Post some art you like

[R.N7]

I'll start off with a few paintings:

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The Astronomer (Johannes Vermeer)

Garden at Sainte-Adresse (Claude Monet)

Woman with a Parasol (Claude Monet)

The Lackawanna Valley (George Inness)

Over Eternal Peace (Isaac Levitan)

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The Death of the Gravedigger (Carlos Schwabe)

The Lovers' Whirlwind (William Blake]

A Rye Field (Ivan Shishkin)

View of Delft (Johannes Vermeer)

Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (Caspar David Friedrich)

 

[narnar]

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[forevrared]

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/dude_downloads_5_million_stolen_software_1tb_hard_drive_art_exhibit

Some guy entered this as an art exhibit, a 1 Terrabye harddrive with $5 million worth of illegally downloaded programs

 

[SteveJ]

Helen at the Scaean Gates, Gustave Moreau

 

[Man Utd Mrs]

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William Holman Hunt - The Hireling Shepherd

Roy Lichtenstein - In the car

Steven Scholes

 

[narnar]

There's a picture I think I remember of a shipwreck of some sort and the sailors seemed to be being tempted by Sirens. Thought it was pretty good, though I'm not sure where I seen it.

 

[SteveJ]

This one?

 

[narnar]

No, but that is great. I've heard the story of that and all.

I think these sailors were in the bottom left of the picture, possibly on rocks. Not even sure if there were Sirens in it. Google isn't giving too many responses.

 

[SteveJ]

Is it a 19th-century piece, mate?

 

[SteveJ]

Not the same kind of thing, but I quite like these I've just found by the same artist as above:

 

[Sir Matt]

Arnolfini Wedding

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Just look at that hat.

 

[SteveJ]

I always thought that the woman in the painting was pregnant...until I read recently that she's actually showing-off expensive cloth.

 

[narnar]

Is it a 19th-century piece, mate?

I have no idea. I'm not too familiar with art at all.

The annoying thing is I have the feeling I seen this painting recently but just can't think of the name of it!

 

[SteveJ]

This one, perhaps?

 

[Sir Matt]

I always thought that the women in the painting was pregnant...until I read recently that she's actually showing-off expensive cloth.

The interpretation I heard was that she had a pillow underneath to show fertility and as a sign of her hopes to get pregnant soon after the wedding.

 

[SteveJ]

It's a great painting. The minor details in particular are stunning.

 

[Sir Matt]

Sounds like Raft of the Medusa, which is what SteveJ just posted.

 

[Sir Matt]

It's a great painting. The minor details in particular are stunning.

The best is the details around the mirror in the background. You can see the painter in the reflection and the little circles each have scenes from the life of Christ.

 

[SteveJ]

My God, even those beads stand-out as if they're three-dimensional...

 

[peterstorey]

I'll start off with a few paintings:
View of Delft (Johannes Vermeer)

I've always thought that's an amazing picture. It's apparently done with a camera obscura.

 

[Marcosdeto]

this painting belongs to Goya and it's titled "saturn devouring his son" it's from his dark moment and i've never seen a more powerful and sinister painting, it's in El Prado museum and i visit it every time i go to madrid

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how depressed he must have been to paint something like that

 

[Sir Matt]

That is probably my favorite painting I've seen in person.

I wish that painting were larger Marcos. It's fairly small in reality. Similar to Persistence of Memory. My favorite of his is The Third of May 1808.

 

[Marcosdeto]

That is probably my favorite painting I've seen in person.

it's in a small church in toledo, it's beautiful

 

[Sir Matt]

Yeah, I've only been to Spain to see art and that was amazing to see. I'd love to live in old Toledo, too. Or across the river from it.

 

[SteveJ]

You all have great taste, I think.

 

[Sir Matt]

 

[Red Panda]

This is one of mine, if not my complete favourite



Some prize idiot decided to place the above Dali masterpiece in a dingey corner of a poorly lit art gallery in Glasgow...some people eh.

 

[gooDevil]

Claude Monet, La Grenouill.

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[Sir Matt]

Do you have a bigger version?

 

[gooDevil]

Yeah, I dialed that back.

 

[Marcosdeto]

isnt el prado one of the best painting museums?

 

[Sir Matt]

It is. If I go back to Spain, I'll spend more time there and go to Reina Sophia this time.

 

[Marcosdeto]

It is. If I go back to Spain, I'll spend more time there and go to Reina Sophia this time.

reina sofia is ace too, have you visit the thysen museum? it is great too

 

[Sir Matt]

reina sofia is ace too, have you visit the thysen museum? it is great too

No, I went on a trip with my Spanish teacher a few other school groups in 2004. We were supposed to go to the Reina Sofia and Prado but the group that got their first went walkabout and went to RS. So they didn't want to go again when we were supposed to go. Also, one of their girls had a mustache and was trying to hit on me and my two friends.

There's so much I didn't get to do because it was a group thing.

 

[narnar]

This one, perhaps?

Yes! Cheers, great piece. Not really sure where I saw it or why I like it but it's great.

 

[Man Utd Mrs]

Arnolfini Wedding

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Just look at that hat.

This one was on the wall at my Grammar school.
I hated the smug look on the mans face, leering at me during exams - taunting me because he knew I couldnt do the paper

The hat is like a pimps hat !

 

[R.N7]

The Arnolfini Wedding one is amazing. I really like Dutch and Flemish renaissance/golden age paintings.

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[Marcosdeto]

The Arnolfini Wedding one is amazing. I really like Dutch and Flemish renaissance/golden age paintings.

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the the garden of earthly delights is one of my favourites paintings, it's in el prado and is great

he paints in a Dali"esque" way

 

[IBleedRed]

Alex Grey Theologue

Cosmic Christ (its worth finding a larger image to see the smaller frames)

 

[Will Absolute]

Yes! Cheers, great piece. Not really sure where I saw it or why I like it but it's great.

An art critic would say it's the composition - all the lines of the picture angling towards the figure at the top waving the cloth. I'd say it's the human drama. The art critic would reply that the drama of the painting and it's composition are inseparable. I would then say that if I were an art critic that's the kind of thing I would say too.