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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Pb on March 01, 2019, 12:48:30 PM
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Here is mine, The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Winslow_Homer_-_The_Gulf_Stream_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg/1280px-Winslow_Homer_-_The_Gulf_Stream_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg)
Show me yours!
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Also, George Caleb Bingham's political campaign and election paintings. And this one.
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My favorite painting is of the crucifixion. I saw it years ago, at the Saint Louis Art Museum, but haven’t been able to find it again. I never looked at the artist's name.
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Somebody had to do it:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71EN%2BiJBUnL._SX425_.jpg)
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/A_Friend_in_Need_1903_C.M.Coolidge.jpg)
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OK, guys, fess up . . . how many of your favorite pieces of art are actually photographs with staples in the middle? ;)
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Perhaps not my favorite, but one of my favorites. After being somewhat lost in the concepts being presented in my History of Art 211 class, it was this painting when I finally got the concepts being discussed.
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In seriousness: This one is by no one famous. Some would say it's not particularly good. However, it's 59 years old, just like me. My parents bought in when I was born, and I've been looking at it for as long as I can remember. It has followed me everywhere that I've lived and has provided calm. I can't help but think it's one of the reasons that I've always been drawn to the outdoors and solitude vs the city and people.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7841/32307307577_44ff90475c_c.jpg)
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I have several pieces of art I enjoy. Many of them are originals purchased from the artists at a very good art fair that happens in Charlevoix, Mi. every July. My problem is I have no idea how to post them here.
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My wife's a fan of the pre-Raphaelites, and I cannot fault her judgment. At least in art. In men, though...
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My Mother's hobby has been making porcelain dolls for a long time. She has made a handful of them from scratch (sculpting head, making mold, pouring, cleaning, painting, sewing clothes/outfits, etc, etc). I don't think I have seen any that are better. Not quite a nice painting but art all the same.
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/A_Friend_in_Need_1903_C.M.Coolidge.jpg)
That guy did too many good dog paintings. It's hard to pick a favorite.
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(https://i.ibb.co/bLqFLXf/sunday2.jpg) (https://ibb.co/sQkCQqB)
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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I've always been partial to the Hudson River Landscape school of art. But I also like the ocean. I'd say my favorite artist is the late Russian, Aivazovsky. No particular favorite among his paintings. I've seen many of them in the museum in Saint Petersburg, but far from all of them.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Stormy_sea_at_night.jpg/1024px-Stormy_sea_at_night.jpg)
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"Nude descending a staircase". Always just liked it for no reason; don't even like the school of art very much.
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hard to pick. I do love Remington, but there's a painter who I can't recall to save my life. My parents had a couple of his works, inherited from a family friend. Usually a sunset over a little country store with a classic pickup truck and geese flying over. Loved those.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Frederic_Remington_Dismounted_Moving_Led_Horses.jpg)
BTR, that Homer painting is the stuff of nightmares.
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Somebody had to do it:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71EN%2BiJBUnL._SX425_.jpg)
Found the soundtrack: >:D
https://youtu.be/mPSdjElUwgA
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Art includes sculpture, so this is my submission - the late Danie de Jager's sculpture of Shawu, an elephant that was one of Kruger Park's Magnificent Seven.
I met the artist when I was in RSA and he gave me a tour of his studio - this sculpture was underway at the time, so I got to see it as "a work in progress."
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This is a really hard to nail down one piece of art.
I was visiting Poznan, Poland in March 2001 and took a tour of one of the estates in the country. They had a large art collection and one particular painting really drew my attention. It was a woman dead on a kitchen table covered in a blanket, with her husband with his head buried in his hands mourning the loss of his wife.
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Depends on the medium. For fan created art, it's this piece.
(https://i.imgur.com/5pCWvfL.jpg)
Book covers, this one.
(https://i.imgur.com/ozbxdXX.jpg)
Sculpture, this.
(https://i.imgur.com/j9UHK4r.jpg)
Film, nothing tops this for me.
(https://i.imgur.com/hHuM6lC.jpg)
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I'm too fickle, drifting from one to the other, usually depending on what I've seen last. Sorta like music; whatever I've heard last may ring through my head for a day or two. Right now, it's "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys.
Visual arts-wise, I recently came across a combination of paintings which struck me as pretty neat: "Pinky" and "Blueboy."
"These two works are the centerpieces of the institute's art collection, which specialises in eighteenth-century English portraiture. The painting is an elegant depiction of Sarah Barrett Moulton, who was about eleven years old when painted. Her direct gaze and the loose, energetic brushwork give the portrait a lively immediacy.[1][2][3] "
She died about a year after the painting.
"Relationship to The Blue Boy[edit]
Pinkie owes part of its notability to its association with the Gainsborough portrait The Blue Boy. According to Patricia Failing, author of Best-Loved Art from American Museums, 'no other work by a British artist enjoys the fame of The Blue Boy.'[9] Pinkie and The Blue Boy are often paired in popular esteem; some gallery visitors mistake them for contemporary works by the same artist."
The two paintings are displayed on opposite sides of a doorway in the Huntington Library at San Marino, California where they can be seen together.
Just a pair of paintings whose "combination" appealed to me.
As they do to many others.
Tomorrow it may be some artist's rendition of a yellow cube or something.
Terry, 230RN
REFs:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Pinkie_detailed.jpg/399px-Pinkie_detailed.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkie_(painting)
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/The_Blue_Boy.jpg/405px-The_Blue_Boy.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Boy
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This is one of my favorite sculptures, but Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni, titled Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
The intent was to show movement and fluidity, but I've always loved how the feet are completely anchored in two solid blocks...
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Amusing:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3993542/Cemetery-statue-eroding-women-t-stop-rubbing-lucky-penis-Visitors-ignore-calls-stop-playing-believe-boosts-fertility.html
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This is an interesting question, as my answer is: I don't have a favorite piece of art. (I'm talking about visual arts in this.)
It may be that I'm wired differently or it may be because I'm colorblind, but I've never really cared about art enough to have a favorite. I suppose if I had to choose I'd pick something from Norman Rockwell or a Rockwell-esque painting, or possibly some architecture. I recognize most of the famous works here, but I don't really think any of them are "great". (To my tastes.)
Pick literature, or movies, or music or other arts, I'd be able to choose (or at least give a number that I cannot choose between), but for the visual arts, I just don't have a strong opinion. I know things I dislike, but nothing that really speaks to me. I find that odd.
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I always figured
Renoir Rodin was playing a joke with Le Penseur. I bet myself a hundred bucks its real name was Le Merdeur.
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Terry, 230RN
REF:
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I always figured Renoir was playing a joke with Le Penseur.
You mean Rodin.
My favorite sculpture is the Cellini Venus.
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Ooops. Spellcheck is my worst enema. Didn't catch that one. Funny, I even looked it up as Rodin to get a correct spelling for penseur.
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