Art for Arts Sake (Part two)
December 5, 2014
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How about some seascapes?
Summer Squall, 1904. A seascape by Winslow Homer.
We’ve had this before, but you can’t have a seascape theme without it.
Turner, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839
Turner, Snow Storm. Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, 1842
Rembrandt, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633
J. M. W. Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840
Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854
This is spectacular.
Ivan Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave, 1850
Caspar David Friedrich, The Stages of Life, 1835
I like the skulls, of course.
But the sea is awesome. It may as well be another planet.
But with all those waves, how could he sit still enough to paint them?
They took a photo first of course reb 😉
Although the Fact that Rembrandt got heyzeus into his still photo before painting over it Proves his existanz
These are enjoyable threads . Good work by reb and Tony.
I looking for a seaside theme – Pipeline or Waimea Bay, I’ll look for a suitably Endless Summer style one later.
I thought you’d be out pipin it already yomm?
The surf is quite big at Pipeline. Dangerous too, it’s for young people, mature types are a little slow to their feet and finish up being pounded.
Stick with Sellicks yomm 🙂
It’s built for age 🙂
“”They took a photo first of course reb “”
That makes a lot of sense.
Say, does anyone know when Instagram are meant to be releasing their instamatic camera… I see that Polaroid have come out with one, but i haven’t heard when the Instagram one is due out..
Winslow Homer, Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1873–76
Winslow Homer, Sunlight on the Coast, 1890
Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899
Homer, The Fog Warning, 1885
Everyone knows who this artist is, by now.
Seascape at Saintes-Maries (Fishing Boats at Sea), 1888
Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries, June 1888
The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888
Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries, watercolor, 1888
The original Impressionist painting.
Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872
Édouard Manet, Boating, (1874)
Claude Monet, The Cliff at Étretat after the Storm, 1885
Armand Guillaumin, Sunset at Ivry (Soleil couchant à Ivry), 1873
Claude Monet, Jardin à Sainte-Adresse, 1867
Homer, The Herring Net, 1885
Homer, The Life Line, 1884
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_colors#In_art
Pablo Picasso, 1919, Sleeping Peasants, gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
1916, L’anis del mono (Bottle of Anis del Mono)
Pablo Picasso, 1905, Garçon à la pipe, (Boy with a Pipe), Rose Period
“Turner often used a colour scheme in which blue and yellow
were paired. His preference for complementary colour schemes
of orange-yellows contrasting with blue-purples was regarded by
his peers at the Royal Academy as breaking ‘the rules’. Some of
them rudely called him ‘the Yellow Dwarf’ for his predominant use
of yellow.
“Turner was a keen student of the colour theories being
discussed at the time between scientists and artists, including
those of the German poet, Goethe. Many of these theories
explored how colour affects us emotionally.”
Click to access Turner-Education_Resource-Reloaded-Online.pdf
‘The 3 tricks of complementary colours you can learn from Van Gogh’
http://willkempartschool.com/complementary-colours/
Joachim Beuckelaer, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 1565
Camille Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre, 1897
Mary Cassatt, Lydia Leaning on Her Arms (in a theatre box), 1879
Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère), 1882
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877
Edgar Degas, Dancers at The Bar, 1888
Claude Monet, Haystacks, (sunset), 1890–1891
Edgar Degas, Woman in the Bath, 1886
Brett Whiteley, Lavender Bay at Dusk, 1984
Brett Whiteley, The Olgas for Ernest Giles (Also Known as to Ernest Giles), 1985
Whiteley, My Armchair, 1976
Whiteley, Arkie Under the Shower, 1986-87
Édouard Manet, The Plum,1878
Pablo Picasso, 1901-02, Femme au café (Absinthe Drinker)
Manet, The Absinthe Drinker, 1859
Picasso. English: The Absinthe Drinker, French: Portrait bleu de Angel Fernández de Soto
We’ve has this before, but it’s worth another go just for that expression.
Degas, L’Absinthe, 1876
Viktor Oliva, The Absinthe Drinker, 1901. The original painting can be found in the Café Slavia in Prague.
Albert Maignan’s “Green Muse” (1895): a poet succumbs to the Green Fairy.
La fin de la Fée Verte (The End of the Green Fairy): Swiss poster criticising the country’s prohibition of absinthe in 1910
Preparing absinthe using the traditional method, which does not involve burning.
Absinthe spoons are designed to perch a sugar cube atop the glass, over which ice-cold water is dripped to dilute the absinthe. The lip near the centre of the handle lets the spoon rest securely on the rim of the glass.
Slowly dripping ice water from an absinthe fountain
‘Absinthe’s popularity grew steadily through the 1840s, when absinthe was given to French troops as a malaria preventive. When the troops returned home, they brought their taste for absinthe home with them. The custom of drinking absinthe gradually became so popular in bars, bistros, cafés, and cabarets that, by the 1860s, the hour of 5 p.m. was called l’heure verte (“the green hour”). Absinthe was favoured by all social classes, from the wealthy bourgeoisie, to poor artists and ordinary working-class people. By the 1880s, mass production had caused the price of absinthe to drop sharply. By 1910, the French were drinking 36 million litres of absinthe per year, as compared to their annual consumption of almost 5 billion litres of wine.’ – Wiki
Just add water.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/21/1066631424572.html
Rembrandt, Portrait of Jan Six, 1654
Paul Gauguin, The Painter of Sunflowers, Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Rembrandt group portrait, The Syndics of the Clothmaker’s Guild/i>, 1662
Henri Matisse, The Green Stripe, Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1905
Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, c.1770
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1906, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. When someone commented that Stein did not look like her portrait, Picasso replied, “She will”.
Francisco de Goya, Charles IV of Spain and His Family, 1800–1801
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, portrait of Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806, Musée de l’Armée, Paris
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon in His Study, 1812
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist’s Mother, 1871, popularly known as Whistler’s Mother.
John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887
Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Doctor Gachet, (first version), 1890
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907
Boris Grigoriev, Portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold, 1916
Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Léopold Zborowski, 1918
Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and André Salmon, 1916
Modigliani, The little peasant, 1918, Tate Modern, London
Modigliani, Reclining Nude, 1917, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
John Singer Sargent, Gondoliers’ Siesta, c.1904, watercolor
Sargent, Rosina, 1878, depicting Rosina Ferrara
“John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
“His parents were American, but he was trained in Paris prior to moving to London. Sargent enjoyed international acclaim as a portrait painter, although not without controversy and some critical reservation; an early submission to the Paris Salon, his “Portrait of Madame X”, was intended to consolidate his position as a society painter, but it resulted in scandal instead.”
Sargent, Street in Venice, c.1882, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885–86, the Tate, London
Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907
Sargent, Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Sargent, An Artist in His Studio, 1904
Sargent, Morning Walk, 1888
Monet, Woman with a Parasol, facing left, 1886
Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Monet, Woman with a Parasol, facing right, 1886
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Monet-woman-with-a-
Duelling parasols.
I think Sargent borrowed this from Monet, too, for his parasol picture. NTTAWWT.
So much art!
John Singer Sargent, Spanish Dancer, 1881
El Jaleo, 1882
David Chen, Skylight (Light From Above)
Van Gogh, The Dance hall In Arles, 1888
Henri Matisse, Dance (i), 1909
Dance, 1910
Degas, Dancers, 1899, pastel on paper
Let’s have this again, Because I’m fascinated by the picture, but also by the whole story of the Sun King.
(What I meant to say is: the painting’s fascinating, so, also, is the story of the Sun King.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France
Reasonable painter …
XV
Sargent, An Out-Of-Doors Study, 1889
Sargent did outstanding work.
Paul Cezanne, Basket of Apples, 1895
Escher
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Young Scholar, 1597
Hippopotamus Hunt, 1616. “Rubens is known for the frenetic energy and lusty ebullience of his paintings.”
Super Real Orientalism
A Street Scene, Cairo
Leopold Carl Muller, 1880
Rubens, Tiger Hunt, 1617-1618
(Notice in the Hippopotamus Hunt, Rubens features the triadic colour sheme,:Red-Yellow-Blue.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYB_color_model#Color_wheel
I can see the same triad in Muller’s Street Scene, plus our old favourite orange-and-blue.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, En été / La bohémienne (In Summer / The Gypsy Girl), 1868
Auguste Renoir – Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876
There are two versions of this painting (as well as a largely monochrome study in Copenhagen). The larger and better known version is the one in the Musée d’Orsay. This is the smaller version, held in the Whitney Collection until 1990 when it was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, for the then record price of US$78 million. The painting is now believed to be in a Swiss private collection. Other than in size, the paintings are almost identical, one evidently being an exact copy of the other, although the Whitney version is executed more freely. It is not known which was first exhibited, nor even which first painted.
Selfie by painter of The Scream.
Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait. 1882
Munch, Self Portrait with Skeleton Arm, 1895
Munch, Self-Portrait in Hell. 1903
Edvard Munch at the Beach in Warnemünde. 1907
Robyn Collier, contemporary Australian seascape artist.
Clearly, he had “issues”.
Self-Portrait “à la Marat”. 1908–09
‘Clearly, he had “issues”.
*chuckle*
Munch, On the Sofa. 1913
Munch, Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche, 1906
Munch.
Death in the Sickroom. 1893
Death in the Sickroom, 1895
Percy Trezise
Don’t know who did this Hillside Gum.
Munch was clearly inspired by the Impressionists – even Seurat’s Pointillism – flourishing in Paris at the time.
The Seine at Saint-Cloud. 1890
No, I do not.
I found it in one of those ‘Twenty Best Australian Landscapes’, lovely technique.
Pointilism is fun to do, but never understood the finer technical points.
Seurat, The Lighthouse
Jealousy. 1907. Munch Museum, Oslo
Death of Marat I, 1907
The Sick Child, 1907
I think we need a new thread, only because it’s slow to load.
And only if the authorities want one.
Can I just add this …
John Singer SARGENT, Lord Ribblesdale
Sargent, Sir Frank Swettenham, 1904
Singer Sargent 1919
I think we need some Christmas art.
Edgar Degas, Self portrait in a Soft Hat, 1858
Degas, Self Portrait Saluting, 1866
Gauguin
Head of a Young Woman, 1857
Balthus, The cardgame, 1950
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini
http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/876/493/Mona%20Lisa%20Close%20up.JPG?ve=1&tl=1
Rupert Bunny, ‘Who Comes’ 1908
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1895
Henri died from absinthe poisoning.
‘The nickname given to absinthe, La Fee verte (The Green Lady), comes from the “love affair” many drinkers had with absinthe, granting the drink the status of a muse.’
George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762, National Gallery, London.
India’s banksy?
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30447979
Post Modern Landscape Opportunities
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/bill-dunford/new-views-of-ancient-martian.html
Gauguin by Vincent, green and red.
*chuckle*
William Dobell
Just been attempting Turner-esque sky.
Not bad for a first attempt. I’m doing Martian landscapes with a limited palette and might consider putting them up for your edification. What’s the drum?
Open yourself a Flickr account, upload some photos, then I’ll show you how to share them.
(Might put a painted ship upon the painted ocean.)
OK, I’ll talk to management about Flickr.
———
Fishermen in a small rowing boat, as an incidental aspect close to the bottom of the canvas.
I’m on Flickr and await further instructions.
Click on the photo you want to post. When it opens in a new window there’ll be four icons towards the bottom right. Click on the curved rightward arrow (the third one, usually). A dialogue box will open up. Copy the link and paste it here.
Thanks, I have a little work on so will get to it after lunch
(If you’re taking pictures with an iPhone, it’s easiest to upload to Flickr straight from the phone.)
mars.jpg
With Apple I have a different environment. I have uploaded two pics from Flikr, but need …. more help.
If you’ve got your pics on to your Flickr photostream, then just follow my earlier instructions.
I finish work in a couple of hours and will try again then.
Struggled with it, but no show. Your instructions did nothing for my apple system and I don’t know why.
Give me your Flickr address and I’ll do it for you.
I used the name Ted Jansz (he has been dead for 25 years) is that enough?
Nope.
“Oops! There are no matches for “Ted Jansz”.
Please try refining your search.”
Just open your page and copy and paste the address here. I’ll do the rest.
For example, this is mine …
Test
If I thought it were appropriate, I’d post some Vincent Locke, but it ain’t, so I won’t…
#appleshit
#monopolisticallyunwieldybydesign
“If I thought it were appropriate, I’d post some Vincent Locke, but it ain’t, so I won’t…”
Go right ahead. Who’s to say what’s “appropriate”.
I was about to put it up when I realised management’s name was on it and its been given the thumbs down.
bugger
” Who’s to say what’s “appropriate”.”
Self?
I’m an artist/illustrator who has faded with age/time constraints…I used to be creative.
Even so, I’d be reluctant to put my illustrations ‘out there’ because people have a way of seeing things through their own filter of outrage.
Check out a few contemporary gore-slam covers & be offended.
I see it as trying to provoke outrage by articulating the (harmless) mindseye…
You could open an anonymous account, you know.
Sorry, egg…I hate apple, not you. We aren’t enemies…although I can see how I may have projected as much.
Haha…like ‘public toilet’?…
“I’m an artist/illustrator who has faded with age/time constraints…I used to be creative.”
Interesting. If you ever feel the urge again, I’d love to have a look.
I don’t ‘hate’ apple either…I just intensely dislike it.
I’d heard that every iphone is forged in the bone dust of ten thousand (more worthy than human life) Jack Russells…
Yeah, I can see how that was ambiguous. Both you and egg could open anonymous Flickr accounts (meaning no connection to your real personal info). It might be interesting to view the deviant art eminating from the water closet.
“Interesting. If you ever feel the urge again, I’d love to have a look.”
I’m quite serious, I think I alluded to this half a decade ago (or so) on these forums, but thought better of it (luckily)…
I have drawn things (loose) people have had tattooed on them…but most of what I’ve drawn is/was designed with provocation in mind. I’ve been a subversive for a loooong time…you can’t imagine.
Hah…water closet…
I knew you were like Carson!
*emanating
Johnny Carson?
(Water Closet (WC) is what they call it in France, I didn’t know why till I visited the Palace of Versailles. Louis the whatever used to shit in a can, taken away by his lackies, no matter how luxurious his bathroom. The english invented the plumbed toilet, known as a water closet. Louis couldn’t wait to get one installed. The term must have spread from there.)
Mr Moseley! You cannot put the poo with the pudding wine!
The Strain…?
Having sent sole progeny there, at considerable worthy cost, in the next couple of months, I’m highly unlikely to ever enjoy the privilege myself,…still not wasted
It may eventually turn out that I have to take the stick down town to a chat room and pay a couple of bucks.
Tony the Marxists have put up a thread called ‘Art for arts sake’ and they have narrowed it to Chinese art, just sayin’.
“That is the great thing. I mean, you know, the new technology is not just about multi-million mega-buck, um, movies. It’s about the fact that there is this, um, high-quality. cheap equipment that people can get their hands on and get straight out there, Young film-makers don’t have to worry about laboratory costs, about getting hold of film stock, hiring expensive cameras. Get hold of techmology, get out there and make a movie. And it’s great, basically.”
~ Mike Leigh.
Indeed, its an extraordinary situation, but the film maker is still largely dependent on others being part of his venture in one capacity or another. Whereas a writer or artist is allowed to be an isolate, my preferred option.
**cuckle**
Wang Niandong
Black candles dance to an ovreture…but I am drawn past their flickering lure…
Queen of Winter, Throned…
Religious art has its place. Borja (Spain) is reporting a tourist boom as people flock to see the restoration!!
Lijun
Bald Men
Fu Baoshi
See the difference in styles, this was done during the Maoist era.
oops..
Fu Baoshi
Looks like I’ll be up tomorrow, met a man who knows Mac, but we could do with some fresh fred.
#I’llridewithalbatraoz’
Down at the barricades with the Marxists I have been accepted, through the use of few words. Brevity brevity, all is brevity.
Howard Arkley
mg.aasd.com.au/32133292.jpg
Try that again
http://www.graemetresidder.com/uploads/3/1/3/7/3137231/2210609.jpg?501
You’re up, egg! Interesting work.
There’s a way to post your pictures in a higher res/larger size.
(Except it didn’t work.)
Yeah I’m still working on that.
Better upload some more pics, egg. Your Flickr photostream looks a bit bare with just the one example.
(Now we’ve gotta get toiletboss to reveal his satanic etchings.)
Hey, reb, can we please have a new Arts thread. This one is taking a very looong time to load. Thanks.
https://theguttertrash.com/2014/12/20/art-for-arts-sake-part-iii/