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Post by motorist on Mar 4, 2009 20:00:05 GMT
I like quite a few of the Escher pictures. Got a book of the buggers somewhere
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Post by trubble on Mar 4, 2009 20:02:56 GMT
But for sheer jaw-dropping beauty, I have to give it to The Three Graces There's no way you can see it there, but when it was at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery I just sat and gaped at the pure genius, the perfection. Now I want to see it. I saw Rodin's The Kiss at the Tate and was quite entranced. And I like a bit of Klimt, talking of kisses.   |
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 4, 2009 20:03:23 GMT
You lot never cease to amaze me (in both good and bad ways, but this time good.)
Who knew you was all so learned about art and that?
I'm feeling shamefully ignorant and stupid. Can we talk about the Balkans now instead so that I don't feel so dim? ;D
SWL, the Dali is a classic. I saw that last year when we were over at Kelvingrove for the Harry Benson exhibition.
I have also seen Michaelangelo's David when I was in Florence many, many years ago. Plus that Venus rising from the shell thing that's also in the Uffizi, which is great.
To my shame, I once spent a day (forced into it) in the Hermitage in St Peterburg and was bored out my nut!!
But the grrls and I liked the Louvre when we were in Paris, and I did once visit the Pompidou Centre with a lover on another visit to Paris . . .
I like that shipwreck painting, the one Julian Barnes wrote a book about.
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 4, 2009 20:05:05 GMT
But for sheer jaw-dropping beauty, I have to give it to The Three Graces There's no way you can see it there, but when it was at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery I just sat and gaped at the pure genius, the perfection. Now I want to see it. I saw Rodin's The Kiss at the Tate and was quite entranced. And I like a bit of Klimt, talking of kisses. See Rodin's 'The Kiss' . . . is that at the Burrell, or is it a copy of it that's on show there? I like the Burrell too. When I think about it I seem to spend a bit of time in galleries for a philistine . . . Usually I jsut walk round really quickly though tbh. |
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Post by swl on Mar 4, 2009 20:12:17 GMT
Peter Howson went to theBalkans during the fighting as an official war artist.   The second one is titled "Croatians & Muslims" |
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Post by percyplum on Mar 4, 2009 20:33:12 GMT
The Dali is the Kelvingrove is amazing, but this is one of my favourites...Swans & Elephants  |
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Post by motorist on Mar 4, 2009 20:41:39 GMT
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Post by swl on Mar 4, 2009 20:49:22 GMT
Here are a couple of Escher bits I like. 'm not sure about the fussiness with copyright issues with Proboards, so I've just put links rather than IMG them  Fuckit. If the board get's closed, it's just one more notch on Riot's belt ;D  |
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Post by motorist on Mar 4, 2009 20:53:00 GMT
Here are a couple of Escher bits I like. 'm not sure about the fussiness with copyright issues with Proboards, so I've just put links rather than IMG them Fuckit. If the board get's closed, it's just one more notch on Riot's belt ;D She made me do it  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 4, 2009 21:15:11 GMT
Here are a couple of Escher bits I like. 'm not sure about the fussiness with copyright issues with Proboards, so I've just put links rather than IMG them Fuckit. If the board get's closed, it's just one more notch on Riot's belt ;D Eh . . . what are you talking about SWL? Any suggestion of closing this board was shot down as I recall; and it wasn't in this thread anyway. This is a NICE thread about paintings and stuff. I think you want the Orchard for that kind of thing . . . P.S. EDITED TO ADD: Oh, I geddit. You're taking the piss out of the concept of me as someone who rushes about banning people and getting boards closed and stuff, and hinting that breach of copyright issues . .. I geddit now. Most droll. I think you're allowed to reproduce copies of paintings if it's for the purposes of legitimate art criticism and discussion and stuff, like what we're doing here? No? |
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 4, 2009 21:28:57 GMT
OK, I think it's OK because all the pictures posted above are based on our own private photographs of the works in question . . aren't they all? So it's fine. We own the copyright on our own photographs. Whew!
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Post by Patrick on Mar 4, 2009 23:13:36 GMT
I'm having problems at the moment. When Dahn Sarf, friend and I tootled up to the Tate (both of them) and the National, exhibitions galore, on a regular basis - To the Monet expo, De Koening, Mondrian Degas. Went to the Turner Prize three years running, etc, etc.
For some reason though, at the moment, my mind is a complete blank! There were those I loved and adored - bt I just can't conjure them up for some reason.
I think my brain might have turned to mush in the intervening years.
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Post by everso on Mar 6, 2009 1:30:00 GMT
 An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby is my all time favourite. It's like Riot says, you can just keep on looking. This one is in the National Gallery and it's a huge painting that you get sucked into. Wonderful. Riot the painting you were entranced by is great and I'd love to see it. It looks fascinating. I also like Dali and Turner. Oh and one called The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein. The one with the skull that can only be viewed looking from the side of the painting. I saw the David statue in Florence and he has a very small willy. Ridiculously small - and I felt very cheated. Mr. E. and I also queued for god knows how long to get into the Uffizi Gallery and we came to the conclusion that, frankly, the National Gallery in London takes a lot of beating. And it's free to get in. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 3, 2010 18:20:02 GMT
 I went to see The Glasgow Boys exhibition today. This one is one of my favourites. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2010 16:33:18 GMT
jen currie is amazin, so is peter howson, Love their work my favourite artists are in no particvularrrr ORder qwhaatssover: Vn gogh, Turner, Picasso, jean michel Basquiat, ralph steadman loads of others too n orwll.. ohhh yeah MArc Chagall, nice to see Chagall works, all sort of dreamlike n poetic n stuff. romantic it is.. OOOH loverly. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2010 16:42:02 GMT
ken currie i meant, of course. who the flip is jen currie///? she might be good toooo.. yah neverrr know. check hjer out. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 4, 2010 18:33:21 GMT
'The Glasgow Boys' exhibition I was at yesterday certainly predates Ken Currie; It was 1880 - 1900. At the time Victorian painters were doing sentimental stuff, but the Glasgow boys, influenced by the French, did naturalist stuff with lots of emphasis on light and that. (Sorry, but I don't have the proper vocabulary to discuss art.) I love the one I posted, the photo of the old peasant guy. And this one . . . a Highland Funeral by the same artist (Guthrie)  But I kind of think I should go and do an 'art' course somewhere so that I have the right words to explain why I thhink a painting is good or what. (Incidentally, the initial paintings I had posted in this thread have all gone, because they were back in the photobucket account I had to delete when Aviatrix/Bodgett/Eric/Goat hacked into it to try to find photos of my family. But I might re-post the photo of the original Three Oncoligists by Ken Currie, because I like that even more than I like Guthrie's work.) |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 4, 2010 18:35:45 GMT
 So this is the oriiginal thing I started the thread about, Ken Currie's 'Three Oncologists' which is amazing. Much bigger and absorbing in rl obviously. |
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Post by housesparrow on Jul 4, 2010 19:12:02 GMT
Well, I'm glad my last breast scan was clear. Fancy having to face those three!
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 4, 2010 19:22:42 GMT
Well, I'm glad my last breast scan was clear. Fancy having to face those three! (Starting from the fact that I don't have a proper or educated vocabulary to discuss art.) No, but the thing about that painting in rl Housey is that it's COMFORTING. They're huge in rl, and their hands are covered in blood, but their faces have the expressions of the utmost compassion and dedication. That's why it's such a brilliant painting. I mean, as I said years ago when this thread started, the painting is huge. About 6 - 10 feet wide. Just draws you in with them and you feel what they're feeling. Does that make sense? It was the first painting that made me start to understand what art actually meant. |
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