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Favourite piece of art you've seen
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ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
Dali
Artemisia Gentileschi
Junji Ito
What does that last one represent. Never seen that before.0 -
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Do you have to be good at art or drawing to be an artist? Because I sometimes think up good concept ideas for a painting but obviously can't paint it.
Some abstract art out there would make you wonder how difficult it is. Like the Irish artist Sean Scully, he just paints stripes and patchwork which looks easy yet his pieces sell for tens of thousands. Then again if it was that easy everyone would be doing it.
But I still look at his work and think it doesnt look all that hard to recreate once you can find out the shades of colours he is using. Its certainly nowhere near as skillful as other art posted on this thread.0 -
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
The Children's Hospital. It is an installation piece.
I have often thought all children's toys should be based around this ethos.
Video games dolls etc ...they could nurture children teach them ..help them.
Imagine video games that taught you a language as you played them or something.
Just like the children's hospital.
In fact .....i don't think any other piece of art has affected me so much in my entire life.
Little girls should be taught philosophy by barbie dolls.0 -
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ILoveYourVibes wrote: »I like it ..do you know who its by?
Sorry, I never gave a description! Its from a graphic novel book about the Jack the Ripper murders called "From Hell" by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.
Highly recommended. Great Read. Great Art. "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats
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Wow I will look it up even if i don't read all of it ...it looks interesting to take a look at !Sorry, I never gave a description! Its from a graphic novel book about the Jack the Ripper murders called "From Hell" by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.
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I'm not sure if it counts, but I used to love the Woman climbing the Treasury Building, now NAMA headquarters. I think it may be gone now.
Originally commissioned by Johnny Ronan, the sculptor's vision was of a man crawlling up, but Ronan was horrified when he seen the scaled down model. The artist here is Rowan Gillispie
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/statue-got-sex-change-as-ex-billionaire-ronan-didnt-want-naked-man-on-treasury-building-28940311.html0 -
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We had that at home when I was a kidJohnnyFlash wrote: »I love this. The anthropomorphism, kitsch style, and capturing of the various emotions one feels when playing poker.
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JohnnyFlash wrote: »I love this. The anthropomorphism, kitsch style, and capturing of the various emotions one feels when playing poker.
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Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini, this was on my list of must sees on my one and only trip to the Louvre and I forgot about it, then I just happened to walk past it tucked away in a corner upstairs on the way out. Other countries would build a museum around a painting like this but that's just the way the Louvre is, too many classics to give them all their own gallery. I would have been raging if I'd missed it...
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Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini, this was on my list of must sees on my one and only trip to the Louvre and I forgot about it, then I just happened to walk past it tucked away in a corner upstairs on the way out. Other countries would build a museum around a painting like this but that's just the way the Louvre is, too many classics to give them all their own gallery. I would have been raging if I'd missed it...
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Do you have any particular reason? Just curious.donegal_man wrote: »Piet Mondrian, Woods Near Oele is without doubt my favourite painting.
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Another art restoration disaster coming out of Spain to follow on from Monkey Christ back in 2012. This time there was two attempts to restore it with the second attempt getting even worse than the first
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/22/experts-call-for-regulation-after-latest-botched-art-restoration-in-spainConservation experts in Spain have called for a tightening of the laws covering restoration work after a copy of a famous painting by the baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became the latest in a long line of artworks to suffer a damaging and disfiguring repair.
A private art collector in Valencia was reportedly charged €1,200 by a furniture restorer to have the picture of the Immaculate Conception cleaned. However, the job did not go as planned and the face of the Virgin Mary was left unrecognisable despite two attempts to restore it to its original state.
The case has inevitably resulted in comparisons with the infamous “Monkey Christ” incident eight years ago, when a devout parishioner’s attempt to restore a painting of the scourged Christ on the wall of a church on the outskirts of the north-eastern Spanish town of Borja made headlines around the world.
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Another art restoration disaster coming out of Spain to follow on from Monkey Christ back in 2012. This time there was two attempts to restore it with the second attempt getting even worse than the first
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/22/experts-call-for-regulation-after-latest-botched-art-restoration-in-spain
isn't in unbelievable .. the original looks so beautiful.0 -
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Dryptosaurus was a 7.5m long tyrannosauroid
So first two bad depictions of it and it's big cousin t-rex
Edward Drinker Cope drew this dopey looking tail dragger standing on a rock back in 1869
In 1947 tyrannosauroids were still dragging their tails curtsey of Rudolph F. Zallinger
And then there was this
Back in 1896 Charles R. Knight painted this. 25 ft long apex predators in action.0 -
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The Scream by Edward Munch in Norways national gallery in Oslo. Its pretty small in real life but theres something about it that is really dark. Then the history and influence behind it- Munch suffered a lifetime of depression and anxiety after both his mother and sister died from TB when he was a kid and then another sister was put in a mental asylum for the insane.
The painting captures a person living a kind of hell on earth inside their head, its like the subject matter is literally on the cusp of losing their mind. After a couple of minutes of staring at it up close it actually feels pretty unsettling.
Rembrandts Nightwatch in Amsterdam. Its the sheer scale of this when seen that amazes, you just feel small standing there looking at it. Then the detail in it, the use of light and darkness and the depth of field is pretty special
One of the Easter Island statues in the British Museum in London. It dominates the room it is in, when you come around the corner and see it for the first time theres a real wow moment. Then theres questions of how a completely isolated island community in the south Pacific came up with this 1,000 years ago and then went on to make another 60 of them. They weigh between 10 and 15 tonnes each and are made out of volcanic ash. Theres an absolute serious level of work gone into each one and they were making them for over 600 years.
Plus the gold plated inscription below it gives you that bonus airbrushing of British colonialist history -"Donated by Captain Powell of HMS Topaze to Queen Victoria in 1869". Eh no lads, you pillaged their islands and stole it.
My favourite of all is Michelangelos Statue of David in Florence. I was absolutely flabbergasted seeing this, its just breathtaking. Its 17 feet tall and then on a plinth of another 12 feet so it towers right above you. I find it incredibile to think that Michelangelo began this with a single block of marble weighing 5 tonnes and chipped away at it for three years to carve it. He had a 3D map in his head of what he wanted to create from it. Heres an idea of the sheer scale of it
Its impressive from a distance but then you get up close to it and it gets even better. The amount of detail in it is just astounding, every muscle, every vein in his body is carved intricately.
So whats your favourite piece of art that you've seen. Something that when you saw it in the flesh you were left dumbfounded.
This is a beautiful post, was feeling low and it gave me a spark. Thank you.0 -
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