The art you like thread.

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That, needs this

 

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And now for something completely different. Incredible 300 year old pieces of mechanical engineering.
As dessiato mentioned recently, if you have a few hours to spare the Hermitage is "open".
Anyway, from The Bowes to the Hermitage

 

[bmd]

Speaking of the British Surrealist Group, here's Leonora Carrington's My Search for Magic.

 

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years ago I got dragged along to a Lichtenstein exhibition determined not to like it. In close up, it's brilliant. The symmetry of the lines of the dots...superb

 

[Reno]

My favourite painter is Paul Klee. I love his combination of fine lines and bold colour blocks. Double Tent is one of his most abstract, but the colours seem to glow.

 

[bmd]

I love all that kind of art, Reno. Like those massive ones that are 1 colour bleeding into another or just a single colour. I also love Briget Riley, whose work feels like a cousin to Klee's.

 

[bmd]

Rousseau's The Waterfall. I thought, "hmm, Surrealism eh?" this morning and jumped out of my skin at the new voice in my head. Is it Surrealism? I know I can Google but that's a solitary thing and I would quite like to chat about art. For around 1m 30s or maybe slightly longer. 2m. That's minutes, not months.

 

[dessiato]

Rousseau's The Waterfall. I thought, "hmm, Surrealism eh?" this morning and jumped out of my skin at the new voice in my head. Is it Surrealism? I know I can Google but that's a solitary thing and I would quite like to chat about art. For around 1m 30s or maybe slightly longer. 2m. That's minutes, not months.

I’d not seen this painting, nor heard of the painter. I like this work. It is very evocative of a jungle, as of course it is supposed to be, you can almost smell the heat. I like the naive, primitive, style. I like the fine detail that is there, despite it being naive. It also reminds me of some of the primitive art that you see in paintings from the so-called South Seas, Polynesia etc. I wonder if the white flowers were modelled on Bird of Paradise plants, they have that look if not the colouring. I like how the people are so calm and relaxed and the way the animals seem to be accepting of their presence. They seem to know that they are safe from being hunted.

I think I’ll need to look out for more work by Rousseau.

 

[dessiato]

This is a portrait of Gala Dali, by Dali. It’s from 1944 I think. It shows the man’s talent in areas away fro surrealism.


this is a painting he did when he was about 15 years old.



and this a self portrait



They show just how wide a range he had. He was extremely talented. I sometimes think it is a shame he is known only for his surrealism. There’s so much more to him.

 

[killer b]

I know you all love Dali, but I can't stand him. He was a total hack.

 

[dessiato]

I know you all love Dali, but I can't stand him. He was a total hack.

Why?

 

[killer b]

I don't like his usual technique - it's superficially impressive but when I look closer there's always stuff that's wrong with it that seems to me to be bad draftsmanship rather than surreal weirdness. And I find his concepts for the weird stuff a bit clunky and basic.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Rousseau's The Waterfall. I thought, "hmm, Surrealism eh?" this morning and jumped out of my skin at the new voice in my head. Is it Surrealism? I know I can Google but that's a solitary thing and I would quite like to chat about art. For around 1m 30s or maybe slightly longer. 2m. That's minutes, not months.

It's not surrealism no.

I do like Henri Rousseau. Self taught I believe. Quite unique.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I know you all love Dali, but I can't stand him. He was a total hack.

I like a lot of Dali but some of his stuff is absolute cack.

 

[dessiato]

re Dali. As I said above he did more than just the surrealist stuff. This is often forgotten when people talk about him. When you see his surrealist paintings in galleries and realise that he would not be able to see the whole picture as he was painting them, you get a sense of his vision. The paintings are enormous.

 

[killer b]

I've seen plenty of his paintings, I just don't like them.

 

[dessiato]

I've seen plenty of his paintings, I just don't like them.

That's OK.

 

[skyscraper101]

This classic. Should be in the National Gallery.

 

[killer b]

YES.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

This classic. Should be in the National Gallery.

Oh dear god that's dreadful

 

[dessiato]

This classic. Should be in the National Gallery.

Why?

Oh dear god that's dreadful

Why?

 

[killer b]

For those unfamiliar with the masterpiece above, it's the inside cover of The Prodigy's Music For The Jilted Generation, and it absolutely is trash - so bad that it transcends badness to become a wonder in it's own awful right.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Why?


Why?

Massively cliched.
I hate it.
Regardless of broadly agreeing with its message.

 

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Mrs Tag dislike Dali because she says he is a misogynist. This does come through in much of his work.

 

[killer b]

Massively cliched.

a bit more subtle than most Dali though huh.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Mrs Tag dislike Dali because she says he is a misogynist. This does come through in much of his work.

...tell me more?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

a bit more subtle than most Dali though huh.

Ummm.....not really no

As something on an album cover - yeah - it's fine
But as art? Jesus christ no
There's some great Dali. Just not all of it.

 

[dessiato]

Mrs Tag dislike Dali because she says he is a misogynist. This does come through in much of his work.

I don't know if he was a misogynist. He was odd though. He was interested in S&M, said Hitler turned him on and was, at least initially, a Nazi sympathiser.

He bought his wife and Castle but wasn't allowed to visit without her written consent.

He was very odd.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Nowt wrong with being odd....

 

[dessiato]

Nowt wrong with being odd....

We're from NE Lincolnshire, enough said.