Art for art's sake

[EnglishRose]

In here we shall post our favourite art (any and all types of art are welcome). If you feel like writing a paragraph or two or three explaining why you like a particular picture all the better.

So from Dali to Reubens, Monet to Millet, chagal to da vinci, warhol to lowry - let's see what pictures 'do' it for you

 

[EnglishRose]

I'll start by adding some Roy Lichtenstein - his artwork makes me smile and seeing as how I am at work, and work does not make me smile, I thought I'd cheer myself up

explosion from 1965

Mustard on white - 1963

 

[Neil]

^^^POP ART-Y!

Love it!

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Rae, you're a robo-babe!

First up from me: Alphonse Mucha

The line weight, the curves, the design flourishes, the attention to detail, the colours, the motifs, the archetypes and iconography, the graphic appeal... the celebration of beautiful women... Art deco at it's finest.

His work inspires me.

 

[S. SaDiablo]

My favorite work of art is a sculpture I saw when I was in Paris:

Cupid and Psyche

 

[EnglishRose]

^ did you go to the Rodin museum? if so, did you get to see the 'gates of hell' a truly awesome piece of sculpture - I won't put a picture of it up as it wouldn't do it justice. Just go to the Rodin museum in paris and gaze in awe as you walk among his sculptures, many of them apparently randomly placed in the extensive gardens - sheer delight

 

[S. SaDiablo]

^ did you go to the Rodin museum? if so, did you get to see the 'gates of hell' a truly awesome piece of sculpture - I won't put a picture of it up as it wouldn't do it justice. Just go to the Rodin museum in paris and gaze in awe as you walk among his sculptures, many of them apparently randomly placed in the extensive gardens - sheer delight

No, just the Louvre. Sounds wonderful, though. But, honestly, I have no intention of ever going back to Paris after the treatment we received there...

 

[Sadistic Bastard]

^ did you go to the Rodin museum? if so, did you get to see the 'gates of hell' a truly awesome piece of sculpture - I won't put a picture of it up as it wouldn't do it justice. Just go to the Rodin museum in paris and gaze in awe as you walk among his sculptures, many of them apparently randomly placed in the extensive gardens - sheer delight

The Rodin Museum was the best museum in Paris, IMHO, although I liked the Orssay (sp?) too.

Most of my favroite art is sculpture, Naguchi and Rodin are my favorite sculptors. I recommend "Wave Hill" near NYC or the Naguchi museum on the East River (also in NYC) for the best examples of his work. "The Walking Void" is one of the few pieces of art that actually frightened me.

There is also poetry and music...but those are subjects well covered elsewhere.

 

[Neil]

^ One of ER's countrymen. Aubrey Beardsley illustrated Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur - at the ripe old age 21 - as his first commissioned work. He was a caricaurist and mostly worked in ink. A fascinating and tragic figure, sickly most of his life, Aubrey was dead at 25 ( 1898 ), felled by TB. His volume of work, his output, at such a young age, astounds and humbles me.

Aubrey Beardsley is one of the most famous artists of the late 19th century, renowned for both his visual talent and the circle of decadent intellectuals he was associated with, particularly Oscar Wilde. Much of Beardsley's work is bizarre, profane and erotic.

Beardsley was a public character as well as a private eccentric. He said, "I have one aim — the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing." Wilde said he had "a face like a silver hatchet, and grass green hair."

^Aubrey Beardsley

His work and stylisitc approach have shaped my own art considerably in the last decade or so.

 

[Bladev1]

One by one of my favorite artists: Phil Kutno

EMBRACE

 

[Blindgroping]

The Rodin Museum was the best museum in Paris, IMHO, although I liked the Orssay (sp?) too.

Most of my favroite art is sculpture, Naguchi and Rodin are my favorite sculptors. I recommend "Wave Hill" near NYC or the Naguchi museum on the East River (also in NYC) for the best examples of his work. "The Walking Void" is one of the few pieces of art that actually frightened me.

There is also poetry and music...but those are subjects well covered elsewhere.

I couldn't find The Walking Void, But I found InSilence Walking,

Here: http://www.noguchi.org/sculpture.html

 

[EnglishRose]

The Rodin Museum was the best museum in Paris, IMHO, although I liked the Orssay (sp?) too.

Most of my favroite art is sculpture, Naguchi and Rodin are my favorite sculptors. I recommend "Wave Hill" near NYC or the Naguchi museum on the East River (also in NYC) for the best examples of his work. "The Walking Void" is one of the few pieces of art that actually frightened me.

There is also poetry and music...but those are subjects well covered elsewhere.

The Orsay museum is where they have the large collections of impressionist art isn't it?

The Rodin museum is the best

I hadn't heard of Naguchi until now, I intend to find out more, thanks for pointing me in a new direction

So I'll have to nip back across the pond to NYC now

 

[Neil]

Tara McPherson

http://www.taramcpherson.com/

^Official site.

I love this chick's work. She's done some comic book covers, a lot of prints, and concert posters.

A fantastically clean cartoony/graphic style... and she's a hottie to boot!

 

[EnglishRose]

comics reminded me

Vince Ray - a genius

and I must find some Paul Kidby pics

so much art, so little time

 

[Neil]

Ars longa, vita brevis, babe!

 

[curiousa2z]

Neil, I adore Mucha - but I'd describe him as Art Nouveau rather than Art Deco....am I wrong?

 

[curiousa2z]

my first poster on my dorm at university was by Waterhouse: I couldn't get over the sumptuous detailing and the frisson of eroticism (oh, those Victorians!!) in his work...still wouldn't turn one down if offered.

 

[Neil]

No, you're ABSOLUTELY right, C2. I flubbed that one. 'Art deco' entered my head and that's what I typed. Art Nouveau is what I meant to say. Thanks for spotting that!

 

[EnglishRose]

actually he is listed in some 'deco' books as well, even though he is nouveau

 

[Bladev1]

neil: here's phil kutnos site:
http://www.philkutnostudios.com/interest.htm

 

[Neil]

neil: here's phil kutnos site:
http://www.philkutnostudios.com/interest.htm

GAH! I need to see those at actual size, man! There's SOOOO much going on! That's bad-ass! I love those kinds of images...

Below is one (character-heavy/detail-intense) I did utilizing my own species of cartoony sci-fi characters:

It took me 3 months to complete, almost 10 years ago. My mom said "This was in your head?" in concerned disbelief.

A picture really is worth a thousand words. Or more.

^And the colored version. (Sorry about the glare. It's framed.)