Posted on 09/21/2013 10:12:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I'm with you, brutha.
That hangs above my dining room table.
Absolutely love it. One of my favorites.
Great painting
Kitsch
No, that is terrible sentimentalism.
RE: Huxley was extremely vision-impaired, possibly even legally blind.
With respect to details about the true quality of Huxley’s eyesight at specific points in his life, there are differing accounts. Around 1939, Huxley encountered the Bates Method for better eyesight, and a teacher, Margaret Corbett, who was able to teach him in the method. In 1940, Huxley relocated from Hollywood to a 40-acre (160,000 m2) ranchito in the high desert hamlet of Llano, California, in northernmost Los Angeles County.
Huxley then said that his sight improved dramatically with the Bates Method and the extreme and pure natural lighting of the southwestern American desert.
He reported that for the first time in over 25 years, he was able to read without glasses and without strain.
That is an excellent video! BS-ism, good one!
That painting is a perfect illustration of how far the art world has rejected technical quality and beauty in art. I have seen that painting in person. It is not located in a museum. William Bouguereau fell out of favor so much that museums stopped displaying his work, and sold the paintings off for cheap. The current owner of that painting is the Forest Lawn cemetary in Los Angeles, where they display it in their chapel. I don’t know what they bought it for, but it was most likely extremely cheap.
Opinions are like a-holes...
I happen to like Andreas Gursky, and think that he stole his style from me (I certainly didn’t steal it from him, having only heard of him in the past several years.) His photographs are interesting and expressive, and that’s enough for me.
this book has a different cover at amazon.com
Probably. Covers cange. That is my copy from way back, some few thousand titles in here.
This is a beautiful painting!
He tells us, counterintuitively and unpersuasively, that Piero’s ostensible subjects, the Christian religion and the Resurrection of Christ, are not really central to his art.
I’m partial the painting of the crucifixion of St. Andrew which is displayed in the apse of the church called Sant’Andrea della Valle, in Rome.
The lighting and placement are spectacular and enhance the experience. The church is almost hidden on a street along the route from the Forum to Piazza Navona.
I think posting Thomas Kincade painting is a violation of Free Republic guideline. If not, it should be.
Which is another reason modern art came along. Why paint just to make something that looks like a camera could have done it?
I always look at Kincade’s paintings and think “That’s a stupid place to build a house. That stream’s gonna flood when all that snow in the mountains in the background melts come spring.”
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