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[nny]

I've been looking for Icarus related things. I love the story and I love the potential for images, but I keep finding so much that just... isn't what I want. There's entirely too much that's NOBLE and HEROIC in the art, and that's not it at all.

Some of the ones I've collected together that I liked, pasted straight from notepad:

http://harusami.com/war_peace/zoom/icarus.jpg 'Icarus' by Sember Weinman

http://thorg.chattablogs.com/images/icarus.jpg

http://www.outofrange.net/blogarchive/archives/Draper_Herbert_James_Mourning_for_Icarus.jpg

http://www.cbreaksculpturepark.com.au/images/Icarus-007.jpg

http://personal.stevens.edu/~ashapiro/Icarus%20A.jpg

http://webs.wichita.edu/depttools/depttoolsmemberfiles/mark2/icarus.gif

http://www.crosslink.net/~stodart/giclee%20pics%20/Icarus-redifined.jpg <--- Lewis Thompson

http://www.torontoartexpo.com/gallery/2006/Feldman_Stanley/StanleyFeldman_Icarus4.jpg <--- Stanley Feldman

http://ramastom.free.fr/photos/the-fall-of-icarus.jpg

http://www.sandovalsignpost.com/jan04/assets/images/1_Icarus.jpg

Basically? From google image search. This is my knowledge of art. ¬_¬ I like offbeat representations and emphasis on the humanity, I think. I'm not sure. I'm only good at talking about art in person, when I know no one can look back at what I say later and laugh. :D

Can anyone recommend me artists? I don't necessarily want Icarus stuff, just... no, wait. Second thoughts. Don't recommend, just tell me what you like and why. A piece or a movement or an artist, and why it moves you. Please?

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[unravels.livejournal.com]

*eyes wings hanging in corner*

Mine would totally have worked.

Also, I will look. :]

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Search for images from 'Varekai', which has Icarus.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

The only photos I've found have been poor and blurry, but damned pretty. Thanks, love. :D

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/rembran/index.html

^best overall resource I know.

[agonistes]

...oh my god. There is one you are missing that is my faaaavorite. We talked about it in one of my classes last semester. The one that Auden talks about in "Musée de Beaux Arts". One moment. *goes hunting*

Ah yes. Pieter Bruegel. The Fall of Icarus. It's a bit of a Where's Waldo.

As for favorite artists? Maxfield Parrish, because of his use of light and color. (He's a very Kaylee kind of painter, if this makes sense.)

And there are two photographs that make my LIFE. The first is Ansel Adams -- Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. That one's on my wall in my room. For sheer fucking creepy.

The second is also full of sheer fucking creepy, but it is surpassed by the awesome. It's this one. Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait, 1988. The one he took when he found out he had AIDS. I saw it at the High Museum in Atlanta a few years ago and it's the first time I have ever -- ever -- had a visceral reaction to a piece of visual art.

And just 'cause I love it, and him -- my uncle's photography is all over our house. All the black and whites in this gallery, with my cousin Rachel -- Rachel is his daughter, and he took those. And some of his stuff is here. People in our family have been posing for him longer than I have been alive.

I am a sucker for well-done black-and-white photography in general, and tend to prefer landscapes to portraits. With some exceptions, obviously.

Also, this icon is from a self-portrait of David Lynch that I edited a little in Photoshop. And I love it, too. Because of his expression. Also, the hair. But mostly the expression. :D

[batyatoon]

I was thinking of the Auden poem.

I shouldn't be surprised that someone beat me to it, or who it was. :P

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I've seen the Bruegel, yes; I very much like the idea behind the painting, I think it's fantastic, but I'm not so keen on the execution. I prefer the poems that have come off the back of it. Another example:


Landscape With The Fall of Icarus
by William Carlos Williams


According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
near

the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning


I'd recommend Quint Buccholz as a Kaylee painter too. Have you seen any of his work? I'm always pimping it. I suspect she'd want something a little more brightly coloured, but there's a sweetness to it that reminds me of her.

The Ansel Adams piece is seriously cool, I shall have to hunt it down. On my wall I had poet's walk (http://imagesource.allposters.com/images/pic/PF/PF_976926~Poet-s-Walk-Posters.jpg) by Henry Silberman for a long time, until it fell off the wall in the middle of the night and scared the SHIT out of me. XD

The Mapplethorpe... I can see where your reaction is coming from, but it's not one I share.

And yeah. Your uncle's stuff is gorgeous. I'm going to have a longer look at that when I'm not otherwise occupied.

Oh, and I found something that made me think of you. XD

Conquest of the Air (http://www.southampton.gov.uk/leisure/arts/art-gallery/search/view-artwork.asp?acc_num=47/1977) by Sir Roland Penrose.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Also I think Caravaggio is awesome because he killed someone playing tennis.

All due respect aside. ;)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...how?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Oh, he got pissed off, drew his sword and killed someone. But it was during a game of tennis.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*happy gurgling*

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

He was also flamboyantly gay, used a prostitute as the model for a painting of the Virgin, and forced them to give him a knighthood. Exciting times.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...That is exceeding cool.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Those are cool.

[sophistry]

Because it blurs the line between man and myth and god, just as it should; bring me that horizon.

Because of lines and curves, opposed and harmonious, and the way it fills space; because it's grand, and proud, and touchingly imperfect.

Because of such great heights; because it's identity and history set in stone; because it's still here; because we'll never truly capture it again.

Because it's more than a postcard; Because you have to be there, and I can't explain it any better than that.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Your classicism fills me with quiet, peaceful happiness.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

I'm going to add a much more shallow comment:

this sculpture (http://www.theplatelady.com/figurines3/6444-wrestlers.jpg).

Because the moment I saw it in a (now-gone) favourite store, I thought it was alluring. It's so physical (http://www.theplatelady.com/figurines3/6444-wrestlers.jpg). It set all my slash alarms ringing. And it's the first slash-suggestive artwork I ever seriously considered buying, because it's not actually sensual, only sensuous. The allure and the backstory and the alternative interpretations are all in my head. I like it in no small part because of that -- because the moment I saw it, ideas and stories started creeping into my brain.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Man, you have to ask this when I'm having the worst attack ever of I HATE ART FUCK YOU ALL DIE, don't you?

;)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*grins* come back later. :D

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Had a wander around the V&A and a bit of a think and while the aesthetic is strong the art sense is drowning in the heat.

I think I showed you some of my favourites at the National? In between mocking people for having deformed feet and being freaked out by the sky being full of people. Feeling a definitive drive towards incongruity of setting for sculptures (so rather like your homeboy and his folk on the shoreline) or stuff that looks like it wasn't made to be observed.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I hadn't time to go through the links, loff, but if you haven't found him yet, Charles Umlauf worked with Icarus a lot in his sculptural themes. There's an Umlauf Sculpture Garden in Austin that should have a lot of images up on their website. Uh. Not that I know where their website is, mind.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

The Melting Point Of Wax by Thrice. It's an awesome Icarus song.