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Post by elystokie on May 18, 2020 12:43:17 GMT
Got mixed feelings personally but some paintings I find incredible, The Night Watch by Rembrandt is one. The staff of The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have taken 528 high quality images and 'stitched' them together to make one 40 odd Giga bite picture. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52657164Quite fascinating to see what you can observe when you zoom in, I've become somewhat transfixed by it, here's the pic - hyper-resolution.org/view.html?r=0.4342,0.3159,0.3830,0.5354&i=Rijksmuseum/SK-C-5/SK-C-5_VIS_20-um_2019-12-21 Edit - for some reason I can't get the link to work properly, it's on their website along with others artsandculture.google.com/partner/rijksmuseum
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Post by supersimonstainrod on May 18, 2020 13:07:13 GMT
Love the works of Caspar David Friedrich; Hieronymous Bosch;Seurat;Zdzislaw Beksinski in particular,but there're loads more...
The creative process from the early imaginings of an idea through to its realization is fascinating.
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Post by telfordstoke on May 18, 2020 13:08:12 GMT
I’ve seen the Night Watch on a trip to Amsterdam in the 90s. Took the kids round the Louvre last year and tend to visit galleries when time allows as and when we travel. Love the Pre Raphaelites and also a huge fan of Cindy Sherman, find it calming . Not been for couple of years, but Potteries museum and art gallery is a good couple of hours to spend.
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Post by telfordstoke on May 18, 2020 13:09:37 GMT
Love the works of Caspar David Friedrich; Hieronymous Bosch;Seurat;Zdzislaw Beksinski in particular,but there're loads more... The creative process from the early imaginings of an idea through to its realization is fascinating. Quite uncanny as was just typing and thinking pretty much my favourite painting is the Wanderer above The Mists by CDF.
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Post by supersimonstainrod on May 18, 2020 13:18:25 GMT
Love the works of Caspar David Friedrich; Hieronymous Bosch;Seurat;Zdzislaw Beksinski in particular,but there're loads more... The creative process from the early imaginings of an idea through to its realization is fascinating. Quite uncanny as was just typing and thinking pretty much my favourite painting is the Wanderer above The Mists by CDF. My interest in CDF was piqued when I bought 'Ecce Homo' and 'A Nietzsche Reader' in the Penguin Classics series many many years ago,as they featured reproductions of two of his paintings on their covers. The iconography in his paintings really touches me and the draughtsmanship is extraordinary.
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Post by telfordstoke on May 18, 2020 13:32:07 GMT
I spent about five hours in the Musee D’Orsay in Paris about 7/8 years ago, was a rare trip abroad on my own ( to see Motörhead actually) and thought I’d be a couple of hours and all of a sudden 5 had passed. Had a temp exhibition on the urban layouts of. Paris that was fascinating. First time I saw Friedricj was a late 80s C4 programme called Art Of The Western World that inspired me massively
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Post by somersetstokie on May 18, 2020 13:37:56 GMT
Strangely I am also very much in favour of Caspar David Friedrich. I like both Gothic and Romantic period art and on my study wall I have a large reproduction of "The Abbey in the Woods" by Friedrich, which I actually bought in the Altes Museum in Berlin, where the original picture hangs, and it is one of my favourites, along with "Gothic Cathedral by a River (German - Gotischer Dom am Wasser) is an 1813 painting by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It shows an imaginary Gothic cathedral on an island in a river, and this one is also in the Altes museum. For sheer impact I am always fascinated by a large scale dramatic painting by Theodore Gericault, entitled "The Raft of the Medusa", a famous romantic period work that depicts the survivors of the wreck of a 19th century French frigate which sank off the coast of Senegal in 1816, with over 150 soldiers on board. This is in the Louvre. cdn.britannica.com/70/43670-050-17E8BEC2/Raft-of-the-Medusa-canvas-Theodore-Gericault-1819.jpg
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Post by elystokie on May 18, 2020 13:52:56 GMT
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Post by supersimonstainrod on May 18, 2020 13:53:43 GMT
Another artist capable of transfixing detail:
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Post by harryburrows on May 18, 2020 13:56:52 GMT
I buy a few pieces of original art from the Artfinder website . Lots of affordable pictures from all over
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Post by butlerstbob on May 18, 2020 13:58:33 GMT
I wouldn't say I am into art as such but I do enjoy watching Fake or fortune which gives you a great insight to how paintings are made up, layer after layer etc As for the link to The Night Watch... Thats amazing you can see every detail... Even on my phone screen I could zoom in on the black heads of the Captain & Luietenant.
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Post by bathstoke on May 18, 2020 14:02:26 GMT
Went to Grayson Perry’s Pre Therapy Exhibition just before lockdown. Seen a few of his tours. V hardworking bloke. Mad as a badger 🦡
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Post by marylandstoke on May 18, 2020 14:37:32 GMT
Typical Oatcake, you come on for a quiet read then somebody brings something up and your halfway through the internet learning things and getting educated. We did the Dali in St Pete (Florida) which was more interesting than I thought it would be. Did the Warhol in Pittsburg and that was amazing. That will be a must on any other trip up there. One oddity of being in the DC area for so long is that the gallery’s and museums are free there. It does come as a shock when you suddenly have to shell out your hard earned somewhere else DCs portrait gallery is awesome (quite partial to a portrait or two) used to love London’s too. Always wanted to own a Lowry (my brother has one but it’s tat and doesn’t even look like a Lowry) He has a couple of Shepherds as well which are ok if you like that kind of thing. His are the animals and I prefer his trains. Would love a “Jack” Russell of the Pavilion at Lords or Old Trafford when the lottery money gets here.
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Post by supersimonstainrod on May 18, 2020 16:41:18 GMT
Went to Grayson Perry’s Pre Therapy Exhibition just before lockdown. Seen a few of his tours. V hardworking bloke. Mad as a badger 🦡 If you're into pottery Bath,this is a fascinating watch imho: Exasperating to think that we once possessed a similar skills set and caché for ceramics here in the potteries and largely outsourced production to the area's detriment.
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Post by somersetstokie on May 18, 2020 16:55:33 GMT
Typical Oatcake, you come on for a quiet read then somebody brings something up and your halfway through the internet learning things and getting educated. We did the Dali in St Pete (Florida) which was more interesting than I thought it would be. Did the Warhol in Pittsburg and that was amazing. That will be a must on any other trip up there. One oddity of being in the DC area for so long is that the gallery’s and museums are free there. It does come as a shock when you suddenly have to shell out your hard earned somewhere else DCs portrait gallery is awesome (quite partial to a portrait or two) used to love London’s too. Always wanted to own a Lowry (my brother has one but it’s tat and doesn’t even look like a Lowry) He has a couple of Shepherds as well which are ok if you like that kind of thing. His are the animals and I prefer his trains. Would love a “Jack” Russell of the Pavilion at Lords or Old Trafford when the lottery money gets here. For Jack you might well need a lottery win. I have seen some of his work in Galleries in the £3,500 -£3750 range but these tend to be less popular scenes or locations. The best work, as I hear, can sell privately for £250,000, especially if it portrays a particularly interesting event, which Jack will often describe in a written note on the back.
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Post by neworleanstokie on May 18, 2020 17:45:06 GMT
When it was open I would walk over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art every couple of months for a walk around. It's so large it's better to just see a couple of exhibits otherwise you're overloaded.
I went to the newly refurb'ed NoMA at Christmas. Not really my cup of tea but it is well done. I still find the layout a bit too tight when it's full of tourists. I guess that may not be a problem now.
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Post by somersetstokie on May 18, 2020 18:13:28 GMT
How long does it take to see an Art gallery or Museum? I can spend a long day at the Ufizzi in Florence, but on the other hand I have seen coach parties of Japanese tourists do the Louvre at a fast trot, 40 minutes, and gone again.
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Post by telfordstoke on May 18, 2020 18:16:33 GMT
Quite a funny one ( well I thought so lol) I went to Hawaii on holiday in the 90s and on Maui was a gallery with art by Christian Rieese Lassen whos a marine and wildlife artist, stunning dolphin paintings etc. Now being a mid 20s nicely spoken English bloke abroad, the sales people gravitated to me and was talking and i asked how is this one with the reply well “it’s around 30”, so my reply was oh that’s reasonable. I’m th8nking well they’ll sell me a print for $30 ish and The penny then dropped they meant $30,000. I played the “i better go to the car and get my credit card” and ran like f**k lol. Every time I see his paintings takes me back!
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Post by telfordstoke on May 18, 2020 18:18:09 GMT
How long does it take to see an Art gallery or Museum? I can spend a long day at the Ufizzi in Florence, but on the other hand I have seen coach parties of Japanese tourists do the Louvre at a fast trot, 40 minutes, and gone again. Spot on Somerset, we did Louvre with kids for 4 hours and was hectic and constantly surrounded by coach parties. But not now, which would be a bloody good time to visit ! Chance would be a fine thing eh
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Post by Linx on May 18, 2020 19:57:51 GMT
I never appreciated the fuss about The Nightwatch until I visited the Rijksmuseum shortly after it was re-opened a few years ago. It’s there that you realise that portraits of the various municipal guard companies of the time was a competitive business and the walls to the left and right are festooned with technically excellent portraits of different companies by various artists of the 17th Century. But when you get to The Nightwatch at the end of the gallery, you realise that Rembrandt broke new ground: his portrait has a context, whereas the others are often just standing against a blank background in portrait mode; his portrait is one of movement and action, of men (and boys) in the process of their work, rather than posing for a portrait; it is full of life and natural flow, rather than a stilted and static pose; he places it in the dark, with the challenge of different light, shadow and shapes being brought out. You are drawn into the painting, rather than standing outside it.
Then I went and got a coffee.
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Post by somersetstokie on May 18, 2020 20:13:00 GMT
I never appreciated the fuss about The Nightwatch until I visited the Rijksmuseum shortly after it was re-opened a few years ago. It’s there that you realise that portraits of the various municipal guard companies of the time was a competitive business and the walls to the left and right are festooned with technically excellent portraits of different companies by various artists of the 17th Century. But when you get to The Nightwatch at the end of the gallery, you realise that Rembrandt broke new ground: his portrait has a context, whereas the others are often just standing against a blank background in portrait mode; his portrait is one of movement and action, of men (and boys) in the process of their work, rather than posing for a portrait; it is full of life and natural flow, rather than a stilted and static pose; he places it in the dark, with the challenge of different light, shadow and shapes being brought out. You are drawn into the painting, rather than standing outside it. Then I went and got a coffee. Apart from a temping trial as a Rijksmuseum tour guide, what else have you done?
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Post by murphthesurf on May 18, 2020 20:13:33 GMT
I never appreciated the fuss about The Nightwatch until I visited the Rijksmuseum shortly after it was re-opened a few years ago. It’s there that you realise that portraits of the various municipal guard companies of the time was a competitive business and the walls to the left and right are festooned with technically excellent portraits of different companies by various artists of the 17th Century. But when you get to The Nightwatch at the end of the gallery, you realise that Rembrandt broke new ground: his portrait has a context, whereas the others are often just standing against a blank background in portrait mode; his portrait is one of movement and action, of men (and boys) in the process of their work, rather than posing for a portrait; it is full of life and natural flow, rather than a stilted and static pose; he places it in the dark, with the challenge of different light, shadow and shapes being brought out. You are drawn into the painting, rather than standing outside it. Then I went and got a coffee and some Dutch waccy baccy. Excellent summing up, Linxy.
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Post by Linx on May 18, 2020 20:27:41 GMT
Neat bit of editing, there, murph, or, perhaps, smurph (geddit?)😜
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Post by murphthesurf on May 18, 2020 22:08:11 GMT
Neat bit of editing, there, murph, or, perhaps, smurph (geddit?)😜 I like livin' dangerously! xxx
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Post by murphthesurf on May 18, 2020 23:19:39 GMT
Had 4 days in Warsaw then another 4 in Krakow in November 2006 & went to the Krakow Museum especially for the huge pleasure of seeing my most favourite ever painting - Leonardo da Vinci's famous & (for me) stunning 'Lady with an Ermine', which IMO makes the crappy Mona Lisa look on a par with that 1960s painting of a green Chinese woman.
Apart from that single artwork, my favourite painter has to be Vermeer - probably everyone's familiar with his 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', but he did a staggering amount of paintings, very often ordinary people or a single ordinary person doing ordinary everyday things, not always a huge amount of background detail, and I just think he always captured the subject figures perfectly and I could never tire of looking at them.
For another choice I must say that Van Gogh might seem a bit of an easy one when it comes to artists, but for me the rustic, if I can put it that way, style of his work is totally charming.
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Post by murphthesurf on May 18, 2020 23:30:31 GMT
Typical Oatcake, you come on for a quiet read then somebody brings something up and your halfway through the internet learning things and getting educated. We did the Dali in St Pete (Florida) which was more interesting than I thought it would be. Did the Warhol in Pittsburg and that was amazing. That will be a must on any other trip up there. One oddity of being in the DC area for so long is that the gallery’s and museums are free there. It does come as a shock when you suddenly have to shell out your hard earned somewhere else DCs portrait gallery is awesome (quite partial to a portrait or two) used to love London’s too. Always wanted to own a Lowry (my brother has one but it’s tat and doesn’t even look like a Lowry) He has a couple of Shepherds as well which are ok if you like that kind of thing. His are the animals and I prefer his trains. Would love a “Jack” Russell of the Pavilion at Lords or Old Trafford when the lottery money gets here.
Yep, you come on here and you live and learn! MD, I mentioned JR to Crispy (re. his lifelong passion for cricket) and when I said the name he immediately said 'wicket keeper' and then I asked if he knew what his hobby was, and he said 'painting.' (All news to me, but then again I don't watch cricket.) Anyway, I've been doing a bit of homework on this and have found some stuff on-line which might interest you - see what you think, anyway: There's a small selection of his work on here from the Times newspaper - the heading is 'Jack Russell’s Works of Art' and it says 'The former England wicket keeper has been using his painting skills to escape from cricket throughout his career. Here, we take a look at some of his finest work.' www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jack-russells-works-of-art-dztvm5n0n
Quite a few more are on here - the Chris Beetles Gallery, 8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB - which also includes prices. They seem to average c. £4,500. chrisbeetles.com/artwork/12516/england-take-the-field-lord-s
Last but not least, and in fact probably best, this is the Jack Russell Gallery (in Chipping Sodbury, no less!), and you can buy prints directly from them: a) www.jackrussell.co.uk/gallery
This second link for the Jack Russell Gallery is specifically for their cricket sketches collection, which I must say are really good. They seem to start from £30 and include Old Trafford, which you mentioned: b) www.jackrussell.co.uk/index.php/sketches?cat=145
There you go!
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Post by somersetstokie on May 18, 2020 23:43:56 GMT
Had 4 days in Warsaw then another 4 in Krakow in November 2006 & went to the Krakow Museum especially for the huge pleasure of seeing my most favourite ever painting - Leonardo da Vinci's famous & (for me) stunning 'Lady with an Ermine', which IMO makes the crappy Mona Lisa look on a par with that 1960s painting of a green Chinese woman. Apart from that single artwork, my favourite painter has to be Vermeer - probably everyone's familiar with his 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', but he did a staggering amount of paintings, very often ordinary people or a single ordinary person doing ordinary everyday things, not always a huge amount of background detail, and I just think he always captured the subject figures perfectly and I could never tire of looking at them. For another choice I must say that Van Gogh might seem a bit of an easy one when it comes to artists, but for me the rustic, if I can put it that way, style of his work is totally charming. Vermeer should be regarded as one of the greats of traditional art. Unfortunately he died very young, aged 43, and surviving known examples of his work are very few. Only 34 paintings agreed by experts to be by Vermeer now exist, with perhaps a further three possible disputed works.
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Post by bathstoke on May 19, 2020 5:47:16 GMT
Went to Grayson Perry’s Pre Therapy Exhibition just before lockdown. Seen a few of his tours. V hardworking bloke. Mad as a badger 🦡 If you're into pottery Bath,this is a fascinating watch imho: Exasperating to think that we once possessed a similar skills set and caché for ceramics here in the potteries and largely outsourced production to the area's detriment. If Dame Rosalind showed her Sèvres collection to ‘Claire’, shed get Alan Measles to draw a big cock on it...
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Post by pearo on May 19, 2020 6:50:45 GMT
I always preferred Paul
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Post by mrcoke on May 19, 2020 7:18:20 GMT
There are some excellent exhibitions in some very unusual places: Schipol airport has an amazing small art collection on display if you are ever there waiting a few hours for a plane: www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/rijksmuseum-amsterdam-airport-artThe best collection of French impressionism art put together outside a major city gallery is in Cardiff National Museum. Two spinster sisters created an amazing collection of art by spending the coal industry fortune of their father's. museum.wales/cardiff/art/impressionist-modern/davies-sisters/I once took a party of European managers there for some evening entertainment during a conference I had organised and they were absolutely amazed. Another surprising hide away place I once discovered is the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead. Gateshead?!!! Yes one of the best collections outside of London: newcastlegateshead.com/business-directory/things-to-do/shipley-art-galleryIf you are ever in East Anglia, and I expect quite a few more people will be taking a UK holiday instead of flying abroad in future (the weather gets better year by year with global warming!), then a good place to visit is www.nationaltrust.org.uk/flatford
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