A New Art Thread

[Cioran]

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

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Five, four, three, two, one ...

[ftil]

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

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Five, four, three, two, one ...

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

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.

[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/for...an-School-Pt-1

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[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/for...an-School-Pt-1

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

[stlukesguild]

Titles now added.

[ftil]

Titles now added.

Thanks.

[cacian]

So what says art about thy after all these locks?
Only joking.
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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[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/...horse-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:

























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:
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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-





Thomas Hill...





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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)