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LOL @ RudeBoy 🙂
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)
I've always liked Joseph Mallord William Turner...
So many to choose from.
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Constable's great as well...
But I like modern stuff as well. Some of Mark Wallinger's stuff is good.
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:
Man Ray:
(I know it's nudey ladies, mods, but it's ok, because it's 'art'! 😀 )
RudeBoy:
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.....
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.
I'm also keen on the works of Tamara de Lempika, though she's not rated by many 'proper' critics[img]
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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:
Paul Delaroche
Also like Georgia O'Keefe
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)
No mention of Rossetti yet?
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.
I'm with you on that one, Ernie. Nowt like it before, or since.





































