Favorite paintings:

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by takethewarhome, Nov 20, 2008.

  1. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    Well, let me ask you this: Of what type of art, or more specifically painting, do you find most appealing?
     
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  3. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Actually mainly realism, but I don't mind too much if the setting is followed fully. I don't know if that's a specific style or not though.
    So basically just highly detailed and realistic paintings, preferably of natural sceneries.
    William Trost Richards, for example.

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    And my question earlier (post 75) was about this sort of stuff:

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    It looks like something Tnerb would paint.
     
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  5. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    You don't care for van Gogh or any impressionism at all?

    I think I understand why you would prefer and admire most realstic works. I love them for their detail and accuracy, not to mention the immense talent that it takes to make a painting look as real as a photograph, as certainly that must be a pinnacle of the art.

    However, I enjoy things like the above simply for their dreaminess (if you will) and the perspective of things... almost in motion, its like.

    And I get enough reality everyday in life and in art and photography|film and in being a somewhat of a realist.
    Bring on the dreamscapes....
     
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  7. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    It comes across as inability to paint it realistically.
     
  8. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    Perhaps. I'm not arguing that. In all likelihood that was "the best" van Gogh could have done....

    But van Gogh understood color in a way that I think a realistic painter wouldn't.

    And who's to say what imperfection or perfection is or isn't? It's ultimately for the viewer to decide, I suppose.

    I take it you've never read any of the letters he wrote to his brother Theo?
     
  9. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Well, I never brought up perfection though.
    Also, I'm not interested in the human behind the art. I just appreciate the pretty pictures and the craftsmanship

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  10. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    But you don't appreciate the crafter of such work? That person holds no interest for you at all?
     
  11. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    No, why should I be interested in the crafter ?
    When I go watch a movie I don't become interested in the director either.
     
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  13. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    Both of those are cool, although I have to say I like the latter more.

    The reflection in the first is amazing.
     
  14. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    It's too clean for me. Too flat.
     
  15. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    It is a bit flat.
     
  16. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    You haven't answered my question of why you thought that I was a person to which art wouldn't have much appeal yet.
    Could you please ? I'm interested in your answer.
     
  17. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    You just didn't|don't strike me as somone whom art holds much of an interest for, I suppose.
     
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    The weirdest art I've ever seen is by Yves Tanguy...from whom Dali once said he had stolen most of his style:

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  19. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    But why ?
     
  20. takethewarhome midnatt klarhet Registered Senior Member

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    I can't quite place my finger on it, it was just something I thought.

    Why the interest?
     
  21. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Well you said something about me that surprised me, of course I would be interested in why you thought that

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    Wouldn't you be ?
     
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    I actually have a rather old painting, it's 200 years old and is a genuine De La Wantini! The bad news is De La Wantini was a plumber.
     

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