[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.

hundertwasser
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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).