De Stijl!! What style of art do you favor and why?

ehBeth's Klimpt--Secession Art

I love Klimpt's stuff. Love his style.

here's another good site

Loch Gallery

two more of my favourite artists can be found here

look under artist, one is in the important canadian living section, his name is Ivan Eyre, the other one is in the historical canadian section, his name is William Kurelek

Fond doesn't begin to describe it, Lash.


I've got a couple of Doris Cyrette's (I should take pix of them some day), and one Benjamin Chee Chee (not this one - again I should take pix)





Kind of flowy, but recognizable again.

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I'm also quite fond of the baroque artists like Vermeer, but wouldn't want most of their work in my house.




ha!

you've just given me an idea. I'm going to try and take some pix of my Benjamin Chee Chee!


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love Klimt - quite fond of Kurelek

Ivan Eyre! Way cool. The vivid landscapes... Love the colors he uses. Sometimes the color is everything for me--

They call him a Realist-Expressionist.

I especially liked this one

ehBeth.

Good luck on your photographic endeavor!

The thing, I think, that attracts me to Vermeer is how luxurious his use of a really dark background makes his work appear. He uses light and dark so dramatically.

I'll try to find a good one.

Woman Holding a Balance .... Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer's use of light is marvellous, isn't it.
I'm trying to figure out who the artist is, who painted the original of a print I always wanted.
It was a Dutch painting of the baroque era.
An older man, sitting up in bed, with his bed cap and robe on, smoking a pipe and reading a book. Piles of books beside the bed.

this is for you, Lash

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1363237#1363237

Wow.

How beautiful they were.

Something poignant about his brother. Such an "old beyond his years" look on his face.

I preety much like anything nude done on black velvet but I'm just that kinda guy.

So you like nudes done on black velvet? Smile.

I like a lot of different kinds/periods of art. My most recent art crush is on Cicily Barth Firestein, have a thread about that here somewhere. (Diane and I got a kick out of her work when we wandered in a gallery in NY a couple of years ago.)

I'm going to go back to Lash's first post and riffle down the types and blather unremittingly.

I even like some conceptual art, so there.


Link for Cecily Barth Firestein's paintings

(clickable thumbnails)

A painting done by a friend of hamburger's parents when he was on holidays in the heath in northern Germany. Probably painted in the 1920's. It was in the living room when I was a kid - I thought it was a field of cooked red cabbage. <kids!> I'd never seen 'die Heide'. I still like the unfussy, quietness of the painting. It's probably one of the best gifts the hamburgers have given me.



Benjamin Chee Chee - Summer Frolic. This made me think of summer camping trips with the hamburgers when I was littleBeth. Had to have it.

I should try taking a photo during the day, when I don't have to go way off-centre to avoid flash glare.





This is probably the most decorative/decorated thing in my house other than a piece of tramp art I have. It's the ceiling fixture in the dining area of my lil all-in-one room at the front of my lil house. Hangs down on a chain. It's a piece that the mother of a friend of mine restored. Goes well with Arts and Crafts furniture.

LOVE that light fixture.

Also, you may not like Conceptual Art.

Wish everyone would blather unremittingly!! That would be GREAT!!!

(OK, if you MUST like Conceptual Art, please explain what and why!)

I'm sleepy, but shall blather on the morrow!!!

I have to say I'm leaning toward Surrealism being my Runner Up. I don't much like the way it looks, but I do enjoy trying to figure out the artist's meaning. They're like puzzles. Dali is the only one I remember--I need to investigate more Surrealists.

So I look up conceptual art ...



http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0040411.html

hunh?


graffitti

I like a lot of graffitti

Maybe I should take some pix of it, and try to figure out what I like about it.

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ha! I took pix of graffitti in NYC - I better take some more here. Do some mulling.

It's got to be more than the curviness.

http://www.art-life.com/MOCA/

I can't possibly talk about conceptual art until tomorrow, if then. But, ehBeth, you remind me to photo my house, now, when it is in its usual messiness, and I will naturally remember to photo it before I leave when it is all spiffy.
I bring this up since I have some great ceiling lights, but ne'er mind them, great ceilings..

From ehBeth's link on Conceptual Art--

Conceptual art is a highly controversial art form. Its supporters think it marks a significant expansion of the boundaries of art, which were previously growing increasingly commercialized. However, its detractors believe that it is trite, banal, and pretentious.

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...trite, banal and pretentious... and they didn't even interview me for this article.

Marcel Duchamp wrote R. Mutt on a urinal and called it art.

That's when the movement lost me.

This other guy actually got a marksman to shoot him--He called it Shoot. That was his Concept.

<shakes head, laughs at idiot>

The marksman was supposed to graze the flesh of his arm. Instead he shot it and really mucked it up.

It symbolized "the pain an artist feels regarding his work."

Are you laughing?

OOooohh! Looking forward to osso's fixtures!

Things in and around houses are my favorites. Windowsills...exposed brick....architecture lines...
chairs...
Light fixtures! Can't wait.

definitely not conceptual

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Lash, have you seen my New York pix?

Lots of interesting (other people have told me) architectural stuff. One of the churches had this roof detail that made me think of waffle ice cream cones.

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I was in my neighbour's yard last weekend, supervising one of my dogs and their little dog on their first official playdate - when I discovered the framing effect of the fence made my backyard look positively fascinating.

I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to explain to Rosario why I'm going into their backyard with my camera "to take pictures of MY backyard - through the fence".