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Wot is your favourite bit o' art?
Wot is your favourite bit o' art?
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Drawings, Dance, or music?
Whatever you like but I was thinking of painting, sculpture, installations etc.
Although if I'm honest I just wanted to write pre-raphashite because it amused me. 
I have a reproduction of this propped up next to me:
Venetian art 
I love the Pre Raphealites - this is one of my faves -' Look at the Pretty Baa Lambs'
by Ford Maddox Brown
by Ford Maddox Brown
I am funny about art. Having spent years sitting through art history lectures i hate all of them. Its like music for me, once ive listened to it a few times, it bores me and i cant listen to it again, same with art, once ive looked at it a few times it no longer interests me. Therefore I couldn't have a reproduction of anything on my wall ..... see my problem
In my life ive fallen in love with one painting and i dont think i will ever tire of it. Its by an American artist called jay long and i tracked him down and bought a print of it in 2003. Any pictures i do like are by unknown or little known artists. The only other pictures i have in my house are two sketches of cats, again bought from a shop in Brighton by nobody in particular.
the only picture i can find online of my beloved jay long print is this...someone uses it as their logo....
In my life ive fallen in love with one painting and i dont think i will ever tire of it. Its by an American artist called jay long and i tracked him down and bought a print of it in 2003. Any pictures i do like are by unknown or little known artists. The only other pictures i have in my house are two sketches of cats, again bought from a shop in Brighton by nobody in particular.
the only picture i can find online of my beloved jay long print is this...someone uses it as their logo....
On the BBC Midlands news this lunchtime there was an item on a major exhibition of pre-raphaelite paintings etc opening on Saturday at Birmingham Museum. It lasts until 15 May. It includes many paintings which have never been exhibited before.
Details here
According to the news the exhibition includes Rossett's last painting which until recently had been lost and never seen.
Details here
According to the news the exhibition includes Rossett's last painting which until recently had been lost and never seen.
I did "Higher" art at school many moons ago.The history of art part of the exam(worth 20%) of the exam,we had to study the renaissance.We got taken to the Art Galleries in Glasgow for various lectures etc.I quite enjoyed it.I do like Salvador Dali myself.
Impressionists all the way for me. I don't care if Monet painted a zillion water lilies, I never tire of seeing them.
I'm a lover of Salvador Dali, also the Leung family artists......I also love Banksy, I do see some Graffitti as Art, not the name 'Tag' rubbish, more so stuff like Banksy....
http://www.devingalleries.com/...ts/Thomas-Leung.aspx
http://www.artbreak.com/Leungstudio2
I hate all that Tracy Emin (sp) shit, unmade beds, urinals stuck on a wall that have a hidden meaning????? Yep, the only meaning behind a urinal masquerading as a piece of art is someone taking the p**s.....having been to Rome and round the Vatican Museums, i have seen some breathtaking works of Art, the likes of Emin & Co. can't even compare........
http://www.devingalleries.com/...ts/Thomas-Leung.aspx
http://www.artbreak.com/Leungstudio2
I hate all that Tracy Emin (sp) shit, unmade beds, urinals stuck on a wall that have a hidden meaning????? Yep, the only meaning behind a urinal masquerading as a piece of art is someone taking the p**s.....having been to Rome and round the Vatican Museums, i have seen some breathtaking works of Art, the likes of Emin & Co. can't even compare........
Ref Suzi
Impressionists all the way for me. I don't care if Monet painted a zillion water lilies, I never tire of seeing them.
Suzi, I've just finished reading a novel called The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova. It's set in the present day and also during the Impresssionist period in France. There is a lot in there about art - although it doesn't really feature the leading lights of Impressionism - not sure how much of a reader you are but you might enjoy it.
Personally, I like all different sorts of art but I don't know a lot about it. I do love a lot of the pre- Raphaelites art though especially this painting by Rosetti which is in the Guildhall Art Gallery in London
Impressionists all the way for me. I don't care if Monet painted a zillion water lilies, I never tire of seeing them.
Suzi, I've just finished reading a novel called The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova. It's set in the present day and also during the Impresssionist period in France. There is a lot in there about art - although it doesn't really feature the leading lights of Impressionism - not sure how much of a reader you are but you might enjoy it.
Personally, I like all different sorts of art but I don't know a lot about it. I do love a lot of the pre- Raphaelites art though especially this painting by Rosetti which is in the Guildhall Art Gallery in London
I have an antipathy to Dali which I find quite hard to overcome. Too many years of frequenting student flats where to signal how "whacky" and "zany" and "out there" they were they had reproductions of his most famous works here, there and everywhere.
I loathe twats like that.
I like this though. I think he's a bit unfairly treated because of his ubiquity in fools rooms around the world.
I loathe twats like that.
I like this though. I think he's a bit unfairly treated because of his ubiquity in fools rooms around the world.
I agree about Dali, for the exact same reasons. Although even if i werent put off him, i still don't like his sort of paintings.
Mmmm, the hyper-realism ( and where it went) doesn't hugely appeal but I do think he's been badly served by his marketing.
Reference:
I think he's a bit unfairly treated because of his ubiquity in fools rooms around the world
Antiope, may I ask you permission to send this little nugget off to the Private Eye for submission to their 'Pseuds Corner' column. Oh and your post after this too. If you have the time can you expand it somewhat also. Thanks muchly.
Sure. Forward (it) away.
What part is confounding you, that I may expand?
What part is confounding you, that I may expand?
Ain't that in the Kelvingrove? 
O. M. F. G.
O. M. F. G.
O. M. F. G.
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I have Napoleon on my wall. He looks nicer in the cast I have (though absolutely identical).
Before you all think I'm weird, my on/off boyfriend had this on the wall in his house in France and, when he sold the house, I asked for it because I have a chat now and again. Sometimes he tells me 'not tonight Josephine', but other times I get to hear all about his wars in Prussia and Russia.
I like this head. Or the idea of it anyway.
Sorry antilope, I don't like that at all because it shows all the agony of dying whereas Napoleon died peacefully and his face is nice to look at.
Reference:
What part is confounding you, that I may expand?
I'm not confounded, just to pad it out a little.
It's not that tempting tbh. 
There was a programme last night about the Pre-Raphaelite artists. It was made by Andrew Lloyd Webber who seemed rather smug about his collection of paintings. One interesting observation was that two of Holman's paintings including his most famous one were intended to be shown next to each other as the woman shown in The Awakening Conscience is seen to be starting to stand up and is intended to be as a result of hearing the knock on the door in
Interesting. 
Originally Posted by El Loro:
There was a programme last night about the Pre-Raphaelite artists. It was made by Andrew Lloyd Webber who seemed rather smug about his collection of paintings. One interesting observation was that two of Holman's paintings including his most famous one were intended to be shown next to each other as the woman shown in The Awakening Conscience is seen to be starting to stand up and is intended to be as a result of hearing the knock on the door in
This depicts to me a lecherous piano player, after having wooed her with his symphony, she hears her conscience at the door, her hands hide her innocence and desire.....the cat looks on in terror...
And Osama's at the front door trying to flog lucky heather.
Or bin bags.
That woman in the first picture looks to be concentrating too hard.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
There was a programme last night about the Pre-Raphaelite artists. It was made by Andrew Lloyd Webber who seemed rather smug about his collection of paintings. One interesting observation was that two of Holman's paintings including his most famous one were intended to be shown next to each other as the woman shown in The Awakening Conscience is seen to be starting to stand up and is intended to be as a result of hearing the knock on the door in
not an art historian, but it would have been more effective if both pics had been at the same time of day.
I think they were created in different years. Could possibly make a difference to the time of day.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
There was a programme last night about the Pre-Raphaelite artists. It was made by Andrew Lloyd Webber who seemed rather smug about his collection of paintings. One interesting observation was that two of Holman's paintings including his most famous one were intended to be shown next to each other as the woman shown in The Awakening Conscience is seen to be starting to stand up and is intended to be as a result of hearing the knock on the door in
Oh blow.... I missed it...... I really like the Pre-Raphelites
Hours later, and still no answer at the door.
Originally Posted by Drama:
I think they were created in different years. Could possibly make a difference to the time of day.
but if they were intended to be shown next to each other (for some kind of dramatic effect i'm guessing), then there was a continuity error, surely.
Originally Posted by Drama:
Hours later, and still no answer at the door.
the original jehovas witnesses.
Originally Posted by Mighty Quinn:
Originally Posted by Drama:
I think they were created in different years. Could possibly make a difference to the time of day.
but if they were intended to be shown next to each other (for some kind of dramatic effect i'm guessing), then there was a continuity error, surely.
The artist does like to get its audience thinking. Originally they were not shown together naturally.
Originally Posted by Baz:
Oh blow.... I missed it...... I really like the Pre-Raphelites
It's on catch up for the next few weeks Baz
Originally Posted by Veggieburger:
Originally Posted by Baz:
Oh blow.... I missed it...... I really like the Pre-Raphelites
It's on catch up for the next few weeks Baz
ooooo thanks Veggie
