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Post by Bartbär on May 10, 2009 3:30:29 GMT 2
And Uttech's paintings are as well one of my favorites. Since I came across the first one while browsing art online, I could not help but be completely captured by his true craft. Completely organic and pristine.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on May 15, 2009 3:12:51 GMT 2
Blast from....since ever in fact! I'm such a fool for Van Gogh's paintings....each time new sensations, new discoveries..,pretty childish, but that's my speechless speech after admiring a few of his works...for the 56268472561 time ;D Nothing childish at all in admiring Van Gogh - unless you mean the style, in which case indeed there's something child-like in the manner of this art: very "here and now", colored by the immediate mood of the moment in which the depicted objects are seen. He wasn't an Impressionist, yet he did share this "immediacy" quality with them, albeit a bit more heavy-handedly... and not as innocently. You know, for many years I was unable to sincerely love Van Gogh's art. I mean, I admired it for its own sake, and for its style, and for its genius and all, but I could never say, "wow I really love it". Probably because Van Gogh is so "overdone" here in the States... his paintings appear on umbrellas, on lunchboxes, on wallets, on posters you can buy, everywhere you can imagine - an oversaturation. Plus every educated American claims they "love" Van Gogh - but only because he is among the most well known artists here... because his art is everywhere. And very often, the quality of print/reproduction of his artwork is very poor and bleak too. But one day in the year 2002 I went to an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, called "Van Gogh and Gaughin: The Studio of the South." It was a joint exhibition of their works, since they were friends and influenced one another. This was my first time I saw so many original Van Gogh paintings at the same time, and first time I saw his most famous ones in real life. And it was breathtaking... The colors, those vibrant swirls, the tension and the passion of a tortured genius... Only then, as I was looking at those original paintings that were right in front of me, was I able to say to myself that yes, now I do sincerely love Van Gogh's art. The truth is, all the reproductions of his art that I've seen - in art books, in exhibition catalogs, on poster walls and online - they did not even come close to capturing the original colors and the essence of Van Gogh's color palette. The reproductions were lifeless, cold, sterile, and so I assumed that Van Gogh's art was like that too and it didn't do anything for me. But how wrong I was. How alive his paintings are, how chaotically exuberant - it's like they're changing and forming and swirling right before your eyes as you stand there and look at them... But I could only experience this at the exhibition, when I saw them all for real. Now each time I look at his art in books, I remember what sensations I felt when I was looking at the originals of those reproductions.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2009 7:30:50 GMT 2
Hjalagh, l meant my comment being childish. My speechlees manner when commenting art in general... Nowadays l really utter a few words, but for many years l was asked to say why do l like this and that painting or music and couldn't reply... Feel more, talk less!that was my motto ;D Bakk to Vincent now: commerce has a way of getting into anything,and intn art too, which is good for an artist.,as long as he's still alive . Maybe l'll say more,l don't know yet, but l'm glad you went to the source to admire his breathtaking paintings...
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Post by Crystiannia on Jun 3, 2009 1:05:14 GMT 2
I'd have to go in a different direction. I'm a sucker for anything remotely pre-Raphaelite. Althought not part of the actual brotherhood, my favorite is this by Dicksee: I fall in love everytime I see it!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2009 20:43:27 GMT 2
I stood aside this thread as I have much to say...and don't know with what to start. But today I found myself again admiring works of Flamand school and was bewitched..again...Vermeer is my favourite.. to be continued
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2009 21:23:07 GMT 2
And while under Vermeer's spell, I watched for the zillion'trillion time the clip ,,High Hopes" (Pink Floyd) and..that's my fave visual art too. In fact all that's Pink Floyd related with visual art i find magnetic....damn, I love it to speak the whole truth! Crystiannia:that painting you posted reflects in fact sth bout your personality. And aren't we all fools for what that painting reflects? ;D
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Post by Crystiannia on Aug 29, 2009 15:38:33 GMT 2
@walkyriatina: Kiitos! Tis quite true, although not a good thing for me.... As for Vermeer.... oooohhhhh!!!! Nice!!! This painting I adore but it is very much not something I would have in my home, maybe though. It is in one of the buildings where I work and everytime I go there, I feel I must go and visit this art. It always makes me laugh and gives me a big smile! I know that it is called "Les Margaritas" and I understand why.... but an image stuck when I first viewed it so I re-named it, "Pikachu in the Garden!" ;D
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Post by Bartbär on Sept 8, 2009 5:36:35 GMT 2
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Sept 29, 2009 1:26:53 GMT 2
That's Caspar David Friedrich, Anwend... He was not a G-rated friendly kiddy ghost. My favorite painting by Friedrich, apart from his Wanderer, is this one. Since it is impossible to recreate in a photograph the true colors of the painting, I have provided one more different photo of the same painting. For you to judge, and to take in the profound mood that different colorations of photos reflect in the original. I have been fortunate to have seen this painting in person at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and it was a very deep experience. I did not expect to see it there... especially this one, a favorite. In person, its colors are deep with the vibrant purple of the sky, yet at the same time hauntingly subdued, as if tired, already beginning to fade away in the gloaming, holding its breath. Words are not able to communicate fully the extent of, or reason for which it moves me so deeply. This image for me is the expression of a real, close Friendship, a palpable close presence beyond time or space that carries beyond eternity itself.
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Post by Bartbär on Sept 29, 2009 2:02:38 GMT 2
Es tut mir leid, Hjalagh. Sometimes I forget my editing manners when posting here. Ironically enough this is also my next favorite painting of his next to the Wanderer. And ironically enough as well, I couldn't help but seek out different colorations of this exact painting online. It is amazing how just a change in tint or color can make a whole new set of emotions spring out. I used to edit the tones and colors on paintings just to see the different vibe they gave off, which is something I would like to start doing again. That is absolutely amazing you got to see this actual painting up close and personal. Do you know if it is still on display there or if it was one of the tons of travelling art pieces? Would be a worthy road-trip or visit one of these years to go to New York, as much as I hate cities they are usually the only places you can see such wonderful works of art up close and personal.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2009 19:37:09 GMT 2
Theodor Pallady is not exactly my favorite painter (but I respect his contribution to romanian art), yet today I had the chance to see some of his drawings from his parisian period and recognised the style. His style. Which my ego exalts as don't have Art studies In the end my fave romanian painters remain Nicolae Grigorescu and Corneliu Baba...though a few years ago I was very much into Stefan Câlţia as he seemed to me a modern contemporary Bosch featuring Magritte, if that makes any sense
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Post by Bartbär on Oct 7, 2009 6:14:36 GMT 2
Today, and onward, I have been quite possessed by dark medieval and renaissance paintings revolving around the black plague and various other periods of horror. Perhaps it is because of the autumn air and the mood it brings, but also just because I love dark periods in history and the art that comes out of them. Some of them are so simple, yet so deeply moving. My favorite one lately is a relief of a skeleton dragging a young child away from it's parents while they reach for it. Obviously expressing the death of many children at the hands of the black plague and the horror it brought to the parents. Perhaps I'm demented, but I find such dark themes quite intriguing and uplifting. Perhaps it's the Nietzschean in me who obsesses over strife as the main means to overcoming oneself. Or perhaps it's just because I enjoy the occassional dose of morbidity. I actually love any painting that revolves around a dark period, aside from those from Medieval times and Renaissance times, my next favorites are Slavic paintings from the struggles of the Bolshevik era. They are so simple yet so terrifying and evoke a lot of emotion. Some so much that it can even bring me to tears just at the thought of what they represent. Once I can track some of my favorites down I'll have to share them.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Oct 7, 2009 21:31:43 GMT 2
Art is meant to affect. If a painting is able to evoke a strong reaction in the viewer, then this was its very goal. I am at times compelled to add certain objects of art to my expanding list of favorites simply on the basis of the profoundly strong effect they have on me. At times I find myself drawn to such works of art, waiting to experience the powerful impulse they offer - even when such experience is far from being uplifting or cathartic. I wrote "at times", because there is a mood that comes over me from time to time that makes me want to Experience, period. Experience the wonder and the terror of Life rather than sleepwalk through it in numb indifference. Any work of art in such moments that can send through me a powerful electro-shock, so to speak, of the depth of Life's experience and awareness - whether it shows me a topmost peak or the most dismal and hellish abyss - any work of art that can summon such an intense extremity of feeling in me, I am sincerely grateful for.
Some say it's better to feel something than nothing at all. I would say that as much as one needs to be deeply moved and stirred and heartened by Art's various manifestations, to experience aesthetic beauty and uplifting spirituality, one also needs at times to experience the terror of existence, the horror, the great and awe-inspiring "other-ness" to which the literary figures of Romanticism referred as "the sublime". Any powerful and deep extremity of feeling, willfully and sincerely experienced at the art's behest and inspiration, can be invigorating and indeed life-affirming.
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Post by mattias40000 on Jul 15, 2010 0:39:36 GMT 2
great pic ive seen here. Personally, i prefer tribal art drawings. I dont look for some artists in particular. I like drawing or seeing tribal drawings from ancient tribes, or tattoos or even sculptures (i made one, with wood and i now hanging from my neck). Thats my favourite kind of art, maybe because of its origins it reminds me of the woods, and when i combine folk metal (korpiklaani, eluveitie, for example) and watch this i somehow get inspired.
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Post by nordenstam on Aug 24, 2010 21:07:46 GMT 2
I stood aside this thread as I have much to say...and don't know with what to start. But today I found myself again admiring works of Flamand school and was bewitched..again...Vermeer is my favourite.. to be continued Oh I love Vermeer terribly much. Now there's a nice book by Taschen printing house about him
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