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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    miss frida kahlo


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

    I'm so glad you introduced me to her cate. :)

    There's something really absorbing and beautiful about her work. :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    brettt whiteley...my favourite artist.


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


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


    ooh! :) If I come to visit will you take me to his studio? Please? :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    genevieve wrote:
    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.

    I'm really glad you shared! She's very talented. :)
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    ooh! :) If I come to visit will you take me to his studio? Please? :)

    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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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeanie wrote:
    I'm so glad you introduced me to her cate. :)

    There's something really absorbing and beautiful about her work. :)


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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    you wouldn't even have to ask girlie. tis my favourite space in sydney.
    then we can go have lebanese lunch at fatima's. :)


    I'm there!! :D That sounds like a perfect day to me! :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    catefrances wrote:
    haunting as well.

    Yes. :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    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. :)


    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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  • Pearler
    Pearler Posts: 191
    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.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Pearler wrote:
    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! :p

    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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  • Pearler
    Pearler Posts: 191
    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.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Pearler wrote:
    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? :)
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  • Pearler
    Pearler Posts: 191
    Geezus you go on jeanie.
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Pearler wrote:
    Geezus you go on jeanie.

    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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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    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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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    check this out! you can view da vinci's 'last supper' super up close (i'm geeking SO hard on this lol)

    http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/

    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 :(
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    check this out! you can view da vinci's 'last supper' super up close (i'm geeking SO hard on this lol)

    http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/

    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.
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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    Jeanie wrote:
    :( 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!
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    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! :D 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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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Mark Rothko

    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
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison

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