Click here (Medinaarts), and follow the links, to view the remarkable Near Eastern lithographs of Scottish artist David Roberts (1796-1864)...
What are your observations/thoughts about how he portrays the ancient lands?
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Anonymous
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This the place I want to be. I fear that had I lived at this time they wouldn't let me in, they might let you in Paul. Ha! Ha! Growing up I listened to the christian rock group, Petra! I loved the music. Cynthia Williams
The coloring of the lithographs seems a little off to me. The dusty, pale colors make everything seem to fade into the background. I would have liked to see them before they were colored. With the addition of the color being so ... drab? faded? I really can't find a word to describe it that fits with what I see, the pictures suggest a world that didn't exist, except in someone's dream. They don't seem to represent anything concrete ... while, with Petra, the ruins are real, and yet even that picture looks, to me anyways, like something out of a dream.
There is definitely a romanticized quality to Roberts' lithographs. Some have criticized him for such western-colonial portrayals of 'The Near Orient'. But they are captivating, no doubt!
3 comments:
This the place I want to be. I fear that had I lived at this time they wouldn't let me in, they might let you in Paul. Ha! Ha!
Growing up I listened to the christian rock group, Petra! I loved the music.
Cynthia Williams
The coloring of the lithographs seems a little off to me. The dusty, pale colors make everything seem to fade into the background. I would have liked to see them before they were colored. With the addition of the color being so ... drab? faded? I really can't find a word to describe it that fits with what I see, the pictures suggest a world that didn't exist, except in someone's dream. They don't seem to represent anything concrete ... while, with Petra, the ruins are real, and yet even that picture looks, to me anyways, like something out of a dream.
Brayden
There is definitely a romanticized quality to Roberts' lithographs. Some have criticized him for such western-colonial portrayals of 'The Near Orient'. But they are captivating, no doubt!
pdk
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