I am a figurative painter….’human presence’ is for me ‘place’… more than a landscape or an interior…. figures are points in a vast universe that create the environment of existence…. This site is devoted to presenting the evanescent images that have always roamed my thoughts… they have found their way into my paintings… and have become the aesthetics of my compositions…Tumblr (3.0; @langosy)http://langosy.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eus3htjb1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>self-portrait by Titian</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19858134542http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19858134542Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:36:02 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1euqxzFt11r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p> Pietro Aretino by Titian ….. Aretino was one of Titian’s closest friends and most passionate of admirers…. The poet took it upon himself to present the maestro’s work, in glorified terms, to the world… it was Aretino who originally applied the term “Pittore Divino” to Titian….. He wrote, “Titian in his supreme excellence is not just divine, as the world takes him to be, but absolutely godlike and without equal—-like a man who backs up the liveliness of his coloring with the consummation of draftsmanship in such a way that his creations look as though they were not painted, but real.”</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19858097357http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19858097357Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:35:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eupgdwAT1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Titian’s first portrait of aretino</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19858051655http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19858051655Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:34:28 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eunqzwZX1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span">MIchalangelo used Aretino as a model to paint the figure that is holding the flayed skin that is his self-portrait in <em>The Last Judgment</em>.</span></p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19857996928http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19857996928Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:33:26 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eulkWrcB1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pietro Aretino was not only known as a poet, playwright, satirist and author whose work had immense influence on contemporary art and politics…….  but he is also credited with inventing modern literate pornography……</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19857930211http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19857930211Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:32:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eumj1Wi31r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>self-portrait by Titian</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19857958908http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19857958908Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:32:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekwzfzz71r6ometo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thomas Eakins in his Philadelphia studio</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19847079083http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19847079083Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:02:59 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekucr1sX1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Walt Whitman in Camden, New Jersey….. photographed by Thomas Eakins</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846994953http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846994953Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:01:23 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekrcVTd51r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thomas Eakins</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846901624http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846901624Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:59:36 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekoy8lvu1r6ometo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>oil study for Walt Whitman portrait by Thomas Eakins</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846827670http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846827670Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:58:09 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekmp3aMf1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846759805http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846759805Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:56:49 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekkv5qD51r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Self-portrait by Thomas Eakins</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846703580http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846703580Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:55:43 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekiwlpnJ1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Walt Whitman photographed by Thomas Eakins</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846643197http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846643197Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:54:32 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ekezQJad1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>photograph of Walt Whitman taken by Thomas Eakins</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846520874http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19846520874Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:52:11 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ejkxeCH01r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Thomas Eakins was an early innovator with photography, he might even have helped invent early stages of the motion picture camera…. he created a camera shutter for Edward Muybridge to capture movement more accurately through still photography…. but with these photographs of Whitman, he seemed more interested in documenting the physical presence of the old poet rather than documenting how he moved… above all, Eakins was a figurative realist painter….. sadly, although he fought being restrained, American society did not offer him an environment where he could easily exercise his creative passion….</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19845582002http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19845582002Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:34:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eizf3GZA1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Walt Whitman’s death-mask…. cast by Thomas Eakins…. a final gesture of respect by the painter for the poet… actually, Eakins cast the entire head, not just the face…. </p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19844915184http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19844915184Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:21:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eijtrFIV1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ezra Pound in England</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19844433895http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19844433895Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:11:53 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ei8wTkcF1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Perhaps this is Pound reclining in Brzeska’s studio as the sculptor worked on his stone portrait of the poet.  Pound wrote, “He was certainly the best company in the world, and some of my best days, the happiest and most interesting, were spent in his uncomfortable mud-floored studio when he was doing my bust.”</p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19844093718http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19844093718Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:05:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ega72Gqp1r6ometo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span">Henri Gaudier-Brzeska …. Ezra Pound was an ardent supporter of Brzeska’s art….. In WWI, Brzeska joined the French army and was sadly killed during a battle….. Pound never recovered from this tragedy…. and it is believed that his anger over Brzeska’s violent death…. man’s needless and cruel wasting of artistic life… contributed to the insanity that overcame him during WWII….</span></p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19841913540http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19841913540Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:22:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1eg725TVv1r6ometo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in 1913 when he met Ezra Pound </p>http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19841817756http://langosy.tumblr.com/post/19841817756Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:21:00 -0400