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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
 Posted - 04/11/2004 : 20:29:50
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What're your thoughts on art in general. What are some of your favorite artists (link if you can)? I don't know much about art and am fairly simple in my tastes. I like Edward Hopper, Edvard Munch, Rockwell, and Albert Bierstadt. I like simple, poignant scenes and a lot of urban art. I have a whole folder on my comp for dilapidated and condemened art/photography.
I don't go in for modern, avant garde art. I go to school right next door to MASS MoCA, the new age art museum; you might see some things about it on PBS or in art mags. I hate most everything in it. It's all a bunch of Andy Warhol shit. I watched one show about a machine this guy built that was a replica of the human digestive system. You feed it real food and it churns just like a real person and shits just like a real person. That was called art. Some art expert was like, "before, when you didn't like a work, you'd call it a piece of shit. But now by calling it a piece of shit you're only describing it's very purpose." He said that as if it were some miraculous thing that put the "art" on a higher level. Pretentious basts.
Do you guys like to think about your art and if so, do you sometimes feel it's more effort than it's worth? I like the thinking sometimes and sometimes I like to just sit in front of a full moon and be content. What about George Costanza's theory that abstaining from masturbation increases one's power of thinking? Think there's any truth to that? I do. I think people are better able to process art if their mind is clear. Not sure why I related those two things really but I've just recently read (about poetry) that good poetry is based on Power of Thinking. Ok, enough rambling.
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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2004 : 20:32:07
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I also like Cuban oil paintings and a lot of Spanish art.
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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2004 : 21:51:29
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ok, I'll just keep replying to my own topics. Have any of you seen Sister Wendy on PBS? Now there's a nun who knows her art.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sisterwendy/
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1738 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 00:53:32
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There was a thread like this a few months ago. Anyway, I'm up so I guess I'll try to find some examples of artists I like - FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT, mind you. Let's see, I love Gustav Klimt. I figured you'd seen Klimt's most famous painting "The Kiss" before, so this is one of many different examples of his art:
Rodney Matthews. Great designer, did a lot of stuff back in the seventies and eighties.
Barry Windsor-Smith, a British comic book superstar in the seventies and early eighties (did the Weapon X storyline, which featured his attempt at telling the origin of Wolverine, although they later claimed it was "false memory implants.")
Chris Bachalo, a current comic book penciller (hopefully you won't mind if I throw these last two in there, since technically they're not "traditional" artists.)
I also like Escher, but I'm sure you've seen most of his stuff a hundred times over.
I like H.R. Giger pretty well; his stuff is truly bizarre.
Take me, break me, tell me a good one and maybe I'll cry
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 04:25:21
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To be honest, I can't stand Giger. I don't know why, just not to my taste I suppose.
I like what Vaughan Oliver has done with 4AD and other stuff over the years, I love that style of say, the cover of Come on Pilgrim and Doolittle.
I also like urban photography.
Bauhaus is pretty cool too.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 04:33:12
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That picture just above is very good. I like that a lot!!! Who is it?
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 07:46:15
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yeah, I like it a lot too. Who did it huh huh???
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 08:00:47
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Tom Baril. He's great. My favourite.
 
 
 
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 08:05:18
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It's getting colder.... |
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gracie
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
573 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 08:59:55
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I love modern art. There is currently a lictenstein exibition at the Hayward gallary in London and it was just fantastic. I spent loads of money on a print so big that it doesn't really fit anywhere in my house.
Jenny Saville's nudes are just so amazing, I would recomend her work to anyone. Tracey Emmin's work is also very interesting, i know she has alot of flack from the "i could have done that myself" Daily Mail crowd but some of her work, (if you know the background), is really quite moving.
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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 09:12:22
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Oh thanks mislead. I have one of those on my comp but never knew who it was.
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 04/12/2004 : 23:23:42
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I like this thread A LOT. Very nice images. I like the painting "The Enigma of William Tell" by Salvador Dali.
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bedrock_barney
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
871 Posts |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2004 : 04:06:00
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hmm, i'm feeling very un-cultered now! i like photography. love photo art. of lovely skies, urban sprawls and so on... also there has been an exibition in manchester, pop-art they called it i think. basically it was photos of bands and posters advertising forthcoming gigs and stuff... was some sonic youth, beck, pixies, even frank black! some pretty cool posters.
The Shrine of the Sea Monkey!
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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2004 : 09:57:27
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Sorry for posting what's already been posted:( I remembered some talk of art before but nothing recently. oops.
bumblebeeboy, don't feel too bad about not knowing much art. I know very very very little and only really know what I like by random internet searches. That's why I started this thread; I wanted to see what else is out there.
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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2004 : 10:58:32
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Hey Bumble, don't feel uncultured!....as the old words go, 'I don't know art, but I know what I like'.
Again, I'm hypnotised by your orange cats. Baby, that's art!
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
3575 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 05:25:31
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Roy Lichenstein ;
Boys go to Jupiter, Get more stupider,
Girls go to Mars, Become rock stars
Wanna fuck and fight in the basement? |
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GypsyDeath
Zapped Profile
3575 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 05:52:25
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Gottfried Helnwein:
"Paradise Burning"
"I walk alone"
"untitled"
"Night VI (the man without a face"
"Last Supper"
"kiss of Judas"
I love this guy, I think he is amazing, he works in literally every medium available, and I love the industrial type feel to his work.
He has done a lot of moving subjects, like with people who have been burnt, or deformed in any way...the only way you can appreiciate him is by going to his site -
http://www.helnwein.com
Boys go to Jupiter, Get more stupider,
Girls go to Mars, Become rock stars
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remig
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1734 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 05:53:00
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Basquiat: Loved the expo last year in Paris
I love this Manet painting: Olympia
Being unemnployed during 6 month in Paris was great, I had free access to all museums: Le Louvre (archeology and academic paintings), Musée d'Orsay (19th century with), et Georges Pompidou Center (Modern art, also called Beaubourg)
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 07:02:56
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"You one of those right-wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.
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remig
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1734 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 07:05:43
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 07:05:59
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Okay that didn't work. How do I post a picture, I mean what goes between the Insert Image thing?
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"You one of those right-wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.
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remig
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1734 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 07:12:08
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Type the URL of your image between the two [ img ] things.
And be sure your image has a correct URL, like "htt p://www. blabla.com/ popo/image.jpg" |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 07:47:22
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thank you remig. Chagall has been my favourite for a long time. I could look at him all day. As for the art and power of thinking thing, well yeah naturally, writing and painting and making music help me order my thoughts so I have more to give to other people. Painting helps me describe emotions I mightn't have words for at the time, and same with writing and emotions that haven't yet coalesced into a picture for me.
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"You one of those right-wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.
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remig
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1734 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 07:56:44
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quote:
Originally posted by remig
I SAID:
And be sure your image has a correct URL, like "htt p://www. blabla.com/ popo/image.jpg"
The URL adress you put on your image is wrong |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 08:21:12
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Last go. Should this notcome up, the URL I've put between the Image doodads is http://www.logotime.com/arta/artaimgs/marieau.gif
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"You one of those right-wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 09:24:21
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Woo!
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"You one of those right-wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 09:27:21
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quote:
Originally posted by glacial906
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