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06-24-2007, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Avane  | Heh heh, that would have been funny...Rock on Alice!  That Rossetti is lovely.
I mentioned a while back ago on the "profundity, poetry and prose" thread about Edward Gorey's books and how ghoulish and funny they are. He also did the illustrations for his works and they are funny in that same sort of clever and dark way. Goreyography : West Wing : The Backroom : Original Edward Gorey Art from select dealers
(The links to go to each painting are towards the bottom of each page....they are preview for people who are interested in buying prints but a good overview of Gorey art  )
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06-25-2007, 02:48 AM
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| | I'm happy to see that this thread is going on so well, and I've really some great art here, most I didn't know yet. Each painting here is beautiful or at least interesting, and I must say that also I liked Remedios Varo very much, especially Gatos and Insomnia. Thanks for introducing her to me, I will definitey keep her in mind for the future.
A painting that recently came along is De Windstoot (ca. 1680, Oil on canvas) by Willem van de Velde II. I think the right translation would be "The Gush". An amazing depection of the wild sea, and I really like the contrast between the dark stormy clouds and the clearing sky, and the way they are positioned. To be on such a fragile boat/ship with such wild waves in the middle of a ruthless sea would really be scary, I think. Not to mention nauseating. 
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06-27-2007, 02:47 AM
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| | Nächtliche Berliner Straße - Lesser Uri
@Siberys, wow those are brilliant!! Especially the well and pool are amazing.
@galraen, I definitely love your painting as well, really beautiful colours. I really wouldn't mind having that up as a poster in my room.
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06-28-2007, 11:44 AM
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| | I really love the use of color in the painting galrean posted about, and those sidewalk paintings were wonderful. The second link siberys posted was the one I liked the best...(the people caught in what appears to be a well!) 
This is sort of an interesting article about the rise of Impressionism: The Roots of Modern Art
Monet: Impression, Sunrise (from the article) http://www.galilean-library.org/imag...vant,_1872.jpg
AmazingOopah, is the painting in your post set in Berlin? It looks like a rainy evening, but I was wondering what city. Very nice.
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06-29-2007, 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by kathycf AmazingOopah, is the painting in your post set in Berlin? It looks like a rainy evening, but I was wondering what city. Very nice. | Yes, it's set in Berlin. There is nothing significant in the painting that makes it clear that it's Berlin (like the Brandenburger Tor or some other building), so it could also have been, say, Paris, but Berlin is where the painter Lesser Uri lived and he used his city in many of his paintings. Also, I guess he put a certain 'vibe' into the painting that he feels that hangs in and about Berlin, like the feeling a certain big city can give you. The title of the painting can be translated as Berlin Street at Night.
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06-29-2007, 05:41 AM
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| | I like Raphael's paintings and the silver pen sketches by Leonardo. As for more modern pieces of work I am a huge fan of Craig Mullins and other artists too numerous to mention.
Craig Mullin's site The Art of Craig Mullins
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07-05-2007, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by galraen This is one of my all time favourites, I like much of Turner's work, but this was the first one tha captivated me | " William Hazlitt on Turner
'The artist delights to go back to the first chaos of the world... All is without forms and void. Some one said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing, and very like.'
1816"
I took that quote from the Tate Britain site and have to say before I went to see the Turner collection there, I was much of Hazlitt's opinion... But like you said Galraen, his work is captivating, love it, now that I've actually looked at it. He was really the avant garde artist of his time. So it is fitting and great that they named the Turner Prize after him. Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Anthony Gormley et al, well they are following in his footsteps.
Thought Craig Mullins very cool. Ethereal.
This might not be what you had in mind when you put up this thread TAO, but I am a big fan of comics and love the artwork therein. So hope you don't mind if I put up this one of my all-time favourite superhero. The Silver Surfer. http://marvel.com/universe3zx/images...ver_surfer.jpg  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Rate This Thread |  Linear Mode | | 
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