Jayaprakash
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Zdzisław Beksiński is another of my favourite artists. This is my favourite work by him:
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Liam
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Holy clit, Jay, this is SO beautiful and disturbing, I think my heart just skipped a beat.
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Jayaprakash
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It has the same effect on me, Liam.
beelzebubbles
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Zdzisław Beksiński is another of my favourite artists. This is my favourite work by him:
Harrowing......
I cannot name a favourite painter, for there are quite a few artists whose works I enjoy a lot, but I enjoy them from a layperson's perspective. I hardly know anything about painting, albeit one might argue that an extensive reading of literary fiction sharpens the aesthetical senses also for other realms of arts.
Some things I like: the paintings of Caravaggio, the views of Dresden in Carl Gustav Carus' works (someone who stands - unjustly as I think - in Caspar David Friedrich's shadow), quite a few people that have been mentioned already in this thread, like Monet, Renoir, Klimt, even Bosch at times.
Marc Chagall I've never really appreciated, but there is one painting that fascinates me: The Cloud. It's a view from a room with a window into a landscape, the window is open and a cloud enters the room, half still part of the landscape, half already maintaining its own existence.
Serov's "Girl with peaches" alone would make it worth for me to visit the Tretyakovskaya, I have loved it for many years.
Some things I like: the paintings of Caravaggio, the views of Dresden in Carl Gustav Carus' works (someone who stands - unjustly as I think - in Caspar David Friedrich's shadow), quite a few people that have been mentioned already in this thread, like Monet, Renoir, Klimt, even Bosch at times.
Marc Chagall I've never really appreciated, but there is one painting that fascinates me: The Cloud. It's a view from a room with a window into a landscape, the window is open and a cloud enters the room, half still part of the landscape, half already maintaining its own existence.
Serov's "Girl with peaches" alone would make it worth for me to visit the Tretyakovskaya, I have loved it for many years.
Thank you for the links, Beelzebubble. "The Old hunting Grounds" reminded me the pictures by the maestro of the pine forest, Shishkin. It seems that we are in the cycle but aren't they similar a little?
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His "Golden Phase" is splendid.
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Zdzisław Beksiński is another of my favourite artists. This is my favourite work by him:
it looks like some of the cemented residents of Pompeii
Zdzisław Beksiński is another of my favourite artists. This is my favourite work by him:
I just happened to have this:
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Thanks for posting it. Once again I have to marvel at it, the beauty is in its simplicity. Have you had a chance to see the original?
Some years ago I spent a summer in Peterburg and every weekend I would go either to the Russian Museum or to the Eremitage, and even though I was there for some weeks there was no chance for me to see the whole exhibitions. I would love to go there again.
beelzebubbles
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Dorothea Tanning's Birthday
I like the doors opening on more doors. My sister and I used to paint and draw doors opening on other doors in our youth.
saliotthomas
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I bet there is a medical term for this.
Liam
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And I absolutely love, worship and adore Dorothea Tanning, so I have to thank Heteronym for posting this.
Janet, this particular painting is housed by the Museum of your very own hometown, where I had the pleasure of contemplating it for about half-an-hour last summer, when I came down to Philly to visit my best friend.
I'm not sure if you guys know this already (it becomes much more obvious when you're standing closer to the painting, which is rather largish), but the woman's dress is actually made up of rootlike protuberances that are penises, breasts and severed legs in disguise! I'm sure we noticed a couple of testicles in there somewhere as well.
Sorry, but I couldn't find a bigger image.
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I have not seen the original either. Really, we should have long lives to see all paintings we're interested in
. But I hope next time when you visit Russia you'll have a chance to see "Girl with peaches". When I visited Tretyakovskaya Gallery last time Kuindzhi's paintings had a first priority. In 1880 he held an exhibition for one painting that was a great siccess. There is even a legend about it, they said Kuindzhi used a candle behind his work to achieve the tricks of lighting.
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