Posted on 07/18/2008 5:24:19 PM PDT by snugs
We have had several threads on music and food but not art I thought tonight we could discuss what works of art you enjoy.
Art can be very subjective what some people love other hate, what some consider a scribble a daub on a paper other consider a masterpiece.
Then there are certain pieces of art that are universally accepted and admired.
What are your favourite works of art or type of art?
Maybe it is a sculpture or some fine art?
On the other hand maybe architecture is your bent?
Tonight's questions
What is your favourite painting?
What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose?
That reminds me a picture of a girl and dog that we had on our biscuit barrel (cookie jar) when I was a child
Yeah I’m one county over from Ann Arbor. We’d love to go but we went to the UP for two weeks over the 4th and my girlfriend has been running for work pretty steady ever since and just needs a nice quiet night at home.
No real favorites. I like a lot of different styles and artists. After years of shaking my head at Jackson Pollock and not understanding a thing, I think I kinda get it now and can at least look at his work in an effort to understand, rather than dismissing it. I recently read about the Bloomsbury group and fell in love with the art of Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant. I was familiar with the writers of Bloomsbury, but not the artists or their efforts to make artistic home decor.
What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother (otherwise known as 'Whistler's Mother'). I've seen paintings by Van Gogh and Rembrandt in Amsterdam and many works of art at the Tate and other galleries in London. What a city for art!
If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
Potter. I'd love to be able to create usable art.
If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose?
Asia, to see the variety of temples there.
My son used to go to Dexter, and then up to the UP in the summer w/his grandparents. On the Finnish side of my late husband’s family, they have farms and stuff in the UP and he would tell tales of the family sauna.
I always thought it a little funny that his grandmother, a strict Finnish Apostolic Lutheran - no drinking, no card playing, no nothing apparently, had no problem w/everyone sitting buck naked together in the sauna. : )
I was in Florida last week and went to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. Let’s just say that he had “issues” with women, but he was a genius of an artist. I went there several years ago, but they seem to rotate some of the paintings periodically. I took a course in “American Art” in college many moons ago, but I seem to prefer the surrealists. The woman explaining the paintings at the museum said that Dali didn’t do drugs or drink and that he loved life.
I also like seascapes and Civil War art by Dale Gallon and Mort Kuntsler...
Picking a favorite is easy for me: Salvador Dali, whether it is the benign, kooky posters I hung in my dorm room 20 years ago, or the salacious imagery in a book on him that I have.
Other favorites are wallpapers from Markus Gann (3dsceneries.com), Jason Godby (jg-art.com) and Ryan Bliss (digitalblasphemy.com).
He’s another favorite of mine from the non-electronic world.
As long as the "canvas" bears a resemblance to Anna Kournikova, Catherine Zeta-Jones, or some such. And no Code Pink member canvasses allowed! Those make the artist go blind.
I checked your profile. Makes me wish I was about 20 years older (I’m 41) so I could properly date you.
Your tastes sound similar to mine. I don't have chimes around the house, but the idea seems attractive.
LOLOLOL I've missed you!!!
I like it. I just wish that guy were shooting instead of posing.
I enjoy & appreciate so much varied art.. Dali, the impressionists, etc. The contemporary Tom Kincaid -- the artist of "light" is a favorite of mine.
So much of my original artwork has been destroyed by being :"stored" rather than hung properly. I get to big museums ((cleveland, Chicago, DC etc) often & so see much of the original "good stuff" . I have a lot of original oils, pastels etc but none by famous people (yet)
the Cleveland Museum of Art has an outstanding collection
I do hope that everyone has a great weekend. Been hectic/crazy here & have been out of town & now dealing with some other issues on the homefront - I will make the effort to stop by & see everyone's preferences (hopefully with pix).
I wouldn't have thought of that one initially, but that's a neat answer.
I enjoy all sorts of art. I have a Louis Icart print Rainbow that I just love. There is an artist called Shag who I also enjoy. I have 2 of his serigraphs, The Sky Lounge and The Pick-Up. I tend to like the surrealists, because it's like they take our night-time dreams and put them on a canvas. My favorite is Magritte. Although, I also like the Pre-Raphaelites, too. Time Transfixed
The most famous work of art I've ever seen is The Persistence of Memory (the melting clocks) by Salvador Dali. I was shocked at how small it is! I guess because it's so famous, I had imagined it large. One of the nice things about living near Chicago is being able to visit The Art Institute. They have Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, American Gothic by Grant Wood, Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (which is so big and so realistic that it's almost unnerving), and Van Gogh's Self-Portrait.
What are your favourite works of art or type of art? Maybe it is a sculpture or some fine art?
My grandmother on my mom's side was an artist, and my sister inherited that talent. One of my favorite paintings is one that my grandmother did of the pasture at her home. That one is a favorite because of the memories I have of growing up and visiting my grandparents' farm. I have a painting she did of a beach in Florida.
I mostly enjoy landscapes and other pictures that capture a scene or paintings of birds or other wildlife. I have a print that I purchased here in Louisiana of a fishing boat coming into the bayou. While the picture doesn't capture scenes that I've seen a great deal, the picture does remind me of neat things that I've seen here in Louisiana. I have some Ray Harm pictures of birds. My aunt once taught Robert Redden in high school, and she gave me some of his bird prints that he had given her. I don't know whether anyone would have heard of these two, but I enjoy their pictures. I have one Audubon. I have a Peter Hurd print that had belonged to my grandparents, but I can't find it online. I like this kind of nature and rural scenery art.
What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
I've seen some Frederic Remington paintings in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. I don't remember which ones they were, but I enjoyed much of the art there.
If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
While radiohead gave a neat answer about being a potter in order to create works of art that were also useful, I would end up choosing to be an artist if I were to be suddenly gifted with some kind of talent. As an artist, I could go into the great outdoors without taking too much equipment and come back with something beautiful. Being an artist would give me another way to share some of my outdoor experiences with people.
Bill
I love Thomas Kincaid and have about 5 of his pieces hanging in the house.... Just ......beautiful. :)
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