basquiat is another favey-fave of mine. i can stare at one of his pieces forever and not feel like i've taken it all in completely.

this makes me happy too....


art is simple for me, I like what makes me feel, I like what makes me look twice. It's not a big intellectual process for me.

Sweeny79 said:

ooh, that's nice.

amorbella said:

that one is nice...who is that?

Caravaggio.

Simply because he made some of the best pieces of art I have seen. They convey so much and the texture, color and action is so rich. My favorites of his include:



Bacchus



Beheading Holofernea (1598)




Velazquez



Ladies In Waiting -- this is such a beautiful piece.

Jacob Lawrence



The Migration series. GREAT!

heybaby said:

Anxiety said:

There is an exhibit of his work in the Brooklyn Museum I've been trying to get time to go see

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/?

heybaby said:

i am also a big fan of MC Escher

i have this print...


and this one...


and this one...



i desperately want a copy of this...

Natisse said:

good choice! I love Dali

Anxiety said:

First time I saw it was in the guggenheim...I stood there for like 15 min tryin to figure out how to steal it!

Sweeny79 said:

i can't remember if i've ever been in the same room with a basquiat...i went to a warhol retrospective in chicago a long time ago and i went to the warhol museum in pittsburgh a few years ago, and got to play with the silver balloons both times. i think there were a couple of warhol-basquiat collaborations at the warhol museum. going there was like visiting wonderland.

Sweeny79 said:

What is it called? Anxiety's opportunistic bacteria ?

here's elizabeth catlett

AsianBoi777 said:

Circles ~ Kandinsky

Sweeny79 said:

no, don't tell me

Anxiety said:

It is isn't it?

Impressed said:

i just learned about him today in art history. apparently, he murdered at least two men and broke out of prison after they convicted him.

heybaby said:

Sweeny79 said:

okay i stand corrected i never saw that one before. i was thinking of the repetitive prints he made of marylin monroe and the campbell's soup cans

heybaby said:

all i know is, ya gotta be cool to have david bowie AND crispin glover play you in the movies.

here's another elizabeth catlett

heybaby said:

More Warhol....

when i was in high school, we had an assignment in art class to find a painting we liked and then try to reproduce it as best we could (bootlegging 101!!! ) - well, here's the painting i chose....

evenstar3 said:

He was a very troubled figure. His life story is so tumultuous. Check out the movie "Caravaggio." Explains a lot about him. He had quite a few male lovers and I think he slept with a few of the boys he painted in his portraits (or maybe that was the fictious movie I'm drawing from?)

Nevertheless, the guy had a wild life.

Impressed said:

didn't klaus kinski try to make a movie of his life story?

Anxiety said:

Hmmm, I'm not entirely certain. I saw a movie based on Caravaggio's life a while back. It was directed by Derek Jarman and it came out in the late '80s. It was a very sexual movie, sometimes violent. Reflected Caravaggio somewhat.

Impressed said:

this is interesting.....I love his work..my favorite is John The Baptist. Though he had two.....I like the one that is not the beheading...tryin' to find it.....