Dali's juxtapositon of style and subject were exquisitly detailed---he worked on some of these huge canvases for months.
Salvador Dali----1954 Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)---Metropolitan Museum of Art
Posted on 04/08/2005 7:50:39 AM PDT by Liz
Are you planning to have a regularly appearing art appreciation thread? I would be very interested.
i.e., the raised gold leaf is laid on a gesso composition which is not quite like what you'd use to prime a canvas. Because it is going onto a folio leaf, it needs to be somewhat more flexible than if applied to a stretched canvas or panel so white lead dust is mixed into the plaster creating both an inhalation hazard and can also poison through tiny nicks or scratches in the skin. Cinnabar (vermillion) is a mercuric sulfide that can also accumulate within the body...
There are an amazing number of artistic freepers, some amateur, some professional. It could be a nice thing to have a thread where our art could be displayed. We can all bookmark it so that a post can be made and ping list activated whenever there is a new "exhibition," or just if there is an interesting art topic.
I am doing as you are, getting back to art the last few years.
Redlins' work actually ticks me off.
I'm not a huge fan of Dali, though I much respect his work and even own a book on technique by him. But I'd forgotten that painting.
I'm not religious at all, but that painting is truly spiritual, mystical even. I think it must be his greatest work by far. What an inspiration, both artistically and religiously.
Dali is a guy who understood the classical painting methods, and swam against the stream by using them in the 20th century. Weirdly, my wife owns a watch which she sometimes wears in the shape of Dalis famous melting watches. It is kind of cute.
Dali's juxtapositon of style and subject were exquisitly detailed---he worked on some of these huge canvases for months.
Salvador Dali----1954 Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)---Metropolitan Museum of Art
Awesome.......the dimensions are difficult to fathom.......in real terms, the size of a person.
sam cree is assembling the art appreciation list.
Straight Vermonter wants on, sam.
Ok, you are on the art ping list. Thanks.
Of course it's not forgery---you are a student of art and are exploring techniques for serious study.
It was a hazardous occupation---although so many of the great artists lived to a ripe old age.
Yup.
I got a kick out of the pigeons flying around within St Peter's.
Fitting somehow.
If you would like to be on the art appreciation ping list, ping FReeper sam cree.
Thanks. Not sure. But, Sam, you can put me on. My delete button works.
Am on so many lists! LOL.
But I am interested in some kinds of art. Not so much modern stuff unless it's truly esthetically pleasing.
Blessings,
Hi Quix, nice to see you. I'll gladly put you on the list. I have a feeling that most freepers' taste runs to the traditional, but I'm sure there will be some modern guys posted too. But I am betting that those threads will generate some controversy, which should be fun. I imagine this list will not be "high volume," but time will tell.
Anyway, you are now on the list, thanks!
Thank you. Good to see your name again.
LUB
Raison d'etre for the thread: We're interested in the kind of art that interests you. Please post examples
Millet's Angelus---Masterwork
The Angelus was one of Millet's favorite works. There he rediscovered the sensations of his childhood. He gives us here religious man, superstitious even, in the course of his life and his labors, his humiliations and his hope. As the sun sets, two peasants, a man and a woman, hear the Angelus sound. They stop, stand up, and heads uncovered and eyes bowed, they speak the traditional prayer: Angelus domini nuntiavit Mariae. The man, a true peasant of the fields, his head covered with short straight hair like a felt hat, prays in silence. The bowed woman is lost in meditation. The landscape is one dusted with the light of the setting sun, one of those ends of days that embraces the earth and sky in a deep purple.
Salvador Dali's Angelus---Surreal 
Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus 1933-35. Oil on panel, 31,7 x 39,3 cm. Dali -Museum von St. Petersburg, Florida, gift Reynold Morse
LEGEND In the works of the Surrealist period, Dali treated those elements of disparate appearance with absolute realism which emphasized the proper character of each one of them, making an exact copy from a document, a photograph, or the actual object, as well as using collage.
He increased the effect produced even more through the use of techniques stemming from the precision of Vermeer to the blurred shapes of Carrière.
Once he had given an emotional autonomy to his protagonists he established communication between them by depicting them in space - most often in a landscape - thus creating unity in the canvas by the juxtaposition of objects bearing no relation in an environment where they did not belong.
This spatial obsession derives from the atmosphere of Cadaqués, where the light, due to the color of the sky and of the sea, seems to suspend the course of time and allows the mind through the eye to glide more easily from one point to another.
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