You have to leave a line or two between text and the image posting to make sure it works. Click on edit, copy the link, delete the line in the reply text body and then recopy the link into the image posting. Make sure the period after "choice" is not part of the link.
That works too, except if you were to ever post a very long link, it would stretch the page. The URL button at the top of the reply form let's you name the link (I'd use all caps and the dark blue is a bit hard to find for some).
The link goes to a small .jpeg which I can't make out -- try clicking on it to see if there's an enlargement and then post that link. I know I have had to search around the Internet through Google to find the best reproduction of art images.
I notice my photos don't show any more - that is because I edited them out of the source website.
I'll try and resubmit them one of these evenings, now that I've learned to use Photobucket.
I fell in love with Russian art when I had the opportunity to visit the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in 2000. I hope to recruit some more fans from the following pictures I took on my visit.
The top photo is the oil painting at the Tretyakov Gallery, and the bottom photo is the photo I took on our visit to the Kremlin. I didn't know this until I got home and developed my photos.
cicerone imposter wrote:The top photo is the oil painting at the Tretyakov Gallery, and the bottom photo is the photo I took on our visit to the Kremlin. I didn't know this until I got home and developed my photos.
Interesting, CI. I like the girl in the chair painting myself.
No. 5 (last). What's interesting about this painting is that the coffee shop I used to frequent is run by a Russian couple, and when I showed them this painting, they said that was a common occurance in Russia; a young woman marrying an older man.
Ah. What can I say about that. Eh, what I might say is complex, so I'll just nod. Do you have any memory of the year this piece was done?
osso, I'm afraid not. I rarely stop at a painting to read all the information when I feel that there is too much to see in a limited time - as we did on our visits in Russia. I prefer to see 'quantity' over taking the time to write notes on each piece I think is 'good.' My visual memory is pretty good, so I can usually recognize pieces if I should see them again later on - especially if they impress me.
I was just wondering. I am not a memorizer myself. I can walk past whole rooms, though more often I zone in on a work or two, and sometimes I sort of recapitulate, review, if I have time. Or, sometimes I just like being in a space, a gallery, and don't click in on what is there on the walls so much as the experience of being in the room.
I like to "click on" to the people passing by whether I'm sitting at an outside cafe or a museum. At least at a cafe, one can drink beer or wine which makes the experience that much more enjoyable.
Yes, me too.
It is tricky though when you are the only visitor in the museum. In italy, at least, they have to accompany you, in case you destroy art works as you walk through. So I've had a few unusual (to me) tours. Thus my ploy for picking out one painting from each room... well, mostly the only hard part about that is selecting one from all the goodies, but sometimes it's a push re a room of boring stuff. I try to at least give a good slow stare around anyway before aiming for the next room. (who knows, maybe I dismiss treasures).
Back to ten favorites. I see I never posted the tenth, and I forgot all about the SF school.. not even a Diebenkorn mentioned by me.
Oh, Osso, I love so many of the works of the San Fransisco branch of Abstract Expressionism. Among my favorites, of course, are those of Diebenkorn. Most of the artists of that time and place were students and teachers at the California School of Fine Arts. One of my favorite art books, one that I revisit with regularity for the aesthetic reinforcement it gives me, is Susan Landauer's "The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism" (University of California Press, 1996, ISNB 0-520-0-08611-2m pbk.). The text is wonderful as are the reproductions.
I could easily find ten paintings from that book to take on my proverbial desert island.
I think I have to buy that book, JL, I just ran across it as I was trying to get these Diebenkorn links. And Diebenkorn's not the only person in that group whose works I like..
I had trouble getting those links... I'd forget where I saw something and never find it again, there are more that I like.
