Frederic Leighton, “Flaming June”, (1895)…
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Not sure you’re going to get a ton of discussion on these threads, but I hope you’ll keep posting these.
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Igor Bitman (russian, b. 1953) - Red Dress…
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Lun Gywe
Burmese, still living (born in 1930)
A friend has a similar version as below in his home. I can (and have) stared endlessly at it.
Something about this one I can’t let go of. It just pulls me in.
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My contribution… some turn-of-the(16th)-century feminism. Two takes on Judith beheading Holofernes.
First, Caravaggio from 1598:
And Artemesia Gentileschi’s interpretation from 20 years later:
See if you can tell which one of them was painted by a rape survivor…
So much of this stuff is so interesting. Would be fun to speak to the artists about what inspired them, and how different aspects of the art came to them.
This is my creation about my attitude on that day!
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I’m usually not a watercolor guy (and I’m not much of an art appreciator in general), but there’s something about that first picture that is absolutely captivating to me.
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I’m with you, man. I’m generally pretty interested in all of them, for very different reasons.
Gonna go dig up my favorite sculpture. I know many of you won’t like it, but it really speaks to me. I am very aware I can be a 14-year-old, but, to me, it represents the evolution of my own heart.
Ditto.
It’s actually very different than almost all of his works.
He has a few seaside, but you’re right that these are much different. Many of his other pieces lack the detail.
No work of art has “spoke” to me more than this one. I saw it for the first time when I was 17 and back packing Europe. I saw it last with my family in the summer of 2018, “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz”…El Greco 1586
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That’s effing awesome.
We were fortunate enough to get to travel last December, right before all the shit went down, and got to see this triptych in person in Lisbon. Feels kinda relevant to the present.
Hieronymous Bosch, The Temptation of St. Anthony, ~1510
If folks have time, it’s totally worth checking out the various bits of this scene in closeup–it is entirely batshit insane.
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights , oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid
My second favorite painting in the Prado.
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Guido Borelli, “Lavender at Night”, 1952…
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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), No Place to Go, 1935…
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I spent a lot of money for this one about 30 years ago
(too much really but at least it’s an original)
It was and remains my only “real” piece of art
I saw it and just had to have it
I guess a fairly well known artist in Canada – Julius Damasdy
He did many 3 Indian paintings – not many 4 Indian paintings
Not sure if that makes mine good or bad
I look at the painting as an aging process – the guy at the bottom has true wisdom
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Spectacular.
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944)
“Horse Team”, 1919, oil, National Gallery, Oslo, Norway
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