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Collectibles => Art => Topic started by: Golden Oxen on April 21, 2014, 09:02:43 pm

Title: Favorite Art Works of Members
Post by: Golden Oxen on April 21, 2014, 09:02:43 pm
The self portrait of Paul Gauguin shown as the avatar of the Art Board is a favorite of mine and used often as my desktop background.

The Romantic life of this painter has always fascinated me and I always go back to his works for sheer enjoyment.

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Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members Picasso - Self Portrait
Post by: Golden Oxen on April 23, 2014, 02:08:38 pm
                             
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This portrait represents the proto-cubist style -- a forerunner to cubism.
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members Maufra - Bridge over the Loire
Post by: Golden Oxen on April 27, 2014, 12:18:30 pm
Maufra never achieved as much fame as the leading impressionists, but his work is enjoyable.  A few favorites of mine.


        (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=61113)           


                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                 (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=19061)

                                                                                                     Fishing Boats on the Shore



Title: Re: Favorite Art Works - William Blake - Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils
Post by: Golden Oxen on May 07, 2014, 07:34:38 am
(http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/artists/thumbs/william-blake.jpg)
William Blake

    1757–1827
    Nationality: British

William Blake was a British poet, painter and printmaker. He was also a maverick, rebelling against authority in all its forms. This is clear from poems such as The Tyger and Jerusalem, as well as from his art, where he operated entirely outside the mainstream.

   
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                       Eve Tempted by the Serpent


     (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/gm/large/gl_gm_pc_86_large.jpg)

                      Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members - Autumn - Milton Avery
Post by: Golden Oxen on May 07, 2014, 08:09:56 am
Some Art is just pretty and pleasant to look at, relaxing a bit.

Milton Avery, a modern American painter, always appealed to me in this regard.


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                      March by the sea, 1945 ( March was the name of Milton's daughter)


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                          Gaspe Pink Sky, 1940


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                           Vermont, 1941
             
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works: Carel Victor Morlais Weight - Anger
Post by: Golden Oxen on May 25, 2014, 11:03:35 am

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                                     The Ponte alle Grazie, Florence, Italy

           
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                                           Dialogue


           (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/acc/large/acc_acc_ac_1549_large.jpg)   
                                                       The World We Live In     


          (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/wgm/large/mer_wgm_4166_large.jpg)
                                                        Underground   

Carel Victor Morlais Weight                                       
 (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/artists/thumbs/carel-victor-morlais-weight.jpg)

    1908–1997
    Nationality: British                           

(b London, 10 Sept. 1908; d London, 13 Aug. 1997). British painter. In the Second World War he served with the Royal Engineers and Army Education Corps and was appointed an Official War Artist in 1945, working in Austria, Greece, and Italy. He began teaching at the Royal College of Art in 1947 and was professor of painting there from 1967 until his retirement in 1973. Weight was something of a maverick figure (‘I don't like the art world very much.
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members
Post by: Golden Oxen on June 02, 2014, 03:15:55 pm

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     April 17, 2014: Workers handle a portrait of actress Elizabeth Taylor by legendary artist Andy Warhol during preparations for an exhibition at 'Museo Fondazione Roma' in Rome on April 16.
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members
Post by: Golden Oxen on June 02, 2014, 03:20:55 pm

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        A visitor looks at a sound & light show in Les Baux-de-Provence, France, on March 25. The show is part of the exhibition 'Klimt & Vienna, a Century of Gold & Colours,' & is uses multimedia to take visitors on a journey through 100 years of Viennese painting to the heart of the colorful works of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt & the artists he inspired.
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members - Albert Dock, Nocturne - Arthur Ballard
Post by: Golden Oxen on June 28, 2014, 11:48:25 am
Arthur Ballard, 1915 - 1994, was an exciting figure on the Liverpool art scene, an ex-boxer and lecturer at Liverpool School of Art. His work passed through many phases, returning to figurative, almost illustrative, work late in his life.   

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      (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/warg/large/nml_warg_wag_1102_large.jpg)

                                        Children Playing


         (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/wgm/large/mer_wgm_pcf_217_large.jpg)

                                         Boxers



         (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/wgm/large/mer_wgm_pcf_11_large.jpg)

                                          Still Life



          (http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/images/paintings/vgm/large/mer_vgm_2808_large.jpg)

                                         Boxers II


       
     
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members Horses
Post by: Golden Oxen on August 17, 2014, 10:03:53 am
Just hate animals, dogs and cats ugh!  Horses however, I just adore them. Nothing more appealing to me in the entire animal world. Don't know why or much care, I just love horses.   :-*

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                                 (http://www.twohorsetack.com/images/PRODUCT/large/20_6_.jpg)



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Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members - ICARUS
Post by: Golden Oxen on June 03, 2015, 12:09:38 am

 
                                                        Icarus . Son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax. Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own invention, the Labyrinth. But the great craftsman's genius would not suffer captivity. He made two pairs of wings by adhering feathers to a wooden frame with wax. Giving one pair to his son, he cautioned him that flying too near the sun would cause the wax to melt. But Icarus became ecstatic with the ability to fly and forgot his father's warning. The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea.



                                                  (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=69259)
                                                                 
The Fall of Icarus
Peter Paul Rubens - 1636


                                                  (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=397562)

The Fall of Icarus
Laurent de La Hyre - Date unknown



                                                  (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=502622)


Lament for Icarus
Herbert James Draper - 1898



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Study for Daedalus Attaching Icarus' Wings
Joseph Marie Vien - circa 1754




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Daedalus Attaching Icarus' Wings
Joseph Marie Vien - circa 1754




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Henri Matisse: The Fall of Icarus (1947)



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Icarus (Henri Matisse,1947)




Landscape with the Fall of Icarus



William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963



According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
near

the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings’ wax

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning


Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members - Paul Klee
Post by: Golden Oxen on January 13, 2019, 08:28:02 am
"Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter."
 
-Paul Klee


                                    (http://www.paulklee.net/images/paintings/Red-Balloon-1922.jpg)
                                                               The Red Balloon


                                    (https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/paul-klee/highway-and-byways-1929(1).jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                               Highways and Byways


                                    (https://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/paul-klee/fish-image-1925.jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                       Fish Image


                                     (https://uploads6.wikiart.org/images/paul-klee/monument-1929(1).jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                       Monument


                                     (https://uploads8.wikiart.org/images/paul-klee/untitled-still-life-1940(1).jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                            Still Life


                                      (https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/paul-klee/a-kind-of-cat-1937(1).jpg)
                                                        A Kind of Cat


                                      (https://uploads0.wikiart.org/images/paul-klee/characters-in-yellow-1937(1).jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                         Characters in Yellow


                                      (https://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/paul-klee/rock-chamber-1929.jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                               Rock Chamber

 Dear Readers, Left clicking on most of these image will increase their size if you wish closer study of the master works of this master abstract artist.

Hope you enjoy your Sunday Morning.


                                     


                                   
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members - Wassily Kandinsky
Post by: Golden Oxen on January 20, 2019, 04:14:56 pm

   "The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble."

-Wassily Kandinsky


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                                                      Autumn in Murnau


                                          (https://uploads5.wikiart.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/white-sound-1908.jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                             White sound   


                                           (https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/winter-landscape-1909.jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                                Winter Landscape


                                            (https://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/improvisation-31-sea-battle-1913.jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                        Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)   


                                             (https://uploads3.wikiart.org/images/wassily-kandinsky/contrasting-sounds-1924.jpg!Large.jpg)
                                                            Contrasting sounds

 
  The creator of the first modern abstract paintings, Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. In his youth, he studied law and economics at the University of Moscow, and was later hired as a professor of Roman law at the University of Dorpat in Estonia. He was 30 years old when he began his studies in painting, focusing on life drawing, sketching, and anatomy, at the University of Munich.

He was not immediately accepted into the school as an art student, and so in the meantime he began learning art by himself, gaining artistic insight from Monet’s Haystacks and Richard Wagner’s composition Lohengrin. He was also influenced by the teachings of anthroposophy
Title: Re: Favorite Art Works of Members
Post by: Surly1 on February 14, 2019, 12:16:57 pm
GO,
I had heard of Kandinsky but had never really given his work much attention. This post urges me to correct that oversight.

Many thanks.