Pictures I like

[greg]

Awesome art on this page.

[pjme]

The mad woman 1919 - Chaim Soutine

[Kullervo]

Peter, have you studied art? I am always impressed by the breadth of your knowledge; you've also put many artists on my radar that I hadn't known about (e.g. James Ensor, Rik Wouters, and many others).

[Drasko]

Chaim Soutine

making an appearance himself

[Drasko]

And, although I enjoy the series of idealized and hyper-elegant Pre Raphaelite / art Nouveau women...not all women are ethereal fairy-like creatures...

But thankfully some are



Ekaterina Maximova as Katya, The Stone Flower (1959) Photo: Y. Umnov

[Kullervo]

Slightly off the topic at hand, but does anyone have a reasonably-sized image of the series of portraits of Carl Nielsen goofing off for the camera? I've seen it before but can't seem to find it again.

[Wanderer]

I like this one by Lovis Corinth, too:

Which, incidentally, does look amazingly like a Corinthian landscape (the plains before the Isthmus and the mountains of Arcadia in the background).

There's a Dutch Painter, Carel Willink (1900-1983) whose work I like. Here is his "Simeon" from 1939. Evidently a premonition of war. A great atmospheric work.

And this must be Symeon Stylites. Fascinating.

[vandermolen]

Max Beckman 'Departure' German 1932-33.

I find this a moving work despite the gruesomeness of the side panels. The central picture; an anonymous boatman taking the king and his family away (to safety) was painted in Germany before Beckman left for the USA, away from the Nazis. To avoid problems with the Nazi authorities Beckman called it 'Scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest'!

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[J.Z. Herrenberg]

When Harry met Jeffrey - tastes couldn't be more different...

[karlhenning]

Slightly off the topic at hand, but does anyone have a reasonably-sized image of the series of portraits of Carl Nielsen goofing off for the camera? I've seen it before but can't seem to find it again.

I am interested.

[Kullervo]

I'm starting to think Rossetti knew only one facial type.

[karlhenning]

 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I'm starting to think Rossetti knew only one facial type.

Result of a catastrophic shortage of models in (prudish) Victorian England? [half-joking]

[Kullervo]

I am interested.

I can only find one, but there are several others. Has to be the best composer portrait ever  :

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I can only find one, but there are several others. Has to be the best composer portrait ever  :

I know them. They were in the booklet accompanying the Ole Schmidt recordings (LPs), almost 30 years ago. I was very surprised at Nielsen's mimic talent.

[karlhenning]

I have a fondness for composers who can readily not take themselves seriously.  But who don't think they came from another planet; be fair.

[pjme]

I'm starting to think Rossetti knew only one facial type.

See : http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/dgr/paintings/healey12.html


Peter

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I have a fondness for composers who can readily not take themselves seriously.  But who don't think they came from another planet; be fair.

So have I. But I don't get the next sentence, Karl. Who has to 'be fair' about what?

[Dundonnell]

I have a fondness for composers who can readily not take themselves seriously.  But who don't think they came from another planet; be fair.

I love the old anecdote about Richard Strauss, while conducting one of his own compositions, reaching into his waistcoat pocket with his left hand, extracting his watch, looking at the time, and increasing the tempo of the piece because he was late for a game of skat with his buddies

[karlhenning]

So have I. But I don't get the next sentence, Karl. Who has to 'be fair' about what?

Claiming extraterrestrial origins is taking oneself unseriously to a degree for which I cannot feel much fondness, I guess.