Art appreciation hour.

[bluebell]

JeeYoung Lee: http://http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/12/jeeyong-lee-dreamscapes/
Her idea is fascinating to me, and the level of detail is amazing. She basically transforms her tiny studio for each dreamscape. I've read the article above about 50 times and I can't stop looking at the pictures. The idea is so simple and yet brilliant at the same time.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/lee-9.jpg

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/lee-4.jpg

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/lee-3.jpg

 

[bluebell]

Art museum? Heh.

Are you too stingy for your own cultural enhancement, punk? Huh?

 

[spacekowboy]

Are you too stingy for your own cultural enhancement, punk? Huh?

My profile picture up until a couple days ago was quite artsy.

 

[neci]

http://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/david-alfaro-siqueiros/view-of-a-mural-depicting-democracy-breaking-her-chains-detail-of-the-series-new-democracy-1934-1934.jpg!Blog.jpg

democracy breaking her chains

siqueiros 1934

 

[neci]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Foto_al_mural_del_polyforum0002.jpg/320px-Foto_al_mural_del_polyforum0002.jpg

La Marcha de la Humanidad

siqueiros

 

[neci]

note the body.

arms above head.

hold them there.

yoga that shit up.

stretch from the core out.

victory.

 

[neci]

that is power.

 

[neci]

http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/tour_calendar/Assets/Images%20of%20Artworks/America%20Americas/Siqueiros,%20David%20Alfaro%20-%20Cuauhtemoc,%201940%20-%201980.76.jpg

Cuauhtemoc, David Alfaro Siqueiros

 

[spacekowboy]

I think that Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water should be considered fine art.

https://41.media.tumblr.com/2b1905a1f908a08e08c0fdade49bb297/tumblr_n7ab6euAL71rhvvlho1_r1_1280.jpg

 

[Equinoxe]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Giovanna_Garzoni_%28Italian_-_Still_Life_with_Bowl_of_Citrons_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1011px-Giovanna_Garzoni_%28Italian_-_Still_Life_with_Bowl_of_Citrons_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

(A larger version is available here.)

Here we have a still-life painting of bowl of citrons by the Baroque painter Giovanna Garzoni, dating from the 1640s. Still-life painting was still a rather young genre during her lifetime and one in which Garzoni was a particular specialist. Like much of her work, this piece was executed in the then unusual medium of tempera on parchment support; these small and easily portable works, many created during her years at the Medici court in Florence, catered to the fashions of the day, being incredibly popular collectibles amongst the nobles and aristocrats of Italy. Owing a great debt of influence to early scientific illustrations, like those that would be seen in botanical books of her day, her work nevertheless often employs elements of added interest, such as insects or lizards, alongside their central floral and botanical focus, all in careful arrangements, which give them a vibrancy and liveliness beyond those more clinical inspirations.

 

[Equinoxe]

…

This has nothing to do with anything, really, but I realised the other day that when I read your name I always pronounce it in my head nechi /nɛ.ʧi/.

Which I felt like mentioning for no reason.

 

[Equinoxe]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Stilleven_met_bloemen_op_een_marmeren_tafelblad_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-2338.jpeg/801px-Stilleven_met_bloemen_op_een_marmeren_tafelblad_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-2338.jpeg

(A larger version is available here.)

Here we have a 1716 floral still-life by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rachel Ruysch, considered, with Maria van Oosterwyck, one of the most important Dutch still-life painters of her day. This prominence of female painters within the still-life genre was no coincidence, but a by-product of the fact that it was considered an acceptable genre for women, or sometimes sole acceptable genre for women, generally denied access to painter's guilds (Rachel Ruysch was the first female member of the painter's guild of The Hague) and even to complete formal education in the arts—not least because of the centrality of the male nude in imitation of Classical civilisation. In this work, we see the dark background typical of Ruysch and other still life painters of her day and the careful attention to detail and lifelikeness for which she became known; the vivid flowers of myriad colours in perfect bloom, the long, delicate stems twisting wildly, both joined together give the painting a lively energy and power. Notice, too, the subtle transparency of the vase, so dark, but with faintest hints of the stems within.

 

[Equinoxe]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Leyster_-_Ein_Mann_bietet_einem_jungen_Mädchen_Geld.jpeg/777px-Leyster_-_Ein_Mann_bietet_einem_jungen_Mädchen_Geld.jpeg

(A larger image is available here.)

Here we have The Proposition by the Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster, a striking, and somewhat controversial, approach to a common theme in Dutch genre paintings. Leyster was a prominent artist in Haarlem, one of the very first women admitted into Haarlem's painter's guild, and known, in particular, for her genre scenes. Common in Dutch art are portrayals of women being propositioned by men—scenes of prostitution; usually, these scenes are unambiguously sexual, a woman desiring of the man's attentions, dressed in revealing clothing, often with an explicit exchange of money (willing or otherwise), and many times accompanied by an older woman—the madam. By contrast—deliberate contrast—here we have a scene of a young woman sewing, uninterested in the man offering her money; she sits in light, dressed in white, he lurks behind in darkness. Far from typical bawdy scenes, here we have a quiet depiction in which his advances are ignored and rejected.

 

[butters]

there's a painting i'd love to show you in room 16 of the national art gallery: formerly believed to be a rembrandt, now attributed (possibly) to an early follower, it's a small oil on oak called 'a man seated reading at a table in a lofty room'. shit title. however, the pictures i can find of it do it absolutely no justice. it looks - insignificant. and yet, in a room filled with huge rembrandts, colour, action, this small piece [55.1 x 46.5 cm] tucked away in the first right hand corner of the room as you walk in captured me completely. the light playing through the piece is like that seen when water's running over glass, there's more to be seen in the shadows than the link offers up, but it's that light, that rippling sensation - i kept returning to this one picture. i could sit all day watching it, because it feels so . . . so . . . it's like if i watch it long enough i'll see the shadows change the ripples ripple. in all the bright colours, this one is all shades of brown and shadow and light and sheen, down to the oils. it totally blew me away and if i ever get the chance when i go back into town i'll visit it again. i honest to god could sit there all day, entranced.

now for the link, which i'm almost sorry to post:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/p...man-seated-reading-at-a-table-in-a-lofty-room

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/p...man-seated-reading-at-a-table-in-a-lofty-room

 

[Equinoxe]

there's a painting i'd love to show you in room 16 of the national art gallery: formerly believed to be a rembrandt, now attributed (possibly) to an early follower, it's a small oil on oak called 'a man seated reading at a table in a lofty room'. shit title. however, the pictures i can find of it do it absolutely no justice. it looks - insignificant. and yet, in a room filled with huge rembrandts, colour, action, this small piece [55.1 x 46.5 cm] tucked away in the first right hand corner of the room as you walk in captured me completely. the light playing through the piece is like that seen when water's running over glass, there's more to be seen in the shadows than the link offers up, but it's that light, that rippling sensation - i kept returning to this one picture. i could sit all day watching it, because it feels so . . . so . . . it's like if i watch it long enough i'll see the shadows change the ripples ripple. in all the bright colours, this one is all shades of brown and shadow and light and sheen, down to the oils. it totally blew me away and if i ever get the chance when i go back into town i'll visit it again. i honest to god could sit there all day, entranced.

now for the link, which i'm almost sorry to post:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/p...man-seated-reading-at-a-table-in-a-lofty-room

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/p...man-seated-reading-at-a-table-in-a-lofty-room

As it happens, a friend of mine and I were talking about this very painting a couple of months ago; I had not seen it before, let alone in person, but she, too, was absolutely enamored of the way it presents both light and shadow, but particularly light (and she also mentioned that she had trouble finding a picture of it that captures anything of its true beauty or the essence of its treatment of light).

 

[BotanyBoy]

I think that Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water should be considered fine art.

https://41.media.tumblr.com/2b1905a1f908a08e08c0fdade49bb297/tumblr_n7ab6euAL71rhvvlho1_r1_1280.jpg

I agree, and I think there are a lot of formats and mediums to be considered fine art...

Aquariums...living art in a box imo.

http://lifeissavage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ada-2.jpg
http://www.blueaquarium.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Top_10_International_Aquascaping_Contest_2009_91.jpghttp://www.aquacube.it/aqua/images/speciali/ada_faberi_2009_red/ada_faberi_2009_red_intro_eng.jpg
http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww226/40gcube/IMG_0641.jpg

But it doesn't keep so it's hard to appreciate....which is getting more aquarist into photography.

Hmm....an abstract art form that can only be really be appreciated through the perspective of a more purist art form (painting, photography) fun....quasi art?