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     Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Mine: The death mask of Tutankhamun Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Theresa Moreau's Helen at the Scaean Gate Rembrandt's Bathsheba at her Bath Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! Yours? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.88.46 |
Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Theresa - she's in my old dissertation - she is. Saw her in Rome. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Anything by MC Escher or Gustav Dore Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.96.45.148 |
Off the top of my head: Millais - Ophelia Edward Hopper - 11 a.m. Seurat - Man Leaning on a Parapet Degas - The Tub (though technically a drawing) Jacek Yerka - Paradise William Blake - Elohim Creating Adam (also Newton) Those are the ones that came immediately to mind, anyway. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.18.104 |
Picasso, Dali, Magritte, Bacon, Beckmann, Goya, Dore, Hogarth, Bosch - basically the more bizarre, witty, grotesque or mind expanding the better!  I'm in heaven browsing round the Tate Modern in particular. Single favourite work I have to agree with 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights' - terrifying and wondrous. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>basically the more bizarre, witty, grotesque or mind expanding the better! << Same tastes as me then, Stephen! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
And how could I have forgotten Hogarth and Wm Blake. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Oh, sorry, just thought of this one too - I was absolutely captivated by Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke when I saw it "in the flesh" many years ago. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.142 |
I just realized I don't have one....  | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.18.104 |
Yeah, I'm as much drawn to the horrific and the nightmarish in Art as in any other medium. I love works of art that make you stop in your tracks and say "what the f**k!!". I have to go over and study them at length so you can imagine the fun I have poring over anything by Bosch. Always loved fine attention to detail in Art and startling juxtapositions of images - Dali has always been a firm favourite in that respect. A very funny guy too - the Frank Zappa of the Art world. But Picasso tops them all. There's just something indefinable about his paintings 'in the flesh' that I find hypnotic. His use of colour and sense of composition is just perfection to me. I could go on and on... | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.202.180.75 |
Giger. Pretty much everything he does. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.242 |
Gosh, where to begin?! My favourite artist is Paul Klee - I can lose myself in his paintings for hours. Also: Remedios Varo Odilon Redon Van Gogh Franz Marc Max Ernst M.K. Ciurlionis Goya Carlos Schwabe Gustave Moreau Matisse Munch Caspar David Friedrich Dore Piranesi Durer Chagall Kuniyoshi Alfred Kubin Magritte Fernand Khnopff Picasso Bocklin | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.188.41 |
Only just discovered him but I went to an exhibition of JW Waterhouse paintings at the Royal Academy on Saturday. Brilliant, really enjoyed it. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.68 |
Anything by the late great Tony Hart. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>Anything by the late great Tony Hart.<< Are you serious, or just jesting? Actually, I'm quite a fan of Tony Hart. I was brought up watching Vision On and Take Hart. And Vision On, of course, spawned the marvellous Morph - not a Tony Hart creation but an Aardman Animations one. A few years ago, I saw the guy who runs Aardman - not Sproxton, the other one whose name I can't remember - give a most interesting talk at the National Media Museum. All the time he was talking, he was working a piece of plasticine in his hands, and had made a Morph by the end of the talk. Wonderful stuff! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Peter Lord - that's his name! And on a different topic, I've very partial to Louis Wain anthropomorphic cat drawings. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
That should read "I'm very partial .." | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.142.192.107 |
David Inshaw, Paul Nash...I like Redon, too. And Karel Weight. Still think painting the best of the arts. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.188.242 |
I would like to mention a few of my favourite book illustrators (aside from Dore, who I already listed): Arthur Rackham Aubrey Beardsley Sidney Sime Harry Clarke Virgil Finlay Hannes Bok Lee Brown Coye J.K. Potter Paul Lowe There are a few whose names I can't recall at the moment... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
Carolinec - I was jesting, of course  | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
JC Dollman's the Famine | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
When I was at university (what seems like such a long time ago), I took a module in art history. Thing is, I hardly remember anything about the work. I focused on the lives of the artists more than their work. I've been that way with a lot of artists, I mean artists who paint, not writers. Then again, I ask a lot of questions of people generally about their families, I'm fascinated about people of all sorts, generally. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
just to clarify...GENERALLY...word for today... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Those dogs playing pool. I genuinely do have three of those pictures lining the wall of my stairwell. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
What about the semi-clad woman fondling a Harley Davidson? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
 I also have this on my living room wall | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
Now you're just showing off. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
And this - when my brother in law has done the frame  | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Thing is, I hardly remember anything about the work. I focused on the lives of the artists more than their work. I've been that way with a lot of artists, I mean artists who paint, not writers. I'm rather similar in that respect, Frank - though I love the paintings of Dali, Rossetti, Waterhouse, Van Gogh etc, it's their lives & personalities which fascinate me. Vincent's letters, the story of Rossetti's relationship with Elizabeth Siddal, and the biography Wicked Lady: Salvador Dali's Muse are every bit as interesting and revelatory as the artists' creative work. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
Steve - exactly, that's me almost to the letter. I guess that's why I love books about writing, and film-making, because I'm absolutely fascinated by the people and their process. I also have a passion for movies about movies, and movies about writers. Even bad movies about the two subjects fascinate me. Even Factotum, which was based on Bukowski's work, and not about the man himself, was for me an autobiography about his writing. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.251.215.167 |
Jeff Koons Jack Vettriano Georgia O'Keefe Tracy Emin No, of course not really. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.80 |
I'm so enamoured by 'ordinary' people's lives, too. I ask countless questions about my girlfriend's family. I guess some of the intrigue with my girlfriend's family is that their Polish, and so their history is far different to those of a typically English family. Perhaps that's why. I do though ask a lot of questions of people back home, so maybe it's a universal thing with me. Either that or I'm just incredibly nosey. In truth though I think it's because I know very little about my own family's past. My mum has been saying for years that I should use the family for material. Here's a few choice facts about my family. I swear none of it is exaggerated or invented. 1. My Uncle Bernard trained as Catholic priest in the late fifties, early sixties. He then became a monk for a brief period of time, living in a monastery on the island of Corsica. He didn't last very long, due to the strenuous lifestyle, and not to mention his vow of silence was driving him crazy (I promise all of this is true). He then returned to Britain. One day whilst he was visiting the family, he attended mass with my mum, who was only a teenager then. Without any warning he jumped up and denounced the Catholic faith as a sham and said he renounced his vows and was no longer a priest!! This in a small provincial village. He later claimed the fire and brimstone sermon of the local priest who was advocating all protestants were damned to hell for their involvement in the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland, was the straw which broke the camel's back. He then joined the air-force (!!!), and learnt Russian. He was then said to have been a translator at several top-key trials of Soviet spies!!! Not verified. He has since travelled the world as a translator, and speaks 8 languages fluently. He still remains a virgin, and has been to most parts of the globe. Today he lives and works in Moscow, where he has lived on and off for twenty years. 2) My Uncle Kevin on being next of kin to my gran, as in the first to be informed, tried to have my gran buried before the rest of us were informed. 3)My cousin married a Greek restaurant owner who was then shot dead by one of his waiter's. Apparently he was involved in trafficking arms. 4)Two cousins of mine, both twins, got into a fight with each other, which resulted in one of them stabbing the other to death. 5)My dad once burgled our home. The police knew it was him when they discovered the glass punched in from the outside and not vice versa. And that is but the tip of the Duffy/Haunch iceberg. I'm not kidding. I've plenty more stuff. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.180.157 |
I like Georgia OKeefe! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.251.215.167 |
I used to, until Robert Hughes described her orchids as kitsch and I couldn't see them any other way. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Just been checking Georgia O'keefe on the interweb. I wouldn't call her orchids kitsch by any stretch of the imagination. Suggestive, definitely. Not kitsch. The dogs playing pool are kitsch. But there ain't anything wrong with kitsch anyway. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Those orchids...Kitsch? I would disagree. Funny? Hell, yes. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Three of my favourite pieces of artwork: Christina's World - Wyeth New York Movie - Hopper America: a Prophesy - Blake | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
O'Keefe used to wash her paintings underwater in her house, you know. That's why they have that unusual quality. The artistic technique is known as 'everything but the kitsch and sink'. | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
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| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.20.86 |
Her stuff looks kitsch on these books you get in book world, but then I bought another book and saw other things by her, and they really clicked with me. She hated that people thought her work suggestive; she said it was meditative. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Don't, you'll only encourage him Congratulations Gary, that made my jokes look good... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Crossed posts there. I've never heard it called meditative before... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Me and Jesus, eh? The only bona fide performers of miracles who've ever graced the globe. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Jesus wasn't much better at jokes. In fact in his last ever performance, he wasn't doing very well so when the audience were turning roudy he said "This next one'll make you laugh, honest, and you can nail me to a tree if I'm wrong..." | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Nope. Can't do anything with that one, alas, except maybe give it a little of the old Lazarus treatment . . . | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Jesus walking down the street one day when he sees a crowd about to stone a prostitute to death. "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone." says the J-man. A woman steps forward, picks up a stone and throws it. Jesus turns to her and says, "Stop showing off mother." | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
I like expressionists, I suppose, particularly de Kooning, Kandinsky, Albright, Feininger, a few others. However, I just discovered the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin (late, I know), and found them beautiful and terribly disturbing. (I'm sure that's the point.) His work is kind of a mash-up of Diane Arbus's photos, religious tableaux, and things found at the coroner's office. His photos been haunting me the past few weeks. I don't know if I like them or just can't forget them. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
Anyone who appreciates the finely detailed and wildly imaginative illustrations of Gustav Dore should check out Sidney Sime whose work is at least in the same ball park. I got into him through H.P. Lovecraft's recommendation in the story 'The Horror In The Museum'. His work really is wonderful imho. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.101 |
I realise that my deviation of the thread with regards to my family looks just a tad odd. I wish I could lay the blame on drugs, but since I don't take drugs, I have no excuse. Still, it entertained me for a couple of minutes. I was hoping somebody would top it with some suitably garish, dark familial hilarity.  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>I was hoping somebody would top it with some suitably garish, dark familial hilarity.<< I don't think anyone else here would dare reveal their dark familial history - it would probably be just too sordid to detail!  | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
I like the whole body of work, not a picture in particular: Hans Bellmer Gottfried Helnwein Francis Bacon Van Gogh Barron Storey | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.190.212 |
>>When I was at university (what seems like such a long time ago), I took a module in art history. Thing is, I hardly remember anything about the work. I focused on the lives of the artists more than their work. David Mitchell would probably disagree with that approach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEoCrcX97_4&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=6AA45D13ACD9 B04B | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.177.179 |
Stu - you should. Their lives are the main thing. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.190.212 |
Yeah, but I couldn't find an amusing video clip of David Mitchell ranting in favour of that point of view. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.87 |
Stu - I wasn't saying it was a good thing, nor a bad one. Just that not being Fine Arts Student, as everybody else on the module was (I was doing Media Studies), I knew absolutely nothing about most of the work I was studying, and therefore I gravitated more towards the artists themselves. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.178.241 |
I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing either. It just provided a handy segueway to the video clip. But seeing as no one seems to be biting to hell with subtlety. David Mitchell. From Mitchell and Webb. Being funny. Watch the bloody video. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.177.179 |
Wish I could guide you folk to my facebook thing and see all the paintings I've posted. Jeez - I'm pissed, on a teaspoon of gin! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.103 |
Tony - what's your facebook address? I'm also on FACEBOOK. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.177.179 |
Oh, just look up Tony Lovell. I'm not sure how to find that stuff. If you give me your email address I can post you the album... Mine is lovell663@NOSPAMbtinternet.com - remove the spam bit of course. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.103 |
Tony - I just sent you a message from my FACEBOOK account. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.75 |
Fernando Botero Francisco Goya PJ Crook (amazing!) Hieronymus Bosch Joan Miro Paul Delvaux . . . | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.69 |
Tony - I just sent another message to your FACEBOOK account. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
Ah, so it's Tonies you've moved onto now... <sob> | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.77 |
Stephen - look, mate. It's not that I didn't enjoy our time together, it's just that, well, how do I delicately phrase this...well...I'm a SLUT. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
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