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"Murasaki" by Ursula Vernon

SF&F Picture 41 out of 78 by Ursula Vernon

SciFi and Fantasy Art Murasaki by Ursula Vernon

More Art Nouveau. God, I love that stuff. It was originally inspired by Japanese prints, and I wanted to go back to that original source. For some reason, painting this inspired me to go read haiku. There's some really elegant death poetry written by samurai and poets about to pass this mortal coil, even if 'Death poems/Are but delusion/Death is death.' as one of the grimmer samurai said. Of course, reading the poetry made me want to go do ANOTHER painting with autumn leaves as the floral part of the motif, so it's really a vicious cycle. Just say no to Art Nouveau, kids! (I did have fun with the little dragon under her feet though.) 13 x 28...I lose too much iris detail, but until everyone buys giant monitors, what can I do?

Date	Name	Comment
4 Jan 2008	Judy D	Loading... Reminds me of Alphonso Mucha's work. Very beautiful.
4 Mar 2008	Harry David Frost	Loading... "The Tale of Genji" is wonderful...I have read above that you refer to the ’purple’ signification, (a wonderful use of colour, I think; it’s stormy water, drowned lovers- a succession of Post-Modern images! One wonders if Mr. A A Anaxagoras knows what he’s taking about...or knows what his name means...also why Aeschylus is such a popular names for malcontents and prudes...) but I can’t help feeling that it is such a wonderful portrayal of Shikibu’s concept of femeninity; in particular, femeninity seen thorugh Genji’s male eyes. The gestures are half dismissive, half benefactory, almost ’religious’, which, for me, fits with the sort of shrine of half-worship, half-rejection the men of the Tale build around their women. So while you say above you titled it as ’purple’, I find its greatest strength is in manifesting the sentiment of the novel. I was interested in your quotation from a ’grimmer samurai’- have you read Hagakure? "I have heard that the way of the Samurai is Death" quotes everybody, condemning it as dangerous and nihilist; but, reading "Yukio Mishima on Hagakure" a really good commentary, you kind of see what they mean, and it isn’t that grim. Thank you, anyway.
10 Apr 2008	Katherine Somerville	Loading... This is so beautiful
22 Apr 2008	Liz A. VanHoutte	Loading... I really like this! The Alphonse Mucha influence i see....The colors are perfect. Very Nice
12 May 2008	Mauricio moura maranhão	Loading... Great picture!
1 Jun 2008	Heather Alycia LaPeer	Loading... very cool irises. How you managed to create such realism while using a manga-ish coloration style is amazing
5 Nov 2008	Lilim Chan	Loading... beautiful, it reminds me very much of the stylings of Alphonse Mucha.
11 Nov 2008	Ria Susan Witteman	Loading... how do you do art nouveau? i want to get into it. the flow of her garments is wonderful and irises complement the outfit perfectly.
21 Nov 2008	Wolf (aka arya)	Loading... pwetty fan... i have? pease?
15 Feb 2009	Amy Louise Whalley	Loading... Amy Brown did a picture like this
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