'S'OK.
Chinese art baffles me.
Posted on 06/07/2005 12:23:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
'S'OK.
Chinese art baffles me.
I have a feeling that the Chinese would have appreciated the Parade images (the top ones posted here) better than the Demoiselles D'Avignon anyway. The latter is a huge painting and I don't think it travels much from NYC's Museum of Modern Art.
But I think it's a great idea to expose the Chinese to western abstraction. Even Pollock's drip works were triumphed by the US after WWII as they travelled in Europe, promoting the freedom of American artists (vs. the strangulation of Russian art under Communism).
Art ping.
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I agree,
I feel Picasso is an aquired taste---
Like Sushi, dipping snuff and performance art ;)
OK, so I do like Guernica and his daughter's perfume, but that's about it. 'sides, he was really, really rotten to the women in his life.
You will probably like the work of Rosa Bonheur. It is interesting what happened to all academic art in the 1970s. Because the feminists were searching for women artists, when they lauded Rosa Bonheur, they gave credence (and more interest) to academic art (like that of Bougereau) that had previously been ignored. Prices soared for his works (and hers as well).
For my taste (and art is all about different tastes, isn't it?), I love Franz Marc's Blue Horses from 1913. Marc wanted to see harmony between man and nature; he was killed in WWI at Verdun. He seems to capture the essence of horses in their poses, heads down, almost whinying. Sometimes, I think, academic art gets very caught up with each muscle and little detail and, to me, loses some of the heart.
I LOVE PICASSO!!!
Not a big fan of the Blue Period - but really enjoyed his sculpture and his love of the female form.
His sketches really show brilliance with a single line.
I also enjoy the realists, Dagnan-Bouveret and Eakins come to mind. Homer as well.
And especially Anders Zorn, Joaquin Sorolla and John Sargent.
Meanwhile, I was looking at a book of Velasquez paintings this morning - I was shocked - he might be my favorite painter for the time being.
Some things by Picasso I appreciate, but I have yet to learn to understand why he occupies the place in art that he does.
Now those are great paintings and works of art. Thanks for posting them!
Ooh. I like that Blue Horses painting. Very nice.
I can't find an example of "The Drinkers" by Velasquez that allows me to hotlink. The one I attempted to link can be seen here:
http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/v/Velasquez/large/Los_Borrachos_The_Triumph_of_Bacchus.jpg
Yes, I agree that "Nymphs and Satyrs" is sexy. The Picasso might be also, except that it's more an idea than an image.
There is one thing about Bouguereau that really gets to me - as a father who raised a female to adulthood, and who has been lucky enough to have the wonderful father/daughter relationship that sometimes occurs, his "peasant girl" paintings truly speak to me. I've never seen an artist capture the young girl as he did.
That didn't work either, I give up.
My little girl is still little; maybe I'll like those Bouguereau works more as she grows up.
Velazquez is awesome, and he inspired Manet and the brushwork of many others. Velazquez seems so realistic, but up close it is again just a jumble of brushwork (like Homer, discussed in a previous thread). Let me try for a Velazquez image.
Notice the detail: the corsage, dress, etc. They are not nearly as detailed as you might expect. A few slashes of the brush make a corsage that appears detailed from a distance.
This work by Velazquez is called Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) done in the mid-17th century. The questions to ask are: what is he painting, who are the people in the mirror, and what's going on? It is a self-portrait of the artist, and it is huge (about life-size), shown in the Prado, which I am dying to visit.
Marc has some wonderful images, especially of animals. I'm so glad you liked that one. If you can ever get to the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, they have some of these by Marc.
First one is Marc's Yellow Cow, second one is Stables c. 1913, influenced by Cubism, but a colorful one at that. It's a shame he was killed in WWI; I would have loved his later work.
I like that one too...now I am motivated to hit Prado too...thanks for the close ups. I knew that was the artist on the left, but hadn't realized it was life sized, which makes the painting upwards of 12 feet tall!
Do you have any links to those guys in the forge, or the drunkards?
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