Take a break. Homer, Sargent, Van Gough, Vermeer

http://www.nga.gov/feature/homer/homerchron01.htm


http://mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=17


http://www.vggallery.com/


http://essentialvermeer.20m.com/



The Museum of Online Museums has link to many wonderful collections.

The Museum of Bad Art is unique (in its own way.)

It's a real toot.

And I'd take it as a huge HONOR to have
one of my pieces on display there someday.

But you could probably have guessed that already.

The DVD of the film about Vermeer " The Girl With A Pearl Earring" arrived from Amazon this morning. Just thought some pleasant photography would make a break from watching The Corporation, Outfoxed etc.

Winslow Homer is a particular favorite of mine, with his great range of oils and watercolors of everyday coastal and rural life - his wonderful portrayals of children, animals, men and women at everyday work, and also his wonderful watercolors of Florida, Cuba, the Bahamas.

I note that Homer started his career with paintings of soldiers in the Civil War.I'm not aware of any recent artists depicting scenes from Viet Nam, or Iraq, or the fall of the Berlin Wall. One or two hundred years from now, what will today's contemporary paintings tell the world of our history? Where are the paintings of homeless sleeping on the warm air grates in the streets of Washington? War protestors? Peace marches? Closed and shuttered small businesses? VA Hospitals? Shopping malls full of "stuff" and bored senior citizens? Bombings of abortion clinics? Genocide? Even rock concerts and singles bars? If Winslow Homer or Talouse Lautrec or Edward Hopper were alive today, what and whom would they be painting? If I had the necessary talent, I'd be trying to create a record of our society. If anyone can refer me to "realist" artists currently doing that, I'd appreciate it.

In any case, I've added your links to my "Favorites" and look forward to leisurely exploring them.

nt

but didn't know who he was until I saw a few articles on his Abu Gharib paintings.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,352869,00.html
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m11066

Botero has used the now infamous photos, as well as written descriptions of the abuse, as sources for his work. He says that his aim is to burn the images onto the world's consciousness in the same way that Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" did for the Spanish Civil War. The exhibition is due to appear next in Germany. Botera is also hoping to exhibit the series in the United States at some point in the future.

the late, great leon golub managed, but it is hard to do. thanks to him, and many others, the glories of war are not what they used to be. if you visit art galleries, here in chicago, anyway, you would probably have a hard time remembering that there is a war going on. there are a few who dare to show this, but they are very few.

I only hope that art such as this is preserved for future generations who will be ready to accept and appreciate it.

http://www.geraldlaing.com/Iraq/Iraq%20Paintings%202004.html

Also google Steve Mumford, Matt Sesow and Gwyneth Leech: story here:


http://www.speroforum.com/site/print.asp?idarticle=1815

nt

MOBA, The Museum of Bad Art. I first discovered this organization about 15+ years ago at an exhibition in a gallery in Greenwich Village when the neighborhood was still jam-packed with art galleries. What a shame that that neighborhood has fallen prey to moneyed Wall Streeters and galleries have been changed to coffee bars and restaurants.

There's a guided tour at this link.

moba was a HOOT!

Monet's Poppies Near Argenteuil

most of the paintings are displayed in larger formats than most sites will allow

they must burn bandwidth

This particular watercolor is part of an amazing local collection, so I've had the privilege of seeing it, many times...:D

A Good One, Adirondacks, 1889

Thanks for posting this! I enjoy photography, as well, love the DU photo contests, and this one is very impressive.:applause:

google "acrylic landscape" in images and you can find some stunning works to view online.

I like this gallery:

http://www.gallerynorth.org/landscape40/artistindex.htm

and this guy is technically pretty brilliant:

http://www.artfine.com/Ross/Landscape%20Pages/page3.htm

and I'd love anything by Joseph Reboli :

http://www.reboli.com/


and this gal's stuff is affordable:

http://www.kjoannrussell.com/flowersa.htm


Anyhoo, looking at art online is very inspiring. :)

Thanks for the introduction!

Thanks for starting this thread! :hi:

...your next door neighbor could be cranking out work like this and posting it to flickr. Check this stuff out.

Self taught artist Diong:
http://flickr.com/photos/diong/sets/1484964/

Magic Fly Paula:
http://flickr.com/photos/magic_fly/sets/194418/

Here's one of my favorites. When I lived in Chicago, I would often go to The Art Institute and sit and admire this.



Ivan Albright
American 1897-1983
"Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida"

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/modern/highlight_item?acc=1977.34&page=1

When I was studying and came across her. I often show this one to my students, m ost find her gruesome. My favorite artist would be Sargent, hsi capture of light is marvelous.

One of my favorite watercolor artist tday would be Arleta Pech. www.arletapech.com

If any DUer's have seen "Starry Night" in person, what was the experience like?

I have seen so many collections and retrospectives at so many museums over the decades that I can't remember when or where I saw particular masterpieces. When you see rooms full of Picasso or Van Gogh or Diego Rivera, or Gauguin in the space of a couple of hours, it just overwhelms you. The real luxury is to have the time and opportunity to go to a museum at a quiet time (not a weekend!) and just sit quietly and absorb one great painting - having already learned the artist's biography and become familiar with the body of the artists' works, and where this one painting fits into a particular period of his/her artistic development.

It is captivating.

I can still remember how much I loved seeing the underlying canvas between those energetic brush strokes, particularly on the left side of the painting. At your first opportunity, plan a trip to NY - the MOMA is waiting for you! :)

:-)

It is not very large but is quite a feast.Van Goghs are so full of emotion.
I am quite a student of his...one of mine

from the SF Bay Area Figuralist Movement.

check these out:

http://www.outsiderart.info/faucher.htm


from outsiderart:

http://www.outsiderart.info/what_is_outsider_art.htm


(scroll down you can check out various artists ;) )

This one is nice as well: bold:

Sort of a relief. lol

I'm torturing this snapshot this afternoon. See what it wants to do.

That is awesome.

For fun, try it with hot pink sand, purple water, acid green flora and a neon orange sky...:silly:


As for me, I'm finally indulging my deeply held desire to paint the vanishing Appalachia, so I've started a series with three canvas my kids managed to wrangle out of a local gallery owner friend for me for Mother's Day.

It's strange to be painting again. Almost scary. But delightful, too.

Your photograph is awesome. Did I tell you that, yet?

I just love this man's work.

http://rcgormangallery.com/index.php

Clearly a commentary on the "nearsightedness" or "blindness" of the Republican Party. ;-)

care to comment on the subtext:

Pink Elephant in the Room, but not really in the room?

That was easy! :hi:

Since we're talking art, what's the story with those Bosch figurines?

ever read "Leap?"

Terry Tempest Williams. it's about Garden of Delights. she spent years, on and off, studying it at the Prado. I can't do it justice.

A review of a very interesting book:

Leap by Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams' Leap is both agony and ecstasy, an invitation that pushes the envelope of intimacy beyond expectation. It is a dry deluge, a swamp-thick desert, a morass of contradictions, and a fascinating expression of soul. It is an amazing tribute to the explorative power of art and of landscape, and an honest revelation of the wilder processes of the spirit. It is so rich that I had to put it down, over and again, to eat it in pieces, like rum-soaked cherries, a book so full that it can burst open the reader without warning, and that seems to stretch against the boundaries of print and page. It took me two months to read the main text, because I didn't dare begin a chapter (there are only four) until I was prepared to finish it in one sitting, with my attention completely engaged. Like a walk through the desert, or in the tidepools, Leap requires concentration, and a careful watch over your own feet.

Leap is Williams' journal of her exploratory love affair with Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Delights. Bosch's painting is a triptych of Heaven, Hell, and the Garden; Williams' discourse echoes the triptych, with an additional step into Restoration. Like Bosch, Williams plunges her readers into the seeming purity of Paradise, the terrifying horrors of Hell, and the glories of the Garden. It is no great surprise -- though somewhat at odds with her Mormon upbringing -- that Williams finds the Garden to be the richest, the fullest of all; indeed, Leap is in part Williams' enjoinder for us to spend our passion on the Garden -- the earth, here, now. And while Leap is many things, including a contemplation of church and theology, and culture and identity, of marriage and passion, and art and meaning, it is the roots of land-love that run under and provide foundation; it is the earth, the garden, that defines and requires and fulfills.

http://www.littlefolktales.org/reviews/leap.html


the review doesn't even touch upon her vast, taxonomically explicit knowledge of nature, and how it binds Bosch view of the natural and spiritual world, which was one of the parts I found most interesting

sort of like Annie Dillard meets Robert Hughes meets Alan Watts

And Robert Hughes is the only writer I recognize in your comparative description.

I'm pretty much a dumbbell.:-)

if you haven't read the other two, take the time, at least for Dillard

some might say that Watts' time has come and gone, but I still find him soothing/reassuring

Just the title does it for me:

in TN.

just driving around

few hours later I found a Mushroom store. I have pictures of that somewhere. wonder if I can find em

I'd like to know more about where those came from, too

got any pictures?

here:





STILL can't figure out how to turn off the flash....

They seem to be fond of car dealerships,too. :D

Two of my fave sites to search for great art around the online world are:

Artcyclopedia:

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Mark Harden's Artchive (already mentioned on this thread):

http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

one-eyed something-or-other.

it is an actual part of their collection.

absinthe makes the art grow fonder?

smiling spider


Cactus Man

That's an extra-interesting pun to me, because I used to live in Chicago and I miss the Art Institute something awful.

just southwest of the loop

perfect day to go to the AI before....I still haven't seen the completed "Bean" yet, even.

I know what you mean about that place

there was a Max Ernst show there over ten years ago.....that really wore me out

*Sigh*

You lucky stiff!

they have a little thing going

he was talking about it this morning on This is Hell, but I fell asleep.

... somewhere on the internet...

Woman in a Purple Coat:

And the poster for it featured the painting "Woman in a Purple Coat"
Go to the Met's web site and search for Matisse & fabric

www.metmuseum.org

Here's the quote from that site:
Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams
His Art and His Textiles
June 23, 2005–September 25, 2005
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
Learn more about this exhibition.

View images from this exhibition.


The impact of Henri Matisse's lifelong interest in textiles is shown in a selection of approximately 75 paintings, drawings, prints, and painted paper cutouts. Also exhibited are examples from the artist's personal collection of textiles, many of which have been packed away in family trunks since Matisse's death in 1954. Of particular interest are Matisse’s canvases inspired by a fragment of blue-and-white printed cotton that the artist purchased from a secondhand shop in Paris, works from the 1910s and 1920s demonstrating the influence of North African fabrics and screens, paintings featuring Romanian blouses and couture gowns, and Matisse’s late paper cutouts, which are juxtaposed with his African and Polynesian textiles. The exhibition concludes with maquettes of the chasubles that Matisse designed for the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence.
Accompanied by a catalogue.

Matisse's colors, his textures, the features on his model's faces ... so interesting. Can't wait to read about this -- sorry I missed the exhibit.

Oh well, there's always this Met exhibit to look forward to!

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={0884CCC5-B8A9-4EB6-88EC-6E0188ADDD7E}

Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
September 14, 2006–January 7, 2007

"...At the age of 28, Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939) established himself as an art dealer in Paris with the presentation of Cézanne's first solo exhibition. Over the succeeding years Vollard bought and sold pictures by Bonnard, Cézanne, Degas, Derain, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Renoir, Rouault, Rousseau, Vlaminck, Vuillard, and others. ..."

to see that one. The unsung heroes of the art world are those dealers and collectors who recognized great talent and supported it by purchasing pictures. Another man who did this for the impressionists was Gustave Caillebotte, who was a wealthy man and a fine painter in his own right.
On edit:
That Matisse exhibit really opened my eyes to a whole new-to-me aspect of paintings, i.e., the patterns of fabrics, walls, etc., in the background. I was just at the National Gallery in Dublin last week and lucked in to a weekly lecture that featured a well known Irish portrait painter. He had brought about 40 of his pieces to discuss, including some which were on permanent display at the Gallery. He took questions at the end and really got into answering mine concerning the clothing his subjects wore and the backgrounds he chose re patterns and fabrics.

(Loved that Yeats room!)

You're so lucky to have been there last week! I could spend a week there. And the National Gallery in London. And the National Gallery in Edinburgh. And the National Gallery in Cardiff. So much fabulous art on those lovely isles!

I stopped in a Dublin music store (right across from Trinity U.) & asked the young clerk to recommend a CD by a local group which I would get for my son who has been a U-2 fan forever. He suggested a new album, "Flock" by BellX1. Here's a review:

X marks the tops
27/01/2006

A few weeks ago we heard an album that made our ears get all swollen and our hearts get rather sweaty. That album was ‘Flock’ by BellX1, one of the bands we were already in a red-faced furore over for the ’06.

And just last night we were treated to the pleasure of a nice night out see the Irish gents play a warm-up gig in the rather snug Bush Hall. It was, quite frankly, astonishing, and BellX1 are now firmly entrenched in our already quite full hearts as literally one of the most brilliant live bands we’ve seen all year. Except for the Love Bites, of course.

The simple fact is this: BellX1 are very good at their jobs, with most of the band changing instruments at least once during the night to recreate the polar extremes of their sound. Vaulting from big bollocked rock epic to heart crumbling tear jerker with a quick switch from snare to tambourine, frontman Paul Noonan twitched and yelped his way through tracks from the new album, pausing for calling card ‘Eve, The Apple of My Eye’ much to the melting appreciation of the mostly stripy t-shirted audience.

If there was a gripe to be had, it’s only that Noonan puts a bit too much into his performance. Their songs are amazing and don’t need anyone in a red suit getting all unnecessarily jerky when, really, they deserve to be left to speak for themselves. But who are we to grumble? This band are properly brilliant and they have greased our passage into 2006, making the whole winter experience a far less painful charade.

... is an image that pops into my mind when I fantasize about my ideal life. In my dreams, I look like her (and I wear that purple coat well!)while chillin' at home on the weekend.

I mean, just LOOK at her. Put a New York Times and an Almond Joy latte in her hands, and that's what I want to look like each Sunday morning of the rest of my life!

I'm hooking up my old RECORD PLAYER to listen to this, in honor of your nom de comp!

thanks for the reminder...haven't listened to this in at least sixteen years, probably much longer

''Originally, when they were known as "The Young Rascals" their sound featured R & B soul music. But like any great artists they were not only changing the music of their day, but growing along with it. "Peaceful World" showcases the exciting result of their six years of experimentation and search for new, imaginative directions. Their new sound has a great rhythmic sensuality and full-bodied instrumentation. Everything happens in luscious, sensual "Peaceful World" everything from congas, bells and drums pounding out basic African rhythms to a beautiful flowing flute and harp. The Rascals are still as soulful as ever, but they've taken that soul to a new sophistication, replacing the simpler Rhythm and Blues arrangements with a freer more jazz-oriented feeling.''

harp player: Alice Coltrane
flute, I think: Hubert Laws....getting album out now

Thanks for the tip!

"Tahitian Landscape"

shocked!

http://artsmia-museum-shop.stores.yahoo.net/gauguin.html

Minneapolis

Ah, sigh.......

Thanks.

Ever see Kurosawa's DREAMS, where the character "encounters" the paintings of Van Gogh?

nt

It has us all sharing info about our favorite artists ... and music ... on a Saturday afternoon!

Today, I'm listening to Ron Sexsmith's "Cobblestone Runway" (check it out if you're not familiar with him)... fabulous CD from a fabulous Canadian singer-songwriter.

His voice may be an acquired taste for some ... little bit of the Fozzie Bear in his vocal quality. But there's so much emotion in his singing, I just love him.

"God Loves Everyone" will give you chills ...

God loves everyone
Like a mother loves her son
No strings at all
Unconditional
Never one to judge
Would never hold a grudge
'Bout what's been done
God loves everyone

There are no gates in heaven
Everyone gets in
Queer or straight
Souls of every faith
Hell is in our minds
Hell is in this life
But when it's gone
God takes everyone

Its love is like a womb
It's like the air from room to room
It surrounds us all
The living and the dead
May we never lose the thread
That bound us all

The killer in his cell
The atheist as well
The pure of heart
And the wild at heart
Are all worthy of its grace
It's written in the face
Of everyone
God loves everyone

There's no need to be saved
No need to be afraid
Cause when it's done
God takes everyone

God loves everyone

http://www.artchive.com/

hundreds of artists, with LARGE format repros.....best site I've found, in terms of images, anyway

these are just the Gauguins available
http://artchive.com/artchive/G/gauguin.html

Gauguin Images
1880 Nude Study, or Suzanne Sewing
1886 Still Life with Profile of Laval
1888 Blue Trees
1888 Les Alyscamps, Arles
1888 At the Cafe
1888 The Vision After the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
1888 Still Life with Three Puppies
1888 The Swineherd, Brittany
1888 Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven
1888 Seascape with Cow on the Edge of a Cliff
1888 Les Miserables
1888 Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers
1889 La Belle Angele
1889 Meyer de Haan
1889 Self-portrait with Halo
1889 Jug in the Form of a Head, Self-portrait
1889 The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune)
1890 Portrait of a Woman, with Still Life by Cezanne
1890 M. Loulou
1890 Be Mysterious
1890-91 The Loss of Virginity
1891 Faaturuma
1891 Femmes de Tahiti OR Sur la plage (Tahitian Women OR On the Beach)
1891 We Hail Thee Mary
1892 Aha oe feii? (What! Are You Jealous?)
1892 Idol with a Pearl
1892 Market Day
1892 Matamoe
1892 Spirit of the Dead Watching
1892 There is the Marae
c. 1893 Portrait of the Artist with the Idol
c. 1893-94 Portrait de l'artiste (Self-portrait)
c. 1894 Self-portrait with Palette
1894 Paysannes bretonnes (Breton peasant women)
1897 Nevermore
1897 Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

1898 The White Horse
1902 Riders on the Beach
1902 Riders on the Beach (detail)
1902 Contes barbares


anybody else have some good, comprehensive reproduction sites?

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(I like sitting down to look at actual, large Pollack paintings - a print would never do it justice)
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Helen Frankenthaler
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Grace Hartigan