[Closed] Not that A&A thread, this is a new one, Art & Appreciation

Can we post our own artwork?

of course, roper! As long as you're ready for the STW Critics of Doom to critique it!

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A little Hopper:
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And a dash of Picasso:
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Look! A lady's bottom! 🙂

lol@hilldodger, quality Photoshop there!

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I love this by Ford Madox Brown. I know the original well as it hangs in the B'ham gallery. The original is a huge, riot of colour but I like the way that through the chaos, it works as a perfect snapshot of Victorian life.

Always loved The Fighting Temeraire by Turner.

I would put a link to it but I can't. Worth checking out.

Love these - have a look at http://www.hubcapcreatures.com
All made from old hubcaps

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I like this variant on Mogrom's Hopper:

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This will definitely be a Marmite painting - I've loved this since I saw it at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Just something about the composition and balance, but I appreciate it's not to everyone's taste.

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El Lissitzky - Proun (Entwurf zu Proun S.K.). He did a series of Proun paintings but I find most of them too austere.

Here ya go Pigface - I also love this one, in fact most of Turners work:

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Michael Sowa - Diving Pig
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Roger many thanks 🙂

I've always had a bit of a penchant for L S Lowry myself. Somthing about the mood, simple, but strangely uplifting to me

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Well here are three of my own then

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A Tufted Titmouse (no s****ing at the back)

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Cork Painting

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Ugly Crab

rogerthecat - good taste. I went to a Turner/ Whistler/ Monet exhibition in the Tate a couple of years back, which highlighted their very similar phases, and all their variations of the sun setting through the smog over the Thames are amazing, with gold and yellow fading into purple...

Love the Hopper Pic Mogrim.. was about to post that one myself! :

Tis one of my all time faves!

Anything by the master of surrealism that is Dali - but this is one of my favourites

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All Dali's works have that semi-circular shape in them somewhere, apparently. It's based on the shape of the Bay of Rosas, where Dali was from.

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Cant beat a bit of Banksy

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Also quite like this !!

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Have this on my wall at home - not the original though 😉

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"Greenwood, Mississippi" by William Eggleston.

I like Klimt's less popular work: This being a favourite.
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Nae idea how to post a pic but Las Meninas must be worth a vote.

You can't beat a bit of HR Giger
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Or Hieronymus Bosch
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John Martin
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I’ve always liked this – I sums up the lived expeerince of mental distress – I used to have it on my computer at works as the descktop wallpaper but was quite asked to changed it as it disturbed my collueges – I was at the time based in a social service office for older adult with mental health problems

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One of my favourites.

The bathers by Seurat

Great work, nickc!

I'm voting against Dali, one or two are fine but then it just seems a bit gimmicky.

Nickc. I really like that one too. It's really impressive in the flesh.

Personally, I don't think you can beat a bit of Gormley when it comes to MA:
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It's stunning in real life, huge in size and at the same time so intimate.

jojoA1, I just saw this book the other day on Klimts early landscapes, they were much less patterned and really rather good. Well worth a look, cover illustration is a bit mince though.

http://www.amazon.com/Gustav-Klimt-Landscapes-Stephan-Koja/dp/3791337173/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244797687&sr=1-1

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i really like munch, the madonna is up there for me.

i also saw an exhibition by Trenton Doyle Hancock which i thought was ace - part art, part graphic design, part giant comic:
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Great thread. My vote is for Hundertwasser and I've got a soft spot for Kupka as well. Just spent a great weekend in Vienna dragging the gf through all of the Klimpt, Schiele and hundertwasser galleries. Now off to Oslo and looking forward to catching one of the Screams (if there are any left) not that the gf knows it yet. She is so lucky.

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Kupka

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CFH.
This subject is too monster coz art is just great.
Are we including photography, architecture, furniture etc.
And BTW I have a problem with old Stubbsy, fairground china artwork. Not his fault mind you.

Off Valpariso by Thomas Jaques Somerscales
Unfortunately its hidden away in storage at the Tate

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anything by Tom of Finland.

erm, hang on... 😕

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Or anything else by Frederick Lord Leighton

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Phillipe Bouchard

And quite simply the most stunning picture I have EVER seen:

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Completed in 1432, the colours are still fantastic today. Wonderful. I could look at it for hours. A must see if you are in Ghent (although it's worth a trip just for this picture) - and the rest of Ghent is fantastic too.

AB - Artist and piece name?

Your second pic looks just like the Palladian Bridge at Wilton House Julian.

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I was going to post "Flaming June", JulianA - saw it at the Prado last week, very impressive in the flesh (so to speak).

Lichtenstein

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I really like [url= http://www.richardlong.org/ ]Richard Long[/url]'s work.

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I think Banksy is MASIVELY overated, almost as bad as teh Chapman brothers.

I don't like Hopper but I do like Bechtel:

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Chuck Close also

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Captain Flasheart no idea who you are or where you are but this thread has opened my eyes to some stuff I havent seen before, so for that I say thank you.

Jochem van Wetten:

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Matt Kirkland:

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I really like Andy Goldsworthy's work,eg:

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Ahem, Flashy... 😉

I'd completely forgotten about this idea. Nice one. Should be a regular STW fixture.

El Greco was one of my earliest loves; this was in a book on art my mum had. About the same time as I first saw this, the Film 'Jaws' was out in the cinemas, and there were posters everywhere. See the influence?

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I was hoping to get at least a bit of work done today. Ah well...

Isn't Julian A's bridge phoot's of the bridge in Prior Park, Bath?

I'm almost certain the first one is, and the 2nd one is a bit more abstract, but that looks like Bath down below.

Always loved this Goya:

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im not 100% sure this is the exact same picture... but the huge original (or very similar) of this in Leeds Art Gallery is simply stunning.. i could stare at it for hours!

load'a'crap, Stanhope Forbes is where it's at. I've seen this baby up close, it's huggggeeeee.

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Two of my favourite artists. Very different styles but unique talents.

Oops, double post.
Sorry!

I also like these two wildlife artists (amongst many) .
Lars Jonsson
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Tim Wootton
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(anyone else going to post their own work? Don't be shy now).

Well, RB, if you won't start it....! 😉

Whilst in Oslo, a few years back, I discovered a little-known Norwegian painter; Eric Werenskjold. What I love about this panting, is that it's just a simple, unremarkable scene, in many ways. Just like a simple snapshot. But it's absolutely believable. I don't know why it moved me so much, but I don't care. I love it.

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I was looking over a website the other day trying to get information about an old inland RN training base from the 50's when I saw this picture of the graffiti on the wall.

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I'm also a fan of Manga/Anime and it stuns me when I see the detail in a single panel of something like Appleseed. Frank Miller's work is very similar to this. If you've read Hard Boiled, you'll know what I mean.

Purely for being lost in a picture though, you can't beat Escher.

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This pic was the most memorable for me after a recent visit to the Guggenheim
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Gertrude Kasebier "Red Man" from 1903
It's actually a lot darker in reality and more striking.

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It would appear the link of my pictures did not work, just the text so will try again,

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Tufted titmouse

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Cork Painting

Not strictly speaking 'art', but I think it's a work of art in itself!

Brilliant bit of design, iconic and timeless:

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This photo doesnt do this painting by Barbieri justice.
To be found in the Palazzo Rosso, Genova.

[b]Cleopatra morente[/b]

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http://www.museopalazzorosso.it/template1.asp?itemID=60104020&level=4&label=Sala_5_Guercino&sito=6&lingua=1

intense red/velvet colour.

I have a personal reason for liking this one. It was one of the highlights of my visit to Muse d'Orsay (I tried to get them to rename it Musee Darcy but they wouldn't go for it). It was art overload that day...
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Whooo! Great thread, keep it up, guys. Love Goldsworthy's works, and Gormly is probably my favourite sculptor. There's a piece of his at the current RA Summer Exhibition, but sadly rather beyond my credit card's purchasing powers. Alan Jones is another who's work I love, amazing draughtsman, every line is perfectly executed. I can't get enough of Banksy's work either, he has a terrific imagination, and his work always has the underlying political comment, without browbeating the viewer. Hopper, too, I can look at for hours, and thank you for putting up JoB's 'tribute'.
JulianA, who are you calling a Ghent? ;0)

I have a collection of some things including these:
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I'm sure its frightfully unfashionable, but i do like Landseer. So sad.

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deadlydarcy - Gustave Caillebotte's Raboteurs de parquet.

Used to have that on my bedroom wall.

Good choice

Sorry, been for an interview (hoping to leave the JoblessTrackWorld Club) and to the pub, so been away for seven hours.

RichPenny - Member
Your second pic looks just like the Palladian Bridge at Wilton House Julian.

M. Bouchard's pictures are based around Bath, so I guess it's the Palladian Bridge in Bath and, indeed, Prior Park.

Also love Micheal Sowa and a lot of the other pics and this guy:

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Trains, nudes and skeletons - what's not to like?

Good pub quiz qustion: What does the JMW stand for in JMW Turner's name? No Googling now!

Rudeboy's Goya is very striking - what's the name of the work?

Also very partial to a bit of the old Guernica - original in the Reina Sofia in Madrid will stop you in your tracks.

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The most spectacular one that i've seen up close is Caravaggio's Beheading of John the Baptist. It felt as though you were going to get sprayed with blood!

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Like the futurists, me.

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Joe Scarborough, a modern day Lowrey from Sheffield. First saw him and his paintings in Rotherham Arts Centre when I was about 10 and they made a huge impression for their charm, warmth and relevance. Not sure if it will ever be great art but seems to shout "home" to me:
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