I don't know what it is exactly about the painting, but I've always found it fascinating. Like she's almost surprised to see such an ordinary scene when she turns around. I love how Wyeth captured her body language.
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I tend to fall in love with those big, blocky colorful pictures that student artists do. I don't have a particular favorite.
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Don't have a single favorite. Van Gogh indeed rocketh mightily.
Among my other favorites are Rene Magritte's La Reponse Imprevue, M.C. Escher's Relativity And one I can't locate by Van Gogh which is a garden in sunlight with a man woman and child. It's got lots of blues. The way the sunlight plays on the sheets which are drying flapping in the wind is incredible. I like pretty much everything he ever painted, in fact.
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On a completely egotistical note, my grandfather called me Mona Lisa the other day. (I e-mailed him one of the recent pictures of me.) That was slightly bizarre.
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The Storm and this paiting of Joan of Arc. Both are at the Met. I haven't visited them in ages.
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The two famous paintings that I remember the most vividly because they surprised me so much when I actually saw them are Irises by Van Gogh and American Gothic.
Irises is on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum in CA. What is amazing about it, is that it is much smaller than most of the poster blowups of it, and it is in this very plain unremarkable frame, in contrast with the ornate guilded frames of paintings around it. But it is so ALIVE, the flowers just leap off the canvas, and all of the paintings around it look dim and dusty by comparison, no matter how noted their artists were.
American Gothic is at the Chicago Art Institute. Once again it is so much more Alive, than the pictures you see of it. The people are not so stern and unyeilding as they appear when you just look at it on a page. They have smile lines around the corners of their mouths, and they look like even though they have grit that goes deep into the earth they work, the next moment after they are done posing for the painting, they could smile and tell a joke or story, or discuss crops good naturedly. You just don't get that presence from the painting without being there.
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ES, it was the black and white closeup on the first page of the KamaCon section of MadOwl photography gallery.
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ES, I thought about it, but, believe it or not, it seemed almost more egotistical than I was willing to do. But since you asked. Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
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By the way - right now at home we are putting together (across our dining room table) a jigsaw puzzle of Starry Night. Only it is a real bear because it is one of those puzzles that are photomosiac. We have been working on it for weeks.
I was a fan of Starry Night, but I'm not allowed to call it my favorite anymore since it's on my creit card.
My all-time favorite isn't European modernist at all, though. It's Raphael's Madonna Del Prato (Madonna of the Meadows). The perfect triangular composition and primary color scheme just captivate me. Love it, Love it.
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I've gotten in to Ruth Thompson (www.tarnishedimages.com) in the last few years. Her elves are very close to how I see elves in my head (yes, I see faerie folk in my head).
Scott! Long time, no see! Are you still writing in the 1830s forum?
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I'm not a huge James C. Christensen fan, but his "THE BURDEN OF THE RESPONSIBLE MAN" (scroll down the page on Scott's link) is brilliant.
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I checked out the Christensen site as well. Gethsemene is breathtaking. I've never found an artist to capture Christ's sorrow in that moment quite so adequately.
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I actually was in a Wyland Gallery in Key West.... And I so totally fell in love with the picture, it's so *me*. Especially when its dark, the picture GLOWS. I pointed it out as my favorite one in the gallery. The gallery assistant was like, "That one actually isn't by Wyland..."
I felt like an ass
edited to add: my mother and grandmother collect degrazia magnets, and also have some candles by him. He's great
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I don't know if I'd say this is my favourite, but I do like it a lot - Lost Soul by Angry Johnny.
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Anything from Amy Brown, Alexiel and Angel Gabriel by Yuki Karoi, although Yuki-sensei is actually a managaka, she's got some talent.
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To see the gallery, where they're at go to Impression and click on "Angel Sanctuary". You can see lots of YKaori paintings there.
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Forgive me. The only thing I remember about the painting is what it's called and why I liked it. It's called "Fluorescents" and I think I saw it...I don't know where I saw it, and I can't remeber who did it, and I can't find a link. But It looked like something out of Tron. It was taller than me, and I felt like I could walk right into it. Would love to find postcard or something of it.
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Goody you cross stitch too?! I know you are in the Chicago area somewhere. We are going to have to get together sometime. I brought one of my cross stitches to Kama Con.
(Everyone else can vouch that I am indeed, real, and not a serial killer!)
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I saw Fishermen at Sea at the Rings exhibit in Atlanta in 1996 that was there for the olympics. It is indeed far greater when seen in real life, as is everything. I'm amazed at how many of these I've actually seen!
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Frederick Remington's The Stampede (greatly because a print of it hung in the tack room at my Granddad's barn and as a child I was blown away with the story in the painting).
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quote:Goody you cross stitch too?! I know you are in the Chicago area somewhere. We are going to have to get together sometime. I brought one of my cross stitches to Kama Con.
(Everyone else can vouch that I am indeed, real, and not a serial killer!)
That I do... currently working on Lady of the Flag (which I posted earlier) and a fairy and dragon by Fanta Cat called Flying High which I'm doing on white instead of the called-for navy because it's for LoveQuilts and they require white Aida (ugh)
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I'm bogged down on a seascape at the moment. It's almost finished but I stalled. I like seascapes they are what I choose, but my next big project may be a samurai cause Steve liked it.
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I love James Christiansen and have actually bought some of his prints. Wow...
I also love Brian Kershisnik (cur-shiz-nick), but his prints are very very expensive... so I just bought his book.
Flight Practice with Instruction (you can't see it well in the thumbnail, but there is a string tied to the flying guy's leg and the other guy is instructing him..."
You can see the same painting a little bit in a photo here (you can see the string loop around near Brian's outreached hand)
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