Recent art that you liked

[joe1It]

Desforges, thank you, this sculpture is also wonderful, thanks also for information on the work.



John, this sounds like an interesting video

 

[stlukesguild]

Ori Toor, a freelance illustrator from Tel Aviv, describes his work as "100% improvised brain junk and happy accidents... creating freestyle worlds for you (and me) to get lost in." They are quite enthralling:

Ori Toor

 

[Trier]

Most of these resonate strongly with me.
The beautiful colors and vertical compositions feel Oriental.

 

[Artyczar]

Ori's work reminds me slightly of Amir Fallah, a very popular artist around these parts. Just the palette and pattern a bit.

 

[stlukesguild]

John Singer Sargent- Gust of Wind
Not one of Sargent's usual... In fact, I didn't even recognize who it was by. I immediately thought it was by Monet or Manet. The brushwork is spectacular.

 

[Artyczar]

Almost looks like a study.

 

[john]

Great art above. From wonderful illustration art to the more painterly art to Sargent, who is about a "painterly" as an artist can get. They are all great but I think my heart is more with the impeccably controlled warm abstraction of the masterful brushstroke. Sargent wins again for me. That painting seems to distill all the complications of the ones above with brilliant simplicity.

 

[Maybenartist]

The Sargent painting is an incredibly spontaneous work and it reminds me of many works by the Spanish artist, Joaquin Sorolla.

You post quite beautiful paintings of all genre Stlukes...

 

[joe1It]

I did not know Ori Toor, wonderful works,

has nothing to do but reminded me of cartoon Ricky and Morty,
some absurd images in the series. worlds, he parallel realities that sometimes merge
this cartoon
.
I didn't even know Amir Fallah. fantastic.
thank you all.
Fantastic Sargent's work, I always like Sargent very much, both his drawings and paintings I find incredible

 

[stlukesguild]

I just stumbled upon Simone Johnson's paintings/drawings on one of my social media feeds... and I absolutely love her work.
Johnson was born in 1971 in Manhattan and currently lives on Staten Island. Johnson employs Prismacolor pencils to realize her whimsical and imaginative scenes of cats rendered in brilliant saturated colors depicting a myriad of delightful situations. She is especially known for her drawings of New York City Bodega Cats.

In addition to being an artist, she is a belly dancer who has performed with a Manhattan dance company. The New York Daily News published an article about her life entitled, Special Young Artist Dances Past Autism. Johnson works as a part-time gallery assistant in the PVA studio. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in New York and abroad and is in many private collections.

 

[Nufocus]

Very cool work!!!

 

[joe1It]

strong, beautiful

 

[Iain]

The first cat reminded me of SLG's childhood cat drawing. Art is the last chance motel. WTf?

 

[Artyczar]

These are spectacular! I could see these in Ricco Maresca Gallery.

 

[stlukesguild]

Lucian Freud was a long-time favorite painter of mine. For some time he was a major influence on my own painting. I've had the chance to see several exhibitions of his work and I must own 4 or 5 books on the artist... but I have never seen this painting (above) by Freud... which is quite nice... and different from his usual work.

 

[Artyczar]

That is really different and even hard to believe that is one of his works. Wow!

 

[joe1It]

beautiful, I did not know this work of his and I would not have linked it to him, I had only seen portraits,
seeing him reminded me that there is a work of him, a self-portrait that I thought was his work more similar to nature, his work, perhaps the only work where a plant had the leading role

https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/lucian-freud/interior-with-plant-reflection-listening-self-portrait-1968.jpg!Large.jpg

 

[joe1It]

Lucian Freud - Interior with Plant, Reflection Listening

https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/lucian-freud/interior-with-plant-reflection-listening-self-portrait-1968.jpg!Large.jpg

 

[stlukesguild]

I've seen several examples of plants/still-life by Freud before. These were inspired partially by Dürer's still life paintings that share a similar obsessive observation:

Among such paintings by Freud that I have seen before I would count the Plant with a Reflection in the Mirror that Joe linked to above...

The Interior at Paddington... an early painting with a magnificent potted plant...

Two Plants... which I almost forgot about, but has similar elements to the painting I posted above...

And then there are several views from outside of his studio of the neighboring tenements, trash heaps, and trees such as Exterior at Paddington...

There is an article in The Guardian on Freud's marvelous paintings of plants:

Forget Lucian Freud's nudes – he was a magnificent painter of plants

 

[joe1It]

Thank you very much stlukesguild, for pictures, information and for the article.
Fantastic Durer, I have very few images of him, I have to look for him