Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Three Graces
1531
oil
on panel
37
x 24 cm
Louvre,
Paris
How Lucas Cranach the Elder
(1472-1553) must have enjoyed painting these lovely girls!
Any excuse to get them
naked; you call them Venus, Eve, Lucretia, Hera and Aphrodite, Diana, The Three
Graces...always in a religous and moral context. Venus he painted 39 times, Eve
35 times and Lucretia just as often.
In the series The Three
Graces one sees some of the same girls posing again and again. Fully aware of
their beauty they dare us on their little stage trying out different positions.
Did the girl on the right
come up with this pose herself, scratching her ankle or was it Lucas's
invention? We won't know, but how playful it looks!
Lucas must have experienced
the same joy I get when I capture one of my 'models in motion' and come up with
a never seen configuration.
Roland
Sohier, 2017
Roland Sohier
Electric Lady Land (inside)
2017
charcoal
on paper mounted on panel
two
panel roomdivider
175
x 75 cm each
Yes, we also do men.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Hercules and Anthaeus
±1530
oil
on panel
26,5
x 17,5 cm
Compton
Verney, Warwick
Roland Sohier (NL)
Electric Lady Land (outside)
2017
charcoal
on paper mounted on panel
two
panel roomdivider
175
x 75 cm each
