Hello forumers! How is the world of wonderful experimentation, development, expression and creativity for you all? mines not so bad, you may have noticed I have neglected the art forum. But that’s not because I want to, that’s because I have to. Long story short, dad's band me so I am moderating it from a far with the help of my glamorous assistant Spyder. (Damn right!)P) I have been wondering, I know your favourite artists, but i wish to ask what your personal favourite painting is. It doesn't have to be by your favoured artist or it can be. One of my favourites is a cafe seen at night, by Van Gogh. The warm colours in contrast with the blue sky and the stars. Its not perfect picture, it’s not detailed it’s not about that. It was about capturing the moment, the emotion, the aura, the light, the sound almost. Reflected in his brush strokes, the way the paint moves, it’s so beautiful. I can just image being there, the light hum of people talking, cutlery lightly clashing against plates. The wind whispering past my ears and the smell of the food floating along with it. A cat crawls along in the distance, the dark shadows play tricks on you as the light of the cafe eliminates the cobles of the surrounding road. I look forward to your responses, pictures welcomed! Nothing left to say, other than good luck and far well! Take care everyone!
right, this isnt my favorite, but its a painting that i love, i dont know what it is about it to be honest, its animalistic, the red reminds me of an owl, theres something incredably deep about the image in red, but its surrounded by this pale, simple blue. its by Jean-Michel Basquiat, its just a really erie and naturalistic painting.
For my piece I will write about Pabo Picasso's painting 'The Old Guitarist'. This is a painting that I have grown up with in my house. This painting is definitely my favourite piece from his blue period which ran from 1901-1904. The painting of an old man hunched over his guitar you long to hear him play and strike chord. His fingers look thin and nimble, I have often wondered if I could hear him play what would it be? He is holding an accoustic guitar which I relate to classical held in an upright possision. The old mans clothes are tattered and torn and Picasso has drawn him with nothing on his feet. To me this projects that nothing matters to him than his guitar. His facial expression is on of intregue it seems to look sad but yet quite content as if that is where he belongs, sitting in the corner with only his guitar and the clothes on his back. The colours of blue and slightly green are apparent it gives a sense of sadness yet life.. this may be a wrong way of living in some people's eyes but the old man sees it as there beig no life he would rather choose. I have seen this painting layed in different ways... ways where he is seen to be leaning up against the wall playing his guitar. I have also seen a friend play with the picture in photoshop and replace his guitar with a walkman. The poet Wallace Stevens wrote a poem entitled 'The Man with the Blue Guitar' which was said to have been written after a viewing of this Picasso painting. The poem as follows... This truly is an amazing painting. The Old Guitarist...
This is my favourite piece. I love Mark Rothkos work because it represents his life, his pictures started out light, which represented when he was young and happy, and they gradually got darker untill he decided to commit suicide, my walls have a few Rothko pictures as I work in a Art shop
Right i really want to share these two paintings with everyone, i've been looking at them a lot lately, and astetically they are just the most amazing two paintings i've seen in a while. The first is by Man Ray, its called La Rue Ferou, its of a paris street, and i really think that it embodies and expresses a true feeling of almost lonliness and isolation, i dont know if it was painted with this in mind, but it creates this in me. It captures a moodiness and darkness that i havent seen in a lot of art, and the shadowy nature of this painting really brings to life a sence of unease, almost the calm before the storm. The door in the centre of the wall really does set this feeling off, because it raises thought of dimension, and distance, and also gives a sence of perspective in that you think about the world around the street, not just what man ray has painted. Secondly there is this following painting by Edvard Munch called couple on the beach. This painting i really love, the colour of it is so undefined, which was munchs style, as seen in the scream/cry, and melloncollie, however what i like about this painting opposed to his more popular works is that this painting as with the man ray painting shows somesence of unease, the man for instance is stood back from the woman, and the woman in front, is almost ghostly, dressed in white, the swirly nature of the painting also goes some way in setting off the whole ambiance of it. As with the man ray there is a sence of the world, they are gazing off into the distance, and i cant help but feel there is more to be said than what accually made it to the canvas. Both these paintings are dark in nature, the way their painted, and also the nature of the emotions, and themes expressed by them, i really love these two paintings. Cheers for reading!
StarFly : That art is crazy! Its so surreal and i can't get my head round it at all. You'd have to sit there for hours and you'd never understand it but you'd become so immersed in it. I look at it and i am almost standing inside the picture, its a whole world inside the picture, i could walk around down the path to the breadth of water, dip my toe in ... its a bit chilly for my liking! As far as the eye can see to the ends of that world. Its mad! Thank you for sharing your friends work! Spyder : Jean-Michel Basquiat, well i didn't know much about him til i saw that film with you we borrowed from Fleassy. I think you can appreciate an artist and their art when you begin to see what their life might have been like. I have seen a few of his work in Spain and i must say, i wasn't overly excited about them but i went back and looked at them and i decided i did like them after all. There was something to them, something as if the artist was standing beside me, or sitting close watching. Just a presence with those pcitures which makes you stop and think. I do like his work. Hippy_Girl : Ah ol' Pabo Picasso. What a man, i had to do an essay on him last year. Got a tad sick of him, but not his art. He's one really strong example of an artist putting himself heavirly into his paintings, the blue period was sparked by the death of a very close friend and was a period of great loss and sorrow for him. The Guitarist is one of my favourites, like you i could have made up a whole story for him and i also wonder what he is playing. I think its a lovely painting, the moment caught, the loneliness, the isolation of the mind lost in misery. To be honest, i could imagen thats how Pablo himself felt during this time. The expression on the old mans face says it all. Thank you! Koolaid : Aye, Vang Gogh for me is just brilliant, he's a master. I think his paintings are so fantastic and i can't understand why no one appreciated them at the time. They are branching onto the surreal, they are becoming a warperd reality which he himsel was stuck in with his mental illness. Its asthetically beautiful, bright, vibrant colours, maddnesss is captured in such a daily seen, such love and beauty and warmth. It's just, i can't explain it. It just is... beautiful for me. I'd take that over any painting which was true to the moment. This is what art is about, its easy to copy something to exact proportations but to take ti beyond that to another plain.. now thats real creation. He may not have been the best painter, not grasped all the art babble of perspective correctly. He just was, free painting.. enjoying the paint as well as the object. He's was a brilliant artisit and i will always love his work so thank you for giving everyone the chance to see it and for me to blubber on about it. brothwood : Rothko rothko!! Oh, i know a bit about him. I am currently working on an essay whhich is exploring where the artist started, what was their inspirtation how they ended up where they did. For me Rothko like Pollock took a great risk with thier paintings, because its very easy to say, its just paint on a page. But they must have had to think about it, decide colours. Rothko started, believe it or not doing very simplisitic figurative drawings of women and then branched out into the more abstract. I really like his work, its bold, its got this power to completely blast your sences. If you ever go into a room with them in, they bowl you over you just get lost in the colour, you stand and it stretches out! Thank you for taking the time to share him, he's a very cool guy! Spyder : Again, feeling like i can't get rid of you. Thank you for carrying on adding things! I do like the pieces you have choosen specailly the second one by Munch. I know little about him and i hope i will do more one day! It has a difference to the scream, in that the colours are mid tone, they are tranqule verging on dark. It didn't immediatlu evoke the same emotions in me as it did you. To me the girls head is up and looking to her future, the man behind is lagging, slightly bowed down behind her, following him. Perhapes she is leaving, he is alone i guess. She has a life to lead and he is trying to follow desperatly. It to me represents life very much the constant pull, the constant change, the seperation of loved ones. It represents the future and the past. I do like it. A big thank you to you all for taking part! Keep them coming, there shall be a new thing to write about soon!
You're new Mr YogiPaul, and new people can often get misunderstood as it takes a while to get each others humour maybe? Why not elaborate on your statement? Love Clairexxx
