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Posted: 4/14/2008 1:44:14 PM | i love jasper john wow hi inspired me in my final work in my art study here in cuba . op art , cinetic art.
i love abstrac expressionism.
Rothko , de Kooning , Newman
Isamu Noguchi
Frank Stella
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Posted: 4/14/2008 4:37:36 PM | Trying to do a quick recap.
Beryl Cook's warmth lies in her humour. The painting are a (slight) exageration of an aspect of British behaviour. She paints it in an uncritical way, shes laughing with them, not at them. This is why her painting of heaviness is sincere, those people really are overweight and it serves to make them more amusing. I was wrong about Botero in message 68. I just don't like such obvious politics in art. It strikes me as easy, cheap, the artist is giving nothing of themselves to that picture.
I kind of feel the same about Escher. As much as I admire his technical skill, his invention and his science, hes being intelectual. Its amusing but I want to see passion, fun, fear, misery, lust, joy, not clever little tricks.
This is thread is showing me a lot of art I wouldn't have seen otherwise. Its also proving that the internet is a poor learning tool. No depth, you can get a very little information about an awful lot of things on the web. I do like the look of the Broken Obelisk and the Rothko Chapel.
I like scary but I dont find Giger scary at all. If anything I think his stuff is quite pretty and soft in many ways. Scary is what you don't see, Black Place 1 has it, so does some of Hoppers emptier scenes. There's a picture by Degas thats often titled 'Rape' though he never called it that. It shows two people on almost opposite side of a room, not looking at one another, not moving, now that is scary. | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 4:48:12 PM | this is art toooooo
Barely.
hei Satsumo: I see no humor in Beryl's work; is it english humor?
The fat people of Botero are joyful and peaceful....those of Beryl pathetic, in my opinion. Do you find people's suffering humorous? I don't. ( must be a british thing :)) | |
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Posted: 4/14/2008 5:25:19 PM | I suppose it is English humour. But they aren't suffering, most of her paintings involve people having a good time. Being a little bit risque and generally letting their hair down. If she has a point to make at all, its that their weight dosent matter. Like Botero's people, they are full of life, plump with fun.
Beryl is a quiet character, she paints from life. She visit local bars and pubs (another English thing) and sits quietly watching what goes on. The people in her pictures are doing all the things that she wouldn't. | |
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Posted: 4/15/2008 9:09:30 PM | They aren't painted.. but I hang my photography from my travels.
I print and mat them and they are on my bedroom walls. I go with themes.
The one now hanging is water and oceans. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 9:26:11 AM | A classic:
by Tiziano Vecellio "Assumption of the Virgin", Oil on wood, 690 x 360 cm ( at Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice)
now, this in my opinion, cannot be compared to any work of our modern era. The old taste of exquisite true art.
Also, by the same artist : "Sacred and Profane Love" , Oil on canvas, 118 x 279 cm, (at the Galleria Borghese, Rome) | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 6:22:13 PM | | I don't know if it's been mentioned but Alex Grey is my favorite artist. | |
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Posted: 4/16/2008 7:15:42 PM | Soutine, "Beef Carcass".
Caravaggio, "Salome". (the head of the baptist).
Delacroix(?? -- I think) "Death of Sardanapalus". | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 3:00:54 AM | Hello everyone,thanks for your choices.
Hi Cecilia,im sure your photographs are very beautiful.i am a big fan of the seas and oceans myself.lovely to have your input,thanks.
Human being,nice nickname,
Alex Grey,very thought provoking and i enjoyed most of his work,especially, HOLY FIRE,WONDER,OIL ON LINEN,i would recommend everyone to have a look.
thanks a lot for your choice.
xNEROx,Soutine,beef carcas not for me im afraid but your other two choices both great works of art,the paintings themselves not so much the theme.Great choices,thanks a lot. | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 5:40:08 PM | You guys are all so different, so I am just going to please myself, lol. I've been stuck on the French for a few years. I like this one. I think the contrast appeals to me or something.
Manet The Balcony, 1869 | |
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Posted: 4/17/2008 7:20:29 PM | | hello , your a lady after my own heart, im a massive fan of the great master and prob the greatest ever artist . JWM Turner, Im a fellow artist and love to use parts of his work in mine. my fave of his would have to be `shipwreck` i recently visited the national gallery and was in awe of the scale and movement of his work. google -mark lee mcmeekin art- and you will see some examples of my work. you will be supprised. mark | |
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Posted: 4/19/2008 4:36:16 AM | | Katsushika Hokusai The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1832 | |
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Posted: 4/19/2008 1:10:06 PM | I think Iconoclast really is going to name 100 great paintings.
Actually a common theme among many Iconoclast's choices (apart from being busy) is that they have strong horizontal elements in them. Most often a horizon, the balcony in the case of the Monet painting.
your a lady after my own heart
Erm, Lustre is a not a lady. Not even in the Little Britain sense of the word. | |
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Posted: 4/19/2008 2:10:53 PM | | James Ward - Gordale Scar 1815. Anyone who has ever been to Malham Cove in Yorkshire, may agree that Mr Ward captures just how mighty this place is. For those of you who have never been, its a beautifull place to leave it all behind for the weekend. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 7:26:14 AM | Hi Iconoclast,lovely to see more of your choices,any painting with waves in is good for me .the thread would not be the same without your contribution.thanks a lot.
81 north,a bit dark and sombre from me but im sure the real thing looks fantastic.
spangler bling.I had a look at your work and picked out three favourites,
ahhh oooo,last cast and into the light.its easy to see the Turner influence.great paintings.
One more thing spangler,i know how observant artists have to be but either i need a haircut or you need to go to specsavers.lol.best wishes Mister lustre. | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 9:10:38 AM | I guess you don't want to see anymore of my choices, Lustre  | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 10:57:44 AM | Bloom 10,you are one of my favourite posters,its always lovely to see your choices.
Just because we have different tastes doesnt mean to say i dont look forward to viewing your favourites.Iconoclast and you both have lots to contribute to this thread so choose away,best wishes Lustre | |
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Posted: 4/20/2008 11:37:00 AM | "On the Precipice"
by the local artist
Nancy Blanchard. | |
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Posted: 4/21/2008 9:01:26 AM | I cant find an image of 'On The Precipice' anywhere on the web. Just publicity for an exhibition.
I like Gordale Scar, a great, solid, dark chunk of England under a brooding sky. Though I suspect its much better to see the actual painting. Indeed I think I might go see the actual place, its only about 2 hours from me.
Continuing with the gothic (and attempting to keep up with Iconclast) I'm choosing 2 by Franz Von Stuck - 'Lucifer' or 'Sin'. I can't decide between them. Both deliciously bad, though not quite as bad as 'Sensuality' by the same artist. | |
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Posted: 4/21/2008 12:32:10 PM | There are so many to choose from... Can't really decide. This week I will choose
"The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah" by John Martin | |
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Posted: 4/22/2008 4:41:13 AM |
Actually a common theme among many Iconoclast's choices (apart from being busy) is that they have strong horizontal elements in them. Most often a horizon, the balcony in the case of the Monet painting.
That's an interesting observation that I was unaware of. I dont have your technical appreciation, I just love what I love. Thank you for the insight. (That was Manet, btw)
Bloom 10,you are one of my favourite posters
Me too! Bloom you are sensitive and emotive and probably more like me than the fellas, you also have a painters appreciation that I don't have.
I'm choosing 2 by Franz Von Stuck - 'Lucifer' or 'Sin'. I can't decide between them. Both deliciously bad, though not quite as bad as 'Sensuality' by the same artist.
Oh my goodness. I love all of them. I'm going to spend a little time with Von Stuck.
I've been looking at Rembrandt again. The Music Party, 1626 | |
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Posted: 4/22/2008 8:28:59 AM | Satsumo, you might want to visit Nancy Blanchard's website and scroll over to see her works. I find her art brilliant: I have bought a couple of pieces myself.
My appreciation for art, GentleIconoclast, is typically italian....few north americans can understand art this way: it's a cultural difference; you have to be born on the land where humanity in art developed, in order to truly see and appreciate. Of course nowadays it's a different story....the whole world is becoming Art de-sensitized, in my opinion.....the globality that takes away from the possibility of an individualized philosophy that reaches across the nations. I love The Old. And The New, but in different ways.
Satsumo reads art with his brain. I read art with my heart.
Talking about Rembrandt..."The Return of the Prodigal Son", a psychological work, in my opinion as well as
"Venus and Mars c. 1485 " by Sandro Botticelli.
"The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah", John Martin, 1832. This would never go on my wall: too instinctual.
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Posted: 4/27/2008 11:13:39 PM | Here is a creepy one that I've always liked.
Johann Heinrich Füssli The Nightmare, 1781 | |
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