yeah it was like she was this celebrity with all these people clamouring to see her, and flash bulbs going off. had a paparazzi vibe to it. i felt bad for the other paintings in that room, talk about fighting for attention lol
i'd love to spend a lot of time in paris and visit every wing in the louvre...might take me a whole week!
YUP!! That's it exactly!! I just felt like someone had sent a text message to all these people to collect in front of it just because I was coming. Like those performance artists do, you know? The name of it escapes me, but they just come out of nowhere when they get the message. Stand there and then disperse just as mysteriously as they appeared. There's been a bit of it around here the last few years. It's really quite something to see.
How cool would it be to just LIVE in Paris? And wander into the Louvre anytime you felt like? I could truly love that life! Even if it was only for a few months. But yeah, I could get used to that pretty darn quick!
well, i am just popping in for a bit this evening, so no time to hunt up faves at the moment...and been a crazy 2 weeks at work, ack! next week i can return to my post-whoring ways.....; )
btw - absolutely come and see the guggenheim museum, love it! : D
also MoMA.....2 faves of mine.....altho i've never been in an art museum i didn't like.
ah dream girl! Thanks for the link! I knew there'd been a thread about art I just couldn't find it. So cool that you posted. Thank you.
Yeah, guggenheim is definitely on my list of things to do before I die. And MoMA too. And yeah, never been to a gallery I didn't like! What's not to like?
I love Henri Toulouse Lautrec. I read a book about him when I was a kid and it forged a deep, life long addiction for the Moulin Rouge! I so wanted to be a dancer there! Even with no knickers!
How cool would it be to just LIVE in Paris? And wander into the Louvre anytime you felt like? I could truly love that life! Even if it was only for a few months. But yeah, I could get used to that pretty darn quick!
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My husband and I collect original comic book art or art related to comics.
I'm also a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites and John Wiliam Waterhouse. Also Art Nouveau as movement. And of course, Japanese art.
I feel very lucky to live not terribly far from DC so we have several museums to choose from if we feel like seeing art and many of them are free. I think the last exhibit we saw was of Edo period Japanese art, including some woodblocks of Hokusai.
OH! These are awesome geisha. Well the first two links that I clicked on anyway! I'll have to sit here quietly later and look through them properly but I LOVE the first two so far!
Truth be told its weird to see them out for sale.
I grew up with boxes of prints and art cards around me.
She is one of the better know native artists in canada and that is something for sure. Not everyones cup o' tea but thought I would share.
the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
Truth be told its weird to see them out for sale.
I grew up with boxes of prints and art cards around me.
She is one of the better know native artists in canada and that is something for sure. Not everyones cup o' tea but thought I would share.
Yes, it would be hard to see them for sale. My Nan paints and did my great grandad and it was always hard to see their stuff for sale at exhibitions. Like giving away a little piece of them.
So I watched this doco last night on the ABC about Carol Jerrems, all new to me. I'd never heard of her, but then that's not saying much!
Anyway, I was completely taken with her photography, just such an amazing peek into the world I grew up in. The pictures are beautiful and capture the times with such clarity. I wish I could find more of the pictures that were shown in the doco, because some of them were just magic, but I thoroughly recommend getting your hands on a copy of the doco if you can, especially if you grew up in Australia in the working class suburbs in the 70s.
I also found many of her photographs documenting her illness and subsequent stays in hospital, well they just really hit a chord with me. Thought I'd share.
I really cant comprehend this extroadinarily expensive fascination some have with painted works of art. Some it is nice to look at, but I just cant justify some of the prices paid for this stuff.
Maybe I can take up painting. Like music, you really only need one "hit" to pay the bills for the rest of your life.
Photography is my forte. You should see some of the photos I have taken of my exes.... um, no, maybe you shouldnt.
I really cant comprehend this extroadinarily expensive fascination some have with painted works of art. Some it is nice to look at, but I just cant justify some of the prices paid for this stuff.
Maybe I can take up painting. Like music, you really only need one "hit" to pay the bills for the rest of your life.
Did you look at the photos? There's boobies!
I don't think it's right that the rich have been able to hijack art and push prices up either, particularly when the artist didn't benefit from the sale.
And it offends me no end when wealthy people are able to outbid public galleries for art work that should be shared by all. Having said that, I have no problem with artists being paid accordingly for their work. I don't think the idea behind art is to be creative with the plan of getting rich quick. And probably just as well or we'd never have seen the kinds of fabulous art that we have.
From what I understand, I can do a painting, put it in a gallery and name my price. After that, what the next owner does with it is their perogative.
I suppose the aim would be to be getting top dollar for your paintings before you snuff it.
From what I understand, I can do a painting, put it in a gallery and name my price. After that, what the next owner does with it is their perogative.
I suppose the aim would be to be getting top dollar for your paintings before you snuff it.
Well, you could name your price, but if people aren't interested in your art, it's not going to do you much good. And most art goes up in value after the artist has died anyway. Most artists don't paint or create with the almighty dollar in mind. To them it is an expression of their creativity and something that they have to do. And luckily for the rest of us, we get to see that and enjoy it.
Anyway, pearler the point of the thread was to share art. There must be some art that you like?
i dont understand the wild price values attributed to art either. i mean seriously is a painting really worth 77 million dollars. i don't think so. and i don't care who painted it. all's i know is what i like and thats enough for me.
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*edit* on the high prices on art, what i love lately is how banksy has been making a ton on his stuff thru the auction houses. he rules
and i love visiting sotheby's and christie's sites to see what is going on the block, just cuz it might be the last time i could see this stuff before it's closeted away in some rich fuck's house :(
*edit* on the high prices on art, what i love lately is how banksy has been making a ton on his stuff thru the auction houses. he rules
and i love visiting sotheby's and christie's sites to see what is going on the block, just cuz it might be the last time i could see this stuff before it's closeted away in some rich fuck's house :(
:( My puter's cracking up!!!
Not to mention I have zero skill with those zoom in and out buttons. But I'll keep trying chiq. I wanna know who's singing. It's sounds SOOO much like Katie Noonan.
Not that I'm a fan of the rich fucks and their excesses, but some of them do loan these paintings out for the rest of us mere mortals to see from time to time.
:( My puter's cracking up!!!
Not to mention I have zero skill with those zoom in and out buttons. But I'll keep trying chiq. I wanna know who's singing. It's sounds SOOO much like Katie Noonan.
Not that I'm a fan of the rich fucks and their excesses, but some of them do loan these paintings out for the rest of us mere mortals to see from time to time.
oh sorry, didn't mean to kill your computer! they took the pic with a 16 *billion* pixel camera :eek:
i didn't even know they went over 10 pixels haha
the music is beautiful. the credits mention this for it: Swingle Singers
J. S. Bach - Largo dal "Concerto per clavicembalo in Fa minore" http://www.swinglesingers.com
and yeah, it's nice that some rich folks do lend out their collections. there's just something sad about an amazing piece of art being stuck in a library away from the rest of the world. even if i had the money to buy a piece, i'd feel bad keeping it all to myself. i've seen some stuff on the auction sites and thought wow, *everybody* should see this before it goes in hiding!
oh sorry, didn't mean to kill your computer! they took the pic with a 16 *billion* pixel camera : eek:
i didn't even know they went over 10 pixels haha
the music is beautiful. the credits mention this for it: Swingle Singers
J. S. Bach - Largo dal "Concerto per clavicembalo in Fa minore" http://www.swinglesingers.com
and yeah, it's nice that some rich folks do lend out their collections. there's just something sad about an amazing piece of art being stuck in a library away from the rest of the world. even if i had the money to buy a piece, i'd feel bad keeping it all to myself. i've seen some stuff on the auction sites and thought wow, *everybody* should see this before it goes in hiding!
Nah it's all good girl. I'll get the bugger looking at it even if it kills it! I mean it's the Last Supper for feck's sake! Get with the program puter!
ah, not Ms Noonan then, but gee it sounds like her. Very pretty. I like it. Will suss them out some more those swingle singers.
Wouldn't you just love to be filthy rich chiq, so you could buy ALL the art and donate the lot to galleries around the world? I'm no fan of exclusivity taking over. Art is for everyone. Thank goodness Michaelangelo painted on a building hey?
Did you check out Carol Jerram's photos ^ ? I'm curious to see what you thought of them.
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YUP!! That's it exactly!!
How cool would it be to just LIVE in Paris? And wander into the Louvre anytime you felt like?
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ah dream girl!
Yeah, guggenheim is definitely on my list of things to do before I die.
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Degas, Monet, Michealangelo, Norval Morriseau, Geiger, Brian Froud, Alan Lee, Robert Bateman, Daniel Smith...
But heres something close to home for me.
My mother is a very well known native artist here in canada.
So heres a link to her site.
http://www.wtc.mb.ca/mp/2006/monique/cyrette/index.html
That's the Dali painting, yes! Thanks Jeanie! That's my favorite one
I've seen Lautrec and Degas too! They are nice
That one about the black cat, I just saw a reprint of it in Target!
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I imagine very cool indeed
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http://www.artquotes.net/masters/whiteley/studio.htm
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OH! These are awesome geisha. Well the first two links that I clicked on anyway! I'll have to sit here quietly later and look through them properly but I LOVE the first two so far!
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they're gorgeous genevieve!
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Truth be told its weird to see them out for sale.
I grew up with boxes of prints and art cards around me.
She is one of the better know native artists in canada and that is something for sure. Not everyones cup o' tea but thought I would share.
I'm so glad you introduced me to her cate.
There's something really absorbing and beautiful about her work.
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ooh!
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Yes, it would be hard to see them for sale. My Nan paints and did my great grandad and it was always hard to see their stuff for sale at exhibitions. Like giving away a little piece of them.
I'm really glad you shared! She's very talented.
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you wouldn't even have to ask girlie. tis my favourite space in sydney.
then we can go have lebanese lunch at fatima's.
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haunting as well.
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Yes.
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Anyway, I was completely taken with her photography, just such an amazing peek into the world I grew up in. The pictures are beautiful and capture the times with such clarity. I wish I could find more of the pictures that were shown in the doco, because some of them were just magic, but I thoroughly recommend getting your hands on a copy of the doco if you can, especially if you grew up in Australia in the working class suburbs in the 70s.
I also found many of her photographs documenting her illness and subsequent stays in hospital, well they just really hit a chord with me.
http://www.nga.gov.au/federation/Detail.cfm?WorkID=96378
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140647b.htm
http://abc.net.au/programsales/studyguide/StGd_GirlInAMirror.pdf
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Maybe I can take up painting. Like music, you really only need one "hit" to pay the bills for the rest of your life.
Photography is my forte. You should see some of the photos I have taken of my exes.... um, no, maybe you shouldnt.
Did you look at the photos?
I don't think it's right that the rich have been able to hijack art and push prices up either, particularly when the artist didn't benefit from the sale.
And it offends me no end when wealthy people are able to outbid public galleries for art work that should be shared by all. Having said that, I have no problem with artists being paid accordingly for their work. I don't think the idea behind art is to be creative with the plan of getting rich quick. And probably just as well or we'd never have seen the kinds of fabulous art that we have.
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I suppose the aim would be to be getting top dollar for your paintings before you snuff it.
Well, you could name your price, but if people aren't interested in your art, it's not going to do you much good. And most art goes up in value after the artist has died anyway. Most artists don't paint or create with the almighty dollar in mind. To them it is an expression of their creativity and something that they have to do. And luckily for the rest of us, we get to see that and enjoy it.
Anyway, pearler the point of the thread was to share art. There must be some art that you like?
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Yeah, you've enlightened me so many times with your contributions too.
You're welcome to bugger off out of the thread and ignore me.
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here's the news article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_en_ot/the_last_supper_online_13
you can see the underdrawing, DUDE
*edit* on the high prices on art, what i love lately is how banksy has been making a ton on his stuff thru the auction houses. he rules
and i love visiting sotheby's and christie's sites to see what is going on the block, just cuz it might be the last time i could see this stuff before it's closeted away in some rich fuck's house :(
:( My puter's cracking up!!!
Not to mention I have zero skill with those zoom in and out buttons. But I'll keep trying chiq. I wanna know who's singing. It's sounds SOOO much like Katie Noonan.
Not that I'm a fan of the rich fucks and their excesses, but some of them do loan these paintings out for the rest of us mere mortals to see from time to time.
*~You're IT Bert!~*
Hold on to the thread
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i didn't even know they went over 10 pixels haha
the music is beautiful. the credits mention this for it: Swingle Singers
J. S. Bach - Largo dal "Concerto per clavicembalo in Fa minore"
http://www.swinglesingers.com
and yeah, it's nice that some rich folks do lend out their collections. there's just something sad about an amazing piece of art being stuck in a library away from the rest of the world. even if i had the money to buy a piece, i'd feel bad keeping it all to myself. i've seen some stuff on the auction sites and thought wow, *everybody* should see this before it goes in hiding!
Nah it's all good girl. I'll get the bugger looking at it even if it kills it!
ah, not Ms Noonan then, but gee it sounds like her. Very pretty. I like it. Will suss them out some more those swingle singers.
Wouldn't you just love to be filthy rich chiq, so you could buy ALL the art and donate the lot to galleries around the world? I'm no fan of exclusivity taking over. Art is for everyone. Thank goodness Michaelangelo painted on a building hey?
Did you check out Carol Jerram's photos ^ ? I'm curious to see what you thought of them.
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http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/classic1.shtm
Paul Klee
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Klee.html
Howard Hodgkin
http://www.howardhodgkin.org.uk/gallery.asp
I also enjoy illustration, especially Maurice Sendak:
'Where the Wild Things Are'
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0060254920/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-5112839-7653455#
'In the Night Kitchen'
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0060266686/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-5112839-7653455#reader-link
Pauline Baynes:
http://www.eq5.net/lewis/bkcovers.html
and William Blake:
http://blake-dev.lib.unc.edu/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=s-inn.b.illbk.02&java=yes
- the great Sir Leo Harrison