Reply to: Picasso

[cailin maith]

Its the shoes?

You liked the little doggy?

No wedding ring?

Go on tell us

All of the above

[Churchill]

Et in Arcadia Ego

I like this one...

The Shepherds of Arcadia

[vetran]

Its the shoes?

You liked the little doggy?

No wedding ring?

Go on tell us


This is incredible in the flesh so to speak. Photo does not do it justice.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...re/custom1.jpg

This is one of my favourites, spooky yet uplifting

http://www.aaronartprints.org/images/Paintings/4411.jpg

[Gibbon]

origin of species

Close but's its more to do with the change in how humanity is viewed once the bible story no longer holds up. It's actually about religous doubt and the brevity and insignificance of human life. The comet is the brief flash across the sky whilst the fossils and rock statra are the immensity of time.

Interestingly enough the publication of the Origin of the Species wasn't as controversial as some modern commentators would have use believe. A lot of people were coming to the same conclusion from different angles and one of them was the fossil link. The church view was that fossils were animals that hadn't made it into the Ark and drowned in the ensuing flood. This was contested though when a full fossil of a dinosaur version of a dolphin was found; why would it drown in a world of water?

[Mich the Tester]

Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 by William Dyce :: artmagick.com


What do you make of this ? A lifelike painting but has a deep meaning and is very relevant to it's time. It was painted in 1859, something very significant happened that year.

Yes you can google, but just have a think. As the painting is small here are some clues.

1. They are collecting fossils ( Pegwell beach in dorset was famous for them)
2. There is a passing comet in the sky.
3. You are meant to notice the many stratas in the rock.

Now you couldn't get this in a photo especially the mechanoly.

origin of species

[Gibbon]

Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 by William Dyce :: artmagick.com


What do you make of this ? A lifelike painting but has a deep meaning and is very relevant to it's time. It was painted in 1859, something very significant happened that year.

Yes you can google, but just have a think. As the painting is small here are some clues.

1. They are collecting fossils ( Pegwell beach in dorset was famous for them)
2. There is a passing comet in the sky.
3. You are meant to notice the many stratas in the rock.

Now you couldn't get this in a photo especially the mechanoly.

[Mich the Tester]

Bah! I've chucked up better than that.....

How do you define 'better'?

[stingman123]

Bah! I've chucked up better than that.....

[Scary]

Recently went to an exhibition of photorealism. Impressive stuff, if a little pointless (IMO).

[Gibbon]

Yep, v good indeed. Trouble is, since the development of cameras, paintings that visually resemble the subject perhaps don’t really serve a purpose; you may as well take a photo.

Nope, a photo will give you precisely what you are looking at, a painting gives you what the painter is trying to tell you and an emotion that can't be captured in the immediacy of a photo.

The avant garde weren't trying to paint photo realistic paintings they were trying to convey emotion in a different way. Infact they were heavily influenced by african art and its primivtive truthfulness although in an idealised form. What is interesting is the avant gardes almost complete avoidance of the Benin Bronzes which were actually too aesthetic for their tastes.

[SuperZ]

If thats all you can see, I won't bother explaining what I do see. Not sure you'd get it.

Oh, go on . Although I was being silly, I was sincere in wanting to learn why you find the picture so interesting.

[cailin maith]

Wot? Studied art history and never been to Madrid?

Go! And give yourself plenty of time to see the Reina Sofia museum.

There are plenty of excellent sausage and ham bars to keep Mr CM happy too!

I know - I chose Paris over Madrid but it was still a great trip.

Sausage & Ham Bars - right up his street

[cailin maith]

So what do you see/like in that picture?

I see a fat bird, potentially pregnant from under age se*, standing next to some camp weirdo who probably was bad bad man and gave young girl good rogering.

If thats all you can see, I won't bother explaining what I do see. Not sure you'd get it.

[SuperZ]

http://openreflections.files.wordpre...i-marriage.jpg

This is my fave - I did Art History for A Level and spent hours pouring over prints of it

Also a big fan of Mainie Jellett, could get lost in some of her's

So what do you see/like in that picture?

I see a fat bird, potentially pregnant from under age se*, standing next to some camp weirdo who probably was bad bad man and gave young girl good rogering.

[Churchill]

Wot? Studied art history and never been to Madrid?

Go! And give yourself plenty of time to see the Reina Sofia museum.

There are plenty of excellent sausage and ham bars to keep Mr CM happy too!

You know something? I really like you!