Lecrayon

Join Date 02/2002

Did any art shake your legs?

While I was walking up the stairs in the Van Gogh museum watching an exhibition of expressionists I had to make a turn and there it was...This portrait of Marcellin Desboutin by Edouard Manet (1875)was so incredibly powerful I stood nailed to the ground, I couldn't speak and just only could admire the sheer brilliance of this piece.

http://www.mystudios.com/manet/1870/manet_desboutin.html

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paxx

Join Date 03/2001

I know I'm going to disapoint a few people, but I don't realy like Art.
I mean, I like to have pictures, painting, scultures in my house for decoration, but it's really just to make my house pretty, not to just sit in front of it and admire.
I don't go to Art Museums, it's one of the most boring activities one could force me to do. :/
Sorry.

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craeonics had better shut up and not say that this particular piece isn't very impressive

Uh oh, negative vibes!

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The good thing is we all have our own tastes, isnt it. The scan isn't a particular good one, I just couldn't find it on another site. There's nothing better than seeing it in reality. But what shook your legs? Nothing?

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http://www.geocities.com/schimmelfan/schimmelgallery.html in my opinion this is some of the most beautiful artwork I have seen.

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btw click on thumbnails for close ups

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Now we are talking!

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I buy this guy's calenders and frame them all over my house

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Bouguereau, Edward Hopper, and Tamera Lempicka are constant companions to me.

One of my biggest revalations, and one that opened me to art in the beginning, was discovering Lord Leighton, Waterhouse and the other Pre-Raphealites. I had no idea that during the mid and late 19th century that anyone was painting anything besides splotchy impressionistic drek. I realized that my aversion to 'art' was only an aversion to some 'popular' art, and there was much more to choose from than what we are force-fed in every museum gift-shop.

As far as sculpture, Rodin's 'The Gates of Hell' springs to mind ( but was I named after him, so I am probably biased. ) I saw Constantin Brancusi's "Bird in Space" when I was like 10 years old, and I remember staring at it for a long time, it was so simple.

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WOM

Join Date 01/2002

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I just knock at doors and get all the sites that I need.

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I am not easily impressed. Some things are intriguing though. This particular comic cover for instance: http://www.1001bd.com/bd/series/adios_palomita/adios_palomita.jpg

And then there's Gaudì... http://www.ctv.es/USERS/ags/GAUDI.htm

But it usually does not get more than 'interesting'.

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paxx

Join Date 03/2001

Gosh I hate music on a site... Makes me reach for the "close" button immediatly. Thanks a lot Crae.

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some artists that impressed me:

Dave McKean http://www.dreamline.nu/
Celia Calle http://www.celiacalle.com/
Dave Kinsey http://www.kinseyvisual.com

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Nature's art has stopped me dead in my tracks a few times. Man's art only does so on rare occasion.

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Koasati

Join Date 07/2001

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Roger Dean roX ! http://www.rogerdean.com/upclose/index.htm

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And what I still want to visit: http://www.francis-bacon.cx

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Kandinski and Picasso!
Dali too.
I like Moebius (Jean Giraud) and Enki Bilal (comic's designers, a minor art for the masses, and a sense for me)!

If can be interpreted as art, i feel more than good vibrations listening some of the Smashing Pumkins songs, and David Bowie and Bob Dylan, Tom Waits...

Mo soul gous to heaven when i read the poetry of J. Verdaguer.

I see more than buils and nature mixed on the Antoni Gaudi constructions.

I feel good when...

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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http://skins.wincustomize.com/MobiusCo/wallpapers/bang_mobiusco_preview.jpg

http://skins.wincustomize.com/Nuvem/wallpapers/NeblosA.jpg
[a Bryce!]

http://skins.wincustomize.com/Nuvem/wallpapers/EROcyncope.jpg

http://skins.wincustomize.com/Nuvem/wallpapers/EROnergy.jpg

http://skins.wincustomize.com/Nuvem/wallpapers/VenusinlightI.jpg

http://skins.wincustomize.com/MobiusCo/wallpapers/eyes1024.jpg

http://skins.wincustomize.com/Nuvem/wallpapers/LSII.jpg

http://skins.wincustomize.com/bloc/wallpapers/dreamcapture-small.jpg

http://skins.wincustomize.com/Shadowness/wallpapers/ensnare_1024x768.jpg

There's 'ART' that can rock your sox right here in the 'wallpaper' section.

Some of these people will be the 'Masters' of tomorrow.

To ignore digital works in deference to ink and/or canvas is a tacit display of ignorance and myopia.

Sort by 'rating-descending' and just look closely.

There are many more...

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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As for Gaudi....well, his name has filtered into the common language 'gaudy'...for good reason. He mastered the art of hideously overdoing something and managed to get away with it. More power to him..

Certainly an influential 'artist'...when minimalism was 'chic' [Le Corbusier]...

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Paintings of Elvis on Black Velvet.

(Black velvet and that little boy smile.....)

Occasionally, I even make myself laugh.

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Lest we forget... ( http://www.barmirrors.com/images/twos/7dogs2.jpg )

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

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baker....sheer brilliance...and probably THE most reproduced ART in the history of mankind.

You can lead a horse to water, but he'd sooner just get pissed with his mates...

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Carlitus - if you like Kandinski you do indeed have great taste in art!

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Hmm, and I thought the most reproduced piece was the crying gypsy kid (which is reproduced so much it turned into kitch).

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For the architect lovers: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hundertwasser/hundertwasser_house.jpg.html

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c242

Join Date 03/2001

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Everytime I see a big Giger or Dali print... I also like Miro and Kandinsky (both more for decorative reasons, I have to admit...) At the moment I am looking at a small (nice framed) print by Keith Haring I hung up the wall of my office...

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