This guy.
John William Waterhouse. Figure painter extraordinaire. Funny that we mentioned him in class. Everything I stand for in art is expressed by this beautiful figure painter:
-Strong feminine characters
-Storytelling (I'm an illustration major)
-Enchanting representations of our world
-An exciting mix of Realism and the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Pre-Raphaelite movement was one that looked back at Michelangelo, Raphael, Da Vinci, and Religious and Mythical sources for their work.
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| "Mermaid" by J. W. Waterhouse |
This stuff is some seriously beautiful work. I did a color and composition study of the mermaid below. Quite unfinished and really just a study, but voila:
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