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#based of that one painting La Belle Dames sans Merci
chiropteracupola · 2 years
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and I awoke and found me here /
on the cold hill’s side.
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netherknit · 1 year
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the prince and the fool.
based on that one painting (la belle dame sans merci)
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spielzeugkaiser · 2 years
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Even more wips! One prompt I loved but couldn't decide on (because there are a lot paintings based on that) was 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. I started the oil painting first, which I'll probably finish, but as I did it I thought 'damn, I should have used watercolours' so I did that too.
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hey hal! bit of a random question, but what’s the painting in your header? every time i look at your profile im so drawn to it!
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It's Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee's painting called "La Belle Dame sans Merci" based off of John Keats' ballad of the same name. There are a lot of other paintings using the same title as well, but this one just happens to be my favorite!
I always interpreted the ballad as a warning about all-consuming love and how it eventually becomes obsession. It shines through really well in Francis's interpretation - seen in the trance-like state of the man, the woman's body language & almost ethereal beauty (in the poem she's a fairy but if you take it as literal or as an exaggeration is up to personal preference). As well as the fact that there seems to be no real destination for the pair besides aimless wandering.
Idk I just love breaking down paintings/poems/ballads; it was one of my favorite things to do in English class when I was in school.
But I also just really like the composition of the painting, lmao. It's insanely well done. Thanks for asking! <3
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angstqueenart · 1 year
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Some art I've made of Lucie and Kuras! Some are still works in progress but I'll finish them eventually 😔
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Ahem, I love these two very much
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(this one is inspired by the painting "La Belle dame sans merci" by Frank Bernard Dicksee around 1901, based on the poem of the same title)
Here ⬇️
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mistysworldboutique · 2 years
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Today I'm admiring a painting called "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" which I think means The Beautiful Lady Without Pity. It was painted by an English guy, and I thought maybe he wanted to impress people with his language skills by giving it a French title. But it turns out the title came from a 15th-century poem by a French poet named Alain Chartier. 
The painting is based on a ballad by English poet John Keats.⁣⁣The artist's name was John William Waterhouse who was one of a group of artists known as Pre-Raphaelites. I think that means they used a style from before the Italian artist Raphael. Or maybe it means other Raphaels will be coming later. I'm not sure.⁣⁣
This painting shows a young knight who has met a pretty fairy lady deep in a forest.  The lady seduces the knight, and here she's shown pulling him closer with her hair which she's wrapped around his neck. He becomes quite enamoured with her, makes her some bracelets and garlands and eventually follows her back to her place. ⁣⁣Kind of a typical "Knight Meets Fairy" love story I guess, but once she gets him back to her place things don't go so well. 
He goes into a deep sleep where he sees kings, princes and other knights who she's seduce before him. She definitely was not into "One Knight Stands."⁣⁣They tell him that she has him in her power, but somehow he manages to eventually wake up on a cold hillside by a lake where things have withered and no birds sing. And although winter approaches he still longs for her and cannot leave. 
⁣⁣I guess that was the Denial stage of rejection. The poem doesn't say how he fared in the end. I think the moral of the story is to run a full background check on any fairies you might encounter in the woods.⁣⁣This artwork and others are available in my Etsy shop on magnets and postcards. Click on the link below to visit. Thanks for stopping by
!⁣⁣https://www.etsy.com/shop/MistysWorldBoutique
~Misty⁣
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mantis-selfships · 3 years
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throwing this here cuz iam dONE.
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freckled-king · 3 years
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A piece for @wardencommando of her Drow cleric Ismael and (concept art lol)Gale from Baldur’s Gate 3 based off of one of the La Belle Dame sans Merci paintings 🌱🌹
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morgandarcyarts · 5 years
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Lineart done but still work in progress, Cullen x Trevelyan based on one of my favourite paintings ever, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by Marc Fishman ( x )
~ Ko-fi ~Instagram ~ DeviantArt
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Thirty Days of Arthurian Characters - Day 4 (I mean, technically): Morgause
... So I know it's been a month, but I can explain.
... Actually, beyond 'I realised I couldn't answer several questions, and I had other shit to do' ...no, I can't. But ah well.
Why you like or don’t like the character
To be brutally honest, I’ve never really cared about Morgause. Aside from constant low-level annoyance at the constant conflation of Morgan and Morgause, Morgause herself was kinda... boring, to me. She’s also one of those female characters you more or less can only judge based on her impact on the male characters around her – Mordred especially – and that’s boring in any context.
But then I started writing my Morgan story, imaginatively titled ‘Le Fay’. And that’s when Morgause jumped up, grabbed me by the balls, and demanded I take interest in her. Because, like Morgan, there is an interesting story in there, if you only look (and aren’t afraid to say ‘fuck canon, there is no canon’ at certain points). Morgause is probably the most tragic character in Le Fay, for reasons I’ll explain in the Headcanon section.
Your favourite characterization in novels
Okay, so a key reason this took so long to get back to is because I hadn't actually read a lot of books starring Morgause, or at least none worth my time or their inclusion on this list. So, having read all of… one, I can firmly say that my favourite characterization of Morgause is The Squire's Tale. Because it’s the only one I know. And also because Squire’s Tale is kinda awesome.
Your favourite characterization in TV/Film
…I don't really have one? I mean, given the problems with her and Morgan getting switched, I can't really remember any version that has everything I'd consider quintessential to her character… well, possibly Justice League's Morgaine, who honestly does work better as Morgause, so… yeah, let's go with that.
Your favourite art/illustration about the character
Technically not Morgause, but La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Dicksee is a great painting and fits my vision of Morgause surprisingly well.
The actor/actress you wish could play the character
I honestly don’t know. Maybe Natalie Dormer, based purely off of her portrayal as Moriarty?
One headcanon about the character
So, one of the funnest things about writing Le Fay has been playing with symbolism - characters reflecting on stories repeating (including a Jewish character pointing out the resemblance between Uther-Igraine-Gorlois and David-Bathsheba-Uriah), various historical landmarks coming back in certain ways (Uther literally brings Igraine and her three daughters to King Lear’s castle to marry them off, and the irony isn’t lost on anyone present) and the best part of this symbolism has been the three sisters and what they represent in comparison to one another - Light, Dark and Happy Medium, Good, Evil and Neutrality, and Future, Past and Present.
So whilst Nimue represents the future (because she’s a literal fortune-teller) and Morgan represents the present, Morgause represents the past, is consumed by her grudges, is essentially what Morgan will become if she doesn't stop and quickly, and in my favourite scene she becomes so focused on the past that… well, I’ll wait until the final draft is over to tell you all, but it instantly raised Morgause to the most tragic character in this book.
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So excited for the debut of my "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" painting in the UK down in Cornwall on May 4th in Tintagel for the Fairy Fayre! We'll have prints, free pins & more all popping up that day at the event (I'll be there in person autographing of course). It's a free show, everybody is welcome! Links & details are on my Events page (link in comments) This is a work-in-progress pic from earlier - me putting the final reflections on the early Anglo-Saxon style helmet (suitable for the Arthurian theme)! It's based on an actual helmet we saw at the marvelous Wallace Collection near my studio in London. The original acrylic painting herself has already been reserved/sold, (she's the lovely creature I worked on during a couple of my past Twitch broadcasts - did you miss out? Watch in the video archives, details below in this caption). She's a painting that will be used on promotional materials, tickets, adverts, etc. for FAE Magazine in regard to the Tintagel Fairy Fayre (I'll be there May 4th in person at Tintagel, Cornwall, UK). We'll eventually have prints/canvases up online at my Strangeling website, but first we'll be debuting the prints for her there at the Fayre and she'll be the basis of the special Event Exclusive Strangeling enamel pins that will be handed out to the first 200 customers at the Strangeling/StrangelingUK Booth. (Pins are limited to one per person with purchase, any JBG purchase is fine). If you'd like to watch me paint this piece and hear me talk about the inspiration behind her - check out my earlier archived recordings up at my Twitch video archive (my user ID is JasmineBecketGriffith there) or if it's from further back alternately you can watch over a year's worth up on my YouTube channel (user ID: JasmineBecket ) Looking forward to seeing a bunch of my UK friends in Tintagel! (at Tintagel, Cornwall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwmp5-PlfXl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15v3mhs8na7m4
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nancykali · 6 years
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So this wlw fanart, based on the above painting,  La Belle Dame sans Merci by Frank Dicksee, which is based on the poem of the same name, makes me really sad I can’t draw anymore because I wish so hard I could make a Kalancy (Nancy Wheeler/Kali Prasad) version of this image.
@birdblinderdraws I didn’t want to add onto your fanart, but please know I’m so grateful for your inspiration!
Kali would be La Belle Dame sans Merci and Nancy would be the knight. IMO (Because Kali can create illusions, like La Belle Dame in the poem, and is immediately presented with a mysterious, magical aura about her, that also exudes its own sort of strength. Her gift is deception and illusion, her way through conflict to deceive and trick others. And Nancy is known for being a fighter, warrior, vengeful and proud, Nancy gives me more knight-in-shining-armor vibes. Both of them are vengeful young women, but Nancy is the one I imagine as showing more devotion and sacrifice for Kali, the one who would do anything for Kali, willingly and openly. Kali is of course equally devoted to Nancy, but her support is more behind-the-scenes, subtle, and Nancy prefers it that way. They complement each other perfectly.)
But if you see Nancy as La Belle Dame and Kali as the knight, I have no objection.
Any fan-artists out there who love Nancy Wheeler and might possibly ship her with Kali in some sort of way..... I would pay you to make this. I’m serious. Idk how much I could afford but I would pay you. I’m serious.
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romanticnightmare · 4 years
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Posthumous portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. National Portrait Gallery, London
John Keats (1795-1821)
A revered English poet whose short life spanned just 25 years, John Keats was born October 31, 1795, in London, England. Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion on that trip brought on the first symptoms of tuberculosis, which ended his life. (John Keats Biography, 2014)
Based on The Society of Classical Poets article, This is the Top 10 best poems of John Keats.
#10 “Fancy” (1818)  Inspired by the garden at Wentworth Place, this poem makes the list because it affords us a window into Keats’ creative process
#9 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819)  Of the several great odes Keats wrote in 1819, this is perhaps his most philosophical. It discusses the link between art and humanity, and how essential true beauty is to man.
#8 “To Lord Byron” (1814)  Here Keats praises what would later become a common feature of his own work – the paradoxical beauty of sadness.
#7 “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (1819)  One of Keats’ most famous poems merits. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is an iconic poetic figure. The desolate setting and bleak rhyme scheme convey the poem’s creative merit, but the power balance between man and woman is also a central theme.
#6 “Ode on Melancholy” (1819) This poem will be later analyzed more deeply. Click here!
#5 “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819)  Yet another ode composed by Keats in 1819, this poem again gives us an insight into his perception of creativity and composition.
#4 “To Sleep” (1816)  This poem concerns a longing to escape sadness in sleep. For Keats, sleep becomes a snapshot of death, which he approaches with conflicting fear and desire.
#3 “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (1817)  rather than describing the now-controversial art, Keats tells us about what Phidias’ sculptures represent, allowing us to paint a vivid enough picture of our own.
#2 “To Autumn” (1819)  This poem’s first line is one of the most iconic of all time. Arguably, no other poet has managed to create such a beautiful depiction of the season so deftly, or with such a kaleidoscopic wealth of images. Keats is able to convey the synaesthesia of three months in just three stanzas.
#1 “Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art” (1819) Bright Star has Shakespearean scope, and a strange air of elevated calm about it. Written less than three years before Keats’ death, it darts from the cosmic to the earthly, blending them together to produce a poem that speaks to the soul.
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
(The Society, 2017)
References
The British Library. (s. f.). The Romantics. Retrieved from https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-romantics
The Society. (2017). 10 Greatest Poems by John Keats. The Society of Classical Poets. https://classicalpoets.org/2017/12/22/10-greatest-poems-by-john-keats
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