Pictures I like

[dissily Mordentroge]

I think that about jokes I don't get too.

How about this one :-

[SimonNZ]

[Mirror Image]

I think this painting from Alexei Savrasov captures the essence of Rachmaninov's music:

[dissily Mordentroge]

"Argument in the Monestary" Gustav Doré.

[steve ridgway]

"Argument in the Monestary" Gustav Doré.

Dore was great at imagining these fantastic scenes and drawing them realistically, they're very believable .

[dissily Mordentroge]

Dore was great at imagining these fantastic scenes and drawing them realistically, they're very believable .

I particularly like that one due to my contempt for various branches of theology.

[Florestan]

I think this painting from Alexei Savrasov captures the essence of Rachmaninov's music:

Rachmaninoff is not always that bleak.

Sometimes he's like this:



Other times, like this:



And even this:



Anyway, nice find.

[steve ridgway]

I particularly like that one due to my contempt for various branches of theology.

Ha yes, I have visited the Victorian Gothic John Rylands Library in Manchester and looked in amazement at an entire room filled with old books on theology, wondering how many would ever be looked at again .

[dissily Mordentroge]

Worry not, there'll be an obscure PH D written on something like 'Sin that Results in Physical Death in The Old Testament" or 'The Concept of the Kingdom' requiring a detailed familiarity with that lot.

[dissily Mordentroge]

Whilst on matters theological, I'm rather fond to this.

[steve ridgway]

Whilst on matters theological, I'm rather fond to this.

That's nice, it's even got Her Holiness Princess Diana in it 0:). It reminds me of some of the collage Tarot decks.

[Ken B]

[Mirror Image]

Rachmaninoff is not always that bleak.

Sometimes he's like this:



Other times, like this:



And even this:



Anyway, nice find.

No, he's not always bleak, but, honestly, I don't think that painting I posted above is 'bleak'. I actually find it starkly beautiful and, for this listener, Rachmaninov's music in it's most melancholic expressive state is the real Rachmaninov. The feeling of yearning permeates much of his music whether intentional or not.

[Ken B]

No, he's not always bleak, but, honestly, I don't think that painting I posted above is 'bleak'. I actually find it starkly beautiful and, for this listener, Rachmaninov's music in it's most melancholic expressive state is the real Rachmaninov. The feeling of yearning permeates much of his music whether intentional or not.

You would like Mysakovsky perhaps.

[Florestan]

No, he's not always bleak, but, honestly, I don't think that painting I posted above is 'bleak'.

Honestly, at first sight  it appeared to me as bleak.

Full disclosure: I love sunshine and summer and I can't stand rain/snow and deep winter.

I actually find it starkly beautiful

It is, absolutely it is. I never  heard about Alexei Savrasov before and that's why I said it was a nice find. But in my book there's no contradiction between beautiful and bleak. Beauty is truth and truth is beauty --- and truth is not always pleasant.

for this listener, Rachmaninov's music in it's most melancholic expressive state is the real Rachmaninov. The feeling of yearning permeates much of his music whether intentional or not.

I agree, but then again could you give us an example of false --- as opposed to real ---  Rachmaninov?

[vandermolen]

I think this painting from Alexei Savrasov captures the essence of Rachmaninov's music:

+1 also this one (Isaac Levitan 'Eternal Rest') which I first came across as the painting on the LP of Walter Weller's (excellent) recording of Rachmaninov's First Symphony:

[dissily Mordentroge]

Kiprensky 'The Young Gardener'

[Ken B]

I like J.M.W. Turner paintings









What I like about his work, is the abstract nature of the paintings.  He seems to have been ahead of his time, since his period of activity was the mid-19th century.

He was popular and admired in his own time. Ruskin was a champion. That sounds like a man of his time not "ahead" of it.

[dissily Mordentroge]

At a Turner exhibition in Melbourne I was stunned by the brilliance of his etchings which somehow get forgotten as an important portion of his work.

[Karl Henning]

I like J.M.W. Turner paintings









What I like about his work, is the abstract nature of the paintings.  He seems to have been ahead of his time, since his period of activity was the mid-19th century.

Yes, impressionism avant la lettre.