Friday OT #2 - Fancy Pants

[CloneLawman]

He's so intense and brilliant. I love Metamorphosis of Narcissus:

@VeloClone - what is amazing about Monet is that most of his major works were pointillism, millions of tiny little dots of paint composing a whole. It's insane in scale.

Let me say this without sounding like a pretend art snob (and as someone who likely has less formal art history training than you)--I always thought of Seurat and Signac as the pointilists with Monet as an impressionist (of course) who happened to dabble. : )

 

[Farnsworth]

That beefy arm looks a pretty good. Coming outta the back of his neck.

I said consummate v's, CONSUMMATE!

 

[cyhiphopp]

I said consummate v's, CONSUMMATE!

Guy wouldn't know majesty if it bit him in the face.

(THAT HAPPENED ONCE!)

 

[jbindm]

I don't know much about art. I do like Edward Hopper; Automat is my favorite because that was the first work of his that I ever saw.

The Des Moines Art Center had a haunting photography exhibit several years ago that stuck with me for a long time - Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations.

https://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/laurel-nakadate

 

[cyhiphopp]

I don't know much about art. I do like Edward Hopper; Automat is my favorite because that was the first work of his that I ever saw.

The Des Moines Art Center had a haunting photography exhibit several years ago that stuck with me for a long time - Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations.

https://www.desmoinesartcenter.org/exhibitions/laurel-nakadate

This guy would have a field day with those pictures:

 

[jcyclonee]

When will you make an end?

 

[jcyclonee]

Look at @Angie. Getting all of us to talk art and stuff. She's done good. We're all grown-up and sophisticated and cultured now.

 

[cyhiphopp]

Look at @Angie. Getting all of us to talk art and stuff. She's done good. We're all grown-up and sophisticated and cultured now.

No Busch Light in this thread, I tell you what.

 

[Angie]

Let me say this without sounding like a pretend art snob (and as someone who likely has less formal art history training than you)--I always thought of Seurat and Signac as the pointilists with Monet as an impressionist (of course) who happened to dabble. : )

That is very true - I just really, really like Monet's works that are pointillistic. Monet was THE impressionist, the original! He is to impressionism as, say, Picasso was to Cubism! (Well, Picasso was one of two original Cubists. And I don't actually love Cubism, but that's not relevant. I've found a rabbithole and jumped in.)

 

[CloneLawman]

That is very true - I just really, really like Monet's works that are pointillistic. Monet was THE impressionist, the original! He is to impressionism as, say, Picasso was to Cubism! (Well, Picasso was one of two original Cubists. And I don't actually love Cubism, but that's not relevant. I've found a rabbithole and jumped in.)

Rabbitholes are fun. I prefer analytic to synthetic when it comes to cubism.

 

[Farnsworth]

And I don't actually love Cubism, but that's not relevant. I've found a rabbithole and jumped in.)

The other Friday OT thread sent me down a giant wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. Good for a Friday before holiday weekend.

 

[SCyclone]

No Busch Light in this thread, I tell you what.

Well, then we don't have to worry about CW coming in here and mucking it all up.

 

[SCyclone]

When I think about the Sistine Chapel, I really am in awe. He had to have painted the ceilings lying on his back.......and how many freakin' years did it take? I would absolutely love to visit the Vatican, just to see all the art.

@Angie, I don't suppose you went there, did you? Would have been pretty memorable....

 

[ImJustKCClone]

When I think about the Sistine Chapel, I really am in awe. He had to have painted the ceilings lying on his back.......and how many freakin' years did it take? I would absolutely love to visit the Vatican, just to see all the art.

@Angie, I don't suppose you went there, did you? Would have been pretty memorable....

It was. We were there about about 15 years ago. You just want to lay down on the floor and stare up for hours...but that's frowned upon in the Vatican.

 

[Entropy]

@VeloClone Your mention of Rembrandt reminded me of this work. My high school Spanish teacher loved to discuss art, and we looked at El Greco's work regularly.

I'm also a fan of the work of Chagall. It's fun figuring out the story being told.

 

[cyhiphopp]

I can be serious too.

I'm of the, "I know what I like" kind of art aficionado. I actually do enjoy a lot of the works of Leonardo Divinci and Michelangelo

One that hasn't been posted yet that I really enjoy is Picaso's The Old Guitarist which I got to see when I went to The Art Institute in Chicago many years ago.

 

[Angie]

Rabbitholes are fun. I prefer analytic to synthetic when it comes to cubism.

YES! I agree - it's not so defined and cold? I also tend to enjoy orphism more than cubism? I don't know why, the super-structured squares are just so oppressive to me in synthetic cubism? I don't know why - it feels like rules in art form? That doesn't make sense.

When I think about the Sistine Chapel, I really am in awe. He had to have painted the ceilings lying on his back.......and how many freakin' years did it take? I would absolutely love to visit the Vatican, just to see all the art.

@Angie, I don't suppose you went there, did you? Would have been pretty memorable....

I did go! It was incredible at the scope and scale. I got special tickets to go on a tour before the Vatican and Vatican Museums opened at 8 am, so that it was WAY less crowded (it's wall-to-wall after 8am). We got more time and opportunity to really explore it. It did surprise me that it was bigger than you see in the photos - I always looked at the photos and expected it to be this insanely long hall with the paintings small. It all was very identifiable, and the colors and such still pop incredibly well, almost 3-D, so that you can see it very well. From what I understand, he would lie on scaffolding. The frescoes were such that you couldn't really paint over a section - if you made a mistake, you had to totally redo everything or incorporate it. The paintings don't seem to have the fine details that some of his other works do, but that may have been because we were 20 feet away?

I can be serious too.

I'm of the, "I know what I like" kind of art aficionado. I actually do enjoy a lot of the works of Leonardo Divinci and Michelangelo

One that hasn't been posted yet that I really enjoy is Picaso's The Old Guitarist which I got to see when I went to The Art Institute in Chicago many years ago.

That's also one of my favorites. I love pretty well all of Picasso's Blue Period. His Rose Period is another favorite.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

When I think about the Sistine Chapel, I really am in awe. He had to have painted the ceilings lying on his back.......and how many freakin' years did it take? I would absolutely love to visit the Vatican, just to see all the art.

@Angie, I don't suppose you went there, did you? Would have been pretty memorable....

You could spend several days wandering through the Vatican Museum. One piece of priceless art after another. My appreciation for the Sistine Chapel came after i walked into the next room. After that all the other paintings seemed so flat and lifeless.

 

[cyhiphopp]

I can be serious too.

I'm of the, "I know what I like" kind of art aficionado. I actually do enjoy a lot of the works of Leonardo Divinci and Michelangelo

One that hasn't been posted yet that I really enjoy is Picaso's The Old Guitarist which I got to see when I went to The Art Institute in Chicago many years ago.

Wikipedia is awesome. I didn't know this but The Old Guitarist was painted over at least two different paintings and now that I look at it, I can see them too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Guitarist

Neat!

 

[CloneLawman]

This thread needs more Cezanne (it's a bit like cowbell)..