#the duet

[preraphaelitepaintings]

The Duet

Artist: Lucy Madox Brown (British, 1843–1894)

Date: 1870

Medium: Painting

Collection: Private Collection

[escapismsworld]

"The Duet"

1883

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (French, 1852 - 1929)

[pippilotta-the-philologist]

I watched The Duet for Conversation Hearts!

It was gorgeous. It carried me along so fast it felt like about ten seconds before it was over on my first watch, and it wasn’t much different the second. The movement, the transitions, the flow of it all… I am not good at discussing visual art but this is lovely. Augh! (complimentary.) Thank you for recommending it!

Ah, huzzah!! You're very welcome; I'm so glad you enjoyed it! (It tends to strike me in much the same way-- the music puts such fluidity to it, and each scene fades into the next so smoothly that time just seems to stop mattering for a few minutes.)

A few fun facts:

Traditional hand-drawn animation is done at 24 frames (or individual drawings) per second. The Duet, however, was animated at 60 frames per second (each drawn on paper)-- the reason being that, since each frame was being scanned into a computer and laid over the 3D space of the blue backdrop, there was extra space between frames available in the digital rendering of the final product. And if there was space for 60 frames per second, Keane reasoned-- why not actually animate it at that rate?

Also, Keane fully animated footage of both the boy and the girl throughout the whole film-- you just don't see it all in the fixed-screen version of it. See, each time we lose sight of one party, the "camera" moves and follows the other one-- this is because the characters are each constantly moving in one direction, the girl always from left to right and the boy always from right to left, crossing each other's path every now and then, so that their paths form sort of a three-dimensional double-helix, at the metaphorical centre of which the audience (or the camera) is sitting. The really neat thing is that a version of the film exists where you can move the device you're watching it on (meant to be a cell phone) and follow one character or the other as they move along and grow up, or come back to the middle and wait for them to cross paths again.

(Hopefully that made sense. XD)

[nonbeans]

Do you think Blitz sings more now simply because Stolas brings more whimsy into his life.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Henry Simmons (British, 1811-1882) The Duet, before 1849

[20thcenturyartgallery]

The Duet

Artist: George Sheridan Knowles (British, 1863 - 1931)

Genre: Genre Art

Date: 1915

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private collection, New Jersey

Description

The demand for pleasant genre scenes and images of bygone days were in great demand during the height of the Victorian era and many artists looked to fill the need; one of these artists was George Sheridan Knowles. Not much is known about his early life, but it is believed that he spent his youth in the Manchester area and most likely received his formal training there.

Capitalizing on his artistic talents, Knowles specialized in contemporary sentimental genre scenes and costume pieces - set in the Middle Ages or the 18th century. His sentimental genre paintings often capture his subjects in a relaxed, or playful, moment and are reminiscent of the works of Arthur John Elsley and Frederick Morgan (two of his contemporaries).

[2minutesnotice]

He's the silliest of all Sexy Lizard Men and I love him.

(also seeing Fizz on this makes me go all 😩😩😩😩)

[ginkashino]

Only the moon knows