So, the painting is in the shape of a wide arch and it's on a white background, surely for a particular frame which must have been beautfiul. The painting is mostly green and brown. It's a girl floating on a narrow waterway between the reeds, greenery floating on the water and the overhanging bushes, she is surrounded by flora. The shallow water is clear over the brown riverbed and an overhanging dead log mirrors the colour. The girl is young, pale and beautiful. She's wearing a pale, orbate dress which is mostly submerged and spread out in the water, but the bodice is covered in pearls and decoration. She gazez up at the sky and her mouth is open. One hand pokes up out of the water, relaxed, palm up in expression. The other clutches a colourful string of flowers? Blooms in yellow, white, red, blue, pink and purple seem to be woven together by the stems (and coming apart) and she's clutching the assemblage in one hand. She is horizontal in the water in front of us with her head to our left and her feet to our right. From Wiki: "Ophelia is an 1851–52 painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. It depicts Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(painting)
Ophelia by John Everett Millais, 1852. #art #romantic #preraphaelite #artnouveau #shakespeare #hamlet #medieval #medievalism #preraph #kelmscott #Millais #fantasy #painting #illustration
