Art that you like

[маразм1]

He went looking for me while I was practicing, he got on top of the table and was slowly limping towards me, to beg for food

So!  I gave him a piece of lettuce which he is enjoying

[Keemun]

Caspar David Friedrich
Cloister Graveyard in the Snow


Vincent van Gogh
The Garden of Saint Paul's Hospital ("The Fall of the Leaves"), 1889


Vincent van Gogh
The Garden of Saint Paul's Hospital, 1889


Patrick St. Germain
Stoic


Claude Monet
Field of Poppies, 1873

[Lethevich]

Can anybody recall the name of that renaissance (or baroque) artist who drew in a deliberately abstract style (with distorted frames and faces of people in portraits) who was considered very bad at the time, but a few centuries later began to be appreciated? I tried Google image search with various keywords but no luck.

[Renfield]

Can anybody recall the name of that renaissance (or baroque) artist who drew in a deliberately abstract style (with distorted frames and faces of people in portraits) who was considered very bad at the time, but a few centuries later began to be appreciated? I tried Google image search with various keywords but no luck.

That is a bit abstract itself, as a description.

(You don't mean "El Greco", do you?)

[Lethevich]

That is a bit abstract itself, as a description.

(You don't mean "El Greco", do you?)

I think that's him (I have a memory of a particularly strange-looking potato-faced man which I couldn't find on Wikipedia commons ), thanks It was a distant memory, so the description was indeed terrible

[Drasko]

I think that's him (I have a memory of a particularly strange-looking potato-faced man which I couldn't find on Wikipedia commons ), thanks It was a distant memory, so the description was indeed terrible

perhaps St.Jerome?

[Lethevich]

perhaps St.Jerome?

Hmm, I don't think so - frankly, I'm beginning to believe that my memory just sucks Glad that I can add another name to list of painters I'm interested in, though.

[Lady Chatterley]

I'd like to read more about Marionetti,didn't he build model cities with food.
Does anyone know the work of Saxton Freymann?

[pjme]

Hi Lethe, maybe you are thinking of "anamorphosis" - see the famous painting by Holbein :

and go to

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/artofanamorphosis/ambassadors-small.jpg

As for "potato-faced man"..I can only think of Ghirlandaio's "Old man with strawbery nose".....



Other wonderful Renaissance pâintings : the series portraits Giuseppe Arcimboldo pâinted

[pjme]

Hi Muriel, can you be more specific? I've never heard about a Marionetti...? The Italian futurist (fascist) F.T. Marinetti perhaps?

"Futurist Marinetti's recipe for carneplastico, "an original dish suggesting the Italian landscape": Surround a tall up right cylinder of minced veal stuffed with eleven vegetables by a ring of sausages draped between large balls of minced chicken. Crown the whole with golden honey."??

Peter

[Lethevich]

That one is kind of scary

[pjme]

See more Arcimboldo at :

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/arcimbol/index.html

[Lethevich]

See more Arcimboldo at :

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/arcimbol/index.html

Thanks I can put a name to one that I had seen before now Hyperion used one on a recent CD cover: http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67640.asp Those things are so surreal - The Water is my favourite.

[Lady Chatterley]

Hi Muriel, can you be more specific? I've never heard about a Marionetti...? The Italian futurist (fascist) F.T. Marinetti perhaps?

"Futurist Marinetti's recipe for carneplastico, "an original dish suggesting the Italian landscape": Surround a tall up right cylinder of minced veal stuffed with eleven vegetables by a ring of sausages draped between large balls of minced chicken. Crown the whole with golden honey."??

Peter

Yes that's the guy,sorry for my poor spelling.His art buffets were legendary.

[Maciek]

I can't believe this thread has been dead since Sept. 2007!!!!!!

[mahler10th]

Well Ressurected!!  

John Atkinson Grimshaw 
1836 - 1893)

My favourite Victorian artist.

The first of a boat on fire off the Yorkshire coast is awesome.  I saw it in Scarborough Art Gallery circa 1995, and as a painting at any gallery I've been to it made the most impression.

The second is used by Graziozo (I think that's his screen name) on these boards as an avatar.  Grimshaw did many paintings of solitary people on long paths and roads, this is just an example of his ability to capture the masterpiece of human isolation.

[Maciek]

Wonderful.

[snyprrr]

my standard answer is

"Watson and the Shark"

[drogulus]

     

[Lethevich]

If we're doing traditional portraits (they get less attention as "quality" art, I find...), I find this one fascinating: