Seeing William Adolphe Bourguereau's "Alma Parens (The Motherland)" makes me think of the work of Southern California artist, Mark Ryden. This spectacular painting by the French Academic painter was created more than 130 years ago. Mark Ryden currently works near Pasadena where I saw his amazing work in total at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
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Glad to know you see classical forms of art coming back in vogue. Though, I'm not sure Mark Ryden can be said to be doing contemporary classical art. He and many commercial art trained artists are doing similar work around the artist toy and plush scene. My eyes see the slickness of an illustrator's education.
No doubt, people don't understand where artists of the past were coming from. They don't even understand Andy Warhol let alone what an 19th Century academic would paint. So, I see lots of fertile soil for the fine arts in exploring classical sensibilities.
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