***The OFFICIAL Weekend Singles Thread*** July 18 - 20 "ART"

18th July 2008 | Snugs

[snugs]

We have had several threads on music and food but not art I thought tonight we could discuss what works of art you enjoy.

Art can be very subjective what some people love other hate, what some consider a scribble a daub on a paper other consider a masterpiece.

Then there are certain pieces of art that are universally accepted and admired.

What are your favourite works of art or type of art?

Maybe it is a sculpture or some fine art?

On the other hand maybe architecture is your bent?

Tonight's questions

What is your favourite painting?

What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?

If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?

If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose?

[snugs]

My favourite painting is Constable's Hay wain

The most famous painting I have seen is the Mona Lisa, here is my photo of it

If I could choose to have an artistic talent I think it would be the ability to draw or paint. A fellow freeper silent_jonny has this ability and for my birthday a couple of year ago sent me a pastel of a photo that I posted of myself age about 6 or 7. It is one of my treasured possessions.

I do not really have a particular place either country or museum that I would choose to go to and feel very fortunate to live not that far from London or Paris which house some of the greatest works of art in the world.

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[txroadkill]

Insert picture of dogs playing poker or velvet Elvis painting here.

[cripplecreek]

It isn't "fine" art but my girlfriend seems to like the photoshop doodles I make for her.



We were planning on going to the art fair in Ann Arbor this weekend but we're both sick of being on the run and will be renting a DVD and having a pizza instead.

[proudofthesouth]

The kind of art I like are framed photographs of landscapes - preferably trees or winter or autumn scenes. I've got several leaf wind chimes (ceramic and copper) that I've hung up on the walls of my home and they actually look nice. (Not cheap or tacky!)

[Twinkie]

“The Boy in the Torn Hat” -

A portrait of a young blond boy in a torn straw hat, a hat he would one day remove and replace with a soldier’s hat, a soldier’s helmet. The eyes under the brim of the old straw hat would take on the “thousand yard stare” of the hardened combat veteran. - The boy might fall on a battlefield in some distant land, or perhaps he would, by some miracle, survive and return home, trading the soldier’s hat and the helmet of battle for a tradesman’s hat . . praying that one day it would no longer be necessary for any young wearer of a torn straw hat to endure the hell that is war. - Pray for peace.

Twinkie

[Mmogamer]

Well I like Hieronymus Bosch, I dont know how to post a pic tho.. hes a sorta medieval surrealist..

[cripplecreek]

I’ve always liked MC Escher.

[Mmogamer]

Oh.. hes good too..

[snugs]

Here you go

[Damifino]

(I'm not single. Can I post anyway?)

Here's one I've always liked. it's called "The Helping Hand" by Emile Renouf:

Here's Another, "The Rising Wind" by Montigue Dawson

This last one is my mom's favorite (she is 86 now). A print of it has been in the house forever. We didn't know much about it until recently. A friend saw it and told her the story; the little girl is actually the daughter of the artist. The story is she is blind and listening to the bird song. It is called "Spring Song" by Glucklich.

I don't know if the story is true, if you look closely you'll see the girl's eyes are closed. When my mom tells the story it still makes her cry.

[Mmogamer]

Heh nice.. I like the Haywain and the Garden of Earthly delights,,,

[cripplecreek]

My great grandmother had that pic of the girl and the Robbin hanging in her dining room all of my life. It hangs in my grandmother’s living room today.

Apparently they were sold by traveling salesmen in the 20s or 30s.

[snugs]

Course you can post the more the merrier. We have many non singles post and hang out here.

Whilst we often have subjects that are based more on singles we do as tonight have general themes which is just an opportunity for a group of FRiends to chat and get to know each other better.

[krunkygirl]

body art?!

[krunkygirl]

you have “krunky” (bad!) taste... lol

[DocRock]

Here is one I made and keep on my homepage of the first shots of the revolution. It is my favorite as it shows the true intent of our Founders regarding the 2nd Amendment.

[DocRock]

Forgot to mention, when I say “I made”, that should read “I photo shopped”.

[AntiKev]

Being a pilot, I'm a big aviation art fan.

One of the best is actually a local artist (to me) Ron Suchiu.

This:

is hanging in my living room right now. Great art of a Canadian icon that should have been.

[radiohead]

Are you near A2?! I like the Art Fair as an idea, and have bought some nice things, but it is just too crowded and busy for me. The older I get, the less I can deal with crowds.

We have an Art Fair here in Iowa City, similar to A2’s. I liked it a lot better because it’s smaller. Same kinda stuff, just fewer people. : )

[snugs]

That reminds me a picture of a girl and dog that we had on our biscuit barrel (cookie jar) when I was a child

[wastedyears]

Frank Frezetta

[cripplecreek]

Yeah I’m one county over from Ann Arbor. We’d love to go but we went to the UP for two weeks over the 4th and my girlfriend has been running for work pretty steady ever since and just needs a nice quiet night at home.

[radiohead]

What is your favourite painting?

No real favorites. I like a lot of different styles and artists. After years of shaking my head at Jackson Pollock and not understanding a thing, I think I kinda get it now and can at least look at his work in an effort to understand, rather than dismissing it. I recently read about the Bloomsbury group and fell in love with the art of Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant. I was familiar with the writers of Bloomsbury, but not the artists or their efforts to make artistic home decor.

What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?

Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother (otherwise known as 'Whistler's Mother'). I've seen paintings by Van Gogh and Rembrandt in Amsterdam and many works of art at the Tate and other galleries in London. What a city for art!

If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?

Potter. I'd love to be able to create usable art.

If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose?

Asia, to see the variety of temples there.

[radiohead]

My son used to go to Dexter, and then up to the UP in the summer w/his grandparents. On the Finnish side of my late husband’s family, they have farms and stuff in the UP and he would tell tales of the family sauna.

I always thought it a little funny that his grandmother, a strict Finnish Apostolic Lutheran - no drinking, no card playing, no nothing apparently, had no problem w/everyone sitting buck naked together in the sauna. : )

[toothfairy86]

I was in Florida last week and went to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. Let’s just say that he had “issues” with women, but he was a genius of an artist. I went there several years ago, but they seem to rotate some of the paintings periodically. I took a course in “American Art” in college many moons ago, but I seem to prefer the surrealists. The woman explaining the paintings at the museum said that Dali didn’t do drugs or drink and that he loved life.

[slugbug]

I like Americana art-Charles Wysocki is a favorite of mine. I like this one in particular: I also like seascapes and Civil War art by Dale Gallon and Mort Kuntsler...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Picking a favorite is easy for me: Salvador Dali, whether it is the benign, kooky posters I hung in my dorm room 20 years ago, or the salacious imagery in a book on him that I have.

Other favorites are wallpapers from Markus Gann (3dsceneries.com), Jason Godby (jg-art.com) and Ryan Bliss (digitalblasphemy.com).

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

He’s another favorite of mine from the non-electronic world.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

body art?!

As long as the "canvas" bears a resemblance to Anna Kournikova, Catherine Zeta-Jones, or some such. And no Code Pink member canvasses allowed! Those make the artist go blind.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I checked your profile. Makes me wish I was about 20 years older (I’m 41) so I could properly date you.

[WFTR]

The kind of art I like are framed photographs of landscapes - preferably trees or winter or autumn scenes. I've got several leaf wind chimes (ceramic and copper) that I've hung up on the walls of my home and they actually look nice. (Not cheap or tacky!)

Your tastes sound similar to mine. I don't have chimes around the house, but the idea seems attractive.

[WFTR]

body art?!

LOLOLOL I've missed you!!!

[WFTR]

We certainly welcome non-singles, and you seem to know this topic. Thanks for joining the discussion.

[WFTR]

I like it. I just wish that guy were shooting instead of posing.

[DollyCali]

Hello everyone. Great theme Idea Eleanor.. and I am sure we will see the gamut of sharing of preferences.. I LOVE the pix jonny did for you.. well, I like ALL of his work

I enjoy & appreciate so much varied art.. Dali, the impressionists, etc. The contemporary Tom Kincaid -- the artist of "light" is a favorite of mine.

So much of my original artwork has been destroyed by being :"stored" rather than hung properly. I get to big museums ((cleveland, Chicago, DC etc) often & so see much of the original "good stuff" . I have a lot of original oils, pastels etc but none by famous people (yet)

the Cleveland Museum of Art has an outstanding collection

I do hope that everyone has a great weekend. Been hectic/crazy here & have been out of town & now dealing with some other issues on the homefront - I will make the effort to stop by & see everyone's preferences (hopefully with pix).

[WFTR]

Potter. I'd love to be able to create usable art.

I wouldn't have thought of that one initially, but that's a neat answer.

[retrokitten]

That is my favorite silent_jonny work, too. I am in awe of his talent.

I enjoy all sorts of art. I have a Louis Icart print Rainbow that I just love. There is an artist called Shag who I also enjoy. I have 2 of his serigraphs, The Sky Lounge and The Pick-Up. I tend to like the surrealists, because it's like they take our night-time dreams and put them on a canvas. My favorite is Magritte. Although, I also like the Pre-Raphaelites, too. Time Transfixed

The most famous work of art I've ever seen is The Persistence of Memory (the melting clocks) by Salvador Dali. I was shocked at how small it is! I guess because it's so famous, I had imagined it large. One of the nice things about living near Chicago is being able to visit The Art Institute. They have Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, American Gothic by Grant Wood, Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (which is so big and so realistic that it's almost unnerving), and Van Gogh's Self-Portrait.

[WFTR]

I'm not well versed in the "finer things of life" such as great art, and I'm afraid that I have little ambition to change this part of me. I'd rather be able to identify a warbler in the woods than a painting in a museum. However, I can appreciate beautiful things and the effort to create them, and I've seen some nice pictures occasionally. This topic is a good idea. Thank you for thinking of this one and hosting this thread.

What are your favourite works of art or type of art? Maybe it is a sculpture or some fine art?

My grandmother on my mom's side was an artist, and my sister inherited that talent. One of my favorite paintings is one that my grandmother did of the pasture at her home. That one is a favorite because of the memories I have of growing up and visiting my grandparents' farm. I have a painting she did of a beach in Florida.

I mostly enjoy landscapes and other pictures that capture a scene or paintings of birds or other wildlife. I have a print that I purchased here in Louisiana of a fishing boat coming into the bayou. While the picture doesn't capture scenes that I've seen a great deal, the picture does remind me of neat things that I've seen here in Louisiana. I have some Ray Harm pictures of birds. My aunt once taught Robert Redden in high school, and she gave me some of his bird prints that he had given her. I don't know whether anyone would have heard of these two, but I enjoy their pictures. I have one Audubon. I have a Peter Hurd print that had belonged to my grandparents, but I can't find it online. I like this kind of nature and rural scenery art.

What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?

I've seen some Frederic Remington paintings in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. I don't remember which ones they were, but I enjoyed much of the art there.

If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?

While radiohead gave a neat answer about being a potter in order to create works of art that were also useful, I would end up choosing to be an artist if I were to be suddenly gifted with some kind of talent. As an artist, I could go into the great outdoors without taking too much equipment and come back with something beautiful. Being an artist would give me another way to share some of my outdoor experiences with people.

Bill

[LaineyDee]

I love Thomas Kincaid and have about 5 of his pieces hanging in the house.... Just ......beautiful. :)

[LaineyDee]

I would probably like to be a sculptor...since I'm expressive with my hands.....

I've never seen a famous painting in person....but I have a favorite print of Raphael's Sistine Cherubs hanging in my office.....and an antique print of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "Young Girl Reading".....in my bedroom.

If I could go anywhere.....I'd love to go to the Louvre... Someday...some way.....I will. :)

[DaveLoneRanger]

I think modern-day art can be something as simple as lolcats, and "Fail" / "yer doin it wrong" signs. But I'm limited on what I consider art. IE, "Crucifix in Urine" is not art.

My all-time favorite painting is "Godspeed" by Edmund Blair Leighton: I also like plenty of his other works, and in general, anything of the Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic art genres.

Norman Rockwell was a genius, I have a big coffee table book of his works. The detail and intricacy is awesome.

[Moonmad27]

Interesting questions - thanks for starting this thread!

What is your favourite painting?
Rene Magritte’s “The Empire of Lights” (followed by Edward Ruscha’s pop art “Los Angeles County Museum of Art On Fire”)

What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
Michelangelo’s Moses, I guess, unless you count the Rosetta Stone as a work of art!

If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
A sculptor.

If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose

Pompeii

[Moonmad27]

Glad to find someone else who likes Magritte. My favorite place in my hometown Houston is the Menil Museum, packed with his famous work since they were friends of his. I clearly remember being taken to Magritte exhibits when I was a kid in Houston - started a lifelong appreciation!

[proudofthesouth]

The wind chimes that I have up on the walls are copper leaves and ceramic leaves. The colors in the ceramic one match perfectly to a rug that I have only a few feet from it.

They don't look tacky whatsoever.

Hobby Lobby (don't know if you have that where you are) is where I've bought most of them. This summer though their selection wasn't as nice (the designs were not as good) as in year's past but I'm hoping next year they will have nice, well made designed ones again.

[retrokitten]

Years ago my mom had a subscription to Art and Antiques and they had an article about Magritte and that's what got me interested.

When I was looking up the name of Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (I could picture it, but not the name or artist), I was going through different pages at the Art Institute of Chicago website. They actually own Time Transfixed, but it's not on display! Time Transfixed at AIC

[Hyzenthlay]

What is your favourite painting?
I don’t know... I like lots of paintings. MC Escher is probably one of my favorite artists, though. And I love love LOVE fractals, even though they aren’t ‘art’, they’re still amazing looking.

What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
Probably Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ in the MoMA in NY. It’s smaller than you think...

If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
Artist. Actually, I’m not half bad at art, and I really enjoy chalk pastels or charcoal, and I have a propensity for photography but not the camera for it =(

If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose?
Hmmm... right now, I really want to go to the Met to see their superhero exhibit, and I wouldn’t mind taking a look at the impressionist and design and technology section in the MoMA again, but since I can go to NYC on my own time and very limited budget, I’d have to go to the Louvre in Paris if I got the chance to go anywhere in the world. Or maybe Giza... I like the Egyptian stuff that the Met has, and I’d LOVE to see it out in its original settings.

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Back in 2000 for my 40th birthday a spent 2 days in Paris during that time I went to Louvre as well as the actual museum there are also some wonderful grounds near the building with wonderful scultures and flowers and a very interesting glass entrance building to the museum all of which I call art.

Here a few photos

[A knight without armor]

I guess I love all art pictures. I don't know the names or categories but for examples the pictures shown here on this thread.

I enjoy pouring over the art work of Bev Doolittle. She makes pictures of American Indians and their environment. She does not just make a lovely picture but she incorporates images within the picture that makes you keep looking and looking and seeing more and more. One of her little series is of a cowboy shaving in the mirror on a tree and one has to watch in the mirror to see the changes. I like to go to her website and look at the galleries and click on them and study the enlargements. It is kind of a stress reliever for me once in a while. Even though I'm sure I'm older than she is, I'm just like a child and I wish I could grow up to be her! I can't half describe things so here is the link if you want to look :

http://www.bnr-art.com/doolitt/