~* + The ARTY FARTY Thread + *~

Jeanie

Ok, so I thought it might be nice to have a thread purely dedicated to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions.

I figure we can share pics and links to artists and paintings that we enjoy and learn a few things too. Plus there'll be all that lovely art to look at!

So my favorite Aussie artists are Sidney Nolan and Frederick McCubbin.

Nolan's Kelly Series is my all time favorite

http://www.pictureaustralia.org/nolan/


McCubbin's Down on His Luck and the triptych The Pioneer are also firm favorites.

http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/McCubbin_downonhisluck.htm

http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/McCubbin_pioneer.htm

So who are your favorite artists?
What are your favorite paintings? sculptures? installations?
What galleries and exhibitions are in your area that you've been lucky enough to visit?
What arty farty things do you enjoy?

Allie

Jeanie wrote:

Ok, so I thought it might be nice to have a thread purely dedicated to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions.

I figure we can share pics and links to artists and paintings that we enjoy and learn a few things too. Plus there'll be all that lovely art to look at!

So my favorite Aussie artists are Sidney Nolan and Frederick McCubbin.

Nolan's Kelly Series is my all time favorite

http://www.pictureaustralia.org/nolan/


McCubbin's Down on His Luck and the triptych The Pioneer are also firm favorites.

http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/McCubbin_downonhisluck.htm

http://www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/McCubbin_pioneer.htm

So who are your favorite artists?
What are your favorite paintings? sculptures? installations?
What galleries and exhibitions are in your area that you've been lucky enough to visit?
What arty farty things do you enjoy?

LOL
Hi Jeanie
Wow those McCubbins are fantastic! They look like photographs. I've never seen them

My favorite artists are Monet and Dali

I've been to MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) http://www.moma.org/
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim,
in the city
I'm sure I've been to others but that's what I can think of off the top of my head

let's see in other cities I've been to the art museums in Ft Lauderdale.. in Buffalo, the Albright-Knox, the art museum in Seattle, SF's MoMa

of course you know I dream of seeing the Louvre, one day

you know what else I like, I like photography, I like Ansel Adams work
gosh darnit making me think now Jeanie

wolfbear

Good idea for a thread. I know there was one ages ago that D2D started, but it’s been awhile. Besides rock posters I also collect wildlife art. Below are some of my favorite artists.

http://www.mortenesolberg.com/

http://www.edtussey.com/prints.htm

http://www.johnnyjohnsonphoto.com/

http://www.collinbogle.com/

http://www.artists.ca/gallery/lynch.html

ozpjman

Im posting because the thread has the word FART in it :D:D

wolfbear

I really like these. Great colors. I just love art.
Nolan's Kelly Series is my all time favorite

http://www.pictureaustralia.org/nolan/

chiquimonkey

okay, can i say how much i *love* this thread already?!

i love so many types of art, from classical to modern - it's hard to pick a favorite. for painters i enjoy dali, monet, rembrandt, carravagio, da vinci, early picasso (blue period and early cubism), van gogh, klee, chagall, sergeant, turner. for sculptors, rodin, brancusi, michelangelo.

i adore visiting museums and have been blessed to have seen some amazing exhibits. some that immediately come to mind:

- the dali museum in figueres....seeing the landscape as my best friend and i drove there from barcelona. recognizing it from his paintings, and seeing where he was buried.

- the louvre was like performing some sort of pilgrimmage, took my breath away even though we only covered one wing in a whole day! the mona lisa was very anti-climactic for me...the painting i enjoyed more was the madonna of the rocks in the hallway outside where the mona lisa was. could get close to see the brushstrokes undisturbed.

- kunsthistorisches in vienna...seeing stuff that hitler had studied when in art school gave it a weird sorta vibe, but beautiful collection

- rodin's museum in paris, was his old house. the unfinished sculptures outside were so intriguing. like figures fighting to escape

seeing such things feeds the soul, i love it i'll share more for sure when i got more time but thats for starters hee

GraySaturday

http://www.henryloustau.com/

I love his work. He was my professor for 6 classes in College and my adviser. He is a great artist and a wonderful teacher.

Jeanie

Allie wrote:

LOL
Hi Jeanie
Wow those McCubbins are fantastic! They look like photographs. I've never seen them

My favorite artists are Monet and Dali

I've been to MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) http://www.moma.org/
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim,
in the city
I'm sure I've been to others but that's what I can think of off the top of my head

let's see in other cities I've been to the art museums in Ft Lauderdale.. in Buffalo, the Albright-Knox, the art museum in Seattle, SF's MoMa

of course you know I dream of seeing the Louvre, one day

you know what else I like, I like photography, I like Ansel Adams work
gosh darnit making me think now Jeanie

Love monet and dali!

I'm also a big fan of Munch's Scream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

I'd love to go to the guggenheim. They had an exhibition of some of the guggenheim stuff here recently. I missed it. :( And MoMa. Well actually any art gallery really. I mean the Louvre I'd love to be able to spend more time at. It's just too much to take in in one day.

Oh! and Allie? I LOVE Ansel Adams!

Jeanie

wolfbear wrote:

Good idea for a thread. I know there was one ages ago that D2D started, but it’s been awhile. Besides rock posters I also collect wildlife art. Below are some of my favorite artists.

http://www.mortenesolberg.com/

http://www.edtussey.com/prints.htm

http://www.johnnyjohnsonphoto.com/

http://www.collinbogle.com/

http://www.artists.ca/gallery/lynch.html

ah! twas dream? should have known! I remember it but couldn't find it.

Is it just me or is there something really cool about saying "tufted puffins"?

I love that picture of the lions in the tree in the jungle. But then I do love wildlife pics in general. there's something very Jungle Book about it.

Jeanie

ozpjman wrote:

Im posting because the thread has the word FART in it : D:D:D

**ding! ding! ding! ** "And the winner is!" I knew someone would be suckered in by the fart!

Allie

Jeanie wrote:

Love monet and dali!

I'm also a big fan of Munch's Scream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

I'd love to go to the guggenheim. They had an exhibition of some of the guggenheim stuff here recently. I missed it. :( And MoMa. Well actually any art gallery really. I mean the Louvre I'd love to be able to spend more time at. It's just too much to take in in one day.

Oh! and Allie? I LOVE Ansel Adams!

Oh wow! Cool! I saw a lot of his work when I lived in California.

I had a poster of that Dali, the one with the clocks that look like they're melting? Something about time and space? You must know what I mean. I have a Monet poster in my apt, I got it at Ikea Ikea has really nice artwork! I really like anything that looks celestial, it must be the Piscean thing


What's going on with the bees Jeanie?

wolfbear

Jeanie wrote:

Love monet and dali!

I'm also a big fan of Munch's Scream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

I'd love to go to the guggenheim. They had an exhibition of some of the guggenheim stuff here recently. I missed it. :( And MoMa. Well actually any art gallery really. I mean the Louvre I'd love to be able to spend more time at. It's just too much to take in in one day.

Oh! and Allie? I LOVE Ansel Adams!

I also love Ansel Adams and missed the guggenheim! I love all of these lol, it's why our walls are full and no place to put the many I have in sleeves and the many more that I know I'll buy. :( Art just makes me happy though.

chiquimonkey

dali
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/chiquimonkey/p1982_03.jpg

monet
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/chiquimonkey/MonetWaterlooBridgetempscouvert.jpg

rodin
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/chiquimonkey/rodin-cupido-psyche.jpg

and damn i forgot klimt and renoir and mucha, doy! i'll be remembering more and more i'm sure haha

norm

since jeanie mentioned him.....:)

http://www.anseladams.com/

Jeanie

wolfbear wrote:

I really like these. Great colors. I just love art.
Nolan's Kelly Series is my all time favorite

http://www.pictureaustralia.org/nolan/

Yup! Mine too! And the very first prints I ever owned!
I think my Gran's cousin married Sidney Nolan. I think it was Sidney Nolan. Might have been Arthur Boyd??? Anyway, they did live in Murrumbeena around the corner from my Gran's house.

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/angrypenguinpainters/

Allie

chiquimonkey wrote:

dali
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/chiquimonkey/p1982_03.jpg

monet
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/chiquimonkey/MonetWaterlooBridgetempscouvert.jpg

rodin
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a370/chiquimonkey/rodin-cupido-psyche.jpg

and damn i forgot klimt and renoir and mucha, doy! i'll be remembering more and more i'm sure haha

I've never seen that Dali or that Monet! Wow! Cool! Thanks Chiqui!

chiquimonkey

Allie wrote:

I've never seen that Dali or that Monet! Wow! Cool! Thanks Chiqui!

you're welcome! the museum in figueres had a bunch of those pieta paintings, i had never seen them before that, they really struck me

Allie

chiquimonkey wrote:

you're welcome! the museum in figueres had a bunch of those pieta paintings, i had never seen them before that, they really struck me

wow! What's a pieta painting?

Jeanie

chiquimonkey wrote:

okay, can i say how much i *love* this thread already?!

i love so many types of art, from classical to modern - it's hard to pick a favorite. for painters i enjoy dali, monet, rembrandt, carravagio, da vinci, early picasso (blue period and early cubism), van gogh, klee, chagall, sergeant, turner. for sculptors, rodin, brancusi, michelangelo.

i adore visiting museums and have been blessed to have seen some amazing exhibits. some that immediately come to mind:

- the dali museum in figueres....seeing the landscape as my best friend and i drove there from barcelona. recognizing it from his paintings, and seeing where he was buried.

- the louvre was like performing some sort of pilgrimmage, took my breath away even though we only covered one wing in a whole day! the mona lisa was very anti-climactic for me...the painting i enjoyed more was the madonna of the rocks in the hallway outside where the mona lisa was. could get close to see the brushstrokes undisturbed.

- kunsthistorisches in vienna...seeing stuff that hitler had studied when in art school gave it a weird sorta vibe, but beautiful collection

- rodin's museum in paris, was his old house. the unfinished sculptures outside were so intriguing. like figures fighting to escape

seeing such things feeds the soul, i love it i'll share more for sure when i got more time but thats for starters hee

Funnily I felt the same about the Mona Lisa chiq. I could only see it by craning my neck over the heads of what seemed like a bus load of asian tourists with cameras. it was like one of those crowd swarm things. I started to walk toward it and bang, this massive crowd got in front of me. God love em! And the louvre was like a pilgrimage.

chiquimonkey

Allie wrote:

wow! What's a pieta painting?

i wish i knew how to do the accent on here, it should be over the A haha it just means any painting or sculpture that has mary holding jesus after he was taken down from the cross

Jeanie

GraySaturday wrote:

http://www.henryloustau.com/

I love his work. He was my professor for 6 classes in College and my adviser. He is a great artist and a wonderful teacher.

oh! I love these!