Fine Art...or just art.

trix · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:01 am

I think there's enough interest to warrant this thread. I would like to include pop art, if no one objects. Anything you see that makes you think or feel, post, or discuss it here.

farswept · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:08 am

^ Hey cool. Thanx Trix. :mrgreen:

Just 'cause this one's in my pics at the moment:

"Reversed Double Helix" by Takashi Murakami

trix · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:23 am

That's really interesting, it reminds me of someone, vaguely. But I can't think who, as the subject matter isn't what reminds me, just bits of the style.

*perplexed*

mehbucket · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:25 am

I love amano's artwork, it's kind've unique, and it might have something to do with the fact that he has the job i wanna have after school

dean · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:54 am

Quote:

farswept wrote:

^ Hey cool. Thanx Trix. :mrgreen:

Just 'cause this one's in my pics at the moment:

"Reversed Double Helix" by Takashi Murakami

Thats pretty cool - Killer Onion takes over the world!

farswept · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:32 am

Here's my favourite painting by my favourite artist:

"The First Days of Spring" by Salvador Dali (1929)

I got to see the original piece at the Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Florida during the centennial celebration of his birth in 2004.
Shame I couldn't find a larger image to do it justice.
I was surprised to learn at the museum that this is also a collage piece.
The tiny baby picture in the centre is actually Dali's own photo of himself.
The mosaic piece to the lower right and the picture behind the couple in the lower left are also collaged, as well as the "doll face" and the deer.

No Longer There · **Joined:** Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:22 pm **Posts:** 15921

Haha, I was going to post a couple of Dalis when I get home. My personal fave is 'Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening'.

farswept · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:27 am

^ Ha what, the man was great. Why not, I'd love to see more of him here & that's a good one, too. Although my favourite period of his was late 1920s-1930s.
Here's my second favourite, which is at the MOMA in NYC. Unfortunately, I have yet to visit there.
"Illumined Pleasures" also from 1929

In it you also see a version of the handled "woman vessel," which showed up in subsequent paintings. Dali worked using imagery from his own experience & psyche and many images are recurring themes throughout his life's work; another example being the lion's head, symbolising desire.
His style is what first draws me to him, though. Just something about it that srikes a similar aesthetic.
In this one I also really like the way he scratched the blue field/sky in the box to bring it out of its frame.

No Longer There · **Joined:** Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:22 pm **Posts:** 15921

I know he was. I just found it kind've funny that you posted somethign of his before I got a chane to.

farswept · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:14 pm

I know you know. I meant I don't think it's odd at all more people would plan to post him. :wink:

No Longer There · **Joined:** Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:22 pm **Posts:** 15921

oic. Thought I'd offended you then for some reason. :lol:

You saw any clips from that Disney cartoon he worked on? I found a couple clips from it a while ago. Looks amazing. (cartoons count as fine arts, right?). Anyway here's some linkage for anyone interested.

Shaolin Monkey · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:44 pm

yeah I was amazed to see that last time you posted it - I'd love to see more. What a combination - Disney and Dali! powerful or what? I can't believe only 7mins or whatever were made coz they' thought it would not be very popular!

farswept · **Posted:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:07 pm

Yeah I've seen that very same NPR story before this forum started.

Cartoons, comics, they're all artists, no?
Something on-topic from my 12 March Sunday funny pages:

Funny how my paper edited out the head-banging panel, but then papers often chop comics for size.
Oddly enough there was a second on-topic comic in the same paper, Funky Winkerbean, which for some reason is not online at the moment.

HAHA discussing Sarah Lucas is what inspired this thread, and looking just now at the "Pickles" comic strip I think I see where the old guy gets his idea:

"Au Naturel" (1994), one of her most famous pieces.

farswept · **Posted:** Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:45 am

Hm, so maybe not so much interest.
So to pop it up a little, here's an article I just got in an art newsletter about celebrity artists. That Peter Falk one is impressive!
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/featur ... -12-06.asp

& here's one I had up as the desktop for a while:

Hayato Matsushita
Us Flag # 27, 2005
(acrylic on canvas, approx. 3ft.X4ft.)

farswept · **Posted:** Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:04 am

WHAT??!
Why the hell does Google have Joan Miro style today?

{EDIT} Oh, I see. 20 April was his birthday.
Well, that's pretty cool of Google, actually.

Antizan · **Posted:** Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:22 am

Waterhouse
I also am a big fan of Edward Hopper
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html#images

Ghoul · **Joined:** Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:59 am **Posts:** 49

trix · **Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 4:00 am

I'm liking the Misfits stuff, where'd you find that?

farswept · **Posted:** Wed May 03, 2006 6:23 am

Here's some random pic off the web I considered a bit artful:

Paul Brown - Textile 6 (2002)

giantantreal · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 3:56 am

I like the painting by Salvador dalli about bananas and elephants.....Cant remember the title though.

farswept · **Posted:** Thu May 04, 2006 4:22 am

I've seen a lot of his with elephants, but don't recall one that also feaured bananas. Hope you can find it & post it, 'cause I can't.

JollyRoger · **Joined:** Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:13 am **Posts:** 23

farswept wrote:

Here's some random pic off the web I considered a bit artful:

Paul Brown - Textile 6 (2002)

Cool pic but is artful a word? Maybe you mean Artilicious.

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