#John Bagnold Burgess

[artystyczny-nieporzadek]

Art Details Series: Afternoon Tea

|| George Dunlop Leslie, Walter Granville-Smith, David Emile Joseph de Noter, John Bagnold Burgess, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, Charles Bittinger, Henry Salem Hubbell, Joseph Caraud, Edward Portielje ||

[random-brushstrokes]

John Bagnold Burgess - The spanish couquette (1879)

[oldsardens]

John Bagnold Burgess - Feliciana; A Spanish Beauty

[womblegrinch]

John Bagnold Burgess (1830-1897) - La senorita

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1878.

30 x 20 inches, 76.2 x 50.8 cm. Estimate: £6,000-8,000.

Sold Sotheby’s, London, 14 Dec 2022 for £23,940 incl B.P.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

John Bagnold Burgess (English, 1829 - 1897) A Spanish Beauty in Seville. 19th century

[sardens]

John Bagnold Burgess - Feliciana; A Spanish Beauty

[tengomilpalabrasparati]

Arte 🖼️

“¡Bravo toro!” Es una pintura costumbrista del artista británico John Bagnold Burgess creada en 1865. Esta obra supuso su primer gran éxito.

[sinligh]

High fences of realization built on the liquid like foundation of my murky soul.

My desire for love when kept untouched grew into resentment towards myself.

Soothed only by the hands of death on the base of my spine stitching me back together I, her only leftover with words of comfort.

"Life goes on". Is its construction mantra.

Out of deaths lips its arbitrary, a stolen promise; like all the souls that it deemed unfit to be renovated.

The hand of death on the base of my spine, on the back of my neck

it grounds me; I find comfort in it.

the way it caress me so lovingly, a threat of a postpartum psychotic mother to an oblivious child.

Death was never particularly appealing to me, it’s the thought of not existing

not now, not in the past, nor the future. to never be, with no trace whatsoever.

To cease to exist all together With no leftovers, nor broken lovers.

It’s not a constant desire, more of a lure, a forbidden love. A slow burn romance with a happy ending

One that I’ll never reach out to willingly but if it ever reached out to me then I know for sure that I’m not strong enough to reject it.

Because life loses its colors from time to time…

And that leaves me, like a person suffering from aphasia. I lose the ability to understand the point of it all…

I try hard to redefine everything, yet, I can’t express it not even when I reach for a semi-stable ground with all my words.

sensitive, i let life play me like an instrument, so responsive.

i increase the tone of whatever melody goes through me..

do it so i hurt anyone who loves me enough to listen. And because I can’t just fade…. And because I don’t have the upper hand…. I make sure to leave my mark, I make sure I have a way to I leave.

And then I choose not to.

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•Quotes: Christa Wolf / Joyce Carol Oates/ Sylvia Plath/Susan Sontag/ Virginia Woolf / Ocean Vuong / Molly Brodak/ Halsey

•Original context: Sinligh

•art reference:

1. Painting by John Bagnold Burgess (detail)

Painting by Roberto Ferri ( detail)

2. Painting by Émile Vernon (detail)

3. The Grasshopper by Jules Joseph Lefebvre. (detail)

4. Painting by Valeria Duca.

5. red" by Hei Shan.

6. Sleeping Beauty by William Oxer.

7. Halsey from her Ig post: iamhalsey (detail)

[simena]

John Bagnold Burgess (detail)

[apenitentialprayer]

The Church Door, by John Bagnold Burgess, oil painting, 1889.

Do not be one who reaches out to receive, but draws them back from giving. If you acquire something with your hands, give it as a ransom for your sins. Do not doubt whether to give, nor grumble while giving. For you should recognize the good paymaster of the reward. Do not shun a person in need, but share all things with your brother, and do not say that anything is your own. For if you are partners in what is immortal, how much more in what is mortal?

- The Didache, or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (4:5-8)

[rfsnyder]

John Bagnold Burgess

[oldsardens]

John Bagnold Burgess - The Fan

[pwlanier]

THE CONFERENCE, 1892

JOHN BAGNOLD BURGESS RA (1830-1897)

Whytes

[kristabella]

John Bagnold Burgess, R.A. (1830-1897) - A Spanish Beauty

[womblegrinch]

John Bagnold Burgess (1830-1897) - The blue necklace

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1880.

23.6 x 19.6 inches, 60 x 49.7 cm. Estimate: £4,000-6,000.

Sold Bonhams, London, 20 Oct 2021 for £9,560 incl B.P.

[books0977]

A Spanish beauty (1875). John Bagnold Burgess (English, 1830-1897). Oil on canvas.

Burgess started his career by painting portraits and genre works, before travelling to Spain in 1858, accompanied by his friend and fellow artist Edwin Long - who would become his travelling companion on future painting trips to the country. For the next some thirty years, Burgess was an annual visitor to Spain, often spending days with Spanish peasants, living their life and sharing their food.