John William Waterhouse's First Mermaids

The art is a one of the method to express an idea. In this essay, I found two artists which direct my attention to their masterpieces. Initially, I liked both of them which make me ask questions along with starting a lot of research in order to find the meaning about “why they are choosing to do this specifically type of artwork”. This is just the beginning, what comes next will really please you. For me, the first amazing artwork is made by the artist John William Waterhouse. He was born in April 6th 1849 in Rome, Italy and was died February 10th 1917 in London England. He was an English painter recognized for creating the Pre-Raphaelite style. His artworks were identified by their representations of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend. His painting was inspired from the first mermaids in ancient cultures which they were loved and worshiped as gods and goddesses and appeared in mythology between the periods of 700 B.C. to 1000 B.C. (The reverse of a coin of Demetrius …show more content…
Afterward, he finished his significant Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and he co-founded the popular surf wear company, Maui & Sons. In his painting (picture 3), he depicts the mythology figure of mermaid with a graphing design technique. In John William Waterhouse's oil painting “A Mermaid”, the artist creates a setting of outstanding and amazing eroticism and attractiveness by illustrating an appealing, voluptuous young female in the form of a mermaid upon the beach of a rocky cove. The same idea was expressed in Rielveld painting as well. Unlike Waterhouse, Rielveld focuses more about the surrounding of the mermaid including the clown fish and the angel’s wings which totally different from what Waterhouse paints as a specific scene from literature or mythology here, but one derived from imagination or local