Do you have a favourite painting?

I have some small copies of this guy’s work at home, including this one:

Is that Hiroshige Wopster?

I likes a bit of Beryl Cook sometimes

igrf – Seen any Chris Acheson?

binners – Member

Is that Hiroshige Wopster?

Yep.

love a bit of bosch

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@ DD My nan used to read me books with illustrations done by Her, can’t remember what it was called although I bet my mum does.

Woppit, that’s beautiful.

Where was that installation, btw?
Looks interesting.

Blimey Woppit! I won’t ask how much that cost! I love his work. I did a dissertation on Japanese printmaking as part of my degree. Its amazing and fascinating stuff!

Do you have a favourite painting?

Not yet, way too much stuff to like.

Better stop there, but I love paintings.
🙂

“Except it isn’t by most people, is it? This isn’t made a fact because you don’t like it.”

So you’re saying ‘most people’ like Rothko? I very much doubt that. I think if people are absolutely honest, they’d admit to not really thinking much about his work at all. There’s an incredible amount of pretentiousness surrounding modern art, and the Rothko myth exemplifies this. Rothko’s work has it’s place, just not in an art gallery. Just because you like it doesn’t make you an expert on art, merely a sycophant.

Always enjoyed El Greco:

And Gerald Scarfe:

(I know it’s a drawing but it’s still fantastic!)

Diving Pig by Michael Sowa

I have this on my wall, nice re-interpretation of classic Alpine Art

Chamonix Eté/Hiver by Charlie Adam

Rusty Spanner – Member

Woppit, that’s beautiful.

Where was that installation, btw?
Looks interesting.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/yayoi-kusama

The distance was achieved by a darkened room of wall and ceiling mirrors and a floor of still water…

binners: the Hiroshige was just a small copy I picked up on a market stall for £16 along with three others from “53 Stations of the Tokaido”…

Just because you like it doesn’t make you an expert on art, merely a sycophant.

Well… the 3 years I spent studying Art History at uni does kind of give me a base knowledge. Though unlike you, I don’t think that qualifies my opinion as superior to anyone else’s.

I love abstract expressionism, and Rothko in particular, because I find the history and politics of the McCarthyite persecution of the artists absolutely fascinating, and view it through this context. I find the Rothko Room very emotional as a result, though I’m not entirely sure why. So the fact I don’t even understand my own emotional reaction to it, makes it even more interesting

So I suppose what I’m saying is that if that makes me a sycophant, then fine. Rather that than a pompous, pretentious, self-important cock eh? 😀

Not a painting but I’m a huge fan of some of Alan Stones’s Lithographs:


However they don’t make much sense at this scale…

Skis as art, anyone?

Three years studying art history, and now you just do colouring in using Paint and waffle on about Klitchko? Jeez. 😐

Skis as art, anyone?

Absolutely. And definitely skateboards!!!

Rusty Spanner – Member
igrf – Seen any Chris Acheson?

No but hey, like the 2nd one.

Cool thread eh?

Its a bloody travesty isn’t it really Bravissimo? 😀

“So I suppose what I’m saying is that if that makes me a sycophant, then fine. Rather that than a pompous, pretentious, self-important cock eh?”

You come across as both to be honest.

“Well… the 3 years I spent studying Art History at uni does kind of give me a base knowledge.”

Could you not have done a proper meaningful degree instead?

Did anyone see the documentary about Grayson Perry that was on a while ago? Fascinating and very thought provoking.

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Skis as art, anyone?

Nah only a board offers a decent canvass..

Rothko Room very emotional as a result, though I’m not entirely sure why.

“Presence”, I thought…

I was killing time in Glasgow today and saw a gallery selling a couple of Peter Howsons paintings which I always think are pretty striking. Also like the pervier Jack Vetteriano paintings.

Binners; this has got a little out of hand, and I can see why my comments might rile some people up. Please don’t take them too personally, or too seriously!

Anyway; what do you think of Anish Kapoor?

I’ve really liked this since I first saw it as a kid:

I think this Harris captures the very essence of what it is to be a lion.

I really like Mike Bell.

It’s going to be interesting watching thx1138 grow up in public 😉

Indeed! I took my kids to see the recent Kapoor exhibition at the City and we all loved it!

I don’t know a lot about art but I do like these

I got to see the Klimt exhibition in Vienna last year and went to the Dali museum in Tampa a few years back. Up close, looking at the brush strokes they are impressive and I was amazed how large Dalis Christ was

OmGee dont turn them into Chorlton lefties!

Great thread,
moved on a bit since i left work and got home!

@ Mr Woppitt,
love the Hiroshige,
how about a bit of hokusai….

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, –
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Mr. Smith. There really is no need to be so rude just because you don’t like what I like.

I wasn’t being rude, I didn’t call anyone any names I just voiced my opinion which is just as valid as yours.

I went to the Klimt exhibition at the Tate Modern in Liverpool around two years ago and really loved the forest paintings.

Anything by Egon Schiele

http://www.egon-schiele.net

check Haroshi out…

all made from old skateboards.

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This isn’t my favourite and it’s a bit off beat, but it’s wonderfully menacing and charged.

This was painted on one of the vaulted roofs at the Palace in Vienna, it was all pretty cool