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Jan. 10th, 2009 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyWhat's your favourite piece of art?
Links, please. I'm expanding my horizons, broadening my mind; what was it Pterry said? I wanna be able to pull it out of my ears and tie it under my chin. :D
Links, please. I'm expanding my horizons, broadening my mind; what was it Pterry said? I wanna be able to pull it out of my ears and tie it under my chin. :D
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Date: 2009-01-10 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-10 06:45 pm (UTC)Thanks for the rec!
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Date: 2009-01-10 06:44 pm (UTC)'Unique Forms of Continuity in Space', 1913 bronze by Umberto Boccioni
As you walk toward it, it actually looks like it's cutting through the air with movement and momentum.
Bernini's 'Beata Ludovica Albertoni'
Whatever light you view it in, she looks alive. You can't help but want to touch the fabric, because it looks like you could crumple it in your hand. Amazing, especially when you discover that this wasn't even started until Bernini was 71, and was created with arthritic fingers and fading eyesight.
Epstein's 'Rock Drill'
Probably the first true 'futuristic' sculpture - sci-fi images owe a huge debt to Epstein.
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Date: 2009-01-10 06:47 pm (UTC)(Thank you, also, for the badges. You are awesome. :D)
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:01 pm (UTC)Hee :D thank you for the awesome comment, I'm glad they arrived okay and that you liked them. Sorry for the lack of chatty comment on the card, my sister passed away suddenly and I wasn't in a chatty place when I posted off that batch. I hope that 2009 is a great year for you xx
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:00 pm (UTC)Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_Lesson_of_Dr._Nicolaes_Tulp).
Boticelli's "Primavera" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(painting)).
Velasquez' "The Spinners" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_hilanderas_(Vel%C3%A1zquez))
Michelangelo's "Moses" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_(Michelangelo))
Vermeer's "The Lacemaker" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Vermeer_van_Delft_016.jpg)
Watteau's "Gersaint's Shop Sign" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gersaint.jpg)
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:09 pm (UTC)I fucking love that picture.
Also, for reference - I don't like these pictures but I think you, as a Hampshire native, might: Hubert (http://www.nevillgallery.com/hubertpragnell/index.html). He's a relative of mine. I've been googling: turns out a LOT of my relatives are artists, like Valerie (http://www.browngrotta.com/Media/5vp.jpg).
I also really like this:
by Yves Tanguy, This girl's work (http://loish.net/), the mind-bending work of Cornelia Parker (http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=Cornelia%20Parker&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi), and Steve Brudniak (http://stevebrudniak.com/artwork.php). I know you like sculpture, so I thought I'd mention more sculptors and 3-d artists. Also obv I <3 installation artists!
ETA: I am also a total fag for Caravaggio, Hogarth's sequential paintings, a lot of Francis Bacon's more terrifying paintings, Richard Hamilton's weirder stuff, Rodin's Kiss, Michelangelo's Captured Slave, and um stuff. By "um stuff" I mean of course the joy of St Sebastian paintings in a variety of artistic styles.
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Date: 2009-01-10 08:09 pm (UTC)And I'm totally buying mesel' a print of 'submerged' by loish as soon as I've got ANY SPARE MONEY AT ALL.
:D
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Date: 2009-01-10 08:12 pm (UTC)Loish was the lass I commissioned to do me drawin' of Artemis for PtP - BLOODY EXPENSIVE thanks to the pound/Euro exchange rate but honestly worth it.
Also: I am fucking queer for this picture (http://www.ghostco.org/illustration/images/16.jpg). Seriously.
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Date: 2009-01-10 08:18 pm (UTC)Wanna see the most recent piece of art I bought?
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:16 pm (UTC)I've received a preliminary sketch of Carstairs, also, from someone I won on livelongnmarry. I suspect I'll ask her to tame his hair a bit, but I kinda love how much he looks like the Grinch.
XD
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:21 pm (UTC)I just paid for this (http://www.thumbtackpress.com/browse/product_info.php?cPath=99&products_id=1104), but the last piece I actually received was this (http://fc90.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/342/8/b/StarSeeds_by_shysuiko.jpg) (you will need to be logged into DevianTart to see it).
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:31 pm (UTC)Have yet to read story - today has been mostly composed of errands, tidying and Battlestar Galactica, with the most unbelievablt decadent hot chocolate somewhere in the middle. I'm still totally buzzing. I do like the print I can see, though.
At present I'm going through an art history site, trying to find some less Eurocentric stuff I like. Most of this is going into a folder of art that I'm going to use as my screensaver on my work laptop, so that if I ramble too long while powerpointing there'll be subliminiminal culture going on in the background.
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:36 pm (UTC)Check out Aztec art, it rules.
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:21 pm (UTC)Or alternatively, if we are going the pre-Raphaelite route, Isabella And The Pot Of Basil (http://www.preraph.org/images/artwork/large/1947-9.jpg) is nice.
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Date: 2009-01-10 08:17 pm (UTC)(Am I quoting Good Omens, or am I imagining it? XD)
Thank you! The second pic makes me want to study it with a magnifying glass and read up on all the symbolism.
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:47 pm (UTC)Then...Paul Klee's "Ad Parnassum":
And finally, this guy, by Hans Memling (which, okay...I don't even know if I love the portrait, but I've had a crush on the unidentified man in it since I was a teenager *G*)
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Date: 2009-01-10 08:11 pm (UTC)I had the same reaction to The Tailor (http://umlautampersand.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/the-tailor-moroni.jpg) when I went to the National Portrait Gallery with
Thank you!
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Date: 2009-01-10 08:24 pm (UTC)*raises fist in solidarity*
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Date: 2009-01-11 03:41 am (UTC)http://wahooart.com/A55A04/w.nsf/OPRA/BRUE-5ZKDVM/$File/G_O_ee-_sum.Jpg
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Date: 2009-01-11 10:10 am (UTC)XD
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Date: 2009-01-10 08:38 pm (UTC)http://www.metmuseum.org/special/americans_in_paris/obj.asp?gal=8&i=10&c=L
The image really doesn't do it justice. The one I have hanging in my bedroom looks positively illuminated.
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:20 pm (UTC)Dead Male Europeans
Date: 2009-01-10 10:44 pm (UTC)<a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng2057">The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus)</a> by Velazquez. I didn't like it as much in reproductions, but seeing it in the National Gallery - the colours are so bright and vibrant, the nude woman so beautiful - it's amazing.
Another favourite by Velazquez is <a href="http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng2057">The Infanta Marguarite Therese</a>, because of the sense of recognition that struck me when I first saw it.
It's the Infanta from <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/E850003-014/index.html">The Birthday of the Infanta</a> by Oscar Wilde.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas">Las Meninas</a> is the more famous painting , and it has more going on in it, and it still has the infanta in the front and centre of it.
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:22 pm (UTC)'Christ after the Flagellation contemplated by the Christian Soul'
UNF.
... Er, I mean, very spiritual piece of art.
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Date: 2009-01-11 10:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-10 11:35 pm (UTC)Sargon of Akkad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon_of_Akkad), Assyrian king; 23rd century B.C. Damage was done in antiquity. It would have had jewels for eyes. I have a soft spot of the Mesopotamians; hopefully I'll be able to see it in person, one day.
I'll show you some of my influences, if you want to see some broader collections.
I'm really into The Golden Age of Illustration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustration#Golden_age_of_illustration); this gallery of Dulac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Edmund_Dulac) ought to show you what I mean by that. I have a copy of The Rubaiyat with those types of illustrations, and it's one of my favorite possessions.
Check out J.C. Leyendecker (http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/leyendec.htm), who was a contemporary of Normal Rockwell. I love the way he paints.
Also, check out Pierre Alary (http://pierrealary.blogspot.com/), who is a contemporary comic book artist and animator. He's done a lot of the initial designs for Disney movies that you've seen, but haven't. I think he did the initial Aladdin concepts, until they changed the art direction of the movie.
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Date: 2009-01-11 12:28 am (UTC)(Also Dale Chihuly.)