HOME | DD
jkrolak — The Kiss
#centaur #centauress #centaurette
Published: 2019-11-01 20:00:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1739; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 0
Redirect to original
Description
From my physical art collection / reposted with permission of the original artistSeen in numerous magazines, portfolios, and prints, The Kiss shows Lela's centaur work at its best.
Art by: Lela Dowling
Related content
Comments: 16
I've seen this drawing before, and it is one of my favorites. The one gripe I have towards the original artist is that she has never done one where the centauride is courting a regular biped humanoid male.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
1) Lela hates that term. It sounds like a taxi cab or what a cowboy might try to do. The preferred English term is centauress or centaurette.
2) As for the later, she wouldn't be overly interested in most cases. Oh sure the top half looked interesting enough. But the hindquarters needed work.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
She might hate that term, but it is the correct term; it's the original Greek word for it. I think it's not supposed to be pronounced (-eye'd) but rather "ee-deh."
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
No it's not. Check in the dictionary. It's not even listed.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Kentau…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centauri…
pantheon.org/articles/c/centau…
How about these?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
How about Disney Fantasia
Also Ette and ESS are the standard method of making a masculine term feminine, ver Websters Distionary
Those are not authoritative sources on the English language. And the one agreed with me "or centauresses are female centaurs "
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
The word "centaurette" was invented by Disney when that movie came out; the word "centauride" has been in existence since classical antiquity.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
And what of HOMER, Illiad and Oddesy? The term cerntauride doesn't appear ANYWHERE in classic mythology. Per your same article.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It was actually by Philostratus of Lemnos that wrote of them, during the Roman occupation of Greece; much later than the Iliad and the Odyssey. It's in a publication made by Philostratus the Elder that was titled "Imagines."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philostr…
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I love this image. Direct favorites and file references.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Definitely one of her best. Lela always did a fantastic job on centaurs.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Do you ever have a color check?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I'm not sure if I have a colored version, although I think I once saw one. But I've a very deep pile of work left to scan, so maybe one will turn up in my collection.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you I hope it is like that.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
one of her best work! I have a number of her works
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Hopefully more of mine will be posted before the end of the year.
But I agree. I often find myself comparing others to her standard when looking at centaur art.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0