Art that you like

pjme · February 11, 2016, 01:55:21 PM

Anto Carte (1886-1954) is a most interesting painter. Very talented and personal. He went to Paris in the roaring twenties and met a.o. Leon Bakst.

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pjme · February 11, 2016, 11:09:23 PM

I see....

Apparently, in the 19th century, he was considered a master and "September morn" was his greatest "succes à scandale". Many French musea possess great collections of now forgotten or despised painters....who do survive untill today printed on t-shirts and posters : Cabanel, Bougereau, ..

I do enjoy the occasinal dose of 19th century flamboyancy and kitschy pomp.

Gaston Bussières has, just like Chabas, a predilection for milky white, marzipan textured, watery nymphs and pagan creatures...

I recently discovered the German Michael Zeno Diemer (1867 - 1939) who left a huge and very diversified oeuvre: from huge canvases and panoramas to small watercolours that were printed as postcards.

North Star · February 25, 2016, 03:17:27 AM

Renoir (born 25th of Feb, 1841)

ComposerOfAvantGarde · February 25, 2016, 03:12:46 PM

My almost 9 year old sister has recently decided she wants to become an artist when she grows up, but has also lost some interest in realism in art......instead she has discovered a whole heap of artists in the 20th century whose work she is very enthusiastic about. This morning she introduced me to a chap called Kandisnky and I find this work very attractive:

She also is a big fan of Pollock and Picasso.

(poco) Sforzando · March 08, 2016, 04:40:37 PM

Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on February 25, 2016, 03:12:46 PM
She also is a big fan of Pollock and Picasso.

As am I. But anyone within even striking distance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY (and that includes you, COAG) should not waste a moment in discovering a wonderful new special exhibit devoted to the 18th century portraits of Vigée le Brun. A female artist in a male-dominated world, her works (particularly her female subjects) exhibit a freshness of composition and coloring that make each of them a mini-event on its own. Just go here for a taste, though the paintings look far better in person:

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/vigee-le-brun

North Star · March 11, 2016, 10:38:50 AM

Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on March 08, 2016, 04:40:37 PM
As am I. But anyone within even striking distance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY (and that includes you, COAG) should not waste a moment in discovering a wonderful new special exhibit devoted to the 18th century portraits of Vigée le Brun. A female artist in a male-dominated world, her works (particularly her female subjects) exhibit a freshness of composition and coloring that make each of them a mini-event on its own. Just go here for a taste, though the paintings look far better in person:

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/vigee-le-brun

Great to hear that Vigée le Brun has a show there. She is indeed a terrific portrait artist.

Meanwhile, here's' something from Rembrandt

Florestan · May 09, 2016, 09:42:19 AM

Petri Ala-Maunus- Sturm und Drang

More by him here: http://galleriaheino.fi/en.php?k=120896

North Star · May 14, 2016, 08:10:58 AM

Happy birthday to Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

The Artist's Daughters (c. 1759)

Ann Ford (later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse), 1760

Portrait of the Composer Carl Friedrich Abel with his Viola da Gamba (c. 1765)

North Star · June 11, 2016, 05:03:24 AM

John Constable (June 11th, 1776 - 1837) - The Hay Wain, 1621

North Star · July 05, 2016, 07:23:03 AM

Dave Heath - Vengeful Sister, Chicago, 1956

North Star · July 07, 2016, 09:46:36 PM

http://howtoseewithoutacamera.tumblr.com/

An interesting collection of photography, mostly b&w, by photographers such as Alex Webb, André Kertész, Ansel Adams, Antoine d'Agata, Ara Güler, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Bruce Davidson, Daido Moriyama, Danny Lyon, Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Elliott Erwitt, Ernst Haas, Ferdinando Scianna, Francesc Català Roca, Fred Boissonnas, Gordon Parks, Henri Cartier Bresson, Herbert List, Jacob Aue Sobol, Josef Koudelka, Leonard Freed, Marc Riboud, Margaret Bourke White, Nikos Economopoulos, Paul Strand, Ralph Gibson, René Burri, Robert Capa, Robert Doisneau, Robert Frank, Saul Leiter, Stephen Shames, Vivian Maier, W. Eugene Smith, Walker Evans, Weegee, William Klein, Willy Ronis, unknown, and many others.

Rinaldo · July 09, 2016, 10:18:05 PM

So much brilliant stuff, you folks are the best! Here's a piece that supposedly made the headlines few years ago but I didn't come across it until now.

Tammam Azzam (with a little help of you-know-who), 'Freedom Graffiti'

The new erato · July 19, 2016, 05:26:30 AM

Quote from: jessop on February 25, 2016, 03:12:46 PM
My almost 9 year old sister has recently decided she wants to become an artist when she grows up, but has also lost some interest in realism in art......instead she has discovered a whole heap of artists in the 20th century whose work she is very enthusiastic about. This morning she introduced me to a chap called Kandisnky and I find this work very attractive:

She also is a big fan of Pollock and Picasso.

I've always liked the playfulness of Kandinsky (and Miro), as well as the grand vistas of Poĺock. Just back from an exremely impressive showing of 60 Edward Hopper pieces from the Whitney museum while vacationing here in Bologna. Superb city BTW!

North Star · July 19, 2016, 01:25:30 PM

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bobsled race – Zissou and Madeleine Thibault in the bobsled, Mme. Folletête,Tatane & Maman Rouzat, September 20, 1911, gelatin silver print, 12 x 16 inches