The Peace of Art

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[melimelissa]

Art is distracting
and finding oneself in the
centre is dazzling

Méli

https://i.imgur.com/uKL5ebu.png

 

[RickTango]

Art is distracting
and finding oneself in the
centre is dazzling

Méli

https://i.imgur.com/uKL5ebu.png

Reminds me of that old pick up line, would you like to see my art collection.

 

[melimelissa]

Daddy paints flowers
with such colourful detail:
it amazes me.

Méli
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[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

I went to school in Washington DC and visited the National Gallery many times while I was there. The Monets kept me coming back over and over. Pure beauty. One of my favorites is 'Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers' from 1880. I blame this piece for my continued obession with floral paintings.
https://i.imgur.com/Zd2wCFu.jpg

It's so soft & calming!

 

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If it's okay to post a favorite sculptor (who was also a painter), I'd love to share one of my favorites with you guys. Ruth Asawa was a Japanese-American artist with quite a story. You can find out about her via Google/Wiki, or her own website which I have linked below. I don't want to post an entire book here - her story is gripping and she was a true pioneer and art advocate but this post is really about the artwork. Her sculptures are incredible and they just send me. Here is a quote that describes them:

"Asawa’s sculptures are intricate, organic-seeming things, made from crocheted copper, brass, galvanized steel and iron wire. They have an aura of casual prowess and the concision of crunched-down equations describing the curves of water droplets or summer weeds shooting skyward in spirals. You don’t expect sculpture to function as a visual correlative to swimming in air. Asawa found a way and, in so doing, found her voice.”

I hope you enjoy! I cannot get enough of them. One of her wire sculptures and two of her paintings are in the permanent collection here in NYC at the Whitney, and I love visiting them when I'm there for other exhibitions.

https://ruthasawa.com/

https://i.imgur.com/uXUUR1v.jpg

Thank you for sharing

 

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I shared this on one of my threads as well. I love it. It perfectly expresses how I feel at times.

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Classic

 

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Another painting by Gustav Courbet, was considered one of his greatest. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in 1945 by an Allied Forces bombing attack. Fortunately, we still have pictures. THE STONE BREAKERS.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

We were in Paris and saw this collection at the Louvre in ‘97.

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