[vannrox]

Some of my favorites:



William Bouguereau - Faneuse



The Excommunication of Robert the Pious



Bonnat Leon - Fountain By The Cathedral Of St Peter In Rome



Lawrence Alma-Tadema



Lawrence Alma-Tadema



William Bouguereau - Limprudente



Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The finding of Moses





Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon



Blaas_Eugen_von_Die_Wassertragerin



Springtime



Toulmouche Auguste - The Admiring Glance



Daniel Gerhartz - Hind's Feet (2004)



Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners 1897



Rixens - The death of Cleopata



Mariamne

[SlowBoat407]

Just... Wow.

[mvpel]

I guess what the modern artists probably argue is that in the era of photography, what's the point of a painting that is nearly indistinguishable from a photograph.

Faneuse is very lovely, wonder how she kept her skin so fair working outside?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners 1897?

Nah.

That painting was directly and shamelessly copied from Hillary's latest focus group polling at her TV offices (er, Senate Office) in her New York's presstitute's (er, dnc) offices.

[kaboom]

I must say that for a minute I thought that "The Excommunication of Robert the Pious" 2nd Pic, would be titled "Two people staring at a Marlboro".

[Ditter]

Fabulous art, thanks for posting it. My favorites are some of the Impressionist. Talouse-Lautrec is my absolute favorite artist with Degas and Monet right behind. The ones you posted are a little bit too sentimental and sweet for me but I appreciate the skill and talent it took to draw and paint them.

Kids today are not being taught to draw I am afraid. A relative of mine is involved with the School Art Program associated with the Houston Rodeo Association. It is obvious to anyone who knows about projection knows that the high school kids who submit art for auction are projecting photographs and not drawing.

I tried to tell my relative this but I was told No that doesn't happen. We no longer discuss it. If you look at a pencil drawing by a kid from across the room and it looks like a photograph, then it was projected. The kids are selling their pencil drawings/projections for thousands of dollars. Very sad.

[Tribune7]

thank you. bump

[two23]

Your "favorites" are stunning--I first visited the Art Renewel website several years ago, and agree with their philosophy and hope that they are able to change the current course of Art Study, not only in America, but abroad as well.

So Called "Modern Art" (although I try to be objective) is more like "Physcho-Art". When artists paint "what they feel", of course your going to end up with a canvas full of (unskilled), disorganized, worthless, chaos. But is that what they were taught as students?

My last visit to the High Museum of Art, there was a display of sculptures that were done by someone LICKING chocolate. It was nauseating and a waste of museum space and my time.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a Van Gogh or Gauguin as much as anyone, and truly enjoy the better art of ordinary people who paint because they love to paint, but I have no patience for someones outward display of their personality disorders on canvas, or their sexual fetishes formed by raw body parts in edible substrate.