Art - oil paintings

[Sunndance07]

Does anyone else love art?!
Who are your favorite painters?
Mine are:
1- Claude Monet
2- Jackson Pollock
3- Vincent VanGogh
4- Camille Pissarro

Favorite painting:
Woman in a garden by Monet

 

[cloudy]

I tend towards painters active during the Renaissance. Raphael and Botticelli are my favorites, and of course, DaVinci. Their detail and use of light (Vermeer comes to mind) haven't been equaled since, in my opinion.

 

[Dragonlipz]

I find inspiration in Da Vinci, Monet, Michelangelo, Vermeer, Van Gogh, and Botticelli.....There is a power and emotion I feel when I view their work that transcends life and experience.....

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Magritte is my hero and Matisse is just a god. Picasso was an ass.

 

[Sunndance07]

Magritte is my hero and Matisse is just a god. Picasso was an ass.

I dont get Picaso's work either, it is so juvenile...and is NOT visually appealing.

 

[Sunndance07]

I tend towards painters active during the Renaissance. Raphael and Botticelli are my favorites, and of course, DaVinci. Their detail and use of light (Vermeer comes to mind) haven't been equaled since, in my opinion.

Amen, Vermeer's style and light usage remain at the top even to this day.
Vermeer has the worlds most expensive MISSING painting - it was stolen from a museum in 1997.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I dont get Picaso's work either, it is so juvenile...and is NOT visually appealing.

He was an ass. Personally and artistically, he was an ass. He did a few things that I like but only a few. Most of his work simply demonstrated that he was afraid of women and needed to dominate and abuse them from his teen years to his death. Jerk!

I did a graduate seminar on Pablo-poo with the West Coast's most prominent scholar on him. She quickly understood where I was coming from and, being an honest scholar, appreciated my reasoning. I got an 'A'.

 

[TE999]

I'm a big fan of the Impressionists. I couldn't begin to pick a favorite from all their works.

I also enjoy the work of Lautrec, O'Keeffe, Hopper and Dali.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Bonnard. No man ever painted women in so erotic a manner as Bonnard. And the guy was married to the same one for decades. The Picasso-ites spent years trying to defame his reputation but to no avail. The man painted like an angel.

 

[driphoney]

JMW Turner
Monet
Pollock
Cecily Brown
Vermeer
Krasner
Miro
early Picasso
Rembrandt
Caravaggio
Cassatt
(not in any order)

and of course ... Julian Onderdonk

but I'm still pretty much an art novice.

 

[Sunndance07]

JMW Turner
Monet
Pollock
Cecily Brown
Vermeer
Krasner
Miro
early Picasso
Rembrandt
Caravaggio
Cassatt
(not in any order)

and of course ... Julian Onderdonk

but I'm still pretty much an art novice.

Another Vermeer fan, wow. I am impressed this site has such good taste.
I see Pollock on the list too....I think in 100-200 years+, Pollock will have the most expensive and sought after paintings. When you look and feel, you just FEEL it...they are more than visual, its an emotion. I know of no other artist that has such power.

 

[Sunndance07]

JMW Turner
Monet
Pollock
Cecily Brown
Vermeer
Krasner
Miro
early Picasso
Rembrandt
Caravaggio
Cassatt
(not in any order)

and of course ... Julian Onderdonk

but I'm still pretty much an art novice.

Caravaggio has the most pure talent of anyone, or at least near the top...try to duplicate his work....its impossible.

 

[Handley_Page]

Salvador Dali
Rembrandt van Rynn
the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

However,
I think that more consideration to those artists who painted the posters we saw in Trains, and publishing War Bonds and what have you.

The only Picasso thing I like (if that's the right word) is Guernica.

 

[driphoney]

Salvador Dali
Rembrandt van Rynn
the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

However,
I think that more consideration to those artists who painted the posters we saw in Trains, and publishing War Bonds and what have you.

The only Picasso thing I like (if that's the right word) is Guernica.

I don't know about that brotherhood ... Millais, can't help but like his stuff. I'll have to do a more serious look-see. I think it calls for a trip to the UK.

As for Guernica. I understand the history of the piece, but I just can't seem to 'get' it. It looks so mechanical and cold to me, but then, most of his non-traditional work does.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I don't know about that brotherhood ... Millais, can't help but like his stuff. I'll have to do a more serious look-see. I think it calls for a trip to the UK.

As for Guernica. I understand the history of the piece, but I just can't seem to 'get' it. It looks so mechanical and cold to me, but then, most of his non-traditional work does.

And his early traditional stuff is mawkish. In the Norton Simon in Pasadena, however, is a little known work of his from 1923. It's called 'Bust of a Woman.'


http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/NortonSimonImages_M1970516P_fpx_e48.jpg

Notice that she is looking at something outside the frame you can't see. Her anxiety and worry are obvious. One almost feels that she can see Guernica coming . . .

Powerful piece. Would that the jackass had done more in this vein!

 

[driphoney]

And his early traditional stuff is mawkish. In the Norton Simon in Pasadena, however, is a little known work of his from 1923. It's called 'Bust of a Woman.'


http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/NortonSimonImages_M1970516P_fpx_e48.jpg

Notice that she is looking at something outside the frame you can't see. Her anxiety and worry are obvious. One almost feels that she can see Guernica coming . . .

Powerful piece. Would that the jackass had done more in this vein!

I'm not familiar with the term "mawk," so I'm having trouble understanding your perspective. I'm afraid I tend to be pretty pedestrian in mine, so I do like his early portraits.

So ... what's your take on Willem de Kooning? Misogynist or misunderstood?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Mawkish: sentimental and sickly sweet.

Picasso's depicts people starving to death or dying from wormwood poison and tries to make them look Romantic. Trash!

De Kooning? That whole New York Expressionist movement leaves me cold. Many of De Kooning's 'best' work was done after he'd come down with Alzheimer's. Jackson Pollack was an alcoholic. Rothko was a suicide. I think it was an era reflecting the anxiety that eventually led to McCarthyism. Who was this Clemmie Greenberg and who appointed him Lord High Poobah of Cultureburg?

There's an exceptional little book entitled The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe. When it was first published, the art world was aghast. In today's post-Modernism climate he makes perfect sense. Read it. It's both educational and hilarious.

 

[driphoney]

Mawkish: sentimental and sickly sweet.

Picasso's depicts people starving to death or dying from wormwood poison and tries to make them look Romantic. Trash!

De Kooning? That whole New York Expressionist movement leaves me cold. Many of De Kooning's 'best' work was done after he'd come down with Alzheimer's. Jackson Pollack was an alcoholic. Rothko was a suicide. I think it was an era reflecting the anxiety that eventually led to McCarthyism. Who was this Clemmie Greenberg and who appointed him Lord High Poobah of Cultureburg?

There's an exceptional little book entitled The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe. When it was first published, the art world was aghast. In today's post-Modernism climate he makes perfect sense. Read it. It's both educational and hilarious.

Well, I'm quite into sweet and sentimental. That's what I get for dropping the "ish" when doing a dictionary search online.

As for The New York School and the issues of the artist. Is the lifestyle or issues of the artist a factor in deciding if you like their art or not? I do think they were a product of their environment and the culture that surrounded them, as we are our own. There was a communist faction in the art world, but I think the movement was influenced by a lot of things: WWI, the Depression, WWII, modernist and existential thinking .... Abstract Expressionism probably wouldn't have gotten off the ground without the federal government and the WPA/FAP.

I'll put the book on my To Read list. It seems to grow by the day and I make no progress. Now, if I would just stop reading and posting here, I'd gain quite a few minutes of spare time ....

 

[jeninflorida]

Does anyone else love art?!
Who are your favorite painters?
Mine are:
1- Claude Monet
2- Jackson Pollock
3- Vincent VanGogh
4- Camille Pissarro

Favorite painting:
Woman in a garden by Monet

sure...and I also enjoy the works of Jack Vettriano, but his art is a little on the naughty side.

 

[Handley_Page]

I don't know about that brotherhood ... Millais, can't help but like his stuff. I'll have to do a more serious look-see. I think it calls for a trip to the UK.

As for Guernica. I understand the history of the piece, but I just can't seem to 'get' it. It looks so mechanical and cold to me, but then, most of his non-traditional work does.

If you do make it to the UK, take a good long look in the Gallery at Birmingham. They have a lot of the brotherhood's works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood

Guernica is the only "modern" painting I can get. The instant terror and pain following the arrival of a bomb on animals and people is very striking.

Sadly (well, to me, anyway), 'modern' paintings suffer from a bit of a problem. The painting itself is either a pun on the title or a daub that's supposed to indicate a feeling as opposed to a subject. It passes me by at high speed.

 

[driphoney]

If you do make it to the UK, take a good long look in the Gallery at Birmingham. They have a lot of the brotherhood's works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood

Guernica is the only "modern" painting I can get. The instant terror and pain following the arrival of a bomb on animals and people is very striking.

Sadly (well, to me, anyway), 'modern' paintings suffer from a bit of a problem. The painting itself is either a pun on the title or a daub that's supposed to indicate a feeling as opposed to a subject. It passes me by at high speed.

I understand. I think that's where being a simpleton, such as myself, pays off!

I can enjoy dripples and smears and blocks of color just for the feeling the colors or arrangements of items make me feel. I think a lot of people put a huge amount of brain power into interpreting what can't be to the point of silliness, IN MY OPINION, but even though I think that, I can still enjoy some of it. On the other hand, I have trouble 'reading' most art.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I understand. I think that's where being a simpleton, such as myself, pays off!

I can enjoy dripples and smears and blocks of color just for the feeling the colors or arrangements of items make me feel. I think a lot of people put a huge amount of brain power into interpreting what can't be to the point of silliness, IN MY OPINION, but even though I think that, I can still enjoy some of it. On the other hand, I have trouble 'reading' most art.

Excellent! That is precisely the point Tom Wolfe makes. The Modernist art that was produced from c. 1950-1970 was nothing more than an excuse for a long, windy discussion on the wall next to it. One critic even went so far as to say that he couldn't understand representational art because it didn't have an explanation mounted along side.

One should be able to enjoy visual art visually. If it isn't pleasing to the eye, go look at something else. If it does catch your eye, spend some time. It will probably improve as you gaze.

 

[Sunndance07]

sure...and I also enjoy the works of Jack Vettriano, but his art is a little on the naughty side.

Can you find one and post it here?

 

[driphoney]

Excellent! That is precisely the point Tom Wolfe makes. The Modernist art that was produced from c. 1950-1970 was nothing more than an excuse for a long, windy discussion on the wall next to it. One critic even went so far as to say that he couldn't understand representational art because it didn't have an explanation mounted along side.

One should be able to enjoy visual art visually. If it isn't pleasing to the eye, go look at something else. If it does catch your eye, spend some time. It will probably improve as you gaze.

Damn. Too late for me to write my own book!

I like the info on the wall next to the painting, but if you need it to get anything out of the work, you've probably failed as an artist. Even Caravaggio is more enjoyable when you have some background to the times, his life and even the painting itself ... but you can look at one of his and find a story and pleasure in the pure skill.

In that vein, shall we beat up ready-mades?

I'm going to the Kimbell in Ft. Worth next week (I hope.) I'm excited. They were displaying a collection of privately owned painting, including some Impressionists, but I think I missed it. My focus, will be on a piece of Cyclidic sculpture I think I'm going to do my final paper on.

God, I'm chatty today.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Jack Vittriano



http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii177/1volupturary_manque/imgJackVettriano1.jpg


Not all of his paintings look like an illustration of a film noire but a lot of them are. He's got an excellent eye and tells a good story. A generation ago that would have gotten him blasted by academic critics. Now that we no longer care what they think, he does quite well.