Do you have a favourite painting?

A bit of Kandinsky

Shaun Tan is an amazing illustrator

Cheers folks, theres some new artists i’ve added to my “like” list after browsing through this thread, they’ve been noted down in my “little book of stuff to do/explore” and over time i’ll do more research and see what else they’ve painted.

In the order that they appear in the thread i’ve highlighted the following :

Mike Bell
Yves Klein
Jeremy Mann

I recently bought my first ever “original painting” of Graeme Obree by Joe Scherrer, i’ve owned the print for a while but i met the artist by chance recently and enthused wildly about the print regarding Graeme and the hour record and the way he smashed it – he is one person i have always respected for his achievements/convictions/belief and honesty in cycling. Joe offered to sell me the original so i thought about it for a few days as it was a helluva amount of money for a painting, possibly one of the most expensive things i’ve ever bought after my bikes/car but i decided i had to have it so i sold a bike and used what cash i could gather together, i vividly remember exactly when Graeme broke the hour record and i’ve followed him ever since, his honesty and the way he turned his back on a pro career and a paycheck of hundreds of thousands as he refused to dope is humbling. For sure he has his faults but don’t we all?. It still needs to be framed but Joe is going to do that for me, so if my house burned down now i’d grab my bikes, laptop, and my painting 😀 , Joe was commissioned to do a series of cycling greats, Coppi, Merckx, Yates and Obree, of which the Obree painting was also used at the “Flying Scotsman” premiere.

Coppi, Merckx and Yates were used in a book about the Tour De France called Golden Stages Of The Tour De France, Joe himself raced in Europe in the late 70’s80’s before retiring and becoming an artist, some of the tales of the time are worthy of a book.

Joe Scherrer Prints

Not a good picture of it at all as it doesn’t do the detail justice but the best i could do wi my crap camera – it looks stunning in the flesh so to speak, my first bit of “art” and i’m well chuffed, now to find an original Rothko 😀

I very recently came across the Meredith Frampton painting, and I was mesmerised by it, it’s stunning.

Agreed. i saw it for the first time about a year ago and couldn’t walk away! Absolutely stunning in real-life.

Before I saw that Frampton painting, I saw this one:

Beautiful painting, so contemporary, and uncluttered. I could sit and look at it for hours.

I went to the Tate today.

Sadly, this wasn’t there. (They are doing work on the gallery overall, so all good.)

The British Channel Seen from the Dorsetshire Cliffs, by John Brett/

CFH, that’s gorgeous! Could be parts of Devon, also… 😀
This, for some peculiar reason, I found oddly pleasing:

Oh, and as we were talking about Rothko, I tend to prefer this period:

It’s not just a blue canvas

To me it’s just a blue canvas (but I know art is subjective and what not and there’s probably a greater point that I can’t see).

I love this, not technically a painting though.

Could be parts of Devon, also.

Oddly, that’s EXACTLY why I like it. I grew up on the South Devon coast, and it reminds me of the light, the sky, the sea from that period of my life. I know it’s painted as Dorset, but in my heart I feel it’s Devon.

cool stuff Somafunk! Labsey is that the same illustrator/designer that did the Lemon Jelly stuff? looks familliar.

I have a favourite painting from a non art point view. My Mum sold this, she was a hobbling old bird with a wonky hip.

Paid for my Mum’s hip Op with change. 🙂

it’s all about the money Richpips!

it’s all about the money Richpips!

Yes, I guess so, or wait as she wasn’t NHS urgent.

She does have ~30 goats ~10 geese and numerous chickens.

3 bales of hay and one of straw to cart a day.

72 years of age.

Kevevs : Lemon Jelly’s artwork was designed by “Airside”, Fred Deakin (DJ/producer side of Lemon Jelly) owns the company and has done creative work for just about every blue chip and ftse 100 company there is – an incredibly talented individual and i love his design work.

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sorry Richpips no offence, but that’s a boring and crap painting imo.and it’s all about opinion with this stuff. I’m glad you got a few quid for it. I just knew it was him Somafunk! shit hot!

kevevs – is there any point in expressing that opinion in this thread though? There are loads on here that I don’t like, but that doesn’t make them crap.
I believe it’s a Brian Sheilds (known as Braaq) who does seem to have a following (industrial working class northern scenes):
Google Images Search
Not my cup of tea, but I certainly wouldn’t dismiss it as crap.

I am massively into Modern British art (1950-1970s), mainly abstract works. Got a fairly large collection, but my favs have to be works by William Gear and Roy Turner Durrant. Will post pics if anyone is interested in seeing.

Please, would be good.

somafunk – I love Airside stuff. I bought one of 50 of these big silk screen prints when they released the first EP, numbered and signed by both of them.

Looks great! 😀

Always been fond of:

Few here, first up a William Gear acrylic and ink from 1959

The next two are both by Roy Turner Durrant, done in the ’60s.

I mentioned Gerald Scarfe earlier; I see this cartoon is provoking a lot of reaction today:

You are clearly unaware of the underlying subtleties of Rothko’s paintings, and by continuing to dismiss them you are just making yourself look like a pleb.

What an arrogant statement. It’s this kind of snobbishness and elitism that hinders universal enjoyment of art; ‘if you don’t understand it you are inferior and unworthy’. To quote you: ‘Total bollocks’. Read some of the comments regarding Jack Vettriano, this one in particular:

perfect fodder for the greetings card market since the demise of Athena poster shops.
ephemeral dross for the visually illiterate.

Yet make a similar comment about Rothko, and you’re a ‘pleb’. Interesting. Art is completely subjective, there is no right or wrong. I have no problem with anybody interpreting a piece of art in any way they chose, just don’t get all pretentious about it if you want to be taken seriously. That Rothko and others have to attempt to ‘explain’ his work shows how it fails to communicate effectively as art, in my opinion. Art should speak for itself, without the need for further explanation.

The reason I highlighted that sentence, is because one of the features of the exhibition were as series of photos taken of details of the restaurant group under different UV wavelengths. A mate of mine used to rave about Rothko, and would happily sit or hours staring at them, given a chance. I was ambivalent, but gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, these detail photos reveal that there are many layers to a Rothko, and those layers, which are applied in specific ways, fluoresce in different colours under UV. This is deliberate, not accident, and it seems Rothko was aware of the colour differences while painting, and it’s the reason my mate loves them so much, because he’s sensitive to the UV end of the visual spectrum, and can see details that are invisible to me.

I’ll refrain from being rude about this particular statement, suffice to say that it made me laugh. Instead, I’ll leave it there, with this comment:

But anybody who likes Rothko has a nerve slagging Vettriano, both are poster art, bought by people becuase they are inoffensive and match the furniture.

Rusty Spanner – Member
Hora, it’s the Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Link.

I went on Sat and..

IT WAS IN STORAGE…

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Peter Howson currently showing at the Maclaurin in Ayr. Awesome, well worth a visit

Here’s mine:

Paul Feiler, Inclined Oval Brown

Walter Sickert, Bathers Dieppe