My wife got me a book called "1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die." The author said that the book was inspired by a conversation he once had; what five paintings would you most like to have on your walls. I'm curious how Languish would answer that. To expand it a little, what five works of art would you most like to have in your house. For the purposes of this, you can assume that your house can be expanded to accommodate the Sistine Chapel or whatever you'd like.
I would pick The Winged Nike of Samothrace:
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Paolo Uccello's "Battle of San Romano"
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Sandro Botticelli's "Primavera"
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Rembrandt van Rijn's "Return of the Prodigal Son"
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Vincent Van Gogh, "Starry Night over the Rhone"
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#1 is Rembrandt's "The Night Watch."
Eugène Delacroix's liberty leading the people of course.
Though, IIRC, that painting is about 60 square feet or so.
Dogs Playing Poker, natch. ;)
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 03, 2014, 12:58:33 PM
Dogs Playing Poker, natch. ;)
I figured you more for a painting of disturbing clowns type, Teach:
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I would give that one to Katmai. :D
I want the giant portrait of Queen Elizabeth that hung in the rafters of the old Winnipeg Arena.
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Off the top of my head, though I'm sure I'd change up if I thought about it more.
Marcel Duchamp - The Large Glass
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Peter Paul Rubens - Samson and Delilah
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Henri Matisse - Le bonheur de vivre
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Piet Mondrian - Composition II, with red, blue and yellow
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Sandro Botticelli - Mars and Venus
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Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 12:55:31 PM
Eugène Delacroix's liberty leading the people of course.
Though, IIRC, that painting is about 60 square feet or so.
116 according to Wikipedia (9.8 ft. x 11.9 ft.) You'll need a bigger house.
I see it's now in the Louvre-Lens museum rather than the Louvre.
The five most expensive works, obviously.
1-5 from the list below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
e:fuck you, guller. <_<
The Empire State Building, the Burj Khalifa, the Taipei 101, the Willis Tower, and the Pyramids of Giza.
#2 Boticelli's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
Quote from: ulmont on July 03, 2014, 01:27:22 PM
1-5 from the list below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
e:fuck you, guller. <_<
That would be a pretty avant-garde collection.
Quote from: Ideologue on July 03, 2014, 01:28:29 PM
The Empire State Building, the Burj Khalifa, the Taipei 101, the Willis Tower, and the Pyramids of Giza.
You'll have to pay moving fees.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 03, 2014, 01:29:20 PM
#2 Boticelli's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
This painting?
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Hmm. Maybe he did another similar one? Where he looks more snotty and his hand is up by his shoulder. :hmm:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 03, 2014, 01:34:19 PM
Hmm. Maybe he did another similar one? Where he looks more snotty and his hand is up by his shoulder. :hmm:
Maybe this one?
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Feverypainterpaintshimself.com%2Fgallery_images_new%2FPortrait_of_a_Young_Man_1482-83_NGA_DC.jpg&hash=b7e1d926b4b91f7ddcc14ce0133dfdfa4e112e83)
Quote from: Savonarola on July 03, 2014, 01:29:32 PM
Quote from: ulmont on July 03, 2014, 01:27:22 PM
1-5 from the list below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
e:fuck you, guller. <_<
That would be a pretty avant-garde collection.
F, C+, D, D... oh, wait, I actually like that last one. B+.
That's the ticket Sav.
I just love the way he said "I'm an egotistical douchebag, so that's what I'm going to paint."
Quote from: Ideologue on July 03, 2014, 01:37:29 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on July 03, 2014, 01:29:32 PM
Quote from: ulmont on July 03, 2014, 01:27:22 PM
1-5 from the list below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings
e:fuck you, guller. <_<
That would be a pretty avant-garde collection.
F, C+, D, D... oh, wait, I actually like that last one. B+.
I've actually seen that last one in the flesh as it were - I wandered into the Neue Galerie in New York, and there it was. It is, indeed, awesome.
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
Quote from: Monoriu on July 03, 2014, 02:42:30 PM
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only. That you do not actually own them. They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 02:47:18 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 03, 2014, 02:42:30 PM
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only. That you do not actually own them. They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.
:huh: That's why he doesn't want the attention.
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 02:47:18 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 03, 2014, 02:42:30 PM
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only. That you do not actually own them. They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.
Then you are just asking me to name my top 5 anime.
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 02:47:18 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 03, 2014, 02:42:30 PM
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only. That you do not actually own them. They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.
That's what I was going for; and besides, Mono, you must have some art that you appreciate, even if it's wall scrolls like this:
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Rather hard question to answer.
I'm very minimalist in my tastes. I'd rather live in a piece of art than hang one on the wall.
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 02:47:18 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 03, 2014, 02:42:30 PM
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only. That you do not actually own them. They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.
To be fair to Mono, that would be his same response to the question, who was your favourite grandparent.
Most of the art in my house was painted by my wife. I kinda like it that way.
Quote from: Savonarola on July 03, 2014, 12:50:24 PM
Paolo Uccello's "Battle of San Romano"
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That's a three-fer! Besides the one at the Uffizzi there's another one at the Louvre and another one at the National Gallery. :P
National Gallery (Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano):
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Uffizzi (Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Ciarda at the Battle of San Romano):
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Louvre (The Counterattack of Michelotto da Cotignola at the Battle of San Romano):
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Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2014, 04:07:33 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 02:47:18 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 03, 2014, 02:42:30 PM
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only. That you do not actually own them. They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.
To be fair to Mono, that would be his same response to the question, who was your favourite grandparent.
:lol:
Quote from: mongers on July 03, 2014, 04:07:33 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 02:47:18 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on July 03, 2014, 02:42:30 PM
Whatever I can sell at a high price without attracting too much attention.
I guess I thought the idea was that you are displaying them only. That you do not actually own them. They are just being displayed in your house for some reason.
To be fair to Mono, that would be his same response to the question, who was your favourite grandparent.
:lol:
Quote from: Iormlund on July 03, 2014, 03:21:55 PM
Rather hard question to answer.
I'm very minimalist in my tastes. I'd rather live in a piece of art than hang one on the wall.
Do you have an architect then that you would have liked to have had designed your house/apartment and interior?
Quote from: The Larch on July 03, 2014, 04:32:18 PM
That's a three-fer!
That it is. ;)
QuoteBesides the one at the Uffizzi there's another one at the Louvre and another one at the National Gallery. :P
National Gallery (Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano):
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Uffizzi (Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Ciarda at the Battle of San Romano):
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Louvre (The Counterattack of Michelotto da Cotignola at the Battle of San Romano):
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In addition the works of art were mutilated (presumably to fit into the Medici palace) and the tops were almost certainly destroyed. I think, though, that's part of the appeal of the paintings. By not being able to see the sky you feel locked into the battle.
I wonder if there were battles in which knights actually charged each other with lances.
I totally forgot this cool work on representing a street light.
Giacomo Balla - Street Light
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An Asger Jorn:
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Some pointilism in Signac
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Wheat Field with Crows
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Thorvaldsen, from Vor Frue Kirke.
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And because I'm a sucker for impressionism, Monet.
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I'm sure I'm forgetting something, especially the Renaissance painters. And it isn't actually that easy finding good pictures of paintings in Danish museums online. :angry:
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Quote from: Liep on July 03, 2014, 05:36:28 PM
Thorvaldsen, from Vor Frue Kirke.
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:thumbsup: CB and I both really liked the Thorvaldsen museum in Copenhagen. We were also delighted later to find some of his works at the State Hermitage.
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Minus the Asian.
Unless the Asian is a she.
And 15.
I would have 2. A bust of Marius, and a bust of Sulla. The bust of Marius would be placed in a position of dominance over Sulla, and Sulla's bust would be disgraced.
Not biting.
I would have 2. A bust of Jim Tressel, and a bust of Brady Hoke. The bust of Hoke would be placed in a position of dominance over Tressel, and Tressel's bust would be disgraced.
:lol:
This would be #1, I'll get back to you on the other 4
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Instead of just posting the posters of my 5 favourite anime, I'll post some pics about some anime characters that I find interesting.
1. Akemi Homura, Puella Magi Madoka Magica. This is actually the very first scene in the anime, but shown without the context. Becomes a very powerful scene when the full story is shown.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi62.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh101%2FMonoriu%2FthCAMCNFCN_zps02b8acd2.jpg&hash=207f415d19c80c726c0c402ba202d3eb130344f0) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/Monoriu/media/thCAMCNFCN_zps02b8acd2.jpg.html)
2. Yuki Nagato, Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. One of the most heartwarming, emotional and world famous scenes in an anime classic. Yuki = snow in Japanese.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi62.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh101%2FMonoriu%2FthCAOJMN1G_zps4c8eea19.jpg&hash=eff3c68c2598f8454ce75ab3145736aea4210f03) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/Monoriu/media/thCAOJMN1G_zps4c8eea19.jpg.html)
3. Super popular herione Saber of Fate series.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi62.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh101%2FMonoriu%2FthCAK6PT8D_zps1c6f06c0.jpg&hash=c149bad3f6de6c58f328a1dccc32f37a2b6de6af) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/Monoriu/media/thCAK6PT8D_zps1c6f06c0.jpg.html)
4. Angel, Angel Beats. I usually don't prefer fanart, but this is quite nice. It depicts a very famous scene in the opening song sequence, that of Angel playing piano to the tune of "My Soul; Your Beats."
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi62.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh101%2FMonoriu%2FthCAOV9Z0B_zps3e04c08e.jpg&hash=5d81904fbcf70dbe885e0775ba9aeb7df7dd89a9) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/Monoriu/media/thCAOV9Z0B_zps3e04c08e.jpg.html)
5. Euphemia, Code Geass. Highlights her innocence and kindness.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi62.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh101%2FMonoriu%2FthCAL7QEL2_zpse2c0f938.jpg&hash=8399e93fd8c87581e6cfb308e2c62c1e33e368c3) (http://s62.photobucket.com/user/Monoriu/media/thCAL7QEL2_zpse2c0f938.jpg.html)
I'm pretty sure it highlights her breasts.
Mono's nerdiness goes to 11.
Quote from: Ideologue on July 03, 2014, 08:55:29 PM
I'm pretty sure it highlights her breasts.
By anime standards, those breasts are very modest :contract:
Oh sure she seems innocent and kind but I bet she is a dirty dirty girl in private.
Quote from: Valmy on July 03, 2014, 09:00:10 PM
Oh sure she seems innocent and kind but I bet she is a dirty dirty girl in private.
I bet you haven't seen Code Geass :cool:
Fate Stay Night is so overrated.
You sicken me Mono! :mad:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 03, 2014, 09:23:24 PM
Fate Stay Night is so overrated.
You sicken me Mono! :mad:
Huh? Saber is also the leading heroine in Fate Zero, which is one of the most highly acclaimed shows and much more highly rated than Stay Night. She is not the heroine of a single show, but an entire series. I am not even mentioning Kaleid Liner (ok, she only had a bit more than a cameo there) and Carnival Phantasm (still a major character there).
I can only pray for a shyster hijack. :(
I tried for an ACW hijack with my (sincere) choice of art, but it failed. :weep:
I dunno. Manet's Olympia, Lawrence's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, David's Death of Marat, Van Gogh's Starry Night and Bruegel's Triumph of Death.
Unless you consider warships an art, in which case I would replace Death of Marat with USS Iowa.
Thats really hard. I don't usually appreciate art.
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 03, 2014, 09:57:36 PM
Thats really hard. I don't usually appreciate art.
:console:
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 03, 2014, 09:57:36 PM
Thats really hard. I don't usually appreciate art.
I'm going to have to ask you to hand in your French card! :mad:
If I could, I would have this work of art in my house, but my wife would probably shoot me.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hola.com%2Fimagenes%2Fbiografias%2F%2Fbar-refaeli%2F88135-bar-refaeli1.jpg&hash=6ede353165f81e794b7a67f8356e568fba43e7d9)
Quote from: Savonarola on July 03, 2014, 05:05:50 PM
Quote from: Iormlund on July 03, 2014, 03:21:55 PM
Rather hard question to answer.
I'm very minimalist in my tastes. I'd rather live in a piece of art than hang one on the wall.
Do you have an architect then that you would have liked to have had designed your house/apartment and interior?
My favourite house design is probably Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Though I would have to redo the interior as it's much too cluttered for me.
Quote from: Siege on July 03, 2014, 11:50:11 PM
If I could, I would have this work of art in my house, but my wife would probably shoot me.
And that, children, is why you shouldn't have firearms in your house.
Siegebreaker has middle class life; possesses no middle class values. ARMY OF ONE.
Quote from: Ideologue on July 04, 2014, 02:16:16 AM
Siegebreaker has middle class life; possesses no middle class values. ARMY OF ONE.
I think wishing to have a pet supermodel is well in line with middle class values.
It's called propriety. :bowler:
So let me tell you about what exactly I would do with my lottery hooker...
Quote from: Siege on July 03, 2014, 11:50:11 PM
If I could, I would have this work of art in my house, but my wife would probably shoot me.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hola.com%2Fimagenes%2Fbiografias%2F%2Fbar-refaeli%2F88135-bar-refaeli1.jpg&hash=6ede353165f81e794b7a67f8356e568fba43e7d9)
I figured you would have picked the Arch of Titus. :P
This one, The death of Wolfe by Benjamin Wolfe:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishbattles.com%2Fimages%2Fquebec%2Fdeath-wolfe-l.jpg&hash=b81ccd270f1e29947b8ec735f7eebefcb347f248)
And another one I don't know the name, but it looks like it's depicting the siege of Maastricht and the death of a musketeer, maybe D'Artagnan. It appears in Darth Mod's Empire Total War.
Aside that, I don't know of many work of art I'd like to have.
Maybe this one too:
White House down (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_-alZdanMwU/T9omWluigmI/AAAAAAAAC2I/GAs-ezPciEc/s1600/The%2BBurning%2Bof%2Bthe%2BWhite%2BHouse%2B1814.jpg)
Thutmose III
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Dali - Persistence of Memory:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fuploads5.wikiart.org%2Fimages%2Fsalvador-dali%2Fthe-persistence-of-memory-1931.jpg&hash=15c08be4b78384765b0f647a079090cdf76f5d2a)
Rembrandt - Night Watch
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Turner - Palace of Westminster
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Fwm%2Fpaint%2Fauth%2Fmonet%2Fparliament%2Fparliament.jpg&hash=2eba479f7a58479dd98401e640c07b361552355e)
Holbein - The Ambassadors
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That was off the top of my head. I may come back and edit.
Nothing haunted please.
Whoa, Rembrandt's Night Watch is incredible.
Very interesting light contrasts with characters in diferent planes of the composition.
Oh, Brazen :wub:
...that Monet is incredible ;)
L.
Picasso's "Guernica", Munch's "The Scream", "Madonna" and "The Dance of Life".
And Kittelsen's drawing of the fairy tale figure Smørbukk.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.snl.no%2Fsystem%2Fimages%2F15889%2Fstandard_NMK-B_NG.K_26H.B.0524820130725-13675-yhz79x.jpg&hash=6f83217e270bd0ced5f1331f0af7e7aafbc7aab3)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi13.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa299%2FSlayhem%2Fmachiavelli.jpg&hash=94677dbf201d2c4254597a6dae1866dd7ab33bb3)
It just occurred to me that in my office I do have five pieces of actual art, so I might as well describe those:
-small print of Dali's Persistence of Memory, purchased at the Art Gallery of Ontario while visiting there with Malthus, GF, Sasks, HVC and Jos. Brazen linked to that image already.
-a Jim Robb (Yukon artist) print showing the log home skyscraper in Whitehorse. I can't find the exact print online, but you can see more about the artist and his style here: http://www.artincanada.com/jimrobb/
-a numbered print of "Caibou Family" by another Yukon artist Nathalie Parenteau.
(https://www.yukonart.ca/files/cache/b8bb358dfacc0a5403a63b1c656c6406.jpg)
-an unlimited run print of "Autumn Romance" by the same artist:
(https://www.yukonart.ca/files/cache/b737c6d6db39dfdd929b443724ad899f.jpg)
-a west coast native art print entitled "Killer Whale" by Danny Dennis, purchased at UBC Anthropology Museum
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache2.artprintimages.com%2Fp%2FMED%2F28%2F2814%2FDLKOD00Z%2Fart-print%2Fdanny-dennis-killer-whale.jpg&hash=00b7001afbbbbb678e240f179cdec3418cd09542)
Picasso is a bit like George Clooney for me. I really don't like much of his work but I really admire his lifestyle. :P
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi13.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fa299%2FSlayhem%2FPortraits.jpg&hash=b64c35bce8138da8cefd0a0779df1b7a0964442f)
It's Enrico Picasso!!! :w00t:
Quote from: The Brain on July 04, 2014, 01:41:08 PM
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It's Enrico Picasso!!! :w00t:
I see an elf, a dwarf, and something else.
A wizard. :contract:
Bah. I thought it was an east european jew.
Well it's certainly thin enough.
Quote from: Siege on July 04, 2014, 03:07:53 PM
Bah. I thought it was an east european jew.
:lol:
1. U. Boccioni, Forme Uniche della Continuità nello Spazio
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2. H. Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
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3. P. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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4. Unknown, Agamemnon's Mask
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-aHcXt9S2NnU%2FT0KU5dNSEfI%2FAAAAAAAAGeo%2FXVNcGvbTkbM%2Fs1600%2FAgamemnon.jpg&hash=4170059d10e48909917cdeefc4e12b917019b6a6)
5. E. Hopper, House by the Railroad
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L.
Sargeant: "Some chick walking down a street in Venice while some dudes lean against the wall."
When I was in grade school I had an art teacher tell us that Picasso painted like that because that's how he actually saw the world. I remember thinking at the time "God, I hope they didn't let him drive".
My 1) might as well be Pedrito's. Boccioni is a genius.
2) Greco, Burial of the Count of Orgaz
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Ff%2Fff%2FEl_Greco_-_The_Burial_of_the_Count_of_Orgaz.JPG&hash=d124833d56a81f671aed7fe2e96f382378865d18)
3) The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli by Carlo Carra
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4) One of the frescoes from Chora Church. Hard to decide.
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5) Kandinsky's Motley Life
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6) Cheating, but Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fuploads4.wikiart.org%2Fimages%2Fmarcel-duchamp%2Fnude-descending-a-staircase-no-2-1912.jpg&hash=8c6573b919ee669bf96d7230fbb52b0abe1bac7f)
I like Dix, Schiele and Grosz a whole hell of a lot but wouldn't want one of those nightmares in my house.
I have a soft spot for Goya's etchings, particulary the print "The sleep of reason produces monsters".
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fb%2Fbc%2FFrancisco_Jos%25C3%25A9_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_sleep_of_reason_produces_monsters_%2528No._43%2529%2C_from_Los_Caprichos_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg&hash=658149e9c233d1ab4b308bffdfbb8f1f68bd589b)
From El Greco I'd pick "The gentleman with his hand at his breast".
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Ff%2Ff1%2FEl_caballero_de_la_mano_en_el_pecho.jpg%2F640px-El_caballero_de_la_mano_en_el_pecho.jpg&hash=a9dd4c1c7635c53246b3d3902b1565fd564d5ec0)
Quote from: Barrister on July 04, 2014, 12:50:19 PM
It just occurred to me that in my office I do have five pieces of actual art, so I might as well describe those:
-small print of Dali's Persistence of Memory, purchased at the Art Gallery of Ontario while visiting there with Malthus, GF, Sasks, HVC and Jos. Brazen linked to that image already.
-a Jim Robb (Yukon artist) print showing the log home skyscraper in Whitehorse. I can't find the exact print online, but you can see more about the artist and his style here: http://www.artincanada.com/jimrobb/
-a numbered print of "Caibou Family" by another Yukon artist Nathalie Parenteau.
(https://www.yukonart.ca/files/cache/b8bb358dfacc0a5403a63b1c656c6406.jpg)
-an unlimited run print of "Autumn Romance" by the same artist:
(https://www.yukonart.ca/files/cache/b737c6d6db39dfdd929b443724ad899f.jpg)
-a west coast native art print entitled "Killer Whale" by Danny Dennis, purchased at UBC Anthropology Museum
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache2.artprintimages.com%2Fp%2FMED%2F28%2F2814%2FDLKOD00Z%2Fart-print%2Fdanny-dennis-killer-whale.jpg&hash=00b7001afbbbbb678e240f179cdec3418cd09542)
Those are pretty cool, Beeb.
It might be interesting to compare the objet d'art people actually have in their houses with the works they wish they had. (I don't have any renaissance masterpieces. :()
Quote from: Savonarola on July 05, 2014, 10:43:11 AM
It might be interesting to compare the objet d'art people actually have in their houses with the works they wish they had. (I don't have any renaissance masterpieces. :()
Here are the "prints" I own. (first isn't a print but was mass produced)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fseattletimes.com%2FABPub%2F2007%2F01%2F29%2F2003546354.jpg&hash=44ae7629ce41f2873472f24974ff8c094c6c5f2c)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F5%2F58%2FOhhh-Alright.jpg&hash=bcf83084c9c1e9fce9c6d86715a6c4d450ceb1f2)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.book530.com%2Fpaintingpic%2F1224a2%2Fchiu-tak-hak-le-bouchons.jpg&hash=d884d4e188b6b706a88a76fe1ac2abf0a84af8c3)
I actually have 5 art prints in my apartment. In my previous place, with its darker interior I might have gone with something 17th-19th century, but my new place is understated with clear lines and open space, so I went for all out Kandinsky which fits very nicely.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fartmauve.com%2Fimages%2Foil%2FWassily_Kandinsky%2F710023038.jpg&hash=7e2eeec4432d8f1338fd1f05b485c8c2f5dbe750)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabrab.ch%2FSpecial%2FMamiGeburi%2F1926%2FKandinskyAccentEnRose.jpg&hash=c24db98663139b8bd790f138cae5604fa5bca348)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fserdar-hizli-art.com%2Fwassily-kandinsky%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F11%2Fbalancement-giclee-print.jpg&hash=9617cf00dfcbcf3795711caafd80ee91424ed50c)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fprintempspoetique.free.fr%2FIMG%2FImage%2Fimages%2520expo%25202%2FKandinsky%2C%2520Hommage%2520%25E0%2520Grohmann.jpe&hash=8b0b895e63c97436e11a93250eba0061d0238404)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpavupapri.hautetfort.com%2Fmedia%2F00%2F00%2F831331330.jpg&hash=1628a1d5488ffca6831473b877f7c6c55b0b1ea0)
Christ Pantocrator from St. Catherine of Sinai Monastery
Ilya Repin, Reply of the Zaporozhan Cossacks
Carpeaux, Bust of Alexandre Dumas fils
William Blake, The Tyger
NC Wyeth, cover painting of The Black Arrow
A Francis Bacon Triptych. Possibly this one because I've seen it:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2F2%2F2d%2FTriptych_-_August_1972.jpg&hash=a689fe9cc0c0764f8329bc2340552a09878b51ea)
El Greco's Opening of the Fifth Seal:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F2%2F2f%2FEl_Greco%252C_The_Vision_of_Saint_John_%25281608-1614%2529.jpg%2F640px-El_Greco%252C_The_Vision_of_Saint_John_%25281608-1614%2529.jpg&hash=1b2a56582524556e57302406707df2da1652dd7d)
Turner's Burning of Parliament:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fc%2Fc3%2FJoseph_Mallord_William_Turner%252C_English_-_The_Burning_of_the_Houses_of_Lords_and_Commons%252C_October_16%252C_1834_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg%2F1024px-Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner%252C_English_-_The_Burning_of_the_Houses_of_Lords_and_Commons%252C_October_16%252C_1834_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg&hash=2ef7e380c8a4e1468577d899170974ba2b88ecff)
A complete illustrated Shahnameh.
And the Dying Gaul.
I would acquire and then sell the five most expensive pieces of art and use the proceeds to build and stock the best wine cellar I could manage leaving sufficient money to allow me to retire to enjoy the fruits of my labour.
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 07, 2014, 05:52:12 PM
I would acquire and then sell the five most expensive pieces of art
So a lot of Jeff Koons :bleeding:
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 07, 2014, 05:54:53 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 07, 2014, 05:52:12 PM
I would acquire and then sell the five most expensive pieces of art
So a lot of Jeff Koons :bleeding:
I dont need to look at them. I just need to enjoy the wine they will allow me to purchase while I sit in my amazing wine cellar.
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 07, 2014, 05:48:10 PMEl Greco's Opening of the Fifth Seal:
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This year is El Greco's year over here, and they're doing a bucketload of retrospectives and conferences about him in Toledo. The main thesis being defended by critics is that, even if he was well appreciated during his life, his style was really a precursor for much more advanced styles like Expresionism and Cubism than the Renaissance period than he lived. That picture you chose could easily be used to defend that thesis.
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 07, 2014, 05:54:53 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 07, 2014, 05:52:12 PM
I would acquire and then sell the five most expensive pieces of art
So a lot of Jeff Koons :bleeding:
Not that you were necessarily doing so, but I really don't get the angst about Jeff Koons making as much money as he possibly can.
I just googled Jeff Koons... :unsure: :bleeding: :lol: :unsure:
I liked his The New as a series of displayed vacuum cleaners.
It could be worse, I guess, it could be Damien Hirst.
QuoteThis year is El Greco's year over here, and they're doing a bucketload of retrospectives and conferences about him in Toledo. The main thesis being defended by critics is that, even if he was well appreciated during his life, his style was really a precursor for much more advanced styles like Expresionism and Cubism than the Renaissance period than he lived. That picture you chose could easily be used to defend that thesis.
IDK. He's kind of an Icon painter doing Mannerism. I mean, I think a lot of his work prefigures Expressionism and Post-Impressionism but IDK if it'd be accurate to describe Greco as somehow "knowing" about Expressionism or that his style was "more advanced." There's David and Turner between Greco and Schiele, and I wouldn't call Greco more "advanced" than Caravaggio, even if I like Greco more.
Quote from: Queequeg on July 08, 2014, 02:24:36 PM
QuoteThis year is El Greco's year over here, and they're doing a bucketload of retrospectives and conferences about him in Toledo. The main thesis being defended by critics is that, even if he was well appreciated during his life, his style was really a precursor for much more advanced styles like Expresionism and Cubism than the Renaissance period than he lived. That picture you chose could easily be used to defend that thesis.
IDK. He's kind of an Icon painter doing Mannerism. I mean, I think a lot of his work prefigures Expressionism and Post-Impressionism but IDK if it'd be accurate to describe Greco as somehow "knowing" about Expressionism or that his style was "more advanced." There's David and Turner between Greco and Schiele, and I wouldn't call Greco more "advanced" than Caravaggio, even if I like Greco more.
I like Caravaggio better but I don't think it would make sense to say that he prefigures Cubism. I assume advanced here just means along the style that portrays figures in a less "realistic" manner. I think that's fair to put El Greco further along on that than say Caravaggio - though I think overall as the thesis that it is a bit of a reach.
I don't agree with that logic at all, BTW. That there's some kind of linear line with bullshit, boring Abstract Expressionism as the "most advanced" form of painting because it doesn't depict anything. Delacroix is great. Caravaggio is great. New Objectivity wasn't "worse" than Expressionism because Otto Dix and Grosz painted vaguely realistic human figures.
Quote from: The Larch on July 08, 2014, 11:54:33 AMThis year is El Greco's year over here, and they're doing a bucketload of retrospectives and conferences about him in Toledo. The main thesis being defended by critics is that, even if he was well appreciated during his life, his style was really a precursor for much more advanced styles like Expresionism and Cubism than the Renaissance period than he lived. That picture you chose could easily be used to defend that thesis.
I take Quee's quibble over 'advanced', but I agree and that's part of what I love about El Greco (and Turner).
Quote from: garbon on July 08, 2014, 02:34:40 PM
I like Caravaggio better but I don't think it would make sense to say that he prefigures Cubism. I assume advanced here just means along the style that portrays figures in a less "realistic" manner. I think that's fair to put El Greco further along on that than say Caravaggio - though I think overall as the thesis that it is a bit of a reach.
I think Larch (and the critics) meant advanced purely temporally with no implied judgement.
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 08, 2014, 05:46:41 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 08, 2014, 02:34:40 PM
I like Caravaggio better but I don't think it would make sense to say that he prefigures Cubism. I assume advanced here just means along the style that portrays figures in a less "realistic" manner. I think that's fair to put El Greco further along on that than say Caravaggio - though I think overall as the thesis that it is a bit of a reach.
I think Larch (and the critics) meant advanced purely temporally with no implied judgement.
Of course. Ahead of his time.
Quote from: Queequeg on July 08, 2014, 05:38:46 PM
I don't agree with that logic at all, BTW. That there's some kind of linear line with bullshit, boring Abstract Expressionism as the "most advanced" form of painting because it doesn't depict anything. Delacroix is great. Caravaggio is great. New Objectivity wasn't "worse" than Expressionism because Otto Dix and Grosz painted vaguely realistic human figures.
But that's not what I was saying nor do I think anyone was. As Sheilbh noted (which I guess I wasn't clear as he seemed to take same notion from my post) it isn't a value judgment. So it isn't saying that Cubism is better.
There's too much to narrow it down to 5 :(
No Bellini, Titian, Correggio, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca :cry:
Jacopo de Barbari - Venetie 1500
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Guercino - Persian Sibyl
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fa%2Fa4%2FGuercino_-_The_Persian_Sibyl_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg&hash=7437962045c76231ba0d7a5fb4dc2b43cb20f3aa)
Tintoretto - Paradiso (gonna need a bigger room)
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpalazzo-ducale-venezia.historiaweb.net%2Fimages%2Fparadiso-tintoretto.jpg&hash=701f6c2cfca81c545eba36871ebf79120bd63993)
Carpaccio - St. George and the Dragon
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Giorgione - The Tempest
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A fan of Italian High Renaissance, I see. ;)
Is anyone not?
So I finally know what the dude in A Soldier in The Great War was going on and on and on about.
Well, I would diversify a little bit. :lol:
Would love to have some baroque sculpture, this would look great in the garden:
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Quote from: The Larch on July 08, 2014, 06:38:10 PM
A fan of Italian High Renaissance, I see. ;)
My tastes are more varied, but that would make it even more impossible to do this. So I limited myself to this period. :)
I love the Boccioni Pedrito posted, I think I circled around it for a good half hour.