Your favourite painting

[Liam]

You are... not wrong, .

The painting, titled St Bartholomew, is by Rembrandt, and was completed in 1661. I came across it in an art book recently and it jumped out 1) because of its utter secular texture (no religious hints of any kind in the painting, no halo, etc) and 2) because of how utterly Impressionist it looks. For all intents and purposes, this could have been painted by one of the late 19th century French Impressionists, I thought. Look at the lines around the face! Amazing.

Some early Impressionist/post-Impressionist portraits below, to compare:

[pesahson]

Well done Eric!

[Eric]

Eric did get there in the end, but it did take a while. Nevertheless, Liam began to give the game away when he said it was a very, very, famous painter, or similar. Even the most anti-painting philistine will have heard of Rembrandt.

Anyway, the latest batch. The first one could be Toulouse-Lautrec, as he spent half his life in brothels painting ladies; but it's more likely to part of Liam's Edvard Munch Week theme. The second one I'm not sure of but could be a cropped detail from an Edvard Munch painting. The third one looks like a picture of Edvard Munch by somebody else. The fourth one is a self-portrait by Edvard Munch. The fifth, the beardy-weirdy with the long hair: no idea (but probably not Edvard Munch in a wig; could be Velázquez - I keep betting on him). Sixth, seventh, eighth: no idea. Though the seventh rings a bell, even if it is but a mere tinkle. Some Russian maybe, or a Spaniard (I also often bet on Spaniards)

[Liam]

Oh, these weren't meant to be quizzes, just the Rembrandt: the ones above are by Cezanne, Manet, Munch, yes, Pissaro, and a portrait of Munch (sitting down and not meeting the viewer's eye) by the great Finnish symbolist Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

[Liam]

Speaking of Gallen-Kallela, what a beautiful painting this is:

Eric, what does Poikajavaris mean?

[Eric]

Axel Gallén was a Swedish-speaking Fennophile, so out of solidarity with Finnish-speakers he changed his name adding the "Kallela" bit, which has associations with "slanting" or "tilted". And he knocked the accent aigu off the name Gallén.

If I'm thoroughly pedantic, Poikajavaris means nothing, because the more digestible title is Poika ja varis meaning, pretty obviously "Boy and Crow".

I like Gallen-Kallela's more mythological paintings, with which he illustrated the national epic, the Kalevala. Such as the rather startling picture of Kullervo:




Kullervo is looking particularly agonised. Why? Well, he met this nice young lady in the woods and did naughty things to her (aka fucked her). The only teensy-weensy problem was that he later found out that this young lady was his very own sister.

[Liam]

[Liam]

Rabbits Sharing their Warren with a Deer (from the margins of medieval manuscript):

[Hamlet]

Two artists whose paintings I particurlarly admire and enjoy are Paul Cezanne and Francisco Goya y Lucientes.

I've looked at Cezanne's work many times, can't follow the thread title and pick out a favourite painting, it's a body of work and I've always seemed to look at art in that way...

Goya, is a recent pleasure, put onto him by the late art critic Robert Hughes who struggled for a lifetime (and failed by his own admission to be up to the job; refreshing honesty) to do justice to him, and then finally, after a near fatal car crash, where he experienced a great deal of pain, and during his stay in hospital experienced dreams where Goya, who he pictured as a 'street tough' stood about with his mates taunting him.

Finally recovering he wrote his book, and passed away this year, sadly, a number of years later, but I like books by critics that are the product of a lifetime of learning and passion, unbeatable and very rare.

http://www.amazon.com/Goya-Robert-Hu...+robert+hughes

[maidenhair]

it is a print and not a painting, but who cares:

by Peter Milton

[pesahson]

I discovered this only yesterday. A not so typical Boticelli painting. There's something about it that makes me want to look at it for hours. It's titled La Derelitta.

[Cleanthess]

Nice thread resuscitation pesahson! I actually have two favorite paintings: one from Paul Klee and one from Hiroshige. Both paintings contain large amounts of magic and mystery.

[Liam]

All three paintings are wonderful; thanks, guys!

[Hamlet]

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Goya's Dog.

[Engleberton Crabferry]

Max Ernst

Salvador Dali

Vincent Van Gogh

[Engleberton Crabferry]

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse

[Engleberton Crabferry]

James Abbott Mcneil Whistler

Marc Chagall

Max Ernst

[Cleanthess]

Since we're doing multiple postings. I'll post one more painting by Paul Klee:

[Liam]

Not really a "favorite" painter (I've actually never heard of this guy before): Thomas Hart Benton.

POKER NIGHT:

[Liam]