Gallery

[Jim V]

Entertainment boards, always filled with favourite films, music, etc.

Which is great but you can never really get a sense of a favourite film from a two line discription, so...

Favourite paintings, posters, pictures, photogrpahs... with a handy link at least everyone can see exactly what your talking about

So here's one of my favorite painting (at least now I can look at it everytime I check the Entertainment board!)

Cafe Terrace (http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p_0467.htm)

[BumbleBee]

My fave, or at least one of them. I love Monet too, but I thought I would post something more unusual.

[pie]

post impressionism was one of my favourite art eras.... and i also studied it for my art higher...

so one of my all time favourite paintings is this one... (forgot the name!!) by henri rousseau... lovely feeling of movement...

my art and photography ;) (http://another.deviantart.com/) :rolleyes:

[Creeper]

I like surrealist and political art, though I'm no big expert on it.

Giger (http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87100557/giger/g004.jpg)

[DG]

Originally posted by Creeper
I like surrealist and political art, though I'm no big expert on it.

Giger (http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87100557/giger/g004.jpg)


Wow .. that's ... can't even think of the words to describe it...

[Shogun]

thats a brilliant artist....

[HunnyPot]

I know it's commercial but I think it's brilliant (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh.starry-night.jpg)

[Miffy]

I like art nouveau a lot, the kind of flat, poster type of stuff, like Mucha or Klimt.

[Miffy]

I also like this - yes it`s a bit cliched now maybe, but it fits my mood a lot of the time!

[BumbleBee]

Originally posted by HunnyPot
I know it's commercial but I think it's brilliant (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh.starry-night.jpg)
It doesn't matter! Monet is my favourite artist and I almost cried with glee when I got to see his work first hand recently.

[Brantree]

William Degouves de Nuncques (http://www.artmagick.com/images/paintingsJune/degouve/degouve5.jpg) I can't get over his use of colour.

Victor Hugo's "Ecce" (http://paris.fr/musees/Maison_de_Victor_Hugo/COLLECTIONS/VICTOR_HUGO_/DESSINS/MVH_ECCE.htm) Ok, so this version isn't so clear, but I love his use of light and the posture of the hanged man.

Calligraphy by Hassan Massoudy the first one (http://www.alibaba.online.fr/calligraphie.html)

Anything by Enki Bilal (http://www.bilal.fr.st/) Ok, so he's a comic book artist, but the montage of thumbnails by him show how amazingly well he can express emotion.

[sprocket]

i love giger's work, its so dark and forboding. it has a real eerie atmosphere to it. i especially like the pieces he did for the alien films. the preliminary set design sketches are absolutely mind-blowing. unfortuneatly i can't find the site that they're on:confused:

[Jim V]

Best I could find quickly, some links to all of Giger's film designs (Batman Forever! - the shame)

giger film design (http://www.giger.com/FilmDesign/)

[Miffy]

I came across this bloke by accident some time ago, I quite like a lot of his stuff, especially Angel In Blue.

Jeffrey K. Bedrick (http://http://jeffreykbedrick.com/galleries.htm)

[Carolina]

Originally posted by Miffy
I came across this bloke by accident some time ago, I quite like a lot of his stuff, especially Angel In Blue.

Jeffrey K. Bedrick (http://http://jeffreykbedrick.com/galleries.htm)

I must admit that's a lovely one.

I always have liked Night Watch by Rembrandt ever since i studied it at school, went to see the original last year and it's hard to just walk off.
night watch (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/1640/night-watch/rembrandt.night-watch.jpg)

Not really an art admirer to tell the truth, failed art miserably and have never understood it :)

[chaos_insomniac]

Well I'm gonna post some lovely scenery my friend sent me :)

[chaos_insomniac]

Bugger, my best one won't fit :( someone help...

[lil_minx]

I was never really into the impressionist artists, and im not too keen on all of Degas work.. but i adore this painting, and his other ballet paintings, its what he is most famous for. I can see why.

[Jim V]

http://library.thinkquest.org/3044/gallery/sk23.gif

Sod it, I'm saving this from the auto close cull that might happen soon

[Kentish]

Seeing as it was a mod who resurrected this thread, I'll add in The Fighting Temeraire by Turner.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/300px-Turner,_The_fighting_Temeraire.jpg

*and that should work now

[Man Of Kent]

oooh a cultured thread...

[edn1]

all-be-it that this is an old thread... Having browsed all the links .. It's nice to see a thread like this in my opinion.

I've never appreciated paintings before but now i love photography it makes me look at things differently. I love things like the sky at night or during dusk. Lights at nighttime that kind of thing. Cant be bothered to any links atm i just wanted to add that :)

[Kentish]

*and that should work now
Did I do it wrong? :blush:

*not au fait with the interweb*

[Jim V]

the link you copied was probably through google? it was really long so your browser abbreviated the middle bit to '...' which meant it came up broken

[Kentish]

Yeah, my old friend Google. Thanks for fixing it. :)

[Scarlet]

Barbara Kruger (http://www.vecindadgrafica.com/blogVecindad/archives/mt-static/arte/shop.jpg)

Andy Warhol (http://www.princeofpop.com/campbellsoup1.jpg)

Roy Lichtenstein (http://www.sackville.ednet.ns.ca/art/gallery/exhibit/pop/Lichtenstein,Roy-In_the_Car-1963.jpg)

[Miss Elmo]

oooh a cultured thread...

One of my favorites

[littlemissy]

I love The Scream which someone posted earlier on in the thread. I also like Mondrian. Particularly Broadway (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/broadway.jpg). Apparently, it is a map of the Broadway area but in his own unique styley.

[Dear Wendy]

I really like Hockney. Not quite sure why. Think it's the coloring, and the "sterile" feel due to the geometry used. Also really like his polaroid projects. And Grand Canyon pictures.
http://www-flash.stanford.edu/~dant/images/hockney.splash.jpg

Then there's Magritte. And I absolutely love how thoughtprovoking he can be. It's more the thought he procokes than the visual pleasure which I treassure about him.

http://www.artsfairies.com/Magritte/The%20Empire%20of%20Light.jpg

Then there's this Danish artist who has made the artwork for this House-duo called Filur (good music actually) and I really love his pop-art. Such as the picture below. Unfortunately I have completely forgotten his name. ARGH
http://files.loudmusic.dk/covers/filurdeeply.jpg

[budda]

I present the coolest picture of anyone, ever.

Hunter S Thompson.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0330261177.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Kermit]

I really like Hockney.

He's not bad for a Bratfud lad.

I have a fondness for Guernica (http://www.msjc.edu/art/djohnson/images/art%20100%20images/chapter%2023/guernica.jpg), the Metamorphosis of Narcissus (http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/MetamorphosisOfNarcisusShadow.jpg) and a lot of Kandinsky's work, notably this (http://users.unimi.it/~gpiana/dm6/dm6kmv06.jpg).

[Franki]

Tbh:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/chickenfranki/jeremymallardoriginal.jpg

Shame ye cannae see the eyes though...they're amazing.

[jake0]

http://www.jake0.org.uk/pics/painting.gif

[Makoto]

I mainly like city and lanscapes at dawn/dusk.

Jack Vettriano - Only The Deepest Red

http://www.digitaloops.com/10.jpg

[Dan the Man]

As I am at Salford Uni....

http://www.millenniumart.co.uk/artwork/GoingToTheMatch.jpg

[Man Of Kent]

Lowry, love it.

"...and he painted matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs..."

[Makoto]

I really like Hockney. Not quite sure why. Think it's the coloring, and the "sterile" feel due to the geometry used. Also really like his polaroid projects. And Grand Canyon pictures.
http://www-flash.stanford.edu/~dant/images/hockney.splash.jpg

Then there's Magritte. And I absolutely love how thoughtprovoking he can be. It's more the thought he procokes than the visual pleasure which I treassure about him.

http://www.artsfairies.com/Magritte/The%20Empire%20of%20Light.jpg

Then there's this Danish artist who has made the artwork for this House-duo called Filur (good music actually) and I really love his pop-art. Such as the picture below. Unfortunately I have completely forgotten his name. ARGH
http://files.loudmusic.dk/covers/filurdeeply.jpg

I like the Hockney Splash, it would look good in my new room which is kinda contemporary. Is there a print I can buy do you know?

[Makoto]

I'm also a fan of M G Hanson. He has the same style of music productionI'm also into and the same type of art.


http://www.calpomatt.lavista.org/

[Dear Wendy]

I like the Hockney Splash, it would look good in my new room which is kinda contemporary. Is there a print I can buy do you know?

Find out which Museum is displaying his pictures. I'd imagine their posters are off a better quality than the ones found on the net.

[Kermit]

Find out which Museum is displaying his pictures. I'd imagine their posters are off a better quality than the ones found on the net.

Yep.

Try the Hockney gallery in Bradford.

I love Lowry; mind, I should, working in Sunderland. His Sunderland seascapes are brilliant, there's a great Lowry gallery in Sunderland Museum.

[Fish_food]

I like Roy Leitchenstien (sp?) i did a really good interpretation of one of his paintings last year... never got it back from school though >:(

[BlackArab]

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/06/02/tiananmentanks03,0.jpg

This photo is the news image which means the most to me. It brought home for the first time, just how far authority will go to maintain control.

'1989 was also the year of the student massacre in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Three thousand students were demonstrating against martial law. The authorities sent tanks and armed troops into Tiananmen Square and opened fire on the students. Hundreds were killed, thousands injured'

Five months later the Berlin Wall came down.

[Jah]

Hockney...quite remarkable artist...he sold paintings of Californian swimming pools to extremely wealthy Californians with...swimming pools.

Nice work if you can get it !!

[Girl_gunner]

I love autumnal cannibalism by Dali. Infact I love a lot of Dali. Although I went to the Van Gogh museum recently and it was fab.

[rockerchick]

andy warhol

[Miffy]

I find Chagall really interesting. This is my favourite.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MCG/FC1158.jpg

[Miffy]

I have a print of this in my front room, I LOVE the colours.

[Miffy]

http://membres.lycos.fr/fleurdelys43/cezannebioetoeuvres/ouvres2/lechateaunoir/chateau2.jpg

I like this.

http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/matisse_redroom.jpg

And this.

[Jim V]

What the hell, it's been over a year - let's try this again

Just been poking around some Van Gogh again, and I'm always struck by the self-portraits

http://www.fantasyarts.net/Van_Gogh/Vincent_Van_Gogh_Self_Portrait.jpg

[sophia]

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[Thunderstruck]

Meh let's resurrect it.

I'm a massive fan of, among other things, American realism. Kinda thing you imagine when you read Nabukov or F Scott Fitzgerald. My favourite artist by a mile is Edward Hopper. Here are some of my faves.

Nighthawks (http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~hastrup/nighthawks.jpg) - words cannot describe what this painting means to me. I could write pages about my layman interpretation to it. Suffice to say, the fact that there is no door is the most significant in my opinion.

Early Sunday Morning (http://www.mystudios.com/treasure/hopper/sunday.jpg) - the uneasy calm is what strikes me about this piece. Something's about to happen and you don't know what.

Solitude (http://www.soho-art.com/shopinfo/uploads/1076617848_large-image_35_solitude_56_1944_lg.jpg)

Also, in the American realism section, quite a famous painting that still scares the shit out of me.

American Gothic (http://korkos.club.fr/wood-01grand.jpg) by Grant Wood. Utterly terrifying. It's the woman's face and the man's stare.

[sophia]

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[Bullseye]

Whats that picture, set in a 1940's or 1950's dinner on a corner of a street, looking in through the window of a man in a suit and hat, a woman in a dress and the dinner waiter behind the counter at night.

I love the picture but never found out who did it originally.

[Jim V]

Rather oddly it's the first of the pictures in Thunderstrucks post just above - Nighthawks by Edward Hopper - the movie wasn't as good though ;)

[Thunderstruck]

I'm not an art buff in any shape or form but the only painting I can think of that you just described is my favourite Nighthawks. As I said, I can babble on for hours about the beauty and more-than-real-reality of it. It's stunning in its bleakness.

Couldn't find a decent picture of Solitude so posted that ickle one. It's a lot better in my Hopper book.

Also a big fan of Goya. Whenever I'm in Spain I make a little trip to the Prado to see his stuff. Some examples;

Saturno (http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/desolation/goya_saturn-son.jpg) (Saturn)

Snowstorm (http://www.abcgallery.com/G/goya/goya36.JPG) - one of the finest uses of colour I have ever seen.

Asmodea (http://spanport.byu.edu/faculty/RosenbergJ/Images/19th%20century%20(romanticism,%20realisim)/asmodea.jpg) - wow.

[film_buff]

This is called Dream 2000 by Thomas Brill

http://brill-art.de/galerie/2000/b01traum.jpg

I normally liked bright, colourful pictures but this is one of my favourite pictures.

Singing Fish by Joan Miro http://www.poster.net/miro-joan/miro-joan-singing-fish-2104880.jpg

Petite Fleurs by Pablo Picasso http://www.artexpression.com/images/ESC/jpgs/P121.jpg

[Lacy]

http://www.artgalleryskipton.co.uk/artwork/large/305.jpg

Love that pic.

[Bullseye]

Rather oddly it's the first of the pictures in Thunderstrucks post just above - Nighthawks by Edward Hopper - the movie wasn't as good though ;)


Serve me right for not checking out all the links! lol:thumb:

[JsT]

Not really into paintings to be honest, photography is more my thing. In my humble opinion film shows things a lot better than canvas.

[I'm With Stupid]

I'm more into photos as well. Probably because I'm into making films, so i can steal their ideas. Anyway, I spent a night a while back looking for load of new wallpapers because I bought a widescreen monitor which rendered my old one's obsolete. Here's some of my faves (just to warn you they're quite big).

10149

10150

10151

10152

10153

[I'm With Stupid]

And a few more.

10154

10155

10156

10157

10158

[Blagsta]

Lissitzky - Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/706bg.jpg)

[Blagsta]

I'm also rather partial to the Bauhaus school of graphics

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/VAS/0000-7117-4.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/VAS/0000-3624-6.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/AWI/AF0093.jpg

[Miffy]

This is the same artist as the Dolce Vita painting, Anne Garney. I could look at this one for ages, I love the use of colour.

[Blagsta]

Cartier-Bresson rocks

http://morel.weblog.com.pt/cartier-bresson.bmp

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t070/T070875A.jpg

[Blagsta]

Keith Haring is cool

http://www.sfz-sulzbach-rosenberg.de/kunst/haring_dominik.jpg

http://www.art-wise.com/catalog/artists/KEITHHARING.JPG

http://www.staedtische-galerie-erlangen.de/seiten/6_sammlung/bestand/bilder/600px/haring_keith.jpg

[clementine_the_tangerine]

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/relative/janegrey-nga.jpg <- the execution of lady jane grey by Paul Delaroche

[Blagsta]

Of course Rodchenko that Franz Ferdinand ripped off/paid homage too

http://www.search4keywords.com.ar/alta_buscadores/rodchenko.jpg


more Rodchenko
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/rodchenko-mayak-nipple.jpg

[Thunderstruck]

Heehee - I can read what that says!

[Blagsta]

I haven't a clue, I just like the aesthetics.

[Kimono]

Beautiful Japanese Koi photo (worth seeing in extra-large view)
This comes from Stock Xchng (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/504802) though, so if you want to use it make sure you get it from there.

[bluewisdom]

Oh, I had never seen this thread before. Here's one of my favourite paintings.
I really hope I'll get to Washington DC again sometime so I can see it live. Although I've seen a lot of Monet in Paris, I can't complain :razz:

http://www.nga.gov/image/a00006/a000067e.jpg

[Jim V]

Awww, my first thread back again -

I've been looking at some Francis Bacon again after he turned up in the news (one of his paintings is selling soon)

http://www.kainos.it/numero2/sezioni/bacon/leris.jpg

[bluewisdom]

Oooh my sister and brother-in-law have a Francis Bacon in their living room :yes:

[clementine_the_tangerine]

Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time by Agnolo Bronzino

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4593/475pxangelobronzino001tr6.jpg

[Miffy]

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/art/fineart/change/form/derain.gif

http://members.shaw.ca/martisart/big/challah.jpg

I like fauvism.

[Namaste]

There's a gallery I love near Waterloo by Feliks Topowski. The guy studied art in Poland and came to the UK and drew pictures f the war, then later documented other things with his drawing.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/SHD/S978.jpg
Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner.

I'm not really one for anything too abstract, I prefer to see pictures which tell stories, portray relationships or give you a taste of history.

[Knee High Stripy Socks]

http://www.spinnakersgallery.co.uk/images/johnyardley/PICT7012.jpg
This is called "John Joan and John at Cleethorpes" and it's really special to me because it's actually of my (great) aunt and uncle (in the blue and white stripy chairs). It's painted by John Yardley who is in fact one of their closest friends and a famous artist as well. My uncle was also a brilliant artist but never 'made it' like John Yardley did. He (my uncle) can't paint anymore though, after several strokes which is a real shame. I love this painting just because it's captured my aunt so beautifully, and with so few brush strokes. It's wonderfully understated and doesn't use many colours and even from that tiny picture I can tell it's her and it's just a perfect picture.

Anyone want to give me £950 to buy the original? :(

[Jim V]

Here's John Joan and John at Cleethorpes -

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3274/2405789767_6b3b2717c0_o.jpg

What the hell, if it's going to be a night where MoK leaves I can at least bring this thread back...

Here's one of my favourite paintings -
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2045/2405786205_603bde2677_o.jpg

[Flashman's Ghost]

http://www.directart.co.uk/mall/images/dhm210.jpg

Faugh A Ballagh

[Flashman's Ghost]

[QUOTE=Jim V;2137834]What the hell, if it's going to be a night where MoK leaves I can at least bring this thread back...

Here's one of my favourite paintings -
[/{QUOTE]

Er - where's MoK gone?

[Knee High Stripy Socks]

It's still strange looking at that painting and thinking that it's my great aunt and uncle, and that they are 84 now. Nice, but strange.

[Jim V]

What the hell, if it's going to be a night where MoK leaves I can at least bring this thread back...
[/{QUOTE]

Er - where's MoK gone?

There's a thread in anything goes - to put it simply I think he felt his children could benefit from this site an him being here would stop them using it - but hell in his honour go find an image you love and post it :)

[Flashman's Ghost]

There's a thread in anything goes - to put it simply I think he felt his children could benefit from this site an him being here would stop them using it - but hell in his honour go find an image you love and post it :)

Just found the post - mine are still toddling, so I've got a few years to go yet (and then I'll be damn well on the Site all the time to check they're not posting queries about knobs and oral sex:D )

[Jim V]

And just to reinforce how I feel about Rothko here's Simon Schama putting it better tha I ever could -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jwwMRkH5uF8

[JustThinking..X]

my favourite painting is one that's for sale in a shop in my town and I love it. I can't show you a picture cos I don't know who it's by but it's a picture of a street with cars, lamposts and flats and it's raining.

I would buy it but it's £400.