Hot weather ahead? You've got indolence, luxury, mild eroticism (the see-through costume, the peeping nipple) and a warm climate – with a classical setting, to add extra romance plus cultural respectability. Leighton’s Flaming June. {{#sender.isSelf}} real-world solutions, and more. You could put a caption along the bottom, saying something like "THIS SUMMER... DREAM OF CYPRUS", and you wouldn't be falsifying the picture's appeal.But an artwork's overt message of is only one aspect. Perhaps it evokes the stunningly rich colours of Sir Frederic Leighton’s classicist magnum opus of 1895 (a favourite of card and notelet producers, although these fail miserably to capture the glory of the 1.2-metre-square original in Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce)… or perhaps, as in my case, it brings to mind stiflingly hot days sweating over some examination or other!Well, what is clear, is that the month of June – the world over – is ‘flaming’ all the more, with June 2019 the hottest June ever recorded. She came to London and established a highly successful career as an artist's model, posing only for the head and hands, and not nude – an important distinction. “Flaming June”, Lord Frederic Leighton, 1895, oil on canvas. At a guess, the exquisitely sensitive painting of the gauze shift, its gossamer transparencies and rippling folds; the elegantly curled up pose of the sleeping woman, configured into a rounded, rose-like form; the orange glow that envelops her, radiating from her dress into the reddish tints of her arms and cheeks; the overall feeling of irresistible dreamy languor, on a sultry evening, on the shores of the ancient Med.And put like that, one line of attack seems obvious. Interestingly, “Flaming June” was auctioned in the 1960s and wasn’t able to sell at its starting price of $140. Please try again, the name must be unique Some dismiss it as a laughable piece of kitsch. It offers an "away-from-it-all" fantasy. He was a painter sculptor and man about town. “Flaming June” is inviting and elusive, either fascinating or irritating, perhaps for the same reason. There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts It is a stunning painting with rich, colours. Log in to update your newsletter preferencesPlease
I see that our article Flaming June is about a painting by Frederic Lord Leighton. It depends how it's painted. Now it is one of the more well-known pieces of its class, and is a favorite as an art poster.“A Laborer at Celeyran” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The painting is classicist in nature, and the sleeping woman alludes to the nymphs and naiads often sculpted by the Greeks. Leighton's fabric isn't made of any particular stuff.
Regulars at Glastonbury and Wimbledon, for instance, can attest to the capricious, and often soaking, weather that June can provide, and there is a good reason for this. He even left her £10,000 in his will. What's bad about Flaming June is that the way it's painted does nothing to intensify or complicate its touristic agenda.It is a thoroughly evasive bit of work. He died of the heart condition angina pectoris not long afterward. This is sometimes called the return of the westerlies or the European Monsoon, however there are signs that things will be different this year. The delight comes through rather tepidly now, but in his time he was compared to Michelangelo.Enter your email to follow new comments on this article.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists? This is MOR painting – and for MOR there's always an audience.Which is where argument ends. If you want to see it done with a bold, shimmering flick of a brush, try Manet. However, the phrase is not directly connected with the weather.
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It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss Past Exhibition: Flaming June. Every possible form of tension, precision, pictorial adventure, is shied away from.Maybe this is because Leighton can't manage anything more definite. For the next year, though, it's at Tate Britain.So now we can see it, let's have the argument out. But those two constituencies seldom talk to one another.What's more, they seldom see the picture itself. Go to . Day after day of rain has left us damp, fed up and miserable. Painted with oil paints on a 47-by-47-inch square canvas, it is widely considered to be Leighton's magnum opus, showing his classicist nature. Maybe it's because he prefers it that way, or knows his viewers will. He plays the safe "neither-nor" trick again.He avoids palpable anatomical clarity, which would let you sense how truly extreme this pose was (for that, see Courbet). The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Please
And the rumples themselves are phoney. However, the phrase is not directly connected with the weather. {{#replies}} Stated more precisely, according to C3S a preliminary analysis of global temperature data for July suggests it may have Talking of interesting and engaging tools that communicate the challenge of climate change effectively, the BBC’s Visual and Data Journalism Team has just launched an excellent animation and associated app titled You can spin and tilt an animated globe to see the how much July temperatures have increased between 1880-1900 and today, i.e.