| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/19/2006 4:38:43 PM | One of my favorites is "Christ's Entry into Brussels 1889" by James Ensor. Even the Avant garde at the time rejected it as tasteless, yet it's still one of the most discussed paintings to this day...
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=932&handle=li | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/19/2006 8:21:41 PM | I have to say that the Pre-Raphaelite era is what draws my attention. The works of Waterhouse, Leighton,D*cksee and more. My favorite among many is Circe 1891 by Waterhouse, the pressense and power displayed in the subject is mystifying.
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/20/2006 8:42:26 AM | I like this painting... the theme is really interesting... how we (humankind) once thought we received inspiration for art...
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/le_sueur/muses.html
LE SUEUR, Eustache
(b. 1616/17, Paris, d. 1655, Paris)
The Muses: Clio, Euterpe and Thalia
1652-55
Oil on wood, 130 x 130 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Le Sueur was the pupil of Vouet. This painting and its companion piece depicting Melpomene, Erato and Polymnia were used to decorate the Cabinet of the Muses of the Hotel Lambert in Paris. These charming, delicately painted pictures foreshadow the coming of Poussin.
The muses are the goddesses of creative inspiration in poetry, song and other arts, they are the companions of Apollo. They were the daughters of Jupiter and the Titaness Mnemosyne (memory) who had lain together for nine consecutive nights. The muses were originally nymphs who presided over springs that had the power to give inspiration, especially Aganippe and Hippocrene on Mount Helicon and the Castilian spring on Mount Parnassus. The nine muses and their usual attributions are the following.
Clio, the muse of history (book, scroll or tablet and stylus).
Euterpe, the muse of music, lyric poetry (flute, trumpet or other instrument).
Thalia, the muse of comedy, pastoral poetry (scroll, small viol, masks).
Melpomene, the muse of tragedy (horn, tragic masks, sword or dagger, crown held in hand, sceptres lying at feet).
Terpsichore, the muse of dancing and song (viol, lyre, or other stringed instrument, harp, crowned with flowers).
Erato, the muse of lyric and love poetry (tambourine, lyre, swan, a putto at her feet).
Urania, the muse of astronomy (globe and compasses, crowned with a circle of stars).
Calliope, the muse of epic poetry (trumpet, tablet and stylus, books, holds laurel crown).
Polyhymnia (or Polymnia), the muse of heroic hymns (portative organ, lute or other instrument). | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/20/2006 10:30:23 PM | I've loved every painting I've seen by Gustav Klimt.
He makes every woman look very feminine and in alot, sensual. I also love the colours, swirls and watery feeling of others. | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/21/2006 12:24:34 AM | One of my favorites is Goya's The Shootings of May Third 1808, or May 3rd.
It's by no means a pleasant scene; unarmed people being shot against a wall by a line of soldiers. I first saw it as a child looking through one of my mother's art books. It began me wondering about human beings how they could create such evil. It shows the moment of death at the hands of other men. The facial expression of the central figure whose arms are outstretched seemed to me the ultimate example of anguish. He has symbolized injustice in my mind ever since. | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/21/2006 4:33:21 PM | | "The Son of Man" by Rene' Magritte has to by my favorite painting. I like the colors and the combination of serious and juvinile imiges. This painting has influenced my own art more than any other. | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/21/2006 8:36:12 PM | | I fell in love him a local artist here in AZ (Fernando Carver) He works with models, he says he sees a womans soul. At which point he turns it into this beautiful, expressive, living creation that speaks to you. No other way to explain it. He makes me feel alive when looking at his paintings. | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/22/2006 7:44:40 AM | | I love Monet's Sunrise. It always has a calming affect on me. I've never understood why the boat to the left is there. I would have left have left it out, but maybe that's why I'm not a painter. | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/24/2006 6:54:30 PM | | I would have to say Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa'. Until recently I just looked at it as another portrait piece but then I read 'The Da Vinci Code' by Dan Brown and was intrigued with his knowledgable background on the painting. If you read the book and look up the history of Da Vinci was trying to put across in this portrait it might very well be one of the most discussed paintings, along with Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'. | |
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Joined: 2/15/2006
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/24/2006 11:32:00 PM | "The Scream". It cheers me up every time. "At least I'm not that poor bugger".
Seriously, while not a painting, any etching from teh school of Fontainebleau turns my crank. It's impossible to pick a favorite. But if I had to, anything by Master LB would be it and I'm not convinced he wasnt da Vinci.
I know squat about art though. | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/28/2006 1:57:26 AM | Not a painting but a collage... 'the snail' by Matisse. It's composed of an arrangement of almost clumsily cut squarish pieces of paper but the vitality, size and simplicity makes it a very emotional work for me...
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 2/28/2006 12:33:11 PM | I guess I'm fairly pedestrian. I love starry night by van gogh. I love the stars, just like dreaming....
I also have a number of original Native paintings that I'm particularly fond of, especially my walrus. Cheers | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 3/1/2006 7:51:57 PM |
I guess I'm fairly pedestrian. I love starry night by van gogh. I love the stars, just like dreaming....
I guess that makes me pedestrian , too. Van Gogh's "sunflowers" was the single work of art that made me "get it" as a child. I had seen the print in many many books and had the "hmmph, another flower picture, big deal" reaction. Then I saw it in exhibition. The depth, the application, she sheer impact of the painting helped me realise what art WAS. I haven't been the same since ...even to the point of making art my career. | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 3/16/2006 12:24:55 AM | One of my own....never thought the day would come when I'd say that. There are painful struggles in every one of my pieces (many that have been destroyed, yeah..I know, I know), but this one was so worth the pain. It is my favourite I think, because the struggle is so evident ...you can see the layers of dried underpaintings from the frustrated gouges and scrapes of my palette knife. I think that's when the painting became beautiful for me. No one ever has anything to say about this one...yet to me it is poignantly beautiful. Ah well... mom and dad like it....probably only cause they were relieved to see me finish it after 2 years  | |
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 3/16/2006 9:57:47 AM | I would say Duchamps "nude descending a staircase" I love the movement and false depth. It was an important painting for it's time.
Anything by Van Gogh, to see one live in person is a life changing experience.
Sculpture would have to be Michelangelo's "Pieta"
Moves me to tears everytime I see it in person. I would argue it is THE best piece of art EVAR! | |
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maxme
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Joined: 12/3/2005
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| A favorite painting and what you like about it?
Posted: 3/17/2006 10:32:27 PM | | I've seen some of the Water Lily paintings by Monet. I have to say the experience changed the way I look at painting. The application of paint is spectacular. The layers of complimentary colors work to produce a cosmic fussion that goes beyond mere image. It creates an experience that alludes to the essense of nature. It gives me goose bumps just to think about it. Jackson Pollack wished he could achieve that level of energy. In my opinion Monet is as good as it gets. | |
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