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chiquimonkey

Jeanie wrote:

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.

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!

Allie

chiquimonkey wrote:

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

so it's pronounced like pee-ay-TAH?

OMG
that's amazing
And this was in Spain?

chiquimonkey

Allie wrote:

so it's pronounced like pee-ay-TAH?

OMG
that's amazing
And this was in Spain?

yup! here's some examples of the works we saw there: http://www.salvador-dali.org/dali/coleccio/en_50obres.html

blew our minds. being in the town he was born just added a whole other level of feeling connected too

Allie

chiquimonkey wrote:

yup! here's some examples of the works we saw there: http://www.salvador-dali.org/dali/coleccio/en_50obres.html

blew our minds. being in the town he was born just added a whole other level of feeling connected too

OMG Chiqui! That's amazing! I want to go!
Wow!
Thank you so much!

Jeanie

Allie wrote:

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?

The Persistence of Memory?

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79018

Its a great pic!

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!

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=Henri+Toulouse+Lautrec&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

I also adore Degas. Especially the dancer pictures. But that might have something to do with all that ballet I did as a kid!

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=Degas+pics&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title


oh and I updated the bee thread.

decides2dream

ahhhhhhhh....coolness! :cool:


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.....;)


so indeed....an old thread:
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=162919
lot of great stuff/links in it, and when i have the time...i'll be sure to return here with some fresh stuff.



btw - absolutely come and see the guggenheim museum, love it!
also MoMA.....2 faves of mine.....altho i've never been in an art museum i didn't like.

Jeanie

wolfbear wrote:

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.

ha! You sound like you live at my place wb! I keep wanting to buy a bigger house just for the hanging space! Not so much the cleaning though!

Mum has a book here on him I think and I did see this really great documentary on him on the ABC a while ago. I've never forgotten it or him.
Me and the guggenheim have got a date though, so at some point I will see it!

geishagrrl

Here's some people I like:

Mark Ryden
Kathy Olivas
Lori Earley
Greg Simkins aka Craola
Joel Peter Witkin
Joyce Tenneson
Jon J Muth
Kent Williams

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.

Jeanie

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

Sorry chiq! This is typically bogun Australian of me, but you can't mention Renoir in my vacinity without this song going through my head instantly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPFVlLfDxeA

Tis the clean version, but the opening line is :

Went down to Santa Fe, where Renoir paints the walls,
described you clearly, but the sky began to fall

Am I ever gonna see your face again?

I won't go into the chant part of the chorus we all sing here and bring the thread down to a lowbrow level.

Jeanie

cutback wrote:

since jeanie mentioned him.....:)

http://www.anseladams.com/

aaah! thanks sweetie. I do love his stuff!

Jeanie

chiquimonkey wrote:

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!

Jeanie

decides2dream wrote:

ahhhhhhhh....coolness! : cool:


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.....; )


so indeed....an old thread:
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=162919
lot of great stuff/links in it, and when i have the time...i'll be sure to return here with some fresh stuff.



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?

genevieve

Oh man sooo many artists I love.
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

Allie

Jeanie wrote:

The Persistence of Memory?

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79018

Its a great pic!

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!

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=Henri+Toulouse+Lautrec&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title

I also adore Degas. Especially the dancer pictures. But that might have something to do with all that ballet I did as a kid!

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=Degas+pics&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title


oh and I updated the bee thread.

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!

Allie

Jeanie wrote:

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!

<sigh>

I imagine very cool indeed

catefrances

miss frida kahlo


http://www.fbuch.com/fridaby.htm

catefrances

brettt whiteley...my favourite artist.


http://www.artquotes.net/masters/whiteley_paintings.htm


http://www.artquotes.net/masters/whiteley/studio.htm

Jeanie

geishagrrl wrote:

Here's some people I like:

Mark Ryden
Kathy Olivas
Lori Earley
Greg Simkins aka Craola
Joel Peter Witkin
Joyce Tenneson
Jon J Muth
Kent Williams

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!

Jeanie

genevieve wrote:

Oh man sooo many artists I love.
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

they're gorgeous genevieve! I love them.

genevieve

Jeanie wrote:

they're gorgeous genevieve! I love them.

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.