Who doesn't like Van Gogh? I wouldn't mind having any of his work (they'd be re-prints of course).Originally Posted by Bakiryu
Who doesn't like Van Gogh? I wouldn't mind having any of his work (they'd be re-prints of course).
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
Christ Carrying the Cross - El Greco
This is the first painting that ever made me cry.
"Who are a little wise
the best fools be." John Donne
If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shine like a pearl. so choose the best place where you would shine..
Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Friedrich
A collection of some of my favourite paintings (and more):
http://www.ld50.hu/users/GothMan
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
René Magritte
Peter Paul Rubens
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”- Robert McCloskey
is he the same Turner who often gets mentioned together with Constable?
kathy, I like the Pre-Raphaelites toovery 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.
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"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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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.
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
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.
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.
"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."
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.
In these days, old man, no one thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, so why should we? They talk of the people, the proletariat, and I talk of the mugs. It's the same thing. They have their five year plan and I have mine.-Harry Lime, The Third Man novella by Graham Greene
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:
My favourites:
Anything by Franz Marc, particularly this one, called Fighting Forms:
One that never fails to scare me, The Nightmare by Johann Füssli:
There are so many more, but I can't find most of them online.
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
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!One that never fails to scare me, The Nightmare by Johann Füssli:
There are so many more, but I can't find most of them online.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
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.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!
I find it very interesting that both the Alb and the horse are represented in the picture...
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
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.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
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