Subject: Favourite Artists/Paintings
Posted by: Mixamatosis
Date: Apr 05 18
Do you have any favourite artists and/or paintings? Why are they your favourites? Have you seen them on display?
(This isn't intended to limit you to just one).
Posted by: Mixamatosis
Date: Apr 05 18
Do you have any favourite artists and/or paintings? Why are they your favourites? Have you seen them on display?
(This isn't intended to limit you to just one).
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Skyflyerjen
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Oddly enough, I love Clive Barker's paintings. I love his books of course, but recently I fell for his other interests as well! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/535858055635243297/ https://dailydead.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Clive-Barker-shirt-05.jpg https://clivebarker.deviantart.com/art/From-Abarat-3-What-the-Blind-Man-Saw-page-3-295108819 Reply #1. Apr 05 18, 10:28 AM |
| Skyflyerjen
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I don't know if this counts as "painting" but I've always been a big fan of Stephen Gammell, illustrator for "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" series. So odd, frightening, and different. http://www.scaryforkids.com/white-wolf/ https://redcrowgreencrow.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/scarystoriestotellinthedark.jpg https://www.retroist.com/2014/08/02/scary-stories-tell-in-the-dark-harold/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/492722015465045683/ Reply #2. Apr 05 18, 10:57 AM |
Mixamatosis 
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Skyflyerjen. I hadn't heard of these painters before but they are impressive. I especially like Clive Barker's style. Reply #3. Apr 06 18, 12:57 PM |
| Mixamatosis
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I've always liked some of the Dutch painters. The skill, and beauty of the painting as well as the scenes of everyday life some them of them painted appeal to me. Painters such as the Brueghels (elder and younger) and Van Der Weyden's ability to portray sadness. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_Hunters_in_the_Snow_(Winter)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_Icarus https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I8vngM5CVyA/Tuttct5QmlI/AAAAAAAAy0k/PxlKakZOvVY/s1600/Rogier+Van+Der+Weyden+-+Tutt%2527Art%2540+%25282%2529.jpg Reply #4. Apr 07 18, 1:21 PM |
Memorycat65
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Anything by Edward Hopper: especially "Nighthawks," and "Gas." I love the way that Hopper worked with light and shadow. His themes of social isolation within the city always kind of clutch at my heart. He wasn't noted for being a particularly pleasant man, and I suspect that like authors being advised to write about what they know, Hopper painted what he experienced. Anne Reply #5. Apr 08 18, 2:06 AM |
| Skyflyerjen
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Mixa, wow, you weren't kidding about Van Der Weyden's skill in showing sadness; it is written all over that man's face. It's not the obvious tears; it's his pained eyes, his scrunched brow. His mouth is a highlight for me. To me (an untrained, classless girl who just likes looking at paintings) his lips seem to be either on the verge of letting out a loud cry or trying to hold it all in. Reply #6. Apr 10 18, 10:15 AM |
| Mixamatosis
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skyflyerjen. Most of his themes were religious but I'm sure he must have drawn on life experiences to paint emotions like that. He also used gorgeous colours. I especially like the greens. This luminous green also appears in a famous painting by another Dutch painter, Van Eyck. I love the detail in this painting including the little dog and the images of the husband and wife in the mirror at the back of the room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Eyck#/media/File:Van_Eyck_-_Arnolfini_Portrait.jpg Reply #7. Apr 11 18, 11:50 AM |
| Skyflyerjen
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Wow, that green really does pop! Thanks for sharing! The level of detail is impressive. I love the dog, too! Reply #8. Apr 12 18, 10:19 AM |
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