Topic: Paintings You Like

[Corkboy]

Vermeer, Lady Writing A Letter with Her Maid



So the lad Vermeer was a Dutch painter from the 1600s who did a lot of paintings like this, indoor scenes of people doing domestic things. He is rightly renowned for his treatment of light and I always thought that was a slightly tossy thing to say about paintings but with him, it's true. The light is just smashing.

Interestingly, this painting hangs in the National Gallery in Dublin, whence it has been stolen twice and recovered (the second time after seven years).

[Chakan]

The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David.

The work was commissioned by Napoleon orally in September 1804 and its official title is Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December 1804. Jacques-Louis David began his execution on 21 December 1805 in the former chapel of the College of Cluny, near the Sorbonne, which served as a workshop. Assisted by his student Georges Rouget, he put the finishing touches in November 1807. From 7 February to 21 March 1808, the work was exhibited at the Salon annual painting display in 1810, and it was presented to the decennial prize competition. The painting remained the property of David until 1819, when he is transferred to the Royal Museums, where it was stored in the reserves until 1837. Then, it was installed in the Chamber Sacre of the museum of the historical Palace of Versailles on the orders of King Louis-Philippe. In 1889, the painting was transferred to the Louvre from Versailles and replaced there with a full-size replica - this replica had been begun by David himself in 1808 and completed during his exile in Brussels.



Have a pic of it at home from the Louvre

[Chakan]

Hows that? The last pic worked fine for me?

[Una cerveza, por favor]

Yeah, works now.

This thread is class. I love having a look here every now and then!

[Chakan]

Spent many a happy hour walking through the Louvre

[The Gulleysucker]

An artist overlooked these days to an extent is Nicolas Poussin.



This is 'Et in Arcadia ego' painted sometime around 1630 or so.

It's an Orvidian scene, echoing the sentiments of Greek Pastoral, the so called bucolic myths, originally developed in poetry by Theocritis around 300BC based on the myth of Daphnis, and then picked up by Virgil in the Eclogues and adopted with great enthusiasm by a Rome, eager to mythologise it's own history.
During the Renaissance, many of these themes then became subjects of paintings such as this one, showing an autumnal and enchanted mood in some blissful uncorrupted Arcadia, but also highlighting the brevity of life.

[Corkboy]

I tried gripping my laptop by the sides and pulling but I still can't see most of that.

[The Gulleysucker]

I tried gripping my laptop by the sides and pulling but I still can't see most of that.

Sorry, picked it up off wiki.

[Corkboy]

Sorry, picked it up off wiki.

Basically, anything which shows up on a google search that's more than say 70kb is going to be trouble.

Found one.

[Finn Solomon]

No one does JLA like Alex Ross!

[generic_name]

I tried gripping my laptop by the sides and pulling but I still can't see most of that.

Depending on what browser you are using Ctrl and - usually make images smaller. Obviously Ctrl and + makes them bigger. Works in firefox anyway.

[Chakan]

Finn are those actual Paintings?

[Finn Solomon]

Finn are those actual Paintings?

Yep, the man does fantastic art.

[Chakan]

Yep, the man does fantastic art.

Heh very cool.
I like Digital art as well, people like Brom and Luis Royo.

[The Gulleysucker]

Mark Ryden does some interesting stuff, well worth a google if you are unfamiliar with his work.







There's something vaguely Jeff Koons (someone else who's work I like) about that last one, not sure what or why..
Ryden did the cover for the Michael Jackson LP Dangerous.

A current favourite  of mine is this by Cheungshing Tsang Johnson.



Not a painting, but a ceramic sculpture called Yuanyang, named after a popular HK drink of coffee and tea.

I can't find a better picture of it on the www at the moment, but it is truly spectacular, two liquid faces kissing.

[James Mac]

Love my Georges Seurat (hence the avatar)



Also big on Paul Signac



and Wassily Kandinsky 

[hassinator]

Mark Ryden does some interesting stuff, well worth a google if you are unfamiliar with his work.

i FUCKING LOVE mark ryden.  check out my friend arrow in one of nagi-noda's dresses with a ryden design.  the ballerina has cut her own head off but its the spritz of red diamante blood that makes it for me:

[The Gulleysucker]

i FUCKING LOVE mark ryden.  check out my friend arrow in one of nagi-noda's dresses with a ryden design.  the ballerina has cut her own head off but its the spritz of red diamante blood that makes it for me:

Like these....



and



Great stuff.

[hassinator]

i've got his book fushigi circus and its mind blowing

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fushigi-Circus-Mark-Ryden/dp/086719720X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279362399&sr=1-1

[JURGENKLOPP]

The Third of May 1808
Have always liked this one by Goya.

[Corkboy]

A current favourite  of mine is this by Cheungshing Tsang Johnson.



Not a painting, but a ceramic sculpture called Yuanyang, named after a popular HK drink of coffee and tea.

I can't find a better picture of it on the www at the moment, but it is truly spectacular, two liquid faces kissing.

That's fabulous. The Ryden stuff, on the other hand, I actively dislike.

[The Gulleysucker]

That's fabulous......

I think it might be on view at the Ceramics Competition in L'Alcora in Spain.

[Big Tall Man]

Grief by Jack B Yeats.  Absolutely love the picture.

[Veinticinco de Mayo]

Quote from: BRENOBRIEN on Today at 12:10:45 PM

The Third of May 1808
Have always liked this one by Goya.

Cracking painting that one Bren.  In the Biennial a couple of years ago I went to see an exhibition that Claire. off here was in and there was a piece by this mad old woman who recreated famous paintings as bonkers dioramas with little plastic popular culture figures.  Her version of the Third of May had a Wallace figure as the man in the white shirt.  Can't find a pic of it unfortunately but it was brilliant. 

Here's another reworking of Goya's famous picture that I like though:


Execution by Yue Minjun
http://www.yueminjun.com/en/gallery/index.html

[The Gulleysucker]

..... The Ryden stuff, on the other hand, I actively dislike.

Actively" ?....I have an image of you storming into a gallery and throwing paint over his works...

I imagine you are not too fond of Koons work then?





To be fair, like much modern 'art' it has to be seen in a context and suitable space, and it is also somewhat provocative.

But I do sort of like this sort of thing occasionally, if only to make me question myself as to why I even like it.

I guess because it's fun.

There was a BBC programme several years ago, when he was still living with that Ciccolina Italian Porn star woman.

He came across a very talented, but totally barking mad, but I suppose he's in good company as far as artists go.

And I can't resist this one....

[Corkboy]

Actively" ?....I have an image of you storming into a gallery and throwing paint over his works...

I imagine you are not too fond of Koons work then?

Nothing against Koons. Ryden's big eyed kids are a bit too freaky for me, though.

[killer-heels]

Great thread.

One of my favourite paintings is The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt.



We just bought this for one of our rooms. Called 'Right here waiting for you', by a UK artist called Jeff Rowland. I love it.

[Alan_X]

"The Scarlet Sunset" - Joseph Mallord William Turner.



Painted between 1830-40 it predates Monet's  "Impression Sunrise" by 30 years or so

[James Mac]

The Scarlet Sunset is beautiful... great use of colour.

[jaffod]

Liverpool from Wapping This painting seems alive when you see it close up

Love this one. It's a pretty bleak scene but that's off-set by the welcoming lights of the shops.

Mark Ryden does some interesting stuff, well worth a google if you are unfamiliar with his work.

These two are fantastic.

[Macphisto80]

Liverpool from Wapping This painting seems alive when you see it close up

Amazing use of colour in that.

[Macphisto80]

William Adolphe Bouguereau.

My favourite painter next to Rembrandt. There's too many to choose from, but this one is one of my favourites from him. His technique with the flesh tones is amazing.

[eAyeAddio]

Any fans of Henri Toulouse- Lautrec would enjoy this vid:
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[Corkboy]

So anyway, Francisco Goya was a Spanish painter from the 1700s, and he was apparently a Romantic. He used different types of printwork to achieve plates as well as more conventional art, and he is believed to have contracted lead poisoning leading to deafness and some very dark work.

Here's one from sometime around 1820. The Dog (Goya never gave it a title as far as we know) is one of his "Black Paintings" series that he painted directly onto a wall in his house, which you have to love. He never intended it for public view so he must have just liked it.

[Juan Loco]

The Black Paintings are some of my favourites. There's a book by a guy called Juan Jose Junquera on them that I've been trying to track down for years. You only see it sold for obscene (well, relatively) amounts now though. Can't bring myself to spend £60 on a book I won't understand half of.

Had a couple of books on Matisse and Kandinsky for christmas, and a Miro calender.

One of my favourites at the moment is Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga.




No idea how to resize it, sorry...

[The Gulleysucker]

Meanwhile, down on Crosby Beach, the Everton first team don't look too happy practicing Gollums new 'modern' training regime and stamina improvement techniques .....

 

[generic_name]

No idea how to resize it, sorry...

Quick way. Open it in MS paint > image > stretch/skew > type the same value into both stretch boxes (about 40% looks right for this) > save > done > high fives all round.

[Sir Harvest Fields]

Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth

Laugh if you want, but I first saw this painting within the covers of Preacher, a truly excellent graphic novel by Garth Ennis. The girl in the painting is Wyeth's cousin, who was born with polio. This was the furthest she was ever allowed to go from her farmhouse, she had to stay within sight of her farmhouse for her own safety. In the book it was used to illustrate the plight of the protagonist's mother, who was also named Christina and was imprisoned in a house of her own for most of her life. It's so bleak and desperate and sad - the house is her entire world and no matter what she does it always pulls her back in.

i never knew this thread was here.

this painting, for some reason is fucking awesome. just something about it.

[Raul!]

Kandinsky is criminally under represented on this thread.  I particularly like his earlier, less abstract work, and his use of St. George related iconography, though the later stuff is excellent as well.  This is a beautiful picture:



As are these:

[Zeppelin]

I've always been fond of the Pre-raphaelites - here's Millais' 'Ophelia'