Recent art that you liked

[Terri]

I'm not a big fan of this art style, but I will say that the Composition in Yellow is just beautiful. I'm sure this is a terrific show for fans of these artists and contemporary or abstract art. Thank you for sharing these!

(Pssst: I like to get close to artwork, too, and can't seem to get through an exhibit without getting scolded.)

 

[Enyaw]

Pssst: I like to get close to artwork, too, and can't seem to get through an exhibit without getting scolded.)

Lol..my wife got us escorted out of the National Gallery. One painting was a bed sheet with those little post it dots on it. She went up and touched a dot as she couldn't believe they would hang that in the gallery.

We then went over to the Parliment buildings and I got us escorted out of there. I sat behind one of the big wooden throne desks and wanted my wife to get a picture but she froze when the security guard came in yelling at me. It was a fun day though.

 

[john]

I heard about that exhibition. Thanks for showing us some of the paintings. The people looking really closely are usually artists. We want to know how it was done.

 

[Hermes2020]

Lol..my wife got us escorted out of the National Gallery. One painting was a bed sheet with those little post it dots on it. She went up and touched a dot as she couldn't believe they would hang that in the gallery.

We then went over to the Parliment buildings and I got us escorted out of there. I sat behind one of the big wooden throne desks and wanted my wife to get a picture but she froze when the security guard came in yelling at me. It was a fun day though.

Shameless iconoclasts!

 

[stlukesguild]

I really like this painting!

 

[brianvds]

Japanese artist Mio Asahi - StLukes, I think you may like some of her work...

 

[stlukesguild]

StLukes, I think you may like some of her work...

Yes indeed!

 

[stlukesguild]

Just stumbled upon a recent work by Kyle (Ky- Lee) Staver whose work I've been following for some years now:

"Queen of the NIght"

Staver's Queen of the Night certainly strikes me as well suited to Mozart's Queen of the NIght from the playful... childlike (?) "Magic Flute.

 

[brianvds]

I just ran into the etchings of Anna Ravenscroft, after someone posted one on Twitter. They remind me a bit of the work of Jan Mankes, and really speak to me:

 

[Terri]

Beautiful etchings, indeed. That's impressive work.

 

[Artyczar]

Love those etchings!

 

[brianvds]

I have long been a bit ambivalent about Italian Renaissance art, in that, with a lot of it, I greatly admire it without actually liking it all that much. I have no doubt StLukes will lynch me for quoting Georgia O'Keeffe here, who was more blunt: she found much of it "vulgar" when she finally got to see it in person in Italy. Now, she wasn't half as great an artist as Michelangelo, but I know exactly what she meant.

Anyway, I now and then run into exceptions. Today someone posted this on Twitter:

Altobello Melone (c1490-c1543) - The Road to Emmaus, c 1516. Oil on panel.

Never heard of the artist before. Is it a particularly great painting? I have no idea, and I don't particularly care (I leave such weighty matters to learned professors of art), but it somehow manages to speak to me in a way that the Sistine Chapel fails to do. Heresy, I'm sure. I once saw an article about amusing things kids wrote in school exams; one girl claimed that Joan of Arc was "burned to a steak". And I'm sure I'll now suffer the same fate.

As always, I must of course add the caveat that I have never seen any of the famous stuff in person, so I can only judge reproductions. Perhaps, when I'm rich enough to go visit Florence, I'll walk into the Sistine and promptly suffer a case of Stendhal syndrome.

This problem of reproduction is not an insignificant one. I never thought much of Rembrandt. Neither did my uncle, who was a pretty solid artist himself. We both had the same complaint: brownish, yellowish old things without texture or nuance. But of course, we had only seen small reproductions in old books. Then my uncle visited Europe and when he came back told me he was particularly blown away by the Rembrandts! I finally got a sense of what he was on about when really good reproductions began to become available on the web (one more reason why, while I'm a bit of a Luddite, I don't reject any and all technology, and definitely not the web!) So now I have turned into a Rembrandt fan.

Who knows, perhaps I'll even enjoy Wagner if I could attend a live performance...

 

[laika]

Anyway, I now and then run into exceptions.

Would you count something like this Botticelli among your exceptions? I would dearly love to see this painting or his Birth of Venus in person.

 

[brianvds]

Would you count something like this Botticelli among your exceptions? I would dearly love to see this painting or his Birth of Venus in person.
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Yes, I generally like Botticelli's work more than that of most of his contemporaries, though perhaps not as much as I used to.

 

[Artyczar]

I have long been a bit ambivalent about Italian Renaissance art, in that, with a lot of it, I greatly admire it without actually liking it all that much. I have no doubt StLukes will lynch me for quoting Georgia O'Keeffe here, who was more blunt: she found much of it "vulgar" when she finally got to see it in person in Italy. Now, she wasn't half as great an artist as Michelangelo, but I know exactly what she meant.

Anyway, I now and then run into exceptions. Today someone posted this on Twitter:


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Altobello Melone (c1490-c1543) - The Road to Emmaus, c 1516. Oil on panel.

Never heard of the artist before. Is it a particularly great painting? I have no idea, and I don't particularly care (I leave such weighty matters to learned professors of art), but it somehow manages to speak to me in a way that the Sistine Chapel fails to do. Heresy, I'm sure. I once saw an article about amusing things kids wrote in school exams; one girl claimed that Joan of Arc was "burned to a steak". And I'm sure I'll now suffer the same fate.

As always, I must of course add the caveat that I have never seen any of the famous stuff in person, so I can only judge reproductions. Perhaps, when I'm rich enough to go visit Florence, I'll walk into the Sistine and promptly suffer a case of Stendhal syndrome.

This problem of reproduction is not an insignificant one. I never thought much of Rembrandt. Neither did my uncle, who was a pretty solid artist himself. We both had the same complaint: brownish, yellowish old things without texture or nuance. But of course, we had only seen small reproductions in old books. Then my uncle visited Europe and when he came back told me he was particularly blown away by the Rembrandts! I finally got a sense of what he was on about when really good reproductions began to become available on the web (one more reason why, while I'm a bit of a Luddite, I don't reject any and all technology, and definitely not the web!) So now I have turned into a Rembrandt fan.

Who knows, perhaps I'll even enjoy Wagner if I could attend a live performance...

The Sistine is in Rome, not Florence, but I hear what you're saying. I never made it to Rome, but I got myself to Northern Italy and to Florence when I was young on a mere $500. I never cared for Michealangelo until I saw his sculptures up close and personal. However, I saw many other sculptures that impressed more. I don't even know who this artist is, but it's from a tomb monument inside the church of SS Annunziata in Florence:

This one moved me more than the statue of David.

And while I was there, a Botticelli exhibit just so happen to be going on, so I saw the Venus painting in person, and that was unbelievable, as well as many of his other pieces.

It's hard to appreciate these things in pictures. It was the same for me for Van Gogh too. The pictures show how thick the paint is, but it's nothing like seeing one of his paintings in person, walking up close to it and practically smelling it. There's a kind of magical aura emanating off these things that I can't explain. Even off the art I don't like...I wound up appreciating a lot more than I ever thought.

 

[john]

Sometimes we like things for reasons that are hard to explain. And the things that we are "supposed" to like leave us cold. This painting that I saw in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is an example of the former for me. It's by Jean-Francois Millet - 1872 Barbizon school. Autumn Landscape with Flock of Turkeys.

With all the great art there I was surprised to find myself fascinated by this one. I don't know why. It seems holy or something. Like the stack of hay above is a church and the figure turns his back to us as if looking to a higher realm beyond this world. Or something. Maybe it's just that we are seeing more and more turkeys around the house here. I love the brushwork.

 

[brianvds]

The Sistine is in Rome, not Florence,

Oops, yes, my bad. I was conflating anything and everything in Italy.

but I hear what you're saying. I never made it to Rome, but I got myself to Northern Italy and to Florence when I was young on a mere $500. I never cared for Michealangelo until I saw his sculptures up close and personal. However, I saw many other sculptures that impressed more. I don't even know who this artist is, but it's from a tomb monument inside the church of SS Annunziata in Florence:

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This one moved me more than the statue of David.

StLukes will be here shortly to come lynch us both.

 

[brianvds]

Sometimes we like things for reasons that are hard to explain. And the things that we are "supposed" to like leave us cold.

Yup, I have long given up on trying to appear sophisticated by liking all the right things. Truth is, I'm a country bumpkin.

This painting that I saw in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is an example of the former for me. It's by Jean-Francois Millet - 1872 Barbizon school. Autumn Landscape with Flock of Turkeys.

With all the great art there I was surprised to find myself fascinated by this one. I don't know why. It seems holy or something. Like the stack of hay above is a church and the figure turns his back to us as if looking to a higher realm beyond this world. Or something. Maybe it's just that we are seeing more and more turkeys around the house here. I love the brushwork.

Does indeed look like a lovely picture - there seems to be something almost spiritual about it.

 

[Artyczar]

Sometimes we like things for reasons that are hard to explain. And the things that we are "supposed" to like leave us cold. This painting that I saw in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is an example of the former for me. It's by Jean-Francois Millet - 1872 Barbizon school. Autumn Landscape with Flock of Turkeys.

With all the great art there I was surprised to find myself fascinated by this one. I don't know why. It seems holy or something. Like the stack of hay above is a church and the figure turns his back to us as if looking to a higher realm beyond this world. Or something. Maybe it's just that we are seeing more and more turkeys around the house here. I love the brushwork.

I could probably get lost in the brushstrokes of that field of grass too.

 

[laika]

Yup, I have long given up on trying to appear sophisticated by liking all the right things. Truth is, I'm a country bumpkin.

Same here, but I'm a suburban bumpkin, and a redneck, as well. Finding German Expressionism practically made me forget to like "all the right things" for a while there.