Impressed said:

ah hell, never mind. i'm thinking of paganini.

I'm a sucker for Italian Baroque, and Caravaggio is also one of my favorites.

His "Inspiration of Saint Matthew" is probably my very favorite painting of his. The banality of the supernatural here is just captivating. The visiting angel and the saint's halo are included as subtly and matter-of-factly as would be a cup or an apple -- no glowing lights and over-the-top frills. And that understatement makes them all the more fantastic. Also, the angel's mudra (blessing hand gesture) and it's indecypherable physical position totally just sucks me in.

Impressed said:

You'd think for a gay man, he'd have painted bigger penises.

I see that Caravaggio has already made an appearance. I'm not generally that into baroque stuff, but I freakin' love his stuff. Especially this one, which my husband and I affectionately refer to as "Let's Eat Fruit and Fuck":






I like Friedrich's quieter/gloomier stuff too:

That bottom Friedrich painting is gorgeous, tackam.

yeah, i can go for those landscapes. nice.

Lammastide said:

I lub it. A lot of his stuff is kind of cheezy, imho. . . very. . .well, ROMANTIC. . . . . . but these two I really like. Someday I need to get decent prints. . .

I think what I like about the Caravaggio, among other things, is you don't see a lot of bedhead in "fine art."


He just looks like he's offering up a snack in the midst of an all-day fuckfest. And the fruit is starting to rot, the leaves starting to turn. . .ripe and dirty. . . LOVE IT.


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this is my teacher's work, mario castillo, i'm doing mural painting with him




this may gross people out but in some of his work he mixes his own semen in the paint.




http://www.mariocastillo.com/

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I don't have any pics but I'm into RENOIR, DALI, DIEGO RIVERA, FRIDA KAHLO.
Oh yeah I forgot GUSTAV KLIMT.

Giger is very cool.



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I like Lautrec. His advertisements blur the boundaries between commercial design and fine art - in much the same way as Warhol did some time later.



There's a fluidity to his figures and a sense of movement which you find in modern-day comic books. His pallette always used yellows and ochres which perfectly capture the sense of artificial light which his nocturnal subjects walk amongst.

HOCKNEY


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I like these two paintings....









They are from Herman Brood.

I can't explain why I like them so much...I liked the man..I liked his mind...


Unfortunally he killed himself by jumping of the roof of the Hilton Hotel.

David one of my many favorite artworks ... why ? i mean look at him ... he is god like, so real and expressive ( and i married a man named David ! hehehe ) this has been a fav of mine since i first saw him around age 10 ... and NO sillys its not the penis part

"Mark it Zero"

an original painting on canvas hanging in my front room.

Hill Arches by Henry Moore

Thai Buddha.



Garudas, Grand Palace, Bangkok.




Mural, Grand Palace, Bangkok.



This photo doesn't nearly do it justice. Up close you can spot all kinds of details, like a couple having a fumble in the bushes. Saucy!

TheFrog said:

Now that is cool! although my DVD signed by mr bridges himself might trump you!

btw, does any1 who did the stained glass artwork as the door 2 Prince's office in PP? Was the artwork done just 4 him or did he get it from somewhere else? If any1 has it, it's also on the back cover 2 the Jewel Box CD.

Mach said:

i went to Florence, Italy just to see David. i stood in the middle of the Galleria dell'Accademia crying from the overwhelming beauty...a little old Italian man gave me his hanky

thought i'd share few pics

me standing in front of David (i'm the one in the ball cap and tank top)


my fave parts...not the penis either (actually proportionally he is rather small!!! )
check out the detail!!!!

heybaby said:

Mm, I quite like those. What sort of paint does he use (semen aside )?
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tackam said:

i think its tempura, he also has a painting where its an tribute to his mother's african ancestry and it has a beautiful african mask. that one is tempura also( is that the right word? anyway you mix it with egg yoke)but its mixed with human milk.

heybaby said:

They're Atkins paintings. High in protein and cholesterol.

tackam said:

they tried to ban him in college

Dugen said:

that is breathtaking!

My 9 year old daughters first drawing from art class