Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway is an oil painting by the 19th century British painter J. M. W. Turner.^[1]

This painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844, though it may have been painted earlier.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was one of a number of private British railway companies created to develop the new means of transport. GWR’s aim was initially to connect Bristol with London; its chief engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The location of the painting is widely accepted as Maidenhead Railway Bridge, across the River Thames between Taplow and Maidenhead. The view is looking east towards London. The bridge was designed by Brunel and completed in 1838. The line from London Paddington to Taplow opened in 1838.

The painting is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London, England.

Ok, we have stoped for a week, but we are back and better, this time the theme will be based on a painting, and the aim is to interpert it in your own way.

This week theme is:

Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France with the title Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo.^[1]

The painting is a half-length portrait and depicts a woman whose expression is often described as enigmatic.^[2][3] The ambiguity of the sitter’s expression, the monumentality of the half-figure composition, and the subtle modeling of forms and atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the painting’s continuing fascination.^[1] Few other works of art have been subject to as much scrutiny, study, mythologizing and parody.^[4]

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa)

As the sun is back in our lifes. lets have a crack at it good luck.

The photograph becomes the physical manifestation of this shared moment and theme. If you’d like to contribute to Momentuos, take a photo this Week which reflects the theme “Ruins”.

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is whispered in the ear of the collective conscience. The intention crosses mental and physical maps intersecting at the strongest common denominator: the moment: the same instant, experienced everywhere, in our space-time continuum.

The photograph becomes the physical manifestation of this shared moment and theme. If you’d like to contribute to Momentuos, take a photo this Week which reflects the theme “Height”.

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