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Hora, Binners has it right. The artist is Paula Rego.
That painting of a milkmaid by Jan Vermeer.
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Absolutely. And definitely skateboards!!!
I curated an exhibition of skateboard graphics once including a few Jim Phillips and Wes Humpston originals.
There has been some great stuff posted here. But not much from local or new artists.
I love the abstract expressionists, Anish Kapoor, Klimpt etc. But I can't trust myself totally in that, do I like them because of what I have read or learnt from others. A good example for me would be Barnett Newman, I love his Zip paintings, but I am not sure if I when I look at them I am being influenced by a friend who absolutely loved them or my own interpretation of them.
So I have found that when I react to unknown/lesser known or new artist, and have no preconceptions, I can trust my instincts a lot more.
So what new stuff do you like ?
Most by the following:-
Georges Braques
Salvador Dali
Escher
I also like Gustav Corbet.
Sorry for not naming particular paintings.
Something a little different?
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Mcmoonter, any more of your own stuff? I like that first one. Anyone else paint a bit?
1st and 2nd page have the best pictures, we are sweeping the barrel now.
how about this as a 70's icon of misfortune..
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I'm struggling to identify my favourite painting, while not technically the best one of the most memorable I've seen is the panorama Mesdag in The Hague.
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So I have found that when I react to unknown/lesser known or new artist, and have no preconceptions, I can trust my instincts a lot more.So what new stuff do you like ?
Bought one of a series by Sue Rose, similar to this, at Christmas:
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I like it, nothing profound, but it makes me smile.
great bit of art telly on BBC4 at the mo' (can prob get on Iplayer) Tales of Winter: The Art of Snow and Ice. Lot's of good ole winter paintings. Great stuff!
thx1138 : I like rothko, enough to jump on a train a few years ago from scotland one morning and go down to the Rothko exhibition at the Tate and just sit or rather stand as it was so busy there all day and absorb them as much as possible then i jumped back on the train at night and came home, his work can unsettle me in ways that i have absolutely no comprehension why they do so and some make feel incredibly happy and others fill me wi dread and foreboding and others can make me forget to eat/shit/piss and breathe - I'm not arty in the slightest and didn't take art in high school and couldn't tell you one artist from another, apart from Rothko obviously.
I also love Pollock, i get lost in a good way inside his paintings and i'm not impartial to Hopper either.
I dunno why those artists get me excited but they do, i'm not saying i like them for effect either as i'm sure others who like them have also got valid reasons for getting something out of them.
Thanks Mcmoonter.
In the same vein as IanW
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Somafunk; fair enough, but as long as you're aware that all you are looking at are some crudely daubed large canvasses, not something crafted with exceptional skill or talent. And be aware that setting and context play a very important part in how your subconcious receives the work; take a Rothko painting, and stick it on the wall of a dull restaurant or office foyer, and you'd probably pay it no more than a fleeting glance; a splash of colour to brighten up the place. But put it in a prestigious art gallery, and suddenly people start raving on about it. Just makes me laugh really. But then I suppose peole will be along to attempt to justify it, and claim I'm 'visually illiterate' or some other such nonsense. By all means enjoy it, but you could get the same enjoyment out of looking at a damp patch on a wall, if you put your mind to it. that's the truth.
'The Idle Servant' by Nicholas Maes is one of my favourites in the National Gallery in London:
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Always makes me smile when I see it.
Sorry these aren't paintings but rather pencil drawings. His detail work is stunning. I've allways wanted the 2 of these, sadly i'm only half way there.
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I'm not into art, I can appreciate most of the stuff already posted, but it's not my thing. I do have Imola 94 by Goldsbrough, but it's more about the event, a photo would probably do
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thx1138 - That painting's shit! 😆
Great thread!
I don't know too much about art apart from catches my eye really but I have enjoyed looking at peoples favoured art on this thread, I have a liking for the paintings by Howaida Moussa Weel -
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I have even been fortunate enough to pick one up.
Keep them coming.
More design than art, if you're being picky, but anything by AM Cassandre
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Sax Impey's Storm Collection is awesome.
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@ Madfly, if you like pencil drawings check Paul Cadden out, he does stuff like this
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"thx1138 - That painting's shit!"
I assume you're joking, or being 'ironic' or something, otherwise that 3 years you spent at art college was a waste of taxpayers' money. Why not actually attempt some constructive criticism, rather than being childish?
I've always thought 'Alien' could have been even better had HR Giger had a greater influence. Could have been even more dark and disturbing.
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Joan Miro, Carnival of Harlequin
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René Magritte, The Son of Man
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Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII
^ wondered when the infamous bricks was going to make an appearance.
Puts kettle on...
thx, the skill of the artist or the crudity of execution is irrelevant.
The effect on the viewer is all that matters.
Can Dylan hold a note? Not really.
Are his performances more expressive than Whitney Houston's?
They are to me.
And that's sll that counts.
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This is a favourite of mine, Dave White. Really wanted to buy a limited edition print but couldn't at the time.
wondered when the infamous bricks was going to make an appearance.
🙂 exactly! I was lucky enough to view it at the Tate.
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Still Life with Shoe
Another lover of Miro, this is my favourite although you don't get the luminosity of the colour on the screen, likewise you don't get a true feeling for Dali's crucifixion from the image posted earlier.
I assume you're joking, or being 'ironic' or something, otherwise that 3 years you spent at art college was a waste of taxpayers' money. Why not actually attempt some constructive criticism, rather than being childish?
How dare you!!! I expend a great deal of thought on my criticism
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My favourite painting:
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I love the juxtaposition of the military uniform on the man’s top half, and in the background, with the hunting boots and breeches on his bottom half. The man is clearly deep in thought; it is the boots and breeches that tell us he is dreaming of being at home in the hunting field.
I also really enjoy M C Escher's work.
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Rusty Spanner - I love that Bonnie Burnley by Sue Rose.
However I've just googled her and it's coming up with some American artist and her work doesn't look the same as yours.
Have you any more info please?
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Which, when I saw it, I linked to:
Bunnyhop, ygm at your work email address.
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Andrew Wyeth, [i]Christina's World[/i], 1948.
Mrs R worked at Tate Modern for many years so I've seen an awful lot of stuff - particularly like the Rothko's
I think the one that stands out for me is Yves Klein's IKB 79 at Tate Modern.
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You have to understand the process and actually see it to 'get it'.
It's not just a blue canvas
On Stuckism:
During WW2, Picasso lived in Marseille. It is told that he met an SS officer one day in a bar who knew who he was and took to berating him for producing "degenerate" art. The only true art, said the Nazi, was art that portrayed reality is it actually was...
Picasso let the guy run out of steam and then asked if he was married, to which the Nazi replied in the affirmative, and pulled a small photograph out of his wallet, proudly showing it to the Great Man.
"She's very pretty" said Picasso, "but... so tiny!!"
this is one of the most interesting threads as far as I'm concerned. What really interests me is why and what attracts someone to a certain picture or painting. It's great putting up links to cool stuff, I just wonder what makes certain paintings/art so involving and important. especially the older conservative portrait painting stuff. Why is that so great?
I must have reread this thread a dozen times and there are some pictures and artists that I'd never heard of that have blown me away.
Thanks everyone, it's great seeing what other people are into. 🙂
Somafunk; fair enough, [b]but as long as you're aware that all you are looking at are some crudely daubed large canvasses, not something crafted with exceptional skill or talent[/b]. And be aware that setting and context play a very important part in how your subconcious receives the work; take a Rothko painting, and stick it on the wall of a dull restaurant or office foyer, and you'd probably pay it no more than a fleeting glance; a splash of colour to brighten up the place. But put it in a prestigious art gallery, and suddenly people start raving on about it. Just makes me laugh really. But then I suppose peole will be along to attempt to justify it, and claim I'm 'visually illiterate' or some other such nonsense. By all means enjoy it, but you could get the same enjoyment out of looking at a damp patch on a wall, if you put your mind to it. that's the truth.
Total bollocks. I'm with somafunk, I went to the Tate Rothko exhibition, because I was interested in seeing more of his work. Personally, I prefer his earlier, brighter works, but I can appreciate the later, darker ones. The reason I highlighted that sentence, is because one of the features of the exhibition were as series of photos taken of details of the restaurant group under different UV wavelengths. A mate of mine used to rave about Rothko, and would happily sit or hours staring at them, given a chance. I was ambivalent, but gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, these detail photos reveal that there are many layers to a Rothko, and those layers, which are applied in specific ways, fluoresce in different colours under UV. This is deliberate, not accident, and it seems Rothko was aware of the colour differences while painting, and it's the reason my mate loves them so much, because he's sensitive to the UV end of the visual spectrum, and can see details that are invisible to me.
You are clearly unaware of the underlying subtleties of Rothko's paintings, and by continuing to dismiss them you are just making yourself look like a pleb.
I'm still trying to decide on a favourite painting; Hopper's [i]Nighthawks At The Diner[/i], partly because of the Tom Waits connection, comes near the top of the list at the moment.
There's been a few mentioned that I really like, Bridget Riley, Mark Demsteader, John Singer Sargeant, Hokusai and Hiroshige, for example. I very recently came across the Meredith Frampton painting, and I was mesmerised by it, it's stunning. There's one artist who's works I always look forward to seeing at the RA Summer Exhibition, and that's Alan Jones RA. His portrait of Darcy Bussell is one I always go to see when I visit the National Portrait Gallery.
I love his deftness of line drawing, and his vibrant use of colour.
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