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"Except it isn't by most people, is it? This isn't made a fact because you don't like it."
So you're saying 'most people' like Rothko? I very much doubt that. I think if people are absolutely honest, they'd admit to not really thinking much about his work at all. There's an incredible amount of pretentiousness surrounding modern art, and the Rothko myth exemplifies this. Rothko's work has it's place, just not in an art gallery. Just because you like it doesn't make you an expert on art, merely a sycophant.
Always enjoyed El Greco:
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And Gerald Scarfe:
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(I know it's a drawing but it's still fantastic!)
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Diving Pig by Michael Sowa
I have this on my wall, nice re-interpretation of classic Alpine Art
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Chamonix Eté/Hiver by Charlie Adam
Rusty Spanner - MemberWoppit, that's beautiful.
Where was that installation, btw?
Looks interesting.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/yayoi-kusama
The distance was achieved by a darkened room of wall and ceiling mirrors and a floor of still water...
binners: the Hiroshige was just a small copy I picked up on a market stall for £16 along with three others from "53 Stations of the Tokaido"...
Just because you like it doesn't make you an expert on art, merely a sycophant.
Well... the 3 years I spent studying Art History at uni does kind of give me a base knowledge. Though unlike you, I don't think that qualifies my opinion as superior to anyone else's.
I love abstract expressionism, and Rothko in particular, because I find the history and politics of the McCarthyite persecution of the artists absolutely fascinating, and view it through this context. I find the Rothko Room very emotional as a result, though I'm not entirely sure why. So the fact I don't even understand my own emotional reaction to it, makes it even more interesting
So I suppose what I'm saying is that if that makes me a sycophant, then fine. Rather that than a pompous, pretentious, self-important cock eh? 😀
Not a painting but I'm a huge fan of some of Alan Stones's Lithographs:
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However they don't make much sense at this scale...
Skis as art, anyone?
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Three years studying art history, and now you just do colouring in using Paint and waffle on about Klitchko? Jeez. 😐
Skis as art, anyone?
Absolutely. And definitely skateboards!!!
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Rusty Spanner - Member
igrf - Seen any Chris Acheson?
No but hey, like the 2nd one.
Cool thread eh?
Its a bloody travesty isn't it really Bravissimo? 😀
"So I suppose what I'm saying is that if that makes me a sycophant, then fine. Rather that than a pompous, pretentious, self-important cock eh?"
You come across as both to be honest.
"Well... the 3 years I spent studying Art History at uni does kind of give me a base knowledge."
Could you not have done a proper meaningful degree instead?
Did anyone see the documentary about Grayson Perry that was on a while ago? Fascinating and very thought provoking.
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CaptainFlashheart - Member
Skis as art, anyone?
Nah only a board offers a decent canvass..
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Rothko Room very emotional as a result, though I'm not entirely sure why.
"Presence", I thought...
I was killing time in Glasgow today and saw a gallery selling a couple of Peter Howsons paintings which I always think are pretty striking. Also like the pervier Jack Vetteriano paintings.
Binners; this has got a little out of hand, and I can see why my comments might rile some people up. Please don't take them too personally, or too seriously!
Anyway; what do you think of Anish Kapoor?
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I've really liked this since I first saw it as a kid:
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I think this Harris captures the very essence of what it [i]is[/i] to be a lion.
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I really like Mike Bell.
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It's going to be interesting watching thx1138 grow up in public 😉
Indeed! I took my kids to see the recent Kapoor exhibition at the City and we all loved it!
I don't know a lot about art but I do like these
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I got to see the Klimt exhibition in Vienna last year and went to the Dali museum in Tampa a few years back. Up close, looking at the brush strokes they are impressive and I was amazed how large Dalis Christ was
OmGee dont turn them into Chorlton lefties!
Great thread,
moved on a bit since i left work and got home!
@ Mr Woppitt,
love the Hiroshige,
how about a bit of hokusai....
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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, –
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
Mr. Smith. There really is no need to be so rude just because you don't like what I like.
I wasn't being rude, I didn't call anyone any names I just voiced my opinion which is just as valid as yours.
I went to the Klimt exhibition at the Tate Modern in Liverpool around two years ago and really loved the forest paintings.
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check Haroshi out...
all made from old skateboards.
[url= http://haroshi.com/artworks/ ]Haroshi Art[/url]
This isn't my favourite and it's a bit off beat, but it's wonderfully menacing and charged.
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This was painted on one of the vaulted roofs at the Palace in Vienna, it was all pretty cool
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BenHoldsworth..
Good choices!!
this guy ranks highly for me too... he is my buddy though.
[url= http://www.simonpeplow.com/ ]Simon Peplow[/url]
Geetee - I saw that exhibition of Paula Rego's! It's worth getting the book of her illustrated bursary rhymes. Makes them as dark as they were originally intended to be!
Geetee1972 I like that. Who is the artist? Its sexually-charged and disturbing.
My favourite, haunting Wilfred Owen poem
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out3 their hasty orisons.4
No mockeries5 now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –
The shrill, demented6 choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles7 calling for them from sad shires.8
What candles9 may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor10 of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk11 a drawing-down of blinds.
Loving the stuff so far.. some of the pictures I knew but I'm being introduced to some great artists too
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[url= http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/john-atkinson-grimshaw/a-moonlit-lane-1874 ]John Atkinson Grimshaw[/url]
have always been drawn to this since seeing his work in Leeds Art gallery
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[url= ]Henrique Oliviera sculpture[/url]
My untrained brain doesn't always "get" the message behind sculpture but I think this is interesting.
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always liked Dave Kinsey - and gutted i missed the apocalypse exhibition showing the John Martin stuff
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[/img]This blew me away when I saw it in the Musee D'Orsay.
Velasquez for me.
I had the good fortune to win a Scholarship from the Royal Academy to study his work in the Prado. I made several paintings from Las Meninas.
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith by Gainsborough is a favourite (don't know how to put up a picture, can someone help please?)
Also enjoy most L.S. Lowry works of art.
I think I saw a George Shaw up there. I love this one, it's called Christmas Eve. When I first saw it, it reminded me of every Christmas Eve ever.
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Bunnyhop, here you go
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my vote for Kyffin Williams
my vote for Kyffin Williams
I have a friend who had who ahd her portrait painted by him. He's a great painter.
I loved these:
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Much better in real life though! Pictures made with salt by Ragna Robertsdottir. We saw her exhibition in Reykjavik last October.
Also same collection:
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