[Closed] Art

I saw the water in London could look at it for hours .

Gregory Crewdson:

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Edward Burtynsky:

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Paintings by Georges Braque.

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I make a point of seeing it whenever I'm in London. I'm not a religious man but its got particularl resonance for me.

There's not another blue I like better.

There's also something beautiful about old machinery drawings - they're perhaps more craft than pure art, but beautifully drawn intricate machines are wonderful to look at. I've got a set of books of which have fold-out diagrams of machine tools and engines which are gorgeous if you like that sort of thing:

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There's not another blue I like better

International Klein blue

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Robert Bechtel

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Simon Stalenhag, who I found via this very forum:

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http://www.simonstalenhag.se

Alan Stones - Eden Panorama (obviously looks better at full scale)

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The area I grew up in, captured magnificently.

Andy Holdsworthy - Rowan Leaves Laid Around Hole
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The first artist I "got" as a young child and still gives me a brilliant little kick of childish whimsy every time.

Albrecht Durer - Great Piece of Turf
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I'm not sure I have a reason for that one, it's just a superb thing.

Rembrant - Elephant
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Because it's just a wonderful thing, a simple doodle carried out with supreme skill.

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it's Rothko No14. Doesn't look much does it?, but in real life it's just utterly breath taking. the layers of paint are just unbelievable, had me staring at it endlessly, couldn't move away, and it just draws you into it. It's normally in San Fransisco, but I was lucky that it as in New York when we went there a few years back.

3rd attempt, it's hard to find a rothko you can link to.

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Does it for me, i can sit for hours and just stare at them

Ahh, some one else is a rothko fan, a few years ago i took the early train down to london from dumfries just to see the Rothko exhibition at the Tate, spent all day staring at his work then got the late train back up that night - one of the most meditative/contemplative and surreal days out i have ever had…and that was without any drugs.

ben - I was about to link to the same guy. I think it was my post that originally put him up in here.

Im trying really hard not to buy one of the recently departed David Prentice works. Well known round these parts for his Malvern Hills works.

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http://www.johndaviesgallery.com/prentice/

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I couldn't post a favourite, but here's something I like:

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Hard to choose just one artist and I'd like to post lots but don't want to spam the thread so here is one by Paul Nash.

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@CFH top thread proposal, will get searching for some links. "Small world" re Whistlejacket, it's the name of the business I created, grew and then buried ! Truely stunning when you see it in the gallery.

Philip Guston
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I'm a pleb but +1 for Whistlejacket, it really is an incredible piece of work. And just round the corner, Fighting Temeraire- there's something about Turner's skies.

But I'm a sucker for Lusieri, strange how a brush can capture a thing or a place better than a photo...

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Rothko No14. Doesn't look much does it?, but in real life it's just utterly breath taking.

I never thought much of Rothko after seeing his work in books, but similarly to you, seeing it in person was absolutely mesmerising.

I like these ... very good also very funny.

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Great that someone mentioned David Prentice. RIP. I remain grateful and just a little starstruck for him attending my first photography exhibition all those years ago in Malvern. Speaking with him right then I felt like a shabby junior businessman next to this sternfriendly teacher-sorcerer. He was a grand wizard who painted Gerontiun dreams alongside just masterful realist landscapes - blending zen, passion and proper artschool graft to a seemingly impossible harmonic pitch on the canvas, nailing the (whatever) medium completely. Happy to say he is one of the reasons I found the courage and began painting again.

[url= http://www.lemonstreetgallery.co.uk/summer-exhibition-2012-thumbs-David-Prentice.htm ]pure mastery[/url]

Frans Masereel was an incredible printmaker:

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And if you say Mondrian, you're wrong.

Mackenzie Thorpe

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Alasdair Gray

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Colin Rose

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Wim Delvoyle
and from the same Tatto Tim
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You need to read about the last one here to appreaciate it.
http://www.wimdelvoye.be/images/catalog/image_1167.pdf

Arnold Böcklin

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I've got a large print of this hanging in my lounge - always brings a smile to my face

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Marina Abramovi? - 'The Artist is Present'

Found this shattering/moving - still do, in a way that would be wasted by words. [url= http://enpundit.com/former-love-surprises-artist-at-her-moma-retrospective-after-decades-apart/ ]But read this essential preamble first[/url]

a bit more yves klein

Absolutely agree with Goldsworthy and Rothko (you NEED to see them in the flesh though - no photograph can reproduce the almost magical effect of his use of paint layers).

Would add some artists (rather than single artworks) of my own (among many others - the curse of being an art teacher is that there are so many to choose from).

An oldie but (astonishingly) goodie.
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Amazing contemporary landscaper painter (again, really need to be seen in the flesh to be appreciated).
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Another landscapeist. Sorry.
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And a choice where I always surprise myself, but Hockney probably understands more about looking than any painter since Picasso.
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Another unashamed Rothko fan. I think I love them so much because they constantly baffle me as to why I love them so much. I don't understand how they make me feel. I don't understand the emotions they bring to the surface in me. I can't comprehend what it is that makes them so powerful. Whatever it is, its subconscious and subliminal. I'm not even sure the emotions are positive. But they remind me that I'm alive. And how many things in your life provoke that sentiment?

Whenever I went to London I'd go to the Tate Britain and sit in the Rothko room, and stare at them for hours. It'd make me very emotional, and confuse me as to why in equal measure. But I'd always go. Preferably early morning, midweek. When its quiet. Like a pilgrimage.

Since they've moved them to the Tate Modern its taken some of that away. Its too busy. And its stolen the reverence they deserve. People view them flippantly. They pass by them. You should never do that. You need to sit in silence and try and make sense of them. You won't. But maybe thats the point.

No contribution from Hora yet?

I've just bought myself a Liam Spencer original. And Liam's on a skills day with Oxley today. Unrelated. Sort of.

There's a cracking Liam Spencer in the foyer of North Manchester Hospital.

Good thread.

I always buy original art when I've (increasingly rarely) got any spare cash. Heres the last thing I bought, which I love. By Manchester graffiti artist Raid 71. I spotted it in a gallery, and I wanted it. Later that same day, Mrs Binners sent me a picture message, saying 'I've just spotted this. We NEED this!'. And there it was again. It appears it was just meant to be up, pride of place, in our front room

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Love it! 😀

I'm a big fan of Aaron Horkey, I have a "Sigur Ros St Paul" print that I bought last year. I can waste hours looking at the detail. Hisfilm posters like "Two Towers" and "There Will Be Blood" are worth a look too...

Sigur Ros Gig Poster:
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I'm also a big fan of "Craola", aka Greg Simpkins. This is The Notetaker...

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Hiroshige? That's quite a tense composition compared to most of his work. Which I also love 🙂

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I have an original of this hung on my wall:
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A lot of Ukiyo-E prints are fairly inexpensive, because they were produced at such volume. Travellers used to use them to wrap gifts for the journey back to Europe or America.

Monet loved Japanese prints, there are many at his house in France.

I like Mervyn Peake.

Great writer, great artist too:
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Can't go wrong with a bit of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Adolphe_Valette ]Valette[/url] either.
Big influence on Lowry, love his adopted Northern misberalism:

One of the Manchester paintings:
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Love Gregory Crewdson. Hopperesque for me.

This always enthralls me, the balance, the drama, the story it tells so well and Marshal Neys eyes. Knowing what is to come:

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RS - did you sea the Valette and Lowry's exhibited together at the City a couple of years back? A real interesting look at the development of them both.

Just got me thinking about later Impressionist works of Manchester at the other end of the Spectrum. Liam Spencer.....

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Binners, yeah, I did. 🙂

They used to have a couple of Valette's up at the old Lowry Museum at Salford Uni.

Loved that place, it smelled of school dinners and had creaky floorboards. 😀

Can't believe how good Mosley Street is these days though.

Colournoise-
And a choice where I always surprise myself, but Hockney probably understands more about looking than any painter since Picasso.

Amen.

The recent stuff is amazing.

Liam Spencers work just looks like what your eyes see mid-night out on drink and Coke

Aaron Horkey- wow. Thank you. Really like that. Is that Art nouveau? Very nice. Will see if I can buy a print.

Ps. Where did you buy?

Colournoise-
And a choice where I always surprise myself, but Hockney probably understands more about looking than any painter since Picasso.

Amen.
The recent stuff is amazing.

He's still the most dynamic and relevant British artist, and his recent work eclipses all the pretentious, emperors-new-clothes, Saatchi-esque Britart bollocks, and shows it up for what it is.

I really wanted to go down to London and see the new work at the Royal Academy, but tickets were limited and eye-wateringly expensive, which was disappointing. Bloody Yorkshiremen! 😉

Quick PSA for all norvern art monkeys, this is still on at the [url= http://www.thewhitaker.org/events/wall-of-sound-and-vision/ ]The Whitaker in Rawtenstall.[/url]

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Wall of Sound and Vision

Posters of a Music Revolution

Friday 27th June 2014

Sunday 27th July 2014

This much talked about exhibition focuses on the music explosion that happened in the North West of England during the late 1970?s, and uses long archived posters to evoke this vibrant period and revisit the places, telling the stories of those involved, some familiar, others less so.

Well worth a visit.
Lovely place too.

Aaron Horkey- wow. Thank you. Really like that. Is that Art nouveau? Very nice. Will see if I can buy a print.

There's a big scene in the US for reimagined film posters. Horkey is the movement's poster boy (excuse the pun). He has a very distinctive, meticulously graphic style with a lot of recurring elements - I think he's a little troubled!

[url= http://expressobeans.com ]Expresso Beans[/url] is the best place to find out about his work and stuff by artists working in that field such as Laurent Durieux and Ken Taylor.

Horkey's prints are often released at fairly sensible prices (if you can get them) but go for silly money on the second hand market. Well worth tracking down though, especially if, like me, you're a fan of graphic arts and silk screen printing.

Glad you liked! 😀

Jeff Gogue

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RS - is it the same one that was on at the Lowry recently? If thats the one, it made me feel very old. Nothing like seeing your youth on the walls of a gallery, with the word 'retrospective' attached, to make you feel like a proper old giffer. If you look at that Sankeys poster, its 20 years old!!!! 😯 Pass the Werthers Originals will you old chap

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kudos thanks for pleasuring my eyes 😯 😆

That's the one Binners. 🙂

And yes.
I felt very old indeed.

I've always found Bosch fascinating

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I also once spent an afternoon in the art museum in Amsterdam totally fascinated by the miniatures on display - I couldn't link to any because you simply have so see them to appreciate them.

MC Escher's stuff - trying to follow the visual logic sends you round in circles and you end up just staring at it

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also, this. There was a video version of it in the Tate Modern - spurious but utterly compelling links which 'show' that Morrissey predicted the death of Diana.

On the one hand it's utterly mad and shows how strange conspiracy theorists are, on the other, the sheer amount of detailed research they delivered to put it together deserves respect...

THE DIANA-MORRISSEY PHENOMENON

[url= http://www.dianamystery.com/ ]Diana-Morrissey Phenomenon[/url]

August 31, 1978:
19 year-old Steven Morrissey first meets guitarist Johnny Marr,
the one who will launch Morrissey's career several years later
by aggressively enlisting him to co-found a band: The Smiths.

August 31, 1997:
19 years to-the-day since Morrissey met guitarist Johnny Marr,
Princess Diana is killed under circumstances foreshadowed
in Morrissey's work, beginning with an album by The Smiths.

I like a bit of illustration me..
Jamie Hewlett

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Some lovely variety of tastes here, folks!

And if I am allowed to consider photography as art....

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Coulournoise - who is the artist for the 2nd painting you showed? Like it a lot!

I'm a big fan of data art. These are some of the things which adorn my walls:

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Saw [url= http://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/12/ai-weiweis-forever-bicycles-installed-at-the-lisson-gallery-in-venice/ ]this[/url] in Venice last month, many times as we stayed nearby, and loved it. Looked incredibly different depending on the time of day, at night it was lit up which unfortunately isn't pictured on the link.
RM.

Nice to see other Rothko fans on here, I particularly like the two that have been posted up, rather more than the Red And Black ones in Tate Modern.
I was able to get to the big Hockney exhibition at the RA, absolutely amazing, and his continual investigation and use of technology to create new works is inspiring; paintings done on an iPad printed off around 9' tall!
I also saw an exhibition of this gentleman's work a while back, and I loved this one, there's such a wistful air about it:

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I've been trying to find a pic of his best known work, [i]Nighthawks At The Diner[/i] but all the ones I can find have been messed with.
This bloke knows his way around a block of wood, you have to see an original to grasp just how fine the detail is:

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Colin See-Paynton

As a soppy teenager, I had a big thing for this:

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Not good, is it? 😀
I cringe just thinking about it.

It was at the top of the staircase, facing you, in Manchester Art Gallery for years.

I liked it so much that my mates bought me a framed copy for my 18th and it's been on a wall, somewhere, everywhere I've lived since.

I really don't know what I think of it anymore.

Time to 'rotate' it I think. 🙂

Thanks to Ben Cooper for the Swedish stuff.

Marina Abramovi? - 'The Artist is Present'

Found this shattering/moving - still do, in a way that would be wasted by words. But read this essential preamble first

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Just wow- I blubbed!

I dunno why but Igor Mitoraj's work really appeals to me.

This piece was at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for years but it seems to have been moved recently.
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I saw an exhibition in a Plaza Maria Pita in A Coruña a few years ago on holiday and it was stunning. To be able to walk in and around the pieces day and night was fab.

The image below reminds me of a lot of the big hitters on here
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I'm biased as he's a friend, but I love Ryan Mutter's work

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I'm not a religious person at all, but when I came round the corner in the museum in Glasgow and saw this it took my breath away.

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It has to be seen in the flesh (or paint).

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Simply the most amazing painting I've ever seen.

Only seeing it for real can do it justice.

I have also stood and wondered at Manet's Olympia and Rousseau's Snake Charmer and quite few others in the Musee d'Orsay.

Love some of the other pictures here too.

Also see

Maxfield Parish
Michael Parkes

Love most Pre-Raphaelite art... So much great art still to see - and to discover, it would seem!

There's a CR Nevinson or two in the Southampton art gallery which are worth a look if you like Vorticists and are down that way - also a great John Martyn: Sadak In Search Of The Waters Of Oblivion.

Sandham Memorial Chapel near Newbury is also very thought-provoking.