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Artists and Inspiration

   Thinking or Musing
  Inspiration
William Bouguereau
     
  Inspiration
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Louvre
     
Inspiration Inspiration
Gennady Popov

 

  The Poet
Carl Balsgaard
Bridgeman.co.uk BON 40309
  Inspiration
Jan De Quelery
     
  Contents page for 'Ode on the Spring', from 'The Poems of Thomas Gray'
Bridgeman.co.uk ID: YBA 151695
  A Calling
William
Bouguereau
  Portrait of Robert Schumann composing 'The Loves of the Poet'
Artist Anonymous
Bridgeman.co.uk  ID: RVI 103458
     
  Lost to the World
Ernst Scheel
Corbis IX003111 (RM)
 
     
L'ispirazione
1874
Antonio Mancini

 

  Waiting for Inspiration
Waiting for the Music
Julie Felton

 
   
In Anticipation of Inspiration
Julie Felton
Inspiration
Elena Rakova

 

Artist with Inspired Images Floating about their Heads
Could this be an illustration of the exploration of the unconscious?
The Genius of Shakespeare
(presented with 'Great Thoughts' Christmas Number), pub. 1888
W. Hobbs & Sons
Bridgeman.co.uk  70426
     
  611642 Composer Stephen Foster
     
  Hans Christian Andersen
Anne Grahame Johnstone
Bridgeman.co.uk 103537
     
Dickens' Dream
Robert William Buss
Bridgeman.co.uk 139196
 
Buddah in His Youth
Odilon Redon

 

 

  Artists With the Muse
  Postcard depicting Robert Schumann with Muses
Karl the Elder Schweninger
Bridgeman.co.uk  Image ID CHT 169683
     
 

Poet's Inspiration
Marco Rossi
Bridgeman.co.uk  Image ID BAL 174048

     
  Natchnienie Malarza
Jacek Malczewski  
Muzeum Narodowe, Kraków
     
Hector Berlioz  Composing 'The Trojans'
Lionello Balestrieri
Bridgeman.co.uk Image ID RVI 101592
     
  The Sleeping Fool
Cecil
 Collins
The fool with his Muse.
Collins says, 'The saint, the artist, and the poet are all one in the Fool, in him they live, in him the poetic imagination of life lives.
     
  Portrait of the Italian Composer Cherubini and the Muse of Lyrical Poetry 
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,  (1780-1867)
Bridgeman.co.uk  Image ID GIR 63568
Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy
Joshua Reynolds
Kiss of the Muse
Paul Cézanne
Inspiration
Toru Takamizawa
 
 

 

  Others  
  Seeking Inspiration
Levin J. Steven  
Looking for an idea or is he looking at other artists work?
  Musetta
Robin Of The Greenwood
The musician receives inspiration from a flower?
  The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams
William Blake
The caption from the Tate Museum says, "
It may be a visionary self-portrait, with the eight-branched figure on the subject’s forehead representing  the flames of inspiration."

 

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