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Post by Reba on Feb 14, 2016 16:43:00 GMT -5
paintings can be awesome. who is your favorite painter? what is your favorite painting? what is your favorite painting style? do you have any paintings hanging in your home? have you seen any famous paintings irl?
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 14, 2016 19:06:25 GMT -5
Some of my faves are Francisco Goya, Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Giorgio De Chirico, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Edgar Degas, Diego Velázquez, Anthony Van Dyck, Honoré Daumier, Van Gogh, Pieter Bruegel the Elder & Hieronymus Bosch And my parents (both painters), bc neptism but also bc they're great. Almost all the paintings in our house are by them. I've been to the Dalí Museum in Spain (around Barcelona, it was, I think), which was very cool, as well as to 2 other exhibitions of his works. I've seen Van Goghs in Paris and seen the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. And I loved the Max Ernst Museum in Germany. I probably visit at least one art museum in every city I visit.
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Post by Reba on Feb 14, 2016 21:07:44 GMT -5
nice man, i didn't know you had a paintin' family.
i don't know a lot about art so i don't know who most of your faves are, but i am also a big fan of Francis Bacon and Max Ernst. other faves include Albrecht Dürer, Artemisia Gentileschi, Ilya Repin, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Dix, and Picasso.
i've been to the Dalí Museum in Florida, but other than that only the Nelson Atkins here in Missouruh (once with nicole!). it's pretty small but i read in the news recently that a piece in their permanent collection was proven to be a Bosch original, so that's p cool.
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Post by Carma on Feb 14, 2016 21:39:23 GMT -5
i like impressionist stuff, also that old super realistic stuff that you wonder how on earth they painted it. i've been to the national gallery in london and it was amazing seeing all those paintings, and a lot of them that i recognized. i probably spent a lot of time staring very closely at the paintings to see the brush strokes lol. i have print of starry night and that's it, i'd like to get a print of something else too.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 15, 2016 0:37:33 GMT -5
i am also a big fan of Francis Bacon and Max Ernst. other faves include Albrecht Dürer, Artemisia Gentileschi, Ilya Repin, Giorgio de Chirico, Otto Dix, and Picasso. I like Dürer a lot, too. Maybe his drawings more than the paintings. Cool, I didn't know Repin, but I like what I'm seeing! And other than having seen a few of Gentileschi's most famous paintings before, I'm not familiar with her either, but it seems like I should look into it.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Feb 15, 2016 3:03:19 GMT -5
I don't like art, but simply for the selfish fact i'd love to be able to do it but just can't
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Post by B. on Feb 15, 2016 3:48:06 GMT -5
I like van eyck for the simple fact that everyone in his paintings looks like putin
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Post by Charlie on Feb 15, 2016 9:17:00 GMT -5
Poe's Coats Host Toast my mum's a painter too! She paints abstract acrylic landscapes I guess, what styles do your parents work in? I have no artistic capability if that was a question. I figure I make up for this by being reasonably hot, fairly smart, and a mildly capable singer. Like Terry nepotism is at play as far as faves go, and tbvh I prefer sculpture to painting actually. Everyone loves Frida Kahlo (?) tho, and I really like the guy who painted waterlilies, I watched a couple of docos on him and his art was niiiice. Also really enjoyed the Munch and Dali exhibitions when I was like 6, but idk if I would anymore. Plus a few nobodies that aren't prominent (and others I've plain forgotten) My fave kinds of painting are probably pop art, watercolours, and bold minimalisty things. Having said that I also really like super detailed figurative pieces.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Feb 15, 2016 10:06:50 GMT -5
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Feb 16, 2016 6:45:22 GMT -5
I went to a creative-hands-on-learning-type school from grades seven through ten, so I feel like I should know more about painting and great painters, but the fact is that I don't. I like it, but I don't know much about it, so in terms of favourites, I'll have to go mainstream and say Van Gogh and Dalí. I like the impressionist style generally, though, particularly Van Gogh and Monet. Also, I like to think I look a bit like Van Gogh - I have a similar colour eyes and hair, and I'd have pretty much the same beard if I could grow the part that connects the moustache with the main beard. Which I can't, unfortunately (also, more fortunately, I have two ears and don't plan to cut off either anytime soon).
Italian Renaissance paintings have something pretty great to them, too, although I like to admire them more for their ideals than for their visual expression. Those ideals may seem a little flawed or limited today, but for the time, it was a huge step forward. I love looking at those paintings and thinking of the kind of progressive thoughts it must have taken to produce them.
I'm on the fence with Frida Kahlo - there are elements of her paintings that I like, and elements I don't like. Not knowing so much about art, I can't really tell which is which, which is why I always enjoy looking at and talking about her art, simply for the considerations it puts into my head. I guess I like her just for that, paradoxically.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Feb 16, 2016 11:16:17 GMT -5
Poe's Coats Host Toast my mum's a painter too! She paints abstract acrylic landscapes I guess, what styles do your parents work in? Cool. I guess abstract art would be the right categorization for both of their work, maybe influenced by neo-expressionism. My mum mixes different media though, incorporating photography into paintings, or sometimes doing installations when doing an exhibition.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 29, 2017 13:25:54 GMT -5
I've been on a Guayasamín kick lately. He could really rock those hands in portraits and his faces are rad too:
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Post by pepper on Apr 29, 2017 20:16:46 GMT -5
my uncle was an artist before he got married and we have a lot of his paintings around our house, one in particular i used to think was a face but it is actually a waterfall.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Apr 30, 2017 12:27:16 GMT -5
I've been on a Guayasamín kick lately. He could really rock those hands in portraits and his faces are rad too: This is uncanny - a friend introduced me to Guyasamin at pretty exactly the same time as you made that post!
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 18, 2018 18:41:01 GMT -5
saw this one some time ago in person and it stuck with me... Andrzej Wróblewski, Rozstrzelanie surrealistyczne VIII (1949) (trans.: Surrealist execution VIII)
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