait of her because the way she was described made her sound really intense and firey and cool QuQ
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ChaosDisclosed In reply to Firedblue [2013-04-20 16:05:42 +0000 UTC]
Yeah! 8D
Was it? I always thought she'd be a blonde, but I guess I picture any French historical figures with blonde hair. XD
Amg, you totally should. owo
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