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Susperia
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Satanstoenail
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No, but here in Melbourne the National Gallery of Victoria just discovered that one of his paintings is a fake. It went from being worth about $20 million down to about about $30 grand, and embarrassed the hell out of the Gallery.
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Evard Munch's "Madonna" 1894
hot
I like the hair and the facial expression. Though her arms seem to be growing out of this strange gelatinous blob behind her, which happens to be roughly the same color as her skin...
Nope. What about it?
Susperia
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Munch's Madonna is not meant to be "hot". It's a fucking Madonna. It's spiritual and eerie and she is at once a mother and a baby and a spirit and a human woman.
The Van Gogh was discovered behind another painting-----They found it through x-ray analysis. Really really cool except no one can ever see it because it's under another painting.
The Van Gogh was discovered behind another painting-----They found it through x-ray analysis. Really really cool except no one can ever see it because it's under another painting.
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Hey, you gotta be pretty hot for God himself to want to fuck you.The Van Gogh was discovered behind another painting-----They found it through x-ray analysis. Really really cool except no one can ever see it because it's under another painting.
So... it's stuck to the back of the other painting?
Susperia
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Vitor
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yeah, maybe you were talking about it
hologramas
btw, does anyone here into Baldung?
this pic is awesome
Rabid Headbanger
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I don't know... they didn't have razors back then...
And stary stary night is almost as ugly as the mona lisa.
Hatebreeder
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my favorite paintings are pretty much anything by Monet and Renoir. I love French Impressionism as well as Van Gogh's works. What are your favorite Monet and Renoir paintings? . I recently saw a exhibit of Monet's works in NYC in which two of the paintings have never been seen in public ever because they were in private collections. That's always been a plus about NYC. Get to see alot of important paintings and exhibits.
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.... Um, I'll probably be deemed "pretentious and elitist" for pointing this out... But Renoir is pretty much the pop-star equivalent of Impressionism. He painted anything he thought he could sell--- He painted what the Academics painted but looser and quicker. That way he sold. And he sold more....
His work is shallow.
He's not a very good Impressionist.
But Monet! You're very right about Monet, he was great.
Also... Do you by any chance know anything about any other period of art history? I'm curious, because people always seem to know the Impressionists, but little else.
You live in NYC, so you must have been exposed to plenty other things---- But you still like Renoir best eh? =/
His work is shallow.
He's not a very good Impressionist.
But Monet! You're very right about Monet, he was great.
Also... Do you by any chance know anything about any other period of art history? I'm curious, because people always seem to know the Impressionists, but little else.
You live in NYC, so you must have been exposed to plenty other things---- But you still like Renoir best eh? =/
Susperia
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I think Degas has so so much more to say about society at the time than Renoir did... Like I said Renoir's paintings were usually shallow and said nothing.
But Degas---- Truly beautiful, and thought-provoking and really give you a glimpse of what life was like for some (the not-so-fortunate) in 19th c France. Here are some of his dancers and prostitutes, in all his paintings he was trying to shed light on their predicament.--- Plus I think he was fascinated by how unlucky they were.
Dancers,1878
The Absinthe Drinkers, 1875
The Star, 1871-81
The Star(Dancer on the Stage) 1876-78
The Tub, 1885
Woman Drying Her Foot, ????
But Degas---- Truly beautiful, and thought-provoking and really give you a glimpse of what life was like for some (the not-so-fortunate) in 19th c France. Here are some of his dancers and prostitutes, in all his paintings he was trying to shed light on their predicament.--- Plus I think he was fascinated by how unlucky they were.
Dancers,1878
The Absinthe Drinkers, 1875
The Star, 1871-81
The Star(Dancer on the Stage) 1876-78
The Tub, 1885
Woman Drying Her Foot, ????
Yup your elitist lol jk... But anyways Renoir was commissioned by the rich to paint them paintings (though not all his paintings) so that is why alot of his subjects in his paintings were high society. But nonetheless Renoir was more famous for his use of color then what subjects he painted about.
Also imo Monet was a bigger star but not by much then Renoir. Nonetheless Renoir and Monet are my two favorite painters for their use of color (Impressionism) and not for what they painted. I don't know if you seen their paintings in person but if you did you would see that photographs of their paintings in books do not do their paintings justice.
Anyways I like artists from other periods as well Da Vinci, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, Caspar David Friedrich (love his painting: The Stages of Life),Frederick E. Church (check out his painting: Twilight in the Wilderness),James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Max Liebermann, Robert Henri, George Bellows etc.. etc...
I have alot of different tastes in art... just that Impressionism is my favorite.... I hate anything modern or contemporary... I don't even consider it art... i went to MOMA and saw a canvas painted completely Black... that is not art.. that is crap... anyways i been to enough museums in NYC to tell you which ones i like and which ones I don't... one small museum in NYC alot of people are not aware of that I like is this one:
www.frick.org
But anyways wish you could of seen the Monet exhibit I was talking about Susperia.. it was in a Gallery and benefited Breast Cancer research and such... they had actual letters of Monet to his wife (not that I could read french lol but they had translations as well), rare photographs of Monet with people throughout his life, alot of his paintings but especially the two paintings that have never been seen in public or in books... I can look up the titles of the two paintings from the book I bought at the exhibit (cost freaking $80) and let you know... perhaps you can find them somewhere in the internet from the titles i give you...
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Hmm... I'm wondering how little 'taste' I really have in visual art. As far as I can tell, I'm more interested in pretty pictures than in classical paintings. To me, it seems like in order to really enjoy classical stuff (note: I'm using the term 'classical' loosely - basically anything canvas-based), you have to have some level of interest in the process behind it, the personalities, the symbolism... all that crap.
So, I guess, either my art education was really shitty, or there's just too much effort and reading-in involved with classical art to make it sufficiently rewarding.
What do you all think?
So, I guess, either my art education was really shitty, or there's just too much effort and reading-in involved with classical art to make it sufficiently rewarding.
What do you all think?
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