Black | White


The Dedication
The Dedication
Edmund Blair Leighton

A Portrait in Black and White
A Portrait in Black and White
Briton Rivière

The Daisy Chain
The Daisy Chain
Robert Anning Bell

Tristram and Iseult
Tristram and Iseult
Herbert Draper

Danaë
Danaë
John William Waterhouse

JW WATERHOUSE
Danaë

Fugitives
Fugitives
Edmund Blair Leighton

Miranda
Miranda
John William Waterhouse

JW WATERHOUSE
Miranda, 1875
Newly discovered

The Sea-Maid's Music (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
The Sea-Maid's Music (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Robert Anning Bell

The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
John William Waterhouse

JW WATERHOUSE
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine

Magdalen
Magdalen
Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hebert

Rapunzel
Rapunzel
Isobel Lilian Gloag

The Princess on Glass Mountain
The Princess on Glass Mountain
Marianne Stokes

A Foundling
A Foundling
Edmund Blair Leighton

The Morning and Evening of Life
The Morning and Evening of Life
Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hebert

Miriam and Moses
Miriam and Moses
Paul Delaroche

The Question
The Question
Edmund Blair Leighton

The Princess and the Unicorn
The Princess and the Unicorn
Armand Point

The Unicorn Tapestries

The Vampire
The Vampire
Sir Philip Burne-Jones

A Summer Idyll
A Summer Idyll
Frederick Stuart Church

A Forerunner
A Forerunner
Sir John Everett Millais

1816
1816
Edmund Blair Leighton

Apollo and Daphne
Apollo and Daphne
Henrietta Rae

The Siren
The Siren
Sir Edward John Poynter

Sir Edward John Poynter

The Sea-Maiden
The Sea-Maiden
Arthur Hacker

Pope Urban VI
Pope Urban VI
Hon John Collier

Pelleas and Melisande
Pelleas and Melisande
Edmund Blair Leighton

Maurice Maeterlinck
by Edward Thomas, 1911

Marina
Marina
Luis Ricardo Falero

Lancelot and Elaine
Lancelot and Elaine
Henrietta Rae

The Emblem
The Emblem
Sir Frank Dicksee

Navigation
Navigation
Edward Reginald Frampton

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1/2/2004 5:17:06 PM stargazer I enjoyed this..a nice collection that I may have passed by if you'd not shown them to me...~*~
1/3/2004 1:03:30 AM chiaroscuro I originally started with those images available in Black/White only. Then there was this Klimt which was destroyed in WWII. Then I rearranged and posted a few missing or stolen. Finally, I added a few charcoals and a couple of pencils. There's also the Waterhouse A Byway: Ancient Rome - a wood engraving. Here's the Klimt which I had originally put in the middle of this "b/w" album: http://www.artmagick.com/paintings/painting800.aspx I thought the background on this and other Klimt paintings important.
1/5/2004 3:20:13 PM stargazer Medicine by Klimt is fascinating. So many pieces to the whole. ~*~
2/7/2004 1:38:45 PM chiaroscuro I had to delete the Klimt. Good for overall effect in this album, but there were so many others in black & white.. C.
2/10/2004 12:13:44 AM Contessa I appreciate your efforts, chiaroscuro. The resulting album is quite a pleasure to look at, and drew my attention to several pictures that I had not noticed before :>)
2/10/2004 12:16:53 AM Contessa P.S. You mentioned elsewhere that you might create a Zodiac album containing ArtMagick members. I think it's a splendid idea and hope you do it :>)
2/10/2004 4:31:49 AM princess daisy so much to enjoy here, thank you ~ i too, hope you do a zodiac ablum, i know it will be an amazing creation ~
2/10/2004 9:57:36 PM chiaroscuro Contessa - you have started a chain reaction! -- pd, I will do it! C.
2/10/2004 11:02:23 PM DQ Great Idea. I'm looking forward to the Artmagick zodiac album
2/10/2004 11:02:26 PM DQ Great Idea. I'm looking forward to the Artmagick zodiac album
2/10/2004 11:03:05 PM DQ I say that twice because I mean it.
2/15/2004 9:59:12 PM chiaroscuro Of course you do, Diego. C.
4/16/2004 9:21:13 AM ShallottLady nice collection :)
4/16/2004 12:44:56 PM chiaroscuro Those black and whites are good. Like Oreo cookies. ;)
4/16/2004 1:38:08 PM princess daisy . . . and milk ;)
4/16/2004 9:39:50 PM chiaroscuro :)
8/12/2004 7:26:18 PM love lost chiaroscuro...I think you've been in my private albums :)...I'm working on a black and white album as well...this one though, is very beautiful..
8/12/2004 8:56:08 PM kat ditto for me too I have my own one going this week, funny ha? I enjoy this all together..Thanks.
8/12/2004 9:14:27 PM Mademoiselle Alienor An other great album signed Chiaroscuro... :) I see there is no need for colors to show beauty. And sometimes, b/w is better than colors. Also, I discovered a picture I did not know (JWW's The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine). Thanx for sharing :) xx
8/12/2004 9:20:36 PM chiaroscuro Well, love lost-kat-Alienor, as you can see this one goes back to the beginning of this year. Could have been my last album of 2003. Just before the clock struck the midnight hour.. C.
8/12/2004 9:23:44 PM chiaroscuro Many of these paintings have been lost or stolen, or perhaps destroyed. My aim in this B/W album is to keep the hope alive that someone will say, I've seen that painting... :)
8/12/2004 9:58:41 PM love lost chiaroscuro...I've seen that painting..."The Morning and Evening of Life"....!
8/12/2004 9:59:12 PM love lost Just Kidding...Did I just give you false hope? :)
8/13/2004 2:42:49 AM L'Aurore Felt like I'm in an old movie..very lovely album C...:)
8/13/2004 3:14:45 AM Erum hi chiaroscuro,its a beautiful album actually these days i am also working at a b/w one.
8/13/2004 3:17:33 AM Erum 'pelleas & melisande' oh i love that picture.
8/13/2004 8:53:38 AM chiaroscuro love lost - I've seen that picture too. Every morning (after I have finished putting some makeup on), then every evening (before I get washed up for bed). lol -- Those old b/w movies are pretty good, L'A. -- Yup. That's a good one, E.
8/13/2004 12:22:05 PM enigma7773 What a beautiful concept, I absolutely love it.
8/13/2004 5:19:33 PM chiaroscuro Thanks, enigma. Appreciated. C.
8/16/2004 7:07:39 PM moonchild3 a wonderful collection C., i really like this album...yep..jst like oreo's...
8/16/2004 8:32:41 PM chiaroscuro :)
10/19/2004 10:15:10 PM missb_chantal2003 the very colors play alot with the essntial value of the picture. nothing is like that now. it does make everything much more beautiful to long to know what the picture would be like if it was in color.
10/20/2004 3:34:24 PM chiaroscuro There were a couple I know were available only in b/w; apparently the originals were found somewhere. For sure this one -- http://www.art-albums.com/paintings/default.aspx?id=3041 -- and I'm almost 100% about this one too -- http://www.art-albums.com/paintings/default.aspx?id=2695 -- C.
11/3/2004 4:37:05 AM RadiantMoon the princess in the glass mountain is a fantastick and magical one... love your album.. it's very unique..
11/4/2004 3:56:47 PM chiaroscuro That one must be magical in color. Thanks, RM. C.
11/4/2004 5:16:46 PM RadiantMoon yes it must be,, i haven't found it..but a connection link brought to myself to this one again..Thanks a lot for all, CO. the magical you`re able to make it up,, and indeed i think you're the one to..iu let you with your thoughts.. good night .;))
11/4/2004 9:23:13 PM chiaroscuro You know, last evening you pointed out the Stokes - yet the one I looked at initially was the Point. I got a little confused, per usual. Then I went back here, your comment, that space just begging for a link - and I could not think of a more beautiful link for The Princess and the Unicorn by Armand Point than The Cloisters. Such a magnificent place. C.
11/4/2004 9:49:30 PM chiaroscuro The Siren is beautiful in color. New Link to Illusions Gallery. Been awhile since I visited there. Wow. C.
11/5/2004 3:46:24 PM RadiantMoon Certainly The siren(Point's) is amaizing in light and colour... she's without doubt amaizing pretty.. And by the way i've back tonight to your link.. capturating back the Unicorn..and i felt like a short-circuit, unconsciously I've given a flick through the manuals and it's all fine now..;^)
11/7/2004 10:15:21 PM chiaroscuro Synapse maybe? %)
11/12/2004 4:42:12 AM On a Quest This is a gorgeous album! I love these black and white paintings, although I'd love to see some of them in colour. :)
11/12/2004 8:13:36 AM chiaroscuro Well, if a few turn up in color - all to the good. C.
11/12/2004 10:01:20 AM meggie What an enchanting idea, I love your album, compositionally and otherwise. Thank you.
11/12/2004 3:43:07 PM chiaroscuro Thanks for stopping by, meggie. :)
4/3/2005 5:18:55 AM raven's claws This is amazing & truly beautiful to see, glad I did. Im loving it.
4/3/2005 6:40:34 AM IsabelArcher Very beautiful C. I like "recommended links" very much too.
4/3/2005 2:21:25 PM chiaroscuro :)
5/16/2006 3:11:20 PM Lysia Very beautiful, because they are black and white many of these pictures are not noticed as they should!
5/16/2006 5:29:14 PM chiaroscuro If you see any of these in great grandpa's attic -in living color- I am sure a number of parties would be interested. ;)
9/7/2006 3:55:27 PM RadiantMoon Hi, chi lookinag at Danaë in the link,I'm thinking Why Waterhouse,, missed the waves strengh of the sea, he demostrated at the white and black painting?...in ways i prefer the inked style one..
9/7/2006 11:32:27 PM chiaroscuro That color one was 'after JW Waterhouse and speculated that it was the work of a student copyist' - ergo not the same intensity at all. The original Waterhouse's 'Danae' in color by Waterhouse is still missing. Hopefully it will turn up. C.
12/2/2006 5:48:50 PM stargazer Interesting piece about Danae. Ebay! of all places.
12/2/2006 6:14:01 PM RadiantMoon http://www.art-albums.com/paintings/default.aspx?id=3422, I just see it,, if you wanna have a look,:D
12/2/2006 7:11:19 PM chiaroscuro hmm. Yes, Ebay - for those little last minute gifts. :) -- I looked RM, and I don't recall - was there a color version discovered? I guess I'll have to replace Miranda, as we need another undiscovered Black | White for the album. Help me find one. C.
12/4/2006 3:32:17 PM RadiantMoon <Don;t know about,,.that version you talk about,but under titles, remplace what you mean now?. heartful help you, chi.. but you drive my thoughts in a whirl,, and i see it dizzly,.JI,ji>/ Really, What're you looking for??a decision must be made up fast..>I think
12/4/2006 4:59:19 PM RadiantMoon Dear chi, in belongs, http://www.art-albums.com/paintings/default.aspx?id=2437,.
12/4/2006 5:04:37 PM stargazer Miranda in color is quite lovely. Very soft, very quiet despite the thundering waves.
12/4/2006 11:28:58 PM chiaroscuro Hi, RM. I don't know if Merritt's Ophelia is exactly a B/W. For some reason it appears like an etching or chalk to me. I've seen her 'Eve' in chalk, not the one shown in the Art Albums collection of Artists, and it reminds me that this one may be similar in but in reverse. I love that Ophelia btw. I am probably not making myself clear. I may just leave Miranda to show the contrast. It's an interesting story. Sorry if I am confusing you. C. -- Yes, sg, it is quite a lovely painting. I am glad I had an opportunity to view it. An early Waterhouse in the Alma-Tadema Greek style - as Peter Trippi would say. Ergo, it sold for a pittance as compared to later pictures. :)
12/6/2006 4:03:08 PM RadiantMoon hey, Chi, you're right, it seems more shadow treatmeant,in Ophelia. To see what we find.,,.:D
12/6/2006 6:13:55 PM stargazer Gotta get myself to the Cloisters. The Unicorn tapestries must be seen.
11/27/2009 8:20:27 PM Awake This one has been burried for far too long. A magnificent album. Love the 'Black & Whites' ... they let you use your own imagination to fill in the colors. Lovely collection. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us! Peace ... TM
1/22/2010 11:14:08 AM nicoledesapio_nbdrt I love these, especially "1816," with its Regency-era costumes. (I've added it to my own "Regency" album.) There's a way in which black and white is more vivid than color. I feel the same way about black and white films.