Pictures I like

[SimonNZ]

Now read the critics reviews.

[JBS]

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[Florestan]

[Mirror Image]

Found on Twitter

Hah. Add in "CDs" and subtract "books" and this would be more true to me.

[Jo498]

Found on Twitter

Did I tell the story when I visited someone after several years and found several rows of book shelving in the tiny guest bathroom? With Latin classics and translations...

[Florestan]

Did I tell the story when I visited someone after several years and found several rows of book shelving in the tiny guest bathroom? With Latin classics and translations...

Cloaca maxima?... 

[JBS]

Hah. Add in "CDs" and subtract "books" and this would be more true to me.

For me it's both.

[Jo498]

Cloaca maxima?... 

rather minima! It's one of these tiny bathrooms where you can reach the wash basin with your hands while sitting on the toilet, windowless (there is a fan for fresh air) But it's an old building, so there is a lot of headspace. Still, it was rather unexpected to have books there.

The selection of books was probably not intentional. When I expressed my surprise, he told me that he could nor resist a bargain that ended up in driving with his trunk full of classic books from Hamburg to where he lives (about 1.5 hours). He already has a study, a living room and half or so of a kid's room (who can't complain, it's very large room) full of bookshelves. (I think his wife's books are in their bedroom)

[Florestan]

rather minima! It's one of these tiny bathrooms where you can reach the wash basin with your hands while sitting on the toilet, windowless (there is a fan for fresh air) But it's an old building, so there is a lot of headspace. Still, it was rather unexpected to have books there.

The selection of books was probably not intentional. When I expressed my surprise, he told me that he could nor resist a bargain that ended up in driving with his trunk full of classic books from Hamburg to where he lives (about 1.5 hours). He already has a study, a living room and half or so of a kid's room (who can't complain, it's very large room) full of bookshelves. (I think his wife's books are in their bedroom)

Nice! My books are also spread all over the place in two homes.

[bhodges]

OK, back to pictures on this thread, please. Thank you.  0:)

--Bruce

[vandermolen]

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by David Hockney.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by David Hockney.

Interesting painting Jeffrey; I just read about it.  I was thrown off though regarding the size of the bed which seemed to me to be way off perspective-wise.  When I tried to find more information about it, it didn't show that to be in the foreground.  Did he paint it a number of times/versions?  I found what looks like to be a photo of the painting and that wasn't there.  Or did someone have this image painted or "wallpapered" (not certain what you would call it) on the wall behind their bed....more likely.  If so, not a good omen! 

Alas, I see that the couple didn't last.



PD

A favorite of mine:



La Danse à Bougival by Renoir  This image really doesn't do it justice though.  You have to see it in person. 

[SimonNZ]

That renibds me of this Doisneau photo of dancers I like:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

That renibds me of this Doisneau photo of dancers I like:

Nice!    Any idea of who the dancers are there? Or where/when it was taken?

PD

[SimonNZ]

Good question. The club Le Vieux Colobier, a cellar bar beneath the Theatre du Vieux Colombier, apparently.

[Sergeant Rock]

That renibds me of this Doisneau photo of dancers I like:

I like this...and the woman could be Mrs. Rock's twin.

Sarge

[vandermolen]

Interesting painting Jeffrey; I just read about it.  I was thrown off though regarding the size of the bed which seemed to me to be way off perspective-wise.  When I tried to find more information about it, it didn't show that to be in the foreground.  Did he paint it a number of times/versions?  I found what looks like to be a photo of the painting and that wasn't there.  Or did someone have this image painted or "wallpapered" (not certain what you would call it) on the wall behind their bed....more likely.  If so, not a good omen! 

Alas, I see that the couple didn't last.



PD

A favorite of mine:



La Danse à Bougival by Renoir  This image really doesn't do it justice though.  You have to see it in person. 

The bed shouldn't be there - my apologies. It's not in the original painting. Here's the image from the Tate Gallery website. I think that they look somewhat estranged in the painting (note the distance between them). Sadly he was eventually murdered:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The bed shouldn't be there - my apologies. It's not in the original painting. Here's the image from the Tate Gallery website. I think that they look somewhat estranged in the painting (note the distance between them). Sadly he was eventually murdered:

Oooh! 

I did read somewhere that he apparently he had numerous affairs.  It is an interesting painting though including an untraditional photography setting and I suspect also in painting in that she was not standing next to him (while he's seated) looking like the devoted wife; yet, as you mentioned, they are distanced and also are looking at the painter/viewer rather like a third person who is included in perhaps not just the room, but maybe also in their marriage (just occurred to me)?  And the cat is off in its own world.  The husband (looking at it again now) seems somewhat sullen(?) and distant; he doesn't even have a hand on the cat.

Anyway, just my thoughts!

PD

[Mirror Image]

Speaking of art, I've always loved this painting by Aleksey Savrasov:



For me, it encapsulates the feeling of longing that is so prevalent in Rachmaninov's music.

[André]

It's gorgeous indeed. At once realistic and impressionist.