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Heh, Goya's one hell of a "caricaturist", alright.
I read this great play once, I think it was actually a restaging and retelling of one of those old English revenge tragedies, featuring a giant projection of a Goya painting in back of the stage at all times.
Damned if I can remember what it was called.
Yeah, caricature has gone downhill over the past few hundred years, a little bit. Goya has some really incredible series of etchings.Quote:
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Heh, Goya's one hell of a "caricaturist", alright.
Great thread idea JM!! :)
I love fine art and I have been going to museums for as long as I could remember. Both my mum and her sister studied art and even though neither became a "professional" artist it had a huge impact on me as a child. Growing up just outside of Manhattan I would visit MOMA and the Met quite often. Getting accepted to the art programme at my grammar school was the happiest day of my young life.....
Ahem, anyway... my favourite artists and art movements tend to be modern (that's why MOMA is my favourite museum)... but I have an appreciation for a diverse and rather eclectic group of things. I wish I had my gigantic History of Art textbook here to jog my memory... Doh! But here are a list of some of my favourites (highly influenced by stuff I have bookmarked).... ;)
»»» Jackson Pollock
[thumbnail]http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.number-8.jpg[/thumbnail]
What moves me most in art is the feeling of abstract. Put into my own words and into my own life (art, music, writing, everything) it is what drives me most. I love love love trying to create things that evoke feelings abstractly. I love the interpretations. I love giving the impression of something that is not obvious. Pollock was one of my first favourites when I started going to museums. It just struck a chord with me that has always resounded.
The best fine art exhibit I ever went to was Jackson Pollock at MOMA in NYC. I went with Icepop we were both very moved by the experience.
»»» John Squire
Yes, the guitarist for the Stone Roses! No, I am not being daft. He was a fine artist and his favourite was Jackson Pollock. He used his own artwork for the Stone Roses sleeves and I always found it really touching and interesting. He stopped making decent music after the Roses broke up but I'll always love his art. I have a poster of Double Dorsal Dopplegänger Five that I need to frame and put up on the wall.
http://www.unsuave.com/~q/garage/pics/doubled.jpg
»»» Wassily Kandinsky
[thumbnail]http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/images/kandinsky-composition8.jpg[/thumbnail]
Everything you ever wanted to know about me can best be summed up by the fact that I feel like I am looking into a mirror when I look at that image.
»»» Yoshiko Masuda
[thumbnail]http://www.yoshikomasuda.com/image1.jpg[/thumbnail]
= :)
»»» Japanese Woodblock
http://importimagesnewyork.com/shop/...C8740-wave.jpg
^ great wave. hokusai.
I mainly like natural scenes. Here is a nice index of images I just found: http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/gallery3.htm
What appeals to me about Japanese woodblock is that it reminds me of my youth. I grew up in a Japanese neighbourhood and all of my friends were Asian, except for one. So, this was really the culture I grew up with and the type of thing that always stood out when I was little. It still gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
»»» Icepop (the TNL poster)
I am not joking. She does not have her work uploaded right now or I'd link it, but she is an inspiration to me. She does everything. Painting, watercolour, drawing, collage, and all of it touches me and I think she is amazingly skilled and has an amazing style and talent.
»»» Yves Tanguy
[thumbnail]http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/tanguy/tanguy.indef-divisibility.jpg[/thumbnail]
I actually wrote a report and did a presentation on Tanguy in French at university for my French language class. Yikes, how did I pull it off? I forget the criteria but I think it had to be on a famous French person and I figured my French teacher would not want to hear about Gérard Houllier (Liverpool's French manager.. heh).
Anyway, Tanguy was an underrated surrealist who is a bit reminiscent of Dalí.
»»» Anders Zorn
I don't know what it is about Zorn but his work is touching. It feels like a fuzzy memory of a place I have never been to but always wanted to visit. Or a dream.
http://www.algonet.se/~mgus/zorn/nudes/tof257.jpg
His nudes are particularly impressive.
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OMG.. I just realised I could go on all day. I am just scratching the surface. I'll leave what I linked so far (that was just some stuff I had bookmarked) and I may make another post or two along the same lines at a later date. :)
I will mention a few other thoughts first though. What I don't like.... Well, I don't like Renaissance era art. Art History class at uni was practically a Renaissance art class with one pre-Ren and one post-Ren class sandwiched around it. I really do appreciate and find the innovations in art, style, and technique interesting. But the period personally does very little for me and I was annoyed that the professor decided to concentrate so much on one specific period and region, regardless of how important it was. It's just not my bag. I do like classical art much more though, especially Egyptian and Chinese.... so I am not just "all about the modern art". :p
Anyway, that's enough for now. :)
sggg, I didn't know that guy from the Stone Roses did the art work. In fact, just yesterday for some reason I pulled out their first album and took a good look at the cover. A map of someplace with the Pollock streaks all over, it's really cool.
Yeh, he made all of the Roses sleeves - they were all based on his artwork. Also, a little known fact is that he worked in the animation dept for the cartoon Danger Mouse. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Green
sggg, I didn't know that guy from the Stone Roses did the art work. In fact, just yesterday for some reason I pulled out their first album and took a good look at the cover. A map of someplace with the Pollock streaks all over, it's really cool.
Anyway, here are some links I just found:
» http://merseyparadise.net/fans_downloads_desktop.html
» http://johnsquire.com/artwork/
I'm back with more.
Andrew Wyeth - He is one of the painters that I learned about in highschool, & immediately dismissed as lame since my retarded art teacher spoke so highly of him. Now that I look back at his work, it makes my head spin. Easily my favorite American painter.
http://www.clag.org/images/february.jpg
John Singer Sargent - From a few feet away, his paintings look photo realistic, get a few inches away & you can see the wonderfuly messy brush strokes done in very thick paint. Simply amazing.
http://www.listonart.com/Art_Of_The_...ish_Dancer.jpg
http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/ampaint...JSSmadamex.jpg
I'll have more later.
JM
Leon Spilliaert- Symbolist, I learned of him only in the past few years and related to the guy's work habits and use of light and dark in his works. His paintings tend to be monotone and heavily pattern based, they look peaceful but seem very tense if you sit and look at them.
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/spilliaert.html
Edward Hopper- His work has a technicolor glow to it, I've always been amazed how he could take a simple citicape or bit of daily life and make a compelling work from it.
http://www.boomspeed.com/neoalpha0/hopper.jpg
Giuseppe Arcimboldo-
http://www.boomspeed.com/neoalpha0/arcimboldo.jpg
Jacek Yerka-
http://www.boomspeed.com/neoalpha0/v...icBarnyard.jpg
Guilty pleasures, I love to sit and explore their paintings, marveling at the little details and how no one thing dominates a composition.
Giorgio De Chirico- His early works achieve the dream-like state that many Surrealists failed to capture, though he disliked being associated with the surrealists.
*-neo
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Originally posted by Andrew
Good thread, but it belongs in the Galleria, don't you think?
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Originally posted by JM
This is discussion about art, so I think it goes here, not in the galleria.
Oh yeah, good call on Hopper. It never fails to amaze me what he could do with a building. I guess if you have enough talent, any subject matter can be beautiful & captivating.
Yerka is neat. Every time I see one of his books in a store, I'm tempted to finally pick one up.
Neo, have you been working on anything lately. I've seen some of your stuff in the Galleria & it is very nice. I want to see more.
JM
Many thanks for that link. Some beautiful images there.Quote:
I mainly like natural scenes. Here is a nice index of images I just found: http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/gallery3.htm
in no particular order...okay, I lie. I loooooooove Mucha. I just started getting into his art this year, but man oh man...if I could my style to just hint at some of the cool stuff he does, just for one picture, that would make my day.
Okay, now in no particular order:
- Rembrant
- van Eyke (sp)
- Michelangello
- Raphael
- Da Vinci (the Last Supper - awesome ^^)
- Goya
I know there's more, but I'm terrible at keeping names. Maybe I'll have to post again, and next time with pictures.