Art for Art’s Sake (Part V)
March 11, 2015
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That kid should go back to wherever he came from.
Perfect comment ToM, just perfect… 🙂
I wonder if that kid’s “earning, learning, or leaning?” It’s difficult to determine. At any rate, any sort of govt funding should be ceased immediately or at least means tested or sumthin’
The UN Right and Triggs vindicated.. The LNP confirmed torturturing children in Detension
Henri Matisse, Dishes and Fruit, 1901 (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)
“Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.”
Crockery on a Table, 1900, (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Henri Matisse, Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908
Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
“Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix’s use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement.”
Delacroix, Horse Frightened by a Storm, 1824
Delacroix, Woman with a Parrot, 1827
Delacroix, Bedroom and Couch of Count Mornay, 1831–1832
Delacroix, Frédéric Chopin, 1838 (The Louvre)
Aren’t these all on another art thread …
Just askin’ … 😉
“Eugène Delacroix was a curious mixture of skepticism, politeness, dandyism, willpower, cleverness, despotism, and finally, a kind of special goodness and tenderness that always accompanies genius” ~ Charles Baudelaire
Delacroix,
SelfieSelf-portrait, 1837“Aren’t these all on another art thread …”
Some might be, I haven’t checked. Would you play a record only once?
LOL! @ ToSY … record???
I admit I still have a few platters, cassettes, CD’s … but these days ’tis all MPthreed …
In fact there’s so much friggin’ music available (for free) that I rarely play the same album more than once …
SHOUTcast radio gives me a constant flow of artists and music in a variety of genres … that I choose … bloody marvellous, old boy …
Carry on …
but these days ’tis all MPthreed
I tried that, but the ipod fucked up the needle on me Luxman!
John Singer Sargent. Detail: An Out-of-Doors Study (The artist’s hands):
His and her hats, plus canoe.
Boat, oar and grass.
The ‘whole picture’:
Detail, Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907
The artist’s face, her bonnet, the fountain, and foliage.
Her hand, his face.
The balustrade.
The big picture.
Detail, Sargent, An Artist In His Studio, 1904
The artist’s head, hand, and palette.
His coat.
Picture and smock on bed.
Coat, chair, and shoe.
Complete composition.
Detail, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882
Girl, Doll, and rug.
“Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an art form.”
Portrait de l’artiste (Self-portrait), c. 1892
Caillebotte, Les Raboteurs de Parquet, 1875
Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877
Caillebotte, Dans Un Café, 1880
Caillebotte, Les Périssoires, 1878
David Chen, Wet Day, Swanston Street
David Chen
David Chen
David Chen, Rush Hour
http://art247.com.au/img.php?img=profile/43046/356451feca3055fbc2f7287580c07842.jpg&w=1500&h=1500
Say again …
http://art247.com.au/img.php?img=profile/43046/356451feca3055fbc2f7287580c07842.jpg&w=1500&h=1500
Third time lucky?
David Chen was born in China and holds both Bachelor and masters degrees in fine arts.He also holds a graduate diploma in arts education.
David taught fine art in university for several years in China. In 1988 he was appointed an editor at the Peoples Fine Art Publishing House in Beijing where he edited several art magazines. In 1989 the French Embassy in Beijing invited him to hold a solo exhibition, however the exhibition was cancelled and his work was banned as he endured the difficult political climate in China after the events of june 4th, 1989.
He later re-emerged as a respected artist and went on to win national and international acclaim.He was selected to participate in the ’100 Famous Chinese Artists’ a worldwide traveling exhibition in 1991. In 1992 he won the Silver Hawk Award at the Fourth International Art Contest, Nice, France.
David arrived in Melbourne in 1993. He was invited to be part of the Hydra art group that was founded by the Australian Government and the Art Council.
Since coming to Melbourne David has worked as a fulltime artist. As well as conducting various painting workshops he has held numerous solo exhibitions. In 1994 his work was exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2000 one of his beach paintings was selected to be hung at the United Nations Conference.Davids work is represented in private, corporate and municipal collections both in Australia and overseas..
“Thomas William “Tom” Roberts (9 March 1856 – 14 September 1931) was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.”
Tom Roberts, The Golden Fleece, 1894
Tom Roberts, Shearing The Rams, 1890
Detail, Shearing The Rams
Further detail.
(Click on all of these for larger images.)
Additional detail.
More Detail.
It’s a masterpiece.
Click to enlarge, then press F11 key for full screen effect. (It’s the best way to appreciate the artist’s technique, IMO.)
Before TB complains, we’ve had this before. But, so what?. It’s so good it deserves an encore
Vincent, Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888.
“[Tom Roberts] based the pose of the young wool boy who enters the scene on the far left of the painting
on that of the figure of Esau on the doors designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti for the Florence Baptistery (1425–52).”
“This and other references to art historical sources in Shearing The Rams suggests Roberts’s desire to elevate his subject beyond the everyday to create an image with wider meaning and significance.”
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/insights_national.html
Oops. This is the image of Esau that Roberts based his ‘wool boy’ on.
Claude Monet, Grand Canal, Venice, 1908
Monet, The Magpie, 1868–1869
“One of Monet’s early attempts at capturing the effect of snow on the landscape.”
Madame Monet in a Japanese Kimono, 1875
“Water Lilies (or Nymphéas, pronounced: [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict Monet’s flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet’s artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Lilies
Claude Monet, The Water Lilies – The Clouds, 1920–1926, Musée de l’Orangerie
“A cycle of Monet’s water-lily paintings, known as the Nymphéas, was arranged on the ground floor of the Orangerie in 1927. They are available under direct diffused light as was originally intended by Monet. The eight paintings are displayed in two oval rooms all along the walls.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27Orangerie#Monet.27s_Water_Lilies
The artist who painted this
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds, c.1825
also painted this
Seascape Study with Rain Cloud, c.1824
‘John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as “Constable Country”—which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”.
‘His most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park of 1816, Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821. 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.’
“Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele’s paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.”
Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait with Physalis, 1912
“Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.”
Gustav Klimt, The Blind Man, 1896
“Klimt’s ‘Golden Phase’ was marked by positive critical reaction and financial success. Many of his paintings from this period include gold leaf. Klimt had previously used gold in his Pallas Athene (1898) and Judith I (1901), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss (1907–08).
“Klimt travelled little, but trips to Venice and Ravenna, both famous for their beautiful mosaics, most likely inspired his gold technique and his Byzantine imagery.”
The Kiss, 1907–08
Detail, The Kiss
Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, sold for a record $135 million in 2006
Hope II, 1907–08
Detail, Hope II
“Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England, after enjoying great success in Italy and Flanders. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draughtsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching.”
Self-Portrait With a Sunflower, c. 1633
Van Dyck, Christ Carrying The Cross, c. 1618
“Samson and Delilah, c.1630, a strenuous history painting in the manner of Rubens; the use of saturated colours reveals van Dyck’s study of Titian.”
Some further references for you if interested tosy
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F
Thanks Tom, very interesting. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem possible to copy the pictures from those books.
it doesn’t seem possible to copy the pictures from those books.
You can download pdf’s from a lot of them, otherwise, stuck with reading them online, which is limited
http://www.wikihow.com/Copy-and-Paste-PDF-Content-Into-a-New-File
I just downloaded “Along the Ancient Silk Routes” and the pdf quality is not too bad (for Philistines anyway 😉 )
225 pages, 40mB
Edward Hopper, New York Movie, 1939
“Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.”
Self Portrait, 1906
Rembrandt, Selfie, c.1628, aged 22.
1634
1660
Rembrandt did a
shitloadlot of self portraits.In that last one, he was alluding to the fact that he, too, could paint perfect circles, freehand.
I’m getting bored with paintings of dogs playing cards. It’s time for a new genre-
Rembrandt, Zelfportret, 1658
“Rembrandt’s greatest creative triumphs are exemplified especially in his portraits of his contemporaries, self-portraits and illustrations of scenes from the Bible. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.”
#selfies
1630
“Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres in painting.
“Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt’s later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters.”
John Singer Sargent, Street in Venice, 1882
Sargent, Rosina, 1878
Sargent, El Jaleo (Spanish Dancer), 1879 – 1882
JSS, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, 1893