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It's been a while since we had a decent art-based thread, so please post an image of your favourite painting or sculpture, and include the artist's name as well as the title of the piece (even if you think it's obvious).
No reasons need to be given for your choice (although you may elect to comment).
William Bougeureau, Psyche et l'Amour
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Really like this.
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It's been a while since we had a decent art-based thread
Hmmph. http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/art-appreciation
Better than this crappy thread.
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I said 'decent', DezB. That's the thread I was thinking about when I started this one.
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I can see where this is going.
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Saxrider's post is a fine early example of what was later to become the "Hollywood Bedsheet".
Mandatory linen deployment for scenes involving orgasm.
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Stunning original in the Turner section at the National.
My family history summed up in one painting...
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There's an Igor Mitoraj sculpture at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and it always impressed me. In 2007 we were in A Coruña, Galicaia and they had a large exhibition in a square. It was stunning to see quite familiar forms in such a great place and the azure skies really helped too.
YSP sculpture
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Other stuff
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One of the most striking paintings I've ever seen. In the flesh, it's enough to stop you in your tracks. It just looks so fresh, so modern, so alive. Stunning.
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And however much this one may get mentioned for better or worse, it still takes my breath away when I head out Newcastle way.
Antony Gormley, Angel of the North
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And Woppit, I don't know what you mean about your family history, but nice Turner.
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Woppit that was my Dad's favourite painting, we would always pop in a see it together when he came to visit me.
agree with CFH on Whistlejacket.
the thing is I don't like horses and I really hate the background but when you see it, you HAVE to stop and look.
my kids love it too - I'm not sure if it's for the same reasons or because it's a massive horse in a gallery full of unrelatable pictures.
I prefer a smaller Gormley figure.
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Mario Crossing The Alps
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I could, and have, lose myself in this for hours.
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"The British Channel Seen from the Dorsetshire Cliffs" by John Brett.
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on and on - MemberReally like this
I've been staring at that for ages. Is it photoshopped?
Nope, it’s real alright.
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On a more serious note I’m right into Leigh Lambert
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Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse.
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Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Salvador Dalí.
My tastes are pretty simple
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I have prints of each of these in my house
Drac - I prefer your first image
😉
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De Chirico - Piazza d'Italia
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Star/Steer - Ian Hamilton Finlay
Two artists I'm really digging at the moment, because of their sublime use of light. I'm fascinated by how "real" their works are whilst still being very much paintings. It's like hyper-realism except not.
Joseph Zbukvic
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Hsin-Yao Tseng
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I've always liked The skating minister by Henry Raeburn.
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and a lot of work by Robert Lenkiewicz, i remember seeing some of his stuff while at school and it's stayed with me ever since. probably had something to do with him being a bit of a local eccentric
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Robert Lenkiewicz painted my Father in Law !!! That's not him sat on his knee above!
I love the fighting Temeraire:
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Also love Alex Echo's work:
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include the artist's name as well as the title of the piece (even if you think it's obvious).
Instructions too obscure/laborious but will have a go: 😉
"Stockflotte" 1908, Akseli Gallen-Kallela
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(Rob Shaw, pics of Staithes)
"On Botallack Head" by Kurt Jackson
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Alex Echo's work
First I've seen, and I like!
These:
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these are always hard to appreciate on a computer screen, but IRL Rothko's work nearly always stop me short, I can loose myself for hours in them.
Alex Echo's work
Mine can’t do that.
I I’ve a Rothko copy above my head as I type 😆
I have plenty of modern artists I like, but give me a 13/14th century painted Icon any day..
And when google sorts itself out I’ll post something 🙄
I can loose myself for hours
As long as you clean up afterwards, that's OK, I suppose.
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Constable?
Constable?
None that I can see.
Right, try again.
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None that I can see.
😀
The octopus picture on the previous page...
This is my culture
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RIP 😥
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😆The octopus picture on the previous page...
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I also love these by Craig Davison.
Rothkos are amazing in the flesh (canvas?) - astonishingly clever use of colour and tone to create physical/visual effects once they fill your field of vision.
I can't (as an art teacher) just choose one image, but never tire of these artists (among others)...
John Virtue
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David Hockney
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Guo Xi (blows my mind that he was painting these 1000 years ago)
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Klimt
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Andy Goldsworthy
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Richard Long
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Tommy.
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Interesting fact about Turner's paintings: The skies were the result of the eruption of Tambora, that took place in Indonesia in 1815. The eruption created a huge plume of volcanic ash that spread around the world and resulted in the "year without a summer", and affected the global climate for decades to come.
Other "culture" that resulted indirectly from the eruption were the writings of Mary Shelley, particularly Frankenstein: Inspired by the unusually bad weather, whilst living on the shores of Lake Geneva.
As an aside: I went to the National Portrait Gallery last Saturday: Although I'm not really a fan of portraits, I thought i'd have a look as I've walked past it many times.
Anyhoo: The one that really grabbed me was a painting of Winston Churchill, painted shortly after his demotion from First Lord of the Admiralty, following the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. He looks withdrawn, and tired: A far cry from the Churchill image we know best.
This is the one:
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Hahaha! Nice Bear.
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Frankenstein: Inspired by the unusually bad weather, whilst living on the shores of Lake Geneva.
they spent a lot of time indoors fo'shure, but "inspired" is a bit strong
they spent a lot of time indoors fo'shure, but "inspired" is a bit strong
The influence went a bit beyond just spending more time indoors.
Sorry but LOL at Bear! 😀
This thread reminds me of playing. Masterpiece at NY
Went to National a few weeks ago to see the execution of lady Jane grey. But was on loan sadly.
Yeah they didn't get to do much of the sailing on the lake that they'd planned and that forced them to come up with stories to amuse themselves, but there's many many influences that produced the book that was written two years later.
Love this steel sculpture
Neil Dawson - Horizons
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Shelley describes the weather herself, and the effect it has on her life, in letters to her sister. Lord Byron, Shelley's neighbour, also refers to the weather in one of his poems:
"Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth,
As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth"
Shelley started writing the book in 1815, the year of the Tambora eruption. It was published in 1818.
I think it's fair to say the climate change at the time, resulting from Tambora, affected their way of thinking, which strongly influenced their work.
Saw The Three Graces at the National Gallery in Edinburgh some years ago and was overwhelmed by the simplicity and beauty of it. Still the one piece of sculpture I've truly been taken with. Photos don't do it justice.
We have a print of it at home now, and not just because it's the only way I'm allowed to hang up pictures of ladies in the nuddy.
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Gregory Crewdson
I would've posted Guernica too
Instead, Lee Krasner - Polar Stampede. It's big and another one that's a lot more (actually) awesome in the gallery
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I think it's fair to say the climate change at the time, resulting from Tambora, affected their way of thinking, which strongly influenced their work.
So not at all the loss of her premature baby, her new husband having affairs, the work of Aldini, the enlightenment, or the long nightime discussions of paradise lost, no? It was because it was a bit rainy. Cool story.
I didn't say it was "all" down to it, but it was undeniably a big influence, as it was on all aspects of human life at the time.
Umm, it was more than just 'a bit rainy'. Crops failed all over the world and caused huge famine and hardship.
Anyway, Mary Shelly/Woolstonecraft was clearly inspired by the Enlightenment sweeping Europe; and the birth of modern science and age of rapid discovery, not least the work of Galvani which she'd been reading. People thought that since Galvani had made dead frogs legs move he'd basically brought them back to life temporarily and it was only a matter of time before the dead would be reanimated.
She might've been encouraged to actually write it down by having to spend ages indoors in bad weather mind.
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Actually it's behind you but the grounds are an exhibit themselves.
Indeed. It was a natural disaster on a global scale.
Of course Mary Shelley was influenced by other things, such as science, and her own personal experiences, but the horrific weather and global difficulties certainly created a mood and atmosphere that helped usher in the gothic style.
but the horrific weather and global difficulties certainly created a mood and atmosphere that helped usher in the gothic
What? You're not trying to now suggest that frankenstein was the first gothic novel now, are you?
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One of the most striking paintings I’ve ever seen. In the flesh, it’s enough to stop you in your tracks. It just looks so fresh, so modern, so alive. Stunning
Just finished watching 'Darkest Hour', this painting featured very prominently in King George's reception room
It's a replica that is displayed in Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham (which was used as the stand in for Buck. Palace apparently)
http://www.rothbiz.co.uk/2018/01/news-5855-wentworth-woodhouse-perfect.html?m=1