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Alice, Greg gave you the link! Also you can write Modigliani at Google and hit images. The reproductions are however quite dead.Susannah, Magritte was Belgian and in Brussels there is a whole museum for him. You can also visit his home. I saw a very complete exhibition a few years back. He had cuff-links with eyes on them. What I love best by him are his painting of houses lit at dusk; the sky is light. These paintings that show a night sky is what one sees frequently in Brussels . What hits me is that an observer thinks the artist has captured something fantastical, and yet he is simply capturing the the sky at dusk in Brussels! Magnificent! I think a real artist is one that has the ability to captures what is around them and that nobody else bothers to even look at. Many places have a light very different from others.
Belgium is known for its love of the surreal.
Greg wrote: "Thanks Alice!"Sorry I mistook Chrissie for you, Greg. Thanks for the link!
Chrissie wrote: "Alice, Greg gave you the link! Also you can write Modigliani at Google and hit images. The reproductions are however quite dead.Susannah, Magritte was Belgian and in Brussels there is a whole mu..."
Sounds like interesting work. Thanks for the information, Chrissie!
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Chrissie, I sure wish I could see that museum in Brussels .. maybe one day!
Chrissie - maybe you'll like Atkinson Grimshaw (link in comment 30) Over the past few years I've tracked down quite a few "moonscapes" by different artists in English stately homes - there seems to have been quite a fashion for them.Another unusual artist I like is Richard Dadd - surreal meticulously painted fairy pictures - like a Victorian version of Hieronymous Bosch (whom I also like!) There's a great one of a flea too! Just a flea - reminds me of Albrecht Durer's studies!
Sadly he was judged (probably correctly) to be insane and spent much of his life in Bethlem Hospital (the origin of the word "bedlam")
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Susannah wrote: "I am a big fan of modern art, and, to a slightly lesser extent, contemporary art. My favorite painting is The Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe) by Rene Magritte.""
That's a very charming piece! I can see why you're so fond of it.
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I wonder if he isn't very well know outside England. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke is in the Tate Art Gallery, and I remember being amazed how small it is - and incredibly detailed. Some of the images I linked to are small details from one of his paintings.The rock group "Queen", specifically Freddie Mercury, wrote a song about this painting, and Terry Pratchett mentions it in one of his novels, I think.
One of my favourite sculptors is Andy Goldsworthy. He produces site-specific sculpture, using natural sources. This means that many of them change and decay over time. Here's a link to some pictures of his work;http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNA...
Chrissie wrote: "OK, here are a few artists I like: Egon Schiele, Chagall, Fernand Khnopff, Modigliani, Delvaux, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, Russian icons and Japanese scrolls. Everything the Japanese do in the field o..."Oh yes, I find Chagall really interesting. He does some gorgeous stained glass windows as well, such colours!
Jean wrote: "Well I found it, but it's all in Welsh :( Never mind, it gave me the starting place to search. They're in Pembrokeshire (where I went to watch puffins...)Here's a link to the gallery
and here ar..."
Is it Graham Sutherland who did the tapestry in Coventry Cathedral, Jean!
Btw I'm finding it easier to do several individual posts. Sorry if that is boring to others!
It's fine, Gill.you are correct, Graham Sutherland did do the Coventry cathedral tapestry
Jean re Atkinson Grimshaw, did you know he lived in Scarborough, (well an adjacent village called Scalby) for several years? So there are several of his paintings of this area.
Yes and yes! (63 and 65) Scalby Mills was a favourite seaside destination years ago :) How could I forget Andy Goldsworthy?! And Antony Gormley. And earlier the great Henry Moore, whom I should have mentioned when I was banging on about Barbara Hepworth.
For those who like Andy Goldsworthy, Grizedale forest is an amazing place, with many trails of sculptures which you come across as you walk. Sculptures, trees, what's not to love?! And if you go back year after year, all the sculptures have changed - sort of metamorphosed into something else, because they are made from natural elements found there.
A decade ago we went to an exhibition in Calgary, Alberta titled "Capturing Western Legends".This picture is by Frederic Remington and is titled 'A Blackfoot Indian', painted in 1888
Jean, Richard Dadd's paintings are lovely and so varied! Do you remember the title of the Freddie Mercury song that's about him?Re: songs about painters - who doesn't like "Vincent" by Don McLean about Van Gogh! :)
The song:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnR...
And this picture, from the same exhibition, is by Charles M Russell;
It's titled 'Pablo's Buffalo Hunt', and dated 1909.
Alice - it has the same name, and is on "Queen II".Gill - just to say thank you! I love this thread :)
There's a song about L. S. Lowry as well, but I don't remember its name, or who sang it.
Jean wrote: "Is it this one?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd4Bw..."
Yes, Jean,that's it. Thanks a lot. For anyone reading this who doesn't know L S Lowry, do watch Jean's link. There's not just the song, but many of his paintings. You will learn a lot about him in under 5 minutes!
Jean wrote: "Chrissie - maybe you'll like Atkinson Grimshaw (link in comment 30) Over the past few years I've tracked down quite a few "moonscapes" by different artists in English stately homes - there seems to..."Jean some of those are nice! I like the ones in the country more than those in the cities. Somehow I wish the center of attention were closer.
Gill, what a nice idea you had to make the thread. Thanks.
A couple more links for Richard Dadd:http://www.noumenal.com/marc/dadd/
http://guliverlooks.wordpress.com/201...
Atkinson Grimshaw painted a lot of city scenes really, and they often seem to be swathed in Autumnal mists. Less so the country ones, I think. And yes, his viewpoint is usually rather distant and remote. It seems to fit the atmosphere for me, somehow.
Alice wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "OK, here are a few artists I like: Egon Schiele, Chagall, Fernand Khnopff, Modigliani, Delvaux, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, Russian icons and Japanese scrolls. Everything the Japanese ..."Alice, I loved that movie and it has an incredible soundtrack which I also bought. It was called Modigliani; link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367188/
Chrissie wrote: "Susannah, Magritte was Belgian and in Brussels there is a whole mu..."Thanks, Chrissie. I'm traveling to Chicago in October to, among other things, go to the Magritte exhibit currently on at the Art Institute. I'm really looking forward to it.
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Susannah wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Susannah, Magritte was Belgian and in Brussels there is a whole mu..."Thanks, Chrissie. I'm traveling to Chicago in October to, among other things, go to the Magritte exhibit cu..."
Seeing art is completely different than through books. The biggest difference I have ever found was in the reproductions of Klimt and the real things. Have fun with Magritte. Look for those lit houses with evening skies and remember that this is in fact how it really looks in Belgium.
That window is absolutely breathtaking, Greg! I love Chagall. "Chagall" by Adolfo Gomez Cedillo is a great book on him, packed full of colour plates (I'll add it to Goodreads later.) The author says the stained glass "offered an unsurpassable medium for Chagall's electrifying colorism". It comes over far better on an illuminated screen then it does in my book though, as you have the light behind it :)And I agree, Chrissie, about seeing the "real thing". I remember being surprised how small the Richard Dadd - and Modigliani - paintings are, for instance.
But sometimes you can bring your imagination to work and envisage what the true experience would be. And that's how I feel about the image Greg just posted! Wow!
Gill wrote: "One of my favourite sculptors is Andy Goldsworthy. He produces site-specific sculpture, using natural sources. This means that many of them change and decay over time. Here's a link..."Andy Goldsworthy is one of my favourites too. The other artist that we have a number of original of is Jo Louca, http://www.jolouca.com . She does these beautiful, almost ethereal scenes.
I uploaded a book about Andy Goldsworthy et al to the Goodreads database yesterday. Tried to link my recommendation of it to you, Gill but it wouldn't "take" this time, unfortunately. Can't do the official linked recommendation going through to your personal notifications to anyone not on my friends list, I don't think, so here's link to my short description (rather than a review) of "A Sense of Place".I like the Jo Louca images, Paul. They remind me a bit of the photos I used to take using a variety of lenses and filters. Plus the occasional bit of vaseline on a skylight filter LOL! Can't believe now that I used to hump all that equipment plus tripod around though......
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My friend told me that when he lived in Chicago, he'd go into the room that housed the Chagall glass and just sit on a bench for ages and soak it in! He complains that the museum later rehoused the Chagall glass in another area of the museum that wasn't quite as perfect, but he says it's still breathtaking.
We go to the art institute in Chicago at least twice a year. One of my vey favorite places.
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Ooh, I love the stained glass windows by Chagall!
I love stained glass. There's a window by Chagall that I've seen, I think it was in Chichester. Anyway it was lovely.
And here it is!
There is a teeny church near Vann (Provence, France) that has a Matisse stained glass window. I have also seen a stained glass window by Chagall in France, but I am trying to remember where that was.......
Chrissie wrote: "There is a teeny church near Vann (Provence, France) that has a Matisse stained glass window. I have also seen a stained glass window by Chagall in France, but I am trying to remember where that wa..."Is it Reims, Chrissie? There are 3 windows by Chagall in the cathedral there.
I can't believe I've never been there! Thanks for the link, Paul. Gill - so interesting that the colour scheme for that Chagall window is completely different. I'm not sure I'd have recognised it as a Chagall. Maybe it's early? Do you happen to know?
Don't know, Jean.Btw, there's a nice, easy read, novel called The World to Come about a painting by Chagall.
Gill wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "There is a teeny church near Vann (Provence, France) that has a Matisse stained glass window. I have also seen a stained glass window by Chagall in France, but I am trying to remem..."No it wasn't because it was a teeny little chapel out in the country, and for the life of me I cannot remember where! I have the book which might help me pinpoint it in another place. Grrrr.
Gill, I erally enjoyed a lot The World to Come and I keep telling my self to read more by Horn .....but none of the other books look as interesting. Do you know if her other books are as good as that one?
Thinking about open-air installations in the UK:Paul - your reference to "Sculpture by the Lakes" intrigued me as I couldn't think of many lakes in Dorset - and the pages you linked to about it had no address! I wondered if they were trying to capture the flavour of Grizedale forest in the Lake District with their name.
Anyway, looking on Tripadvisor, if you link to this page it seems they are in Dorchester (still can't think where!) and have several good reviews. But since it is the work of one artist, Simon Gudgeon, some of the negative reviews complained that it was all a bit samey. Perhaps there are other works there by other artists, but it sounds as if they will be in similar vein. It does look beautiful though, and the sculptures are to my personal taste :)
I suppose this is true of any gallery you visit, where they are selling the work of one artist. If you don't happen to like that artist, tough! The same is true of the Jo Louca link; it's for sales. Sometimes I go to these if they are attached to another exhibition, but not otherwise, usually. (I used to go to see two very different local artists' studios in the Lake District, and a photographer's in Hastings, but all of those were free entry!)
Apart from Grizedale Forest, which has works by many artists, there's also "The Yorkshire Sculpture Park", which is wonderful! Do you know this Gill?
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wiki entry here
There is more information on their FB page Jean: https://www.facebook.com/Sculpturebyt... And they are just south of Tolpuddle
Yorkshire Sculpture Park is such an asset, Jean. Also there's the Country Park next to it with lots of sculptures by Henry Moore.There was a wonderful outdoor art place I went to in Sweden (Denmark?) when I was a student. I'll have a look online to see if I can identify it.
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