Art Appreciation

mygnsac
mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
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Any art lovers out there in in MFP-land? What is your favorite piece of artwork? Here's one of my favorite autumn themed paintings...

A Wooded Path In Autumn (by Hans Anderson Brendekilde, 1902)

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  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
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  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
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    Always been a kandinsky fan.

    Van Gogh's starry night, damn near everything Monet has done, Leonid Afremov.

    Always loved impressionist and surrealist painters.
  • DenDweller
    DenDweller Posts: 1,438 Member
    I always liked Art. Nice guy.
  • Miss_1999
    Miss_1999 Posts: 747 Member
    I absolutely LOVE art! I have a very eclectic board on my Pinterest full of art!

    Here's one I LOVE! Madame X (also known as Madame Pierre Gautreau) - John Singer Sargent

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  • N2Couture
    N2Couture Posts: 2,762 Member
    I would love to get this one but not a shody version. I have yet to purchase a nice replica.
    The Kiss: Gustav Klimt

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  • N2Couture
    N2Couture Posts: 2,762 Member
    Another I've always been fond of:
    Claude Monet

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  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
    Another I've always been fond of:
    Claude Monet

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    <3 everything monet has ever done. ever.
  • N2Couture
    N2Couture Posts: 2,762 Member
    @Kisuke: What intrigued me was that he was visually impaired.
  • Zerodette
    Zerodette Posts: 200 Member
    Favorite landscape: Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederic Church.

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  • mrfreestyle
    mrfreestyle Posts: 1,293 Member
    Anything by me.
  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
    @Kisuke: What intrigued me was that he was visually impaired.
    '

    I know! So talented. His nature scenes are amazing.
  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
    @zerodette, that's an amazing piece as well.
  • Lesleycali
    Lesleycali Posts: 236 Member
    Amy Bennet:

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  • N2Couture
    N2Couture Posts: 2,762 Member
    Renoir .. another one whom has piqued my interest through the years.

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  • kershaann
    kershaann Posts: 1,824 Member
    any of Michael Godard paintings they are hilarious. My favorite is the nervous grapes, there is two of them I like the skinny cop better than the fat cop.
  • Lesleycali
    Lesleycali Posts: 236 Member
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    Always been a kandinsky fan.

    Van Gogh's starry night, damn near everything Monet has done, Leonid Afremov.

    Always loved impressionist and surrealist painters.

    ahhh I haven't thought about Kandinsky in a while... thanks for the reminder- beautiful
  • N2Couture
    N2Couture Posts: 2,762 Member
    Anyone from the 80s might recognise the art by: Patrick Nagel

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  • Kisuke30
    Kisuke30 Posts: 668 Member
    ahhh I haven't thought about Kandinsky in a while... thanks for the reminder- beautiful

    Welcome! He's awesome. I like the amy bennet piece you posted too!
  • chaos416
    chaos416 Posts: 89 Member
    any of Michael Godard paintings they are hilarious. My favorite is the nervous grapes, there is two of them I like the skinny cop better than the fat cop.

    Ya made me look :tongue:

    Pretty cute :smile:
  • Lesleycali
    Lesleycali Posts: 236 Member
    first art love, Rene Magritte

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  • trinatrina1984
    trinatrina1984 Posts: 1,018 Member
    Amy Bennet:

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    Is this a painting? I'm not sure why but it kind of looks like a still from a stop motion animation.
  • Lesleycali
    Lesleycali Posts: 236 Member
    Amy Bennet:

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    Is this a painting? I'm not sure why but it kind of looks like a still from a stop motion animation.

    Yes! Isn't it cool! She makes tiny models of her subjects (usually architectural/ landscape) and then paints from the models. It gives her work that unusual quality of "is it real...?"

    http://www.amybennett.com/home.html
  • midvalesfinest
    midvalesfinest Posts: 83
    Holy ****! Just when i think mfp has no soul or mind someone goes and starts a REMARKABLE DB thread like this one.

    Thank you!
  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
    Amy Bennet:

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    Is this a painting? I'm not sure why but it kind of looks like a still from a stop motion animation.

    Yes! Isn't it cool! She makes tiny models of her subjects (usually architectural/ landscape) and then paints from the models. It gives her work that unusual quality of "is it real...?"

    http://www.amybennett.com/home.html

    Thanks for the link. I had never seen her work before. Pretty cool!
  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
    I can get lost inside a painting. It started when I was a small child (back in the dark ages!). My parents had been given a landscape painting as a wedding present and I would just stare at that thing, breaking down the light, shadows, color, etc. After 50 years, it still hangs in my Dad's bedroom and I still get lost in it. I even tried painting myself, but quickly realized my talent lies in appreciating art and not so much creating it.

    "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo Picasso

    Thanks everyone for sharing your favorites! :flowerforyou:
  • scrapalooza
    scrapalooza Posts: 335 Member
    I have always liked Escher
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  • trinatrina1984
    trinatrina1984 Posts: 1,018 Member
    Amy Bennet:

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    Is this a painting? I'm not sure why but it kind of looks like a still from a stop motion animation.

    Yes! Isn't it cool! She makes tiny models of her subjects (usually architectural/ landscape) and then paints from the models. It gives her work that unusual quality of "is it real...?"

    http://www.amybennett.com/home.html

    Cool thanks will check that out :)
  • midvalesfinest
    midvalesfinest Posts: 83
    hmmmworking on posting images...
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    While I can certainly appreciate those who are "hyper-realists" that seem to be emerging recently, along with people who do digital art. i have always loved seeing the brush strokes. Sometimes the strokes - thickness, width, length - conveyed as much as the image.
  • Zerodette
    Zerodette Posts: 200 Member
    Bump one time for the Hudson River School. "Hunter Mountain, Twilight" by Sanford Robinson Gifford. I've gotten lost in this painting every time I see it.

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