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Post your favourite work of art here
Is anyone out there interested in art? I thought it might be interesting for people to post a work of art that they like. I'm being serious - no pictures of Michelle March etc please
PS http://www.artcyclopedia.com is a good place to start if you're looking for something.
Here's mine. It's called The Last Tenement and it was painted in 1909 by an American called George Wesley Bellows.
PS http://www.artcyclopedia.com is a good place to start if you're looking for something.
Here's mine. It's called The Last Tenement and it was painted in 1909 by an American called George Wesley Bellows.
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Hard to beat him for perspiration and influence on others: The originals do seem too vivid. (This is Turner btw)
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One of my favourites;
'Chateau des Pyrenees' by Rene Magritte.
'Chateau des Pyrenees' by Rene Magritte.
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Brilliant idea for a thread, Billy Whiz. I doff me cap to you!
Can I ask folks to say who your chosen work is by, please? I'm a bit rusty on fine art these days.
I think its: Miro; Chagall; Turner then Dali?
Here's a rather apt one from Italian Futurist, Umberto Boccioni, 'The Dynamism of a Soccer Player' (1913).
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Can I ask folks to say who your chosen work is by, please? I'm a bit rusty on fine art these days.
I think its: Miro; Chagall; Turner then Dali?
Here's a rather apt one from Italian Futurist, Umberto Boccioni, 'The Dynamism of a Soccer Player' (1913).
(clicky)
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Always liked this one. A print used to be in the headmaster's office at school.
Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali
Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dali
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.I was just thinking is there any football related art will be here.Flyman wrote:Brilliant idea for a thread, Billy Whiz. I doff me cap to you!
Can I ask folks to say who your chosen work is by, please? I'm a bit rusty on fine art these days.
I think its: Miro; Chagall; Turner then Dali?
Here's a rather apt one from Italian Futurist, Umberto Boccioni, 'The Dynamism of a Soccer Player' (1913).
(clicky)
Cheers for that Flyman.That looks like T.Henry's mood nowadays.Confused.
BTW;if he made that picture in 1913,i would say he was really futuristic artist.
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Mate most of the above might be classed as works of art in certain quarters (not mine) but my work of art is alot more appealing on the eye.Billy Whiz wrote:A tediously predictable post from Dot - I'd even asked people not to do that
Do you fall in the category of disillusioned persons that believe that Edvard Munch the scream is a masterpiece? And, if you had the money would spend millions on paintings...
Kinell i wouldn't pay 2-bob for a picture a child could paint BETTER , afterall that appears to be the standard.
As for Picasso dont even go there.
I'd give you Constable, now thats an artist..
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Strangely, this is quite an interesting point made here by Dot.Dot wrote:Mate most of the above might be classed as works of art in certain quarters (not mine) but my work of art is alot more appealing on the eye.Billy Whiz wrote:A tediously predictable post from Dot - I'd even asked people not to do that
Do you fall in the category of disillusioned persons that believe that Edvard Munch the scream is a masterpiece? And, if you had the money would spend millions on paintings...
Kinell i wouldn't pay 2-bob for a picture a child could paint BETTER , afterall that appears to be the standard.
As for Picasso dont even go there.
I'd give you Constable, now thats an artist..
First off, it demonstrates his lack of education in the visual arts. But it goes further than that.
Dot can see the figurative art of constable as worthy, but not the works of Picasso. Because one is registered by the eye and appreciated for it's aesthetic appeal, the other needs to be 'understood' before it's 'look' can be appreciated.
I am just as un-educated in classical music. I do not have the grounding and education in it, to appreciate it in any other way than the pure 'feel' of some of the music. Give me contemporary guitar sound any day, because I've spent 30 years following it's developement.
...having said that, Dali is complete bollox
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Never been a great art lover. I'd rather have a beautiful photo on my wall.
I'm not a great fan of sterotypical blonde bimbos but Dot's piece of art is the best on here. Sp4's (constable?) second. I like some Dali's but not the one on here. The cheesy pap one a clear last - you may as well have a Jack Vettawotsit or dogs playing pool.
I'm not a great fan of sterotypical blonde bimbos but Dot's piece of art is the best on here. Sp4's (constable?) second. I like some Dali's but not the one on here. The cheesy pap one a clear last - you may as well have a Jack Vettawotsit or dogs playing pool.
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I'm with Dot on this one I'm afraid.Spencer4 wrote:Strangely, this is quite an interesting point made here by Dot.Dot wrote:Mate most of the above might be classed as works of art in certain quarters (not mine) but my work of art is alot more appealing on the eye.Billy Whiz wrote:A tediously predictable post from Dot - I'd even asked people not to do that
Do you fall in the category of disillusioned persons that believe that Edvard Munch the scream is a masterpiece? And, if you had the money would spend millions on paintings...
Kinell i wouldn't pay 2-bob for a picture a child could paint BETTER , afterall that appears to be the standard.
As for Picasso dont even go there.
I'd give you Constable, now thats an artist..
First off, it demonstrates his lack of education in the visual arts. But it goes further than that.
Dot can see the figurative art of constable as worthy, but not the works of Picasso. Because one is registered by the eye and appreciated for it's aesthetic appeal, the other needs to be 'understood' before it's 'look' can be appreciated.
I am just as un-educated in classical music. I do not have the grounding and education in it, to appreciate it in any other way than the pure 'feel' of some of the music. Give me contemporary guitar sound any day, because I've spent 30 years following it's developement.
...having said that, Dali is complete bollox
If a painting has to be understood to be appreciated then it's pretentious twaddle as far as I'm concerned. I hate Picasso and anything in that style, and as for The Scream, it's a hideous painting. There are hundreds of talented painters out there who's work is far superior in my eyes' and yet so called experts will part with Millions to have something like that hung on their wall.
The funniest thing I ever saw a few years ago was an Art critic eulogising about a painting which was effectively hundreds of black squares painted with different brush strokes, to make up one very large black square
He was trying to explain how you could `feel' the artists moods within the painting, and it was valued at a couple of hundred thousand pounds. It was a black square for christs sake.
Turner, Constable, Monet, I can appreciate, Picasso! No!
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I remember Thats Life (forgive me, I was young) getting a load of kids to splatter paint on canvas and then they put the pictures in a gallery as modern art and got a load of pretentious art snobs to view them and then filmed them saying how marvellous and clever the paintings were etc. Emperors new clothes.NFG wrote: The funniest thing I ever saw a few years ago was an Art critic eulogising about a painting which was effectively hundreds of black squares painted with different brush strokes, to make up one very large black square
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NFG wrote:
Without knowing about the McCarthy anti-communist witch hunts Miller's 'The Crucible' is just a play about silly girls and superstition, but viewed in context it becomes a more engaging, demanding drama and a political weapon of its time.
Similarly, when one understands that Van Gogh's intention was to paint the God in everything, or that Picasso, in his Cubist period, was painting the world in a post-Einsteinian perspective, whereby no one, single view-point can truly represent our world their works become more than just objects which are either appealing to the eye or not.
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Spencer4, I thought your post on Dot's point was spot on.
I find your views perplexing, NFG. If a novel, play or poem has to be 'understood', i.e. viewed in a specific context, to be appreciated, would you consider that to be "pretentious twaddle"?If a painting has to be understood to be appreciated then it's pretentious twaddle as far as I'm concerned. I hate Picasso and anything in that style, and as for The Scream, it's a hideous painting.
Without knowing about the McCarthy anti-communist witch hunts Miller's 'The Crucible' is just a play about silly girls and superstition, but viewed in context it becomes a more engaging, demanding drama and a political weapon of its time.
Similarly, when one understands that Van Gogh's intention was to paint the God in everything, or that Picasso, in his Cubist period, was painting the world in a post-Einsteinian perspective, whereby no one, single view-point can truly represent our world their works become more than just objects which are either appealing to the eye or not.
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Bypassing the subjective issue of what is beautiful, why a photo not a painting?I'd rather have a beautiful photo on my wall.
Spencer4, I thought your post on Dot's point was spot on.
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The fact that you can't tell the difference between an Edward Hopper and those pap pictures of dogs playing pool probably explains why, in your own words, you're not an art lover. (That isn't meant as a judgement, just an observation.)murf wrote:Never been a great art lover. I'd rather have a beautiful photo on my wall.
I'm not a great fan of sterotypical blonde bimbos but Dot's piece of art is the best on here. Sp4's (constable?) second. I like some Dali's but not the one on here. The cheesy pap one a clear last - you may as well have a Jack Vettawotsit or dogs playing pool.
PS flyman - the content is deliberately vapid! That's the point of it.
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