Art for Art’s Sake (Part IV)
January 21, 2015
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From: The Daily Trash <comment-reply@wordpress.com> Reply-To: The Daily Trash <comment+pyb34vuxkwlaf1fq28-4q9o@comment.wordpress.com> Date: Wednesday, 21 January 2015 5:27 PM To: “smash@media-rare.net” <smash@media-rare.net> Subject: [New post] Art for Art’s Sake (Part IV)
reb of Melbourne posted: “”
Hello Brian,
Sorry for the confusion. We have a couple of art aficionados who enjoy posting and discussing various artists etc…
I usually just create a new post (without any text) when the threads get too file-heavy (due to the size of the image files).
But rest assured most of our other posts contain the same insightful and crucial news and information most Australians find essential to function in today’s modern society.
This one’s a bit less, shall we say, cluttered. Thanx reb.
Brian makes a lot of sense.
Clever Reb, very very clever. What’s the title? The middle aged frump sans earring?
Piet Mondrian 1900 Going Fishing
David Martin, Benjamin Franklin, 1767
Ilya Repin, Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, 1887
Thomas Eakins, Margaret in Skating Costume, 1871
Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington, 1796
David Martin, Selfie, 1760
John Singer Sargent, Spanish Dancer, c. 1879–82
Fernand Cormon
Pierre-Aguste Renoir
Frederic Bazille painting at his easel 1867
What painting or artist do you reckon inspired this picture by Christopher Lamb, exhibited at last year’s Camberwell art show?
http://art247.com.au/img.php?img=profile/40024/bdbaf2f68a8da195d179b2504b266cbc.JPG&w=1500&h=1500
Well, if it wasn’t Turner’s The Fighting Temeraira, I’ll go he.
*Temeraire
I wondered why you were posting the same piccie again tosy.
Pays to read and get some context 🙂
The more I look at these portraits of Robet Louis Stevenson by Sargent, the more I appreciate both men. How did Sargent capture the lankiness of RLS, and why was RLS so … I dunno, cool?
I’m thinking of acquiring some of this fine work…
by Ivan (the Gorilla)
Good idea. If you can’t corner the market in card-playing dogs, then gorilla paintings would be the next best investment. What could possibly go wrong?
W.B. McInnes, Portrait of Miss Collins. Won 1924 Archibald Prize
Clever Reb, very very clever. What’s the title? The middle aged frump sans earring?
G’day, ee … JB’s obviously broken put her neck out … looking for knife throwers would be my guess …
I’m thinking of acquiring some of this fine work…
Send me an email, ToM … I’ll knock a couple up for you tomorrow … 😉
“I’ll knock a couple up for you tomorrow”
Fifi and Lulu?
Whoo! You are awful, sreb … but I do like you …
Salvador Dalí, Galatea of the Spheres, 1952
1965 Ford Mustang Coupe
Son’s got a white, 66, Pony, ToSY … luckily he’s a mm by trade 🙂 … calls on his old man occasionally, for diagnosis discussions 😉 … lovely shot …
BTW, I really like that Dali … very clever …
Jim Morrison was arrested in Tallahassee in 1963 after pulling a prank while drunk at a football game. (Who hasn’t? – ed)
Stalin, 1911.
Russian police photograph of Vladimir Lenin, December 1895.
Those two photos may demonstrate a little bigotry, ToSY …
People in glass houses should have thicker skins …
And before you go inventing interpretations of what I mean …
Stalin should have been popped in 1919 … that’s hardcore bigotry I know …
Lenin, had a dream … pity about everyone else who had to actually live it …
But then … there this …
The phrase ‘clutching at straws’ comes to mind.
Hang on son they won’t last long …
Apologies.. that sounds ageist … and patronising … ah well …
Just did my first workshop with David Chen. Boy, do I have a lot to learn. Luckily, he seems a good teacher.
I think I’ve improved on last night;s picture:
Reb thinks I’m stoned. I’m not sure.
😯
“”I think I’ve improved on last night;s picture””
Debatable. It was beginning to look a bit like Nick Cave, but then you went and fucked it all up.
Is it a self portrait?
You’re right, I fucked it up. (It’s not a selfie.)
Note to self, try not to paint drunk.
Drunk is better than stoned …
My old man painted (charcoal, pencil, ink, pastel, oils and the one thing he constantly wanted to improve was his water colours ) …
I once got an agitated phone call from him and he was in a panic and could I come over right away …
… he was painting the crucifixion of JC ascending through clouds (perspective looking down on the top of the cross – as if you were a bird flying over it and the cross was heading to one side of you) …
He was alone … he’d been painting all day and he was as pissed as a parrot!
He reckoned he could see the cross moving and a voice was talking to him FFS!
(He believed in dog but he wasn’t a dogbotherer by any stretch of the imagination) …
Sorry, ToSY, you just triggered the memory!
Nice story, TB. 😉
“Nice story, TB”
Agreed… 🙂
Tonight’s edition of the Nick Cave series.
Paolo Veronese, The Wedding at Cana, 1562
John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885–86
Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907
I’ve grown out of the “dogs playing cards” artistic genre…
It’s a shame, but everyone moves on at some stage.
Pallette.
Of course I meant to say palette.