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This is one of my favourites, by Caspar David Friedrich. Must get around to getting another print of it.
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Have this in my lounge, by Kerry Darlington. Not to everyones taste admittedly, but I love it.
stuartie_c - MemberRudeboy's Goya is very striking - what's the name of the work?
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808 ]The 3rd of May 1808.[/url]
Is that a Vermeer, Verbal Kint? Stunning. Look at the light; it's like a photograph. Long before photography was invented!
This is a fantastic thread. So much lovely art. Love the Caravaggio; another master of light.
My parents bought me this for a 21st present at my request (£150 they bought it for)
Shame, this photo doesn't show in the slightest how vibrant the colours really are:
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Wow what a thread! 😀
Northumberland House by Canaletto if anyone can post it big please 🙂
Ah, you've sussed it tyger! 😀
EDIT: at least, I thought you had!
Stick it back up. STW automatically limits image sizes so they don't bust the page.
Fantastic - thank you my friend!
Yes I've sussed it but Fotopic is so slow!
Oh it's all going wrong!
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I'm with you there, Richpenny. Friedrich is much underated.
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Having said that, I've only recently realised that I can view Friedrich's work without bias again.
I travelled a bit round Germany in 1987 (or '86 I think) hunting down his works for a dissertation.
My memories of blowing two hours out of a busload of Hamburg daytrippers' day, on realising my visa wasn't valid to enter East Berlin, burn very brightly.
I was only 17 and alone. If looks could kill. 😳
Whilst on the Dutch Masters, I've always found the Arnolfini Wedding by Jan Van Eyck utterly capivating:
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LOL @ RudeBoy 🙂
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to catch an exhibition of the work of Albrecht Durer (possibly at the British Museum, I can't remember).
This bloke was proper talented:
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What do you think of this one Rude?
I think the composition is amazing myself and he catches the light perfectly. (I promise this will stop soon)
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The praying hands were those of his brother who lost the use of them working in the mines in order to fund his brothers paintings (or something like that)
Probably gonna get shot down for this... but I really like David Shrigley:
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John Singer Sargent:
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And this:
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I've always liked Joseph Mallord William Turner...
So many to choose from.
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Constable's great as well...
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But I like modern stuff as well. Some of Mark Wallinger's stuff is good.
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John Singer Sargent, great stuff:
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While we're at it, Toulouse Lautrec:
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And of course, the master of space: Degas:
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Oh, it's so nice to see people appreciating art! Keep it coming, folks!
DD; That head looks like it's made of wood. I want to [i]believe[/i] it's beer...
Time for a bit of tography:
The Master; Henri Cartier-Bresson:
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Man Ray:
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(I know it's nudey ladies, mods, but it's ok, because it's 'art'! 😀 )
RudeBoy:
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Feel free to slag off my one. I make no claim to being anywhere near the same league as the two above, but I enjoy me tography.
Wun.....
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If it's pics now - how about Ansell Adams?
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Sebastiao Salgado:
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I almost wet myself, when I first saw that, in an exhibition at the Hayward.
I really like a lot of the posters from the 20s and 30s especially travel ones like this and the ones of the railways. This one, to me anyway, is very much 'after' the Turner painting of The Fighting Temeraire.
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I really like a lot of the posters from the 20s and 30s especially travel ones like this and the ones of the railways.
Ooh yes! Art Deco ones! I love those!
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Exactly those onesRB. I was having trouble getting mine to link, so been busy editing 🙂
The ones for Chamonix and Savoie from that era are also cool. I have several postcards of them framed togther in the living room.
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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).
Love to see that one - I thought it was in Puerto Rice or somewhere. Was it on loan or has it come back to Europe?
This one's fantastic:
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Paul Delaroche
Also like Georgia O'Keefe
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Another vote for Tamara de Lempicka and John Singer Sargeant, plus suggest William Holman Hunt, The Hon. John Collier, Evelyn de Morgan, John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope...
This guy was pretty good at light (sorry if he's been mentioned before)
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No mention of Rossetti yet?
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The Blue Cloak, Pieter Brughel the Elder
Rudeboy - I was thinking about getting off my arse and posting that Van Eyck.
For those that don't know, the mirror at the back of the room shows the scene as it would have looked from behind, complete with Van Eyck painting it. Around the mirror he's painted the stations of the cross. Utter mastery of craft.
Having trouble 'nailing my colours to the mast' on this one. Though for some reason this portrait has always kinda haunted me.
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T E Lawrence 'Lawrence of Arabia' by Augustus John.
Never could work out if it's the art or the subject
Also I have a liking for maritime and military paitings (not artwork in general), it's odd like a guilty passion.
Been trying to find a decent photo of David Blyths Knockturne.
This is the best I can do:
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It doesn't do it justice really, a lot of stuffed lambs, old tech telephones and an (russian?) ejector seat...
The last 'art' thing that I liked...
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The plane - not the photo.
One of the most beautiful man-made objects ever, imo.
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I'm with you on that one, Ernie. Nowt like it before, or since.
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Have a print of this as wedding gift from my sis.
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Also enjoy Moore
Lowry - not just a one trick pony:
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Mervyn Peake, chap who also wrote Gormenghast:
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Not sleeping ...
I find this very funny. Don't mind hanging that on my wall but I doubt I can afford it.
[b]Banksy: Putting the ‘mp’ in Chimps[/b]
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