Georges de la Tour

 

 

 

 

George Bellows

 

 

 

 

 

Keith Alexander

 

 

 

 

(Apologies for the quality of the next two, seems there's not much available from his stuff in high def)

 

 

Oswald Achenbach

Trenton Doyle Hanc0ck (lol, apparently his name is censored in the site)

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Pedro Reyes has a series of sculptures that turn firearms into musical instruments...









And a few more by him...

Pictures from some of Olafur Eliasson's installations:

Alex Ross

 

 

For anyone who is a fan of Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha's Le Pater was reprinted by The Century Guild Museum and Gallery.  A larger more extensive hard bound reprint is forthcoming. 

 

Unlike his typical poster art, or his magnum opus series of paintings The Slav Epic, Le Pater was created as a printed book.  Since the original only had about 500 copies made of it, its a new opportunity to see the book as it was intended to be seen (as opposed to the various images taken out of the book setting seen reprinted over the years). 

For anyone who is a fan of Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha's Le Pater was reprinted by The Century Guild Museum and Gallery.  A larger more extensive hard bound reprint is forthcoming. 

 

Unlike his typical poster art, or his magnum opus series of paintings The Slav Epic, Le Pater was created as a printed book.  Since the original only had about 500 copies made of it, its a new opportunity to see the book as it was intended to be seen (as opposed to the various images taken out of the book setting seen reprinted over the years). 

Oof, that is lovely. I'd love to get my hands on that.

I guess I'm not at art lover. The only pictures that I liked or at least haven't creeped me out are the two of DC comics characters.

 

My favorite "art" piece was a painting by Andrew Wyeth that has been re-printed a million times:

 

I guess I'm not at art lover. The only pictures that I liked or at least haven't creeped me out are the two of DC comics characters.

 

Even the likes of Friedrich or Achenbach? Either way I guess it's less about art in general and more about my personal tastes for the more esoteric.

 

Also not sure why you put art in quotation marks above, I'd say Wyeth's work is definitely art whether one loves it or hates it. I don't view the condition of being art as a quality brand more so than a function myself, thus there can be good and bad art, and even art that is awful is still at the end of the day art.

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I guess I'm not at art lover. The only pictures that I liked or at least haven't creeped me out are the two of DC comics characters.

 

Even the likes of Friedrich or Achenbach? Either way I guess it's less about art in general and more about my personal tastes for the more esoteric.

 

Also not sure why you put art in quotation marks above, I'd say Wyeth's work is definitely art whether one loves it or hates it. I don't view the condition of being art as a quality brand more so than a function myself, thus there can be good and bad art, and even art that is awful is still at the end of the day art.

 

 

It is. I guess being mass produced, or reproduced loses some of it's cache I was thinking. I bought a hand painted reproduction of that at a show in West Palm Beach years ago. It's on my bedroom wall now. I also have a copy of Van Gogh's Starry Night. I've always liked that one.

 

Actually I did like the four you posted from Oswald Achenbach

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There does seem to be a bit of an overload of depressing art in the thread.  

There does seem to be a bit of an overload of depressing art in the thread.  

 

You think? There's a couple I'd call depressing (Boltaksi or Berni for example, and I can see how Beksinski can be deemed depressing too even though there is a comedic element to all of his work, however grim it may seem), but for the most part a lot of the art I've posted has a pretty distinct spiritual or transcendent motive to them.

For anyone who is a fan of Art Nouveau, Alphonse Mucha's Le Pater was reprinted by The Century Guild Museum and Gallery.  A larger more extensive hard bound reprint is forthcoming. 

 

Unlike his typical poster art, or his magnum opus series of paintings The Slav Epic, Le Pater was created as a printed book.  Since the original only had about 500 copies made of it, its a new opportunity to see the book as it was intended to be seen (as opposed to the various images taken out of the book setting seen reprinted over the years). 

Oof, that is lovely. I'd love to get my hands on that.

 

Its really nice - I have the smaller softcover they did first; apparently the hardcover is going to have additional writing about the work and photographs (I believe from Mucha's production photos).

 

 

My favorite "art" piece was a painting by Andrew Wyeth that has been re-printed a million times:

 

Andrew Wyeth is considered to be a top US artist.  His dad, N. C. Wyeth, is considered to be one of the top US illustrators.  His work on TREASURE ISLAND is legendary.

 

I did introduce a friend to the art of Luis Royo a few weeks back.

I know this is more about painting than photography but I found this on http://www.art.com

 

 

Algoth this thread is going to end up costing me money. You've got me looking around on that site for something to liven up this house. I've never been one for decorating and the walls are pretty bare.

I know this is more about painting than photography but I found this on http://www.art.com

 

 

Algoth this thread is going to end up costing me money. You've got me looking around on that site for something to liven up this house. I've never been one for decorating and the walls are pretty bare.

Photography is very much admitted here, as is the case with Duane Michals for example a page back. Can't say I'm a fan of that particular example, I've never been a fan of dogs to put it mildly (sorry).

 

And sorry to hear that too, but hey, it'll be for a good cause (or so I'll tell myself?)!

Exhibition on Russian Art from 1917-1932 in the royal academy of arts in London, some of my favourites....

 

Really nice stuff there, Ben! That Konstantin Yuon piece looks wonderful, I'll be looking into him a bit more.

Some very nice stuff there, Ben. Malevich is probably my favorite Soviet artist of that time alongside Naum Gabo. Here's another for you, by Aleksandr Gerasimov:

 

 

Also, Ilya Repin

 

 

Edited May 4, 20178 yr by algroth

Cornelis van Dalem (some in collaboration with Jan van Wechelen)

Hubert Robert

Just realized that I missed noting the 100 anniversary of the death of one of my favorite Pre-Raphelite artists, John William Watterhouse:


One of his Lady of Shalott Paintings

 

Destiny

The Delaware Art Museum is making a lot of their documents available online - http://www.delart.org/collections/the-helen-farr-sloan-library-and-archives/digital_collections/

 

Included are correspondence from Pre-Raphelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and correspondence and talks by and about Howard Pyle.  I believe they are still adding things to the digital collection (the Pyle section is currently only a couple of items).