Modus Vivendi

Painting \ Uncategorized | 05/02/06 @687 | Jori | critiques (16) | views (1676)

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A photograph of the past.

With Modus Vivendi, I wanted to depict the roman way of life: bathing on thermae like those ones was certainly one of the most important aspects of the daily life in those days. You can see those fictional thermae (roman baths), but historically quite accurate: they could have done it. I used a lot of references, mainly those done by XIX century architect Viollet le Duc, as he reconstructed in pictures the ancient Baths of Caracalla (early III century). Those thermae are not as impressive as the Caracalla’s ones, but we should think that those characters you see here lived essentially on roman province!

Print available here: http://www.deviantart.com/print/126903/

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theClairvoyant

05/02/06 @696

Foot looks bonkers.

Im not a fan of the anime style.

But seriously that background and architecture is amazing.

and for the excellent execution of that alone, and i doing a rare thing : 6+ . Seriously nice work on the background

loneorbit

05/02/06 @710

I agree with Clairvoyant on the backround, nice execution.

Diane

05/02/06 @730

Nice work, the bg is perfect! The skintones are not variated enough though, adding some cold colours for the shading would be better (blue, purple, green....). The feet look off.
Overall, great painting!
+8

Juro

05/02/06 @771

This shows effort and skill, good work.

shadowlord

05/02/06 @786

this is great. Beautiful colors and scenary.

Daykan

05/02/06 @787

amazing work!! great colours!

WarrenLouw

05/02/06 @791

this is awesome! i love it! my only real problem is the feet, but other than that its great

Tommyguns

05/02/06 @808

Now that's amazing! Beautiful job! +10/10

Tommyguns

RizzoMattos

05/02/06 @813

i like how most of the things are the same tones here.
I like your style

Great one

lolita

05/02/06 @819

a bit more work on the feet, otherwise stunning, special the bg

Kaduflyer

05/02/06 @821

Unlike some here I have nothing against anime when done well...however I don't think the style fits the theme to well here...the figures have a modern feel and seem to clash with the ancient architecture so I don't feel transported back to the Rome of old but rather a modern recreation of that place.

This shows great draftsmanship but tonally it's a little drab....you should check out the work of the victorian artist Alma Tadema who's ersatz classical paintings fairly burst with light and bright colour to the point where you feel the need to squint to protect your eyes.

Valera

05/02/06 @882

Great work!
I love the perspective +10

Jori

05/03/06 @127

Oh thanks for your comments

I do know really really well Sir Alma Tadema, and I also know the main crits that contemporean fellow academicians gave to him: "your characteres lacks of life".

What I tryed to accomplish here, it's to make "alive" ancient Rome, I do know that the combination of my modern style of drawing characters could clash whith ancient architecture, but in another hand... why not?

Thanks for the tips about the feet and the coloured shadows

pegahoul

05/03/06 @232

great pic! I love the background!

deandude

05/03/06 @743

that background is SICK....I actually said "holy sh*t" out loud...lol +9

ChelliChan

05/11/06 @861

Yeah, the feet are a little weird, but very very awesome.

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