Art

Re: Art


oop, sorry

whilst i can appreciate the quality of painting in more photo realistic paintings such as Tadema's, they don't touch me emotionally, don't have that wow factor for me.

I really love the work of Kurt Jackson, currently he is producing some amazing paintings up to 20 feet long (this isn't one of these).

another is David Prentice

I love his use of colour and sense of place. He walks daily in the Malvern Hills, knows them intimately and produces the most amazing paintings of them. One of his influences is comic books and he tries to introduce a sense of time passing and has a tendency to take an aerial view which i love

another (no relative) is David Blackburn. His abstract works are so beautiful and the colours and modulation of them is just beautiful.

You'll have gathered i am 'into' colour and mood!

There are a zillion others ... Rothko, Monet, Vouillard, Bonnard, Sisley, Gwen John, Van Gogh, Toulous Lautrec, 30's English railway posters, Aubrey Beardsley, Barbara Rae, Mary Cassat, Berthe Morisot, Morandi, Klimt, Schiel, Hundertwasser, Cezanne, John Piper ... a very very long list




Gwen John

there is a brilliant railway poster featuring the stylish outdoor 30's swimming pool in Plymouth but i can't find it but here is one in a similar style of the era....

Schiele

Wow, those are beautiful! Has anyone heard of Joni Mitchell? She is a singer/songwriter who also paints. Here is the cover of one of her CD's, Turbulent Indigo, of which she painted:

I didn't know Joni Mitchell painted - very well too

pointillism isn't usually something that appeals to me but that one is interesting. I think it strikes me as a mathematical, scientific way of working, rather than an emotional ,instinctive one - which is what i relate to personally.

I agree, the point of pointillism had always left me cold since I often find the emotion that the artist conveys transcends a "method" so I generally fast forward over pointillism


VIVIEN, paste that Prentice painting of the really angry sky and scudding clouds . I love that work. We had a similar discussion and you posted some of his work last year.


my list remains fairly traditional
Picabia
Turner
Eakins
Hopper
Baziotes
Frazetta
Kollwitz
Ernst
Picasso
Remington
Church
on an on an on an on....
I guess theres really no one I cant appreciate . There are very few I dont like, perhaps the pointillists and the Pre Raphealites

That Joni Mitchel self-portrait looks very like
a self portrait of Van Gogh's!!!

Vivien - I agree with you, pointillism is more of a mathematical equation than emotions - even tho, by the time you finish any work on that technique, you are full of a lot of emotions related to it
I like, I think it is very interesting, also, you can learn something from the artist, such as how much endurance and patience that person has. It is a tedious technique and it takes a lot of concentration and with a simple few extra dots you can unbalance the whole piece.

Farmer i can't remember which one I posted but here is another



he is interested in showing time in his work and i always get a feeling of weather systems passing over - sun - run- cloud shadow - sun again. I love his aerial perspective on the Malvern hills.

His watercolours are relatively traditional and are very good but his oils and pastels are just amazing

one of the watercolours - done plein air in his sketch book:



I like his ability to use more than one 'language'

There was one with ominous indigo skies and some light that played on the crests of some hills below . There was a suggestion of a town. This one is neat also, I wished I would have saved thhat one you posted last year dammit

I really like your work Vivien, its great!

thanks rayvatrap - have you got a website? you can pm it to me if you have as we get told off for posting them!


Farmer I've been searching for it - it must be on one of the threads - I'll track it down eventually,

There are several sites with his work on if anyone is interested - just google his name and 'artist' and 'paintings'

Vivien - ur most welcome. I'm working on it, as soon as I get it ready I'll sent you the link.