Art..?

I prefer Schultz or Matt Groening.

PD

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What do you / would you have on your walls?

My passion for art lines up exactly with the same periods in history to the music I enjoy and love; anything 19th century or earlier.

In particular, this means Gothic to Impressionism. As with music, when it comes to the 20th century I cherry pick the "best" out of the early half of the 20th century (Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/Classical Moderism) and leave it at that. I do not feel a connection with Contemporary Painting.

Impossible to name everyone but give me....

Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Duerer, Caspar David Friedrich, Peter Paul Rubens, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Edward Hopper to name but a few.


I could really like these pieces by Rothko etc. but right out of the gate I disagree with him on so many fundamental points of view and philosophies. This piece was definitely painted upside down. If he'd rotate it 180 degrees and get that right at least I may end up liking it......


[IMG]quote: Originally posted by Voltaire: It is staggering how much information one piece of art can convey... [/IMG]

I think it's interesting. Who picks pictures with people in them, and who doesn't :-)

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One of my favorite's is...


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They look like album covers. Very good pictures, but they still look like album covers [to me].

steve

I've taken art history from ancient to modern. Only period I don't like is Rococo and Baroque.

I like more modern works and when I took art classes found out how hard it is to make something right. I decided to get rid of prints and put up pieces of my friends and my own work. I work with realism like the orchids but also did the two pastels of yellow and blue over the couch mainly to add color to a very neutral living room. It's difficult to live with your own work up, you see flaws or want to do something else. One art friend rolled his eyes when I put up some of my works, he was an art major at USC, difficult personality.


This is my friend Daves, he calls them Candyland paintings after the old child's board game. He was low on funds and a woman wanted to pay him half his asking price I gave him full price. It's above my computer and green wall behind so it pops.


I had a friend paint these screens for me to tie in some color to bland linen panels, sorry for the sideways view, I just think they're fab.

for other pics of my place see the post of listening rooms.

These are three etchings I want to frame, Did these about 6 years ago in an etching class, Asian influence. Long process to get a print.


another print of bananas, someday I'll frame it too. Talk about a lot of work.

Not to overwhelm you but I can do color too. Besides yer probably asleep and it's 3PM here.


I did the yellow and Blue pastel drawings to rip off a minimalist artist but I wanted color the blue has aqua and dark blue strikes, It was a long 4 day weekend and the love interest was off on a trip, I was a bit manic, I didn't like the early ones and started slashing at the paper, it got the effect I wanted. I did the flower painting on paper in Italy 15 years ago from memory of a plant. the pot was a nice Raku I found at an art sale. Wish I'd bought more. I trimmed a friend's bamboo to get the stalks and and shift it so they splay nicely. My take on my trip to Japan. And I like African stuff too.


Here's a flower watercolor, some come out and many don't, this one was like magic, I kept expecting to mess it up. Teacher liked it. the two small ones are from my Italy trip, we were in venice, The teacher wanted all the students to be fast and loose, I did these in about 15 minutes. The "kids" were still drawing the mullions in the windows. I had a guy put copper on teh palm tree light and do verdigris. He apologized that he couldn't control it, it's one of those "That's OK it's better than I thought it would be."



The difficult art friend has been doing these paintings with figures and abstract, I bought this because of the op art aspect, colors and it's great and he needs the money. It's nice to help friends out.

Studying history of art in London in the early 1980s, I remember my fondness for Raphael (1483-1520) was rather frowned upon, but his compositions are some of the very best in Western art.

These two I could probably live with on my front room walls.

The School Of Athens



Donna Velata



I did my thesis on the late great creator of auto-destructive art, Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), and so I've always had a soft spot for him. The idea of his Homage To New York in the garden is rather amusing - especially if it blew up every day!

my art history teacher in Colorado was there at the unveiling. He was watching the artist and it all started smoking and falling apart, Then the fire dept arrived and tried to get control, to Jean it was beyond his wildest imagination and he was laughing and clapping at the commotion while the socialites were scandalized. Wish I could have been there.

Me too.

Your teacher was a lucky sod!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kevin-W:
Jan Vermeer (1632-75) is another favourite. He painted around 35 known pictures, virtually all of them masterpieces (his treatment of light is virtually without equal), and of which these are two of the best:



And this of course is his best known work - absolutely beautiful...

Ik like Mondriaan as well. Specifically when you see them "in the flesh", there's so much information in those paintings.
And I like "De Stijl" group. Where Rietveld as a furniture maker became a member.


We've got two of these at home:

I have a bias towards british prints, mainly from the 1950's onwards, by artists such as William Stanley Hayter, Lynn Chadwick, Julian Trevelyan,
Henry Moore, Allin Braund, Howard Hodgkin, Gerald Laing etc. I don't like art that needs a written explanation for it to be understood.

I think though that the best art, regardless of personal taste, catches the zeitgeist of a particular time in history, whether Pop-Art or Pre-raphaelite or any other art movement.

Anything by Michael Andrews especially his Light series or School series. Lucian Freud said of him "that he only painted masterpieces".

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kevin-W:
Jan Vermeer (1632-75) is another favourite. He painted around 35 known pictures, virtually all of them masterpieces (his treatment of light is virtually without equal), and of which these are two of the best:



And this of course is his best known work - absolutely beautiful...

The milk maid is one of my most favorite paintings. The colors and use of the point of light are astounding. Thank you for your post.

rega1

vermeer is uber wonderful. 6 months ago at Norton Simon in Pasadena they had one small painting very small painting, a friend said they must have been painted with a hummingbird feather. Even that small there were no hard edges, just very soft glazed and glowing from within. They had 4 or 5 Rembrandts to fill out the show, just a fantastic room.

I luckily been able to buy one of these, by Desiree Dolron.

Not greedy - a couple of Rothko's and a Vermeer for the loo would suit me.

I wouldn't mind one or two by Toulouse Lautrec, Turner or Monet. Even a small one would do...

I have some paintings by Mosse Stoopendahl:


JohanR

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JohanR- I am not familiar with that artist but that example is striking...any further info on the artist?
Gordon

I am really starting to to like Bansky...



This piece in particular intrigues me. It perfectly captures the concept that 'did Jesus died on the cross so that humanity can shop till we drop, visit Disneyland, buy xmas presents and consume until we are consumed?'. I consider this one of the most important pieces of contempoary art of this century.

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Originally posted by mikeeschman:
I think it's interesting. Who picks pictures with people in them, and who doesn't :-)

Would you care to elaborate on that...

Another interesting Bansky is...



I don't think I need to mention the incredibly powerful imagery in this piece of two worlds colliding, fiction and non-fiction. Note Dorothy's clenched fist of aggression against the pseudo paramilitary who violate her belongings. Also note that both characters are focused on the basket; consumed with consumersim and prepared to defend property with violence, Dorothy wonderfully echo's the French Revolution while the soldier is estranged, an anachronism, an avatar of government. Note that the soldier is wearing rubber gloves; afraid that mere contact will infect him and thus the government with Dorothy's optimism and innocence. Also, Dorothy's face is pure white and her eyes are easily readable. The soldiers are hidden in dark shadows hinting that his motives are not to be trusted.