Let's talk about Art

[cellularsociety]

Following on from the 'Plastik's profile' thread it occurs to start a thread about Art as their never seems to be any on here - at least not that I've seen.

Art is something that I've really only come to have any real appreciation of in the last few years. I have all the artistic skills of a spastic elephant so I just never really had any interest.

But I've come to be quite interested in it via a number of things - conversations with friends who are interested in it, a trip to the Tate Britain and so on.

So here are a few paintings I like to get things started:



This just so perfectly expresses emotion for me, it makes me smile every time I look at it.



I'm honestly not sure why I like this so much. I think it might be the juxtaposition of the title/subject matter and the sensuality of the picture.



This is just awesome, full stop.



Gotta love banksy and tbh I could have picked any of many, but this is the first one I remember seeing.




How about you guys?



mark

[flaming_liberal]

I love the work of Jeff Koons. I remember seeing his stuff in the Louvre next to the greats. It was strange how well in it fit. I wasn't at the Louvre. They were photos.

[flaming_liberal]

Ron Mueck is another guy I love.


More here.

[Dick Tator]

[cellularsociety]

I love the work of Jeff Koons. I remember seeing his stuff in the Louvre next to the greats. It was strange how well in it fit. I wasn't at the Louvre. They were photos.

Why do you like it? I must admit, if there is one area of art I have a problem getting on with it's modern art, but I'm willing to be persuaded...

Edit: I like the basketball one because the more I look at it the more questions it makes me want to ask - how are the balls suspended? why is one a different colour? Why are they not evenly spaced?

Ron Mueck is another guy I love.


More here.

These I like, brings to mind Gulliver's travels...



Mark

[cellularsociety]

Again same question as FL - why these in particular?


Mark

[flaming_liberal]

Why do you like it? I must admit, if there is one area of art I have a problem getting on with it's modern art, but I'm willing to be persuaded...

The heart and the dog are huge. They are ginormous. To me, it's about seeing this thing that looks the same at a scale that can fit in my hands as it does three or four times my height. I can imagine that giant dog or heart in a white room with no sense of scale whatsoever. If you showed me a picture of that room with that piece in it, I would not be able to discern its size. It's this way for me to question my sense of size and scale. I like to explore this idea of proportion.

Edit: I like the basketball one because the more I look at it the more questions it makes me want to ask - how are the balls suspended? why is one a different colour? Why are they not evenly spaced?

That is why I like the basketball one.

[flaming_liberal]

I love Frida Kahlo. She expressed the things she lost in her art so well and so articulately.
Like this one, showing how her ability ho have children was rotten. I don't need to know that she was rendered infertile to know that this is what that painting represents.

[Victory]

That fire hydrant gives me a good idea. I should paint a rebel flag on the one out front.

[Dreamy]

I dislike Picasso.

[flaming_liberal]

I'm a big fan of Philip Guston.

There was a high school janitor who became famous after he died for the massive collection of artwork he had created over his lifetime. Can't remember his name, but it was truly amazing stuff.

[Victory]

I'm a big fan of Philip Guston.

There was a high school janitor who became famous after he died for the massive collection of artwork he had created over his lifetime. Can't remember his name, but it was truly amazing stuff.

Is that a KKK member?

[flaming_liberal]

Nope. It's Philip Guston. Chain smoking sumbitch.

[Dreamy]

I'm a big fan of Philip Guston.

There was a high school janitor who became famous after he died for the massive collection of artwork he had created over his lifetime. Can't remember his name, but it was truly amazing stuff.

Is this Guston or the janitors work?

[flaming_liberal]

That's Guston. I cannot remember the janitor's name, so I wouldn't be able to find his work if I wanted to. I don't even know when he died.

[optimus]

Cool, an actual thread on "art" in the Arts section.

I'm a fan of Ray Caesar. The level of detail of his work is simply unreal.







I'm also a big fan of Alex Grey. Absolutely spectacular work. A lot of it was based on his own hallucinations from LSD or DMT.

[Šñøü†ê®]

Optimus posted the only stuff that ain't shayt, actually great stuff by that dude, in this thread. C'mon people. Read Salvador Dali's 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship and then you might be ridi....ti parti.

[Adanch]

This guy cracks me up so I follow his blog . . .



This is some art work I get to see recently in person that I really enjoyed . . .

(Sisley)


While in the impressionist's realm, here is definitely one of my favorites . . .

(Monet)

The last piece I bought was a copy of this one engraved in glass. . .

(Van Gogh)


Here is one that I have hanging over my mantle that my husband copied, his version isn't quite as good but I love it . . .

(Turner)

I love all of Turner's with boats in it . . .




I have a thing for flowers and boats. But not together.

Hubby also copied this one of Vermeer's and another but I can't remember the title of the other right this second, dang it. . .



Ok I'll stop here.

[cellularsociety]

Loving this thread!

Don't have time now but definitely coming back to this tonight!



Mark

[oki]

some thing i love:

an old favourite of mine, toulouse latrec



hundertwasser





allso have to mention damien hirst, for beeing the biggest artist of right now (a proper successor of jeff koons)





brilliant asian artists have taken over the modern art scene.
Yue Minjun, china





old peoples home, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu , china


Yoshitomo Nara, japan:




ill stop now, if you want more, say so.