Who doesn't like Van Gogh? I wouldn't mind having any of his work (they'd be re-prints of course).Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakiryu
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Who doesn't like Van Gogh? I wouldn't mind having any of his work (they'd be re-prints of course).Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakiryu
Christ Carrying the Cross - El Greco
This is the first painting that ever made me cry.
Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Friedrich
http://www.thebestlinks.com/images/t..._Nebelmeer.jpg
A collection of some of my favourite paintings (and more):
http://www.ld50.hu/users/GothMan :yawnb:
Some of my favourite painters (Not my favourite paintings but just to give you an idea what their style was like) are:
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
http://xs414.xs.to/xs414/07155/876.jpg.xs.jpg
René Magritte
http://xs414.xs.to/xs414/07155/FM1789.jpg.xs.jpg
Peter Paul Rubens
http://xs414.xs.to/xs414/07155/Judgm...632.jpg.xs.jpg
is he the same Turner who often gets mentioned together with Constable?Quote:
Originally Posted by cuppajoe_9
kathy, I like the Pre-Raphaelites too :) very nice painting.
GothMan, are you a fan of German Romanticism? I notice you've got a Novalis quote in your sig and your taste in paintings ties in with that.
I'm not really into art but I generally like Belgian, Italian and English paintings, anything younger than those garish Gothic paintings of 500 saints queuing in a market square is fine with me :)
This Is also one of my favourite Paintings. Its by an artist called Francis Denby and is displayed in the National Gallery of Ireland. Its called The Opening of the Sixth Seal. Its an Apocoliptic art.
If you look closely you can see the greedy rich cowering on the grown and the poor and slaves with the arms wide rejoicing because they are finally free.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...esixthseal.jpg
I really like Starry Night and Wanderer Over the Sea of Fog (or of Clouds, as I've heard it referred to), but my favorite painting was done by a close friend, for me. It's a girl sitting on a hill overlooking the sea, holding a set of bagpipes. It's absolutely lovely; she is truly talented. When I opened it a few Christmases ago I couldn't stop crying to think how beautiful it was and how much time and love she had put into it for me.
Wow, haven't been here in ages.
Probably. Constable was the one who made the 'airy visions painted with steam' comment in reference to Turner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleepy Witch
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...ho20Church.jpg
Rancho Church, Georgia O'keefe, which in my younger more ignorant days, I had painted my own version of from a photo, I didn't realize she had painted the same until I lived in D.C. and visited the Phillips collection, (which is an amazing gallery with a vivid collection) I was chilled to the bone when I saw her painting. of course hers is better.
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth...he's great.
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...Riesa/CW02.jpg
This has been hanging in my parent's house since before I was born. Some days this painting is more real then on other days.
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot--Springtime of Life.....
It most certainly. Both of them are considered pre-cursors to the ultimate Impressionistic movement, particularly Turner whose paintings are usually hazy fields of pale hues with startling bursts of color. He didn't quite have the same sense of light as Monet or the other, nor quite the same elaborate understanding of color theory that eventually produced Seurat and Signac, but they were definitely tied together in the pre-impressionist movement.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
There is another famous Temptation of St. Anthony, although quite a different style. It is painted on wood on a triptychon (three-winged altar) now in France:Quote:
Originally Posted by hyperinsomnia
http://www.joerg-sieger.de/isenheim/...tel/i10_06.jpg
My favourites:
Anything by Franz Marc, particularly this one, called Fighting Forms:
http://www.exittoart.nl/marc/marc01.jpg
One that never fails to scare me, The Nightmare by Johann Füssli:
http://www.kunstbilder-galerie.de/gf...mahr-03277.jpg
There are so many more, but I can't find most of them online.
Yeo that is a bit scary alright! I hate that concept of the hag sitting on your chest at night while you sleep and not being able to breath or scream from terror!:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Schokokeks
Veeery nasty idea indeed, was one of my horrors as a child. In German, that monster is called Alb, and nightmare is Albtraum (traum is dream). The English "nightmare" comes from Nachtmahr, mahr being an old word for horse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I find it very interesting that both the Alb and the horse are represented in the picture...
http://www.tfaoi.com/cm/2cm/2cm39.jpg
I really like Andrew Wyeth's work. There's a painting of an old man but I can't remember the name or find it on Google, so here's a painting of the woman who rejuvenated his art; her name is Helga.