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If you have another image of The Magic Circle 1886 You must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have any request to alter your reproduction of The Magic Circle 1886, Each oil painting is created by hand using only the finest canvas and oil paints available. The Certificate of Authenticity which arrives with every painting provides an assurance and verifies the authenticity of the hand painted fine art reproduction you purchased. Real Oil Paints, Real Brushes, Real Artists, Real Art. © 2003 - 2022 - All Rights Reserved, original content, do not copy without permission. In The Magic Circle Waterhouse seems to have created a patchwork reproduction of fragments of myth and legend into a celebration of mystery and beauty. By the end of the century Waterhouse had established a fervent interest in magic and the occult, particularly in the guise of femme fatales, a recurring theme throughout his life. This is a Tate Images licensable image titled The Magic Circle by Tate Images. Beginning first as a painter in the neo-classical style, and attempting to produce true-to-life reproductions of the ancient world through a close attention to archaeological artefacts, Waterhouse began to portray the Classical past through the lens of the everyday. The Magic Circle, John William Waterhouse, 1886, Oil paint on canvas. Although an ambiguous canvas, The Magic Circle is a transitional work painted at a time that Waterhouse, who had begun first as a painter in the neo-classical style, started to portray the mythical world through the lens of the everyday.Īs a young man Waterhouse entered the Royal Academy Schools and at the close of his studies he was already exhibited at the institution’s prestigious annual Summer Exhibition. Yet within the confines of her delineated sphere, objects of beauty flourish. Beyond her the landscape is fraught and ominous, littered with animals and obstacles usually associated with evil or foreboding. A witch-like woman or prophetess, adorned in an ambiguous style, stands bearing a crescent-shaped symbol while drawing a protecting circle around herself. The Magic Circle is an early Waterhouse painting, reflecting the young artist’s love affair with the exotic, orientalised figure.
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