favorite artists & artworks

Check out this stuff...not so heavy as some of the stuff that has been posted...

I am sure everyone has seen some of will's work somewhere...

http://www.willrafuse.com

nice choices there civ! picked some really classic works, and also some true faves of mine as well. is that a decoupage piece? cool stuff.

birth of venus always reminds me of my study trip in florence. i did a massive paper on botticelli. gorgeous seeing so much of his work for real.

cool civ what a great idea :D:D

and sennin (hi) nice i like the cubists too nice classic stuff :D

decides2dream wrote:

nice choices there civ! picked some really classic works, and also some true faves of mine as well. is that a decoupage piece? cool stuff.

birth of venus always reminds me of my study trip in florence. i did a massive paper on botticelli. gorgeous seeing so much of his work for real.

Yah, I decoupaged it... it's looking kinda crummy now though, becuase all the sections shrunk as they dried, and now it has all those white gaps, which it didn't before...

I saw Birth of Venus at the Ufizzi as well! (my mom and I like to call it "Venus on the Half Shell") It was cool to see the Botticiellis in person... well worth the early morning line-up to get into the gallery!

I can't believe I never saw this section. So this is what happens when you hit 30,. . . I really am blind in my old age.

Let's see favorite artists... I have a million, but if I had to choose a few contemporary ones I'd say:

Cecily Brown - http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/finch/finch2-18-1.asp

Chris Sauter - http://www.artnet.com/artwork/423982301/chris-sauter-untitled.html

Rachel Whiteread - http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/98/whiteread_98.html

Anselm Kiefer - http://people.eku.edu/falkenbergs/arthistory/kiefer/mstrsngr.jpg

I don't know how to paste photos in here, so if anyone wants to help me with this please pm me.

I thought it was high time was brought this thread back to the top....

This weekend, I was at the Sandra Ainsley Gallery (http://www.sandraainsleygallery.com/) Which, incidently, I have decided is my favorite gallery in the world, and one of the most beautiful spots in all of Toronto....

Anyways, while i was there, I saw a piece similar to this one... and I was speachless.... i mean... i couldn't describe it... i was stammering, trying to believe what i was seeing.... just read the description - you'll be blown away...




Max, 2006

Media, Size: Thread, nails; 60 x 40

"Miles of thread and thousand of nails are the matter of Kim Kamens' newest body of work. At a distance, these black and white images appear to be charcoal or pencil drawings, but upon closer inspection, the labor intensive madness of the artist is revealed. Each "drawing" is composed of miles of sewing thread bridging nail heads to create a highly rendered image. She connects these points repeatedly until she achieves the desired tone and form. This is quite a departure from the large colorful hand-carved relief panels of her previous sculptural series.

Kamens is a graduate of Tyler School of the Arts and has a degree in glass. She is inspired by her relationships with the people around her and tries to translate those experiences and emotions into her work."

civ...that is very cool, albeit rather freaky! haha. thanks for updating this, i've been rather amiss with my art wall contributions as of late...my only excuse is, i'ts SUMMER..so i am out in the garden! :cool: i'm sure to add to the list moreso...so much art to love.

pearlwax wrote:

In the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa hangs my all time favorite painting. One I could stare at for hours and hours. It's called 'Fighting withing one' and is by an artist called Gizachew Kebede. When I saw it hanging there, I felt like I had seen it before. It's beautiful and it is the prefect visualisation of the title. Unfortunately I can't find any pictures of it and I didn't take any myself in the musem cause I was sure I'd find some in the net. Not

Still, it's the most beautiful piece of art I've ever seen. I'd love to have a copy/print of it in my house.

that sounds really exciting pearlwax! it's always a great feeling to be caught breathless by a work of art....

i wish there was a picture of it somewhere! i'd love to see it.

i did a quick search myself, and couldn't come up with anything either....

civ_eng_girl wrote:

that sounds really exciting pearlwax! it's always a great feeling to be caught breathless by a work of art....

i wish there was a picture of it somewhere! i'd love to see it.

i did a quick search myself, and couldn't come up with anything either....

Yeah, it was. I'm just sorry I didn't take picture. I did another search and found this by a Gizachew Kebde - the middle e not being there is common, so I think it's the same artist.

http://makushethiopianartgallery.com/Gizachew.htm

The one painting I'm talking about isn't there - just my luck, but seeing his work here, I think it's the same guy. These paintings are very good if you ask me, but it isn't like the one I saw in Ethiopia. What struck me there wasn't merely the artists skills and the way he worked with color - though he's obviously very talented, as you can see here - but the way the painting so perfectly visualized it's title, how it was such an amazing visual interpretation of a psychological struggle, of the fighting within ones head.

Oh well...

On the weekend, I went to the Norval Morriseau exhibit at the McMicheal Gallery... none of the pictures i can find on line do this work justice... but here are some examples:

http://www.gallery.ca/exhibitions/exhibitions/Norval_Morrisseau/english/visual.html





The most spectacular was a piece called Man Changing Into Thunderbird... which is a work in 6 panels, each about 5ft x 6ft... it took up a whole wall of the gallery... it was stunning... i wish you could see more of it.... here's the first panel:





I love going to the McMicheal though... taking a stroll through the Group of Seven collection is always comforting...

I picked up a couple of prints in the gift shop before i left...

my favorite Lauren Harris "Mt. Lefroy"



any my favorite Benjamin Chee Chee "Friends" (which i've posted here before, but now I get to hang it in my living room! )