I never realised how much I love art because I seriously can't decide. However, the last most striking painting I saw was this (not in person);
Saturn Devouring His Son Or was it called "Saturn Devouring His Children"? When I was in Vienna and Berlin I saw a lot of famous works as well. Too much to name but worth it damn it.
" I never realised how much I love art because I seriously can't decide. However, the last most striking painting I saw was this (not in person);
Saturn Devouring His Son Or was it called "Saturn Devouring His Children"? When I was in Vienna and Berlin I saw a lot of famous works as well. Too much to name but worth it damn it. "
We had a mural based on this scene in our college dining hall. Apparently the artist that did our hall made a contract with a school to have complete creative freedom, and they figured he wouldn't do anything crazy. And then he showed a scene (albeit abstract) of the Titan eating his children. Pretty much the last thing some college kids eating food want to look up and see. Guess he pulled a quick one on everyone. Haha.
@daniel: You can't trust artists, they're freaky people (maybe that's why they manage to translate that pretty well onto canvas). I get the willies (the good sort) whenever I see this picture, it's bad enough too look at this while I'm eating a lasagne...
I never really have paid attention to enough art to have a list of pieces at the ready, but there are two paintings I've seen recently that I've particularly liked:
1) I dont know the name of this one, or the artist, but its of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain leading the charge down Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War. I love the lighting and the detail in this painting.
2) Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich. This painting is just epic.
I like landscape paintings, but I hate art where they just kind of barfed up their emotions onto a canvas one day, and then a bunch of idiots over analyze it and call the artist a genius.
Head of a Girl in a Turban/Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer Executions of Defenders of Madrid, Goya Trench Warfare, Dix Starry Night, Gogh The Angelus, Millet The Nighthawks, Hopper
" @daniel: You can't trust artists, they're freaky people (maybe that's why they manage to translate that pretty well onto canvas). I get the willies (the good sort) whenever I see this picture, it's bad enough too look at this while I'm eating a lasagne... "
" @daniel: You can't trust artists, they're freaky people (maybe that's why they manage to translate that pretty well onto canvas). I get the willies (the good sort) whenever I see this picture, it's bad enough too look at this while I'm eating a lasagne... "
Gee, thanks dude!. "
I was actually referring to artists of the extreme type. For example, I know one artist that slept with seven men (not at the same time) in the same bed for one week. She didn't use the bed for anything else except sex. Then she exhibited it, that was her art. Personally, I don't see that as art, I'll happily accept most things as art no matter how odd it may be but that's just silly. I doubt your that type. Or are you?...
Tracy Emin did something like that, but I don't think she slept with anyone (ugly), although I could be wrong : /... I also dislike the extreme art, but not of the type you talk of, that's not extreme at all, it's just crap conceptual installation art in my eyes, which there's a lot of these days. What I dislike is art which has only one sole intention, which is to gain media interest for the profit of the artist. I hate such artists and their weak work. I never went to the Sensation exhibition here in London's Royal Academy for that reason. I would have probably poured red paint on that child murderer's painting also.
Art has always been extreme, as even ancient examples prove, it's nothing new... I will leave it there :)
So so so many great artist and great paintings. There is really nothing I love more than standing before a great painting and just breathing it in. Nothing moves me more emotionally than fine art, not music, not film, not theater.
George Seurat Edward Degas Jan Van Eyck Winslow Homer Peter Paul Rubens Jackson Pollack Picasso
" So so so many great artist and great paintings. There is really nothing I love more than standing before a great painting and just breathing it in. Nothing moves me more emotionally than fine art, not music, not film, not theater.
George Seurat Edward Degas Jan Van Eyck Winslow Homer Peter Paul Rubens Jackson Pollack Picasso
Andrew Wyeth El Greco "
Same here Penguin dude. I've see five of those paintings up close here in London often. The Seurat, Van Eyck, Rubens, are to be found at the National Gallery. The Pollock is at Tate Modern now, after earlier being housed in Tate Britain...although the example of Pollock above could be anywhere, it's really hard to tell :)
I like the Van Eyck, I like the story behind it. The treatment of paint in the Rubens is truly masterful. I like Degas softness of touch which lends well to the depiction of anything feminine. (I prefer his nudes though). The Seurat for it's application of pigment as well as it serenity. You cannot help but stand in awe of how the painting is achieved.
@PenguinDust:I love Picasso's work (I keep forgetting the name, it's called "Guernica" and I keep forgetting that for some reason ). It's just so bizzarre and lacking in much colour but it does tell you a lot. Despite the number of interpretations I've heard I've never fully got my head around it.
I love L.S. Lowry's paintings. On the surface they look very simple, but there is a hidden complexity. They're fantastic. I don't have a particular favourite, but here are a few that are particularly good:
I can't find a high-resolution image of it on the internet, but there's a beautiful painting by Frank O'Connor called "Man Also Rises", it depicts the steel frame of a skyscraper rising to meet the dimly-lit heavens.
@SJSchmidt93: you don't need to know anything. Sometimes, when you're looking at them, one will just strike you as fantastic. Trying to discern why lends to a greater appreciation of the work. Very little strikes me as fantastic about the likes of Monet and Renior and other classical painters, though I certainly see their worth. Talented artists, but not my favorite thing to look at.
I tend to have many different favorites as time goes on. Currently, Glenn Brown blows my fucking mind:
Although it looks like he's just got globs of paint swirling around in order to create that swirly effect, the paintings are all actually completely flat. in other words, all of those lines that appear to be brush strokes are not in fact brush strokes: they are meticulously painted down to the last detail to give that effect.
As you can probably tell by the different & obscure styles of art I'm picking, I'm an Artist. I specialise mainly in Painting, Illustration, Photography & Graphic Design.. Theirs some nice art in this thread.
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