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Favourite piece of art you've seen

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    #122
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Seamai wrote: »
    Caravaggio's works, Saw his Seven Acts of Mercy in Naples last year in the chapel of a charitable foundation, it bizarrely features a young woman breastfeeding an old man through the bars of a prison window.

    Roman charity :cimon and pero, many artists have depicted the scene. It's supposed to depict a daughter feeding her father who has been sentenced to death by starvation..... Rubens version is worth a look, once you get over the weirdness.


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    #123
    Rodin
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    Trevi Fountain


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    #124
    Ipso
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    Princess Calla wrote: »
    Roman charity :cimon and pero, many artists have depicted the scene. It's supposed to depict a daughter feeding her father who has been sentenced to death by starvation..... Rubens version is worth a look, once you get over the weirdness.

    Any link to the Grapes of Wrath?


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    #125
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Ipso wrote: »
    Any link to the Grapes of Wrath?

    A quick Google would suggest it is.

    If you Google roman charity grapes of wrath together you will get a few links :)


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    #126
    JustAThought
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    i’ve been to galleries and museums all over the world but it’s amazing how pieces stay with you and you come to love some old familiar ones.

    Both in out national gallery - I’ve always loved
    The Wounded Poacher


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    #127
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    i’ve been to galleries and museums all over the world but it’s amazing how pieces stay with you and you come to love some old familiar ones.

    in our national gallery - I’ve always loved
    The Wounded Poacher

    And the dark and sinister About to write a letter by our homegrown Yeats.

    I went a few years ago to the Musee D’Orsay in Paris and got to see one of Van Goughs spectacular ( and HUGE) starry sky paintings - and it was like I’d been given haluciogenic drugs - it made your eyes keep trying to focus and refocus and so it looked as though the stars were spinning in the oainting - absolutely incredible. Apparently there’s some fancy science explination of you google it and his technique.

    I also love The Eve of Saint Agnes in the Hugh Lane - also by Harry Clarke. A wicked piece of genius he had made for Mr Bowlands Biscuits who wanted a religious piece for the stairwell of his grand home on Merrion Square. Clarke came up with fantastical underwater scene around the borders and a nighttime sequence of goblins and fleeing lovers and nightwatchmen in a crepy castle - based loosely on his interpretation of the legend of the Eve of St Agnes where if you see your lover before midnight you are destined to marry them - unbelievable and pure solid genius. Well worth a Google !


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    #128
    Rows Grower
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    Every time I get the chance to visit the Chester Beatty museum it just leaves me awestruck that such a mind blowing constantly changing exhibition of art is only a few hours drive away from my front door, it's ours and it's free.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #129
    JustAThought
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    The Wounded Poacher


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    #130
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    ATWAL


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    #131
    EmmetSpiceland
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    JustAThought wrote: »
    ATWAL

    Are you ok?

    The tide is turning…



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    #132
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Are you ok?

    haha - was trying to get rid of .01 meg to post the image of About To Write A Letter - didn’t work!! Hope springs eternal!!


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    #133
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,323 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    Every time I get the chance to visit the Chester Beatty museum it just leaves me awestruck that such a mind blowing constantly changing exhibition of art is only a few hours drive away from my front door, it's ours and it's free.

    I used to work about aninutes walk away from itnand would have my lunch on its roofgarden and look down at the snake & the potter down through the collection - netsukes? Carved Jade pieces - incredible. What a man. They gave him an Irish Passport and citizenship in thanks. How times have changed.


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    #134
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    JustAThought wrote: »
    I used to work about aninutes walk away from itnand would have my lunch on its roofgarden and look down at the snake & the potter down through the collection - netsukes? Carved Jade pieces - incredible. What a man. They gave him an Irish Passport and citizenship in thanks. How times have changed.

    You're a very lucky person and he was indeed a great, great man.

    Who knows, maybe some of the people we have recently bestowed citizenship to will be just as great if not greater.

    Hope springs eternal.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #135
    mad m
    Registered Users Posts: 9,001 ✭✭✭mad m


    https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/jack-donovan-11-c-aaa4b62b0a

    Always drawn to this. Jack Donovan


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    #136
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    Saw The Renowned Orders of the Night by Anselm Kiefer in the Guggenheim in Bilbao last year and was really taken by it

    %60the-renowned-orders-of-the-night-by-anselm-kiefer-museum-collection-guggenheim-museum-bilbao-spain-PDBKHC.jpg

    Photo doesn’t nearly do it justice but at least provides an idea of scale. I thought it was a starkly beautiful, thought-provoking piece.


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    #137
    Geuze
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    I like Las Meninas (Spanish for 'The Ladies-in-waiting'), a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez:

    The Prado in Google Earth: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22600614



    800px-Las_Meninas%2C_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg


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    #138
    Geuze
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    I also like The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

    Lamgods_open.jpg

    By Jan van Eyck - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4484562


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    #139
    Andrewf20
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    Beksinki - just love his stuff...

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    #140
    Buck_rodgers
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    <<SNIP>>


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    #141
    Capt'n Midnight
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    The Great Wave off Kanagawa

    One of the views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai it's a woodcut.


    1200px-Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg

    https://collections.mfa.org/objects/177303
    https://collections.mfa.org/objects/334906 - lots more views


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    #142
    ab4248
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    The Young Martyr - Paul Delaroche. Disturbingly beautiful


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    #143
    ILoveYourVibes
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    I think your fav art pieces reveal so much about us.


    Mine change though.

    Right now i like illustration.

    Harry Clarke Madeline.

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    Dali.

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    Chiara Bautista.

    tumblr_nctegjOku81r532l8o1_1280.jpg


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    #144
    ILoveYourVibes
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    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Beksinki - just love his stuff...


    I love him too :)


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    #145
    LeYouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭LeYouth


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    I think your fav art pieces reveal so much about us.


    Mine change though.

    Right now i like illustration.

    Harry Clarke Madeline.

    289d793679b102c4fd31e76dce1566a9.jpg


    Dali.

    f8ec61a1234b9fd8353e5f3fe784de6e.jpg


    Chiara Bautista.

    tumblr_nctegjOku81r532l8o1_1280.jpg

    Ah... you're a rare specimen (which is great!).


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    #146
    branie2
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    The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya


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    #147
    Day Lewin
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    I thought "piece of art you've seen" meant it should be one we've actually seen.

    I nominate two: someone above cited "Las Meninas" - such a famous picture, seen on calendars and postcards and chocolate boxes. But I had never liked it much or taken any notice of the hype.

    It's only when you see it in the flesh, in Madrid, that you realise how BIG it is - ten feet high by nine feet wide - and how very peculiar: the figures (what everyone looks at) are clustered in the lower third of it: the rest of the painting - square metres - are of dim shadowy ceiling and walls and a carefully painted image of the back of his own canvas.

    It seems to be saying something but I don't know what: mesmerising.

    https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/543317142527496041/


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    #148
    FVP3
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    Geuze wrote: »
    I like Las Meninas (Spanish for 'The Ladies-in-waiting'), a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez:

    The spanish really suffered for their fashion back in the day, that kind of clothing would be uncomfortable in a northern European summer.


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    #149
    Day Lewin
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    The other was this Vermeer in New York: it doesn't look like much from a print. But see it in reality, and the pearly light, the expert, confident painting, seems to glow like a moment trapped from the dawn. Exquisite.

    https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437881


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    #150
    Hammer89
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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.


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    #151
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    LeYouth wrote: »
    Ah... you're a rare specimen (which is great!).
    Ha thank you! :o


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