A Little Bit of Culture :)

[Yorksman]

Totally bonkers,

I wouldn't object to that description of Dali

 

[ewelina]

I really like Hockney and I've just brought two albums of his art from the library. Nice studying for next few evenings. I thought I would share with you my latest painting. I cant compete with those great artists but maybe one day

 

[WeeWillie]

I guess I don't have the intelligence or patience to stand back, study a painting for some time and eventually say with confidence.... "Ah yes, I understand what the artist is saying.

Hockney is one of the few who does take time to explain. Yesterday I went to his galleries at Salt's Mill in Saltaire. He has many styles and I have heard him explain only two types, the California pool scenes and the scenes from the yorkshire wolds. There were lots and lots of books for sale and a few of them had titles such as 'How to Look at Paintings'.

* Well, I'm not that into it so I bought a book on makings soups and another on recipe for diabetics.

** The road through Sledmere doesn't look like this at all but, for some reason I like this Hockney and all of those painted in this style.

The Road to York through Sledmere

Garrowby Hill:

*I like that Yorksman

**The Road through York through Sledmere has an extra something that makes
it very appealing to the eye.
The colours seem to compliment each other very well, there's also a sort of crispness
about the entire scene that draws you into it.
The only negative aspect to me is the pink gable end of the house, I wish he'd chosen
a different colour lol, but I truly love it and would not hesitate to have it hanging in my living
room wall if I could.

btw, I see what you mean regarding Hockney different styles and that's based on only the two
paintings you posted.
I must check out his other styles, but then, perhaps not, I might be putt off him for life. (joking)

 

[WeeWillie]

I'm also partial to a bit of Salvador Dali. Totally bonkers, but a genius.

Hah, I love your description chris lowe, but you're correct...totally bonkers. :lol:
but a genius. (at the same time.) :thumbup:

 

[WeeWillie]

I really like Hockney and I've just brought two albums of his art from the library. Nice studying for next few evenings. I thought I would share with you my latest painting. I cant compete with those great artists but maybe one day

Brilliant style ewelina, I've seen similar, though from memory the paintings I looked at
were perhaps from from the 1930's - 1940's, though perhaps I could be very wrong.

You are extremely fortunate to produce a piece of art like that and to me you're well
on your way to be as good as the rest. :thumbup:

The angle of her head, the very light shadow along with darker shadow, the light
shining on her arms .... brilliant.
I like the entire painting.

All the best and good luck for your future in painting. :thumbup:

weewillie.

 

[WeeWillie]

I really like Hockney and I've just brought two albums of his art from the library. Nice studying for next few evenings. I thought I would share with you my latest painting. I cant compete with those great artists but maybe one day

Brilliant style ewelina, I've seen similar, though from memory the paintings I looked at were
perhaps from the 1930's - 1940's. Though I could be very wrong.

You are extremely fortunate to produce a work of art like that.
To me you're well on your way to be as good as the rest. :thumbup:

The angle of her head, the shadows, the light shining on her arms .... brilliant.
I like the entire painting.

All the best and good luck for your future in painting. :thumbup:

weewillie.

 

[weeezer]

Wow, whodathunkit, art lessons on a diabetes forum! LOVE IT!

Love the bio's, love the little thumbnaily pics. Specifically love the snow scenes & the Hockney stuff. And the lady who painted the 30s looking kids...the Pennsylvania lady.

Got a real soft spot for modern art, the lady in green is one of my absolute faves, I have 'the sleeping girl kizette' on my landing, love tamara de lempicka.

Ewelina...YOU created that? You're amazing!

I'm a boring ol stay at home mum but have wangled this weekend off with hubby (1st one in yeeeaaaars!), we're off to see the Bowie exhibition @v&a and then Lichtenstein exhibition @tate modern, I'm so excited about it.

After my taste of culture I shall be back to see what new stuff y'all have put up! Keep it comin...


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[ewelina]

Thank you for nice words I should have said that my painting is a copy of John Godward's painting. I took a part of a bigger painting and copied it in black and white. It was good excercise for using tones. Godward was a Pre-Raphaelite and painted many amazing paintings in this style. He committed suicide and left a note saying that the world is not big enough for him and Picasso :? Poor man...

 

[Yorksman]

I thought I would share with you my latest painting.

I am envious. I can't do fine art, I've done a lot of graphic art but, when it comes to freehand stuff, I just can't manage it, no technical skill. I can copy an Escher, like Waterfall which is based on an impossible triangle, but couldn't even paint my house, let alone your John Godward.

 

[ewelina]

Oh God its so clever. Great drawing skills but also very clever ideas. Thats what i like in modern art. its arguable but i think technical skills you can gain (especially after years of painting) but true talent lies in great ideas. Ive seen once an interview with a portaitist who said that he considered himself as a craftman not an artist. I think he was right saying that. After years of training you can copy reality quite well (like taking pictures) but its not easy to experiment with form and different concepts. Thats why i love modern art and for me Picasso was a master (excluding just a few pieces )

 

[WeeWillie]

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The first time I looked at this happy chappy I thought
he was in agony, then I realized he was singing. :lol:

Anyway, I just love these old paintings, they offer a great insight to many
aspects of life a few hundred years ago, the clothes, the instrument, who was he,
what was he...was he a musician, what are those stones to the right of his feet.....
was he stone mason, nah probably not, I mean look at his clothes.
Where was he at that moment, was he entertaining folks, was he posing in the
artist's studio.
All very fascinating stuff.

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Look at the chap on the left below...a professional cheat if you ever saw one,
they were as bad then as they are now, maybe they were even better cheats than
they are now. lol.

The look on both female faces!!!!, look at their eyes, is one trying to tell the other
the lad's cheating or is one asking the other is he cheating.
Or is the female cheating also and looking for a sign from the other indicating the
kind of hand the other lad has. All very intriguing.

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Just look what's going on in this scene. Blimey, the ladies are bigger crooks than the men.

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Unfortunately, I haven't a clue who the artist was.
There's only one signature, it's on the painting above as you can see.
I can't make it out, so I've enlarged it as much as I can without it
distorting further.
Perhaps someone will make it out, or even better....someone may already know the artist. :wave:

btw Yorksman, that's some optical illusion sketch you posted in, ingenious.

willie.

 

[Yorksman]

btw Yorksman, that's some optical illusion sketch you posted in, ingenious.

It's called the Penrose or impossible triangle:

Escher used the idea in many of his works. This one is called Ascending and Descending:

 

[Yorksman]

The first time I looked at this happy chappy I thought he was in agony, then I realized he was singing. :lol:

Yes, they do pull funny faces whilst singing. This guy is playing a lyre which is a replica of one found intact in a nobleman's grave Trossingen. It dates to the 5th/6th century AD. The song he is singing is the Georgslied, a set of poems and hymns to Saint George in Old High German. They were composed in Reichenau Abbey in the 9th cent. If you watch the video, you can see how expression was as much a part of the minstrel's role as playing the instrument or the singing. He pulls faces in exactly the same way as the painting.

http://www.myspace.com/video/stefan-joh ... t/39174672

The instrument in your painting looks like a type of hurdy gurdy, going on the handle that he is turning with his right hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy_gurdy

 

[Yorksman]

Anyway, I just love these old paintings, they offer a great insight to many
aspects of life a few hundred years ago, the clothes, the instrument, who was he,
what was he...was he a musician, what are those stones to the right of his feet.....
was he stone mason, nah probably not, I mean look at his clothes.

Chasing up the Hurdy Gurdy idea, I came across this sketch attributed to Georges de la Tour

The painting you posted turns out to be, not unsurprisingly, also by Georges de la Tour. It's the same man, a blind man in a carpenter's workshop. Maybe the carpenter has made a minor repair to the Hurdy Gurdy?

You are right about the cheat in painting 2, it is entitled The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Clubs

You can see more and read a little about Georges de la Tour here:

http://www.students.sbc.edu/vandergriff ... atour.html

 

[WeeWillie]

A Hurdy Gurdy, of course, and now I look closer, the chaps eyes do have a look of a blind person.
And he certainly looks the same individual right enough.
You've completed a great piece of detective work Yorksman, and I thank you.

I find all the information you've offered so very interesting.
I thoroughly enjoy reading the background of subjects I'm interested in, I guess that's
why I only read biographies.

I'm wandering off subject here, I used to enjoy novels up until approx 30 years ago when
I was reading a murder mystery which turned very grisly as the author went into great
detail of how the killer sliced up the victims body before disposing of it.
I couldn't finish reading the book after that, and I've never read another novel since,
I've gone off reading the figment of another man's imagination.
However, it turned out to be a positive shift in my reading interests.

I've seen the "Impossible Triangle" and the "Ascending and Descending" before though
I wasn't aware of the titles, though the from memory, the Ascending and Descending
image was of a different angle.

Thank you also for the very interesting links.
Another great post.

willie.

 

[WeeWillie]

Now for something completely different.
It's been around for a while now, and still
comes under the heading of "Art"

"Hand Art" a very clever idea and brilliant works of art as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Yorksman]

"Hand Art" a very clever idea and brilliant works of art as far as I'm concerned.

Wow. There appear to be few bounds to the imagination and talent. From the simple idea of creating a silhouette from a candle flame to that.

 

[WeeWillie]

"Hand Art" a very clever idea and brilliant works of art as far as I'm concerned.

Wow. There appear to be few bounds to the imagination and talent. From the simple idea of creating a silhouette from a candle flame to that.

Hah, the old silhouette from a candle, Yorksman. Who could forget those.
In fact I have some old images of them, I must look them out and post a few in.

The people/person who created and painted the "Hand Paintings" are very talented indeed.
The images are extremely well done and attractive. I've more of them, also.
I'll post in more sometime in the near future, they're incredible, and I'm very envious.

willie.

 

[WeeWillie]

Gerard de Lairesse 1641-1711.
Short Bio.


Gerard was a draughtsman, theatrical set designer, lecturer, writer, theoretician,
and perhaps the most celebrated Dutch painter in the years following the death of Rembrandt.

It is generally accepted that he suffered from congenital syphilis.
That diagnosis has been based almost entirely upon a portrait by Rembrandt in the Lehman
Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


As Rembrandt painted the portrait, he did not realize that he was labelling his younger colleague
with syphilis, because at that time the characteristic facial deformities of late congenital syphilis
were not recognized for another 200 years.


In 1690, at age 49, Gerard became blind which forced him to stop his career as an artist, whereupon
he found success immediately as a lecturer and writer on the theory of art.

Celebrated during his lifetime and well into the 18th century, he was berated during the 19th century.
With or without justification, he was considered superficial and effete, and was held in large part
responsible for the decline in Dutch painting.

Two hundred years after his death in 1711 the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition (1911) gave no
listing at all for de Lairesse, while devoting four pages of solid text to Rembrandt.
The refined, edifying, and elitist art of the former had been completely overshadowed by the bourgeois
painter who, brushing ‘muck’ on the canvas, had immortalized the deformed face of Gerard de Lairesse.


Apollo

Allegory Of The Five Senses

Cleopatra

 

[WeeWillie]

Here you are Yorksman..."silhouette from a candle flame"

As you can see, these sketches are really rather old.

Wonder if parents still do this for their little children nowadays.
Hmmm, probably not...far too tame for the modern child. lol