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r3port3r66 02-09-03 04:42 PM

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I know this is a movie site. But, since movies are really just art, I thought maybe some people out there had some favorite artists in other mediums.
Perhaps you could share a favorite painting, print or personal work with us. I like M.C. Escher. His work is so complex and mathmatical:

Caitlyn 02-09-03 05:05 PM

Great idea r66... I love art and Escher is one of my favorites… along with Brugel and Salvador Dali…



http://www.aciprensa.com/Banco/images/cr-dali.jpg

MyRobotSuit 02-09-03 05:36 PM

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groovy idea for a thread. I like HR Giger, mostly famous for his alien creation. I like the way his art looks organic and industrial.

n7of9 02-09-03 06:53 PM

Escher, Dali and Giger...you guys are after my heart :love: :love:

check out this great Giger site

Holden Pike 02-09-03 11:17 PM

This is my favorite Art...

http://www.artgarfunkel.com/images.gallery/84s.JPG

Monkeypunch 02-09-03 11:30 PM

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This is a cool thread. Get some culture up in here!:D My favorite artists are all pop artists, mainly. Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock (is that spelled right?), Art Speigleman, and the inimitable R. Crumb.

linespalsy 02-10-03 03:19 PM

http://jimwoodring.com/galleryimages...goggles_fl.jpg
http://jimwoodring.com/galleryimages/probulemfrog.jpg
http://jimwoodring.com/strangercartoons/keysite.jpg

MyRobotSuit 02-16-03 02:22 PM

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Blake - Whirlwind Lovers

Sir Toose 02-17-03 03:16 PM

Don't even get me started...

Especially on Blake:

http://www.blakearchive.org.uk/blake...57_welcome.jpg

http://www.artmag.com/museums/a_greab/agblsta/blake.gif

http://www.tortuga.com/college/trans...ive/blake4.jpg

The definitive powerhouse of quill and brush.

C I like Dali too... he's a bit extreme in some of his renderings... at least to this set of eyes. His early portrait work is magnifique..

Caitlyn 02-17-03 07:35 PM

Originally posted by Sir Toose

C I like Dali too... he's a bit extreme in some of his renderings... at least to this set of eyes. His early portrait work is magnifique..

Have you ever been to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida? They had a lot of his early work on display the last time I was there...

Oh... and I like Blake too... :yup:

Sir Toose 02-18-03 12:30 PM

Originally posted by Caitlyn



Have you ever been to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida? They had a lot of his early work on display the last time I was there...

Oh... and I like Blake too... :yup:
No maam... I've yet to have that pleasure... someday...

I LOVE this:
http://www.uic.ssu.samara.ru/~samvu/ps/images/dali.jpg

...and this:
http://www.artmag.com/museums/a_spai...ollec/dali.jpg

...and this:
http://www.irem.univ-mrs.fr/~jlm/APM97/dali.jpg

...and even this:
http://www.interlog.com/~prezes/stuf...eople/dali.jpg

I dislike this:
http://www.forestmeister.com/Dali.jpg

...and this:
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/mh_comm...mages/dali.jpg

...and especially this:
http://salmon.psy.plym.ac.uk/year2/p...ge_of_war2.jpg

I can take dark, I love Bosch et al, but some of Dali's work...especially the later work is so focused in paranoia, sex, and just plain ugly themes that it turns me off. I can get that sh*t in front of the tube.

He was no doubt a brilliant painter/visionary... some of it was just too strong (?) for me.

Caitlyn 02-18-03 01:57 PM

Originally posted by Sir Toose

I can take dark, I love Bosch et al, but some of Dali's work...especially the later work is so focused in paranoia, sex, and just plain ugly themes that it turns me off. I can get that sh*t in front of the tube.

He was no doubt a brilliant painter/visionary... some of it was just too strong (?) for me.
Dali definitely had his dark moments and a lot of his work is a bit too deep for my tastes too… It has been stated there is a fine line between genius and insanity and from what I’ve read about him, Dali apparently crossed that line several times… Anyway, if you ever get a chance to see his museum in St. Petersburg, I think you would enjoy it…

What about Walter Anderson… do you like any of his work?


http://www.walteringlisanderson.com/images/walter.jpg

Aniko 02-18-03 02:41 PM

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I love all types of art. I guess among my favorites are...

Ingres (I like his studies as well as his paintings)
John Singer Sargent (his watercolors are so different from his portaits, but just as beautiful)
Degas (especially love his dance and theater series)
Renoir (the first artist/work I was drawn to)
Vincent Van Gogh (Starry Night has to be seen in person, the prints just don't do it justice. It's Beautiful)
Daumier (love is lithographs, but don't care for his paintings)
Georgia O'Keefe (her work is very sensual, especially the Black Iris and The Grayline)
Alphonse Mucha (love his sketches as well as his posters)
Wassily Kandinsky
Auguste Rodin (saw an exhibition of his work and was very moved by his work)

There are many others I love also, but I've posted enough...

Here's a poster from Mucha.

Sir Toose 02-18-03 03:02 PM

C: I like that one quite a bit... I'm not really familiar with his work, but it makes me want to look more.

Annie: I like all you mentioned, have you seen Klee? he's a contemporary of Kandinsky... quite compelling work. Your poster reminds me of Maxfield Parrish:
http://www.discountgraphics.net/clas...tn/BMGP374.jpg


My all time favorite is Arisman:
http://www.illustart.com/gallery/mar...shall/ma75.jpg

Jonny Goodboy 02-19-03 05:31 PM

I`m well into my Fantasy Art:
[list][*]Vallejo[*]Bisley[*]Cartegena[*]Carralero[*]Frazetta[*]Cleavenger[*]Strommen[*]Mobius[/list=1]
But far and away,my *1 is:
Luis Royo :cool:
http://www.airbrushshop.de/Buch/300394RoyoEvolution.jpg

Aniko 02-19-03 05:35 PM

I like all you mentioned, have you seen Klee? he's a contemporary of Kandinsky... quite compelling work.
Thanks Toose. Yes, I also like Klee. :)


My all time favorite is Arisman
He's definately a powerful artist, and I respect him for making you feel something when you look at his work. But some of his images can be a little too unsettling for me.

In a way, he kind of reminds me of Ralph Steadman. Have you seen him? Also a powerful illustrator, but with a weird twist of humor.

Sir Toose 02-19-03 06:18 PM

I hadn't heard of him... I just went and looked. He's brilliant. I thought immediately of Gerald Scarfe:

http://www.postmodern.com/~fi/pattip...es/scarfe1.jpg

Yoda 02-19-03 06:28 PM

I know nothing about art in a technical sense, but it doesn't matter, because when I look at something like that, I know it's beautiful. Not because I know who painted it, or when, or why, but because it just is.

Sometimes beauty is more a matter of fact than opinion. Paintings like this make me more sure of that principle.

Sir Toose 02-27-03 06:13 PM

Frieda Kahlo's work is fantastic...

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knicho...logoddess3.jpg

Aniko 04-27-03 06:07 PM

Originally posted by Sir Toose
I hadn't heard of him... I just went and looked. He's brilliant. I thought immediately of Gerald Scarfe:
You're right, he does remind me of Ralpf Steadman.


I fell in love with Pino on a recent trip. Here is a painting that is very similar to the one I drooled over.

http://www.globalartbrokers.com/arti...ningbreeze.jpg

Morning Breeze

Sexy Celebrity 05-07-03 09:36 PM

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I love this. I'm not sure what it's called yet, but it's by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). I'm going to use it as my desktop background.

Sexy Celebrity 05-07-03 09:50 PM

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Ah, that one was called Yellow, Red, Blue. Lovely.

This is another Kandinsky that I like - Composition VIII.

Hondo333 07-27-03 12:38 AM

http://www.csc.vill.edu/html/images/dali.jpeg

My Fav Dali


http://www.uwrf.edu/history/images/a...hol-tomato.jpg

http://www.entertainmentstudios.com/.../warhol_01.jpg

Warhol is a major infulance for me


http://home.xnet.com/~stanko/vollard.jpg

http://home.xnet.com/~stanko/oldjew03.jpg

As Is piccaso

http://www.picturestore.com.au/image...um/AWLEPH1.jpg

Pro Harts good aswell

Django 07-27-03 12:55 AM

I like these by Michaelangelo:

http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTE...HICS/pieta.jpg

http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/myth/serpent2.jpg

http://www.covenanter.org/JRWillson/Moses.jpg

Caitlyn 07-27-03 01:08 AM

Hondo, I have a copy of that painting by Dali hanging in my living room… it’s one of my favorites too… :)

Django 07-27-03 01:41 AM

Interesting painting--but it's significance eludes me. An emaciated man holds up a crucifix at what appears to be an emasculated horse or mare, a nude woman clutching her breasts and some weird-looking elephants with bizarre pyramids on their backs--all on stilts! What does it say? That Christians are opposed to genderless horses, nude women clutching their breasts and elephants with pyramids on stilts? Deep! :rolleyes:

Knoxville 07-27-03 10:20 AM

I like Giger as far as art goes and I like the poetry of Lord Byron and I'm trying to get my hands on either Vincent Gallo or Viggo Mortensen's published poetry.

Caitlyn 07-27-03 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Django
Interesting painting--but it's significance eludes me. An emaciated man holds up a crucifix at what appears to be an emasculated horse or mare, a nude woman clutching her breasts and some weird-looking elephants with bizarre pyramids on their backs--all on stilts! What does it say? That Christians are opposed to genderless horses, nude women clutching their breasts and elephants with pyramids on stilts? Deep! :rolleyes:


Actually the name of the painting is The Temptation of St. Anthony… the horse in the foreground represents strength… the elephant following, carries the golden cup of lust with a nude woman perched on the edge… the other elephants are carrying buildings on their backs; the first an obelisk inspired by the Bernini in Rome, the second and third carry buildings in the style of Palladio, and the last elephant carries a tall tower that has phallic overtones… In the clouds, there are glimpsing fragments of the Escorial…

Interestingly, Dali painted The Temptation of St. Anthony to enter into a contest held by Alfred Hitchcock …

Steve 07-27-03 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Knoxville
I like Giger as far as art goes and I like the poetry of Lord Byron and I'm trying to get my hands on either Vincent Gallo or Viggo Mortensen's published poetry.
Gallo's poetry is awful and rhythmless, you'd do better without it. Lord Byron, however, is responsible for one of my favorite lines:

And must thy lyre, so long divine
Degenerate into hands like mine?


Also:

Though in my visions, sweet Lady, perhaps you may smile,
Oh! think not my penance deficient!
When dreams of your presence my slumbers beguile,
To awake, will be torture sufficient.


As for art, R. Crumb is great and Basquiat is a personal favorite of mine. Breughel is sick too.

simon 09-02-03 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by Steve
Gallo's poetry is awful and rhythmless, you'd do better without it. Lord Byron, however, is responsible for one of my favorite lines:

And must thy lyre, so long divine
Degenerate into hands like mine?


Also:

Though in my visions, sweet Lady, perhaps you may smile,
Oh! think not my penance deficient!
When dreams of your presence my slumbers beguile,
To awake, will be torture sufficient.


As for art, R. Crumb is great and Basquiat is a personal favorite of mine. Breughel is sick too.
Get a grip. Gallo is the best. Basqiuat is a jerk.

Django 09-02-03 07:32 PM

My favorite lines are from Milton's Paradise Lost:

The mind is it's own place, and in itself,
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Pretty profound, in my opinion.

Hondo333 09-03-03 10:36 AM

Steadman is pretty COOL

http://www.ralphsteadman.com/images/.../02sheriff.jpg

edmo 09-04-03 09:40 PM

gehard richter: this painting looks like a photograph
http://www.listasafn.is/safnid/synin.../betty_380.jpg

and he also does some gorgeous abstracts:
http://www.michaelcho.com/filterless/richter/3lrg.jpg

tim burton's drawings are really neat too

and Hondo333, that piece is really cool.

Caitlyn 09-11-03 01:28 AM

Nice pic edmo... Richter is very good... :)


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