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Post by Scrubb on Aug 25, 2014 6:31:49 GMT 2
Monet was one of my favourites for many years. Oddly, when I went to the Monet museum in Paris (I forget what it's called - it's an old house and the furniture and decorations are the main displays and then there are a couple of galleries, one of other impressionists, and one of his work), I really didn't appreciate most of the works that were on display and came away from it liking him a lot less than I had before.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 25, 2014 9:13:19 GMT 2
itsa,
you must take me to the xul solar museum!
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Post by tzarine on Jan 2, 2023 3:08:50 GMT 2
i want to resurrect this thread
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 2, 2023 7:04:49 GMT 2
Good plan
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Post by tzarine on Jan 3, 2023 0:20:04 GMT 2
so not a piece, but a performance when in london, i got to see the magnificient natalia osipova w ryoichi hirano in mayerling i even wore a frock! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cau_howge0k
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 3, 2023 13:52:17 GMT 2
One of the pieces we used as inspiration during art class was "Jimson Weed" by Georgia O'Keeffe. Loved the vibrancy of the piece. link
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 3, 2023 13:55:36 GMT 2
And the last piece we did before Christmas was inspired by Vesna Delevska link
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Post by Voy on Jan 3, 2023 16:16:30 GMT 2
I got confused as to where I had seen this question and answered it on a message board of girls from my class at school ( the ones who all come to Nantucket every year ), Barbara was my closest friend from about age 3 ! and late in her ( too short ) life developed into a wonderful artist. The print in question is about 3ft x 9inches - and hangs above the desk where I am typing . We went to the same school for 14 years, and every year the processional for graduation , including ours, was "Jerusalem". www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/brattleboro/name/barbara-baker-bury-obituary?id=13512939/, the song is a poem by Blake, music by Parry - and you have heard it if you saw "Chariots of Fire" or "Calendar Girls" amongst other films ! __________________________ To revert to the previous question about the favorite piece of art... I realize I'm looking at it ! It's a glice print of Barbara B-B 's " Summer Fields, North Riding" - that she inscribed to me and that we both called "Jerusalem" - as , tho it is an abstract "landscape ", in the upper right is something dark that might have tall buildings in it, behind swathes of what can be green and yellow fields.... the Dark Satanic Mills in " Englands' green and pleasant land " ! She gave it to me for Christmas one year, but I picked it out at the wonderful reunion Chris had at her house in Tenafly - so wonderful memories all around !
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Post by sophie on Jan 3, 2023 17:13:51 GMT 2
Voy, it must be wonderful to actually own your favorite piece of art!
I really like ‘bits’ of pieces of art. An example is a particular colour of a striking shade of electric blue in a painting done by a British artist in the 1800’s found on the dress of the main subject in this painting (used to hang in the Tate downstairs).. I just spent an hour trying to find this painting on the internet.. I think it was a pre-raphealite painter..the artist’s name obviously wasn’t important but that shade of blue has stayed with me for more than 50 years.
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 4, 2023 10:24:44 GMT 2
I guess that rather a lot of Pre-Raphaelite paintings graced the walls of The Tate and still do its descendent. But I would have thought that bright blues would have been pretty rare.
Any other distinguishing features, pose, other characters, objects?
FWIW The Tate was a wonderful gallery, I used to go there instead of attending school, a lot.
To me, the segregation into a Modern (and international) collection on the South Bank and a remnant British collection was a poor decision, and the resurrecting the name and notion of a Tate Britain a sad and troubling move.
ETA: Is the connection between the Millbank site and the history of Australia common knowledge amongst its visitors? E.G. is it pointed out, memorial, plaque, or other highlight?
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 4, 2023 10:38:51 GMT 2
All my life well, as far back as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to see the “Mona Lisa” ever since hearing about it when I was knee high to a grasshopper (another slang Australian phrase - there you go Tzarine). Of course I’d seen pictures of it many times as had half the planet. I longed to just see it at least once in my life. That dream came true in 2014 when I went to England to visit family and stayed with them. From there I toured around Europe by myself. Naturally in Paris, a visit to the Louvre was a must. I went on Bastille Day - it was free! Took me ages to finally get to where I needed, yes, there’s statues and more statues and yes, the Grecian vases are lovely and the paintings are nice thank you very much….
At last I was in the room - there was only one 🖼 to look at, nothing else, the room was full of human creatures writhing like a canfull of wriggling worms, pushing and shoving, most everybody taller than lil ole me! If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! So elbows at a 45° angle, I did what the Chinese do …. I pushed and shoved …all the way inching forward and….. yess! I was there behind a row of taller, richer and posher people than I. The lady guard who gave orders - she’d put even a Seargent Major to shame - saw me, gestures for me to move to the front (I thanked her profusely in French, her eyes lit up she smiled) and let me stay as long as I wanted. She kept moving people on when she thought they’d seen enough, but me, she let me stay. I could have stood there for hours I was in awe. For me, it was a dream come true. When I moved on, I didn’t bother to look at anything else. People have said to how could I not look at the works of art? All I wanted was to see the Mona Lisa.
The thing that struck me about the painting was the size, the smallness of it.
The lady who is worth so much is quite tiny, just 77 cm x 53 cm.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2023 5:31:02 GMT 2
I guess that rather a lot of Pre-Raphaelite paintings graced the walls of The Tate and still do its descendent. But I would have thought that bright blues would have been pretty rare. Any other distinguishing features, pose, other characters, objects? FWIW The Tate was a wonderful gallery, I used to go there instead of attending school, a lot. To me, the segregation into a Modern (and international) collection on the South Bank and a remnant British collection was a poor decision, and the resurrecting the name and notion of a Tate Britain a sad and troubling move. ETA: Is the connection between the Millbank site and the history of Australia common knowledge amongst its visitors? E.G. is it pointed out, memorial, plaque, or other highlight? some preraphaelites for ya www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/pre-raphaelites-victorian-avant-garde& this, i found, a series on the preraphaelites desperate romantics www.imdb.com/title/tt1346018/
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Post by tzarine on Mar 9, 2023 20:19:30 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Mar 27, 2023 0:05:48 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 27, 2023 9:47:28 GMT 2
Jarman was a treasure.
How did he get the money to make such films? That's easy, pure charm.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 27, 2023 18:23:05 GMT 2
Jarman was a treasure. How did he get the money to make such films? That's easy, pure charm. saw blue during covid @ a local gallery just tzar, me & one other person love his work full version here www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hmuUAmFHQ
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 27, 2023 19:26:39 GMT 2
a visit of the rijks' exhibition on vermeer: johannes vermeeredited to add you can listen to Stephen Fry giving a tour of the paintings.
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 27, 2023 19:26:55 GMT 2
Unfortunately for me: "Video Unavailable" To be honest, I find his to be a difficult watch. Which is a good thing but wearing. I need to be up to it.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 27, 2023 20:17:03 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Aug 20, 2023 7:17:32 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 20, 2023 19:53:38 GMT 2
the last piece we studied before the summer break was a selfportrait by Frida Kahlo. the one with a cat and a pet monkey. This one: link
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Post by tzarine on Aug 20, 2023 22:51:06 GMT 2
the last piece we studied before the summer break was a selfportrait by Frida Kahlo. the one with a cat and a pet monkey. This one: linkfrida what a life! there was a time when you couldn't get any rivera books in ny cause frida got that popular sueño de un domingo por la tarde en el parque de la alameda es.most-famous-paintings.com/MostFamousPaintings.nsf/A?Open&A=8BWNY9
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Post by Voy on Aug 21, 2023 2:42:11 GMT 2
Their house - La Casa Azul, near the Bazaar Sabado , near friends in San Geronimo, outside Mexico City was fascinating.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 21, 2023 17:21:38 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Sept 3, 2023 21:35:52 GMT 2
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Post by trentt on Sept 4, 2023 20:30:13 GMT 2
?Cronos Eating His Children" by Francisco Goya.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 4, 2023 20:51:55 GMT 2
oh, yes... that one always got me, Trentt.
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Post by trentt on Sept 4, 2023 21:23:18 GMT 2
Who doesn't want to chomp on their children now and again? Its appeal is timeless, universal.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 4, 2023 22:26:42 GMT 2
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Post by Voy on Sept 4, 2023 22:30:26 GMT 2
trentt - thinking of children, but not chomping on them, how has Brooklyn turned out?
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