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John
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Feb 16, 2011 03:55PM
Yes, the virtual discoverer of Renoir, Matisse, Cezanne, and Picasso, and friend of Apollinaire, Derain, Rousseau, and Braque must have been quite over-rated. What a hack, right?
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Are you being facetious, John? I don't have an opinion either way whether she is over-rated. Some may think so as Rick says, but she sure did a lot to help many an artist!
I'm sure some may think Michelangelo is over-rated, too, Heather. Does that mean it might be so?
No, I don't think so. It is all a matter of opinion.
Ah, here's an inexpensive art acquisition:"Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds," the first to appear at auction, fetched 349,250 pounds for a 100 kg pile, making each reproduction porcelain seed worth 3.50 pounds ($5.64)."
For one seed, that'd be pretty cheap....
Some things aren't a matter of opinion, Heather. Even things regarding art.
And I bet the walls are beautiful, Ruth!On another thread I posted that I bought a Kasper 3 piece suite and am pleased that he collected Mannerist to Modern prints now on view at the Morgan. There's a catalogue. $40.00. http://www.themorgan.org/shop/shopexd...
Heather wrote: "When you encounter a work originally created for religious use do you first think of its aesthetic merits or its religious message? George Goldner
and Melanie Holcomb"
I didn't see this question earlier. Always,always content. This may beg a bigger question as to what draws you into a piece of art in the first place, though. Being a believer, if it's intent is the sacred, then that is what I focus on. When I look at the Pieta, I see first the subject of Christ with Mary, then I notice the way it's depicted. I have to say, even in secular, abstract work I'm always looking for meaning.
I would think that how well the work communicates the intended relgious message would have some affect on how a religious person appreciates the aesthetic merit.I would analogize it to a written statement that makes sense on its own but has a specific meaning that depends on the context or times when the statement is made.
Hey All! Isn't it about time for another question?Is there a particular animal you love to see represented in art? What is your favorite depiction?
Dale Tucker
Although cats are not my favorite animal (I tend to be more of a dog lover), I do like the works of Renoir when he depicts his cats. I was thinking about just that, Renoir and his cats, the other day. Funny thing: I was playing the trivia game You Don't Know Jack on the Wii. One of the multiple choice questions was which painting was NOT done by Renoir. I know he did the two girls playing the piano, but I don't recall him painting a cat playing the piano! So I looked up his 'animal' works.
Woman with Cat
Sleeping Girl with Cat
Girl and Cat
There is a Giulio Romano painting of Madonna and a Cat. Sorry it's too nice out... can't paste pictures without a mouse either...
Here are some Renoir dogs . . . [image error]
Renoir, Head of a Dog, 1870
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Madame Renoir and dog, 1910, oil on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Heather wrote: "Is this the one?"
YES!!! You made y day!
Just for you . . . 
woodcut prints
escher
cookies!
Aww so nice! Francis I had a salamander in his crest.
Does a particular work of art make you smile?What's your smile like? Is it reserved like Madame Leblanc's? Open like Frans Hals's jubilant young people?
Kathy Galitz
Madame Leblanc
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Boy with a Lute
Frans Hals
I like capybaras. Do we have any of those?
Good one, John! (sorry, didn't even know what they were!)
:)
I like them because they look like a cross between a horse and a rat. You can find anything, Heather.
Because I love everything about this picture and it's subjects (ok, I'm sentimental too, so shoot me)..John Singer Sarget's "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose".
and this one, I love Mary Cassatt as well. And would like to go boating with them!
The composition on the Cassatt is so dramatic, so modern. It's striking.
Now I see the title of this thread, are we supposed to pick works from the Met? oops. :DDDRuth- I know! I really love that and the primary colors she used.
You're ok, Lorie...you don't have to post works only from the Met. I just post the questions that are asked on the Met website. Those questions are regarding it's paintings, but for our thread here we can broaden the responses to any artwork.
John wrote: "I like them because they look like a cross between a horse and a rat. You can find anything, Heather."
I love your quirky sense of humor, John! Reminds me of the gifted kids I've worked with over the duration of 35 years in public education! BTW, while my DIL worked in a zoo, a Capy that had been a pet was donated. It had an awful disposition and frequently took a bite out of the hand that fed it. Why would any artist want to immortalize such an animal?
35 years? Bless you. It's no wonder why you travel all you can now. But I'll still determined to stump her.Heather: Class Holothuroidea, Subclass Aspidochirotida. Also known as the our friend, the gentle sea cucumber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Esp...
Lol! Good one again, John! Stump me, huh? Well to tell you the truth, you do it all the time! BTW that picture of Holothuroidea Aspidochirotida is pretty gross!
Ruth won't admit that she drew that in 10 minutes just to shut me up.
I prefer a nice sea cucumber sashimi to a painting, Heather (even though I like the one Ruth put up). Nice briny, and earthy, sort of like eel, but with the texture of abalone. Try it if you ever get the chance!
(Well, here's your picture!)
UCK!!! You mean you like this stuff???
NOM NOM!Oh, yes, there are few things I like more. You should just close your eyes and hold your nose. It's like a little squid tentacle swimming down your throat.
gah! Hey aren't they the creatures that can barf out their stomach to scare off predators? Neat trick. Now who was the first person to say "ooo that looks tasty!" ??
I didn't do the sea cucumber, John, I grabbed it off the net & forgot to credit it. Kind of amateurish, no?I like sashimi and sushi, too. Though I've never eaten sea cucumber, I would if it were presented to me.
I think that those who've never tried sashimi don't realize how delicate and mild in flavor raw seafood is.
Agreed, Ruth. The best sashimi I've ever eaten was, of course, in Tokyo, but sea cucumber wasn't even a choice a decade ago.
Lorie, I can tell you that I was certainly the first one in my family to say it. And I'm glad I was!
I love that you're so adventurous, Ruth. I grew up with a steak-and-potato father and a mother whom I've only recently convinced to try sushi, and now she always steals mine when I order it. I still get to keep all my salmon and smelt roe, though. It's a work in progress.
We went to the USSR years ago, with a study tour of US doctors. Appetizers for each meal were almost invariably a half a hard-boiled egg piled with caviar. Almost everybody at our table except my husband, usually scraped their unwanted "fish eggs" onto my plate. I was in heaven.
I love it, too, but it makes me retain so much water that it looks like I've gained 10 pounds. (Now I'm starting to sound like Gabrielle, God help me.)
We're thinking about starting a comedy troupe that tells art theory jokes.
I'll come, let me know when, where, etc. Then I can say I know you!
Which work of art best represents a perfect marriage of visual art and poetry?Editor Jennette Mullaney reflects upon the intermingling of poetry and art.
The Making of History
Ruth Bavetta
2006
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I don't know how to import photographs, but I've always thought that Blake's illustrations captured the essence of his mythology remarkably well.
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