#flaxman

[artschoolglasses]

The Pegasus Vase, John Flaxman, for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, 1786-90

From the Victoria and Albert Museum

[totenkopfmotte]

The Oath of the Seven Chiefs by Flaxman.

The Oath of the Seven Chiefs by Girodet.

Girodet found inspiration for this drawing in Aeschylus’s Greek tragedy Seven against Thebes. Dramatized with powerful physicality, seven warrior leaders from Argos raise weapons to the war deities Ares and Enyo at the far left as they immerse their hands in the blood of a sacrificed bull, and swear an oath to defeat Thebes. Girodet’s strong black outlines and idealized male nudes are characteristic of Neoclassicism’s calculated restraint. Yet the flash of lightning and the warrior’s impassioned expressions intensify the emotional and psychological content of the scene, anticipating the growth of romanticism in European art during the early 1800s.

[lesleyannemcleod]

John Flaxman (b. 1755) --artist and sculptor--an early self-portrait

[heraclito71]

Recreación del Escudo de Aquiles. J. Flaxman (1821).

[gagosiangallery]

Art interview: Douglas Gordon – ‘I love the Flaxman sculpture of Burns, but I had to break it’

Douglas Gordon’s destruction of Robert Burns at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an act of love, admiration and possibly envy, finds Susan Mansfield

I’m sitting in the (closed) cafe of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, waiting for Douglas Gordon. Of the generation of artists who stamped the name of Glasgow on the contemporary art map of the world, he is the most famous, the most elusive, the most rock’n’roll, last seen in Berlin, or Sydney, or was it New York? As the minutes tick away, I wonder whether that mystique is partly achieved by not turning up for interviews. Gordon is here to install a major commission, a response to the John Flaxman statue of Robert Burns, in the Portrait Gallery’s Great Hall. But he isn’t in the building, and hasn’t been since he went for “lunch” some hours ago. It’s now 5:15pm. Read more, click HERE. 

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[virtuteetarmis]

John Flaxman: Apollo Preceding Hector with His Aegis, and Dispersing the Greeks

[detroitlib]

John Flaxman R.A. (6 July 1755 – 7 December 1826) 

British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early in his career he worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood's pottery. He spent several years in Rome, where he produced his first book illustrations. He was a prolific maker of funerary monuments. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: Illustrations from The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Clay, A.M. With the life of Dante, chronological view of his age, additional notes and index. Illustrated with twelve engravings from designs by John Flaxman, R.A. From the last corrected London edition. New York: D. Appleton & Co., Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1848.