posted August 27, 2007 10:04 PM              

I saw that statue in front of the Uffizi. It's quite lovely. The art collections in Europe are amazing. My absolute favorite is du Louvre in Paris. Rome is sheer magnificience in antiquity. Everywhere you walk in Rome there is an ancient piece to admire and soak in.

I prefer the sculptures of Auguste Rodin as they exhibit the more natural emotions of day to day life. Though I don't know if I could ever afford a replica for my own home. I just have photos for memories.

posted August 28, 2007 08:57 AM            

I was trying to find a thread we had here a while back (over two years ago) showcasing some of our favorite paintings, - but no luck. I posted some Egon Schiele, John Singer Seargent, Rembrandt, some of Bouguereau's angels, and (I think) a self-portrait by Anthony Van Dyck that I've always really liked.

The first painting I ever really liked was Picasso's The Old Guitarist. Someone gave me a book that had it in it, when I was eight or nine, and I used to stare at it... even then, I knew melancholy was poetic and profound.

posted August 30, 2007 08:09 PM            

Aphrodite: I like Rodin too: Particularly his Hands



likely due to my Mars in Gemini

HSC: I didn’t find a ‘old thread’ either, And Madam X -was prob. Sargent’s most famous portrait.? Sort of a ‘pin-up’ for it’s day.

posted January 21, 2008 10:49 AM            

Dream Chamber

Flora-

posted January 22, 2008 10:37 PM            

Abstract art is kinda like Jazz Music for me. So many styles. I read a quote by a abstract artist once that said he didn't think the viewer should look for recognizable forms. They should just feel the emotion.

In the first painting I see food art. Like the cover of Gourmet Magazine. Plates and beautifully represented small dishes, like tapas, I see dill and chives too.

The last one, even with the strong colors feels playful, whimsical, insouciant.

posted August 30, 2009 12:32 PM            

A fav scene is the sculpture gallery in Darcy's home.

also 2nd pic is a different view of that Bernini from the first page.

posted August 30, 2009 12:36 PM            

ustory- Karen Trottier - wood

and this one is devilhead- a wallpaper

posted September 04, 2009 06:28 PM            

I have a large of the following, great steal, totally impulse. Framed it is 38x28.
The frame alone would have cost more than I paid. Cha-ching. I do not regret it in the least.
It has become, (perhaps) my favorite. And research has led me to believe a Neptune tie with Mr. Armstrong..amongst others. I will indulgently post my favorite lyric, as well.

posted September 04, 2009 06:50 PM            

Give me a kiss to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A kiss to build a dream on

Give me a kiss before you leave me
And my imagination will feed my hungry heart
Leave me one thing before we part
A kiss to build a dream on

When Im alone with my fancies...Ill be with you
Weaving romances...making believe theyre true

Give me your lips for just a moment
And my imagination will make that moment live
Give me what you alone can give
A kiss to build a dream on

(instrumental break)

When Im alone with my fancies...Ill be with you
Weaving romances...making believe theyre true

posted September 18, 2009 04:47 PM            

Painting with Green Center.

Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Ažbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

He did not take up painting till the age of 30. He was teaching Law, and Economics. ..in part
....He was similarly influenced during this period by Richard Wagner's Lohengrin which, he felt, pushed the limits of music and melody beyond standard lyricism.[citation needed]

Kandinsky was also spiritually influenced by H. P. Blavatsky (1831–1891), the most important exponent of Theosophy in modern times. Theosophical theory postulates that creation is a geometrical progression, beginning with a single point. The creative aspect of the forms is expressed by the descending series of circles, triangles, and squares. Kandinsky's book Concerning the Spiritual In Art (1910) and Point and Line to Plane (1926) echoed this basic Theosophical tenet.

Fascinating person- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

"The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being." -Kandinsky
*2662 is Main Belt asteroid Kandinsky

This one reminds me of a planetary system.

Wassily Kandinsky. Several Circles. 1926. Oil on canvas. 140 x 140 cm. The Solomon R. Guggebheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.

posted September 18, 2009 04:52 PM            

*Homage to Kandinsky

posted September 24, 2009 10:29 AM            

Last night I had a strong dream about flowers, peony's were prominent.

Artists like rock stars lead interesting lives, and they have interesting charts as well. O'Keeffe lived to 98!

from wiki:
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s. She received widespread recognition for her technical contributions, as well as for challenging the boundaries of modern American artistic style. She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes in which she synthesized abstraction and representation. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.

posted November 05, 2009 09:06 AM            

I like her asian flavored work with the stronger colors best.

Her small (18x14) prints go for 400+ good for her

She is showing at the Faerie convention in Baltimore this weekend.

Wonder if a Tarot deck is in the works....she did a cover for a magazine called The Beltane Papers That is right up my alley that mag...off to google

http://thebeltanepapers.net/
thanks!