Pontormo

[Rikard]

I just watched a video from the Florence Academy of Arts. It's a talk about Drawing. In it, the presenter said that if he could pick one draughtsman to collect he would pick Pontormo. I never really looked at his drawings before. He sure has a quirky and interesting style. A mannerist with just enough manners to appeal to me.
Here is the video:

And here are a few of his drawings:

And I also really like him as a colorist:

 

[stlukesguild]

I quite admire Pontormo... and his drawings are marvelous:

One of art school painting professors had spent a sabbatical in Italy. I forget if he was in Florence or Rome but in either case he had the chance to examine a portfolio of Pontormo's drawings up close. They simply had him sit in a locked room and gave him the volume to peruse. He said that you couldn't see the folios of drawings by Michelangelo or Raphael in this manner, but he was able to see the drawings of Pontormo and Correggio sitting right in front of him.

I agree that Pontormo was a marvelous painter and a brilliant colorist.

He was indeed one of the finest of the Mannerists.

 

[Rikard]

What an absolute treat for the art professor. It's sad that not more of his drawings have survived. And I love his colouring even more now. Look at the colours of the wings in the last image. Wonderful.

 

[stlukesguild]

Notice the triad of secondary colors on the Virgin's head: reddish-orange hair, the bluish-green shawl that changes into violet on the shadowed side.

 

[joe1It]

I love Pontormo

 

[Enyaw]

The distorted view of the head stands out. The man’s neck looks about a foot and a half as if you had an insect view. His color is quite light and lively.

 

[Rikard]

The distorted view of the head stands out. The man’s neck looks about a foot and a half as if you had an insect view. His color is quite light and lively.

Indeed. I wonder if long necks have a deeper meaning than just the aesthetic one. The separation between the mind and the flesh maybe?