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I am an art school graduate and I love this thread. Among my favourite artists are: Georgia O'Keeffe; Carlo Crivelli; Joan Eardley; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Pieter Brueghel the Elder; Henri Toulouse-Lautrec; Gustav Klimt; and a little known artist who hailed from Oldham in England called Alfred Ackrill. Dutch/Flemish painting, Pre-Raphaelite, wildlife and what I would call 'cowboy art' are all faves.

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Originally Posted by Eluard Apart from the great artists of the Twentieth Century such as Picasso, Ernst, Kandinsky, Ben Nicholson, Pollock, Modigliani, and so many more, I really love the art of the 14th and 15th centuries.
Fra Angelico,
Giotto,
Simone Martini,
Uccello
Masaccio.
I’m also fond of Flemish painting of the 15th century (van der Waarden etc.) i once took a class on the northern renaissance and it was pretty interesting, but the professor was so obsessed with the concept of vision/viewing, the vision of the person doing their devotion, the visions of the people in the painting, etc etc etc, and it was pretty interesting but it got to the point where it was all she would talk about and...well you know. it was a pass/fail class too and at the time i was busy writing a thesis so i never bothered to study for the exams to tell the difference between all those guys in the middle, like i don't know van der sloot (is that even someone's name?) (no it's not it's the dutch guy involved with that crazy natalie holloway case, i told you i really don't remember the guys in the middle) but i guess overall i have more of an appreciation of the art from an iconographic standpoint, the one guy in the middle who stands out is geertgen and that's just 'cause i sort of randomly picked him as my obligatory paper topic and although i researched and wrote the paper in one evening (ok magically i still got an a minus, which makes me regret taking it pass/fail but not really) anyways i thought this stuff about geertgen was so cool, honestly i can't remember much of what i wrote but it related to the modern dxevotion and geertgen's art, and i talked a LOT about the different levels of seeing which i'm sure, picking a topic the professor is obviously obsessed with, can never hurt one's grade, but it was pretty cool, i am trying to think . . . i think like the eucharist box decorated with a bleeding christ is supposed to remind you that when you take communion you are literally eating his body and drinking his blood, and when you see the virgin crying you are supposed to cry with her, and when you see christ suffering you are supposed to suffer with him, i know it's more complicated than that but i really can't remember.
i am in this stage right now where i really love the kind of tortured, emotional aspect of so much of the early/pre-renaissance art, you also mentioned fra angelico which i guess got me thinking about this subject,, i got to see the san marco convent in florence that he did all these frescoes for (and which the fanatic savanarola was a friar of it at one point and i don't know much abotu saanarola, which i knew more) anyways it was the most incredible experience, in every little bedroom of the convent there was another picture, mostly involving christ being tortured and taunted and you can jus timagine what it was like to be a nun there and to see this image all day, the famous annunciation is located there and also that huge crucifixion scene, which was definitely my favorite thing, it was so full of this powerful emotion but at the same time it was completely understated.
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/htm...r/crucifi.html popular saying goes that he was moved to tears while painting the crucifixion, sounds like one of those funny legends but in his case it could very well be true i think. there was also a small museum that had a lot of smaller devotional works by him which were also really beautiful. ok another crazy babbling post sorry

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The first time i saw one of El Greco's paintings at the Institute of Art in Chicago it was such a shock, they were HUGE!
I loved it of course, you could stare at them for hours and hours.
Also, some (dunno if all of them) of Goya's "los caprichos" series were so small...(they were on tour i think)
loved them even more, i am very drawn to darker representations in art.

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Tomorrow I will view at leisure the 51 painting exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe's work titled 'Circling Around Abstraction'.
It should be nothing short of fantastic!

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I love Duchamp, so much so that I have "Nude Descending a Staircase" and "Bicycle Wheel" both tattooed on my back. He, almost singularly, changed what art is. Without him we would have never heard of Dada, surrealism, or pop art, and much of what is being produced today, even if it doesn't seem to directly relate to dada, surrealism, or pop, is influenced by one of the three movements.
Besides, his art was so practical, imagine how convenient it would be if all art galleries had urinals mounted on the walls in-between the paintings and sculptures!

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Oh... just discovered this thread today.
Where to start? I like so much art, from sculpture to painting, from gothic to modern... Too many names to mention!!!
Giotto , Cimabue, Carlo Crivelli (I'm quite impressed someone named him before...), El Greco, Durer, Bosch, Vermeer, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Leonardo, Raffaello, Van Eyck, Tiziano, Goya, Canova, Bernini, Renoir, Monet, Schiele, Klimt, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, Boldrini, Brancusi, Wharol, De Chirico and many other!!!

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i remember reading something a while back and can't quite recall where i read it. It went something like:
" ... remember when you were a child and used to look at picture books? Well, museums are just picture books for adults ..."
i want to revisit whatever it was that held this, can anyone help?

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Originally Posted by kbe Tomorrow I will view at leisure the 51 painting exhibit of Georgia O'Keeffe's work titled 'Circling Around Abstraction'.
It should be nothing short of fantastic! Please post your impressions of the exhibition kbe, I would be really interested to read them. O'Keeffe is my personal favourite above all other artists and I'd love to visit the museum in Sante Fe sometime. 'Cow's Skull - Red, White and Blue', 'Gate Of An Adobe Church, New Mexico' and 'Winter Road 1' are some of my faves but I adore all of her work and have done for many years.
I see that Magnifiscent has expressed a liking for the works of Carlo Crivelli too. The National Gallery in London has a collection of Crivelli's stunning paintings. The first time I saw them there I just wanted to look at them all day. I think Crivelli's illustrative style is timeless: his figures are strongly defined and beautifully drawn and his use of colour is masterful. He is also my favourite painter of feet!

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Originally Posted by chaelaran1008 Please post your impressions of the exhibition kbe, I would be really interested to read them. O'Keeffe is my personal favourite above all other artists and I'd love to visit the museum in Sante Fe sometime. 'Cow's Skull - Red, White and Blue', 'Gate Of An Adobe Church, New Mexico' and 'Winter Road 1' are some of my faves but I adore all of her work and have done for many years.
I see that Magnifiscent has expressed a liking for the works of Carlo Crivelli too. The National Gallery in London has a collection of Crivelli's stunning paintings. The first time I saw them there I just wanted to look at them all day. I think Crivelli's illustrative style is timeless: his figures are strongly defined and beautifully drawn and his use of colour is masterful. He is also my favourite painter of feet! Will do!
I am trying to quickly round up a few friends to enjoy a nice lunch after and discuss their impressions with me but so far no takers..
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Originally Posted by kbe Will do!
I am trying to quickly round up a few friends to enjoy a nice lunch after and discuss their impressions with me but so far no takers..
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Saturday February 24 PM Update:
51 Georgia O'Keeffe works! Pencil, Charcoal on paper, watercolor, pastel, oil, even a sculpture (titled: Abstraction)..
Stunning...Amazing...Mind Opening...Intimate...Transcendental!
The works were those created after her 'breakout' to abstractions in 1915. They included about a dozen 'Untitled' pieces and nearly 40 others that displayed her unique approach to abstraction and her use of (mostly) circular motifs to focus attention on elements she thought to be essential.
Black and white, sensual colors, monochromatic, line drawings..she employed all of these and other techniques in guiding the viewer via his/her eye to allow a new and far deeper understanding of the subject as she gradually evolved toward a minimalist portrayal of essentiality.
Her 1943 3-piece study of wood (A Piece of Wood, A Piece of Wood ll and A Piece of Wood/From a Knot of Wood) was placed side by side. And these, as well as all other of the displayed works, could be seen as close as you dared place your nose to the paper/canvas.
I was floored by her brushwork! In particular her Pelvis Series. Following the circular brush strokes as they shadowed in the gallery lighting, defining the openings in the bone-white pelvis representations, was almost hypnotic for me. I had to stop and recuperate after studying each one...
If you let yourself go, or rather, lost yourself in the art, the brushwork alone would convince you that your idea of God, in whatever form or condition you think of as the Cause of Existence, is accessible to us in any and all things, should we just calm our minds and simply 'be' the art, or for that matter, be fully with anything we are engaged in at the moment.
Her 'Fishhook From Hawaii', with it's looped fishing line forming 3 overlapping interior lenses, each magnifying the distant ocean horizon line more than the one behind it, was simply an amazing thing to see.
One of her very rare urban scenes, the gothicly dark City Night (1921), with it's incredible perspective looking from the bottom up at dark monolithic skyscrapers, all gently illuminated by calming and placid moonlight, was a delight to view.
All in all a wonder and a privilege to see. I will have to revisit the Norton Art Museum again before this exhibit leaves and drink it all in once more..

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Alfred Steiglitz's portrait of his wife.
I seem to appreciate the ultra moody work that Steiglitz was doing. The peacful scenes of Central Park under a blanket of snow. Rather than an exhibit I would love to own a book of prints from the original negatives.