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Mine is "The kiss" by Gustav Klimt.



http://www.mystudios.com/masters/klimt-the-kiss-1907-small.jpg


I find it fascinating, and I love it's passionate atmosphere. It's an almost abstract way of depicting two lovers, with only their faces, hands and feet showing for under the overstyled garments, and yet it has a tense, close, exicting and erotic air about it.

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch. I don't know why, but it is.

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch. I don't know why, but it is.

Yup, mine too.

The Kiss is a beautiful painting, worth seeing "live" if you haven't already.

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch. I don't know why, but it is.

I like that one, too. I actually painted my own version of it, at some stage, as a sort of self-portrait.

The Kiss is a beautiful painting, worth seeing "live" if you haven't already.

I've got relatives living in Vienna. I've seen it a number of times, but I could still spend hours just looking. :D

Dali's Girl Standing at a Window (http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/dali/dali_girl_standing_at_the_window.jpg)
Because it's not like what you'd expect from Dali, and because it's the first piece of art that I animated. (I made the sea flow, the curtains blow in the wind, her foot to rock back and forth, the clouds move, the sky turn red and eventually lightening strike. Supposed to be the pre-show for The Tempest, it lasted about 15 minutes and would be projected on a giant sail on the stage. The movements start out subtle and then become grander as it gets closer to show time.)

if ever i capture the essence of the kind of world i would rather be living in with a single illustration, that will be my favorite.

i do not see the objects created by art as the object of doing it but the gratifiction of creating itself. i fail to see collecting as gratifying anything.

my favorite pieces of art would be nonobjective sculptures people could live in for free with no one objecting to their doing so.

i don't mean the people living in them would be on display or anythng like that either. just a big palace of straingeness that everyone just keeps adding on to, strong enough not to colapse on anybody, there has to be some consideration of that, but otherwise just infinite and continuous convolutedness of form.

there was something called april morn i think it was, and i have no idea who did it, that had like an adolescent girl running naked through a wheat field that i thought was pretty cool.

but generaly i see classicism as self serving arrogance.

=^^=
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I like that one, too. I actually painted my own version of it, at some stage, as a sort of self-portrait.I did a papier-mache version of Munch's "Selfportrait with Cigarette" in art class once. It was one of the few that didn't curl up so much... :D

I've got relatives living in Vienna. I've seen it a number of times, but I could still spend hours just looking. :D

I was impressed by the sheer size of it, seeing pictures in books doesn't do it justice.

Hugo Simberg's Wounded Angel (http://users.tkk.fi/~apajunen/seeart/jpgs/haavenkeli.jpg).

if ever i capture the essence of the kind of world i would rather be living in with a single illustration, that will be my favorite.

i do not see the objects created by art as the object of doing it but the gratifiction of creating itself. i fail to see collecting as gratifying anything.

my favorite pieces of art would be nonobjective sculptures people could live in for free with no one objecting to their doing so.

i don't mean the people living in them would be on display or anythng like that either. just a big palace of straingeness that everyone just keeps adding on to, strong enough not to colapse on anybody, there has to be some consideration of that, but otherwise just infinite and continuous convolutedness of form.

there was something called april morn i think it was, and i have no idea who did it, that had like an adolescent girl running naked through a wheat field that i thought was pretty cool.

but generaly i see classicism as self serving arrogance.

=^^=
.../\...


You mean something like this:

http://korokmu.eizil.com/wp-content/hundertwasserHaus.jpg

Hugo Simberg's Wounded Angel (http://users.tkk.fi/~apajunen/seeart/jpgs/haavenkeli.jpg).
Is that kid in the back supposed to be blaming me for injuring the angel?

You mean something like this:

http://korokmu.eizil.com/wp-content/hundertwasserHaus.jpg
Now that's just cool.

Is that kid in the back supposed to be blaming me for injuring the angel?
Could very well be. Simberg never explained any of his works. Not with one word. The overall consensus here is that the kid is indeed blaming you, though.

Now that's just cool.

It's the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna.
The building is a social housing complex, you can only view it from the outside, though, if you don't live there. But it's absolutely beautiful, a work of art you can live in.

here is mine :

http://www.wolfgangkiel.de/bilder/biggi/callo6.jpg

its from an unknown artist from germany everybody knows here....

:fluffle:

it has no name but it is in the right mood ....

Work of art, eh?

http://www.sztaki.hu/~smarton/muveszet/michelangelo/pieta.jpg

Pictures just don't do it justice...when I saw it in person, I could have sworn I saw movement, as though Mary were breathing or something. Michelangelo had a way of bringing marble to life that might never be duplicated.

Work of art, eh?

http://www.sztaki.hu/~smarton/muveszet/michelangelo/pieta.jpg

Pictures just don't do it justice...when I saw it in person, I could have sworn I saw movement, as though Mary were breathing or something. Michelangelo had a way of bringing marble to life that might never be duplicated.

Oh, yes, it has

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/240/531_LeBaiser%20Rodin.jpg


.... it does look a bit like I was obsessed with the "Grand Kisses of Art", doesn't it?

Mine is "The kiss" by Gustav Klimt.



http://www.mystudios.com/masters/klimt-the-kiss-1907-small.jpg


I find it fascinating, and I love it's passionate atmosphere. It's an almost abstract way of depicting two lovers, with only their faces, hands and feet showing for under the overstyled garments, and yet it has a tense, close, exicting and erotic air about it.
That is just Seedy.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/harlesburg/CHLOERA-AKA-Harlesburg.jpg

One of my 'Pre-Modern' Favourites was a tribute to World War One Commonwealth Forces i saw it on Antiques Road show but alas i don't have a picture.


For some reason i like this though
http://www.youer.com/photo/T/420jingdian1458.jpg

http://www.svreeland.com/ls-monet-1.jpg

http://www.fotos.org/galeria/data/520/3Salvador-Dali-Persistence-Of-Memory.jpg

http://www.ezthemes.com/previews/3/3dabstractart2.jpg

Ive got this.-It is Bloody great.
http://images.art.com/images/-/Pink-Floyd---Back-Catalog--C10086109.jpeg

http://www.ezthemes.com/previews/3/3dabstractart2.jpg

Ive got this.-It is Bloody great.
http://images.art.com/images/-/Pink-Floyd---Back-Catalog--C10086109.jpeg

:eek:

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The body paintings are great...
I've seen better, but I can't post them here, sorry.

here is mine :

http://www.wolfgangkiel.de/bilder/biggi/callo6.jpg
its from an unknown artist from germany everybody knows here....

:fluffle:

it has no name but it is in the right mood ....
Nice, I like that. My fave:
The Fighting Temeraire (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/i/temeraire.jpg)
Not usually a fan of Turner (damn romanticisim) but this one struck a chord with me, especially when I saw the original. Something about it sums up the 'end of an era' feeling.

Also like: Helmut Schober, some German or Austrian guy, who does these paintings that look like Astronomical objects. Check this out (big pic warning) (http://www.rlb.info/d/pic/upload/presse/1422_hb6.jpg) That's not light shining on that, he painted it like that.

http://imaginaryboys.altervista.org/english/art/images/relativity.JPG
that sort of thing

also by the same dude http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Hand_with_Reflecting_Sphere.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/DrawingHands.jpg

and

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/gravity.jpg


http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/cellular1.jpg

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/fractalcumulus1.jpg

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/eminence.jpg

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/cacoon2a.jpg

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/fractal-beings.jpg

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/blackcoral.jpg

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/L88b.jpg

http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/ascention.jpg

( [IMG] is fine on my resolution but if you want me to change, just yell)

http://imaginaryboys.altervista.org/english/art/images/relativity.JPG
that sort of thing

also by the same dude http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Hand_with_Reflecting_Sphere.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/DrawingHands.jpg



That dude is M.C. Escher, his work is great :D

That dude is M.C. Escher, his work is great :D
i know :D
i just love the hands drawing themselves - i mean his other stuff is awesome but thats just a tad insane (but brilliant)

Oh, yes, it has

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/240/531_LeBaiser%20Rodin.jpg


.... it does look a bit like I was obsessed with the "Grand Kisses of Art", doesn't it?

Obsessed? No...just a healthy fascination. ;)

In my eyes, Rodin simply can't compare with Michelangelo. Some of his work I enjoy, but Michelangelo's sculptures reach me at a deeper level.

All a matter of taste. :)

You mean something like this:

http://korokmu.eizil.com/wp-content/hundertwasserHaus.jpg

well yes and no. it's a little to flat on the side we're looking at it from and the setting is maybe a little too urban, but it does fit the discription i gave. what's with all the what looks like war damage though. i think that's sad.

solari's archo santi in a sense does too, although in that case it's a bit too contrived looking and overscaled in some parts.

in both examples the art is less in the appearance then in the concept. i think both are important. if you surrounded something like that with a japanese garden, intigrated it into it, so that it became an integral part of the landscape, and then gave it mechanical transportation that didn't involve rubber tyres or pavement.

the garden itself inturn surrounded by wild forrest full of natural cratures going about their undisturbed natural lives.

ah roger dean did some illustrations a bit like i have in mind, or anthony lovins, and a few others. also maybe what gaudi's park guell wouldhave couldhave shouldhave been, not as an elete thing like it was going to be, but as a common commons, not like the park it is now but with the whole town being like that and people living there and the markata and the whole thing.

yes my vission is a little different then either of their's too. at least my circulatory mechanism aspect of it, but otherwise those are the general idea.

i guess the closest thing i can think of in real life is gaudi's park guell, although i'm also thinking what 'drop city' couldhave wouldhave shouldhave been too.

this was a bunch of zomes rising out of a junkyard or made with free stuff from one, never having been there i'm not sure which, that happened in colorado somewhere back in the 70s.

i think the state and its building codes tore it down. dam us building codes.

roger dean has/had some visions pretty much like what i have in mind.

=^^=
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http://www.enchgallery.com/fractals/fractal%20images/gravity.jpg



I feel a need to fondle this, but I can't put my finger on why...

Stary Stary Night By Van Gogh
http://sprklegrl979.homestead.com/files/stary_night.jpg

Water Lillies by Monet
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/images/monet_lilies_l.jpg

And Red Fuji by Hokusai
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/fuji7.gif

I feel a need to fondle this, but I can't put my finger on why...
hehehe :p


And Red Fuji by Hokusai
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/fuji7.gif
ooooh...

Dali is pretty much my favorite.

This one is cool.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Dream_Caused_by_the_Flight_of_a_Bumblebee_around_a_Pomegranate_a_Second_Before_Awakening.jpg


But lately, I find H.R Giger's work to really cool as well.

http://www.hrgiger.com/index.html

While not big on paintings and such, this work of art is my favorite:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/frank-lloyd-wright/fallingwater-pictures/fallingwater-2.jpg

While not big on paintings and such, this work of art is my favorite:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/frank-lloyd-wright/fallingwater-pictures/fallingwater-2.jpg

That's incredibly beautiful... the only thing that's slightly out of place is that red ladder, though...

That's incredibly beautiful... the only thing that's slightly out of place is that red ladder, though...
I think red goes well with the naturalish stone look on the outside walls. A little contrast is always good. Its also rather important to be able to see the ladder easily. I must say, I haven't seen this in person, and I'm just guessing its a ladder. The picture quality isn't the best, and there seems to be more rungs present, so it could be dividers between windows.

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus (http://fits.depauw.edu/aharris/Courses/ArtH132/galleries/images/fullsize/fs_Botticelli_Venus.jpg)

Antonio Canova's Amore e Psyche sculpture (http://www.sapere.it/tc/img/Arte/Percorsi/Bianca_Grecia/bianca_grecia2.jpg)

Also the lovely ladies on top of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts (http://lunapark.quuxuum.org/albums/SFPalace/sf34.jpg) who will only show us their back, which never fails to crack me up. Couldn't find a decent picture online (imagine that!), but since I got my brand new scanner today maybe I'll post another one later.

I completely failed to mention my second favourite, Great Wave of Kanagawa, by Hokusai

http://www.scanews.com/japan/westernview/p3s.jpg

Hellacious good question!

Damn, don't make me choose between my favorites!

It's s toss up between serveral works by Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Rothko, or Mark Tobey.

(BTW, I also paint. As you might guess, I tend towards neo-abstract expressionism.)

Henri Matisse
Interior With Dog
1934
oil on canvas
The Cone Collection
Baltimore Museum of Art

http://www.mobtowndesigns.com/campheatwole/images/dog_234.jpg

I am also a huge fan of the works of Maxfield Parrish.

http://www.gosling357.com/MaxfieldParrish.html

Probably the most awesome portrayl of war ever, Picasso's Guernica.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg

You could look at the thing for days and still pick out nuances.

I also really love "The Poet", what a great way to portray the concept of creative energy.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/cas/english/faculty/conte/syllabi/377/Images/Picasso_Poet.jpg

This one just tickles my "Holy Shit That's Cool" Bone. A piece of art constructed through the growing of organic crystals.

http://www.arco-iris.com/George/microscopes/apocalypse.jpg

Unfortunately, I can't show you all the artistic hilarity that is my favourite picture, but I could tell you a little story about it.

It's called "It's a Goose". My boyfriend drew it yesterday, actually, along with another one he called "Speckled Upon a Morning Scar", which is much smaller. Anyway. When he gave me "Goose", he said "Can you see the goose?" and I lied. Understand, this is a rather ramshackle rendition of a goose covered in lots of different colour squiggles, so of course I didn't see it. I spent all goddamn day trying to figure out in what way/shape/form there was a water fowl, and it wasn't until my OC told me I'd probably never find it that I did. Then a little dance and celebrated cries of "I'm a good girlfriend" ensued.

My second favourite is a drawing I made my boyfriend three days ago (it gets really REALLY boring behind the stand at work, you see) called "God's Chosen Creatures Burn Down Yet Another Farmhouse in the Quiet Still of the Night" and it was about goats.

I rather like goats.

I find it fascinating, and I love it's passionate atmosphere. It's an almost abstract way of depicting two lovers, with only their faces, hands and feet showing for under the overstyled garments, and yet it has a tense, close, exicting and erotic air about it.

It looks a lot like the stuff from the opening to Elfen Lied, if you ask me.

there was something called april morn i think it was, and i have no idea who did it, that had like an adolescent girl running naked through a wheat field that i thought was pretty cool.

A naked little girl?:eek: Is that legal?

Hugo Simberg's Wounded Angel (http://users.tkk.fi/~apajunen/seeart/jpgs/haavenkeli.jpg).

I've always found that picture very spooky.

Who did that one with the dogs playing poker?
Seriously though Edward Hopper did some of my favourite paintings, Hiroshige woodblocks are fantastic, and Breughel was wonderful. Also like Monet and Matisse.

I've always found that picture very spooky.
Yeah? For some reason I find it quite soothing.

I used to think that 'In the Garden of Death' (http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/fcod/simberg.jpg)by the same painter was spooky. Not anymore though. It supposedly is about Death nursing his flowers, people's souls on their way to their final destination. I guess it could be that...

I used to think that 'In the Garden of Death' (http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/fcod/simberg.jpg)by the same painter was spooky.
i love the imagery - great idea. spooky, yes...

Who did that one with the dogs playing poker?

I think it is called A Friend in Need though I forget who drew it.

Who did that one with the dogs playing poker?

I think it is called A Friend in Need though I forget who drew it.I think it is called A Friend in Need though I forget who drew it.

C. M. Coolidge, "Looks Like Four of a Kind" (http://www.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/d-f/dogpkr.shtml). However, there are other paintings of dogs playing poker, so this may just be the one that started it all...

C. M. Coolidge, "Looks Like Four of a Kind" (http://www.santacruzpl.org/readyref/files/d-f/dogpkr.shtml). However, there are other paintings of dogs playing poker, so this may just be the one that started it all...

There is another one by Coolidge called A Friend in Need with similar theme:


Linky (http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/wallpaper/MPdogs.jpg)! (big pic)

But lately, I find H.R Giger's work to really cool as well.

http://www.hrgiger.com/index.html
Giger is very cool, I remember using some of his work as inspiration for my one of my GCSE projects.

I also like illustrations done by a guy called Ian Hopkins. He does a good line in realistic drawings with an anime feel to them.
In particular:
Ilia
(http://oxidation.8k.com/ilia.html) and Slick and the Judge (http://oxidation.8k.com/slickhenry.html)

Is that kid in the back supposed to be blaming me for injuring the angel?

It is amazing, I had exactly the same thought.

I don't know why, but you are clearly to blame. It is that "Cannot Think of a Name is to blame" look.

I very much like some of Luis Royo's work, like:

http://www.aumania.it/fa/royo/120.jpg
http://www.aumania.it/fa/royo/172.jpg
http://www.aumania.it/fa/royo/289.jpg
http://www.aumania.it/fa/royo/294.jpg


I also like Radish Tordia:

http://radish.geoweb.ge/html/2.html
http://radish.geoweb.ge/html/30.html

http://radish.geoweb.ge/html/21.html

That last one, is actually a 'version' of a painting I have seen in two other distinct incarnations... one lighter, one darker... but both obviously the same 'girl' in the same pose. (Others, like the "Woman with Flowers" are also very similar).

My favourite picture, is the lighter version (I believe it was just called "A Girl") which was the first 'version' (I believe).

I love the works of Magritte. Some examples:

http://bertc.com/magritte19.htm
http://bertc.com/magritte_15.htm
http://bertc.com/magritte_12.htm

You can also see some great pieces at:
http://www.magritte.be

I would have to say that the best piece of art is "images of childhood"

some art student took a teddy bear and stuffed it full of dog poop. Now if thats art I'm going on a killing spree.

i have always found the "school of athens" to be interesting, pretty much ever since i first saw it in a class.

heres a link to see it (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Miscellaneous/School_of_Athens.html)

It is amazing, I had exactly the same thought.

I don't know why, but you are clearly to blame. It is that "Cannot Think of a Name is to blame" look.
That little bastard. He can't prove anything. He's out to get me.

I think he did it and he's just trying to lay it on me....you guys believe me, don't you?


Don't you?





...guys?

Albert Bierstadt, Seal Rock (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bierstadt/bierstadt_seal_rock.jpg)
the water is amazingly skillfully done. To really see it, you have to see the painting "live"..housed in New Britain, right down the road from me.

favorite sculpture is the Vatican Pieta (http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t013/T013285A.jpg)

Albert Bierstadt, Seal Rock (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bierstadt/bierstadt_seal_rock.jpg)
the water is amazingly skillfully done. To really see it, you have to see the painting "live"..housed in New Britain, right down the road from me.

favorite sculpture is the Vatican Pieta (http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t013/T013285A.jpg)

Just TGed you a link to one of my paintings... :)

Flaming June is one of my favorites.
http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/General/Gente/SPD/Pre-Raphaelites/Big/FlamingJune.jpg

That little bastard. He can't prove anything. He's out to get me.

I think he did it and he's just trying to lay it on me....you guys believe me, don't you?


Don't you?





...guys?


Oh...uh..yah, man, we totally believe ya.

I mean...we'd LIKE to believe you, but what with your past and all..I mean..
It's not like you havent done horrible things to angels, you know.

Now..if you could just put down that gun.....

That little bastard. He can't prove anything. He's out to get me.

I think he did it and he's just trying to lay it on me....you guys believe me, don't you?


Don't you?





...guys?


Oh...uh..yah, man, we totally believe ya.

I mean...we'd LIKE to believe you, but what with your past and all..I mean..
It's not like you havent done horrible things to angels, you know.

Now..if you could just put down that gun.....

That little bastard. He can't prove anything. He's out to get me.

I think he did it and he's just trying to lay it on me....you guys believe me, don't you?


Don't you?





...guys?


Oh...uh..yah, man, we totally believe ya.

I mean...we'd LIKE to believe you, but what with your past and all..I mean..
It's not like you havent done horrible things to angels, you know.

Now..if you could just put down that gun.....

That little bastard. He can't prove anything. He's out to get me.

I think he did it and he's just trying to lay it on me....you guys believe me, don't you?


Don't you?





...guys?


Oh...uh..yah, man, we totally believe ya.

I mean...we'd LIKE to believe you, but what with your past and all..I mean..
It's not like you havent done horrible things to angels, you know.

Now..if you could just put down that gun.....

I think you made your point already in the 3rd post, BackwoodsSquatches. The fourth really wasn't necessary. :D

We held a seance here last night, and the spirit of Hugo Simberg informed us (quite bluntly) that the kid IS indeed supposed to be blaming Cannot think of a name. After this revelation it got a bit blurry, but we think it has something to do with molestation of some kind... so it really isn't about the Angel at all! Imagine our bewilderment!

hmmm, anything by giger i suppose

I like Escher. The Waterfall is pretty memorable.

http://www.powow.com/wfan/escher-waterfall.jpg

Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

Housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Just TGed you a link to one of my paintings... :)
ah...si...me gusta! Esta bonito! Por que estoy discurso en espanol? Ahora parare. Quiza.

ah...si...me gusta! Esta bonito! Por que estoy discurso en espanol? Ahora parare. Quiza.

Ben, je n'ai compris que part de cela.... aber der Rest klingt gut :p

Freedom of Speech by Faith Ringgold

http://www.acagalleries.com/dynamic/artwork_display.asp?ArtworkID=109

For those who aren't familiar with the painting and can't tell what all the writing is in the picture, written on the stripes is the First Amendment to the Constitution. Also written on the stripes and on the stars are the names of various American people and groups, some good, some bad. It's quite simple compared to many of the other paintings displayed here, but i think that's why i like it. It's a concept that on the surface seems so simple, but is one people find so difficult to live by. I have a print of it i bought at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Dugout by Norman Rockwell

http://www.normanrockwellvt.com/Big.jpg/The%20Dugout.jpg

Norman Rockwell is one of my favorite artists, he painted America the way i think people wanted to see it, full of hope and promise. I think that's why he painted children so much, because they embody that. I like the painting because you get a contrast. You see all the older guys on the bench looking tired and jaded, but not all that upset. Maybe the Cubs are losing and they have grown to expect it, it is the Cubs after all, but the boy looks genuinely sad, as if he still believed. His paintings tell a story, and they allow you to decide where the story will go.