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Et Le Soleil S'endormit Sur L'Adriatique
''Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique'' ( English: ''The sun fell asleep over the Adriatic'') is an oil on canvas painted in 1910 by the tail of a donkey and attributed to the fictitious Italian painter Joachim-Raphaël Boronali. This hoax, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, was created by writer Roland Dorgelès to poke fun at modern painting. Description The painting is an oil on canvas, 54 centimetres high and 81 centimetres wide. The upper half is painted in vivid orange, yellow, and red, while the lower half is painted in blue. The painting is bordered by a gilded frame that sets it off to its advantage. The work is signed in the lower right-hand corner with the orange letters “J R BORONALI”. History On March 8, 1910, Roland Dorgelès borrowed Lolo, the donkey, from Frédéric Gérard, known as “le père Frédé”, proprietor of the Lapin agile, a Montmartre cabaret. In the presence of a bailiff, Maître Brionne, Dorgelès had a painting made by Lolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil On Canvas
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or copper for several centuries. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser color, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". The oldest known oil paintings were created by Buddhist artists in Afghanistan, and date back to the 7th century AD. Oil paint was later developed by Europeans for painting statues and woodwork from at least the 12th century, but its common use for painted images began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of egg tempera paints for panel paintings in most of Europe, though not for Orthodox icons or wall paintings, where tempera and fresco, respectively, remained the usua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
