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Which painting or sculpture do you love?

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  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited January 2014 Posts: 12,480
    Yes! I mostly love his cabaret/Folies paintings. :)

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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    We like the same material, @4EverBonded! :-)
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    In some things, yes! (I am not the horror fan you are).
    We would probably enjoy similar art museums, though. :)
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Here is one of my favorites of Dali's:
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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Excellent choice, @4EverBonded! :-)
    Here's my favourite painting of his, though I realise it's a bit of a cliché. ;-)

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  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    Only a cliche' because it was so great, so different, and came to represent surrealism more than any other painting, I think.
  • Matt007Matt007
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    Turners snowstorm is a favourite

    http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-snow-storm-steam-boat-off-a-harbours-mouth-n00530
  • Matt007Matt007
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    If you like Michelangelo these unfinished sculptures are worth seeing, as they reveal a lot about his technique

    http://ahuskofmeaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/awakeslave.jpg
  • Matt007Matt007
    edited January 2014 Posts: 1,314
    But more impressive and my favourite is Guernica by Picasso in Madrid

    http://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp
  • Seven_Point_Six_FiveSeven_Point_Six_Five Southern California
    edited January 2014 Posts: 1,257
    I like Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. I don't have much to say about it, I just love the atmosphere and mood. I find it relaxing.

    800px-Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942.jpg
  • JohnBarryFanJohnBarryFan
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    There is a big painting, in the "Art of baseball room" on the Ground Floor of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, that I'll remember all my life.

    On it, a smalltown ballpark at night; a game is being played by youngsters right before a storm hits. The athmosphere and colors of the painting made me wish to step into it. Lighning is striking, leaves are flying, the lights and shades of the stadium are magnificent and eerie. No kids cares about the weather, there is a game to be played.

    If I could choose a single painting, all over the world, to hang proudly inside my home, that would be the one.

    Forget the Mona Lisa, forget all the great painting worth millions of dollars, the one in the Baseball Hall of Fame speaks to me. Even from a distance.
  • Seven_Point_Six_FiveSeven_Point_Six_Five Southern California
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    @JohnBarryFan Could you find an image of that painting? Id love to see it.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Seven_Point_Six_Five wrote:
    I like Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. I don't have much to say about it, I just love the atmosphere and mood. I find it relaxing.

    800px-Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942.jpg

    Speaking of Nighthawks, I love this Star Trek version.
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    @Murdock that is WAY cool!!!
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    chrisisall wrote:
    @Murdock that is WAY cool!!!

    Indeed it is. It's also how I envision the way the original 5 year mission ended.
  • JohnBarryFanJohnBarryFan
    edited January 2014 Posts: 1,405
    Seven_Point_Six_Five wrote:
    @JohnBarryFan Could you find an image of that painting? Id love to see it.

    Sadly, I searched the Internet for a picture of the painting, without success.
    I found an interview on Youtube conducted in the Art of Baseball room, but we don't see the painting. I was not able to take a photograph myself because cameras are not allowed in the Art of Baseball exibit.

    You'll have to go see it for yourself. The painting on it's own is worth the trip, and you'll visit the Hall of Fame as a bonus!
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Anybody know about Fabian Perez? I will put some links here this evening. Amazing artist.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Seven_Point_Six_Five wrote:
    I like Edward Hopper's Nighthawks. I don't have much to say about it, I just love the atmosphere and mood. I find it relaxing.

    800px-Nighthawks_by_Edward_Hopper_1942.jpg

    A friend of mine once tagged me as the man drinking alone on Facebook.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I love that painting. Makes me think that Bogart can walk in there any time.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Yes it has an hardboiled charm.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 2014 Posts: 18,281
    Thanks to @Murdock, I've now found the source of my avatar painting from this novel cover:

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    If anyone knows anything about this novel or the artist of the painting, I'd be very grateful to hear from you!

    I also love the Dali-esque cover to Colonel Sun (1968) by Robert Markham:

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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited January 2014 Posts: 24,184
    Anyone fan of the weird characters of Jeroen Bosch?

    jeroenbosch.jpg

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Isnt that Hieronymus Bosch? Nom de guerre perhaps?
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Fabian Perez: https://www.fabianperez.com/

    The gallery: https://www.fabianperez.com/gallery
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Thunderfinger wrote:
    Isnt that Hieronymus Bosch? Nom de guerre perhaps?

    Jeroen is the more modern Dutch variant of his name. ;-)
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    130109-Turner-Fighting-Temeraire-SkyFall-National-Gallery-Art.jpg

    It always makes me feel a bit melancholy. Grand old war ship. being ignominiously haunted away to scrap... The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see? ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Is that Turner, @Murdock?
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Yes it is @DarthDimi.
  • WillyGaloreWillyGalore
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    Wow. That's a bloody big ship :D
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    DarthDimi wrote:
    Thunderfinger wrote:
    Isnt that Hieronymus Bosch? Nom de guerre perhaps?

    Jeroen is the more modern Dutch variant of his name. ;-)
    Of course, makes sense. Thanks for that info.

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