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"The Creation of Adam" The fingers almost touching but not quite. I have always liked it.  | |
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Geogia O'Keeffe
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect, it means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections... unknown | |
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PEJ said: 
 I LOVE Dali  | |
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co-sign on Dali...sometimes when he isn't science fiction/surreal over the top "Climb in my fur." | |
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Tom of Finland...I wonder if he ever drew women or what the results would be "Climb in my fur." | |
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sag10 said: Geogia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'keeffe 
Keith Haring too .. | |
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rdhull said: co-sign on Dali...sometimes when he isn't science fiction/surreal over the top
So that means...never? 
He was one of the first surrealist artists... | |
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dali... To Sir, with Love | |
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A little known artist, Bliss Van Gogh:
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applekisses said: rdhull said: co-sign on Dali...sometimes when he isn't science fiction/surreal over the top
So that means...never?
He was one of the first surrealist artists... I know he was surrealist etc but Ive seen some works that were not surreal..or at least not over the top surreal imo "Climb in my fur." | |
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Anne Geddes. Just look at that smile.. 
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sag10 said: Anne Geddes. Just look at that smile..
Oh I love her too--her baby pic art work beautiful "Climb in my fur." | |
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sag10 said: Anne Geddes. Just look at that smile..
btw the pic didnt show up..or did it? "Climb in my fur." | |
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Tiger In The Rain, Henri Rousseau (one of my all-time favorites...
I am searching for a print of this painting for my apartment) 
Why do I like it? It's the energy, the colors (it's so vibrant), the fierce depiction of nature... it's the lost/fearful expression on the tiger's face while it's within the storm... giving the tiger's expression human qualities gives us a connection to the animal, as if we can "relate" to what it must be thinking/feeling... structure edit [This message was edited Wed Oct 8 15:20:40 PDT 2003 by Byron] | |
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Byron said: Tiger In The Rain, Henri Rousseau (one of my all-time favorites...
I am searching for a print of this painting for my apartment)
Why do I like it? It's the energy, the colors (it's so vibrant), the fierce depiction of nature... it's the lost/fearful expression on the tiger's face while it's within the storm... giving the tiger's expression human qualities gives us a connection to the animal, as if we can "relate" to what it must be thinking/feeling... structure edit [This message was edited Wed Oct 8 15:20:40 PDT 2003 by Byron] I have this painting on my desktop at work | |
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 To Sir, with Love | |
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Francis Bacon: Pope Innocent, (after Velázquez)
What I've always liked about Bacon's work is the way it makes u feel uneasy. It's that inherent feel of unease that makes u feel as u would within a nightmare - like u have caught a flash of something that maybe u shouldnt have seen, or not sure u have seen. (ie: the unseen)   
But Bacon's work always swung between the horrific and the sublime, as this reflective, self-portrait shows: 
Applekisses...u seen the movie: 'Pollock'? I thought it was great - Ed Harris poured his heart and sould in2 that picture, and I think it shows [This message was edited Wed Oct 8 15:26:42 PDT 2003 by bananacologne] | |
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I adore Rousseau...  | |
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 “A poor man waited a thousand years before the gate of paradise. And, while he snatched a little sleep, it opened and shut.” | |
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bananacologne said: What I've always liked about Bacon's work is the way it makes u feel uneasy. It's that inherent feel of unease that makes u feel as u would within a nightmare - like u have caught a flash of something that maybe u shouldnt have seen, or not sure u have seen. (ie: the unseen) I agree with you about Francis Bacon...but, it's also the intimacy that draws me in...  (I'm weird)
Applekisses...u seen the movie: 'Pollock'? I thought it was great - Ed Harris poured his heart and sould in2 that picture, and I think it shows
YES...holy shit...I was a BIG fan of Pollock for years before I saw that film...it was so heartbreaking...and I REALLY commend Ed Harris for what he did for Jackson. | |
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rdhull said: Keith Haring
 oh, i love haring... did a show where they were trying to figure out what to do for a poster, and i suggested haring, and they used it, and it was probably the best poster for a show i was in. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton | |
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Check out the rest at the link in the above post. Viggo is amazing. Such beautiful unique collages. I could look at them all the time. | |
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kidding...  [This message was edited Wed Oct 8 17:02:36 PDT 2003 by cborgman] Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton | |
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If you ever get a chance to see the work of James Turrell, by all means please do! It's very very cool installations that play with your eyesight.
http://www.mattress.org/c...index.html 
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My favorite visual artist hands down would be Jacob Lawrence for his use of vivid colors and shapes; his use of perspective, shadow and highlight; and of course his content--documenting the life of black folk during the early half of the 20th century, the most dynamic time in terms of changes in black America.
Some of my favorites: "Discrimination" 
"Education" 
"Neighborhood" 
"The Library"  "That...magic, the start of something revolutionary-the Minneapolis Sound, we should cherish it and not punish prince for not being able to replicate it."-Dreamshaman32 | |
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Can you belive this is the artist interpretation of hell? | |
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Wow...lots of contemporary art fans here. I tend to go for the European Renaissance and Baroque era masters... Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Donatello, Bosch, etc. But my favorite is probably Caravaggio...
This is his "Inspiration of St. Matthew. It's got to be one of the most beautiful paintings I've ever seen -- and it sort of goes along with my personal thoughts about art: It's that which is produced when we tap our inherited divine creative capacity within.  [This message was edited Wed Oct 8 21:43:43 PDT 2003 by Lammastide] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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I love your taste in art, magnificentsynthesizer667. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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