The Weekend Arts Show with TB!

Like your new boat, TB. Is that a Bertram?

Seriously, nice shot Mr B. Do you have colour up there yet. 😉

In Europe, I took a lot of pictures of doors. I’m not sure why, but here’s an example.

French street art.

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Looks like I’m trying to monopolise the thread. Sorry.

“Isn’t that the cadbury colour?”

*strokes chin and takes a long puff on pipe*

I think it’s a split-complementary colour scheme. The orange of the beards against a background of blue-purple and red-purple mountains. 😉

#repressedartcritic

I wanted to put up a Man Ray painting, but couldn’t find one I liked. So here’s a photo of him with Dali.

I’ll see yours, Ricky, and add this.

Op art.

Jeffrey Steele, Unterhaltung 1964

Vermeer, Girl With a Red Hat, c.1666

Doh!

Sculpture.

Donatello, Bust of Some Italian Dude c.1400s?

(A fairer resoution)

16th century Indian Moosie Mughal (miniature) painting.

*propaganda

I think you might be right about the ceiling, Tom R.

Meanwhile, a homo-erotic Nazi propaganda poster. “We build body and soul.”

I am . I’m probably annoying the shit out of everyone else. 😯

David Chen, Sunlit Cloud – Princes Bridge c.recently

I think your open door policy is admirable. Let all opinions run free.

Banksy, The Girl With The Pierced Eardrum

Racing colours.

These are the silks worn by any jockey riding a horse owned by the queen. A harmonious colour scheme of purple, crimson and gold.

The picture reb bought last night is a beauty, but that kid’s eyes will follow him around.

Too right TB. And god only knows what happened to those poor pigeons.

(Even Munch himself did four versions of the picture.)

Nice one, ironicman. The artist says that picture, The Histrionic Wayfarer, refers to Hieronymus Bosch’s The Wayfarer c.1500

Russell Drysdale, The cricketers 1948

Henri Matisse, Red Room 1908

(I thought we should start at the start, ironicman: Art Appreciation 1.01 😉 )

Fauvism.

Andre Derain, Charing Cros bridge, London 1906

Lindauer was a Bohemian who moved to New Zealand in 1874, and was eventually commissioned by many Maori chiefs to paint their portraits. It’s not hard see why they liked his depiction of them.

Gottfried Lindauer, Hinepare 1890

Port Vell, Barcelona.

Gustave Courbet, Self Portrait (The Desperate Man) c.1845

Edouard Manet, The grand canal of Venice (Blue Venice) 1875

Court portrait of Emperor Shenzong of Song (reigned 1067–1085)

Salvador Dali, The Sacrament of the Last Supper 1955

Rembrandt, Belshassar’s Feast c.1638

Antoni Gaudi, interior ceiling, Sagrada Familia

The Venetian School.

Canaletto, Piazza San Marco c.1735

Neoclassical.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Roses of Heliogabalus 1888

The obligatory Warhol.

Shot Red marilyn 1964

‘Warhol actually painted five colored Marilyns in 1964 with different colored backgrounds: red, orange, light blue, sage blue, and turquoise and he stored them at The Factory, his studio on East 47th Street in Manhattan. Dorothy Podber (1932–2008), a friend of Factory photographer Billy Name, saw the recently completed paintings stacked against one another at the studio and asked Warhol if she could shoot them. Believing that she meant she wanted to photograph the paintings, Warhol agreed. Podber doffed her pair of white gloves, withdrew a small revolver from her purse, and fired a shot into the stack of four “Marilyn” paintings, which became known as The Shot Marilyns. (The fifth painting with the turquoise background was not in the stack.)’ – Wiki

“Imagine if the other RWDB’s knew you aspired towards membership of the intellectual ‘elite’…”

Hopefully VRWC HQ won’t find out.

School of London.

‘Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. His painterly but abstracted figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds.’

Head VI 1948

Study after Velasquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent

(The cesond one was done in 1953.The first one was obviously inspired by the same Velasquez picture.)

True TB. It might have run its race.

Italian Renaissance.

Antonello da Messina, Portrait of a Man c.1475

My art history books tell me he was born in Sicily but travelled to the Netherlands where he learned the Flemish techniques he brought back to Italy. (Wikipedia claims there is no documentary evidence that he ever travelled.) HIs paintings show a “blend of Italian simplicity and the Flemish delight in meticulous detail”.

Dada.

“Having left Germany and Romania during World War I, the artists found themselves in Switzerland, a country recognized for its neutrality. Inside this space of political neutrality they decided to use abstraction to fight against the social, political, and cultural ideas of that time. The dadaists believed those ideas to be a byproduct of bourgeois society, a society so apathetic it would rather fight a war against itself than challenge the status quo.”

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany 1919

“The influence of Dada is evident as he [Johns] deliberately set himself against the tenets of conventional art. Thus, originality is eschewed by taking previously existing and immediately recognizable objects and emphasising their very ordinariness.” – History of Art, Flametree Publishing, 2013.

Proto Surrealism.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, The Librarian 1566

“Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books … After a portrait was released to the public, some scholars, who had a close relationship with the book culture at that time, argued that the portrait ridiculed their scholarship.In fact, Arcimboldo criticized rich people’s misbehavior and showed others what happened at that time through his art. In The Librarian, although the painting looked ridiculous, it criticized some wealthy people who collected books in order to own them, instead of to read them.”

“James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based artist active during the American Gilded Age. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo “art for art’s sake”. His most famous painting is “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1″ (1871), commonly known as Whistler’s Mother, the revered and oft-parodied portrait of motherhood. Whistler influenced the art world and the broader culture of his time with his artistic theories and his friendships with leading artists and writers.”

This is the painting Francis Bacon based these two pictures on.

Diego Velasquez, Portrait of Pope Innocent X 1650

Selfie.

Romanticism.

John Constable, Wivenhoe Park, 1816

‘Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, Constable was never financially successful. He did not become a member of the establishment until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of 52. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more works than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.’

Spanish School.

Francisco de Goya.

“The [Majas] were never publicly exhibited during Goya’s lifetime. They were owned by Godoy, the Prime Minister of Spain and a favorite of the Queen, María Luisa. In 1808 all Godoy’s property was seized by Ferdinand VII after his fall from power and exile, and in 1813 the Inquisition confiscated both works as ‘obscene’, returning them in 1836 to the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.”

The Nude Maja, c.1800

The Clothed Maja, c.1803

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830

“Delacroix’s most influential work came in 1830 with the painting Liberty Leading the People, which for choice of subject and technique highlights the differences between the romantic approach and the neoclassical style … Probably Delacroix’s best known painting, it is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolour representing liberty, equality, and fraternity; Delacroix was inspired by contemporary events to invoke the romantic image of the spirit of liberty. The soldiers lying dead in the foreground offer poignant counterpoint to the symbolic female figure, who is illuminated triumphantly, as if in a spotlight.”

British School of Portraiture.

Sir Henry Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, 1784

“Raeburn had all the essential qualities of a popular and successful portrait painter. He was able to produce a telling and forcible likeness; his work is distinguished by powerful characterisation, stark realism, dramatic and unusual lighting effects, and swift and broad handling of the most resolute sort.”

“Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.”

The Allegory of Age Governed by Prudence (c. 1565–1570) is thought to depict Titian, his son Orazio, and a young cousin, Marco Vecellio.

Outside L’Espace Dali.

You’re not meant to take pictures of the artworks, of course.

Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Prague.

Wikipedia: ‘It shows seven bronze figures descending a flight of stairs. The statues appear more “decayed” the further away they are from you – losing limbs and their bodies breaking open. It symbolises how political prisoners were affected by Communism.

‘There is also a bronze strip that runs along the centre of the memorial, showing estimated numbers of those impacted by communism:

205,486 arrested
170,938 forced into exile
4,500 died in prison
327 shot trying to escape
248 executed’