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Posted: 4/12/2008 9:32:24 PM | Satsumo that is a beautiful painting. O'Keefe has never really moved me though, and I have no idea why or why not. Just one of those things.
Ive been looking at some illustrations, which arent really paintings but here we go anyway.
M.C. Escher
Hand with Reflecting Sphere 1935
Blowball 1943
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Posted: 4/13/2008 12:22:53 AM | Hi GI,thanks again,
C Escher,hand with reflecting sphere,great choice,the others are more like tech drawings but interesting to look at.
Hello Spiffy Kat,
Degas,the dance class,brilliant choice,for me a true work of art.Thanks for your input. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 8:29:27 AM | You're right about me, Lustre. I do like a lot going on in my paintings. This one tells a story about Orpheus and Eurydice.
Niccolo dell'Abate The Death of Eurydice | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 8:37:12 AM | Hi GI,Niccolo dell'abate THE DEATH OF EURYDICE,youre best choice so far GI, up there with the best of them.My tastes are pretty rigid but can't argue with this one.
Thanks for your input as usual. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 9:19:20 AM | Mess. 74, Gentle-Iconoclast: yes, yes, yes
Alesso Baldovinetti's Portrait of a Lady in Yellow
Early Renaissance and from an italian artist: Absolutely stunning and, most importantly, utterly peaceful:
Just what I needed. The Yellow Lady doesn't even look at me but to the side.....nice, sooooo un-invasive.
The blue of the background is truly classic and old-style: this is my taste.
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Posted: 4/13/2008 9:50:30 AM | thanks! I would pick LADY WITH AN ERMINE by Leornardo Da Vinci for you.
Or GRACE by Sandro Botticelli.
or THE LADY IN RED by Giovanni Boldini
(I hope you like the last one, at least)
You can't refuse a gift, you know.
Now, being italian, I have to honor my country, so....I can't pick Vermeer.
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Posted: 4/13/2008 11:37:13 AM | In abstract, I could make an exception for Parklandschaft by Paul Klee. After all he was Swiss and lived at the border with Italy.
Not that I like it, but this one might find you nicely inclined, Gentle-Iconoclast
You might also enjoy the flowers of my concittadino, Mario Zampedroni.
Art is nothing but coming to terms with who we are ( this is for you, Satsumo) | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 12:59:52 PM | I would pick LADY WITH AN ERMINE by Leornardo Da Vinci for you.
Or GRACE by Sandro Botticelli.
or THE LADY IN RED by Giovanni Boldini
Thank you Bloom, I love them all. I think the Da Vinci is my favorite. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 2:25:48 PM | This one has a special appeal for me.
Rembrandt Belshazzar’s Feast | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 4:28:45 PM | I'd like to choose Paul Klee's Kettledrummer.
Klee had a degenerative disease called sclerodermia. It took 6 years to kill him, and in that time it slowly took his energy. Kettledrummer was painted shortly before he died.
Its effectively a picture of Klee's death. The drumer is beating away Klee's life, staring at him with the one baleful eye all the while. It has no mouth, its not going to give up any secrets, or negociate.
Its pitifully empty picture, Klee did not have energy to paint. He's reduced the idea to the simplest, most direct lines possible. This painting reminds me of Beethoven's Fifth. This is a picture of 'Oh ****, I'm going to die'. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 6:04:03 PM | It must be difficult for a painter who cant paint.
In Houston, the Rothko Chapel houses several abstracts from the end of Mark Rothko's life.
All of them black.
It is also home to Barnett Newman's The Broken Obelisk sculpture.
It's a very powerful place and frequently used for memorial services. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 7:03:10 PM | | Another vote for Turner, his 'Modern Italy' is amazing. I used to visit the gallery in Glagsow, UK that houses the original quite often and get lost in it, the painting that is, not the gallery! :p | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 7:05:25 PM | I personally try to stay away from painful minds ( To me Turner's art is painful). Italy in his paintings feels without shape and form.
Death appears to be very inspiring to artists, as much as pain is.
To some death is painful. To some it is a relief. Some can really create horrific paintings before death approaches...I am thinking of some of the final Goya. In comparison some Crucifixions can feel peaceful ( I am thinking of Giotto's Crucifixion).
Why would people look for pain, unless they themselves were in pain.........one sees one's own feelings in it, I guess. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 7:14:52 PM | I personally try to stay away from painful minds.
When I was looking at Escher's illustrations, I debated whether or not to recommend the work of H.R. Giger, but I knew you would hate it. I don't suggest it to those who are sensitive to disturbing themes. | |
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Posted: 4/13/2008 7:40:44 PM | To depict what can be sensed but it is difficult to grasp: isn't this what art does? Perhaps if I cannot look at ugly paintings, it is because I can't sense my own pain: Interesting. Or maybe I am painless right now ( who would have thought?). I feel like one of the dancers in Matisse's dance. Knowing myself tomorrow I might feel like Munch's scream......geez.....how changeable we are.
But hopefully I can just learn to be still, like Eduardo Chacon's Still Life.
It is very interesting how artistic taste changes.....we don't see painting as they are: instead we see them as we are. No wonder I enjoy old renaissance art......old but new in many ways....a new birth of the old me, philosophically speaking.
I wonder why Gentle Iconoclast likes 'Rembrandt's Belshazzar’s Feast'. Is it appealing because of.....the contrast of light and dark?? The stupor of the light? To me is feels scary.
I need a period of still life. | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 12:51:46 AM | I just like scary I guess. I have avoided mentioning some of the scary art I like best because it's just too weird for most people.
My favorite still life is Van Gogh Glass of Absinthe and a Carafe, 1887, it might be a little too busy for your taste, though. | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 7:36:32 AM |
Why would people look for pain, unless they themselves were in pain
I don't think people actively look for it, they just identify with it. Makes them feel less alone. | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 8:51:34 AM | Hi super moose,Turner my fave but not one of his best for me,how about
THE LAKE OF ZUD or
THE GRAND CANAL VENICE.two of my faves.
Thanks a lot for your input super moose,i appreciate it.
Vermeer always popular,i cant argue with that one.
I enjoyed G Boldinis LADY IN RED,good choice and gentle iconoclast let's see some of your scary choices.Thanks again for all of your input. | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 9:20:53 AM | Lustre, I am mainly talking about Sue Coe's portraits of AIDS patients, some of them are very graphic and I dont want to offend anyone. I confess that I am one of those people drawn to political/social art.
I think I will stick to more pleasant choices. How about a still life, I love Manet, I love green.
Edouard Manet A Bunch of Asparagus, 1880 | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 11:24:57 AM | Hi GI,its easy to see how you can be drawn to Sue Coes work but you are right,im sure too disturbing for me and many others i would imagine.Thanks a lot for your input,its always appreciated.
Another choice from me
Jean-baptiste-camille Corot.SOUVENIR OF RIVA. | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 11:44:32 AM | It does not do anything for me.
What a surprise!
Talking about Botero, Satsumo ( mess 68), you should acknowledge that he is colombian, not english like Beryl. The cultural impact is clearly evident to me...and has nothing to do with the political theme.Truly, I find Beryl a way too cold....britishly cold.
Are you British? His paintings lack the emotionality and sensual intuition of Botero's. You find a southern warmth in the art of italians, spanish, portuguese, colombian and mexican artists: this is why I like them ( with the exception of Miro' and Dali'---ambiguous about Picasso). Rivera and Botero are my favourites, just after the big of Italy ( Da Vinci, Giotto & Company)
How did you come up the the Bunch of Asparagus, Gentle-Iconoclast? truly insipid but very realistic. It reminds me of the fields of Giovanni Fattori ( italian realism) | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 12:34:02 PM | hello lustre favourite painting
alexander millar i have got a pencil scetch he is in to humour art he also is still alive
i collect modern art but some old to the modern artist name is piran bishop im looking
for more art but i dream of my first peace of martin bros art pottery thats what i want
now martinware the pleasure of life is to be happy and sad martinware gives me that
kind of feelings well by for now lustre and what a name
colin
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Posted: 4/14/2008 12:48:29 PM | Hi colinrj,thanks for your reply and i have to say i like alexander millars pencil sketches a lot and also his 'forever in your footseps' so a very good choice from you.
When it comes to pottery i really like Moorcroft,lovely lustre.lol.
Thanks for your contribution. | |
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