i thought this would be nice thread.
basically, post art. because art kicks ass
and what better way to start, than with raphael
(http://www.valentina.com/images/galatea.gif)
The nymph Galatea
c. 1512-14
god, the composition is so perfect. i think i like raphael most of all at the moment. there's such purity in his line
little angel at left top is funny
I thought this was supposed to be a porn thread :P
get your mind out of the gutter
(http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Italian%20Images/images/Firenze/Medici%20Files/Raphael-LeoX-BR.jpg)
Raphe's portrait of Leo X raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawks!
Quote from: The Emperor on April 06, 2007, 02:47:50 PM
I thought this was supposed to be a porn thread :P
ohh, you mean porn is art for you ? you are sick.
Quote from: facehuggerie on April 06, 2007, 02:50:11 PM
ohh, you mean porn is art for you ? you are sick.
It was a joke, don't worry ;)
porn
art
it depends purely on the audience, it depends how one perceives it.
porn can be art, art can be porn.
oh shut up
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I like this. what is it?
Quote from: The Emperor on April 06, 2007, 02:47:50 PM
I thought this was supposed to be a porn thread :P
Actually, there are many art historians who say that paintings like the first Raphael in the thread were the 16th century's equivalent of a Playboy centerfold. In the Renaissance, a naked female chest as well as an ankle were very provocative and arousing. These weren't works that were displayed in a room where guests (and particularly ladies) were entertained, but rather were saved for the private apartments of the owners who commissioned them.
You should do a little reading about Raphael's life. He was quite the bon vivant: He was no stranger to wine and women and over indulgence in the two probably contributed to his early demise. Start your reading with Giorgio Vasari (
The Lives of the Artists) who actually lived at a time when many of Raphael's contemporaries were still alive. He wrote that Rafael's death was the result of a night of sexual excess with his mistress. >:D
Music is art. ;D
Quote from: Bunny on April 06, 2007, 05:58:23 PM
Actually, there are many art historians who say that paintings like the first Raphael in the thread were the 16th century's equivalent of a Playboy centerfold. In the Renaissance, a naked female chest as well as an ankle were very provocative and arousing. These weren't works that were displayed in a room where guests (and particularly ladies) were entertained, but rather were saved for the private apartments of the owners who commissioned them.
You should do a little reading about Raphael's life. He was quite the bon vivant: He was no stranger to wine and women and over indulgence in the two probably contributed to his early demise. Start your reading with Giorgio Vasari (The Lives of the Artists) who actually lived at a time when many of Raphael's contemporaries were still alive. He wrote that Rafael's death was the result of a night of sexual excess with his mistress. >:D
there are plenty of pornographic statues left by the romans for the sole purpose to arouse.
Quote from: facehugger on April 06, 2007, 04:33:03 PM
I like this. what is it?
which one ?
1st and last one : -
2nd-3rd-4th-5th : -
all of them
thanks!
:)
Quote from: mahlertitan on April 06, 2007, 10:10:23 PM
there are plenty of pornographic statues left by the romans for the sole purpose to arouse.
You should also check out the grafitti from Pompeii. There are books devoted to the erotic art found there, but that's got little to do with Raphael of Urbino who lived before the discovery of Pompeii. While the Renaissance artists tried to associate themselves to the Classical tradition through the use of heroic nudes, they also produced numbers of nudes that were centerfold art by using classical themes. Titian's Venus of Urbino, for instance, was not a painting that would have been displayed in the salon but rather something a gentleman would keep in his bed room or private office. It's actually a portrait of a famous courtesan, but by describing the painting as a picture of Venus, it gains some respectability. Similarly, all of those allegorical paintings of Venus and Mars also skirted the boundaries between respectability and obscenity. To see how art became more and more provacative over time, merely compare Botticelli's Venus and Mars to the later painting by Veronese. It clearly was not necessary to paint Venus unclothed to illustrate the allegory.
Titian, Venus of Urbino
(http://www.abm-enterprises.net/urbinovenus.jpg)
Botticelli, Venus and Mars
(http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/91/NG915/eNG915.jpg)
Veronese, Venus and Mars
(http://www.wga.hu/art/v/veronese/z_other/mars_ven.jpg)
The Titian example above is an instance of the painting being designed to communicate with the viewer. The model is looking out at the observer who can read what 'he' wants into the expression on her face. Very much a piece designed to be looked at in private.
Mike
oh wow, wtf
Yes, and the actions of the figures in the background are equally enigmatic. The servants, both clothed offer a strange contrast with the reclining figure, especially the girl on her knees with her head buried in the cabinet under what I believe is a window seat. The scene is extremely intimate.
The Veronese on the other hand is less mysterious. The allegory, that love disarms (or conquers) war, is didactically illustrated by Botticelli. Veronese instead shows Venus nude (vulnerable) while Mars retains his armor. Cupid may be uniting them in symbolic marriage (note the garter he fastens around the legs of both Mars and Venus), but even Venus' symbolic offering of her breast (the milk of human kindness, as it were) is not motherly but provocative. The very sexual nature of the scene is further enhanced by Mars who carefully drapes Venus's lower body, shielding it from the view of the childlike Cupid. It is a scene filled with contradictions. The allegory is given token representation by the putto carelessly playing with the sword, seemingly offering it to the still armed horse, with the stone satyr/atlante looking on. While this painting is grander in scale than the Titian, it has too many intimate features for more public display.
Quote from: facehugger on April 07, 2007, 01:01:28 PM
oh wow, wtf
Illustrations of deadly sins were always strange. The nude is holding a mirror, the symbol of vanity. She is flanked by death and Hell; I think the lesson is very clear. The back of the triptych shows Salvation flanked by the arms of the patron who commissioned the work, and a skull as another symbol of the impermanence of earthly life.
(http://www.wga.hu/art/m/memling/3mature4/26vani2.jpg) (http://www.wga.hu/art/m/memling/3mature4/26vani2.jpg)
Edvard Munch:
(http://www.edvard-munch.com/Paintings/love/ashes_3.jpg)
Ashes (1894)
(http://www.edvard-munch.com/Paintings/love/jealousy_3.jpg)
Jealousy (1895)
i like E.Hooper, and Dali.
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/e/ea/Sadko.jpg)
Sadko!
according to Duchamp art is useful too!
(http://www.westga.edu/~emorton/2202/Marcel%20Duchamp%20fountain.JPG)
Hopper Exhibit opens at MFA Boston on 6 May (http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&subkey=2144)
I saw an exhibition of his work last year, I was surprised by it. Having seen the occasional reproduction, I had gained the impression he had been recording The American Dream. However, seeing a broader range of his pieces, it struck me he was often portraying loneliness and alienation.
Superb work, several I would have liked to smuggle home.
(http://www.poster.net/hopper-edward/hopper-edward-nighthawks-3600242.jpg)
(http://www.poster.net/hopper-edward/hopper-edward-new-york-office-2801220.jpg)
Mike
I love his color and composition. I might wish only that he drew figures better, Mike.
For stylized figures, you've got to love Tamara de Lempicka:
(http://www.poster.net/de-lempicka-tamara/de-lempicka-tamara-girl-in-a-green-dress-1930-2802829.jpg)
Although, come to think of it, that left arm of hers seems a bit hefty for her figure, generally . . . .
Yes Karl, that arm does look a little baloon-like and odd in relation to the very sculptured look of the rest of the painting, almost cubist.
Mike
(http://www.kmska.be/uploadedImages/_RotatingImages/mod_6.jpg)
Rik Wouters 1882-1916)
(http://users.swing.be/sw327902/titres/wouters.jpg)
Jean Fouquet's extraordinary Madonna ( ca 1420 -1450)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e7/Fouquet_Madonna.jpg/200px-)
Quote from: knight on April 09, 2007, 07:28:33 AM
Yes Karl, that arm does look a little baloon-like and odd in relation to the very sculptured look of the rest of the painting, almost cubist.
Mike
But then dear Tamara is the queen of (sexy - Hollywoodian) cubism!
That Fouquet Madonna is the cover for the Taschen Gothic title.
Quote from: pjme on April 09, 2007, 07:37:45 AM
But then dear Tamara is the queen of (sexy - Hollywoodian) cubism!
Well, I wonder, perhaps synthetic cubism, soft cubism....art deco. She had quite a range over the years and this earlish example is as close to actual Cubism as she seemed to come, though perhaps this is even closer....the curls on the head.
(http://www.goodart.org/tdlslee.jpg)
But in general although there are elements of Cubism there, I do feel she combined the style with a more rounder sculptural aspect.
Mike
The Fouquet painting is here in the Museum ( Antwerp Fine arts) - Fascinating work !
Rik Wouters left a rich legacy -although he died at age 33. beautiful portraits & interiors. he was also a great sculptor :
(http://www.antwerpen.be/pics/Stad/Bedrijven/Cultuur_sport_recreatie/CS_Musea/Middelheim.jpg?hid=img;mxh=400;mxw=400)
" het zotte geweld" ( Wouter's wife Nel - crazy violence - extatic exuberance is propably a better translation)
(http://www.galitzfineart.com/images/Products/lempicka%20woman%20in%20blue%20w%20guitar_720.jpg)
Lovely work, though I wonder (as with De Chirico) if she did not go back to the same well a few times too many. She succeeded better at freshness, though, than Giorgio, I think.
She definitely was a very talented craftswoman - and had a knack for rich admirers & patrons , ca 1940-1950. But with the advent of Abstract Expressionism (growing old herself...), she was quickly forgotten. only in the 1970ies she was rediscovered - gradually becoming an icon of "good taste & wealth". Her late work ,as shown in "Passion by design" by Kizette de Lempicka, is still well made, but lesss individual.
Quote from: pjme on April 09, 2007, 07:59:33 AM
She definitely is a very talented craftswoman -
Absolutely.
Profound expressionism by George Grosz:
Suicide (1916)
(http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grosz/grosz6.jpg)
Explosion (1917)
(http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grosz/grosz5.JPG)
Cain, or, Hitler in Hell (1944)
(http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grosz/grosz29.JPG)
Quote from: Siedler on April 09, 2007, 08:59:51 AM
Profound expressionism by George Grosz:
Suicide (1916)
(http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grosz/grosz6.jpg)
Explosion (1917)
(http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grosz/grosz5.JPG)
Cain, or, Hitler in Hell (1944)
(http://www.abcgallery.com/G/grosz/grosz29.JPG)
I can't see these images.
Neither can I..But then one of the images I uploaded disappeared again. Will remedy later.
(http://www.davidzwirner.com/resources/23719/2005%20TUYLU0238.200.jpg)
luc tuymans is a belgian artist gaining steadily recognition. He had a big show in London/Tate Modern last year.
(http://www.practise.co.uk/artwork/tate-tuymans-poster.jpg)
I like art that makes my brain hurt. The surrealistic style is one of my favorites. Here is a famous example: Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory". I have a poster of this one hanging in my cubicle at work.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg)
Heather
Surrealism,I like Frida Khalo
speaking of surrealism, has anyone seen any of Bunuel's Films? aren't they simply brilliant?
I dunno what exactly people look for in paintings but the one artist I like is gustave caillebotte. I have no idea how to say his name but he has a few things I like. This is my favorite
Heres another I adore.
I'm a BIG art lover...hhmm, so many to choose from. :D
I like to support contemporary artists and have made some great finds on the site AbsoluteArts.com (http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolio/medium.html)
I really like the UK artist Ulrich Osterloh (http://www.absolutearts.com/ulrich/):
Here's his piece "Cosmic Music" (I adore that name!) from 1997:
(http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolio3/u/ulrich/Cosmic_Music-1161950838.jpg)
And "Icon Mother and Son" (1997)
(http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolio3/u/ulrich/Icon_Mother_and_Son-1029102745.jpg)
That wispy image of the mother holding her child is sublime. All his abstract stuff is gorgeous, full of vivid, liquid color.
Another big fav is Berge Missakian (http://www.nonstopmissakian.com/Default.htm), a Canadian artist, who always features musical instruments in his bright whimisical Cubist paintings:
"Blue Jazz for Matisse"
(http://www.nonstopmissakian.com/popG1-5_fichiers/g1-5.jpg)
"Stan's Afternoon Jazz"
(http://www.nonstopmissakian.com/popG1-2_fichiers/g1-2.jpg)
And his prices really aren't bad! If I had some extra money lying around, I'd surely buy one of those. ;)
Mozart (or should I call you Wolfgang? ;D), I loved that On the Champs Elysees!
Actually, I liked all of the paintings posted so far. :D Thanks, everyone!
I'm not a particular fan of academic art (though I do like some of it) but a recent series of Acte Préalable CD covers has brought back to me the Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki (who is reproduced in most school textbooks, so people like me quickly learn to ignore him ;)).
I now particularly like his two paintings of Christ.
Christ and the Samaritan Woman (a slightly earlier version of this exists, from 1885, but it is far inferior):
(http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Siemiradzki/Images/Chrystus_i_Samarytanka_2.jpg)
And Christ in the House of Martha and Mary:
(http://www.abcgallery.com/S/semiradsky/semiradsky39.jpg)
You can see more of his paintings here (http://artyzm.com/e_artysta.php?id=602), here (http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Siemiradzki/Index.htm), here (http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Siemiradzki/Siemiradzki_2.htm), and here (http://www.abcgallery.com/S/semiradsky/semiradsky.html).
Also Strange Garden by Józef Mehoffer (quarter of a century younger) is quite an exquisite painting:
(http://www.mnw.art.pl/gfx/muzeum/pl/default_opisy.v2/237/2/1/1867637743.jpg)
Maciek
Quote from: Siedler on April 09, 2007, 02:44:18 PM
Let me try again. :-\
Siedler,
I think you would like this CSO presentation about Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin.
http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=15,3
(http://inillotempore.com/blog/images/The_Apotheosis_of_Thomas_Aquinas.jpg)
Malczewski, Jacek (Polish, 1858-1929)
(http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/m/malczewski5.jpg)
Hi Maciek, the 19th century definitely gave rise to some very strange artists in Poland....But, then we have melancholy Fernand Khnopff, crazy Antoine Wiertz ( his house/museum lies in the shadow of the European Commission headquarters...) and Félicien Rops, the "érotomane"...
Fernand Khnopff
La caresse
(http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/upload/thumb/5/52/640px-Khnopff-caresses.JPG)
Antoine Wiertz
Premature burial
(http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19th/belgian/wiertz_burial.jpg)
Félicien Rops
"Pornocratès"
(http://www.ciger.be/rops/tech/drawing/images/pornokrates.jpg)
Love the St. Thomas, Danny!
Peter, yours are great too!
Malczewski is something of a cult figure to many people here. I'm not one of them, though. But I do like a couple of his paintings (if you like them, there are many more here (http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Index.htm)):
Melancholy
(http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Melancholia.jpg)
Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa
(http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Don_Kichot.jpg)
Death
(http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Smierc_1.jpg)
The Rusalkas
(http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Rusalki.jpg)
My Angel, I will follow you
(http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Aniele.jpg)
Landscape with Tobias
(http://www.pinakoteka.zascianek.pl/Malczewski_J/Images/Krajobraz_z_Tobiaszem.jpg)
Maciek
Check this out.
http://www.imanmaleki.com/en/Galery/
Harry, we already have this thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,43.0.html)!
I like the second one, BTW. Who is it by?
Maciek
Quote from: MrOsa on April 13, 2007, 03:58:49 PM
I like the second one, BTW. Who is it by?
Maciek
William Bouguereau.
And damn it for having a thread already. Time to post there...
http://www.imanmaleki.com/en/Galery/
Quote from: MrOsa on April 13, 2007, 03:58:05 PM
Harry, we already have this thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,43.0.html)!
O dear, teaches me to look better, which I did, but somehow I missed it................
I can merge the topics, if you like.
Quote from: MrOsa on April 14, 2007, 01:45:53 AM
I can merge the topics, if you like.
That would be best yes!
Thanks! :)
Done. :)
My favourite artist, Wassily Kandinsky:
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:4uuw7yPt0segLM:http://manuel.cerezo.name/archives/kandinsky%2520Composicion%2520VII.jpg)
Picasso with probably the first truly modern painting:
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ivpq6w_AYTyN7M:http://www.moma.org/collection/conservation/demoiselles/images/demoiselles_FINAL.jpg)
Also, Manet's Olympia, which caused uproar and was rejected by the Salon in 1863:
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/images/olympia.jpg)
Quote from: O Mensch on April 11, 2007, 12:02:57 PM
Siedler,
I think you would like this CSO presentation about Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin.
http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=15,3
Thanks, Mensch!
Quote from: Egebedieff on April 14, 2007, 04:40:49 AM
One of my favorite Turner paintings, "The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up " The ship was damaged at the Battle of of Trafalgar. Turner painted it twice, this one years later when it when it was being scrapped, all in keeping with Turner's fascination with the decay of great things.
When I saw the painting (rather than in a book) in the National Gallery, it reminded me of James Brown's cape routine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown#The_cape_routine
(http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/turner/paintings/temeraire.jpg)
The picture reminds me of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
Quote from: Anne on April 14, 2007, 08:11:10 AM
Quote from: Egebedieff on April 14, 2007, 04:40:49 AM
One of my favorite Turner paintings, "The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up " The ship was damaged at the Battle of of Trafalgar. Turner painted it twice, this one years later when it when it was being scrapped, all in keeping with Turner's fascination with the decay of great things.
When I saw the painting (rather than in a book) in the National Gallery, it reminded me of James Brown's cape routine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown#The_cape_routine
(http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/turner/paintings/temeraire.jpg)
The picture reminds me of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
I hope this attempt works!
http://www.amazon.com/Rimsky-Korsakov-Legend-Invisible-City-Kitezh/dp/B00002DF33/ref=sr_1_1/002-8946394-4608867?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1176593358&sr=1-1
It was the picture of the Gergiev recording I was referring to.
Anne, if it's the adding of images/quoting you're having a problem with (I'm not sure what you meant by "I hope this attempt works" ;D), the References (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=help;page=post#references) section of the Help pages might answer your questions.
Cheers,
Maciek
Thanks I will read the Help section. I can never transfer a picture from another web site to a post I'm writing here. I can only post the web address.
I'm not sure if the help will help. ;D (But do try it.) I'll be starting a special thread for assistance of this kind in the GMG News section presently, so you can take a peek in there if you're left with any questions.
Cheers,
Maciek
Quote from: MrOsa on April 14, 2007, 03:56:53 PM
... I'll be starting a special thread for assistance of this kind in the GMG News section presently, so you can take a peek in there if you're left with any questions.
Cheers,
Maciek
Hurray! I'm so glad,I'm utterly useless at posting pictures.It takes me weeks and months to learn how this darn thing works. Been on it for 6 years now and still don't have the barest clue.To add insult to injury I am a slow one fingered typist.
Only about a month ago I saw that Turner painting in the National Gallery in London. It was the first time I had seen it 'live' and was not as big as i had assumed. It however has plenty of impact. I feel Turner was also commenting on the end of the era for sailing ships, I should think you can draw quite a bit from the piece.
Mike
I recall that poll, it was partly promoted by the morning radio current affairs programme, 'Today'. Each painting had a supporter explaining why it was great. There are an awful lot of great paintings missing and much as I like it, I cannot seriously see the Raeburn being on a par with a number of the Italian works in the UK.
Mike
(http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~hart/1936_10.jpg)
Dali's "The Chemist of Ampurdan in Search of Absolutely Nothing"
One of my favorites.
It's definitely a great title. ;D
Quote from: MrOsa on May 16, 2007, 03:28:21 AM
It's definitely a great title. ;D
Yeah, I love that existential stuff.
André just posted a link to some nice Ilya Repin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin) paintings. I felt it was a good occassion to give this thread a bump...
First some famous Russians:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Ilya_Efimovich_Repin_(1844-1930)_-_Portrait_of_Leo_Tolstoy_(1887).jpg/419px-Ilya_Efimovich_Repin_(1844-1930)_-_Portrait_of_Leo_Tolstoy_(1887).jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Athanasefet.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Medeleeff_by_repin.jpg/467px-Medeleeff_by_repin.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/Mussorgsky_by_repin.jpg/460px-Mussorgsky_by_repin.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Pushkin_derzhavin.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/REPIN_Ivan_Terrible%26Ivan.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/RepinPaintersDaughter.jpg)
(well, I'm not sure if you can call his daughter famous exactly...?)
Also liked these:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Sadko.jpg/422px-Sadko.jpg) (Sadko!)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Repin_Cossacks.jpg/800px-Repin_Cossacks.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Kurskaya_korennaya.jpg/800px-Kurskaya_korennaya.jpg)
Quote from: Maciek on June 22, 2007, 05:20:45 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Sadko.jpg/422px-Sadko.jpg) (Sadko!)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Kurskaya_korennaya.jpg/800px-Kurskaya_korennaya.jpg)
These two are great, Mr. Osa (easier to spell) thanks for posting them! :D
Stanislaw Wyspianski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Wyspiański) (famous as painter, even more famous as playwright - no opera librettos though, AFAIK)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Macierzynstwo_1905.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Zakola_Wisly_1904.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Wyspianski_001.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Kopiec_8.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pl/thumb/9/9f/Stań_się!!.jpg/280px-Stań_się!!.jpg)
(http://www.afterimagegallery.com/dlhalsmanl.jpg)
Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) (yes, that's Salvador jumping in the background)
I'm considering getting a poster of this :)
I really like Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations.
He was fascinated with Wagner ... here's Isolde:
(http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Aubrey_Beardsley/isolde_thumb.JPG)
And the 'Wagnerites' ;):
(http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/21/specials/beardsley.4.jpg)
My favourites are the Salome ones:
(http://www.glbtq.com/images/spotlights/spotlight_beardsley_salome.jpg) (http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/0f/250px-Beardsley-peacockskirt.PNG) (http://www.actuabd.com/IMG/jpg/Beardsley-salome_.jpg)
The Lysistrata ones are hilarious but I'd probably be banned for posting them ;).
The fin de siècle was great fun 8).
(http://images.epilogue.net/users/lunatique/melancholic_princess.jpg)
(http://images.epilogue.net/users/hythshade/Wee_Village.jpg)
(http://www.daoine-sidhe.org/galeries/img/Ted%20Nasmith/Fangorn%20Forest.jpg)
(http://www.3planesoft.com/img/nature_screen01.jpg)
(http://www.tonyoconnor.com.au/images/freepics/seeker1024x768.jpg)
(http://www.tonyoconnor.com.au/images/freepics/castle21024.jpg)
(http://fantasygallery.net/leadingham/castle_falls.jpg)
(http://www.poster.net/kiss-andrew/kiss-andrew-on-the-move-2705019.jpg)
(http://www.sophoto.cn/photopost/data/516/1Andrew_Kiss_Mountain_Alphabet_E_De.jpg)
(http://www.youzi4.com/csa_all_pic/huihua/Andrew_Kiss_Mountain_Alphabet/Andrew_Kiss_Mountain_Alphabet_S_De.jpg)
(http://www.youzi4.com/csa_all_pic/huihua/Andrew_Kiss_Mountain_Alphabet/Andrew_Kiss_Mountain_Alphabet_Y_De.jpg)
(http://www.youzi4.com/csa_all_pic/huihua/Andrew_Kiss_Mountain_Alphabet/Andrew_Kiss_Mountain_Alphabet_O_De.jpg)
(http://www.whiterockgallery.com/JPEGs/Kiss/mistymorning-andrew%20kiss-whiterockgallery.com.jpg)
(http://www.whiterockgallery.com/JPEGs/Kiss/chickadee-andrew%20kiss-whiterockgallery.com.jpg)
(http://www.poster.net/rothko-mark/rothko-mark-blue-and-grey-3500039.jpg)
(http://slate.cse.ohio-state.edu/dbyron/elegy_LXX.jpg)
(http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_826_111817_agnes-martin.jpg)
From top to bottom, Rothko, Motherwell, Martin.
By the way Saul, are those from a video game?
the first 6 of Saul's pictures i really like :)
Escher
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/escher-%20waterfall.jpg)
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/escher.relativity.gif)
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/escher-day%20and%20night.jpg)
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/escher-picture%20gallery.jpg)
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/escher-stair.gif)
Kandinsky
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/kandinsky.jpg)
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/kandinsky%20Composicion%20VII.jpg)
Picasso
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/picasso-%20guernica.jpg)
Van Gogh
(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/8/14/1346899/starry-night.jpg)
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kiefer/jerusalem.jpg) (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/kiefer/jerusalem.jpg)
Anselm Kiefer
(http://moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/Richter,49.85.4.jpg)
Gerhard Richter
that Richter is a Kandinsky wannabe lol
ok, i'm just kidding, it's ok
what's interesting is around the middle it looks like he put a different piece of canvas on top of the regular canvas, but probably he just made it look that way
Quote from: greg on August 29, 2007, 07:42:39 AM
what's interesting is around the middle it looks like he put a different piece of canvas on top of the regular canvas, but probably he just made it look that way
Yip, it looks like crayon on plastic, not adhering properly (or a petrol on water kind of effect).
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to art, so here's a bit of Vermeer:
(http://www.umehon.maine.edu/images/hon211/Vermeer%20Geographer%201668.jpg)
Very nice, Saul 8)
(http://www.tonyoconnor.com.au/images/freepics/castle21024.jpg)
Oh, and this is one of my favourite "IMPORTANT EVENT WITH CLASSICAL ALLUSIONS" Romantic paintings, I figure, if I want to pick one, I may as well pick the most overblown/ridiculous/impressive one :) :
(http://mastuvu.typepad.com/monuments/Wappers_belgian_revolution.jpg) (http://mastuvu.typepad.com/monuments/Wappers_belgian_revolution.jpg)
(http://wiredforbooks.org/images/ArtGarfunkel.jpg)
Richard Simmons grew his 'fro out, Tony?
Ando Hiroshige
(http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/hiroshige_kameido.jpg)
Schiele
(http://images.google.com/url?q=http://lramos.web.cern.ch/lramos/img/paintings/schiele_kosmack.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHdRKbKFKrqBUeHWhWSHqk0Jkt5Zw)
Whistler
(http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/admin/tour/17720/17720whistler_symphony_white2.jpg)
Guston
(http://www.yourdailyawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/guston_room.jpg)
Quote from: Szykniej on August 29, 2007, 08:42:36 AM
(http://wiredforbooks.org/images/ArtGarfunkel.jpg)
:s He looks kind of related to PMD...
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/classical_artists/drz000/z062/z06290hawlf.jpg)
Quote from: paul on August 29, 2007, 07:06:09 AM
By the way Saul, are those from a video game?
no way
Quote from: D Minor on August 29, 2007, 08:18:58 AM
Very nice, Saul 8)
(http://www.tonyoconnor.com.au/images/freepics/castle21024.jpg)
Thats why I like it ;)
(http://www.vcnet.com/garym/linkletter/art.jpg)
Quote from: Szykniej on August 29, 2007, 10:26:51 AM
(http://www.vcnet.com/garym/linkletter/art.jpg)
HAHA..
Sorry Saul, but I cannot help it : ;D
(http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/28/chinesegirl,1.jpg)
Vladimir Tretchikoff, the Russian-born painter of the kitsch classic Chinese Girl, has died aged 92 in South Africa.
Painted in 1952, Chinese Girl became the world's biggest-selling print. It has been described as the " Mona Lisa of kitsch", having adorned half a million suburban walls around the world.
The self-taught Tretchikoff also produced a host of other popular paintings during a career spanning 50 years.
Chinese Girl is considered the most famous of his works, many of which are displayed in galleries worldwide. Other works, including The Dying Swan, Zulu Girl and Lost Orchid, are widely embraced as kitsch and have undergone a revival in recent years, with prints fetching hundreds of dollars.
Peter
Artists I really admire :
Dick Ket
(http://robertcanagagallery.com/Gallery_Links/Eugene_Gallery/Self-Portrait__Project/Self-Portraits_4/Ket/ket.jpg)
James Ensor
(http://www.parool.nl/reizen/2006/beeld/102806-oostende-2.jpg)
And Rembrandt, Vermeer, Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Fra Fillippo Lippi, Cimabue, Rik Wouters, .....
No Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dali, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Renoir, or Claude Monet? Or even Caravaggio? Titian? :o
I'll remedy that once I've the time to look for links. Thankfully, there's at least one van Gogh, and a reference to Rembradnt. :P
Quote from: Lethe on August 29, 2007, 08:26:55 AM
Oh, and this is one of my favourite "IMPORTANT EVENT WITH CLASSICAL ALLUSIONS" Romantic paintings, I figure, if I want to pick one, I may as well pick the most overblown/ridiculous/impressive one :) :
(http://mastuvu.typepad.com/monuments/Wappers_belgian_revolution.jpg) (http://mastuvu.typepad.com/monuments/Wappers_belgian_revolution.jpg)
That is pretty overblown ;D Back then, this kind of paintings (so called "history painting") was considered the supreme form of art, if you wanted to be a serious and esteemed artist you'd have to paint things like this..
(http://www.planetperplex.com/img/dali_soldier_warning.jpg)
Dali
Quote from: Renfield on August 29, 2007, 01:09:33 PM
No Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dali, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Renoir, or Claude Monet? Or even Caravaggio? Titian? :o
I'll remedy that once I've the time to look for links. Thankfully, there's at least one van Gogh, and a reference to Rembradnt. :P
Love Klimt but liking him seems to be unfashionable these days. 8)
one of my paintings (latest)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saulsmusic/1275965459/
Quote from: Corey on August 29, 2007, 09:42:58 PM
Love Klimt but liking him seems to be unfashionable these days. 8)
No. Why?
Quote from: Hector on August 30, 2007, 05:51:17 AM
No. Why?
Something I've noticed from art students. Most of them tend to dismiss him as flashy and decorative (both of which are true, but are also reasons I love him).
Quote from: Corey on August 30, 2007, 05:56:56 AM
Something I've noticed from art students. Most of them tend to dismiss him as flashy and decorative (both of which are true, but are also reasons I love him).
Flashy and decorative? Klimt's work is - literally -
gilded! Yet beauty set aside, just find me one artist able to express the sensuality Klimt channels through his paintings; you'll be hard-pressed to...
Quote from: Renfield on August 30, 2007, 06:07:09 AM
Flashy and decorative? Klimt's work is - literally - gilded! Yet beauty set aside, just find me one artist able to express the sensuality Klimt channels through his paintings; you'll be hard-pressed to...
Absolutely.
Some cannot see beyond the gilt.
Surely one of the 20th century greats?
never saw that Dali (above). Forgot about him, he's one of my favorites.
0:)
(http://www.mystudios.com/treasure/1/persistence.jpg)
Will someone post some pictures by Klimt that illustrate what you are talking about?
Quote from: Anne on August 30, 2007, 06:37:28 AM
Will someone post some pictures by Klimt that illustrate what you are talking about?
(http://www.artland.co.uk/Klimt_The_Tree_of_Life_Stoclet_Frieze_D-GK2107.jpg)
(http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/4/46/469/469940/klimt858.jpg)
(http://www.marling.gloucs.sch.uk/germanweb/images/Rhein%20Images/Klimt.jpg)
(http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~shkim/Gallery/Gustav_Klimt_TheKiss.jpg)
Quote from: greg on August 30, 2007, 06:14:02 AM
never saw that Dali (above). Forgot about him, he's one of my favorites.
0:)
(http://www.mystudios.com/treasure/1/persistence.jpg)
That is approximately the size of the actual painting ;D
One of the paintings I enjoy seeing in person the most:
(http://moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/80183002.jpg)
Giorgio de Chirico
Corey,
Thank you. I find him very interesting.
Does anyone have any favorite pictures by Picasso? I like Guernica (hope that's spelled correctly), and the lady ironing from the blue period, also the The Old Guitarist from the blue period.
(http://jpdubs.hautetfort.com/images/medium_velick71.jpg)
(http://lunettesrouges.blog.lemonde.fr/files/velickovic.jpg)
Vladimir Velickovic
(http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2001/modernart/large/7.jpg)(http://[img]Constantin Brancusi
Thanks, Corey; as I said above, I didn't really have time for digging up links, myself... :(
But I'd feel bad if I didn't at least link my favourite of Gustav Klimt's paintings, and probably one of my favourite paintings in general: Danae
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Gustav_Klimt_010.jpg/619px-Gustav_Klimt_010.jpg)
Unfortunately, I had trouble finding a link with decent quality and consistent colouring (which has a habit of changing radically between the prints people usually scan, but this isn't too bad. :))
Also, one of my favourite works by Dali (which I have in a scan of my own from a good print, but in another computer), and hands-down my favourite "still life": Nature Morte Vivante
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Still_Life_Moving_Fast.jpg)
I'll be back with more! ;D
(Edit) A new reply came as I was making this post. Drasko, that sculpture is amazing!
I used to be able to transfer a picture from another web site by either copy/paste or drag-n-drop. Now neither of those methods will work.
How do others post the pictures?
Quote from: Anne on August 30, 2007, 07:36:02 AM
I used to be able to transfer a picture from another web site by either copy/paste or drag-n-drop. Now neither of those methods will work.
How do others post the pictures?
You copy/paste the link to the picture in the post (i.e. the picture's own specific URL), select it and press the little "picture frame" icon in the post formatting options, or simply enclose said link between [img ] and [/img ] (without the spaces). :)
If Klimt has become unfashionable, might it be because he has been a little too popular/overused the last years? After all, his art (reproductions of it) has become the kind that hangs on the walls of waiting rooms at the doctor/dentist etc, (like e.g. Monet) and that's not good a thing for 'fashionability'..
Quote from: Norseman on August 30, 2007, 07:53:57 AM
If Klimt has become unfashionable, might it be because he has been a little too popular/overused the last years? After all, his art has become the kind that hangs on the walls of waiting rooms at the doctor/dentist etc, (like e.g. Monet) and that's not good a thing for 'fashionability'..
Which is a shame, as his was a rare genius... Incidentally, am I the only one who thinks Renoir gives Monet a run for his money, as an impressionist?
Not that I don't like Monet:
I love Monet. I even have a Monet print on my wall, which - along with my Klimt coffee-table portfolio, a calendar I was given as a present and a Rembrandt postcard :P - is essentially all the art I currently have in my house.
But I still feel a "tangible" difference in level, between him and Renoir,
as impressionists. Something like what I feel about Ravel and Debussy, in the same area. :-\
Quote from: greg on August 30, 2007, 06:14:02 AM
never saw that Dali (above). Forgot about him, he's one of my favorites.
If you check it out from a couple feet away, you get a different image.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artsmia.org/mirror-of-nature/images/e/cat_072_cd.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artsmia.org/mirror-of-nature/nordic-art-detail.cfm%3Fnor_art_cat%3D72%26lng%3D0&h=467&w=600&sz=52&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=vuJb0FlV_h1BeM:&tbnh=105&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgallen%2Bkallela%2Blake%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DISO-8859-1
(http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/graphics/american_landscape.jpg)
Charles Sheeler
(http://scitor.nl/el_palacio_klein.jpg)
Edward Hopper
Anything by Modigliani.
(http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/photos/modigliani.gif)
Quote from: Renfield on August 30, 2007, 07:39:55 AM
You copy/paste the link to the picture in the post (i.e. the picture's own specific URL), select it and press the little "picture frame" icon in the post formatting options, or simply enclose said link between [img ] and [/img ] (without the spaces). :)
Thank you, Renfield. Much appreciated.
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.
Quote from: BorisG on August 31, 2007, 08:08:53 PM
Anything by Modigliani.
(http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/photos/modigliani.gif)
Pure smut and disgusting - could you send me her phone number?
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
Caspar David Friedrich
Cloister Graveyard in the Snow
(http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/209/caspardavidfriedrichclosj9.jpg)
Vincent van Gogh
The Garden of Saint Paul's Hospital ("The Fall of the Leaves"), 1889
(http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/9027/51892042gi1.jpg)
Vincent van Gogh
The Garden of Saint Paul's Hospital, 1889
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3182/vincentvangoghthegardenwj5.jpg)
Patrick St. Germain
Stoic
(http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/2200/patrickstgermainstoicrt9.jpg)
Claude Monet
Field of Poppies, 1873
(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/8503/claudemonetfieldofpoppibl0.jpg)
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.
Quote from: Lethe on September 03, 2007, 01:04:15 PM
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. :P
(You don't mean "El Greco", do you?)
Quote from: Renfield on September 03, 2007, 02:32:41 PM
That is a bit abstract itself, as a description. :P
(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 :P), thanks :D It was a distant memory, so the description was indeed terrible :)
Quote from: Lethe on September 03, 2007, 02:56:29 PM
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 :P), thanks :D It was a distant memory, so the description was indeed terrible :)
perhaps St.Jerome?
(http://www.artchive.com/artchive/e/el_greco/el_greco_jerome.jpg)
Quote from: Drasko on September 03, 2007, 03:08:52 PM
perhaps St.Jerome?
Hmm, I don't think so - frankly, I'm beginning to believe that my memory just sucks :D Glad that I can add another name to list of painters I'm interested in, though.
I'd like to read more about Marionetti,didn't he build model cities with food.
Does anyone know the work of Saxton Freymann?
Hi Lethe, maybe you are thinking of "anamorphosis" - see the famous painting by Holbein :
(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/artofanamorphosis/ambassadors-small.jpg) 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".....
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Ghirlandaio_Old_Man.jpg/250px-)
Other wonderful Renaissance pâintings : the series portraits Giuseppe Arcimboldo pâinted
(http://www.ransen.com/Articles/Arcimboldo/Arcimboldo-Winter-2.jpg)
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
Quote from: pjme on September 10, 2007, 11:35:10 PM
(http://www.ransen.com/Articles/Arcimboldo/Arcimboldo-Winter-2.jpg)
That one is kind of scary :D
See more Arcimboldo at :
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/a/arcimbol/index.html
Quote from: pjme on September 11, 2007, 04:33:04 AM
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 :D 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.
Quote from: pjme on September 10, 2007, 11:42:37 PM
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.
I can't believe this thread has been dead since Sept. 2007!!!!!! :o :o :o :o :o
Well Ressurected!! ;D ;D
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.
Wonderful.
my standard answer is
"Watson and the Shark"
(http://www.batguano.com/vlbsp1781a.jpg)
If we're doing traditional portraits (they get less attention as "quality" art, I find...), I find this one fascinating:
(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1329/kekekeken.jpg)
(http://www.holland.nl/bin/holland/culture/oude_man-rembrandt.jpg)
Small source, but the point remains: one of my favourite Rembrandts. (If we're going "traditional", that is. :))
And of course the Hammershøi I have on my desk right now - mind: not my desktop - "The Coin Collector" (himself).
(http://www2.cccb.org/press/09/alta/Elcollecionista.jpg)
This picture really does something for me Renfield. I love picturtes of humanity in a solitary condition, and you can't get any more atmospheric than this. Top post! ;D
Balls. I'll come back later. You already submitted this post! You might have accidently double clicked, or tried to refresh.
Anyone else on here love Escher's work? Raise your hand.
Quote from: Gay Cuban Communist on March 15, 2009, 06:22:28 PM
Anyone else on here love Escher's work? Raise your hand.
"Like", perhaps? :)
*raises hand for "like"*
Quote from: Renfield on March 15, 2009, 07:34:55 PM
"Like", perhaps? :)
*raises hand for "like"*
**raises hand for no idea who Escher is but likes 'The Coin Collector" **
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/Portrait-Of-Lunia-Czechovska-large.jpg)
Lovis Corinth - selfportrait
(http://spechtiania.web-log.nl/spechtiania/images/2008/02/20/4097_185301.jpg)
Valentin Serov - selfportrait
(http://spechtiania.web-log.nl/spechtiania/images/2008/02/14/463pxserov_self.jpg)
Giacometti's elongated figures (the last is a photo taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson):
(http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1999.363.22.jpg) (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LH6iGIigkqk/RedmdTwIm7I/AAAAAAAAABg/3llundeLdjw/s400/alberto-giacometti.jpg)
(http://no-mundo.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/Henri%20Cartier%20Bresson,%20Alberto%20Giacometti,%201961.jpg)
Quote from: Corey on March 16, 2009, 07:43:30 AM
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/Portrait-Of-Lunia-Czechovska-large.jpg)
Giraffe woman! :o
Escher: Day and Night
(http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/escher/day_and_night.jpg)
Perfection!
I have always liked these type (there are more) Carter posters:
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/EAW/yctci015c~Carter-the-Great-Magician-Wizard-Posters.jpg)
(http://magic4less.com/Merchant5/graphics/00000001/CARTERPRINCESSL.jpg)
Some may not consider these art, but I do.
Then again, I enjoy Mr. Eakins' work as well:
(http://www.dl.ket.org/webmuseum/wm/paint/auth/eakins/racing.jpg) (http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/wat-images/eakins1.jpg) (http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/Eakins2.jpg) (http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/attachments/041257/ETQuinn.jpg)
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6426/amourdepierrot.jpg) (http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6426/amourdepierrot.jpg)
Quote from: Lethe on March 22, 2009, 06:17:38 PM
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6426/amourdepierrot.jpg) (http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6426/amourdepierrot.jpg)
Nice!
Almost Escher-ish, in the manner of the pic i just posted.
Can anybody ID the artist?
(http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3633/aaaglt.jpg)
Boston Common at Twilight, 1885-86
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/1886_BostonCommonAtTwilight_byChildeHassam.png)
I am guessing you agree, Karl. ;)
Quote from: Bogey on December 23, 2010, 04:32:13 PM
Boston Common at Twilight, 1885-86
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/1886_BostonCommonAtTwilight_byChildeHassam.png)
I am guessing you agree, Karl. ;)
Childe Hassam. Never knew of this artist. I'm impressed.
(http://gilbertmusings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rabbit-thinker-barry-flanagan-front.jpg)
Quote from: Bogey on December 23, 2010, 04:32:13 PM
Boston Common at Twilight, 1885-86
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/1886_BostonCommonAtTwilight_byChildeHassam.png)
I am guessing you agree, Karl. ;)
It's a beautiful, tender scene, an old favorite, Bill. It's so nice that it has its rightful space now in the new Art of the Americas wing.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Swan_princess.jpg)
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The swan princess
Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856–1910)
Русский: Михаил Александрович Врубель
Yay, thanks pjme! The eyes seemed very famliar to me, and I felt that once I discovered who it was by I would be kicking myself, but it turns out that I didn't know this artist (although from reading his Wikipedia biography, I could imagine his work is relatively widely displayed, if not recognised).
I like this thread. Personally I like a lot of Monet and Van Gogh. Very much like the "Boston Common at Twilight" posted before. Beautiful scene.
Quote from: John on March 13, 2009, 11:25:47 AMJohn Atkinson Grimshaw
1836 - 1893)
Same painter as in your post (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,43.msg285533.html#msg285533)?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61HEGQzB9IL.jpg)
Probably, but be aware that he had two sons who painted in an identical style and who he sometimes collaborated with: Arthur Grimshaw, Louis (H) Grimshaw.
Apparently two of his daughters painted as well, but their work is beyond obscure. Kind of the Bach Family of painters ;)
(http://sunnybuick.typepad.com/.a/6a0115723bccfd970b01348811a0df970c-500wi)
artist: Kees van Dongen
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/matisse.mme-matisse-madras.jpg)
arist: Henri Matisse
Quote from: Henk on December 27, 2010, 11:15:03 AM
artist: Henri Matisse
Aye, knew that right away.
In fact, because the image above the Matisse was blocked, I saw artist: Kees van Dongen, and I was going to remark how his work looked like a shameless Matisse knock-off : )
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on December 27, 2010, 11:18:02 AM
Aye, knew that right away.
In fact, because the image above the Matisse was blocked, I saw artist: Kees van Dongen, and I was going to remark how his work looked like a shameless Matisse knock-off : )
:)
Can you see the van Dongen now? I can see it (it's not blocked). Really a great artist you should know.
Quote from: Lethe on December 27, 2010, 10:29:13 AMProbably, but be aware that he had two sons who painted in an identical style and who he sometimes collaborated with: Arthur Grimshaw, Louis (H) Grimshaw
Thanks Lethe. I had a look into the booklet (http://www.theclassicalshop.net/download_booklet.aspx?file=CHAN%2010446.pdf) - it's the same painter.
"Front cover In the Golden Olden Time (c. 1870) by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 –1893),
© Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire/The Bridgeman Art Library"
Assuming that this is as close as it gets to an "Art Thread" in GMG, I'm posting it here. Please let me know if art lovers usually gather elsewhere.
Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/explore-museums-and-great-works-of-art.html)2/01/2011 06:02:00 AM
Quote
One of the things I love about working Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality. That's what happened with the Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/)—a new tool we're announcing today which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail.
It started when a small group of us who were passionate about art got together to think about how we might use our technology to help museums make their art more accessible—not just to regular museum-goers or those fortunate to have great galleries on their doorsteps, but to a whole new set of people who might otherwise never get to see the real thing up close.
We're also lucky here to have access to technology like Picasa and App Engine and to have colleagues who love a challenge—like building brand-new technology to enable Street View to go indoors! Thanks to this, and our unique collaboration with museums around the world, we were able to turn our 20% project into something you can try out for yourself today at www.googleartproject.com (http://www.googleartproject.com/).
You’ll find a selection of super high-resolution images of famous works of art as well as more than a thousand other images, by more than 400 artists—all in one place. And with Street View technology, you can take a virtual tour inside 17 of the world’s most acclaimed art museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
I really hope this catches on and expands. The internet may be good for many things, but it's still so primitive in the quality of its image content, even on institution websites - people aren't demanding enough for acceptably high resolution and crispness.
I haven't seen images as well-scanned as the first one I saw on that link. Presumably the others are as good.
(http://www.grotekerkbreda.nl/contentImages/kruiswegservaes581_2.jpg)
Albert Servaes' "Stations of the cross" caused an incredible uproar in 1919. Catholic Belgium (and the Netherlands ) were not used to such ugliness.
Servaes ((Gent, 4 april 1883 – Luzern, 19 april 1966)) is still a fairly controversial artist with a hugely uneven legacy. But his "Stations of the cross" are a powerfull reminder of his artistry.
P.
The museum Dhondt-Dhaenens http://www.museumdd.be/
shows a selection of his work.
Quote from: pjme on February 01, 2011, 12:04:50 PM
Albert Servaes' "Stations of the cross" caused an incredible uproar in 1919. Catholic Belgium (and the Netherlands ) were not used to such ugliness.
Servaes ((Gent, 4 april 1883 – Luzern, 19 april 1966)) is still a fairly controversial artist with a hugely uneven legacy. But his "Stations of the cross" are a powerfull reminder of his artistry.
P.
The museum Dhondt-Dhaenens http://www.museumdd.be/
shows a selection of his work.
Is that Jesus without a beard?
(http://blogs.abdijaverbode.be/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/kruisverheffing/kruisw-servaes.jpg)
Servaes' drawings are really powerful. With or without a beard.
P.
I suppose Servaes knew Holbein.
(http://www.chrishorner.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/holbein.jpg)
P.
(http://www.thearttribune.com/local/cache-vignettes/L218xH290/Fernandez_Christ_Dos-45acd-3bcdc.jpg)
This is a piece of Spanish polychromatic art from 16th cent. This is an astonishing genre. Unflintching and often hyper-realistic.
http://www.thearttribune.com/The-sacred-made-real-Spanish.html
Mike
(http://blogimages.seniorennet.be/vlaamse_schilders/46-18e2999891374a475d0687ca9f989d83.jpg)
Possibly one of the weirdest "portraits" of Christ: Gustave Van de Woestijne's 1925 "Christ sacrifices his blood"
Van de Woestijne ( 1881 -1947) is one of the great originals in Flemish expressionist art.
More Grimshaw, who has always been my favourite artist.
This mud lane was built into a road not long thereafter, and it became "Valley Road." I lived there in 1995!
I would argue a photograph of a sculpture may be a work in its own right.
(http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/178267/1/Apollo-And-Daphne-$5bdetail$3a-3$5d.jpg)
(http://static.artlover.me/300/images/art1/caspar-david-friedrich-easter-morning.jpg)
Easter Morning - Caspar David Friedrich
When this came up for sale, it was let go, I think by the National Gallery, because it was just like 'another Atkinson Grimshaw'. Rather a pity considering the standing that Caspar David Friedrich now rightly holds. Anyway, I too am an admirer of Grimmy, who is a distant relative of mine.
I'm not sure of the exact connection but my father's father was the son of Sarah Ann Grimshaw (1844-1929), who was descended from Grimshaws on both sides and was the daughter of John Grimshaw (1808-1849).
At the Elsene/Ixelles Museum in Brussel there's a great show on Jules Chéret. His elegant posters stand for "Belle époque".
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Jules_Ch%C3%A9ret_photo.jpg)
Here's a good example. The drink inspired Deodat de Séverac to write a Valse brillante for piano.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Cheret,_Jules_-_Pippermint_(pl_213).jpg)
See also: http://www.museedixelles.irisnet.be/nl
P.
Quote from: pjme on April 02, 2012, 10:57:14 AM
At the Elsene/Ixelles Museum in Brussel there's a great show on Jules Chéret. His elegant posters stand for "Belle époque".
Jules Chéret is great, I utterly love posters from that period.
Also Henri Privat-Livemont, more flamboyant than Chéret but less florid and freer than Mucha.
(http://www.postercartel.com/uploads/postercartel_product_option.imageDetail/1750-62170.jpg)
QuoteSouth African rock designs. Brazilian street graffiti. Australian aboriginal art. Today we're announcing a major expansion of the Google Art Project. From now on, with a few simple clicks of a finger, art lovers around the world will be able to discover not just paintings, but also sculpture, street art and photographs from 151 museums in 40 countries.
More (http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/going-global-in-search-of-great-art.html)
The Ten Cent Breakfast
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Willard_Leroy_Metcalf_-_The_Ten_Cent_Breakfast_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
1887 by Lowell, Massachusetts painter, Willard Leroy Metcalf. This one is on display here in Denver.
Kerouac was born in Lowell, as well.
Francesco Hayez came up in one of the threads.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LRylUkF3PEo/TzbdZijeqII/AAAAAAAABKc/3yKa-Hu_7K4/s1600/28permail.jpg)
I guess these days that would be classified as a wardrobe malfunction...
(http://www.denverartmuseum.org/sites/default/files/slides/Media%20browser/Robert%20Motherwell.jpg)
Robert Motherwell
American, 1915-91, born in Aberdeen, Washington
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 172 (With Blood)
1989-90
Acrylic paint on canvas
Looks almost like someone's avatar I have seen. ;)
Quote from: Bogey on June 29, 2013, 06:41:06 AM
Robert Motherwell
American, 1915-91, born in Aberdeen, Washington
Oh hell, now I see a lovely huge
catalogue raisonné, three hardback volumes in a slipcase, was published by Yale just last November. Another big expenditure beckoning. >:(
Quote from: Octave on June 29, 2013, 10:27:18 PM
Oh hell, now I see a lovely huge catalogue raisonné, three hardback volumes in a slipcase, was published by Yale just last November. Another big expenditure beckoning. >:(
Be cheaper just to fly into Denver and see a real one. ;)
I'd be lying if I claim to know anything about visual art, but once in a while a sculpture or painting from an album cover does strike my fancy, for example, this one:
(http://www.artble.com/imgs/a/3/4/819961/rinaldo_and_armida.jpg)
Rinaldo and Armida by Anthony van Dyck
(Originally spotted on the cover of Bowman's "Handel: Heroic Arias" album.)
One in a while I go to art exhibitions and the best I've seen lately in Paris was on Perugino. If you are coming to Paris I really recommend it, it's at the lovely (and not widely known) Jacquemart-André Museum, and I don't think it will be presented in any other gallery after that.
They have a minisite here about the exhibition (http://expo-leperugin.com/).
Several of the works presented are wonderful, for instance the fascinating Maddalena
(http://images.cdn.bigcartel.com/bigcartel/product_images/129954399/-/Maddalena_Perugino_Tizzano_cornice_copia.jpg)
But the most fascinating picture I saw there is a small annunciation (and not the better known of those he painted), it is part of a private collection and I could have stayed a much longer time in front of it (which was easy because, weirdly, nobody seemed to notice it) :
(https://sansondavid.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/annunziaza.jpg)
This reproduction gives a good idea of the warm (yellowish) light that seems to reflect the most glorious early morning sun in Italian summer. The composition is most delicate, but the main thing here is obviously this absurd concept of a wall with empty windows, opened on a pure sky. The scene is at the same time completely "framed" by these wall and the very strict and monumental perspective, and at the same time it is open on this deep, almost infinite landscape (landscape backgrounds were a novelty in Perugino's and Leonardo's paintings, portraits mainly), and this pure blue sky. Closed and open at the same time.
Of course the windows are also a symbolic reminder of the fenestra coeli (windows of the sky, or of heaven), frequent in Annunciation scenes, that represented, since the Middle Ages, the purity of the Virgin, and her own role of window between mankind and heaven... The windows, the whole opened space, let the light pass, the light being god and his "message".
Then, just above the Virgin is this shutter, almost closed, that only shows a complete black room. This is the porta clausa, an image coming from the book of Ezekiel, and sometimes associated with the fenestra coeli. This is the door that no man can pass, and that leads to the Mary's purity (her virtue and her womb at the same time, and the fact is that even our eye can't penetrate that room). Only god's light comes in, but it won't come out. Only the Incarnation will result from this holy and pure encounter.
Gabriel and the Virgin are face to face, and reflected by this double symbolic of the fenestra coeli and the porta clausa, just above them. And in her surprise, the Virgin let her book fall on the ground. The book is closed but the page is kept by a bookmark, then it is closed and open at the same time. Again. And this book is, of course, the only "Book" the Virgin could have read, and as it is open even while closed, it evokes Flemish annunciations where the Virgin is reading, as an act of intimate devotion, and it symbolizes Mary's submission to god, as in earlier paintings from Siennese artists. Note, also, that the book, another incarnation of god, is placed just between the messenger and the Virgin...
This is one of the most pure, free and complex, multidimensional paintings I've had the chance to see. One of my favourite paintings for sure.
Death and the Grave Digger by Carlos Schwabe (at the Louvre)
Quote from: Discobolus on November 20, 2014, 01:26:29 PM
One in a while I go to art exhibitions and the best I've seen lately in Paris was on Perugino. If you are coming to Paris I really recommend it, it's at the lovely (and not widely known) Jacquemart-André Museum, and I don't think it will be presented in any other gallery after that.
They have a minisite here about the exhibition (http://expo-leperugin.com/).
Several of the works presented are wonderful, for instance the fascinating Maddalena
[...]
But the most fascinating picture I saw there is a small annunciation (and not the better known of those he painted), it is part of a private collection and I could have stayed a much longer time in front of it (which was easy because, weirdly, nobody seemed to notice it) :
(https://sansondavid.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/annunziaza.jpg)
This reproduction gives a good idea of the warm (yellowish) light that seems to reflect the most glorious early morning sun in Italian summer. The composition is most delicate, but the main thing here is obviously this absurd concept of a wall with empty windows, opened on a pure sky. The scene is at the same time completely "framed" by these wall and the very strict and monumental perspective, and at the same time it is open on this deep, almost infinite landscape (landscape backgrounds were a novelty in Perugino's and Leonardo's paintings, portraits mainly), and this pure blue sky. Closed and open at the same time.
Of course the windows are also a symbolic reminder of the fenestra coeli (windows of the sky, or of heaven), frequent in Annunciation scenes, that represented, since the Middle Ages, the purity of the Virgin, and her own role of window between mankind and heaven... The windows, the whole opened space, let the light pass, the light being god and his "message".
Then, just above the Virgin is this shutter, almost closed, that only shows a complete black room. This is the porta clausa, an image coming from the book of Ezekiel, and sometimes associated with the fenestra coeli. This is the door that no man can pass, and that leads to the Mary's purity (her virtue and her womb at the same time, and the fact is that even our eye can't penetrate that room). Only god's light comes in, but it won't come out. Only the Incarnation will result from this holy and pure encounter.
Gabriel and the Virgin are face to face, and reflected by this double symbolic of the fenestra coeli and the porta clausa, just above them. And in her surprise, the Virgin let her book fall on the ground. The book is closed but the page is kept by a bookmark, then it is closed and open at the same time. Again. And this book is, of course, the only "Book" the Virgin could have read, and as it is open even while closed, it evokes Flemish annunciations where the Virgin is reading, as an act of intimate devotion, and it symbolizes Mary's submission to god, as in earlier paintings from Siennese artists. Note, also, that the book, another incarnation of god, is placed just between the messenger and the Virgin...
This is one of the most pure, free and complex, multidimensional paintings I've had the chance to see. One of my favourite paintings for sure.
This is amazing. First of all, it is a pure pleasure to watch it, and your iconographic depiction is very interesting.
On the subject of viewpoints and spaces, you may find the following of interest:
http://www.designboom.com/history/friedrich2.html (http://www.designboom.com/history/friedrich2.html)
Quote from: torut on November 24, 2014, 12:38:12 PM
This is amazing. First of all, it is a pure pleasure to watch it, and your iconographic depiction is very interesting.
Thanks torut, I guess an amazing picture is easier to comment ;D
I try to make my own comments on pictures that leave me a strong impression, but my method is not really original, as I got strongly influenced in my way to look at paintings by Daniel Arasse. I see a few of his books are translated into English, I recommend them, easy and very instructive readings on art.
Quote from: Ten thumbs on November 24, 2014, 02:07:12 PM
On the subject of viewpoints and spaces, you may find the following of interest:
http://www.designboom.com/history/friedrich2.html (http://www.designboom.com/history/friedrich2.html)
Interesting, thank you. But as the article states, that analysis cannot be applied to Renaissance painters like Perugino ... ?
Quote from: Discobolus on November 25, 2014, 07:03:58 AM
Thanks torut, I guess an amazing picture is easier to comment ;D
I try to make my own comments on pictures that leave me a strong impression, but my method is not really original, as I got strongly influenced in my way to look at paintings by Daniel Arasse. I see a few of his books are translated into English, I recommend them, easy and very instructive readings on art.
Thank you for your recommendation. I ordered
Take a Closer Look. The book looks accessible and fun to read.
Quote from: Discobolus on November 20, 2014, 01:26:29 PM
One in a while I go to art exhibitions and the best I've seen lately in Paris was on Perugino. If you are coming to Paris I really recommend it, it's at the lovely (and not widely known) Jacquemart-André Museum, and I don't think it will be presented in any other gallery after that.
They have a minisite here about the exhibition (http://expo-leperugin.com/).
Several of the works presented are wonderful, for instance the fascinating Maddalena
(http://images.cdn.bigcartel.com/bigcartel/product_images/129954399/-/Maddalena_Perugino_Tizzano_cornice_copia.jpg)
That particular image must be a repainting though, it doesn't look the same as the one on their exhibition site:
(http://expo-leperugin.com/sites/default/files/styles/oeuvre_large/public/oeuvres_visuels/11_-_le_perugin_-_sainte_marie_madeleine_-_florence.jpg?itok=64TtseXD)
Quote from: Discobolus on November 20, 2014, 01:26:29 PM
But the most fascinating picture I saw there is a small annunciation (and not the better known of those he painted), it is part of a private collection and I could have stayed a much longer time in front of it (which was easy because, weirdly, nobody seemed to notice it) :
(https://sansondavid.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/annunziaza.jpg)
This reproduction gives a good idea of the warm (yellowish) light that seems to reflect the most glorious early morning sun in Italian summer. The composition is most delicate, but the main thing here is obviously this absurd concept of a wall with empty windows, opened on a pure sky. The scene is at the same time completely "framed" by these wall and the very strict and monumental perspective, and at the same time it is open on this deep, almost infinite landscape (landscape backgrounds were a novelty in Perugino's and Leonardo's paintings, portraits mainly), and this pure blue sky. Closed and open at the same time.
This is so beautiful. :)
I wonder how much of yellow warmth in old paintings are due to their age though. :o
I really like Caspar David Friedrich's paintings.
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/Chalk_Cliffs_on_Rugen_CGF.jpg)
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog_HSE.jpg)
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/FRIEDRICH_Caspar_David_The_Chasseaur_In_The_Forest.jpg)
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/FRIEDRICH_Caspar_David_Rocky_Ravine.jpg)
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/landscape-art-artworks-by-caspar-david-friedrich.jpg)
(http://www.artble.com/imgs/0/c/d/434405/the_cross_in_the_mountains.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2m3XCtg10FY/UIW6yzynhHI/AAAAAAAAANk/6Bc0SVbV3Q0/s1600/Week+03+Image+02.jpg)
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/Eldena_Ruin_CDF.jpg)
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/City_at_Moonrise_CGF.jpg)
(http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/60195/2037443/Man_and_woman_contemplating_the_moon_CDF.jpg)
(http://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/Giant-mountains.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Caspar_David_Friedrich_012.jpg)
And many others. And don't get me started on Gallen Kallela:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Gallen-Kallela_The_defence_of_the_Sampo.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Gallen_Kallela_The_Forging_of_the_Sampo.jpg)
(http://www.gallerytarvainen.fi/files/IMG_8930.JPG)
(http://i.imgur.com/dSmTJ2w.jpg)
About previous painting: in case you didn't know, one of those guys is Sibelius. :)
However, my favorite finnish painting is probably this, from Hugo Simberg:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Hugo_Simberg_Garden_of_Death.jpg/300px-Hugo_Simberg_Garden_of_Death.jpg)
One of the few paintings to make me go "awwwww". Just look at that skeleton in the middle. It kind of makes me feel good inside.
Quote from: Linus on November 26, 2014, 12:05:04 AM
That particular image must be a repainting though, it doesn't look the same as the one on their exhibition site:
(http://expo-leperugin.com/sites/default/files/styles/oeuvre_large/public/oeuvres_visuels/11_-_le_perugin_-_sainte_marie_madeleine_-_florence.jpg?itok=64TtseXD)
Mmm... You are right, it is a copy. I wanted to put a picture with the frame as it is the only way the painting seems complete, with the hands in the foreground. But this would have been more correct :
(http://www.eyepreferparis.com/.a/6a00d83451b0bd69e201bb0796ee53970d-pi)
Quote from: Linus on November 26, 2014, 12:07:49 AM
This is so beautiful. :)
I wonder how much of yellow warmth in old paintings are due to their age though. :o
I don't think it is the case here. If it was because of the varnish, the sky would have become yellower/greener too. Most ancient paintings can be restored in their original colours, this is generally not done only when the painting costs more than insurances would cover for the procedure...
And actually, photos that "whiten" the walls on this same painting also whiten the sky... Here for instance (http://www.centroarte.com/images/Perugino/Perugino9.jpg)...
Quote from: torut on November 25, 2014, 07:51:55 PM
Thank you for your recommendation. I ordered Take a Closer Look. The book looks accessible and fun to read.
It is. Apart from being one of the most renowned art specialists on Italian Renaissance paintings, Arasse also did radio shows on art that were quite popular in France. A few of his books are actually made from these programmes. Arasse unfortunately died very early, more than 10 years ago, he was not even 60. Charcot's (or Lou Gehrig's) disease :(
Please share your impressions after reading it ;)
Quote from: Linus on November 26, 2014, 12:07:49 AM
This is so beautiful. :)
I wonder how much of yellow warmth in old paintings are due to their age though. :o
Quote from: Discobolus on November 26, 2014, 02:10:28 AM
I don't think it is the case here. If it was because of the varnish, the sky would have become yellower/greener too. Most ancient paintings can be restored in their original colours, this is generally not done only when the painting costs more than insurances would cover for the procedure...
And actually, photos that "whiten" the walls on this same painting also whiten the sky... Here for instance (http://www.centroarte.com/images/Perugino/Perugino9.jpg)...
The colors of an image I found at wikiart are very different, so I was wondering which is more accurate.
For comparison, this is the image Discobolus posted.
(http://sansondavid.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/annunziaza.jpg)
And this is from wikiart.
(http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/pietro-perugino/the-annunciation.jpg)
It's even different from this.
(http://www.centroarte.com/images/Perugino/Perugino9.jpg)
Is it just due to how the photos were taken, depending on the surrounding light, processing method of digital images, etc.? The yellowish image is the closest to the actual painting? Also, I think colors are seen differently on different computers...
Quote from: torut on November 26, 2014, 09:05:26 AM
The colors of an image I found at wikiart are very different, so I was wondering which is more accurate.
For comparison, this is the image Discobolus posted.
And this is from wikiart.
It's even different from this.
Is it just due to how the photos were taken, depending on the surrounding light, processing method of digital images, etc.? The yellowish image is the closest to the actual painting? Also, I think colors are seen differently on different computers...
The light where the photograph is taken, white balance of the camera (settings and camera brand/model), scanning and printing in case of film cameras (and the film), processing with computer softwares, all can influence the differences in colour and luminosity of different photographs a painting. And uncalibrated displays certainly do produce colours in (usually slightly) different ways.
The one I posted is definitely the more accurate, this is why I chose it ;)
Quote from: Discobolus on November 26, 2014, 02:10:28 AM
Mmm... You are right, it is a copy. I wanted to put a picture with the frame as it is the only way the painting seems complete, with the hands in the foreground.
Ah, that does indeed add a more harmonious effect. :)
Do you, by the way, know if old master paintings from e.g. the Renaissance are usually cut by the margins, i.e. are the paintings originally slightly larger before a frame is added?
Quote from: North Star on November 26, 2014, 10:33:40 AM
The light where the photograph is taken, white balance of the camera (settings and camera brand/model), scanning and printing in case of film cameras (and the film), processing with computer softwares, all can influence the differences in colour and luminosity of different photographs a painting. And uncalibrated displays certainly do produce colours in (usually slightly) different ways.
I thought professionals handle the factors described in your first sentence carefully so that the digital images become as close to the original as possible. I was surprised how different that whitish image is. I am using MacBook Air to see images, and the color settings are all default. The same image viewed on my tablet is different furthermore, which is much more yellowish. I need to study on this.
Quote from: Discobolus on November 26, 2014, 12:45:12 PM
The one I posted is definitely the more accurate, this is why I chose it ;)
Yes, but I am afraid that the colors I am seeing are different from what you are seeing, even with the same image file. :)
Quote from: Discobolus on November 26, 2014, 05:30:04 AM
It is. Apart from being one of the most renowned art specialists on Italian Renaissance paintings, Arasse also did radio shows on art that were quite popular in France. A few of his books are actually made from these programmes. Arasse unfortunately died very early, more than 10 years ago, he was not even 60. Charcot's (or Lou Gehrig's) disease :(
Please share your impressions after reading it ;)
I read Arasse's
On n'y voit rien. It was fun indeed, and I was fascinated with the way he derives interesting interpretation from details that iconography is not able to fully explain. The writing styles are so humorous that I sometimes suspected there may be complete fabrication to trick readers :D, but the described matters are accurate according to the translator's commentary. Each chapter is intriguing, but I am not sure if everything is valid. For instance, regarding Bruegel's
The Adoration of the Kings, Arasse tells that Casper, the Moorish King, is looking at Balthasar, as if he is criticizing the old king who is extremely eager to confirm the baby's genitals in order to believe the sacrament. However, to me it seems that Casper is gazing somewhere outside the frame. Is the painting actually about worshipping an icon and criticism of it? In any case, it is a quite evocative book.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Anbetung_der_K%C3%B6nige_%28Bruegel%2C_1564%29.jpg/640px-Anbetung_der_K%C3%B6nige_%28Bruegel%2C_1564%29.jpg)
I agree that Caspar seems to be looking outside the frame, but I do not think Balthasar is examining anything. He is simply prostrating himself directly in front of the Virgin with the infant on her lap.
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on December 22, 2014, 07:44:28 PM
I agree that Caspar seems to be looking outside the frame, but I do not think Balthasar is examining anything. He is simply prostrating himself directly in front of the Virgin with the infant on her lap.
Arasse refers to Leo Steinberg's
La sexualité du Christ dans l'art de la Renaissance et son refoulement moderne that claims that Balthasar is actually examining Jesus's genitals to confirm God's incarnation as a human. Since I am not a Christian, I don't know how valid or important it is, but it's interesting. Arasse also shows Ghirlandaio's painting as another example. (I myself am still not sure.)
(http://www.artbible.info/images/wijzen_ghirlandaio_grt.jpg)
Quote from: torut on December 22, 2014, 08:23:14 PM
Arasse refers to Leo Steinberg's La sexualité du Christ dans l'art de la Renaissance et son refoulement moderne that claims that Balthasar is actually examining Jesus's genitals to confirm God's incarnation as a human. Since I am not a Christian, I don't know how valid or important it is, but it's interesting. Arasse also shows Ghirlandaio's painting as another example. (I myself am still not sure.)
(http://www.artbible.info/images/wijzen_ghirlandaio_grt.jpg)
I also remain unconvinced. But note Ghirlandaio also shows one of the Magi looking at something outside the picture.
The same claim is made by Arasse at least in one other book (On n'y voit rien, not translated I think). I think it's a sufficiently interesting theory that it deserves a serious reading, and considering the arguments before dismissing them. But Arasse is (was) so clever that even the most audacious interpretations never seem far-fetched but always enlightening, even if they are mere hypotheses (and presented as such).
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on December 23, 2014, 03:50:53 AM
I also remain unconvinced. But note Ghirlandaio also shows one of the Magi looking at something outside the picture.
Interesting. Arasse gives importance to each person's line of sight. No one in the Bruegel's painting is looking at Mary and Jesus except Balthasar. Is it telling the importance of believing without seeing, or suggesting people's ignorance...
Quote from: Discobolus on December 23, 2014, 04:53:58 AM
The same claim is made by Arasse at least in one other book (On n'y voit rien, not translated I think). I think it's a sufficiently interesting theory that it deserves a serious reading, and considering the arguments before dismissing them. But Arasse is (was) so clever that even the most audacious interpretations never seem far-fetched but always enlightening, even if they are mere hypotheses (and presented as such).
That book's styles (letter, detective(?) novel, dialogue, etc.) are so entertaining that at times I wondered if he was really serious about some of the hypotheses, but I agree they are worth serious consideration.
Maria Sibylla Merian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/De_Europische_Insecten_Merian_Bernard.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Duroia_eriopila_by_Merian.jpg/409px-Duroia_eriopila_by_Merian.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Merian-grafic-senkenberg_hg.jpg/640px-Merian-grafic-senkenberg_hg.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Duroia_sp00.jpg/394px-Duroia_sp00.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Guavenzweig.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Merian_Metamorphosis_VI.jpg/465px-Merian_Metamorphosis_VI.jpg)
Cy Twombly (1928 – 2011).
(http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/06/02/Twombly460x276.jpg)
Ferragosto series.
(http://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/cy-twombly/naples.jpg)
(http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ic5zhLb41r5z0wko1_1280.jpg)
Quote from: Henk on May 28, 2015, 06:00:20 AM
Cy Twombly (1928 – 2011).
Ferragosto series.
I didn't know
Twombly before. I see, from his work, and Wikipedia, that he is influenced by primitive paintings and the (other) Abstract Expressionists.
His aesthetics are rather difficult for me to appreciate, though. Would you like to elaborate what you like in about
Twombly (apart from the Wodehousean surname ;) )
Henk?
Quote from: Henk on May 28, 2015, 06:00:20 AM
Cy Twombly (1928 – 2011).
(http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/06/02/Twombly460x276.jpg)
Ferragosto series.
(http://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/cy-twombly/naples.jpg)
(http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ic5zhLb41r5z0wko1_1280.jpg)
Love his work! Thanks for the post.
:)
TD
Robert Rauschenberg (http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/artist) - especially the White Paintings, Black Paintings, and Red Paintings
n 1951 Rauschenberg created his "White Paintings," in the tradition of monochromatic painting, whose purpose was to reduce painting to its most essential nature, and to subsequently lead to the possibility of pure experience. The "White Paintings" were shown at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery in New York during October 1953. They appear at first to be essentially blank, white canvas. However, one commentator said that "...rather than thinking of them as destructive reductions, it might be more productive to see them, as John Cage did, as hypersensitive screens – what Cage suggestively described as 'airports of the lights, shadows and particles.' In front of them, the smallest adjustments in lighting and atmosphere might be registered on their surface. Rauschenberg himself said that they were affected by ambient conditions, "so you could almost tell how many people are in the room". The Black Paintings of 1951 like the White Paintings were executed on multiple panels and were single colour works. Here Rauschenberg incorporated pieces of newspaper into the painting working the paper into the paint so that sometimes newspaper could be seen and in other places could not. By 1953-1954 Rauschenberg had moved from the monochromatic paintings of the White Painting and Black Painting series, to the Red Painting series. These paintings were created with diverse kinds of paint applications of red paint, and with the addition of materials such as wood, nails, newsprint and other materials to the canvas created complex painting surfaces, and were forerunners of Rauschenberg's well-known Combine series.
(http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images_artwork/50.006.jpg?itok=I2SdoSYX)(http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images_artwork/51.004_0.jpg?itok=ew6X1i63)
(http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images_artwork/52.018.jpg?itok=H6-IBqJj)(http://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/images_artwork/54.017.jpg?itok=5PKECP0z)
Jasper Johns was of course influenced by Rauschenberg's experiments in creating the White Flag, also whitewashed newspaper articles.
(http://www.jasper-johns.org/images/paintings/white-flag.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on May 28, 2015, 06:13:07 AM
I didn't know Twombly before. I see, from his work, and Wikipedia, that he is influenced by primitive paintings and the (other) Abstract Expressionists.
His aesthetics are rather difficult for me to appreciate, though. Would you like to elaborate what you like in about Twombly (apart from the Wodehousean surname ;) ) Henk?
I like the subtility, the colors. It expresses something very fragile to me. Zwagerman explained the white is the most tender white.
BTW, an other artwork by Twombly was kissed by a woman:
http://visual-poetry.tumblr.com/post/7298470993/a-cy-twombly-painting-kissed-by-rindy-sam-2007 (http://visual-poetry.tumblr.com/post/7298470993/a-cy-twombly-painting-kissed-by-rindy-sam-2007)
Quote from: North Star on May 28, 2015, 06:58:32 AM
Jasper Johns was of course influenced by Rauschenberg's experiments in creating the White Flag, also whitewashed newspaper articles.
(http://www.jasper-johns.org/images/paintings/white-flag.jpg)
Another fave. The generation after the Abstract Impressionists all interest me.
Philip Guston (http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=2419) is another.
(http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/722/w500h420/CRI_182722.jpg)(http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/216/w500h420/CRI_159216.jpg)(http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/723/w155h170/CRI_182723.jpg)
(http://www.diakonima.gr/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/to-tama.jpg)
Nikolaos Gyzis: Το τάμα (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_%28votive%29) (The offering)
Depicting a folk story: a mother, accompanied by her exhausted daughter, en route to the small chapel in the precipitous background in order to pray for her lost-at-sea son's return, sits forlornly at the edge of the washed-away path, unable to reach her destination.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/George_Iakovidis_-_Children%27s_Concert.JPG)
Georgios Jakobides: Children's Concert
One of my favorite artists is Alphonse Mucha.
(http://www.praguepost.cz/pictures/1-20130417-16023-12074-pic.jpg) (https://sierrasstyle.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mucha.jpg)
(http://www.reprodart.com/kunst/alphonse_mucha/poster_advertising_lefevreutil-2.jpg) (http://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/alphonse-mucha/nestl%C3%A9-s-food-for-infants-1897.jpg)
One of my favorite paintings is this one by Merry-Joseph Blondel described as Ptolemais (Acre) given to Philip Augustus 1191. The king on the right is King Philip II of France (my 25 times great grandfather) and the king one on the left is King Richard I "The Lionheart" of England (my 25 times great grand uncle).
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Ptolemais_(Acre)_given_to_Philip_Augustus_1191.png)
Time to bump this thread!
Quote from: Francine-Claire LegrandWilliam Degouve de Nuncques was a Belgian painter of French birth. After the Franco-Prussian war (1870–71), his parents settled in Belgium. Although self-taught, he was advised by Jan Toorop, with whom he shared a studio, and later lived with Henry de Groux. In 1894 he married Juliette Massin, a painter and Emile Verhaeren's sister-in-law, who introduced him to the circle of Symbolist poets. His art, which bears the influence of poetry, transfigures reality in the sense that it affords a view
(https://animekritik.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1897nightinparcroyalbrussels.jpg) (http://www.graphicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/william_degouve_de_nuncques_03.jpg)
(http://www.graphicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/william_degouve_de_nuncques_19.jpg) (http://www.graphicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/william_degouve_de_nuncques_20.jpg)
(http://www.graphicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/william_degouve_de_nuncques_17.jpg) (http://www.graphicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/william_degouve_de_nuncques_07.jpg)
Some Canadian art
Franklin Carmichael - Autumn Hillside (1920), Autumn in Orillia (1924) & Mirror Lake (1929)
(http://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/franklin-carmichael/autumn-hillside-1920.jpg) (http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/artists_a-k/carmichael/3.carmichael.jpg) (http://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/franklin-carmichael/mirror-lake-1929.jpg)
Lawren Harris - Pine Tree and Red House, Winter City, 1924
(http://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/lawren-harris/pine-tree-and-red-house-winter-city-1924.jpg)
J.E.H. MacDonald - Study for October Shower Gleam & October Shower Gleam (1922)
(http://www.vancouversun.com/cms/binary/5563320.jpg?size=620x400s) (http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/j-e-h-macdonald/october-shower-gleam-1922.jpg)
September Snow on Mount Schaffer (1929) Snowfields, Evening (xxxx) The Solemn Land (1921)
(http://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/j-e-h-macdonald/september-snow-on-mount-schaffer-1929.jpg) (http://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/j-e-h-macdonald/snowfields-evening.jpg) (http://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/j-e-h-macdonald/the-solemn-land-1921.jpg)
Tom Thomson - After the Sleet Storm (1915)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gd9u-EjWsf8/Ur17TIEf3fI/AAAAAAAAom8/75RxaZ4qxBI/s1600/Tom+Thomson+1915+-+After+the+Sleet+Storm,+1915-1916.jpg)
Degouve de Nuncques - The Black Swan, 1896
(http://krollermuller.nl/media/blogpage/km_107_446.jpg)
(http://www.bellevuearts.org/images/exhibitions/Nathan_Vincent/03.jpg)
Nathan Vincent's Let's Play War! (The full spread at Bellevue Arts Museum is better yet, with its effective, dim lighting.)
Quote from: James on September 27, 2015, 11:31:24 AMLooks like the little army toys I used to fiddle around with as a tiny kid
Nothing escapes your eagle eye.
Quote from: Todd on September 27, 2015, 11:03:59 AM
(http://www.bellevuearts.org/images/exhibitions/Nathan_Vincent/03.jpg)
Nathan Vincent's Let's Play War! (The full spread at Bellevue Arts Museum is better yet, with its effective, dim lighting.)
This looks like a great piece. I had never heard of Vincent, and glad he's given a solo outing. And I would never have guessed that these figures are made from fiber, which adds an odd dimension. From the museum's website:
"The New York-based artist, whose work was featured in BAM's 2011 group show
The Mysterious Content of Softness, continues to explore the power of fiber to challenge ideas about the codes of conduct still at work within the American domestic landscape. Taking inspiration from the packs of cheap, plastic army men Vincent played with as a child, the artist asked what it would look like if the toys of our youth were to grow up with us. Vincent alters the scale and material presence of these ubiquitous toys by creating half life-size figures and knitting and crocheting yarn 'skins' to dress two battling armies."
--Bruce
Quote from: James on September 27, 2015, 11:31:24 AM
Looks like the little army toys I used to fiddle around with as a tiny kid .. now it's Art?
(http://blog.retroplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/26629-sp-e1364423887880.jpg)
(http://www.atomicexpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/61BwGvpyKnL._AA1200_.jpg)
You are missing the point. The futility of war. Such an edgy subject, no-one has ever taken that tack before. You really have to admire the artist for his moral courage. And the audience. Especially the audience.
Clear now James?
Quote from: Todd on September 27, 2015, 11:03:59 AM
(http://www.bellevuearts.org/images/exhibitions/Nathan_Vincent/03.jpg)
Nathan Vincent's Let's Play War! (The full spread at Bellevue Arts Museum is better yet, with its effective, dim lighting.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/sylvanian-families-isis-banned-freedom-expression/ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/sylvanian-families-isis-banned-freedom-expression/)
(http://uploads8.wikiart.org/images/jackson-pollock/the-deep-1953.jpg#Jackson%20Pollock%20The%20Deep%20609x910)
Jackson Pollock - The Deep
A painting by Dutch artist Jan Sluijters (1881-1957)
(http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/jan-sluyters/sawmill-het-luipaard.jpg)
Quote from: Ken B on September 27, 2015, 03:08:05 PM
You are missing the point. The futility of war. Such an edgy subject, no-one has ever taken that tack before. You really have to admire the artist for his moral courage. And the audience. Especially the audience.
Clear now James?
I do feel sorry for James; hardly anybody pays any heed to his indiscriminate scorn anymore.
Two more by Sluijters
(http://uploads4.wikiart.org/images/jan-sluyters/sunrise-1910.jpg) (http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6a/9f/b6/6a9fb648be2c26c7cd9fdb542215c2a5.jpg)
More Sluijters
(http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/jan-sluijters-1946-jan-sluijters-pinterest-1431079031.jpg) (http://www.verzamelaars.net/veilingvinden/mei2014/peerdeman/foto_62701.jpg) (http://adviz.nl/media/cache/1b/da/1bdaea52387fbe7cc647219a915dff04.jpg)
Sluijters most famous painting:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n7NPme1GMZo/TwhS62A116I/AAAAAAAAAh4/0VYmK1jknf4/s1600/sluijters-tabarin.jpg)
Jan Sluijters: Bar Tabarin (1906); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
"Today, Jan Sluijters (1881-1957) is considered to be one of the pioneering figures in the development of Modernism in the Netherlands. Throughout his life, he experimented with numerous styles. Ironically, his modern career took off when he was awarded the Prix de Rome based on a traditional biblical scene. Understandably, the jury members were very disgruntled to find out that he used the money to travel to France where he changed his style radically. It was in the City of Light that the relatively new phenomenon of electric lights (rather than gas lamps) around the turn of the century inspired Sluijters to develop works in an ultra-modern style, Dutch Luminism. The big city nightlife and French Fauvism were the main influences on this style, which is characterized by splashes of color, as we can see in this exuberant work, Bal Tabarin (1906).
Bal Tabarin in Paris' Montmartre was the place to be for the young and hip. The nightclub featured costumed balls and can-can dancing by showgirls, which was all the more dazzling due to the fact that people were unaccustomed to the color effects of electric lights. The mesmerizing, almost psychedelic atmosphere as caught by Sluijters abhorred the Prix de Rome committee: in their eyes, this painting of the Bal Tabarin expressed a loathing of beauty and mockery of technique. As a result, they decided to end his yearly allowance.
His unorthodox work was also sharply criticized by the Dutch press. Nonetheless, a number of Dutch painters welcomed this new current. Upon his return to the Netherlands, Sluijters applied the bright colors of the Parisian nightlife to his representation of landscapes. The same tendency can be seen in nature scenes by other Luminists, like Leo Gestel and Piet Mondriaan.
I'm hoping that this festive painting by Jan Sluijters will put you in the right mood for tonight's celebrations. From all of us at The World According to Art: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
(Text: Pauline Dorhout)"
(http://rijksmuseumamsterdam.blogspot.nl/)
Eero Järnefelt's landscapes from Koli
(http://imgfile.367art.net/uploads/allimg/c110320/13005ZYV9150-53400.jpg) (http://www.serlachius.fi/storage/files/25/taidekoulu-gosta/0119_1.jpg)
(http://imgfile.367art.net/uploads/allimg/c110320/13005Z941a250-24L0.jpg) (http://taidemuseo.kuopio.fi/image/image_gallery?uuid=94a64878-8644-4a33-9988-874d86946484&groupId=10507&t=1368442019439)
The second reminds me of Cadillac Mountain in Maine!
Quote from: karlhenning on October 06, 2015, 06:43:36 AM
The second reminds me of Cadillac Mountain in Maine!
One mountain can certainly be very much like another.
They look rather Group of Seven-y. (This is praise.)
Quote from: Ken B on October 06, 2015, 07:05:29 AM
They look rather Group of Seven-y. (This is praise.)
Of course it would be praise from you. ;)
Järnefeldt (1863-1937) worked already well before G7, or Tom Thomson, of course. Here's his
Autumn Scene from Lake Pielinen, from 1899 - again, from Koli.
(http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/sininenlaulu/yle.fi/teema/sininenlaulu/kuvat/sl_iso_jarnef_maisema__vari_1DB-221504.jpg)
Alexei Jawlensky: Still-life with Hyacinths and Oranges, 1902
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e6/f9/40/e6f94033a390d054eb7a390e14818d6d.jpg)
(http://www.thekremercollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/honthorst1.jpg)
Van Honthorst
"CDCDCD sufferer examining a new disc"
Oil on canvas
Rembrandt in the 1660s
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Rembrandt_Self-portrait_%28Kenwood%29.jpg/497px-Rembrandt_Self-portrait_%28Kenwood%29.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Rembrandt%2C_Self_Portrait_at_the_Age_of_63.jpg/828px-Rembrandt%2C_Self_Portrait_at_the_Age_of_63.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_-_Portret_van_een_paar_als_Oud-Testamentische_figuren%2C_genaamd_%27Het_Joodse_bruidje%27_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_-_Portret_van_een_paar_als_Oud-Testamentische_figuren%2C_genaamd_%27Het_Joodse_bruidje%27_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Rembrandt_-_De_Staalmeesters-_het_college_van_staalmeesters_%28waardijns%29_van_het_Amsterdamse_lakenbereidersgilde_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-Rembrandt_-_De_Staalmeesters-_het_college_van_staalmeesters_%28waardijns%29_van_het_Amsterdamse_lakenbereidersgilde_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Raphael - Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1507 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine_of_Alexandria_(Raphael))
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Raffael_020.jpg/786px-Raffael_020.jpg)
Julie Mehretu
(http://images.berggruen.com/www_berggruen_com/Untitled_2001_diptych_JM_p3.jpg)
Roger Hilton
(http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d49917/d4991758r.jpg)
Neil Fujita
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-97BQEg030Pk/T-DogUbqvmI/AAAAAAAAKCg/jf_dVxIfbGY/s640/Neil_Fujita_Gouldb.jpg)
Haven't heard of Mehretu before. She is certainly interesting. I like the combination of Abstract Expressionism [Pollock] and Classical Chinese art here.
(https://mytextileslearninglog.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/julie_mehretu_auguries-2010.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on October 21, 2015, 10:07:25 AM
Haven't heard of Mehretu before. She is certainly interesting. I like the combination of Abstract Expressionism [Pollock] and Classical Chinese art here.
(https://mytextileslearninglog.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/julie_mehretu_auguries-2010.jpg)
I agree. My son lived in San Francisco for about 8 years and sent us a book of her art. New to me prior to that.
Quote from: sanantonio on October 21, 2015, 09:54:14 AM
Julie Mehretu
.... made me think of Georges Mathieu!
(http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d53925/georges_mathieu_philippe_ii_recoit_de_jeunes_seigneurs_japonais_envoye_d5392557h.jpg)
(http://image2.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2012/303/99901042_135163791147.jpg)
Walton Ford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Ford) - Nila from Pancha Tantra (Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra Taschen Books, Köln, Germany 2nd edition: 2009 ISBN 978-3-8228-5237-8)
(https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/9681/49_14/01061_su_walton_ford_030/01061_su_walton_ford_03_l.jpeg)
Jan van der Kooi (http://www.janvanderkooi.nl/en/works/.php?rubriek=1&werk=207): Dead of Winter, Dawn - 2011 - oil on panel - 122 x 120
(http://www.janvanderkooi.nl/imagecache/1347.jpg)
Bedroom window, June - 2010 - oil on panel - 65 x 61 cm
(http://www.janvanderkooi.nl/imagecache/1275.jpg)
August in my studio - 2010 - oil on panel - 122 x 120
(http://www.janvanderkooi.nl/imagecache/1285.jpg)
Vilhelm Hammershoi (15 May 1864 – 13 February 1916)
(http://www.epdlp.com/fotos/hammershoi2.jpg)
(http://uploads0.wikiart.org/images/vilhelm-hammershoi/interior-from-strandgade-with-sunlight-on-the-floor-1901.jpg)
Quote from: pjme on October 21, 2015, 11:44:40 AM
Vilhelm Hammershoi (15 May 1864 – 13 February 1916)
Beautiful!
Hammershøi - Interior 1899
(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N04/N04106_10.jpg)
G.C. Myers. Local artist who now commands big prices for his landscapes. Luckily I got my hands on a few originals before he made it big.
Quote from: Mr. Three Putt on October 21, 2015, 12:43:43 PM
G.C. Myers. Local artist who now commands big prices for his landscapes. Luckily I got my hands on a few originals before he made it big.
Nice, and very lucky indeed for you.
http://www.aronwiesenfeld.com/2012-2013/
(http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52aa470de4b04f67f9176c16/52bdd119e4b09b49d460d643/52bdd11be4b08cf86db7a350/1388188887915/Guest+House.jpg)
Oh, to be in Boston...
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/class-distinctions
(http://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/banner_grid-6_retina/s3/zNew891531_SC312226_4x3.jpg?itok=ABoLmuOX) (http://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/publication/s3/SC256300_4x3_0.jpg?itok=RaCBQXNy)
(http://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/publication/s3/SC319192_4x3_1.jpg?itok=ehzk9lpW%5B/im%5D %20%5Bimg%5Dhttp://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/banner_grid-9_retina/s3/Johannes_Verneer-A_Lady_Writing-4x3.jpg?itok=VkGhHlsa) (http://mfas3.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/banner_grid-9_retina/s3/Johannes_Verneer-A_Lady_Writing-4x3.jpg?itok=VkGhHlsa)
(http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/wcm/connect/81d45881-7667-44ae-800d-8b547db63d9b/WOA_IMAGE_1.jpg?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=2c5de22b-e8e1-4bcc-8b76-7ea5ec5b987d)
Rembrandt: Portrait of Jeremias de Decker (1609-1666), poet, 1666, 71x56 cm, Hermitage
(http://archive.newmuseum.org/media/newmuseum/images/4/1/80615_ca_object_representations_media_4134_large.jpg)
Moke Munte - Car Accident (1987)
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/hockney.pearblossom-highway.jpg)
David Hockney. Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th April 1986 #2
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hockney/hockney.furstenberg-paris.jpg)
David Hockney. Place Furstenberg, Paris, August 7,8,9, 1985 #1
(http://www.artresourcegroup.com/i/gallery/full/Ed-Moses.jpg)
Ed Moses. QUEST MARKER (1987)
(http://www.artresourcegroup.com/i/gallery/full/Moses.jpg)
Ed Moses. Untitled (1957)
Another two by Ed Moses. Great artist. Versatile work.
From Wikipedia:
"Ed Moses (born April 9, 1926) is an American artist based in the Los Angeles area and considered one of the most innovative and central figures of postwar West Coast art."
(http://www.beartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Ed-Moses-Red-over-Black-2012-mixed-media-on-canvas-48-%C3%97-36-inches.jpg) (http://radiusbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/Moses-web.jpg)
(https://d32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net/1Y_WWdNfbS9KEevhs25yJw/large.jpg)
More works to be found here: http://www.artnet.com/artists/ed-moses/2 (http://www.artnet.com/artists/ed-moses/2)
And now some Dutch Golden Age still-life paintings.
Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606–1683/1684) - Vase of Flowers, 1660
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Jan_Davidsz_de_Heem_-_Vase_of_Flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/800px-Jan_Davidsz_de_Heem_-_Vase_of_Flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
A Table of Desserts, 1640
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Jan_Davidsz._de_Heem_-_A_Table_of_Desserts_-_WGA11289.jpg)
Pieter Claesz (1597/1598-1660) - Still life with silverware and lobster
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Pieter_Claesz_-_Tafel_mit_Hummer%2C_Silberkanne%2C_gro%C3%9Fem_Berkemeyer%2C_Fr%C3%BCchteschale%2C_Violine_und_B%C3%BCchern.jpg/1280px-Pieter_Claesz_-_Tafel_mit_Hummer%2C_Silberkanne%2C_gro%C3%9Fem_Berkemeyer%2C_Fr%C3%BCchteschale%2C_Violine_und_B%C3%BCchern.jpg)
Jan Weenix - Still Life with a Dead Swan, ca. 1651
(http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/still-life-with-a-dead-swan-jan-weenix.jpg)
Tremendous works. How they achieve that is highly amazing.
Tamara de Łempicka (http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/)
(http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/105002/Young-Lady-with-Gloves,-1930-large.jpg)
(http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/104945/Portrait-of-the-Marquis-d'Afflito,-1925-large.jpg)
(http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/104973/The-Green-Turban,-1929-large.jpg)
Peter Schmidt (http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/main.html)
(http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/moonandstarbig.jpg)
(http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/WildFlowers.jpg)
(http://www.peterschmidtweb.com/roadtothecratersmaller.jpg)
Vojen Wilhelm Cech aka Collini (http://colini.gap.net/)
(http://d2.gap.net/Colini/Ouevres/C204lg9.jpg)
(http://d2.gap.net/Colini/Ouevres/C233lg9.jpg)
(http://d2.gap.net/Colini/Ouevres/C275lg9.jpg)
Jan van Huysum (1682-1749)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Jan_van_Huysum_%28Dutch_-_Vase_of_Flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/800px-Jan_van_Huysum_%28Dutch_-_Vase_of_Flowers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Jan_van_Huysum_%28Dutch_-_Fruit_Piece_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/775px-Jan_van_Huysum_%28Dutch_-_Fruit_Piece_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Bouquet_of_Flowers_in_an_Urn2.jpg/761px-Bouquet_of_Flowers_in_an_Urn2.jpg)
Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Roses%2C_Convolvulus%2C_Poppies%2C_and_Other_Flowers_in_an_Urn_on_a_Stone_Ledge_-_Rachel_Ruysch_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg/795px-Roses%2C_Convolvulus%2C_Poppies%2C_and_Other_Flowers_in_an_Urn_on_a_Stone_Ledge_-_Rachel_Ruysch_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg)
Quote from: Rinaldo on October 25, 2015, 09:51:32 AM
Tamara de Łempicka (http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/)
(http://www.tamara-de-lempicka.org/104945/Portrait-of-the-Marquis-d'Afflito,-1925-large.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519a6-KueuL._SX300_QL70_FMwebp_.jpg)
Gabriël Metsu - Man Writing a Letter and Woman Reading a Letter, both from mid 1660s, located in National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Man_Writing_a_Letter_by_Gabri%C3%ABl_Metsu.jpg/800px-Man_Writing_a_Letter_by_Gabri%C3%ABl_Metsu.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Woman_Reading_a_Letter_by_Gabri%C3%ABl_Metsu.jpg/788px-Woman_Reading_a_Letter_by_Gabri%C3%ABl_Metsu.jpg)
Makes me happy, looking at these works by Metsu. The light, heavenly.
Renoir: In the Meadow, 1888-92
(http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/DT1398.jpg)
Young Girls at the Piano, 1892
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Auguste_Renoir_-_Young_Girls_at_the_Piano_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/775px-Auguste_Renoir_-_Young_Girls_at_the_Piano_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children, 1878
(http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/DT49.jpg)
Harry Bowden (1907 - 1965)
(http://www.askart.com/photos/SWN20150604_89288/189_1.jpg)
(http://www.artresourcegroup.com/i/gallery/full/BowdenUntitled1.jpg)
Tyeb-Mehta (1925 – 2009). Indian artist
(http://artdaily.com/imagenes/2015/10/27/chrimum-2.jpg)
(http://www.theglobalindian.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Art_Tyeb-Mehta.jpg)
Seems to be to me a sort of crossing between Picasso and Matisse.
Also Bacon influences.
(http://kumargallery.com/normal/1232_n.jpg)
Don't know if I really like it and what the artist wanted to express with it. A bit spooky it is. However the artist is certainly skilled and I like the forms and colors.
Maybe because the influences are clearly visible, and the artist didn't really succeed in make it his own, it's not really great art.
Japanese artist, Fujinraijin Tawaraya (early 17th century)
(http://www.esacademic.com/pictures/eswiki/70/Fujinraijin-tawaraya.jpg)
(http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/auc-eurasia/cabinet/02646027/imgrc0063268182.jpg)
(http://www.e-torch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TreesF1962_30-700x467.jpg)
Quote from: Henk on October 28, 2015, 02:56:24 AM
Also Bacon influences.
(http://kumargallery.com/normal/1232_n.jpg)
Don't know if I really like it and what the artist wanted to express with it. A bit spooky it is. However the artist is certainly skilled and I like the forms and colors.
Maybe because the influences are clearly visible, and the artist didn't really succeed in make it his own, it's not really great art.
Another Indian artist, Vasudeo Gaitonde (1924 - 2001). From very traditional to more modern. He remained close to his roots, which results in much more interesting works imo.
(https://blogdotsaffronartdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/gaitonde-4-blog3.png) (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SdqYNp1uafs/UMENZTgQydI/AAAAAAAAVAs/yvkmMpk-uK8/s1600/vasudeo_gaitonde-3.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on October 27, 2015, 05:03:43 AM
Renoir
You could put nearly his entire output in this thread and still be on point....
Astrid Krogh
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/b5/ba/afb5ba6a85d1fe34e4de4a1c0bdd67e8.jpg)
Quote from: mc ukrneal on October 28, 2015, 03:48:32 AM
You could put nearly his entire output in this thread and still be on point....
I would like to say yes to this, but ... uh... I suppose you aren't familiar with all of his works from the 'dry period' when he renounced Impressionism? Some good work among them too, but some are hideous. But I shan't post any, as this is the 'Art that you like' thread.
To take my mind off that hideousness,
Seurat's
Parade,
Bathers in Asnières and
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte(http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/web-large/DP133010.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Baigneurs_a_Asnieres.jpg/1280px-Baigneurs_a_Asnieres.jpg) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/A_Sunday_on_La_Grande_Jatte%2C_Georges_Seurat%2C_1884.jpg/1024px-A_Sunday_on_La_Grande_Jatte%2C_Georges_Seurat%2C_1884.jpg)
Jacob van Ruisdael
(https://visualelsewhere.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/a_winter_landscape_with_a_view_of_the_river_amstel_and_amsterdam_in_the_distance_by_jacob_van_ruisdael.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Windmill_at_Wijk_bij_Duurstede_1670_Ruisdael.jpg/1241px-The_Windmill_at_Wijk_bij_Duurstede_1670_Ruisdael.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Jacob_van_Ruisdael_Vue_d'Amsterdam.jpg)
(http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/assets/1106/0000/0103/ruisdael_-_evening_landscape.jpg)
(http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/dutchimages_two/ruisdael_d.jpg)
(https://visualelsewhere.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/dp123841.jpg)
(https://visualelsewhere.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ruisdael_egmond.jpg)
Landscape with Waterfall, Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael, c. 1668 - Rijksmuseum
(https://lh6.ggpht.com/hn9sG6UUJUr5BhTMdsECYcIXk2oJwabBAE8VurW3wIoJWJY3NU0wEVdtRNG9OBLC0iCayCjV42J-QEBIVhJGVk0zlUcS=s1920)
Rembrandt
(https://nielsbergervoet.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/ox.jpg)
Goya
(http://uploads8.wikiart.org/images/francisco-goya/saturn-devouring-one-of-his-children-1823.jpg)
Repin
(http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/ilya-repin/get-away-from-me-satan.jpg)
Gallen-Kallela
(http://www.ateneum.fi/sites/ateneum.fi/files/images/page/gallen_lemminkaisen_aiti.jpg)
Monet
(https://retrogradecanvas.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/2vario03.jpg)
Cezanne
(http://www.paulcezanne.org/images/paintings/the-murder.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne,_Pyramid_of_Skulls,_c._1901.jpg)
Otto Dix
(https://kdoutsiderart.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/the-skull-1924.jpg)
Munch
(http://www.edvardmunch.org/images/paintings/the-scream.jpg)
Sickert
(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/research/595_10.jpg)
I usually enjoy Goya but I'm always terrified by that one portrait. In a bad way. This page has at least 4 paintings/pictures that give me nightmares. Of those four, two are enjoyable in some odd way despite their terror-inducing qualities. A weird attraction. Munch not only managed to create in the Scream a terrifying and terrific painting but also, painted onto the frame, the greatest description of a panic attack, ever.
I went to a small Monet exhibit with my family during past weekend that was structured around the theme of bridges. This painting particularly stuck with me, maybe because I haven't seen many Monet pictures with that specific tone of color:
(http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article27045986.ece/BINARY/image.jpg)
Quote from: Artem on November 02, 2015, 08:06:56 PM
I went to a small Monet exhibit with my family during past weekend that was structured around the theme of bridges. This painting particularly stuck with me, maybe because I haven't seen many Monet pictures with that specific tone of color
A beautiful earlyish
Monet indeed. The scaffolding is a sign of the repairing/rebuilding after the war. The choice of subject shows that Monet wanted to be identified as a part of rebuilding the post-Franco Prussian War France.
Edward Steichen - Actress Gloria Swanson, 1924
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2nyNKYZUvTs/ThOfUsmq3II/AAAAAAAAFoI/1uNBQR1n3rI/s1600/steichen-2.jpeg)
Steichen - Spiral Shell, 1921
(http://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/features/slideshows/le-tournesol-edward-steichen/spiral-shell.jpg)
Frederic Church
(http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/England/London/National%20Gallery/Frederic%20Church/Frederic-Church-X8040.pr.jpg)
(http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/England/London/National%20Gallery/Frederic%20Church/Frederic-Church-X8042.pr.jpg)
(http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/England/London/National%20Gallery/Frederic%20Church/Frederic-Church-X8041.pr.jpg)
(http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/England/London/National%20Gallery/Frederic%20Church/Frederic-Church-X8024.pr.jpg)
(http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/England/London/National%20Gallery/Frederic%20Church/Frederic-Church-X8035-pr.jpg)
JMW Turner - Venice (watercolours)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner_-_The_Sun_of_Venice_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D32/D32154_10.jpg)
(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D32/D32125_10.jpg) (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D32/D32118_10.jpg)
(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D32/D32166_10.jpg) (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/D/D32/D32130_10.jpg)
Turner is always good!
In Antwerp, the Photography Museum has a very well documented show on August Sander. Nearly 300 exhibits - ranging from very well known portraits to lesser known landscapes and botanical illustrations.
I found the sheer amount of photographs rather intimidating...Still, an excellent and greatly informative show.
http://www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/august-sander.html
Some musicians show up :
(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/AL/AL00126_9.jpg)
Paul Hindemith
(http://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjMyOTI0OCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDUxMng1MTJcdTAwM0UiXV0?sha=bb09db2039d8b318)
Ernst Toch
August Sander (DE, 1876-1964) is considered one of the most influential photographers of the last century. With his conceptual portrait series People of the 20th Century, he set out to provide a record of the social order of the age. As iconic as his portraits are of 'the pastry cook, 1928', 'the farmers, 1914', 'the revolutionaries, 1929' and so on, to reduce his life's work to this well-known portrait series would be to do Sander an injustice.
In addition to a selection from People of the 20th Century, the exhibition is displaying a kaleidoscopic retrospective of different themes spanning five decades: cityscapes of Cologne before and after World War II, German landscapes, botanical studies, commissioned work for the industrial sector and much more.The exhibition presents both famous and never-before-exhibited masterpieces and series by August Sander and includes over three hundred original prints.
This major exhibition was organised in partnership with Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne.
Curators: Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Rein Deslé and Joachim Naudts
Quote from: pjme on November 09, 2015, 12:20:15 PM
In Antwerp, the Photography Museum has a very well documented show on August Sander. Nearly 300 exhibits - ranging from very well known portraits to lesser known landscapes and botanical illustrations.
Sounds a fine way to spend a leisurely afternoon!
Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877. Art Institute of Chicago.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Gustave_Caillebotte_-_Paris_Street%3B_Rainy_Day_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-Gustave_Caillebotte_-_Paris_Street%3B_Rainy_Day_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Eugène Atget - Versailles, parc - 1901
(http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/eugene-atget-versailles-parc-1901-1355947795_b.jpg)
Atget - Versailles, The Orangerie Staircase, 1901
(http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP124793.jpg)
Atget - Saint-Cloud. (1921-2)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/82/72/7e/82727efe7afe16419da0fc947f7192b2.jpg)
Atget - Parc de Sceaux, 1925
(https://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/atget2012_parcdesceaux_june1925-web.jpg?w=1060)
Quote from: Ken B on September 27, 2015, 03:08:05 PM
You are missing the point. The futility of war. Such an edgy subject, no-one has ever taken that tack before. You really have to admire the artist for his moral courage. And the audience. Especially the audience.
Clear now James?
You're being sarcastic right? War is futile, such a revelation. It's more like a racket.
This isn't art, it's total bullshit.
Quote from: Todd on September 27, 2015, 11:03:59 AM
(http://www.bellevuearts.org/images/exhibitions/Nathan_Vincent/03.jpg)
Nathan Vincent's Let's Play War! (The full spread at Bellevue Arts Museum is better yet, with its effective, dim lighting.)
made me think of this by the Chapman Bros
(http://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/chapman-ronald-sacrelidge.jpg)
Norman Ackroyd, CBE, RA (1938-, Leeds) http://www.normanackroyd.com/
(http://www.normanackroyd.com/wp-content/gallery/scotland-north/St.-Kilda-Rain-copy.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on November 19, 2015, 08:21:37 AM
Norman Ackroyd, CBE, RA (1938-, Leeds) http://www.normanackroyd.com/
(http://www.normanackroyd.com/wp-content/gallery/scotland-north/St.-Kilda-Rain-copy.jpg)
Gorgeous, thanks for sharing. The Northern Scotland series is especially mesmerizing.
Quote from: Rinaldo on November 28, 2015, 01:12:32 PM
Gorgeous, thanks for sharing. The Northern Scotland series is especially mesmerizing.
Your welcome 8)
Abelardo Morell is contemporary photographer I've recently discovered, some brilliant stuff.
http://www.abelardomorell.net/about-abelardo-morell/
(http://dev.abelardomorell.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Nadelman-Hopper-800x632.jpg) (http://dev.abelardomorell.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Tent-Camera-Image-on-Ground-View-of-Rio-Grande-and-Mexico-Near-Boquillas-Canyon-Big-Bend-National-Park-Texas.jpg)
(http://dev.abelardomorell.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Laura-Brady-in-the-Shadow-of-Our-House_94_slide-800x628.jpg) (http://dev.abelardomorell.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Doll-House_87_slide.jpg)
Fan Ho (1937-)
Approaching Shadow
(http://media3.artspace.com/media/fan_ho/approaching_shadow/fan_ho_approaching_shadow_1024x768.jpg)
(http://121clicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fan_ho_01.jpg)
On the stage of life, 1954, from series Hong Kong Yesterday
(http://theredlist.com/media/database/photography/history/street/fan-ho/015-fan-ho-theredlist.jpeg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/de/b5/37/deb537b709b66c6438a0879380c9e9a8.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8-DyTsoQSeI/TSIh4IiqIsI/AAAAAAAAQ1U/bPDaklBSifs/s1600/Photo%2BAlmanac%2B1954_15.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ab/8a/45/ab8a451c181bb8c9e6f0d9e54b7caa3f.jpg)
Some kid 20??-20??
Mommy at Work
(http://cdn.happyplace.com/assets/images/2011/09/4e60fa380dfcf.png)
What if she's actually an exotic dancer? Nice recovery!
Quote from: North Star on December 01, 2015, 04:59:35 AM
Fan Ho (1937-)
Approaching Shadow
(http://media3.artspace.com/media/fan_ho/approaching_shadow/fan_ho_approaching_shadow_1024x768.jpg)
This is fantastic. Ho's photos reminded me of the works of Rupert Vandervell.
Quote from: North Star on December 01, 2015, 04:59:35 AM
Fan Ho (1937-)
Approaching Shadow
(http://media3.artspace.com/media/fan_ho/approaching_shadow/fan_ho_approaching_shadow_1024x768.jpg)
(http://121clicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fan_ho_01.jpg)
On the stage of life, 1954, from series Hong Kong Yesterday
(http://theredlist.com/media/database/photography/history/street/fan-ho/015-fan-ho-theredlist.jpeg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/de/b5/37/deb537b709b66c6438a0879380c9e9a8.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8-DyTsoQSeI/TSIh4IiqIsI/AAAAAAAAQ1U/bPDaklBSifs/s1600/Photo%2BAlmanac%2B1954_15.jpg)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ab/8a/45/ab8a451c181bb8c9e6f0d9e54b7caa3f.jpg)
It gives me the feel of a "modern" version of Lang's Metropolis film.
Happy 175th birthday, Berthe Morisot!
(http://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/berthe-morisot/two-sisters-on-a-couch.jpg)
(http://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/berthe-morisot/young-woman-at-the-mirror.jpg)
(http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/impressionism/images/BertheMorisot-The-Cradle-1872.jpg)
(http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/upload/img/morisot-summers-day-NG3264-fm.jpg)
(http://impressionistsgallery.co.uk.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/artists/Artists/mno/morisot/pictures/The%20Basket%20Chair,%201885.jpeg)
Ah, there's an art that you like thread. ;D
This is certainly a thread I like. 8)
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Josef Sudek (1896 Kolín, Bohemia – 1976, Prague).
The photo on the right in the second row is from the Janacek-Hukvaldy house museum.
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Sudek indeed, one of the great masters, especially of still-lifes. He was disabled and unable to venture far outside his house. However, he had great enough talent to make extraordinary images out of the most ordinary objects.
The one of the statues reminds me of Edward Steichen's photos of Rodin's statues of Balzac, which are some of the most haunting, otherworldly images I have ever seen.
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Rodin himself:
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Steichen was undoubtedly one of the very greatest portrait photographers, although later in life he started photographing Hollywood celebrities, who are far less interesting than his earlier subjects, such as Richard Strauss:
(https://www.themonthly.com.au/sites/default/files/styles/blog_image/public/m/StraussSteichen.jpg?itok=klWSkeKM)
Landon Rives, an absolutely gorgeous young lady in a very mysterious and enchanting setting (but in this crop of the image looks a bit possessed, until you zoom in).
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Going by Wikipedia, the statue photographed by Steichen in 1911 was Rodin's plaster cast, standing in the garden of Rodin's home in Meudon. It was cast in Bronze in 1939. The cast made then was erected in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris.
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This is the version displayed at the Musee Rodin. Not sure when it was cast. In Rodin's lifetime, no casts were made.
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Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on January 15, 2016, 04:30:39 PM
Sudek indeed, one of the great masters, especially of still-lifes. He was disabled and unable to venture far outside his house. However, he had great enough talent to make extraordinary images out of the most ordinary objects.
The one of the statues reminds me of Edward Steichen's photos of Rodin's statues of Balzac, which are some of the most haunting, otherworldly images I have ever seen.
Rodin himself:
Steichen was undoubtedly one of the very greatest portrait photographers, although later in life he started photographing Hollywood celebrities, who are far less interesting than his earlier subjects, such as Richard Strauss:
Landon Rives, an absolutely gorgeous young lady in a very mysterious and enchanting setting (but in this crop of the image looks a bit possessed, until you zoom in).
Oh yes,
Steichen was one of the greats. Haunting is indeed an apt word for many of his earlier works.
Lady Ian Hamilton, 1907
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Nocturne – Orangery Staircase, Versailles 1908
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Norman Ackroyd (http://www.normanackroyd.com) - Near Offa's Dyke, Radnor
(http://www.normanackroyd.com/wp-content/gallery/wales/No.-404-Near-Offa's-Dyke-Radnor--copy.jpg)
Cy Twombly
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More Norman Ackroyd
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Lionel Walden, Steelworks, Cardiff, at Night, 1895–97 (detail). Oil on canvas.
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Lionel Walden, Cardiff Docks
Jim C. Norton
http://jimcnorton.com (http://jimcnorton.com)
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Quote from: Henk on January 24, 2016, 06:56:11 AM
Lionel Walden, Cardiff Docks
Nice. This one reminds me of
Atkinson Grimshaw.
I realize I never do it myself... but I'd like to know what it is that you like about each of these artists.
Warwick Goble
https://www.google.nl/search?q=Warwick+Goble&client=opera&hs=fzj&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW0JPA6cLKAhVCXSwKHVxrAHYQ_AUIBygB&biw=1366&bih=658#imgrc=_ (https://www.google.nl/search?q=Warwick+Goble&client=opera&hs=fzj&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW0JPA6cLKAhVCXSwKHVxrAHYQ_AUIBygB&biw=1366&bih=658#imgrc=_)
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Quote from: North Star on January 24, 2016, 07:04:17 AM
Nice. This one reminds me of Atkinson Grimshaw.
I realize I never do it myself... but I'd like to know what it is that you like about each of these artists.
Quite romantic pics, all the three artists I just posted. I'm in a romantic mood.
And I read something about industrialization lately, so therefor the Lionel Walden. I love the night impression of the trains, could picture myself in.. :)
The Indian paintings, very well crafted. You can feel the spirit.
As well with the Warwick Goble. With animals, very mystical.
Quote from: North Star on January 22, 2016, 06:29:01 AM
More Norman Ackroyd
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These are absolutely remarkable, Karlo. Never heard of Ackroyd.
It's Yoko Ono, so it's art
https://youtu.be/d3mvEfON2CI
Bill Brandt (1904-1983)
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(http://www.artinlimbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/HALIFAX-1937-1-C28135.jpg) (http://www.beetlesandhuxley.com/sites/default/files/stock-images/MISTY-EVENING-IN-SHEFFIELD-1937-1-C28109.jpg)
(http://www.artinlimbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/tumblr_lf56t98Meh1qzfye6o1_12801.jpg) (http://www.laboiteverte.fr/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/brandt_bill_selfportrait.jpg)
(http://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/sites/default/files/fondation_beyeler/ausstellung/segantini/portraits_web.jpg?1294691757)
Giovanni Segantini
(http://www.outpost-art.org/images/Segantini%20Giovanni/Love%20at%20the%20Fountain%20of%20Life.jpg)
http://www.segantini-museum.ch/en/info-amp-services/italiano.html
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Exclusive news from the Royal Library and the Fin-de-Siècle Museum: an
until recently unknown artwork of Jean Delville has been (re)discovered
in the collections of the Royal Library's Prints Cabinet. As a privileged
partner of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Library is
exhibiting this rare discovery at the Fin-de-Siècle Museum.
Read more at: http://visitbrussels.be/bitc/static/front/img/db/pdf_35008.pdf
P.
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Exclusive news from the Royal Library and the Fin-de-Siècle Museum: an
until recently unknown artwork of Jean Delville has been (re)discovered
in the collections of the Royal Library’s Prints Cabinet. As a privileged
partner of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Library is
exhibiting this rare discovery at the Fin-de-Siècle Museum.
Read more at: http://visitbrussels.be/bitc/static/front/img/db/pdf_35008.pdf
P.
Marvelous!
And I almost forgot : tomorrow the "Bosch year" will be officially opened in the Netherlands / Den Bosch!
It will be a huge event . Read all about it at : http://www.bosch500.nl/en
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And some music to accompany!
https://www.youtube.com/v/eaxBhexEffk
The Jerome Bosch symphony by Serge Nigg apparently is not (yet) on YT.
There's a free fragment at INA: http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHF07009696
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Flemish composer Wim Henderickx wrote "Le Visioni di paura" in 1990 - inspired by Bosch' Inferno and the Gulf crisis..
Here is a performance : http://www.wimhenderickx.com/index.php?page=le-visioni-di-paura-2
And to top it off: butt music!
https://www.youtube.com/v/OnrICy3Bc2U
At the festival a new work by Detlev Glanert will be premiered:
in November the requiem composed by Detlev Glanert will be performed for the first time by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir during the Bosch Requiem at the Saint John's Cathedral.
https://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/node/1426
Stichting Jheronimus Bosch 500 has commissioned Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke to create an installation. They will provide a seven-stage interpretation of Bosch and his life.
Enjoy !
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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P.
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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...
(http://namenookdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gaston-bussieres-nereides.png?w=500)
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.
(http://www.akg-images.de/Docs/AKG/Media/TR5/2/7/5/5/AKG252914.jpg)
Renoir (born 25th of Feb, 1841)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir,_Le_Moulin_de_la_Galette.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_-_Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
(http://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/pierre-auguste-renoir/young-woman-with-a-veil-1877.jpg)
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:
(http://www.wassily-kandinsky.org/images/gallery/Yellow-Red-Blue.jpg)
She also is a big fan of Pollock and Picasso.
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
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(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/04/arts/04iht-rartrembrandt-1/04iht-rartrembrandt-1-blog427.jpg)
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/4/3205/13035329535_f18414875e_b.jpg)
Petri Ala-Maunus- Sturm und Drang
More by him here: http://galleriaheino.fi/en.php?k=120896 (http://galleriaheino.fi/en.php?k=120896)
Happy birthday to Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6684405373_796a197ff2_o.jpg)
The Artist's Daughters (c. 1759)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Thomas_Gainsborough_-_Ann_Ford_%28later_Mrs._Philip_Thicknesse%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/615px-Thomas_Gainsborough_-_Ann_Ford_%28later_Mrs._Philip_Thicknesse%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Ann Ford (later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse), 1760
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Portrait of the Composer Carl Friedrich Abel with his Viola da Gamba (c. 1765)
John Constable (June 11th, 1776 - 1837) - The Hay Wain, 1621
(https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/server.iip?FIF=/fronts/N-1207-00-000049-WZ-PYR.tif&CNT=1&WID=655&QLT=85&CVT=jpeg)
(https://67.media.tumblr.com/ab642b9587d7824d66491b5722d69bfc/tumblr_o234x291NT1v0ojz5o1_1280.jpg)
Dave Heath - Vengeful Sister, Chicago, 1956
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.
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'
(http://i65.tinypic.com/2z7ph6x.jpg)
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:
(http://www.wassily-kandinsky.org/images/gallery/Yellow-Red-Blue.jpg)
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!
(http://www.ggibsongallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Lartigue_BobsledRaceZissouAndMadeleineThibaultInTheBobsled_September_signed_1911_22.jpg)
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
(http://theredlist.com/media/database/photography/history/existentialisme/jacques-henri-lartigue/016-jacques-henri-lartigue-theredlist.jpg)
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Coco, Hendaye, 1934
Quote from: North Star on July 19, 2016, 01:25:30 PM
(http://theredlist.com/media/database/photography/history/existentialisme/jacques-henri-lartigue/016-jacques-henri-lartigue-theredlist.jpg)
Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Coco, Hendaye, 1934
Oh yeah.
David Brookover (http://www.brookovergallery.com/portfolio.php?type=artist)'s photography.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Montauk,_Long_Island,_New_York,_by_Dwight_William_Tryon,_1874,_oil_on_canvas_-_New_Britain_Museum_of_American_Art_-_DSC09250.JPG)
Dwight William Tryon - Montauk, Long Island, New York, 1874
I don't see any reason to pity anyone who grew up here...
One of the most stunning things I have ever had the experience of seeing in real life
(http://content.ngv.vic.gov.au/col-images/api/EXHI037475/large)
'Forever Bicycles' by Ai Weiwei
Emil Nolde
(https://theibtaurisblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ripe-red-rose-hips.jpg)
(http://www.allpaintings.org/d/152197-1/Emil+Nolde+-+Blue+Sea+_Two+Brown+Sails_.jpg)
(http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/emil-nolde-lot-sothebys-1445818474_org.jpg)
(http://www.waldemarsudde.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/emil-nolde-ljusare2.jpg)
(https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/sothebys/85/110185/H0046-L03405275.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on October 12, 2016, 10:09:12 AM
Emil Nolde
(https://theibtaurisblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ripe-red-rose-hips.jpg)
(http://www.allpaintings.org/d/152197-1/Emil+Nolde+-+Blue+Sea+_Two+Brown+Sails_.jpg)
(http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/emil-nolde-lot-sothebys-1445818474_org.jpg)
(http://www.waldemarsudde.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/emil-nolde-ljusare2.jpg)
(https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/sothebys/85/110185/H0046-L03405275.jpg)
David Milne (1882-1953)
(http://canadianartgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/david_milne.jpg)
Oh, a Canadian ;)
Any fans of Takashi Murakami around here?
Quote from: jessop on October 12, 2016, 01:41:38 PM
Any fans of Takashi Murakami around here?
I can't say I know his work very well, but a glimpse doesn't attract me to it. I'd like to know what you think of it, if you do like his work, though.
Quote from: North Star on October 12, 2016, 02:05:18 PM
I can't say I know his work very well, but a glimpse doesn't attract me to it. I'd like to know what you think of it, if you do like his work, though.
His works are often very large, difficult to get the full effect of them on a computer screen. What I do find interesting is his own approach to 'pop art' and especially the combination of traditional styles of Japanese art with his idiosyncratic pop art aesthetic. The paintings with very repetitive motifs I'm not so much a fan of, but there are many more which I find stunning.
Quote from: jessop on October 12, 2016, 02:13:28 PM
His works are often very large, difficult to get the full effect of them on a computer screen. What I do find interesting is his own approach to 'pop art' and especially the combination of traditional styles of Japanese art with his idiosyncratic pop art aesthetic. The paintings with very repetitive motifs I'm not so much a fan of, but there are many more which I find stunning.
Thanks. Yes, I'm sure the large works would impress more in life. His style has still (way) too much of Japanese popular culture in it for me to appreciate it, though.
(https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_181/1460489388694/Wyeth_Tracks_at_Kuerners_z.jpg)
Andrew Wyeth: Tracks at Kuerners, 1995
(https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_181/1460490230781/Wyeth_River_Weir_z.jpg)
Andrew Wyeth: River Weir, 1951
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2vnu_I7zw9E/Vd_MWefUqrI/AAAAAAAABP0/e854jmiC2cI/s1600/M_wyeth_0036.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuSUS1TjJjQ/Vd_MUMVIiZI/AAAAAAAABPc/E1qU8qAeV8s/s1600/6964292215_9b116da7a2_z.jpg)
(https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/04/16/Style/Advance/Images/3456-0011397674571.jpg)
Wind from the Sea, 1947. tempera on hardboard 47x70 cm
Quote from: North Star on October 20, 2016, 10:26:58 AM
(https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_181/1460489388694/Wyeth_Tracks_at_Kuerners_z.jpg)
Andrew Wyeth: Tracks at Kuerners, 1995
(https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_181/1460490230781/Wyeth_River_Weir_z.jpg)
Andrew Wyeth: River Weir, 1951
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2vnu_I7zw9E/Vd_MWefUqrI/AAAAAAAABP0/e854jmiC2cI/s1600/M_wyeth_0036.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZuSUS1TjJjQ/Vd_MUMVIiZI/AAAAAAAABPc/E1qU8qAeV8s/s1600/6964292215_9b116da7a2_z.jpg)
(https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/04/16/Style/Advance/Images/3456-0011397674571.jpg)
Wind from the Sea, 1947. tempera on hardboard 47x70 cm
*searches for Canadian version of Andrew Wyeth*
*fails*
*sighs, shrugs, moves on*
Quote from: Ken B on October 20, 2016, 10:46:36 AM
*searches for Canadian version of Andrew Wyeth*
*fails*
*sighs, shrugs, moves on*
*chortle*
Peder Balke (1804-1887, Norway)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Peder_Balke_-_Stormy_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/782px-Peder_Balke_-_Stormy_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
(https://daxermarschall.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Balke.jpg)
(http://www.lazerhorse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Peder-Balke-3-Norway.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Balke_Nordland.JPG)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qY5lENMs2po/VWity0Vh0fI/AAAAAAAAAMc/Wh-BfU5d6rY/s1600/peder-balke_manelys_1870erne_privateje.jpg)
(http://arthistoryproject.com/site/assets/files/13269/peder-balke-northern-lights-1870-trivium-art-history.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/DpZWKeI.jpg)
Young girl under the bridge Slasko-Dabrowski, Poland. 1980.
This is by Jean-Philippe Charbonnier.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_-_Portret_van_een_paar_als_oudtestamentische_figuren%2C_genaamd_%27Het_Joodse_bruidje%27_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_-_Portret_van_een_paar_als_oudtestamentische_figuren%2C_genaamd_%27Het_Joodse_bruidje%27_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Rembrandt (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669): Jewish Bride, ca. 1667
Not art, perhaps; but when I was ten I was entranced by this paperback cover:
(https://s1.postimg.org/982mggxwyn/20171005_151259.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Alan Ladd in the movie failed to measure up to my fantasy.
Quote from: North Star on January 17, 2017, 01:33:47 PM
Peder Balke (1804-1887, Norway)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Peder_Balke_-_Stormy_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/782px-Peder_Balke_-_Stormy_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
(https://daxermarschall.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Balke.jpg)
(http://www.lazerhorse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Peder-Balke-3-Norway.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Balke_Nordland.JPG)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qY5lENMs2po/VWity0Vh0fI/AAAAAAAAAMc/Wh-BfU5d6rY/s1600/peder-balke_manelys_1870erne_privateje.jpg)
(http://arthistoryproject.com/site/assets/files/13269/peder-balke-northern-lights-1870-trivium-art-history.jpg)
Quite extraordinary pieces, I didn't know those, tak.
Quite like the work of Yayoi Kusama and thought I should get to know a little more of her work considering she is getting her own museum. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get tickets to see it by the time I am in Japan at the end of the year......
Here's a nice pumpkin
(http://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Yayoi-Kusama-Pumpkin-sculpture-1998-.jpg)
I love Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Room instalations:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Yayoi_Kusama_Infinity_Room.jpg)
I wish I could experience one of those in person.
Quote from: jessop on October 05, 2017, 04:38:30 PM
Quite like the work of Yayoi Kusama and thought I should get to know a little more of her work considering she is getting her own museum. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get tickets to see it by the time I am in Japan at the end of the year......
Here's a nice pumpkin
(http://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Yayoi-Kusama-Pumpkin-sculpture-1998-.jpg)
About a year or so ago there was a Yaoi Kusama exhibition in my country (Finland) that I went to see and I remember that pumpkin well. Very interesting.
Quote from: aleazk on October 07, 2017, 03:25:26 AM
I love Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Room instalations:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Yayoi_Kusama_Infinity_Room.jpg)
I wish I could experience one of those in person.
Absolutely. It's a shame that photographs will never do her work justice...
Looking at Nicolas de Staël's work, something I've been meaning to do for a long time...
(http://www.passion-estampes.com/reproduction-toile/destael/toile-destael-paysage.jpg)
(http://artmarketmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_5450.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on March 27, 2018, 02:22:08 AM
Looking at Nicolas de Staël's work, something I've been meaning to do for a long time...
(http://www.passion-estampes.com/reproduction-toile/destael/toile-destael-paysage.jpg)
(http://artmarketmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IMG_5450.jpg)
Yeah, oor
ritter just commented http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,301.msg1137729.html#msg1137729
But anything in particular that immediately strikes you about de Staël's work? When you have a moment, do tell.
Quote from: NikF on March 27, 2018, 02:42:27 AM
Yeah, oor ritter just commented http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,301.msg1137729.html#msg1137729
But anything in particular that immediately strikes you about de Staël's work? When you have a moment, do tell.
Yes, that served as a reminder. :)
Well. The abstraction of shapes in vein of Cézanne and cubists, the use of texture, the colours, and how there's nothing unnecessary.
(https://dg19s6hp6ufoh.cloudfront.net/pictures/612192773/large/The_Sun.jpeg?1389944457)
(http://www.muma-lehavre.fr/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/bdm_stael_antibes.jpg)
Quote from: North Star on March 27, 2018, 02:51:58 AM
Yes, that served as a reminder. :)
Well. The abstraction of shapes in vein of Cézanne and cubists, the use of texture, the colours, and how there's nothing unnecessary.
(https://dg19s6hp6ufoh.cloudfront.net/pictures/612192773/large/The_Sun.jpeg?1389944457)
(http://www.muma-lehavre.fr/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/bdm_stael_antibes.jpg)
I often like to hear what people think and why.
Thanks for your prompt reply. 8)
Quote from: North Star on March 27, 2018, 02:51:58 AM
Well. The abstraction of shapes in vein of Cézanne and cubists, the use of texture, the colours, and how there's nothing unnecessary.
Very nicely put,
Karlo! And good day to you... :)
And who could have thought that football (soccer) could inspire such wonderful paintings? From
Nicolas de Staël's
Parc des Princes series:
(https://bocetostextuales.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nicolas-de-stael-parc-des-princes.jpeg)
(http://img.over-blog.com/250x193/5/89/46/54/Nico02.JPG)
Quote from: ritter on March 27, 2018, 03:22:01 AM
Very nicely put, Karlo! And good day to you... :)
And who could have thought that football (soccer) could inspire such wonderful paintings? From Nicolas de Staël's Parc des Princes series:
Good day,
Rafael!
I think it's only natural really that an artist who's clearly not unaware of the Impressionists would find football an interesting subject - so much in common with the ballerinas, bathers, and horses and jockeys of
Degas.
Looking at Ernst Haas' photographs (not for the first time)
(https://d32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net/zhhn13HMLFemc9X_HvBLbg/larger.jpg)
Lights of New York City (1970)
(http://www.ernst-haas.com/site/images-color-new-york/full-size/color-new-york-59.jpg)
Twin Towers Reflection, NY 1975
(https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjE5OTMyMSJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=2e232a6d8b26f967)
New York 1952
Art of a certain kind....
(https://scontent.fcmh1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/209439233_10159051957540358_5750160053503765225_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=i-z8OGe-ltEAX9JKQLI&_nc_ht=scontent.fcmh1-1.fna&oh=e21a4489d0a86ca5080d8af31da7277b&oe=60E559F5)
Quote from: Cato on July 03, 2021, 06:15:14 PM
Art of a certain kind....
(https://scontent.fcmh1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/209439233_10159051957540358_5750160053503765225_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=i-z8OGe-ltEAX9JKQLI&_nc_ht=scontent.fcmh1-1.fna&oh=e21a4489d0a86ca5080d8af31da7277b&oe=60E559F5)
Very good Leo!
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Ilia_Efimovich_Repin_%281844-1930%29_-_Volga_Boatmen_%281870-1873%29.jpg)
Barge Haulers on the Volga(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Ilya_Repin_Unexpected_visitors.jpg)
They Did Not Expect HimTwo
Ilya Repin paintings (among many) that caught my eye on the Wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin). The Barge Haulers in particular looks more striking in expanded form.
(Hat tip to
@AnotherSpin for the mention of Repin on the Favourite Tchaik Symphony thread)