A New Art Thread

[Cioran]

Given that the wonderfully informative art thread by stlukesguild was closed, I thought I'd start another one! :nod:

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Five, four, three, two, one ... :willy_nilly:

[ftil]

Given that the wonderfully informative art thread by stlukesguild was closed, I thought I'd start another one! :nod:

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Five, four, three, two, one ... :willy_nilly:

I just can’t believe it! Two of St. Luke’s art threads and my thread. It is three. I may check in occult what is the importance of the number three :reddevil:

Too bad as it was a quite popular thread. In 7 days, there were 17 pages……

Good luck…you still have two chances as you have counted from five to one. :lol:

[stlukesguild]

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For the time being the only efforts at discussing art that I will make here will be in my blog:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12805-Giorgione-and-the-Venetian-School-Pt-1

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:frown2:

[ftil]

{edit}For the time being the only efforts at discussing art that I will make here will be in my blog:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/entry.php?12805-Giorgione-and-the-Venetian-School-Pt-1

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:frown2:


That's a good idea. I have visited your blog.
Too bad that you don't post the title of the paintings. :wink5:

[stlukesguild]

Titles now added.:nod:

[ftil]

Titles now added.:nod:

Thanks. :smile5:

[cacian]

So what says art about thy after all these locks?
Only joking. :smilewinkgrin:
I love art but does it love me? A good question I ask myself and so I take care well I imagine art as a friendly version of me.
There is a thread about artistic values somehwere but I think it does not appeal.
My question is this: How does one challenge art if one is skeptical about the state of the arts today?

[Scheherazade]

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Please do not personalise your arguments.

Off-topic and/or inflammatory posts will be removed without further notice.

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[Babyguile]

I unwittingly stumbled upon a webpage full of landscape paintings of the like I'd never seen before but which I was drawn into and found mesmerizing. I really want to find these pictures again now that I have bare walls to decorate but I have no idea what the style was called or who the artist(s) was. It may be a long shot but hopefuly somone like Stlukesguild, myarko (?) or ftil could help me out. I found these online so thought I turn to this thread as a last resort.

Ugh...how to describe them - they were all very similar in style and likely by the same artist. They depicted a valley from a perspective very low to the ground (almost ground level), with a mountainside on either side, and then a vast middle section of flat grass or rock which completely drew your eye in and gave this sense of incredible vastness, openness and space. They were a series of paintings which all had this same composition: of the flank of a mountain on either side and a vast valley, sometimes with a single grazing sheep or a group of trees that you could only notice if you looked closely. They were painted in a realist manner but the colours were not hyper bold or anything.

If my description isn't clear enough, the fourth photograph on this blog from the Saturday, June 12, 2010 entry has a kind-of similar composition.

http://heatherhorton.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/hiking-in-ibex-valley-whitehorse-and.html

It's a long shot I know, by maybe you know what I'm talking about. Perhaps I'll stumble upon them again, as randomly as I did last time.

[stlukesguild]

What you describe sounds a good deal like the paintings of Albert Bierstadt:

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_AB_4_e.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=AB_4_e.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Albert_Bierstadt_Among_the_Sierra_Nevada_Mounta ins.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Albert_Bierstadt_Among_the_Sierra_Nevada_M ountains.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Albert_Bierstadt_-_Indians_Spear_Fishing_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Albert_Bierstadt_-_Indians_Spear_Fishing_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Albert_Bierstadt_001.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Albert_Bierstadt_001.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Albert_Bierstadt_Call_Of_The_Wild.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Albert_Bierstadt_Call_Of_The_Wild.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Albert_Bierstadt_Sierra_Nevada.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Albert_Bierstadt_Sierra_Nevada.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_bierstadt_albert_rocky_mountains.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=bierstadt_albert_rocky_mountains.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_bierstadt_albert_sacramento_river_valley.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=bierstadt_albert_sacramento_river_valley.j pg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Bierstadt_Albert_The_Morteratsch_Glacier_Upper_ Engadine_Valley_Pontresina.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Bierstadt_Albert_The_Morteratsch_Glacier_U pper_Engadine_Valley_Pontresina.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_in-the-mountains-1867.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=in-the-mountains-1867.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Looking_Down_Yosemite-Valley1.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Looking_Down_Yosemite-Valley1.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Puget_Sound_by_Albert_Bierstadt.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Puget_Sound_by_Albert_Bierstadt.jpg)

If it's not Bierstadt, it almost certainly sounds like another American painter.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I unwittingly stumbled upon a webpage full of landscape paintings of the like I'd never seen before but which I was drawn into and found mesmerizing. I really want to find these pictures again now that I have bare walls to decorate but I have no idea what the style was called or who the artist(s) was. It may be a long shot but hopefuly somone like Stlukesguild, myarko (?) or ftil could help me out. I found these online so thought I turn to this thread as a last resort.

Ugh...how to describe them - they were all very similar in style and likely by the same artist. They depicted a valley from a perspective very low to the ground (almost ground level), with a mountainside on either side, and then a vast middle section of flat grass or rock which completely drew your eye in and gave this sense of incredible vastness, openness and space. They were a series of paintings which all had this same composition: of the flank of a mountain on either side and a vast valley, sometimes with a single grazing sheep or a group of trees that you could only notice if you looked closely. They were painted in a realist manner but the colours were not hyper bold or anything...


What you describe sounds a good deal like the paintings of Albert Bierstadt:
.....

If it's not Bierstadt, it almost certainly sounds like another American painter.

Bierstadt or possibly Thomas Moran or Thomas Hill.
Babyguile if you happen to check back on this thread, I'd suggest searching the "Hudson River School."
Based on your description, it does in fact sound like an American landscape, western mountains to be specific.

Here are some examples of Moran and Hill:

(click on thumbnails - you will see the titles)

Thomas Moran-

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/th_ThomasMoran_TheGrandCanyonOfTheYellowstone_Athe naeum_zpsee08ed87.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/?action=view&current=ThomasMoran_TheGrandCanyonOfTheYellowstone _Athenaeum_zpsee08ed87.jpg)

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/th_ThomasMoran_EmeraldLake_Athenaeum_zps5c5dda2b.j pg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/?action=view&current=ThomasMoran_EmeraldLake_Athenaeum_zps5c5dd a2b.jpg)

Thomas Hill...

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/th_ThomasHill_ViewoftheYosemiteValley_fromAthenaeu m_zpsfd66c323.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/?action=view&current=ThomasHill_ViewoftheYosemiteValley_fromAth enaeum_zpsfd66c323.jpg)

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/th_ThomasHill_PiuteCampGCofthesierra_Athenaeum_zps 98bbffc6.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Paintings%20Drawings%20and%20Sculpture/?action=view&current=ThomasHill_PiuteCampGCofthesierra_Athenaeu m_zps98bbffc6.jpg)

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[Babyguile]

Judging from the works posted, none of these is the artist I'm looking for. However, I adore this style. Landscapes are definately my favourite subjects for paintings, though they may not be the coolest or most exciting paintings in today's contemporary scenes. At least that's my guess. Feel free to contradict me with more wonderful examples.

[stlukesguild]

OK... from your description Bierstadt and Moran immediately sound the closest... but there are a good many more landscape painters of the Romantic era that painted similar themes. Considering your description included sheep you might look at a more obscure figure: Alfred de Breanski Snr.

(click on thumbnails for larger images)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Breanski_Alfred_De_From_The_Bramber_Pass_zpsddd 8ebf6.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Breanski_Alfred_De_From_The_Bramber_Pass_z psddd8ebf6.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Breanski_Alfred_de_Near_Dunkeld_NB_zps3999e041. jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Breanski_Alfred_de_Near_Dunkeld_NB_zps3999 e041.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Breanski_Alfred_de_Snr_The_Foxes_Path_to_Cader_ Dolgelly_zps2f1caf78.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Breanski_Alfred_de_Snr_The_Foxes_Path_to_C ader_Dolgelly_zps2f1caf78.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Breanski_Alfred_de_Sunset_In_The_Glen_zpsdc4cfb 9a.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Breanski_Alfred_de_Sunset_In_The_Glen_zpsd c4cfb9a.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Breanski_Alfred_de_Sunset_On_The_Loch_zps842e19 00.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Breanski_Alfred_de_Sunset_On_The_Loch_zps8 42e1900.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Breanski_Alfred_De_The_Glydwr_Mountains_Snowdon _Valley_Wales_zpsdd34549b.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Breanski_Alfred_De_The_Glydwr_Mountains_Sn owdon_Valley_Wales_zpsdd34549b.jpg)

http://i1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/th_Breanski_Snr_Alfred_De_The__zps0ab74d61.jpg (http://s1245.photobucket.com/albums/gg581/StlukesguildOhio/?action=view&current=Breanski_Snr_Alfred_De_The__zps0ab74d61.jp g)