post your favourite drawings/paintings or sculpture here.

St. Eulalia, 1885 - John William Waterhouse
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5958/water075ql.jpg

On The Terrace by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Smithsonissey/terrace.jpg

Ok, Cod I know this is slightly askew your original thread title but I will see if anyone knows what I am talking about.

I once saw a B/W photograph that was blown up to poster size (Ansel Adams Style), within this photo was a WWI pilot (Leather jacket and white scarf included) who had just returned home and was standing next to his biplane kissing his wife/girlfriend. I have been looking for a copy of this for a number of years. The only info I have (And it is prob wrong) is that the title of the print is "Home comming" and the photographer is Eric Bissel (Spelled wrong I am sure). If anyone has ever heard of this or has a glimmer of an idea of what the hell i am talking about, could you please PM me so I can find a copy of this. I have tried checking all of the online art/poster/whatever shops and have come up empty handed.

Thanks

BR

Irises, Saint-Remy, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh
Do you know why there is only 1 White Iris? Because van Gogh was lonely and used that single white one to represent himself within society at the time.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/david/marat.jpg

Little known fact: In the old days before the phone you had to send a letter to 911

http://i3.tinypic.com/zt6bo6.jpg

The Race Track or Death on a Pale Horse
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 - 1917)
c. 1896-1908
1928.8

http://www.clevelandart.org/oci/midsize/1928/1928.8.jpg


* (http://www.clemusart.com/explore/departmentWork.asp?deptgroup=20&recNo=5&display=) The painting was inspired by a horse race that took place in New York in 1888. A waiter Ryder knew wagered $500 on the race, and then committed suicide when the horse lost. The shadowy forms in the painting, depicted with thick dabs of paint, embody many traditional symbols familiar from the Middle Ages. Death appears as a skeleton on horseback brandishing a scythe. A serpent, symbol of mortality and decay, slithers in the foreground. In reference to the fatal horse race, Death rides on a racetrack, but rides in reverse to the usual direction. (Ryder sometimes referred to the painting as The Reverse.) As was his habit, Ryder worked on the painting for decades, making innumerable changes, and was reluctant to part with it.

Jack B. Yeats

Misty Morning
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3898/yeatsmistymorning22xx.jpg

Silence
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/3653/yeatssilence27gs.jpg

Street Performer
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4617/yeatsstreetperformer9lw.jpg

Laugh
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7207/yeatslaugh22if.jpg

The Ocean Man
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5180/jby20vm.jpg

The House of a Young Man Dying
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5859/jby11xx.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d146/WhyteGrrrl/th_kiss.jpg (http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d146/WhyteGrrrl/kiss.jpg)
I have this framed in the master bedroom. When I miss my husband while he is deployed, I look at it and it gives me strength. I know that may sound corny.. but it's true.:o

post your favourite drawings/paintings or sculpture here.

St. Eulalia, 1885 - John William Waterhouse
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5958/water075ql.jpg

I too am a lover of Waterhouse, this being my fave of his: http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d146/WhyteGrrrl/th_jww_magicCircle16.jpg (http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d146/WhyteGrrrl/jww_magicCircle16.jpg)

Clyfford Still

1954
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/7052/still19543di.jpg

1948
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6453/still1948c8pu.jpg

1946
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/4978/still1946h8si.jpg

1950-M
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/3711/still1950m5nn.jpg

1948
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/6414/stilluntitled19483eo.jpg

1951
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7256/stilluntitled19513lp.jpg

I first became aware of Ida Pearle as a violinist with Flashpaper and Ida, and only secondarily as the lady who designed the idyllic cover art. She turned out to be a great talent in her own right, producing original, strikingly naive, cut-paper collages.

From idapearle.com: "Each collage, cut and glued by hand is primarily composed of Coloraid, a silk-screened artist's paper. Other specialty papers, collected from many different sources, are used to add accents of pattern and texture to the collages. For example, Origami paper is used for clothing and other forms which require patterns. Other papers used, include construction paper, craft paper, wrapping paper, tissue paper, wallpaper, and decorative paper. Materials like string, ribbon, and cloth lend the pieces even greater dimension and texture. Before the cutting begins each collage requires extensive planning and sketching."

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/7403/swimmersfull7tq.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1421/lovesickfull0zx.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6189/stacia1gallery20full9ks.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/782/c1gn.jpg

http://idapearle.com/

This image presently graces my night table.
The artist is anonymous.

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1637/745lg8sr.jpg

Cod, heeelp me!
How do I post my pictures in their original size?

Cod, heeelp me!
How do I post my pictures in their original size?
When an image has been successfully uploaded to http://imageshack.us/ you are given the following linking codes:

1) Thumbnail for Websites
2) Thumbnail for forums (1)
3) Thumbnail for forums (2)
4) Hotlink for forums (1)
5) Hotlink for forums (2)
6) Hotlink for Websites
7) Show image to friends
8) Direct link to image

copy/paste no. 4

Alternatively, upload your photos here: http://tinypic.com/
and simply copy/paste the [IMG] link. :)

once long ago, I imagined I fell in love with a girl while staring at a painting
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/kandinsky-composition8.jpg
now I know, it was just the painting

I've never been that into art. But ever since I was a child I have loved swedish artist Bengt Elde's paintings. Here are a few of my favourites;

Fiskelycka / Fishing joy
http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/2139/fiskelycka8gc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Vinglaset / The glass of wine
http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/5892/vinglaset0fc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Gamla Stan / Kittys for the very helpful Cod ;)
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8263/gamlastans7yf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 - 1973)


http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/9290/rtp20452rtp4528of.jpg

Le repos - The rest

I will include photography in this thread, as it is my prefered form of art. From one of my favourite photographers, Martin Parr:

http://www.likeyou.com/gfx/martin_parr.jpg

Gamla Stan / Kittys for the very helpful Cod
:)

Giovanni Boldini - A Lady with a Cat
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/6961/gb6al.jpg

Cecilia Beaux - Girl with a Cat
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/422/girlwithacat4go.jpg

Henriette Knip Ronner - A Study of Cats
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/6492/hkr7fo.jpg

John William Waterhouse

Saint Cecilia
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/2815/sc8ur.jpg

At the Shrine
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3585/ats9tb.jpg

Crystal Ball
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/7266/cb1zk.jpg

“I am Half-sick of Shadows,” said the Lady of Shalott
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7458/hsos4xa.jpg

I'm not that artsy fartsy, but I particularly like this one:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/vansmack_2006/kramerart.jpg

photos too?
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/capa.jpg
the army that puts this in a recruiting poster is the one id join
:D

I've never been that into art. But ever since I was a child I have loved swedish artist Bengt Elde's paintings. Here are a few of my favourites;

Fiskelycka / Fishing joy
http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/2139/fiskelycka8gc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Vinglaset / The glass of wine
http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/5892/vinglaset0fc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Gamla Stan / Kittys for the very helpful Cod ;)
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8263/gamlastans7yf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Oh wow, I like those paintings a lot, especially the fish one!

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/david/marat.jpg
This work always brings to mind the famous still of Antonin Artaud from
Napoleon, clearly inspired by the aforeposted painting.

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/6738/aa3kq.jpg

antonin rocked
and by the way
Marat was a dick

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 - 1973)


http://img350.imageshack.us/img350/9290/rtp20452rtp4528of.jpg

Le repos - The rest
Marat, was it? Have you seen the film clip of Suedehead, with Morrissey in the bath. Doesn't it remind you a little of this painting? I post something of my own soon.

I've made a technical boo boo. Sorry, I was attempting to reply to Codrenau's commentary on death of Marat. Pardon me intensively.

To me you are a work of art

Oh wow, I like those paintings a lot, especially the fish one!

If you want to see more of his work you'll find it here; http://www.mamut.com/controls/shop/shops/3/default.asp?wwwalias=elde&gid=57

:)

Triptych, 1974-77

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/3625/triptych77a0wk.jpghttp://img394.imageshack.us/img394/4338/triptych77b7zb.jpghttp://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1104/triptych77c1gh.jpg

Three studies for a Crucifixion (1962)

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8629/cruc62a1dl.jpghttp://img346.imageshack.us/img346/984/cruc62b1kb.jpghttp://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3466/cruc62c7zh.jpg

Three Studies of Muriel Belcher (1966)

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/384/belcher66att9vh.jpghttp://img377.imageshack.us/img377/7320/belcher66btt5zc.jpghttp://img377.imageshack.us/img377/341/belcher66ctt5ow.jpg

Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud, 1967
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/7718/dyerfreud4im.jpg

If you want to see more of his work you'll find it here; http://www.mamut.com/controls/shop/shops/3/default.asp?wwwalias=elde&gid=57

:)

Aww the link didnt work.

Aww the link didnt work.

www.eldeusa.com

its his us-site. there is a lot less of his original paintings on this site. but at least the link works and its in english instead of swedish, which is a good thing!

now im assuming that you actually want to see some more. but that i dont know - so you dont really have to look :p

Figures in Movement, 1976. Figure Writing Reflected in a Mirror, 1976
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6402/movement3tj.jpghttp://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3899/figure8bm.jpg

After receiving a volume of Francis Bacon's work for Xmas '86, my dreams were contaminated w/ grisly visages and tormented bio-morphic figures for months at a stretch. May these images, likewise, defile your last lulling fancy unto nightmare. :( (j/k)

http://www.poster.net/johns-jasper/johns-jasper-target-1974-2303655.jpg

Jasper Johns - Target 1974

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4365/edwardmunchthescream6mb.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
He is a bit anxed out, as usual. And I'll never get tired of it.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4365/edwardmunchthescream6mb.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
He is a bit anxed out, as usual. And I'll never get tired of it.


lol admit it, you were the one who stole the original? ;)

lol admit it, you were the one who stole the original? ;)

I wish! I'd like to have that on my bedroom wall. Now I'll just have to settle for a inflatable copy of the anx-man. Much better in the bath though..

I'm not that artsy fartsy, but I particularly like this one:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h46/vansmack_2006/kramerart.jpg


HAHAHA! I'd totally put that on my wall. And in a prominent place.

He is a bit anxed out, as usual. And I'll never get tired of it.
I used to have a white long-sleeve t-shirt with a b/w image of "The Scream" :)

Death in the Sickroom
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/1668/munch0gx.jpg

Midsummer Night Dream: The Voice
http://img310.imageshack.us/img310/3647/munchvoice24ak.jpg

The Sick Child
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/8143/n0503595co.jpg

Re: Edvard Munch

I dig his paintings too.

Here's my fave:


http://www.calarts.edu/~rjaster/edvard-munch/Paintings/anxiety/eveOnKarlJohan_3.jpg

Evening on Karl Johan, 1892

In my book about Munch by Ulrich Bischoff, it explains that the building is the Norwegian parliament, and the crowd is dressed very middle-class. Prisoners of middle-class constraints as the windows of the building of law and order keep watch. In Munch's diary he talks about the figure walking the other direction: "The passers-by were all giving him strange and peculiar looks and he could sense them looking at him - staring at him - all those faces - pale in the evening light - he tried to cling to some thought, but failed - he had a sense of there being nothing inside his head but emptiness - and then he tried to fix his gaze on a window far up above - and once again the passers-by got in his way - he was trembling from tip to toe and breaking out in sweat."

This is one of my favourites.

Night at St. Cloud
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/2493/munchstcloud19dq.jpg

His more sensual work is nice too!

Amore e Psyche
http://img310.imageshack.us/img310/7744/munch2020amore20e20psiche7fm.jpg

The Kiss
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3807/munchkiss13qn.jpg

Madonna
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/5687/munch2020madonna20201894956uk.jpg

I used to have a white long-sleeve t-shirt with a b/w image of "The Scream" :)
im sure you looked good in that! ;)


Starry Night
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/6356/starrynight5au.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The Sick Child
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/8143/n0503595co.jpg


Another great one! Munch wrote of it: "As for the sick child, it was the period I think of as the Age of the Pillow. A great many painters did pictures of sick children on their pillows."

Here's The Sick GIrl, 1880/81, by Christian Krohg, an artist Munch admired:

http://www.artunframed.com/images/aug/sickgirl.jpg

The Kiss
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3807/munchkiss13qn.jpg

I still prefer this the above etching to his fully realized depictions of The Kiss.

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9827/munchthekiss14gx.jpg[/URL]

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/8296/art23447qd.jpg[/URL]

im sure you looked good in that! ;)
Lol! Well, I may yet come across it folded away in a drawer or closet shelf somewhere (if the moths haven't nibbled it clean away). Then a photo could be in order, if, that is, you've been good! ;)

Lol! Well, I may yet come across it folded away in a drawer or closet shelf somewhere (if the moths haven't nibbled it clean away). Then a photo could be in order, if, that is, you've been good! ;)

I'll do my best!
But do spare me the picture if it includes any moths.. Im not a moth kind of girl and I dont think moth-wear would do you justice! Well, its time for bed now..
Goodnight :)

Here's The Sick GIrl, 1880/81, by Christian Krohg, an artist Munch admired:

http://www.artunframed.com/images/aug/sickgirl.jpg
Oh, I like that one, and what he's done with the rose! The name Christian Krohg isn't familair. I've been looking at some of his work online (what I can find) and I really like the few domestic scenes; my favourite site for art http://artrenewal.org/ (I get stuck there for hours) only features two of his paintings! :(

those kiss pics
are cool

Oh, I like that one, and what he's done with the rose! The name Christian Krohg isn't familair. I've been looking at some of his work online (what I can find) and I really like the few domestic scenes; my favourite site for art http://artrenewal.org/ (I get stuck there for hours) only features two of his paintings! :(


Thanks for the link. I don't know anything about Krohg either, except that one painting. Wikipedia says he liked to do pictures of prostitutes and wrote a novel that got confiscated by the police!

Yeah, the rose petals falling off. Apparently the pillow is supposed to be like a halo.

Here's a happy one.

Triumph of Death by Pieter Brueghel, 1562

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/10/Thetriumphofdeath.jpg/800px-Thetriumphofdeath.jpg

wow teo, i luv Brueghel
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/madmeg.jpg
i will try not to hold ur likin him too against him
:D

Righteous, Robby. :)

I think we need a penguin in here.

http://artrenewal.org/images/artists/m/marks_henry_stacy/large/Marks_Henry_Stacy_Study_Of_A_Penguin.jpg

Study of a Penguin by Henry Stacy Marks

Irises, Saint-Remy, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh
Do you know why there is only 1 White Iris? Because van Gogh was lonely and used that single white one to represent himself within society at the time.

aww its a whytegrrrl iris...

www.eldeusa.com

its his us-site. there is a lot less of his original paintings on this site. but at least the link works and its in english instead of swedish, which is a good thing!

now im assuming that you actually want to see some more. but that i dont know - so you dont really have to look :p
Of course I want to have a look. These paintings make make happy...and that is a rare thing. thank you for sharing this link!

HAHAHA! I'd totally put that on my wall. And in a prominent place.


It's a masterpiece innit?!

Righteous, Robby. :)

I think we need a penguin in here.

http://artrenewal.org/images/artists/m/marks_henry_stacy/large/Marks_Henry_Stacy_Study_Of_A_Penguin.jpg

Study of a Penguin by Henry Stacy Marks

Oh I do like the penguin!

http://www.hopeway.com/3-yscl/3-8-KANDINSKY/1yellow red blue.JPG
I like Kandinsky

A Coign of Vantage
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8025/coign2rp.jpg

Under the Roof of Blue Ionian Weather
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7351/undertheroofofblueionianweathe.jpg

Expectations
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6699/exe4mt.jpg

Silver Favourites
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/8786/almatademasilverfavourites4wr.jpg

http://www.lowbrowartworld.com/images/2002_paintings/manson_nightdrawing.jpg

Could someone kindly tell me how to make a URL of an image, so I can send it in here?

http://www.hopeway.com/3-yscl/3-8-KANDINSKY/1yellow red blue.JPG
I like Kandinsky
i like this one too


though
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/kandinsky-composition8.jpg
8 is my fave

One is an actual real life painting called Scrub Hill.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/mauvyclair/My%20Art%20Work/mindthepaint001.jpg

This one is one I did in 'MS Paint' with the computer, called Blackbird and Rose.....

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/mauvyclair/My%20Art%20Work/blackbirdrose2.jpg

One is an actual real life painting called Scrub Hill.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/mauvyclair/My%20Art%20Work/mindthepaint001.jpg

This one is one I did in 'MS Paint' with the computer, called Blackbird and Rose.....

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/mauvyclair/My%20Art%20Work/blackbirdrose2.jpg


Cool.

Although that six-fingered girl looks like she's about to do something Satanic to the poor birdie and it's worrying me! As is wondering why the woman in the other picture doesn't seem surprised that there's a duck chilling in the tree over her head!

One is an actual real life painting called Scrub Hill.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h36/mauvyclair/My%20Art%20Work/mindthepaint001.jpg
You painted this, Mauve? I'm impressed! :cool:

Au Bord du Ruisseau
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5412/r14nc.jpg

Pietà
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/8132/r40sl.jpg

Rêve de Printemps
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2725/r35vd.jpg

Avant le Bain
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1184/r29yk.jpg

Well, some may ask, What is art? through out the centuries, the further you go back the more expressive it is. I for one like this as my one favourite image, Tiled mosaics are so wonderful, and there is no greater love than that of between two men, it is good it is celebrated here in art for us to share all.

http://johntunger.typepad.com/artbuzz/images/mosaic/eromenos_01.jpg

William Bouguereau - Unfinished Sketch
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1787/bouguereauwilliamunfinished6ip.jpg

Shouldn't my art thread be a sticky? Not to do so would belie its official status ... :mad:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/uccello/i/st-george.jpg

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/uccello/i/st-george-detail.jpg

http://hamiltonselway.com/warhol/details326.jpg

The Following 7 works of art were created by Kenneth Spooner.

http://www.goldfishfineart.co.uk/kennethspooner.htm

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/image-19b.gif

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/journey17.gif

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/journey11.gif

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/journey10.gif

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/image-23b.gif

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/image-11b.gif

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/ceramic-monolith-1a.gif

http://pleasureiseasy.info/images/autoportrait03_large.jpg

self-portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, Polaroid, 1973

love, math+

the post @ 05-21-2006, 04:50 PM is not art, it is porn, which does not mean porn cannot also be art too I guess, but since there it still not concensus as to whether this;
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/lange1ve.jpg
this is porn?
im pretty sure anything with penetration is gonne have a hard time getting allowed to sit at ther big table with the grownups
wait a minute, that aint quite right
oh well
:)

the post @ 05-21-2006, 04:50 PM is not art, it is porn ... im pretty sure anything with penetration is gonne have a hard time getting allowed to sit at ther big table with the grownups
The self-portrait of Mapplethorpe above would have been porn too, if only he hadn't forgotten his bullwhip. :rolleyes:

The self-portrait of Mapplethorpe above would have been porn too, if only he hadn't forgotten his bullwhip. :rolleyes:
i think some of bob's work is art, its just a shame he felt the need to so often
go a trollin for attention
;)

I like paintings of animals.

Here's The Spotted Horse by Paulus Potter (1625-1654)
http://artrenewal.org/images/artists/P/Potter_Paulus/large/POTTER_Paulus_The_Spotted_Horse.jpg

Young Bull by Paulus Potter
http://www.wga.hu/art/p/potter/y_bull.jpg
"In the work of Paulus Potter views of nature and animals are seen for their own sake, and not as a backdrop for human action. Potter can paint equally well the bright sunlight and the cool air, but his real fame lies with his penetrating portraits of animals. His best-known work is the life-size Young Bull, an unusual heroization of a single animal, a counterpart to the monumental trend of Ruisdael and Cuyp." * (http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/p/potter/y_bull.html)

Then there's Punishment of a Hunter by Paulus Potter. I'm sorry you can't see it too well in this pic, but here's a look. I don't like what happens to the hunter's dogs.....
http://shop.hermitagemuseum.org/en_US/images/products/z10454.jpg

http://www.tierlobby.de/news_seite/news_bilder/potter_jaeger.jpg
"It was 'acquired'—looted might be nearer the mark—from Napoleon's empress Josephine in 1814, after the indescribably bloody French retreat from Russia. Consisting of two central panels and a dozen peripheral ones, and entitled Punishment of a Hunter, it depicts a bear and two wolves hauling a hunter before a tribunal consisting of an elephant, a ram, a leopard, and a lion. A fox holds down the bill of indictment with his paw. The hunter's cringing dogs are dragged behind him, by a bear and a boar. The later scene shows the hunter being roasted on a spit by his former victims, while his dog auxiliaries are hoisted skyward on a rope. In the peripheral panels we see creatures being shot, trapped, impaled, or hounded."* (http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/050725roco02?print=true)

I like paintings of animals.
So does Mr. Proper! This is his favorite sculpture. He says it's about the tenderness between a man and his interspecial partner.

I think it's just a "horny" old guy screwing a goat! :rolleyes:

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/larrymyth/images/hermes-pan-priapus/EE-Pan-with-Goat.jpg

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h231/spoonful_of_ham/other/dog.jpg

OH YES!

Three paintings by Mark Ryden ~ Controversial and quite interesting, I think.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Smithsonissey/thedebutante1998.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Smithsonissey/butcher_bunny.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Smithsonissey/mark_ryden.jpg

Aha...an art thread. Great idea.
This is one of my favorite artists, Gerhard Richter:
http://www.lannan.org/images/art/gerhard-richter-frau-180x278.jpg
http://kunstonline.dk/indhold/pics/gerhard_richter_5.jpg
http://www.museum.hu/budapest/ludwig/images/0047_t3378_maxi.jpg

And finally, one of my own:D

If you don't know Gerhard Richter, I should tell you, those are oil paintings, not photographs!
The guy is a genius!

I love this thread, all that Munch and Bacon...incredible...

I think Mister Codreanu should share with us more christian art

Here's a few I like:

By Ivan Minic
http://files.myopera.com/SerbianFighter/albums/27686/high_spi.jpg
http://files.myopera.com/SerbianFighter/albums/27686/high_spx.jpg

And by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/toulouse-lautrec/i/rue-des-moulins.jpg

I think Mister Codreanu should share with us more christian art

i am quite certain you meant Maestro Codreanu... ;)

Perfection...
http://www.artgallery.co.uk/images/works/fullscreen/640.jpg

I remember myself standing in front of it about 20 minutes. I was very impressed. I think I was 15.
http://membres.lycos.fr/manchicourt/Rembrandt/Rembrandt_Frankfurt_Blinding_Samson_1636.jpg

ehmm, he really is a work of art...
http://morrisseytr.sitemynet.com/istanbul05.jpg

I think Mister Codreanu should share with us more christian art
Here is one of my favourites. :)

Carlo Crivelli - Madonna and Child (1480)
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/956/madonnaandchildca1480ri5.jpg

i am quite certain you meant Maestro Codreanu... ;)
:confused:

I was expecting more..but I forgive you son

I was expecting more..but I forgive you son
The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck (1432)

http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/1345/ghentopn1xi3.jpg

(altar wings closed) Oil on panel, Each panel 146.2 x 51.4 cm (57 1/2 x 20 1/4 in)
http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/7889/ghentcls1bh5.jpg

(outer wings) detail, Adam from left wing, Eve from right
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3782/adameveue5.jpg

detail of lower central panel
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/8206/worshipperskj9.jpg

detail of lower central panel
http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/8865/whiteredof6.jpg

/ / /

St John Altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden (1455-60)
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/8241/img10nz2.jpg

Raising of Lazarus by Benozzo Gozzoli (1497)
http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/446/lazarus2go7.jpg

The Coronation of Our Lady by Fra Angelico
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/2884/angelico36xm3.jpg

photo does not do it justice (and b/w because no flash)
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g208/vivaissy/DSCN1558.jpg

and some rennie mackintosh because its gorgeous
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g208/vivaissy/mack1.jpg

and some rock n roll art for fun!
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g208/vivaissy/carl.jpg

So, Cod, how much christian art adorns the walls of your abode?

Do you have a special formula for determining the right mix of christian art, cat art, and morrissey art when decorating? I imagine the competition among these three is stiff!

noip remember he loves more robert 'cunt' smith than Morriseh,sad though U.u


and YES YES YES YES YES...that was what I was expecting( amazing christian art in industrial quantities)

I have always loved the Drawing of Olimpio Fusco by John Singer Sargent:

http://www.monumentlight.com/store/images/uploads/SARGENT_John_Singer_Olimpio_Fusco_circa_1900_sourc e_sandstead_d2h_.jpg

zom

noip remember he loves more robert 'cunt' smith than Morriseh,sad though U.u

Not when he's dressing up his walls, he doesn't!!! No way! :D

photo does not do it justice (and b/w because no flash)
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g208/vivaissy/DSCN1558.jpg


What's the name of that one?


When I was in the Modern Tate Gallery in London, a few months ago, I was soooo impressed by Rothko! Really, he's great! His works were in this little room, with few lights, and with chairs where you could lay down, and really, the effect was amazing! I just wanted that I'd been alone then...

Tate link (http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?roomid=3543)

it's the "Christ of saint john of the cross" from my personal friend Salvador Dali

Andy Warhol's outtakes from 'Birth of Venus' (Botticelli)

http://www.magidson.com/warhol/venus.jpg


I really love how Warhol gives a whole new 'modern' dimension to works as these. The one above (left) is my favourite.

The loneliness and isolation of this girl is something I've always been able to relate to........


http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/iancurtis_01/Wyeth.jpg

This is one of the threads where I lurked before I lost my mind and started posting here like a maniac. It should come back.

http://www.godelfineart.com/images/Wyeth_Baleen.jpg
Baleen, watercolor, 1982

My current favorite painter, Andrew Wyeth (American, b. 1917) is best known for Christina's World, which a lot of people seem to like. It's not a particular favorite of mine.

His other, bleaker, more subtly colored watercolors (like this one) and temperas are evocative of New England winters and life on the land. They don't reproduce well, but when you stand in front of one of the originals and look at the brush work it will assuredly rock your world. I want to live inside of them...

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/jww/paintings/shalott1.jpg
JW Waterhouse, 1916. "I am half sick of shadows," said the Lady of Shalott.

Can't you imagine her sitting in front of a computer instead of a loom?

Actually that's what I wear most of the times when I work on my computer ;)

Actually that's what I wear most of the times when I work on my computer ;)

But a rubber one with a big whip, correct?:D

check mate!

Well you surely understand that I need that equipment when I come here... :D

I'm a huge fan of Bill Brauer and Jack Vettriano, among others, so here is a sampling of Jack. The great thing about him is that he's completely self-taught. He said that he paints the world he'd like to be in. :) Not all of his paintings are of dancers, but they are sort of in that style, very 30s and 40s. Love him!
I also paint, but I only have my Depeche Mode art online. Check out the album if you like. Perhaps in the future I will add my other paintings.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluedressdevotedtomode/sets/72157594158514144/

Jack's stuff:

http://photogold.co.uk/GameOn.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ARGCARD/13210~Dance-Me-to-the-End-of-Love-Posters.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PF_NEW/08_24_2005_B/PF_915952~Waltzers-Posters.jpg

^I have seen these somewhere! I really like the style and color. The second one is great. The first is also intersting :D

Thanks Sir Alec. Jack seems to have 3 favourite topics: men and women in situations as you see in the first pic - sexual power play and such; dancing and general refined amusement; and wealthy people tending to their interests/lounging around and elegantly killing time. Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see more of his pictures:
http://www.portlandgallery.com/index.php?page=jackvettriano_prints
The silly thing is, the man doesn't even have his own website.

Reminds me of the pictures (and music) in the Pulp's Albums, most of all This Is Hardcore. Very classy.

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/jww/paintings/shalott1.jpg
JW Waterhouse, 1916. "I am half sick of shadows," said the Lady of Shalott.

Can't you imagine her sitting in front of a computer instead of a loom?
Yes. Then I would hasten to tell her (in a private message, of course) of the get-away boat bobbing 'neath the willow's bough, and that I will be the one in the tan fedora hat (http://texashideout.tripod.com/hats.html) singing "Tirra Lirra" (accent snarled with hayseed) beside the river, somewhere below the towers of Camelot. ;)

I really liked the painting Codreanu posted from 'Evelyn de Morgan'. Not only because she has the same first name but she paints really nice

http://www.nderf.org/angel_of_death-2large.jpg

Either those my mum paints or by a Norwegian painter called Elling Reitan.. I'll try to post a picture later:p

Yes. Then I would hasten to tell her (in a private message, of course) of the get-away boat bobbing 'neath the willow's bough, and that I will be the one in the tan fedora hat (http://texashideout.tripod.com/hats.html) singing "Tirra Lirra" (accent snarled with hayseed) beside the river, somewhere below the towers of Camelot. ;)


Well, dang, Clyde...

I've had these on my computer for awhile I forget who the artist is. Shame on me! :mad:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/me/weapons/cav_sabre_rig.gif
:)

I was impressed recently with the 'decorative' art of Jack Casadamont -- these pieces recall, for me, some of the more enigmatic, half-obliterated, frescoes excavated at Pompeii & Herculaneum, only minus the numinousity, the metaphysical.

Carta Archéologia : mémoire track 11 D
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2361/105ayg6.jpg

Carta Archéologia : mémoire 22D
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5668/105cvl3.jpg

Carta Archéologia : track 10 D
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3860/105bru5.jpg

it's the "Christ of saint john of the cross" from my personal friend Salvador Dali
Wow, who knew that Pervo was tight w/ a Falangist militant?
I'll save you a seat at our 20-N commemoration, buddy. :p

Ernst Billgren, "Missing Fox":

http://www.ernstbillgren.com/konst/maleri/maleri.html

Gainsborough's Blue Boy

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/g/gainsborough/blue_boy.jpg

Here are a few of my favourites by Bob Carlos Clarke. (also quite famous for a different sort of photography!)

"The Fourth Avantgarde" anyone?

Bob Carlos Clarke also did a lot of erotic photography, so I'm not cultured really! I know streight women arn't ment to like that kind of thing, but I really like his style of photography. I won't lower the tone here, I might put some up on the smut thread later...

Minotaurs

http://www.leggievai.it/wp-content/photos/quadro_guernica_picasso.jpg
Guernica, Picasso, 1937



http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/myths/pictures/theseus.jpg
Theseus Slaying the Minotaur, vase, ca. 550BC

Max Ernst...
And I can't remember the artist, but 'The Nightmare'...

Minotaurs

http://www.leggievai.it/wp-content/photos/quadro_guernica_picasso.jpg
Guernica, Picasso, 1937



http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/myths/pictures/theseus.jpg
Theseus Slaying the Minotaur, vase, ca. 550BC
Minotaur - Paloma Picasso
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5778/minotaurzu8.jpg

I've worn nothing else since 1993.

:eek: is omniscience contagious?!

*grabs keys in quite frankly sad attempt to get to the mall and trick the officious men's fragrance clerks at Macy's into providing free samples*

:eek: is omniscience contagious?!

*grabs keys in quite frankly sad attempt to get to the mall and trick the officious men's fragrance clerks at Macy's into providing free samples*
Good luck. This fragrance was discontinued some time ago, and availability has now dwindled exclusively to a number of online retailers.

I've since learned this is also David Bowie's favoured scent. I think the bastard is buying 'em all up. :mad:

sometimes im want to wax Katholiken
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/Rgeorge.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/Teutonic_order_charge.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/me/Herman2Salza.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/me/westminster_psalter.jpg

Love this painting.

Pot Pourri ~ Herbert James Draper
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1504/draperpotpourriafq6.jpg

After all that zodiac talk last week this picture made an impression on me when I saw it two days ago.

Peter Paul Rubens, The Union of Earth and Water. c.1618.

http://www.topofart.com/images/artists/Peter_Paul_Rubens/paintings/rubens005.jpg

^Rubens is great! (yes, he was Belgian;))

Oh, I touched your cold Belgian heart! :p

It's not cold... don't be that mean :( :o


Do you like Brueghel the Elder?

http://www.yale.edu/terc/democracy/may1text/images/Bruegel.jpg

I almost wrote that I like Brueghel but I haven't seen anything by Elder... I thought it was Brueghel or Elder, you see :o

No you don't have a cold heart, you have a heart of the finest Belgian chocolate! ;)

Do you like Brueghel the Elder?
I know that you are not talking to me, but since I've already ingratiated myself with the Moz community by posting Mr. Wimpy (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showpost.php?p=386624&postcount=106), I now follow with Bruegel the Elder's The Hunters in the Snow. ;)

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4291/huntersje6.jpg

this one is great as well:

the one where every man portrays something

http://www.taalkabaal.nl/spreekwoorden/images/pieter_brueghel_700.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/morrisseysolo/20-580.jpg

Johan Vermeers:

http://photopaintings.com/Vermeer%20Girl%20with%20a%20Pearl%20Earring.jpg

http://www.iamtonyang.com/0309/unicorn_tapestry.jpg
The Unicorn in Captivity
The seventh tapestry of the series, The Hunt of the Unicorn
Probably Flemish, about 1500
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection

When I lived near NYC, I used to spend entire days wandering around The Cloisters, hoping they'd forget about me at closing time so that I could live there for just one night. This was my favorite thing there.

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/hawthorne.gif

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1840

grr! I almost put this one on the pin-up's thread...

Pollock's 'No. 5, 1948' commands record price for a painting
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1951278.ece

I know that you are not talking to me, but since I've already ingratiated myself with the Moz community by posting Mr. Wimpy (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showpost.php?p=386624&postcount=106), I now follow with Bruegel the Elder's The Hunters in the Snow. ;)

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4291/huntersje6.jpg

well, since the moz community is reasonable (at least on occasion, and this can be considered one of them), we will just give this one the benefit of the doubt that troll(s) is/are the quarry...........

;-)

The Unicorn in Captivity
The seventh tapestry of the series, The Hunt of the Unicorn
Probably Flemish, about 1500
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection

When I lived near NYC, I used to spend entire days wandering around The Cloisters, hoping they'd forget about me at closing time so that I could live there for just one night. This was my favorite thing there.

this one is very striking... fantastic.

Sixty eight, high-resolution, scans of Antonin Artaud's drawings.

(78.55 MB, zipped) (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KOFRFAUD)

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/3545/1947juin24autoportrait3ld1.jpg

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/delightc.jpg


Garden of Earthly Delights

Melina Meixueiro

"My works represent moments, parts of life, introspectives, moments with oneself, but also memories, dreams... My sources of inspiration are different, but for the main part the human being is present: lonely stroller, dancing barefooted or wandering around city centres, he is the guardian of the memory, this memory which crosses the history and the writings. Men and women, who find themselves immersed in their thoughts, in their everyday worries, the bodies are distended in the space, absorbed in their states of mind. I use the words as graphic support, carrier of ideals or messages, of thoughts, this are visual elements, re-mountings which create an effect of material, of texture. Through my work I try to express these anxieties and thoughts about life, about the human nature, by nourishing myself with journeys, meetings, everyday life, wherever I am and wherever I will go, because I believe that beyond its origins and its culture, the human being travels through the adventure of existence."

La Rupture II
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/192/artmei3qf1.jpg

Bleu de mes rêves
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/965/artmei19jz2.jpg

Le Rêveur II
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/3292/artmei18wg0.jpg

Partir
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/1955/mei7im5.jpg

Immaculate Conception (1630-35) - Francisco de Zurbarán
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1418/immaculwu6.jpg

http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/6434/filonovformulald5.jpg

Formula of the Petrograd Proletariat (1920-1921), Pavel Filonov

To celebrate people who celebrate love:

Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD

The Swing
1767
Oil on canvas, 81 x 64 cm
Wallace Collection, London

http://www.wga.hu/art/f/fragonar/1/07swing.jpg

The Stolen Kiss
1787-89
Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

http://www.wga.hu/art/f/fragonar/2/11stolen.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/vlcsnap-5153630.jpg
the brave yOno
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/RorkeDrift.jpg
Rorke's Drift, the greatest defense EVER
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/rebelangels.jpg
a Brueghel
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/kandinsky-composition8.jpg
my fave Kandinsky

ive posted these before...

Crying Girl: Roy Lichtenstein
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/morrisseysolo/Crying_Girl_1.jpg

Caravaggio has always been great:


http://www.artchive.com/artchive/c/caravaggio/caravaggio_amor.jpg



http://www.thais.it/speciali/Caravaggio/Basse/SMariaMaddalena.jpg

Luke 1:26-38 The birth of Jesus is announced to Mary


Melchior Broederlam: The Dijon Altarpiece


http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/classes/ah111/L17/17-4.jpg



Angelico: The Annunciation


http://www.artcyclopedia.com/advent/advent-angelico-annunciation.jpg



Botticelli: The Annunciation


http://www.canvasreplicas.com/images/Cestello%20Annunciation%20Sandro%20Botticelli.jpg



Petrus Christus: the Annunciation


http://perso.orange.fr/maurice.lamouroux/3JC/Luk0126_Annunciation/image/15_petrus_christus_annonciation__berlin_gemal.jpg

(part II)


Leonardo Da Vinci: Annunciation


http://www.aboutromania.com/Florence66.jpg



Henry Ossawa: Annunciation


http://www.tamsquare.net/pictures/T/Henry-Ossawa-Tanner-Annunciation-.jpg



Pieter Paul Rubens: Annunciation


http://perso.orange.fr/art-deco.france/IMAGES/rubens_annonciation.jpg




(yes, it's clear I'm fond of immaculate conception..)

(yes, it's clear I'm fond of immaculate conception..)
wolve, I just wanted to point out that the dogma of the 'Immaculate Conception' refers not to the mysteries of the Incarnation, but rather the notion of the Blessed Virgin Mary's being conceived without the taint of original sin.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674d.htm

Now, one more time and Sr. Clippers (http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/4596/nunpv8.gif) will swat you with a ruler!
It has to be a ruler, I've confiscated all her paddles.

Excuse me, father Codreanu :)

Hey wolve, he didn't get the paddle that goes along with my canoe!!:D :cool: :eek: But don't worry, I only spank priests!!

Let's stick to art, instead of hitting priests with lost paddles! ;)


Manet:

http://www.malaspina.org/gif/manet.jpg

Priests.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2231/300pxpopeinnocentxpm1.jpg
Velázquez: Innocent X (1650)


http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2741/studyaftervelazquez27spjd3.jpg
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon

(Bacon scares me, but I can't look away)

Oh yes, the Bacon one is really, amazing. We recently had a wonderful discussion about it during the "Esthetics"-class (don't laugh, yes there's actually a class of mine called like that)


I can look for hours at paintings of Rothko:

http://twebzine.no.sapo.pt/rothko.jpg


http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/Image-Library/Rothko/rothko-untiled-1957.jpg


http://www.sequenza21.com/uploaded_images/rothko-797089.jpg

Rubens again, The Judgement of Paris:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Rubens_-_Judgement_of_Paris.jpg/800px-Rubens_-_Judgement_of_Paris.jpg

Gustave Courbet: L'origine du monde :eek:


http://perso.orange.fr/listephilo/origin.jpg

The hair looks strange, don't you think? Could it be a wig???

Maybe it looked different then. It was the 19th century, you know.

No, it's too localized and too bushy!

Respect for Moral Behaviour: the Knight Bayard Saves the Honour of His Lady Captive;
He Returns Her to Her Mother and Provides Her with a Dowry
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/durameau-respect.jpg
by Jean-Jacques Durameau

ps: Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard is one of my heros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Terrail%2C_seigneur_de_Bayard
he was le chevalier sans peur et sans reproche

http://www.nfuk.no/utstillinger/Lillehammer05/images/liteformat/tsr_6_lite.jpg

Saint Catherine
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/her/4ichelangelo.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/her/affae2.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/her/4therine.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/her/SteCatherine.jpg
i think its kind of cool that one of my fave saints has her 'day'
on my birthday

Men On Art - In Living Color :p
0jejqqiuRaM

How cool is this thread, now I can post obscenities here instead of... everywhere else :p

Marc Riviere - Two girls

http://www.bau.pt/weblog/MarkRiviere-twogirls.jpg

boobs! :eek:
now
back on task;

http://www.penwith.co.uk/artofeurope/titian_venus_urbino.jpg
http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/bassano/images/titian/titian.bembo_390x480.jpg
http://www.geerts.com/images/painters/night-watch-rembrandt.jpg

How cool is this thread, now I can post obscenities here instead of... everywhere else :p

Marc Riviere - Two girls

http://www.bau.pt/weblog/MarkRiviere-twogirls.jpg
i don't know much about art, but i know what i like?

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6145/displayimagegb2.jpg
Along The River, Winter
oil on canvas, 1887 - 1888
John Henry Twachtman

Vintage photography... Can you see how style changes over decades?

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g31/zvon-chica/EDIE/ART/charleston.jpg

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6387/def0874yz8.jpg

THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. PL. 426 BOOBY GANNET
from
Drawings made in the United States and Their Territories
by AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES .
Publisher Information: Audubon, J.J. , New York: 1840-44.

Original hand-colored lithograph from The First Royal Octavo Edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America (6.5 x 10.25 inches). Includes text and the Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books Certificate of Authenticity. The Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America represents John James Audubon's (1770-1851) desire to create a democratic work based his magnum opus, The Double Elephant Folio Edition of The Birds of America. Satisfied with his research, as well as the portrayals, of all of America's birds, Audubon now chose to offer a miniature version of The Birds of America. In addition, as a revolutionary entrepreneur, Audubon wanted to create another revenue stream for his family. As is the case with many prolific, independent artists, Audubon continued to improve on what was already viewed by most as perfection. During the mid 19th Century, there were no photomechanical means of reproduction, so each composition was redrawn by hand, with the aid of the Camera Lucida. For the Royal Octavo Edition of The Birds of America, Audubon and his assistants translated the 435 compositions of the Double Elephant Folio into 500 renewed images. Each bird was presented as single species. Groups of unrelated birds were separated and divided according to species, and presented on a new botanical perch or within a renewed landscape. The Royal Octavo birds were not portrayed life-sized, as in the Double Elephant Folio Edition, however, each bird was sized to scale on the octavo (6.5 x 10.25 inch) page. With this slight alteration, Audubon created a perfected composition, and offered vignetted view into the natural world, as it did exist. For this Royal Octavo Edition, Audubon enlisted America's premier lithographers, JT Bowen and Co. in Philadelphia and Endicott in New York to produce the work. Every one of the compositions was drawn on a limestone tablet, inked, printed and then hand-colored with watercolor. In this format Audubon presented the undocumented birds discovered during his Western explorations but not included in the Elephant Folio Edition of The Birds of America. As with the Folio edition, the work was sold by subscription, issued in 100 packets of 5 hand-colored lithographs and accompanying text, which was primarily the Ornithological Biography issued with the Folio edition, with slight alterations. The pagination was organized to be bound in 7 volumes. The successful Royal Octavo Edition was produced in 8 editions. The last edition issued in 1870 by George Lockwood in New York. (Wood 208. Nissen. Ron Tyler: Audubon's Great National Work )

http://www.antilimit.com/featured/images/2006_027_0224.jpg (http://www.antilimit.com/)

Anyone into Edvard Munch, Peter Saville, VanGogh, Rembrandt or just regular classical painters?

Edward Gorey is AWESOME too.

I love Van Gogh

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/louisekc/vangoghskull.jpg
So Much better than his sunflower paintings... :p
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/louisekc/vangoghprisoners.jpg

Pablo Picasso- the old Guitarist

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/louisekc/Old_Guitarist_Picasso.jpg

move your mouse around, click to change colors, and zap!, instant masterpiece:

http://jacksonpollock.org/

Just bumping this thread before it's indexed...

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4112/witcrucig5.jpg

Emile Mâle on differing conceptions of suffering in the Italian Renaissance and the 14-15th century Gothic:

"To recount the agony of a God, to show a God exhausted, bruised, and covered with bloody sweat, was an enterprise to give the Greeks of the fifth century pause. Their heroic conception of life made them unsympathetic to suffering. For them, suffering was servile because it destroyed the equilibrium between body and soul; such an imbalance ought not to be eternalized in art. Only beauty, strength, and serenity should be set forth for man's contemplation. In this way, art became salutary and presented a model of perfection toward which the city might strive. Its assembly of marble gods and heroes said to young men: Be strong, and like us, master life. This is the lesson everlastingly to be learned from antiquity. A great lesson, assuredly, and one that has affected men's souls ever since the Renaissance. Michaelangelo, however much a Christian, was under the spell of classical heroism. His Christ at S. Maria sopra Minerva is as beautiful as an athlete and carries his cross like a conqueror; no trace of suffering shows on his impassive face. Like a Greek, Michaelangelo despised suffering and taught others to have contempt for it. Following his example, the French, toward 1540, began to be ashamed to express suffering. The Christ at the Column in St. Nicholas, at Troyes, is a hero who could not have been touched by the mockery of slaves. The artist who carved it not only imitated Micaelangelo's style, he shared his state of mind. For the drama in the history of Renaissance art, in France and in the whole of Europe, arises from the struggle between two principles, two conceptions of life.

"What, then, were our old Gothic masters trying to say? They wished to say that suffering exists and that it is useless to deny what we see woven into the web of life. They were fundamentally right. A religion and an art in which suffering has no place does not express the whole of human nature."

[Religious Art in France: the Late Middle Ages by Emile Mâle, translated by Marthiel Matthews. Princeton University Press, 1986]

What a great thread and I didn't even know it existed!
I'll soon post some pictures. ;)

Good point. Brings to mind the striking difference between Michelangelo's well known but stoic Pieta
http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~rhegedu/Vallasszociologia/Pieta%20(Michelangelo).jpg

versus this German version of the same subject produced roughly around the same time:

http://www.comptonverney.org.uk/resources/collections/german/riemenschneiderPieta350.jpg

This sculpture was made for religious devotion at the evening service of Vespers and was intended to inspire compassion for the pain experienced by the Virgin Mary at the suffering and death of her son. The work appears to be based on a larger sculpture by Riemenschneider known as the Grosslangheim Pietà. In 1510-20 Riemenschneider had a large and successful workshop that employed around twelve assistants at a time.
from www.comptonverney.org.uk

http://www.antilimit.com/featured/images/2006_027_0224.jpg (http://www.antilimit.com/)

I want a framed picture of this on my living room wall, i love this it is so striking....

Edgar Degas, L'absinthe

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/3671/degasabsinthe2xa1.jpg

Gilbert & George, Base

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/555/artworkimages4240462602wz3.jpg

Chapman Brothers, Great deeds against the dead (recreation of Goya)

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6915/goyagreatdeedsagainstdezy9.jpg

Goya, the sleep of reason produces monsters

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/5093/goyasleepofreasonaj7.jpg

Some Robert lenkiewicz
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u168/overthier123/2.jpg



http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u168/overthier123/R_Lenkiewicz_Self_Portrait.jpg

Caravaggio - The denial of St. Peter

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/6207/caravaggiodenialdt7.jpg

Shepard Fairey - M16 vs. AK47

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1434/obeyrw7.gif

Giotto - The Kiss of Judas

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/700/giottoscrovegni31kissofin7.jpg

Banksy - Kissing Policemen

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4194/banksyfc0.jpg

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
(in under 3:00)

nUDIoN-_Hxs

Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael - Raffaello, Titian - Tiziano Vecellio , Sandro Botticelli , Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Messina, Pietro Perugino, Hans Memling, El Greco, Hans Holbein, Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov , Peter Paul Rubens, Gobert, Caspar Netscher, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Marc Nattier, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, Antoine-Jean Gros, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, Amalie, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Flatour, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Wontner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Comerre, Leighton, Blaas, Renoir, Millias, Duveneck, Cassat, Weir, Zorn, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Gaugan, Henri Matisse, Picabia, Gustav Klimt, Hawkins, Magritte, Salvador Dali, Malevich, Merrild, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso

I love Andy Warhol's work.

http://www.hampel-auctions.com/archiv/kuenstlername/Warhol_Andy/Andy_Warhol_LIZ_TAYLOR.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/morrisseysolo/pins%20ups/TMYEMknittedcopy.jpg
by the cats mother:)

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/morrisseysolo/pins%20ups/conGwen.jpg
john romita

Max Ernst...
And I can't remember the artist, but 'The Nightmare'...

I think it's Goya, but I'm not sure.
Here's some of mine.
Annunciazione, Alberto Savinio
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/Annunciazione.jpg

A random painting by Egon Schiele (I love his works), Family
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/schiele_family.jpg

Il pino sul mare, Carlo Carrà
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/ilpinosulmare.jpg

I kept the Italian titles because I don't know how they've been translated in English. :)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/andreadis.jpg
http://ianna.online.fr/welcome.html

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/paintings/andreadis.jpg
http://ianna.online.fr/welcome.html

It reminds of Cezanne, for some details.

Some landscapes.
Brighton by John Constable
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/constable-brighton.jpg

Orpheus, Camille Corot
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/corot-orpheus.jpg

Snowstorm, William Turner (I forgot the other two names and yes, I love romantic paintings)
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/turner-snowstorm.jpg

And of course Caspar David Friedrich, I don't know the title.
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/friedrich2.gif

This guy (by Schiele) is Sid Vicious, isn't he?
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/schiele_standing.jpg

Something by René Magritte
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/magritte0011.jpg

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/magritte_le_modele_rouge.jpg

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s41/headacheville/Art/magrtitte-TheRape.jpg

Hi there everyone. I found this forum by searching for specific art pieces and am happy to have found a thread with so many beautiful works of art. I looked around the rest of the forum and it looks like a place I would like to hang around in, being I work from home and have a lot of free time.

So many of my all-time favorites were posted already.

here are more that I simply adore.

gustave moreau
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/resources/1842/41110D.jpg


delacroix. The first time I saw this, it brought tears to my eyes.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/delacroix/orphan-cemetery.jpg

Jan bas Ader
http://www.gettothechoppa.com/one/images/bas.JPG

This picture speaks volumes!
http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/478/039_nangoldin.jpg

I don't know why this disturbs me, but I like it.
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/drohojowska-philp/Images/drohojowska-philp11-14-7.jpg

Beautiful.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Rachel1098/camerawork3.jpg

http://www.audartgallery.com/image_arbus.jpg

I saw this particular piece by John Singer Sargent, and the picture does not do it justice. The white paint of the frocks they're wearing is so incredibly stark! the paint itself dominates the painting more than the subjects.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/kjohnso1/pictures/sargentboit.jpg

madame X
http://www.lynetteabel.org/sargent14.jpg
I also read the madame X book and it was pretty good if you rnjoy high society stories.

georges de la tour
http://citequizz.free.fr/toutart/delatour/delatour3.jpg


I also love
Frida kahlo (read almost everybook that was written about her)
and although Peggy guggenheim wasn't an artist herself, more of a groupie, I am fascinated by her lifestyle and all the artists she knew. I read almost every book written about her. The best is her own autobio called "Art lover, confessions of an art addict". So good, it's worth reading twice.

I love Hieronymus Bosch: (not very good quality)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/isthatpiegreen/delightc.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/isthatpiegreen/delightd.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/isthatpiegreen/hieronymus_bosch_raj_i_pieklo_smier.jpg


And Kush has some beautiful works:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/isthatpiegreen/sunrisebytheocean4ln.jpg

more Vladymir Kush:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/isthatpiegreen/kushheavenlyfruits.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/isthatpiegreen/untitled-1.jpg

Joelle Chicheportiche, Maui artist I once worked for:
http://www.joellecgallery.com/images/originals_new_work/medium/The_Color_of_Light.jpg

http://www.joellecgallery.com/images/giclee_limited_edition/medium/joy-of-light.jpg

http://www.joellecgallery.com/images/giclee_limited_edition/medium/dancing-with-the-light.jpg

http://www.joellecgallery.com/images/giclee_limited_edition/medium/nature-symphony.jpg

Hi, Yoganesha! I see you've just signed in, so I wanted to say welcome, and, well, invite you to other threads as well! :)

Sofia Barão
Mixed Media artist

“To keep a trace, to work with the memories, to reinvent a story, to rebuild a past (mine, yours, ours), to do contemporary with old and used objects impregnated of the past...
I do an intuitive work where color, images, texture and emotions are at the foundation of it, to this I add new ways of working, experimenting and new materials. I like to let the image guide me towards a feeling or an atmosphere that will give a new breath of life to old images that seemed forever lost in their past.”

Pour toujours...
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/199/pourtoujoursvo6.jpg

Ma soeur et moi
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3292/masoeuretmoiwr1.jpg

Invisible Frame
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/4593/invisibleframeai9.jpg

Birds, tree, bow - sur pages de vieux livres
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4363/sofia1aeu8.jpg

Website:
http://www.sofiabarao.com/
Blog:
http://lafeecoriandre.blogspot.com/
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/79292156

The LIGHT SHOW at AMIENS
view Amiens Cathedral (daylight) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavorite/91687866/)

Neglectful centuries have seen the great Gothic churches of the High Middle Ages lose one of their most striking characteristics: color. The walls and statues of Gothic churches were brightly polychromed, both on the interior and on the exterior of the church.

Their color long faded, these magnificent buildings retain their grandeur, but their plain gray stone would not have been acceptable to mediaeval men. Sadly, the monochromy of surviving Gothic architecture has given many men the misconception that Gothic architecture is not supposed to be painted; I was thinking about this last Sunday as I walked through the stately but dull Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, examining its great bare walls and soaring, empty vaults. A Gothic church in full color is difficult to find nowadays; those that exist (such as St. Mary's in Krakow) are so striking as to be presumed exceptional.

None of the great 13th century French Cathedrals has been repainted, but Amiens Cathedral offers its visitors a hint of its original beauty. On summer nights and special occasions, spotlights and lasers are projected at the façade, bathing the ornaments and statuary in bright colors.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3363/amiensbic4.jpg

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/104/amienscxk1.jpg

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/333/amiensebs1.jpg

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2360/amiensfhj9.jpg

http://danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/index.blog/1709396/the-light-show-at-amiens/

Joel Peter-Witkin :
http://silencio.weblog.com.pt/images/eyes/Joel-PeterWitkin-LeBaisier.GIF
http://www.tokinowasuremono.com/photograph/Joel-Peter%20Witkin%5BAnti%20Christ%5D.jpg
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_112600_241771_joel-peter-witkin.jpg

Too bad that "Are You an Advocate?" thread has been archived. :rolleyes:

In Living Color - Art Gallery Activist
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I think i posted this in a different thread, if it was here, sorry. i wrote my dissertation on Max Earnst, this piece is one of the most amazing bits of art I have ever seen.

alma-tadema is also one of my favs!
two more from him:
a reading from homer
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n299/suparni/Homerwelcome.jpg
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n299/suparni/-1.jpg

minor white

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n299/suparni/blackmist.jpg

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n299/suparni/whiteshad.jpg

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n299/suparni/volume1_minor_white.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/97/dg30064fc2.jpg

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/200/zzz1kt5.jpg

Hallowedground (http://hallowedground.wordpress.com/)
Traditional Catholic Visualism

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6846/555042358ab5570b129vf6.jpg

HORROR VACUI
"Only an extremely literate and abstract society learns to fix the eyes, as we must learn to do in reading the printed page. For those who thus fix their eyes, perspective results. There is great subtlety and synesthesia in native art, but no perspective. The old belief that everybody really saw in perspective, but that only Renaissance painters had learned how to paint it, is erroneous."
--Marshall McLuhan

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2688/34967340hl5.jpg

The discovery of linear perspective, usually credited to Filippo Brunelleschi and the artists of the Florentine Renaissance, has long been presented as one of the great accomplishments of western art. According to conventional wisdom, this discovery marks the beginning of a mature art, an art that shows things as they really are, as opposed to the primitive art of the middle ages.

We are so used to linear perspective that we unthinkingly identify it with realism; to modern eyes, a "realistic" painting is one painted in linear perspective. Some may argue that the resemblance of such a painting to a photograph is proof of its realism. But this is circular; had we not already been conditioned to see perspectival painting as realistic, we might never have accepted photography as realistic either. I can imagine an ancient Egyptian sage inventing a camera, and upon discovering that it did not always show the human figure in profile concluding that it did not work very well.

A perspectival painting is, in many ways, not realistic at all. Some of these ways are obvious. The subjects do not move. Neither can the person looking at the painting move, or the failure of objects within the painting to move in relation to each other will reveal its artifice. The frame, usually rectangular, is unlike the actual periphery of our vision. And a perspectival painting is the view of a Cyclops; images do not double into two transparent parts when the two eyes focus on something nearer or farther away. Nor do they blur or sharpen dramatically; in reality, an object inches from the eyes and an object ten feet away cannot be seen in detail at the same time. A perspectival painting accurately presents what a man will see if he looks through a frame, with one eye closed, not moving, at something that does not move and that is far enough away for his eyes to focus on it in its entirety. Not surprisingly, the trick box that Filippo Brunelleschi invented (http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us/JWoest/DistanceEd/ArtHistory/Brunelleschi.html) to demonstrate his discovery of the technique created all of these conditions!

But there are more important ways in which a perspectival painting is unrealistic; it presents things as they are seen to be, rather than as they are known to be. It does not accommodate the vision of the mind's eye. Children draw in the same manner as cultures that have not adopted perspective in their art; they draw what is important. If they know of something present on the other side of a wall, or beyond the scope of their vision, they will draw it anyway if it is necessary to what they seek to communicate on paper. And its relative importance to that message will determine its size and placement in the drawing. This is the natural manner of composition in human artistry, whereas perspective is something that must be learned.

In the mediaeval mind, hierarchy, rhythm and number are the fundamental laws of the world. Iconography was painted and sculpted in the same manner that the Bible was read and the natural world was observed; symbolism was the animating principle. The literal is only one of four senses of reality; the allegorical, tropological and anagogical senses are equally real, and equally necessary to paint and sculpt.

In a mediaeval painting of the Last Judgment, Christ is flanked by the Blessed Virgin and the Baptist; apostles and martyrs surround them, pleading the cause of mankind. Angels carry the instruments of the Passion; personifications or symbols of Justice and Mercy may be present. The dead rise from their tombs; St. Michael weighs them in a scale; demons drag some of them to the gaping mouth of Hell; angels lead some of them to the gate of Heaven.

The selection and arrangement of these elements must be theologically correct; Christ must be in the center, heaven on the left, hell on the right, the saints in proper order according to their dignity. Fitting such a composition into the "realistic" space of linear perspective, where all bodies are the same size and all lines converge to points on the horizon, is nearly impossible. Not even the genius of Jan van Eyck could manage it without cheating.

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7734/46491365xq9.jpg

Mediaeval art communicated not only through symbolism, but also through narrative. It told stories from the Holy Scriptures, from the lives of the saints, from secular history and from everyday life. The narrative art of this time in sculpture, tapestry, stained glass and large-scale painting must be distinguished in an important way from manuscript illumination, and from modern illustration. An illustration is a picture that supports a text; a man reads what he should see, and looks at the picture already able to identify the characters and the place and the situation. But a mediaeval mural has no supporting text; or if it does, the artist cannot rely on it to explain the content of the picture because most people seeing it are illiterate.

This really is significant; such a work of art does not support a story; it is the story. It needs to tell the entire thing by itself. Enough of the time and of the place, of the characters and their motives and their doings must be shown for a man to understand the narrative just by looking at the picture. This demands that a great many details be visible; every figure acts or reacts, every important prop is shown. Such a work of art will not resemble a photograph, but it is no less truthful; were a mediaeval man handed a photograph, capturing a single viewpoint at a single moment, he would probably scratch his head and wonder what the hell is supposed to be happening in it.

A great amount of information must to be included in a mediaeval picture to communicate the intended symbolism or narrative. Perspective is actually a hindrance to this. In "realistic" space, most activity occurs within a squat region between ground level and six feet above ground level. The result is that the figures are all standing in front of each other. Mediaeval artists often lifted the plane of the earth, so that figures in the background are seen above figures in the foreground, not completely blocked by them.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8156/53159869vg2.jpg

This art fills all of its given space, wasting none of it on empty sky. The art critical term for this is horror vacui, the fear of the void. It is a nearly universal artistic conviction; only in the far east and in modern times have artists valued blank space. Only Buddhists and Nihilists are interested in nothingness.

The challenge of empty sky especially affects ecclesiastical art. Verticality is one of the defining traits of an architecture consecrated to divine worship, it is most exaggerated in a Gothic church. The altars, the columns, the stained glass windows and the wall spaces between them are tall and narrow; they do not welcome linear perspective, because it would assign most of their space to empty sky.

Later artists who did use linear perspective were faced with this same challenge; their churches were not as pointed as the 13th century cathedral, but they were still taller than wide. They did not answer the challenge very well; the Renaissance artists filled the sky with towering classical ruins and the Baroque artists filled it with clouds and cherubs. Such unimaginative filler has been clogging sacred art for centuries.

For more than five hundred years, the middle ages have been slandered as dark, stupid and barbaric. Art historians disdained mediaeval artists for not developing linear perspective. But there is a good reason why they did not develop linear perspective; they had no need for it. The two most important purposes of their art, symbolism and narrative, were more easily fulfilled without it. It simply was not a very smart way to paint.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5152/34867092vg7.jpg

The condescending notion that mediaeval artists saw the world in linear perspective but were too crude to learn how to paint it is extremely silly. Mediaeval artists painted the world exactly as they saw it. And no accusation of crudity can be fairly leveled at them. These men built the cathedrals at Rheims and Amiens and Chartres. They designed and built them without any notion of trigonometry or calculus; without so much as graph paper. These were not men who had difficulty imagining three-dimensional spaces abstractly; they were far better at it than modern men who need AutoCAD to design a rectangular prism of steel and glass.

http://danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/index.blog/1684264/horror-vacui/

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/729/francismathewschutzbeinij3.jpg
Francis Matthew Schutz In His Bed*
by William Hogarth

*where my ass should be (my bed, not his; that's gross). :(

in my view, Art's brilliant; nearly as good as poetry.

i just wanted you to know that, too.

HIM, you sound very profound today.

Who are your favourite poets and artists, apart from Morrissey? :D

I am quite fond of De Chirico
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/1/1b/De_Chirico's_Love_Song.jpg

Artemisia Gentileschi
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/g/gentileschi/gent_holofernes.jpg

and Basquiat
http://www2.iap.fr/users/bertone/basquiat.gif

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/110/crabtreegp0.jpg

You won't tell Miss Crabtree, will ya? :(

Annie Leist

Annie Leist is an artist originally from North Carolina who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Her oil paintings, performative video, and other work explore the perception of and navigation through urban and public settings. She investigates a range of issues including the transformation and distortion of space by light, the potential for isolation even within a crowd of people, and the thin line between order and chaos in the city.

Leist is interested in unearthing the unfamiliar and the fresh within the routine of specific recognizable places. Her pieces depict moments from her own life and memory, set in the cities in which she has lived and traveled.

http://www.annieleist.com/

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5853/al2004pa01wrm5.jpg
Crosswalk 7 (2004)

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/63/al1996pa16wpm3.jpg
July (1996)

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/931/al2003pa03wvk2.jpg
Crosswalk 6 (2003)

http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/9305/al1998pa09wnq2.jpg
The Tourists (1998)

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/560/al1998pa07wzr8.jpg
Rome 2 (1998)

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4770/al1999pa02wge2.jpg
Cafeteria 4 (1999)

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1428/al2002pa05wmk5.jpg
Interior 1 (2002)

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/2168/al1999pa08wlp4.jpg
Urban 2 (1999)

Mosaic, cuz I like it.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/3273/pompeiianwd9.jpg
Pompeii



http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6505/angel20rome2003a20webyy8.jpg
St. Peter's, Rome


http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9714/tarracomedusagl5.jpg
Tarragona, Spain

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9513/picture059amv4.jpg
My bathroom*


*yeah, I wish...

^^^^^^^ That last one's not from Lord Leighton's house, it is?

I prefer black-figure vases:
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=30432&rendTypeId=4
The Amasis Painter

http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/Exekias1.jpg
Andokides Painter

http://www.itech.pjc.edu/cschuler/clt1500/review/Art-His/109.jpg
Exekias

http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/Greek19.jpg
The François Vase (gave a speech about this one once)

Bernard Palissy: (sorry, can't embed image)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/Platter_School_of_Bernard_Palissy/ViewObject.aspx?depNm=european_sculpture_and_decor ative_arts&pID=-1&kWd=pond&OID=120016857&vW=-1&Pg=1&St=0&StOd=1&vT=1 (http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/Platter_School_of_Bernard_Palissy/ViewObject.aspx?depNm=european_sculpture_and_decor ative_arts&pID=-1&kWd=pond&OID=120016857&vW=-1&Pg=1&St=0&StOd=1&vT=1)

I've seen this piece in person, and similar ones, at several museums over the years. They never fail to delight me.

When I was in NY to see Morrissey, I spent my days at the museums: the Met, MoMA, and the Guggenheim. In the two weeks before I went to the MCA and the Art Institute in Chicago. I was in heaven.

Bernard Palissy: (sorry, can't embed image)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/Platter_School_of_Bernard_Palissy/ViewObject.aspx?depNm=european_sculpture_and_decor ative_arts&pID=-1&kWd=pond&OID=120016857&vW=-1&Pg=1&St=0&StOd=1&vT=1 (http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/Platter_School_of_Bernard_Palissy/ViewObject.aspx?depNm=european_sculpture_and_decor ative_arts&pID=-1&kWd=pond&OID=120016857&vW=-1&Pg=1&St=0&StOd=1&vT=1)

That's over 400 years old?!? It wouldn't look out of place at a local artisan's fair today.

Pregs, did you see the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibit when it was in Chicago in, oh, 1998 or so? (Can't remember which museum--I wanna say the Field Museum.) Magnificent.

It had the chair:
http://www.eurstyle.com/images/products/mains/mackintosh_willowchair_cush_azcannete40_frame_blac klacqueredash.jpg

other furniture:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/doves/graphics/large/linen_press_mackintosh.jpg

lots of roses, of course (can't find a better pic!)
http://www.hunterartandtilestudio.co.uk/i/mackintosh%20rose%206x6.jpg

and lots more.

I will include photography in this thread, as it is my prefered form of art. From one of my favourite photographers, Martin Parr:

http://www.likeyou.com/gfx/martin_parr.jpg

I also love photo and this very much reminds me of Robert Frank's series "The Americans" - beautiful work.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n299/suparni/frankparadehoboken.jpg

^^^^^^^ That last one's not from Lord Leighton's house, it is?

It's the indoor swimming pool at Hearst Castle. Here's another angle. (http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/d30-26/hearst-castle-interior-swimming-pool.jpg) I go for the blue tesserae in a big way, but there should be a giant green sea monster design on the bottom of the pool. Perhaps it's a good thing that I don't win the lottery? :confused:

My man Jesus is probably too humble to post these, so I'm going to do it. You can order them online and whatnot.

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/3932/jesus8zt5.jpg


http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/116/laughingjesusbo4.jpg

Mosaic, cuz I like it

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9513/picture059amv4.jpg
My bathroom*


*yeah, I wish...

I've been there!! The floor has real gold in it. Hurst Castle is the place. This picture is great because it reminds me of my trip there!!! Thanks for posting:D

what about photographs?
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa129/MOZZER1974/artwork_images_114310_265541_anton-.jpg Anton Corbijn
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa129/MOZZER1974/Monet.jpg Monet: Waterlilies, Green Reflection, Left Part 1916-1923

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa129/MOZZER1974/rebel_w_cause_355.jpgAndy Warhol, 355: Rebel without a Cause (James Dean)

Grayson Perry

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6589/graysonperrygoldenfm6.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5899/graysonperryoikstartsea9.jpg

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4940/pumpkinheadec3.jpg
Pumpkinhead Self-Portrait, Jaime Wyeth, 1972.

I posted this elsewhere but it's more appropriate here. Here is Christopher Moore's MySpace blog entry titled. . .

Art History IV - Judy Gets Some Head

Reading it caused me to do this:

http://www.w3bdevil.com/forums/LOL-Bee.jpg

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=95547714&blogID=384368946

And once again, everyone should read Christopher Moore. :D

^ Bysshe, that link is hilarious! Thanks for the link (and for introducing me to this great thread!)

Here are a few of my favorites:

Rodin's Danaid:
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/images/imagra/S1155.jpg

El Greco's Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino, 1609:
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/El_Greco/images/10.L.jpg

Bernini's David (who looks a bit like a certain singer, I think):
http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/it/img/sx.jpg

http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/aboutrc/images/van_dyck.jpg

Anthony Van Dyck, "Self-Portrait."

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=98992&rendTypeId=4

Aubrey Beardsley, "Merlin."

http://altreligion.about.com/library/graphics/merlin2.jpg

Edward Burne-Jones, "The Beguiling of Merlin."

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l245/theladyofshalotte/rossetti_proserpine1877.jpg

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Proserpine."

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/michelangelos-last-judgment-2.jpg

Michelangelo, "The Last Judgment."

http://www.philosophy.ubc.ca/faculty/russellp/full%20images/rembrandt.jpg

Rembrandt van Rijn, "Philosopher in Meditation."

http://www.qaya.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/dali-2964-l.jpg

Salvador Dali, "Christ of St. John of the Cross."

http://members.tripod.com/hassan331/Bosch/FullGarden.jpg

Hieronymus Bosch, "The Garden of Earthly Delight."

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/degas/images/artworks/twodancers.jpg

Edgar Degas, "Two Dancers on the Stage."

http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Egarden/phantom/phant7.jpg

Robert Heindel, "The Phantom, Michael Crawford."

http://www.gandygallery.com/art/Masters/Paul_Brown/Images/Still_Life_Silver_Cup.jpg

Paul S. Brown, "Still Life with Silver Cup."

He did a sketch of me when I was pregnant. :)

^We'll believe you if you post it. :p


I love this thread. Award!

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Monet's Gladioli (for a certain singer):
http://www.dia.org/art/comping/1921_1940_300ppi/21.71-S1.jpg

Henri Fuseli's The Nightmare:
http://www.dia.org/art/comping/1941_1960_300ppi/55.5.A-D1.jpg

^We'll believe you if you post it. :p


I love this thread. Award!

I can't. Unless I censor it. :o

He's a friend of mine and lived here at the time I was pregnant.

http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/snipsnap/eng242-s05/space/Red+Dragon+-+image/Great-red-dragon-L.jpg

William Blake, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun."

http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/snipsnap/eng242-s05/space/Red+Dragon+-+image/Great-red-dragon-L.jpg

William Blake, "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun."

Oh I remember this painting from the movie. :o

I adore Art Nouveau and one of my fav painters is Alphonse Mucha. While looking for his paintings on the internet, I found this photograph, titled A woman modelling for Mucha, which I find gorgeous. :o

http://www.booksplendour.com.au/gallery/classics/Mucha/Mucha2.jpg

http://www.poster.net/mucha-alphonse/mucha-alphonse-job-1897-2802864.jpg

I also like Gustav Klimt (yeah, I'm that predictable)...

http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/artistic/wallpapers/gustav-klimt-the-kiss.jpg

Paul S. Brown, "Still Life with Silver Cup."

He did a sketch of me when I was pregnant. :)

Can we see it? :)

http://a395.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/108/l_973096fbdd2f28a8bc7cd419d3ef1dda.jpg

I adore Art Nouveau and one of my fav painters is Alphonse Mucha. While looking for his paintings on the internet, I found this photograph, titled A woman modelling for Mucha, which I find gorgeous. :o

http://www.poster.net/mucha-alphonse/mucha-alphonse-job-1897-2802864.jpg

I love Mucha too.

http://www.artwallpapers.net/paintings/alphonse_mucha/01/alphonse_mucha01.jpg

I love Mucha too.

http://www.artwallpapers.net/paintings/alphonse_mucha/01/alphonse_mucha01.jpg

So beautiful. I can never get bored with his work. :)