Showing posts with label John Everet Millias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Everet Millias. Show all posts

July 06, 2006

John Everet Millias

John Everet Millais - Ophelia 1851-1852 Tate Gallery, London

How does Millais make drowning seem so beautiful? I grew up looking at this painting in my parents' house and was always captured by it. Maybe it is the nature that surrounds and consumes her that holds my interest...