Visting Gallerys and my chosen piece

This is a break down  of a piece of work i saw at the Manchester gallery visit i went to the other day. We were asked to note down a piece we liked (or thought would have some kind of influence on our work).This is the Artist i chose after seeing his work:

John William Waterhouse:
Hylas and the Nymphs

Piece done around about 1849-1917
Oil on canvas 
Artwork about sirens and nymphs who would entice men to their deaths.The man whom had been lured in by the nymphs was said to have never been found by his friends. The mans name was Hylas.
Myth explaining the drowning of a youth amongst Lily eaves and steam
(This was wrote while going around)
Evocation of sensual female flesh: 
Meaning:Act of calling upon or summoning a spirit,Demon,God or other supernatural ancient.Immersion into the deadly allure of the femme fatal.

My thoughts on this piece (while visiting it);Seeing it in the flesh was interesting as it was located in what could only be described as the worst place possible ( this was quite a surprise as it was in quite a well know gallery that being Manchester ).Being in such a bad place gave the image a strange halo around it and also quite a strange shine which really subtracted form the actual beauty which was the image.But while over all it could have been seen as all negative it was good as it drilled it into me that no piece of work is as perfect as the intervener will make it out to be. A computer screen can really never show the picture in its true light. One last thing to note was other pieces of work in the same room had similar issues with presentation (as most were up higher near the lights). I asked my class mates and they said similar to me.Here are some of there opinions:
"Suppose it couldn't be helped but it was off putting,because of the height you couldn't see it, and the glare of the lights didn't help" -Beth 2016
"I would move the picture down to give it more visualisation and more of a close up so you can see more of the detail,there will be some artists who want to see how the artist have mad ether affects on bits of the piece" Vicky 2016


John William Waterhouse research:
A painter who was working in the Pre Raphaelites style.He continued to work this way several years after the Pre raphaelites of the Brotherhood.His known works were Ophelia,The lady of Shallot,And Hylas and the Nymphs (which was the piece i saw in the Manchester art gallery the first time i went).
He borrowed stylistic influences from the early  Pre raphaeleite brothers who worked along side him at that time (many like william hunt,Dante rosseti, and also John Millias) who were known as the Impressionisnt.
His Artwork was known for Depicting Women from Ancient Greek mythology and also Arthurian legend. It was thought that much of his work was influenced by the fact he had lived i nItaly which had been suggested to be his key influences of his paintings (bing set in rome and which base scenes which had been taken from Roman mythology.
Later on in his artistic life he began to embrace the pre raphaelites style of painting ,Although the style had apparently gone out of the style had gone out of style by this time,In the british art scene several decades before.
Some of his work i feel i should look at include such paintings as: The lady of Shallot,Opelia,Circle invidiosa, Hylas with a Nymph, A female study, Juliet, Destiny, The mermaid.


Influences including sirens/Water nymphs:
Latin Mythology is a minor female nature  deity typically associated with  particular location or landform.Nymphs are different from Goddess in the way that they are generally regarded as a divine spirit who animates nature and are seen as being beautiful, young maidens who would love to dance and sing.The forms they took set them apart from the restricted and plain house wives from back then and daughters of the greens of time.
Nymphs were known for dwelling in the mountains regions and forests which would usually be located near streams.They would never die of old age(though they were said not to be immortal and could still die if they were to be injured) unlike the children they could produce(if they were to mate with a god or powerful being). below are some images done of said nymphs:

"Hylas & Water Nymphs" Henrietta Rae
Nymphs, (or Nymphai), are nature spirits. There are three main types of Nymphs: Dryads, Nereides, and Oreads. Dryads are tree Nymphs. Nereides are water Nymphs. Oreads are mountain Nymphs. Meliades are Nymphs of Ash Trees.

Piece explained above(used for a close up).

Links:
http://www.oocities.org/tamboura20/Nymphs.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymph
Both links are useful and should be used as references for names and dates if needed.

Well known Nymphs went by the names:
Charybdis:Who was known for being a sea monster,later found to be called a whirlpool.
Scylla: Who was a madian with a tail which would have been seen on a Ketos and also had dog heads sprouting from her body. This was seen in many ancient descriptions through others spoke about her being land based and looking more like a dragon(though this was just speculation)
 Dionysus:God of the Vine,Grape,Harvest,Religious ecstasy.

Below is from said link and explains the Pleiades better than i attempted to in my notes i have out a link and will be rewrotin g this in the future:

The Pleiades
There were seven Pleiades, and you can find them when you look in the sky (they are stars).
They were the daughters of Pleione and Atlas (son of Iapetus, the Titan, and Clymene, the Sea Nymph).Their names sometimes vary among mythographers, but are usually limited to seven in number [the number of visible (to the naked eye) stars in the constellation Pleiades (in Taurus)], but all of the following are among those named at one time or another. Their name means "flock of doves".
The seven most named as Pleiades are the following:
Alcyone
Also called Halcyone or Halcyon. Alcyone had a daughter, Aethusa, and two sons, Hyperenor and Hyrieus, by Poseidon.
Celaeno
By Zeus, she bore Lycus and Eurypylus.
Electra
Gave birth to Dardanus, by Zeus.
Maia
She is the mother of Hermes. She was the oldest and most beautiful of the sisters
Merope
She is the seventh and least visible of the stars in the constellation Pleiades; the "shy sister" or "Lost Pleiad". Supposedly she is
hiding in shame for being the only sister to have a mortal lover (Sisyphus). She bore Sisyphus sons Glaucus, Ornytion, and 
Sinon.
Sterope
In some stories she bore Oenomaus, by Ares.
Taygeta (Taygete)
Begot, by Zeus, Lacedæmon, founder of Sparta. In some versions of the story, she was unwilling to yield to Zeus, and was
disguised by Artemis as a hind to elude him; but he eventually caught her and coupled with her, whereupon she gave birth to
Lacedæmon. She hanged herself in shame