Lecrayon....a case for urban renewal if ever I saw it....

Ack, mixing of multiple styles! Evil! Evil!!

Jafo: Just go to Vienna

Cooking as art? I went to a dinner/booksigning with Tony Bourdain this evening. If anyone else is near a stop on his signing tour, it's worth it, he's nice guy.


Back on-topic...

I really thought this was a goofy string, but this actually happened to me today. After the dinner I was browsing through a local bookstore and happened upon an artist I had never heard of before. The book was "friggin huge" (scientific measurement of immensity), and the first paintings I saw in it were kind of classical, so I figured this guy was long dead. Then I found that he is a modern painter. The stuff was, well, staggering. I was really, really impressed.

His name is Odd Nerdrum. I dunno why I haven't heard of him, I have to get out more. Click me now and believe me later:

http://www.nerdrum.com/

That's what I had about 10 years ago when I stumbled on Laszlo Mednyanski. http://hungart.euroweb.hu/cgi-bin/hungart/search.cgi?author=MEDNY%C1NSZKY%2C+L%E1szl%F3&time=any&form=any&type=any&place=%F6sszes&title=&comment=&lang=1

And cooking is art, sometimes

bangkock, i studed art history at art college, but not intensivelly.
I know the spanish artists, and renascentisit.
ABout modern art, i only studed modernism and abstract art.
i not finished theses studes i worked to get some money to life and i not finished the Art studies

Well, as I said, I'm not a big fan of most Art.
But there is one artist that I really love. It's Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He's only one of two artists I actually drove 3 hours to go see an exhibition of his work. I don't know why, but there is something in his brush strokes, a general feeling in his work, that just grabs e from the inside. Some melancholy, some calm and quiet happiness.
I especialy like Le Moulin de la Galette http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/moulin-galette/ and his dancers ( http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/dancers/bougival.jpg, http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/dancers/city.jpg and http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/dancers/country.jpg). I also love this little girl http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/watercan.jpg and this portrait http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/portraits/irene.jpg.

By the way, watching his paintings on a computer screen doesn't capture a fraction of the feeling you get in front of the original, or at least in front of a good reproduction.

The other artist I drove to see his exhibition in Quebec city was Auguste Rodin, and yes, his Gates of Hell is quite astonishing.

There must be something about people named Auguste ( at bakerstreet )

The last link doesn't work. Remove the period after the link or just try this http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/portraits/irene.jpg .

George Perez's comic art is some of the most beautiful stuff I've seen:
http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/perez/info/solus1.htm
http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/perez/cv/cc2.jpg

And I really like Greg Land's stuff too. Especially his work on Sojourn - beautiful stuff!

In terms of 'traditional' art, the Group of Seven and Emily Carr have always inspired and amazed me:
http://www.tomthomson.org/groupseven/index.html
http://www.tbc.gov.bc.ca/culture/schoolnet/carr/gallery/bcarmain.htm

Is there any way that I can save this thread somehow so that I can peruse all the links at some future date?

Carlitus, you will get there, you have the talent
I agree with you Paxx, on a monitor paintings seem dead somehow. They just don't have the same radiation as in reality. Renoir is lovely.

Gustav Klimt: http://www.iklimt.com/

( at paxx ) must be

I can honestly say one of the works that has really knocked me for six in it's complexity and intricacy has been http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/59008 by nuvem

I could easily imagine that hanging in a gallery.

As to non digital artists Dali is probably my favourite. I'm not really all that into art though.

it's never late to get 'overkarmed' observing the most great art piece:
The Nature

Yes, Nuvem sure does great art.

Reproductions of 'physical' art, whether by computer or as prints or photos is never going to do the work justice...you just made it 2D, afterall.

That's where digital art comes into its own. You get to actually see it as it was intended...

I challenge anyone to browse through the wallpaper section here and NOT go 'wow' at least once. [Blind people are excluded]...

Actually, there are very few wallpapers that I like. The last wallpaper I really liked and used it for a while was back in the Skinz.org days and it was ... [gasp] a dolphin wallpaper.
I kid you not. I thought it was beautiful, and I still it is too. Sorry Jafo.

paxx is out playing Phillistine again.

Always thought Canadians were a bit odd....

You don't have to live by them. they're always there above us, you can here them shuffling around... it's creepy.

LMAO

baker...we have our own worries down here....hanging onto the earth and not falling off is a prime one...

It is interesting though, that figurative art is still mentioned more than abstract art. Apart from Kandinsky and some on wincusto...

It's even more interesting that no-one mentions, umm, what's it called... art where the supposed 'meaning' behind it is more important than the piece itself.

Damnit, forgot the term...