My favorite. Seurat's Gray Weather.
Posted on 06/09/2005 3:44:59 PM PDT by Republicanprofessor
Please continue to discuss, ask questions, prod and push me. Post other images; let's have more fun trying to understand this difficult art.
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Van Gogh is my favorite. I could study his pictures all day long (if I didn't have to work, that is).
Yup, 'dat be a Troll!
His obnoxious brother - Please Gogh
His brother who ate prunes - Gotta Gogh
His brother who worked in the convenience store - Stopn Gogh
His grandfather from Yugoslavia - U. Gogh
His brother who bleached his clothes white - Hue Gogh
His cousin from Illinois - Chica Gogh
His uncle, the magician - Wherediddy Gogh
His cousin from Mexico - Amee Gogh
His Mexican's cousin's American half brother - Grin Gogh
His nephew who drove the stagecoach - Wellsfar Gogh
His constipated uncle - Cant Gogh
His ballroom dancing aunt - Tang Gogh
Thanks for the ping. I am enjoying your threads very much.
Thanks for the ping. I'm really enjoying your lessons. Keep 'em coming.
Take it somewhere else, degenerate.
Add me to your ping list if you would.
But I still like to see all kinds of images, even those I dislike. Do you like this? If so, why?
Don't know a whole lot about art. But I've always admired the artists who painted "a strict recreation of reality" - (as you worded it).
It just amazes me to see a painting that is so precise it looks like a photograph. I've 'attempted' a few art classes and realize how difficult it is to paint realistically.
But still I enjoy very much Monet, van Gogh, etc. And I'm even beginning to like modern abstract art.
Please include me in your ping list.
I love the frame-within-a-frame and how the color changes as it goes around to complement the painting itself.
You can see that he is even more scientific than Cezanne, and his work can be seen as a preamble to such works in the 20th century as Cubism.
And there is rarely a real line in his work. It's all just little dots.
Once again, thank you. Could you perhaps give us all a succinct definition of the various styles followed by the more well known artists that followed that particular form? For example, define for us "realism," surrealism," "abstract," "Hudson River," "wacko-jacko," etc.
BTW, the "Poussin" painting seems to have similarities with the Hudson River School, in that both have distorted depth and larger than life trees in the forefront.
Leni
Cezanne is also creating depth by making foreground colors more intense (and the background colors more neutralized), and having greater value contrast in the foreground than the background. It works for me. To my eye, in that second landscape, with the brownish green foliage (forgot the artist's name and can't look back right now), some of the background trees look much too dark. It doesn't convey either a sense of light or a sense of distance nearly as well as Cezanne's does.
As for conveying form with color changes rather than values, I think I read somewhere that you can convey a curve of around 40 degrees solely with changing the color, cooling it as you move away from the light, without darkening the paint at all. Seems right to me.
I see what you mean about moving towards abstraction (although I've never thought of the Impressionists that way before), but if I imagine the same paintings without recognizable objects (say, all the shapes different so that I don't see trees, mountains, fruit, etc.), it seems to me that the paintings would then just be nothing special, of no interest. It seems to me that moving towards abstraction only stays interesting to the extent that you don't actually arrive there! :)
I admit to liking tha Matisse floral painting, but don't think it necessarily comes off very well by comparison to the 117th century De Heem, which includes lizards and bugs.
After seeing the De Heem painting, I begin to understand why there was tulip (investment) bubble in the Netherlands, with which the painting was contemporary.
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