Recreation of a 1896 poster in blender, both images of my recreation

When I first saw this poster it was billed as having been by Alphonse Mucha (who had a very similar style), but when I started looking closely at it I realized that it was not signed by him, and that led me to finding many more cool pieces by Privat-Livemont.

Privat-Livemont was a late 19th century Belgian painter who seems to be mostly known for his advertising posters (or more specifically, this poster). I couldn't find a consensus on his correct first name, but sources seemed to agree that it was either Georges, or Henri. Most of his posters have printers marks from Brussels, with a smaller number having been printed in Paris.

This probably is the most challenging of the style studies Ive done. Ive found that the semi-realistic neo-classical style is one of the hardest to replicate in 3d, and the bizarre shapes of the decorations were also very difficult to wrap my head around in 3d.

The lineart is all done in blender with grease pencil. the lettering was drawn as a vector in affinity designer before importing it into blender as a svg. This was rendered as 4 layers, (foreground, main lineart, colors, and an opacity mask for the background decorations) plus 2 color gradient layers I made in affinity photo, before compositing the whole thing in clip studio paint. The color layer had lots of post-process in blender's compositor as well

Rose (1897) by Alphonse Mucha

La Femme Chauve-Souris (The Bat-Woman) 1890

— by Albert Joseph Penot

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Bath time, 1897 Virgilio Tojetti

William Bouguereau - The Bather

‘A Deep Sea Idyll’ by Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)

June 7th, 1942: Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit.” and slammed his hat on his leg.

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I fucking laughed so hard at this all artists are hilarious

Anatomical sketches by Leonardo Da Vinci

The ballad of Heer Halewijn

The Flemish-Dutch ballad of lord Halewijn was composed in the 13th century, the tale itself is much older and dates back to the Carolingian era, with roots in the pagan past.

A princess wants to meet lord Halewijn, who is famed for his entrancing songs and beautiful voice. She asks her family members for permission. Her father, mother and sister refuse because no young lady ever returned from paying a visit to Halewijn. But her brother says he doesn’t care where she goes as long as she exercises her rights as a princess and keeps her honour. Her brother’s approval is enough for her.

The princess, in some versions of the ballad named ‘Machteld’, straddles the best horse in her father’s stabble and ventures into the woods. She starts singing and draws Halewijn’s attention. They meet but it soon dawns on her that Halewijn is a serial rapist and killer who views her as his next victim. However, the princess succeeds in tricking him, chops off his head and travels back. She delivers Halewijn’s head on a plate during a banquet celebrating her return to her father’s castle.

Since the ballad of lord Halewijn describes him as only appearing to young ladies he’s assumed to be an ancient forest spirit, a demon or a magician.

All the colour lithographs are the creations of Hendricus Jansen(1867-1921).

Vasily (Wilhelm) Alexandrovich Kotarbinsky

Born in Poland, William A. most of his creative life in Kiev Kotarbinsky. Fundamentals same artistry was in the School of Art (1867-1871) and Roman Art Academy (1872-1875), where money was sent to the Society of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Studying in Rome and life in Italy, after graduating from the Academy, of course, had an impact on the scenic B. Creativity Kotarbinski. Apparently, due to their external beauty and sentimentality of his paintings of mythological and biblical themes. He liked music and painting, full of characters, mystery, science fiction visions. For a while the title of the leading Russian Symbolist accompanied VA Kotarbinsky to sign “confessions” ambiguities represented in his paintings. in the artist’s life was crucial and very important for him to work, when in 1887 was at the invitation of artist PA Svedomski moved from Italy to Russia, in Kiev. Here VA Kotarbinsky involved in the paintings of St. Vladimir (1887-1895). Generally, Kotarbinsky Wilhelm was a prolific artist. In Russian academic exhibitions (1898), introduced more than a hundred paintings and drawings. In the years before the Revolution, VA Care Kotarbinsky lot monumental work of art to decorate private houses known for their revenue Kiev. renovated in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts had an academic “of fame in the artistic field,” which was awarded the VA Kotarbinsky in 1905.

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