Sunday, 16 June 2013

Father's Day - Art

On this momentous occasion of Father's Day, we'd like to honor all the Dads out there for their guidance, wisdom and love. Just to show how much we care, we've compiled some of our favorite representations of fatherhood in the arts.

The fathers depicted below range from heartwarming to outright bizarre.

What we're trying to say is: Thank you Dads of the world! We realize and appreciate all your hard work, even if we don't say it enough. Enjoy the pics below and have a happy, happy Father's Day!

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Dorothea Lange
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry
1942



Gabriel Decker 
Portrait of a father and his Son
1850
Watercolor on paper



Edgar Degas
Degas' Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans
1869

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA



Peter Paul Rubens 
Saturn, Jupiter's father, devours one of his sons, Neptune
1636-1638
oil on canvas

Prado Museum


Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Creation of Adam
1510

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy



Auguste de Châtillon
Victor Hugo with his son François-Victor (detail)
1836
oil on canvas

Maison de Victor Hugo (Paris) 



William Blake
God Judging Adam

Etching, ink, watercolor



Barthel Bruyn the Elder
Portrait of a Man with Three Sons
1530
oil on canvas

Hermitage Museum 



Eugene Delacroix
Hamlet Sees the Ghost of his Father

1843



Maurycy Gottlieb
Recha Welcoming Her Father. From an incomplete series of illustrations for the play Nathan the Wise.

1877


Francisco Goya
Saturn Devouring His Son
1823



Rembrandt van Rijn
Portrait of Rembrandt's Father



Ford Madox Brown
Lear and Cordelia 
1849-54
Oil on canvas



Vincent van Gogh
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, the Artist's Grandfather
1881



Utagawa Kunisada
Father and Son Members of the Forty Seven Rônin from Chûshingura



Pierre Mignard 
Philippe de France with his favourite daughter Marie Louise (future Queen of Spain)
Date circa 1670
oil on canvas
Palace of Versailles


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