OT- Who is you favourite painter...

[catulle]

Painter as an artist who paints. Somehow far related to the Dario thread. Mine is Goya. I like Goya because I get his work...

[Fat Robert]

i get this cat

or he gets me

or my getting of him gets me

whatever

[atmo]

imo (http://www.stedelijk.nl/content/SolLewitt%20Wall%20Drawing%20def.jpg) atmo

[Too Tall]

Mom

http://www.ahealinghand.com/jsgallery/pres0000.html

[Grant McLean]

http://www.campyonly.com/joebell/how_we_paint.html

oh wait, you meant this kind....

http://www.thomaskinkade.com/magi/servlet/com.asucon.ebiz.catalog.web.tk.CatalogServlet?cata logAction=Product&productId=163&menuNdx=0.13

g

[Bill Bove]

I like the funkiness of Mondrian, even before La Vie Claire. I read a book about Frida Kahlo a long time ago and thought she was cool. I'm watching a travel show about Mexico City one night with a girlfriend and I say wow, in the back ground, that's Frida Kahlo's house! she say's who's she? then every time you looked in a magazine or watched TV there was Frida reference, then the movie. The girlfriend still wonders how I knew what her house looked like...

[Jason E]

We went HERE (http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/english/index.htm) during our honeymoon. Italy in December is amazing.

We saw the Pollack collection. The whole palce was rediculous, but this was one of my favorites...


http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/images/lists/work/129_6_lg.jpg

I'm also a pretty big fan of this guy, Doesburg:

http://siteimages.guggenheim.org/gpc_work_large_186.jpg.

That's just me.

If you are ever in Venice and want to get away from the commercial section, this place was a little piece of paradise that makes the city worth saving.

[zeroking17]

<snip> I read a book about Frida Kahlo a long time ago and thought she was cool. I'm watching a travel show about Mexico City one night with a girlfriend and I say wow, in the back ground, that's Frida Kahlo's house! she say's who's she? then every time you looked in a magazine or watched TV there was Frida reference, then the movie. The girlfriend still wonders how I knew what her house looked like...

By the way, the house in Mexico City that Frida shared with Diego Rivera is now a wonderful (full of wonders) museum. Most of the house was left "as is," which makes a visit there akin to stepping into the way-back machine.

[Tom]

Can't say just one.

Claude Monet when I'm in a "Aw, ain't dat purdy?" mood.

The Black Goyas knocked me out. I was told not to miss them and that was good advice. Don't miss the chance if you ever have it.

Picasso. Guernica knocked me out. I thought the whole style was an affectation until I saw his early work when it was fairly conventional. They guy knew how to break the rules because he knew what the rules were. Then it knocked me out more.

Botticelli. I saw one of something, the Annunciation or something like that (there were so many annunciations...) and there he is in the lower right hand corner, dressed to kill, looking out at the viewer with this "I am the most beautiful thing in this painting even more beautiful than Jesus and if you don't think so then you can learn to paint like me because when you can paint like me you can paint yourself more beautiful than anything in the whole picture even the lord Jesus if you feel like it. So there." You gotta love the attitude.

Da Vinci. Lady with an Ermine is the best painting I ever saw. It's the only one of his I ever saw, though, so I suppose there could be better.

How can you have one favorite?

OT to the OT: That review of Basquiat was brutal! If anyone ever writes about my career and says it is marked by 'relentless self abuse' I sure hope I'm dead so I don't have to read that. Ow.

[David Kirk]

Early Picasso....pre cubist.

Dave

[Bittersweet]

joe bell
cycle art

[PanTerra]

I get Georgia O'Keefe.

http://www.bau.pt/weblog/okeefe-black-iris.jpg

[BumpyintheBurgh]

Charlie Hewitt, my college roommate, frat brother and party animal, circa 1964-68. After graduation I went to Vietnam, and Charlie went to New York City to become a famous artist. www.charliehewitt.com

[zeroking17]

Painter as an artist who paints. Somehow far related to the Dario thread. Mine is Goya. I like Goya because I get his work...

Goya's "Disasters of War" etchings are still shatteringly effective in light of the steady stream of photos showing civilian victims of today's wars. Apparently "civilization" is trapped in a vapor lock.

[zeroking17]

Paul Klee http://tinyurl.com/s245o
Rufino Tamayo http://tinyurl.com/ltzj8
Peter Waite http://tinyurl.com/rw5cj

p.s. this is more difficult than listing my favorite bike frames.

[shinomaster]

But this guy influenced my watercolors quite a bit..

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fs earch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Djohn%2Bsinger%2Bsargent%2Bven ice%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dslv8-msgr%26x%3Dwrt&w=660&h=1000&imgurl=www.jssgallery.org%2FPaintings%2FPonte_Dell a_Canonica_Venice.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jssgallery.org%2FPaintings%2 FPonte_Della_Canonica_Venice.htm&size=120.8kB&name=Ponte_Della_Canonica_Venice.jpg&p=john+singer+sargent+venice&type=jpeg&no=18&tt=290&oid=674a91b80b4afd9e&ei=UTF-8

[itsflantastic]

I do really appreciate Goya's work, but seeing as how he's already been mentioned I'll choose another. . .

I've always loved impressionist paintings. Musee D' Orsay in Paris was definitely my favorite for paintings. I definitely enjoyed Georges Seurat while I was there. Seeing his stuff in person is really really neat. But I'd have to say that for the painters, the one that sticks in my head the most is Degas.

That being said. . .There is a sculptor that REALLY does it for me.

Rodin.

Boy, I went to one of his exhibits once and was very moved (? I guess that's the word). I just really got his stuff.

Ok, that's enough from me.

[shinomaster]

Picasso made some super duper sculptures, influenced by African tribal art..as did Miro... Miro liked to paint big penises IMHO.

[round]

http://www.archivioscanavino.it/
http://www.kunstwissen.de/fach/f-kuns/b_mod/mathieu.htm
http://www.galerie-nothelfer.de/2004_vedovarundgang2.html
dario

[csm]

the woman who painted my kitchen. it only took 4 months.

[ti_boi]

Hopper and Magritte.... :cool:

[Bradford]

For me, Homer is the guy that helps me find my own Walden Pond, especially his fishing and hunting paintings from his Adirondack series.

His paintings always remind me Thoreau's description of fishing and how it allowed him to find meaning: "It was very queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air, as well as downward into this element which was scarcely more dense. Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook."

I always prefer art that features nature over man or man's creations. The Hudson River School always does it for me as well.

[bcm119]

Another vote for the Hudson River school guys- especially Frederic Church. His house, Olana, is totally rad and worth visiting (http://www.olana.org/) imho.

I'm a sucker for Bierstadt, and Edward Hopper.

For all of you art lovers in the northeast, theres a fairly new but outstanding museum in Beacon, NY, a few miles from where I grew up. Its huge- 300,000 sq feet. Within walking distance of the Beacon Metro North station (hudson line).
Dia: Beacon (http://www.diabeacon.org/)

[davids]

But this guy influenced my watercolors quite a bit..

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fs earch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Djohn%2Bsinger%2Bsargent%2Bven ice%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dslv8-msgr%26x%3Dwrt&w=660&h=1000&imgurl=www.jssgallery.org%2FPaintings%2FPonte_Dell a_Canonica_Venice.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jssgallery.org%2FPaintings%2 FPonte_Della_Canonica_Venice.htm&size=120.8kB&name=Ponte_Della_Canonica_Venice.jpg&p=john+singer+sargent+venice&type=jpeg&no=18&tt=290&oid=674a91b80b4afd9e&ei=UTF-8
Many, many artists I love. But this is my favorite painting:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/s/sargent/sargent_daughters.jpg

The Daughters of Edward D. Boit. 1882, John Singer Sargent. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

I can spend 15 minutes at a time looking at the original...

[davids]

http://www.archivioscanavino.it/
http://www.kunstwissen.de/fach/f-kuns/b_mod/mathieu.htm
http://www.galerie-nothelfer.de/2004_vedovarundgang2.html
dario
That was enlightening. Grazie for stopping by!

[Dekonick]

Only one painter? Can't be done.

Vermir.

Not a prolific painter - but his works are true masterpieces. Go to Delft and you can see quite a few of 'em.

:)

[Fat Robert]

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[catulle]

Mom

http://www.ahealinghand.com/jsgallery/pres0000.html


Is that your mom's work, TT...?! Simply sensational...!! I promise to behave and be a good boy and not post pictures of ladies or pictures of monsters (G.W.B.) in order not to ever be kicked out of this forum.

[shinomaster]

Many, many artists I love. But this is my favorite painting:

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/images/19-Jul-2005/21757-The_Daughters_of_Edward_Darley_Boit.jpg

The Daughters of Edward D. Boit. 1882, John Singer Sargent. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.


I can spend 15 minutes at a time looking at the original...


I agree...I like the big blue and white vase...I went to school at MAss. Art just down the street so I looked at this painting quite a lot.

[Kevan]

Or exterior?

Impossible to answer. I ain't doin' it , I tell ya!

[Archibald]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/katamari.jpg

[Archibald]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/gravitational_mass.jpg

[Serotta PETE]

Thanks for putting a smile on my face. I like the diplomacy.... :cool:

PETE

[ti_boi]

Got Wood? :D

[Too Tall]

Mr.Natchurl - yep. Art is her hobby.

[Fixed]

this cat was pretty good imho and so was this dutch painter

[ti_boi]

this cat was pretty good imho

Isn't he a 'regular' on this board?

[ti_boi]

this cat was pretty good imho

Isn't he a 'regular' on this board? http://forums.thepaceline.net/member.php?u=2847

[Fixed]

I was going to say if you guess both I'll send a free prize
cheers

[Archibald]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/city.jpg

[ti_boi]

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/


Gimme a little 'Wayne' any day.......! :cool:

[Archibald]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/centrifugal_force.png

[ergott]

All those artists suk.
Here's the man. Worship him.
http://www.bobross.com/art/splash/splash4b.jpg

[Archibald]

There's a hidden message here for all of us! Shield your eyes if you're bothered by certain arrangements of letters.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png

[Steve Hampsten]

http://forums.thepaceline.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=16522&stc=1

[atmo]

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[shinomaster]

Tart Tatin is the best atmo.

[Fixed]

bro wait till mom gets home

[atmo]

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[atmo]

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[zap]

TT mom.

[manet]

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[dave thompson]

My favorite is John Singer Sargent. I saw an exhibition of his works in D.C. a few years ago. I was stunned at his ability to use light. Better than I had ever seen before.

[shinomaster]

Dave that bottom one is one of the best. THere is a great one in DC of a woman wrapped in cloth on a couch...killer.

[swoop]

today this minute: brice marden.

[manet]

john frederick kensett

[manet]

john frederick peto

[Fixed]

jazz art

[manet]

frank 'what you see is what you get' stella
got caught driving his ferrari WAY over
100 mph on the taconic parkway and for
partial punishment had to give his norton
lecture series to the local high schoolers.

i used to sit and gaze for hours at this (marriage of reason and squalor):

[Grant McLean]

.

[zeroking17]

<painted over>
i used to sit and gaze for hours at this (marriage of reason and squalor):

Although my own tastes tend to favor representational art, my reception of great paintings mirrors yours.

Like the Stella, this work invariably grasps my full attention and repays a close viewing. (Velázquez's Las Meninas).

[davids]

My favorite is John Singer Sargent. I saw an exhibition of his works in D.C. a few years ago. I was stunned at his ability to use light. Better than I had ever seen before.
You, Shino and I agree! I hope you've had a chance to see the one I posted earlier. The light is stunning - in reproductions, the shadows invariably lose detail. There is so much painting in the darker regions of the canvas.

The 2nd one you posted is also a spectacular painting...

As far as modern artists, I've come to truly appreciate a few only after seeing their actual works. Again, reproductions don't do justice to the impact of these paintings.

Mark Rothko:

http://www.harley.com/art/abstract-art/images/(rothko)-white-center-(small).jpg

Frank Stella (I have a high-quality exhibition poster of this painting. I saw the real thing a few years ago in Andover, and my jaw dropped):

http://www.moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/81883005.jpg

[manet]

basquiat did a series of flip side album jacket cover
paintings. all black and white _ chalkboard like.
poking at the plethera of whities in control. tough
and yet funny all at once _ cool.

i believe they were miles and coltrane jackets.

sorry i can not find youz an image...

[manet]

local color

[manet]

that was a quick show

[manet]

but this thread is not about me...

[manet]

oh god, i'm exposing myself

[manet]

brice gets it _ well he used to.

[swoop]

brice gets it*.







*years ago i was a working at a soho gallery,
when in walks brice and wife. she strolls over
and asks the female employee with me, "do you
know of a lingerie store in soho?"

you should see his daughter. yowza.

[ti_boi]

I am also a big Frank Stella fan....here is some automotive art that I recently bought from a dealer in Germany.....

[orbea65]

I like some of the dreamy ones by Hans Werner Sahms.
http://home.arcor.de/webdirk/Bilder/Hans-Werner_Sahm/Sahm.htm

[taz-t]

I am also a big Frank Stella fan....here is some automotive art that I recently bought from a dealer in Germany.....

The whole BMW 'art car' series is cool. Saw the Calder car at the High Musuem in Atlanta when I was about 10 and it made a huge impression on me (caring more about cars than art at that age) and just saw the Lichenstein BMW at the Corcoran a couple of years ago. Maybe it's just because I like them better, but I think the 3.0s make a better 'canvas' than the M1 (Warhol?).

- taz

[shinomaster]

Mark Rothko is effin awsome....and so too is Franz Klein.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/klein/Images/klein12-18-2s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/reviews/klein/klein12-18-97.asp&h=237&w=140&sz=10&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=zBh0jHe6JGXoSM:&tbnh=109&tbnw=64&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfranz%2Bklein%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D1 0%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

[shinomaster]

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/sargent-nonchaloir-repose.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/sargent-nonchaloir-repose.html&h=1057&w=1280&sz=233&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=bBqNxjBlgg1QtM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsargent%2Brepose%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3D en%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

[taz-t]

Not necessarily my favorite artist - still can't get my head around 'ready made' art. I know... it's all about 'context'.

But Duchamp's Nude Decending Staircase (no 2) has been my favorite painting for many years.

- taz

[taz-t]

My favorite is John Singer Sargent. I saw an exhibition of his works in D.C. a few years ago. I was stunned at his ability to use light. Better than I had ever seen before.

National Gallery, right? I saw that one too.

I never really cared for portraiture, but Singer made his subjects look like more that still life. Shino's example above is perfect..

- taz

[shinomaster]

Not necessarily my favorite artist - still can't get my head around 'ready made' art. I know... it's all about 'context'.

But Duchamp's Nude Decending Staircase (no 2) has been my favorite painting for many years.

- taz

Me too, and that's because it's a great painting-- an early cubist experiment.

[shinomaster]

National Gallery, right? I saw that one too.

I never really cared for portraiture, but Singer made his subjects look like more that still life. Shino's example above is perfect..

- taz

He painted a few girls that looked good enough to kiss. IMHO.

[Too Tall]

OK besides mom :) (thanks Zap...who owns one of her pics)
Couple things.
First, beyond words an appreciation for art and seemingly impossible stone fabrics draped over greek sculptures. It will never happen ever ever ever again. Force of will, genius, limitless resources, time...all collided for that to happen. Kills me to leave the Louvre every time.
Second, emotionally connected to Rodin Gates of Hell.



And than there is Jim Dine:

http://images.google.com/images?q=jim+dine&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&start=40&sa=N

[manet]

He painted a few girls that looked good enough to kiss. IMHO.



BALTHUS

[manet]

And than there is Jim Dine:





hey more about me and the art world (loosely):
i made shelves and a plate rail for jimmy.

[taz-t]

imo (http://www.stedelijk.nl/content/SolLewitt%20Wall%20Drawing%20def.jpg) atmo.

[Ahneida Ride]

Joe Bell

[ti_boi]

For those times when you want something a little 'different'....may I present....Llyn Foulkes

[swoop]

For those times when you want something a little 'different'....may I present....Llyn Foulkes


i showed with him back in the day when i was doing things like that.. at patty faure. cool.

[Too Tall]

Damg. Way way cool. Def. an art hero.
hey more about me and the art world (loosely):
i made shelves and a plate rail for jimmy.
moneys for nothing and chicks for free
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.
.
Lemme tell ya them guys aint dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

[manet]

never let him touch your tool.Damg. Way way cool. Def. an art hero.
moneys for nothing and chicks for free
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Lemme tell ya them guys aint dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

[catulle]

.

[Jeff N.]

Albrecht Durer. Jeff N.

[djg]

It's sort of an awful question, given the diversity of choices, and the possibility of being amazed by someone's work, or a given picture, at any one time. Still, if forced to choose, the answer for me is easy. Any little kid could get it off the internet, without ever looking at an actual painting. Rembrandt. Hands down, number one favorite. Rembrandt van Rijn. Rembrand fekkin H. van Rijn--accept no substitutes (although that list bit can get tricky).

Sticking with the Dutch--Vermeer did some sublime painting, of course, and moving about in the low countries, it's hard not to like Hals ... like, a lot.

Still in the cycling countries? The Italians? Yikes--all the usual suspects, with a special soft spot for another stereotypical choice, Titian (or Titziano). And Caravaggio--wack, mebbe, but the feller could paint.

Dashing about history. I have my softy Monet moments, fer sure. Seurat, Eddie "don't call me 'daygahs'" Degas, and that gifted nutso Dutchman with all that paint in the paintings (no, not de Kooning, although he has his moments) --Van Gogh. Modigliani (the painter, not the economist, not that there's ...).

More into the twentieth century: Picasso did so many amazing things ... including some very beautiful paintings, but ... let's see, when it's right, it's Rothko who takes my breath away. Pollack. I've had moments when Anselm Kiefer's ... well, paintings I guess, have sort of filled the world.

The painting that's most recently been just amazing for me is a Bellini, called "Woman with a Mirror," which was part of a Venitian painting show at the National Gallery recently. I went back to the show four or five times, with at least one trip made just for that picture. Beautiful, lovely, and almost shockingly modern at the same time.

Ok, I've skipped a lot.

So, like I said, Rembrandt.

[manet]

one of the finest copies of the night watch is in little old canajoharie NY.
but the real reason to go is to see one of the best collections of homer's work.


http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa505.htm

[dbrk]

Not to everyone's taste but still I love J.M. William Turner (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/) and I did once leave the Louvre early to make sure I visited with Ernest Csuka at Alex Singer Cycles...So how about a bit of both?

dbrk

[catulle]

I shouldn't have opened this can of worms. The world of pictorial Art is so vastly sublime that that it boggles the mind. Thank you for responding. Sweet dreams.

[spiderlake]

No mention of Dali?

[Louis]

I'm with DJG on this one. My list of personal favorites (say, since high-school) is pretty long, with guys like Wyeth and Hopper near the top, but the first time I saw a Rembrandt in person I was absolutely floored. On paper in books they had never done much for me, but in the flesh (so to speak) they were just about the most powerful stuff I have ever seen.

On a much lower rank, I have my own very small collection of Haitian art. I tried to take some pics of a few of my paintings and one turned out OK, but most look pretty horrible. I found a few images off the web of very similar paintings by two guys for whom I have paintings: The "Market Sellers" painting is mine, the other two are off the web.

Louis

[manet]

http://www.sullivangoss.com/McLaughlin_John/

[manet]

ralston crawford

[shinomaster]

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[manet]

GUSTON!!

[shinomaster]

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[shinomaster]

GUSTON!!


He is a good one...His dudes in hoods are creepy imho..He taught painting at BU.

[Birddog]

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. (for obvious reasons)

http://www.wapers.com/misc/dogpoker/dogpoker1024.jpg




"Without question, the most recognized gambling paintings ever created are the various renderings of dogs playing poker by C. M. Coolidge. In fact, surveys have shown these paintings to be among the most recognizable artwork of any type. Coolidge was born in upstate New York and began his career as a druggist and a painter of house numbers and street signs. He also founded a small newspaper called the Antwerp News. Coolidge was already known for his paintings of dogs playing cards before he was approached by the publishers Brown & Bigelow. The company hired him to create calendars and other advertising products. Coolidge is credited with producing 16 paintings of dogs-most of the playing cards-while in the employ of Brown and & Bigelow.

"Of all Coolidge's dog paintings, "A Friend in Need" is his most famous. Replicas have adorned the walls of basements, bathrooms, and pool rooms across America for a century. The scene has a surprisingly modern look to it, which may account for its timelessness; only the cards, minus corner "indices," betray the period. Once again, cheating is a focal point. The game, without question, is five-card draw." -unattributed

I think this painting is essential to any collection of gaming art. What a revolutionary concept--dogs playing cards. It's funny because in the wild, dogs don't play cards. Anthropomorphic animals = immediate humor. Also, you can look at this painting time and again and still notice new things. For example, I just noticed that they have a painting of the Andromeda Cluster on the wall. What's with that?

Rene Pottkamp, among others, has informed me that there is another version of this painting available. Check it out, along with an entire gallery of Cooldige paitings, here. Also, Rene related this tidbit about the paintings historic significance: "Coolidge's painting was used in the Second World War to boost the moral of Dutch citizens. The dog with the cigar being Churchill giving America help (on his lefthand side), which goes unnoticed. Russia (the most left dog) tries to attract USA's attention, while Hitler (the dog with the pipe and the "big ears" in front of the clock) watches anxiously."

This is obviously one of the most important pieces of American art to ever be produced. -dgs

Birddog

[manet]

(for obvious reasons)


Birddog

george stubbs _ did ok with canines too

[djg]

one of the finest copies of the night watch is in little old canajoharie NY.
but the real reason to go is to see one of the best collections of homer's work.


http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa505.htm

Half of my youth spent in upstate NY and I missed plenty I guess. Maybe next year will be the summer I make my way back up to the addies. Stop with pals at SUNY and take a jaunt over to canajoharie.

Seems like a million years since I've been to Amsterdam to see the real night watch. There's a little museum across from my office that has amazing Rembrandt portraits, though.

[William]

http://blog.mundofantasma.com/wp-content/uploads/358.jpg

http://www.chrisis.org/chr_dishes/dishes4_images/frazetta_elle.jpg

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Frank-Frazetta/The-Berserker-Print-C10283237.jpeg

http://www.studiodino.com/studiodino/images/frazetta.jpg

http://www.bird-man.com/images/attachments/_12_11_2004-frank_frazetta_birdman.jpg

http://www.rpgnet.gr/store/frazetta/frank_frazetta_kaneonthegoldensea.jpg



Or at least when Dirt and I hang out together....mon. ;)


William

[Fixed]

I like this cat too

[ti_boi]

David Hockney. :cool:....and YES....The Man...The Myth....and the creator of some of the greatest badass art of the last century...>FRANK FRAZETTA<

[Kevan]

Klimt:

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Klimt/klimt2.jpg

[manet]

vargas

[catulle]

Great things happening in modern China. This is Pei Jing...

[zeroking17]

Within the sub-genre niche micro-category of album cover art, the painter Neon Park deserves mention. Although his work is most closely associated with Little Feat (and I believe that dbrk's magazine Matrika Yoga has an article about Park's Feat covers), his cover for Frank Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh is truly H.C. ("beyond category").

Imagine walking into a record shop in 1970 and seeing this image. It was mindblowing (remember, this was a time before the design team of Rude, Crude, and Lewd began bludgeoning our visual sense with their idea of "catchy" cover art).

One of the important functions of art is to jolt us out of status quo slumbers to remind us that the borders are not exactly where we assumed they were. In this case, the point is not to produce "pretty," "pleasing," or "beautiful" works. Instead the point is to produce a reaction in the viewer that includes questioning of the role of art. Neon Park's Zappa cover did this. So does Dario Pegoretti's painting of Responsorium.

[taz-t]

vargas

Redrocket's Marcelo made me think of Vargas girls...

- taz

[swoop]

this morning i am going to the old throwback robert ryman. i'm sure marden will come again for me later. tomorrow i'll love a current young one.

[RABikes2]

Client, friend, and local artist, Joe Claborn, is truly amazing. Joe hasn't been painting for very many years, is mostly self-taught, a true talent, and a genuine individual (cyclist, too)! He was influenced by the Dutch School of Art while living in Europe. The story his wife Peggy told me is when they were living in Belgium (military), they'd visit museums on the weekends. Upon leaving the museums, Joe would make comments like, "You know Peg, I think I can do that." So as a Christmas gift to Joe, Peggy bought him a collection of painting supplies, gave them to him and said, "Okay, let's see what you can do." He was a natural. Not many years later, his work is displayed at a local gallery, he's got a huge following of collectors, won many awards for his work, and he had a few dog paintings photographed in a home for Southern Living in August 2003. His website doesn't show any of his dog paintings, but I've commissioned him to paint a few for me as gifts to two close clients. The paintings were phenomenal and so "real" that you felt the dog was sitting there actually looking at you. My clients were blown away by his talent and thrilled that their precious pets were "captured" in art form for them. I'm the proud owner of 8 original Claborn's displayed in my home.
RA
http://www.signatureartgallery.com/claborn/claborn.html

[atmo]

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[oracle]

this guy (http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php)

[swoop]

ai yamaguchi
and barry mcgee

[catulle]

.

[ti_boi]

OK! OK! I gotta toss a major compliment out to this amazing forum....not only am I inspired by threads about athletics...mental hygiene...and riding, but holy mackeral....the depth of artistic appreciation here is inspiring too! Bravo people....BRAVO. :beer:

Self serving link alert:
http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=16102




One of mine (detail)

[saab2000]

No mention of Dali?

One of my faves. Absolutely. I don't know squat about art, but I like looking at his paintings. Plus he was a true oddball and I can identify with that.

[catulle]

:eek:

[RDP]

carbon http://www.warholprints.com/images/artwork/full/FS-II.44.jpg Titanium http://www.warholprints.com/images/artwork/full/FS-II.45.jpg Steel http://www.warholprints.com/images/artwork/full/FS-II.58.jpg
early carbon http://www.warholprints.com/images/artwork/full/FS-II.61.jpg mixed materials http://www.warholprints.com/images/artwork/full/FS-II.48.jpg Nagasawa http://www.northwestern.edu/nucuisine/images/newsletter/Miso-Soup.gif