peterpan
November 16, 2013, 11:14am
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Two of my favorite paintings by one of my favorite artists, Jean-Leon Gerome :
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There was a time when Van Gogh was my favorite. I have two books full of every one of his paintings. Since then, i have come to realize that it is utterly impossible to have a favorite artist being that there are so many wonderful artists.
Also Thomas Moran’s paintings are awesome…
Picasso rocks too
Paintings which inspire one to think and move one to be a part of it are wonderful…
Here’s another of Van Gogh’s which set me to wondering about the man who may have worn them…I wrote about it.
More Pollock more awesome…
volchok
November 16, 2013, 8:55pm
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Really dislike this one but the saturn devouring his son is interesting.
Sam
November 18, 2013, 9:14pm
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Cats Paradise - Remedios Varo
Orbie
November 19, 2013, 2:26am
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My park scene away from the real thing resemblance is uncanny
Neither_Nor
November 19, 2013, 10:27pm
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Ok. Here’s one I really like. It hangs in the city gallery. I find the woman incredibly sensusous/erotic. Makes me think of sex always. Easy to get distracted in an art gallery. Anyone else just find themselves looking at the women walking around? It’s hard to concentrate on art with the real form present.
The Hireling Shephard - W.Hunt
(Apologies about the large size. Don’t know how to correct that)
Ok. Here’s one I really like. It hangs in the city gallery. I find the woman incredibly sensusous/erotic. Makes me think of sex always. Easy to get distracted in an art gallery. Anyone else just find themselves looking at the women walking around? It’s hard to concentrate on art with the real form present.
The Hireling Shephard - W.Hunt
(Apologies about the large size. Don’t know how to correct that)
Maybe she’s actually not that into this one. I think she may be fantazising about the hot shepherd over yonder.
Tyrannus
November 21, 2013, 4:29am
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Tyrannus
November 22, 2013, 5:34am
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The statue of Laocoön and His Sons (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), also called the Laocoön Group, has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures ever since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and placed on public display in the Vatican,[2] where it remains. Exceptionally, it appears to be identifiable with a statue praised in the highest terms by the main Roman writer on art, Pliny the Elder. The figures are near life-size and the group is a little over 2m in height, showing the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpents.
The group has been “the prototypical icon of human agony” in Western art,[3] and unlike the agony often depicted in Christian art showing the Passion of Jesus and martyrs, this suffering has no redemptive power or reward.[4] The suffering is shown through the contorted expressions of the faces (Charles Darwin pointed out that Laocoön’s bulging eyebrows are physiologically impossible), which are matched by the struggling bodies, especially that of Laocoön himself, with every part of his body straining.[5]
Pliny gives the work to three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, but does not give a date or patron. In style it is “one of the finest examples of the Hellenistic baroque” and certainly in the Greek tradition,[6] but it is not known whether it is an original work or a copy of an earlier sculpture, probably in bronze, or made for a Greek or Roman commission. The view that it is an original work of the 2nd century BC now has few if any supporters, although many still see it as a copy of such a work made in the early Imperial period, probably of a bronze original.[7] Others see it as probably an original work of the later period, continuing to use the Pergamese style of some two centuries earlier. In either case it was probably commissioned for the home of a wealthy Roman, possibly of the Imperial family. Various dates have been suggested for the statue, ranging from about 200 BC to the 70s AD,[8] though “a Julio-Claudian date [between 27 BC and 68 AD] … is now preferred”.[9]
Although mostly in excellent condition for an excavated sculpture, the group is missing several parts, and analysis suggests that it was remodelled in ancient times as well as undergoing a number of restorations since it was excavated.[10]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons
Tyrannus
November 22, 2013, 5:40am
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Great picture Sam. Who did that piece?
