Art n that

[Brian Freeze]

Tillman or Dollman?

Heh, you edited :-)

Aye, autocorrect thinking it knows best again.

[Underturd]

Thought so!

[All Surrogate]

My posts from a few older threads on art (there's obviously some great suggestions from other people too):

Look at the arts on that!! (paintings inside)

Art Galleries

Amazing Paintings

I quite often like Symbolist (and related movements) artworks, with their overwrought quality, which I can well understand being annoying to a lot of people.


<sup>Fernand Khnopff, Caress of the Sphinx


Franz von Stuck, The Guardian of Paradise</sup>

[tookish]

Forgot to mention that I really like Tom of Finland. They're more than gay pornography (although they certainly are that), they're an act of subversion against authority figures who disavow queer kink while secretly being obsessed with it. I am not very attracted to men but it is impossible to view Tom's work without being enraptured by the fantasy of unabashedly joyous hypermasculinity.

[Deskbound Cunt]

Forgot to mention that I really like Tom of Finland. They're more than gay pornography (although they certainly are that), they're an act of subversion against authority figures who disavow queer kink while secretly being obsessed with it. I am not very attracted to men but it is impossible to view Tom's work without being enraptured by the fantasy of unabashedly joyous hypermasculinity.

I went to a Tom of Finland exhibition in Liverpool about 10 years ago. Incredible stuff. Funny listening to my mate who was ahead of me gasping.

[Stonefish]

I'm also a fan of Zdzisław Beksiński, whose work is unrelentingly grim, while he was by all accounts a very affable guy who waved away dark psychological readings of his art.

[Blue Jam]

Forgot to mention that I really like Tom of Finland. They're more than gay pornography (although they certainly are that), they're an act of subversion against authority figures who disavow queer kink while secretly being obsessed with it. I am not very attracted to men but it is impossible to view Tom's work without being enraptured by the fantasy of unabashedly joyous hypermasculinity.

The original Village Person.

Quite like a bit of ToF myself.

[Deskbound Cunt]

Love Gilbert & George.

[Deskbound Cunt]

Jack Kirby was the greatest artist of the 60s.

the

[Deskbound Cunt]

Double post idiot.

Sez Stan Lee.

[spaghetamine]

way too many to list but off the top of my head I'm a big fan of whimsical abstract stuff, Joan Miró and Paul Klee are my top dawgs

[shoulders]

My preferences

- Secular art
- Dutch peasant life
- Landscapes of Northern France/Belgium/Netherlands/North West Germany
- Art Nouveau, highly emotive and sensual iconography
- To an extent some of the scenes around that. Arts & Crafts, Jugendstil
- North African and Andalusian textiles and patterns
- Ghoulish Black Death era depictions of skulls and skin being peeled back by some stern black coated officials
- Silly and crass depictions of hell
- Byzantine and Orthodox (not so much Greek Orthodox though) styling

Not arsed about:

- Christ childs. Fucking yawn
- Portraiture of nobles etc
- Baroque (not exclusively though, there is some fantastically batshit baroque like sandstone baroque in Lecce and the almost militaristic camp of the Asam brothers in Bavaria)
- Catholic excess
- Abstract (I am open to it, but waiting for it to grab me)

[tookish]

I've already mentioned Grayson Perry but I was looking at their art again last night and I just find this quilt exquisite. I love art that makes me think, maybe I could do that. Maybe I should do that.

[tookish]

PLugging a mate's art, but my friend S makes the most incredible textile art that I love so much, often with young people of the global majority.

https://twitter.com/SlaveryMuseum/status/1067064984092504064/photo/1

[lebowskibukowski]

It depends on the context a lot, I think. My wife and I walked around the Vatican and every single painting for about four hours viewing was a classic - Oh look, another Caravaggio, oh look, another Titian - and it kind of lost any meaning. I've seen modern art that has blown me away, and plenty of well known art that does nothing for me (I'm looking at you, Hockney). Seeing them in real life does make a big difference, though. Michaelangelo's David and Picasso's Guernica are the two that spring to mind that were pretty much jaw-dropping in the flesh. Oh, and Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son is a favourite, too...

[Terry Torpid]

Black Evergreen Forest, 1981
Eyvind Earle (1916—2000)


Snowy Ambush, 1959
John Falter (1910—1982)


Whispering Souls, 2021
Chris Cyprus (1971—)

[spaghetamine]

Whispering Souls, 2021
Chris Cyprus (1971—)

that last one is super psychedelic, made me go "woah!"

thanks for sharing :)

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

Old animated movies, pre-computerisation/digitisation. People drew those. With their hands. That's amazing to me.

[Emma Raducanu]

Studio Ghibli still do the same I think.

[paddy72]

Whispering Souls, 2021
Chris Cyprus (1971—)

That's just incredibly satisfying, isn't it? And I'm not really sure why.

So that's a good thing, I guess.

[Blue Jam]

Seeing them in real life does make a big difference, though. Michaelangelo's David and Picasso's Guernica are the two that spring to mind that were pretty much jaw-dropping in the flesh. Oh, and Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son is a favourite, too...

Agree on Guernica, bloody massive it is.

Went to an exhibition of Bridget Riley's op-art a few years back and nearly fell over a few times. Incredible to see her work at full size. Although my favourite of hers is Burn, relatively smol but makes you wonder if you need an eye test waaarrrgh:

[bgmnts]

If anyone is interested, Radio 4 have just finished a three part series called Dead Famous, exploring the lives and works of Vermeer, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo.

I haven't got round to giving it a listen yet, but if anyone wants to check it out and recommend it or not, that'd be ace.

[Terry Torpid]

Speeding Motorboat, 1924
Benedetta Cappa (1897—1977)


Mariposa, 1983
Edna Andrade (1917—2008)

Burn

Very cool. I also like this one of hers.


Gala, 1974
Bridget Riley (1931—)

[Brian Freeze]

Chris Cyprus works not far from us and is a bloody lovely fella. Been in his studio a couple of times. He gave us one of his artist proofs that he had lying around when we went last time to pick up a jigsaw that he had had made.

 
There's usually an open day at least once a year. Keep hoping to be better off and buy something proper off him.

Edit: keep the fabulous paintings coming please x

[Blue Jam]

I've seen modern art that has blown me away, and plenty of well known art that does nothing for me (I'm looking at you, Hockney).

All I can say for Hockney is that I've been to his Salts Mill gaff in Leeds and it really is bloody lovely so maybe go there, ignore all the paintings and just head straight to the cafe for a nice cooked breakfast.

[idunnosomename]

Studio Ghibli still do the same I think.

yes but the ink and paint process is all digital and has been for decades now. Most 2d animation is still drawn on paper and then scanned in though. Bob's Burgers I think is quite unusual in there's no physical stage at all, it's all done on tablet (lets them reuse simple character animation).

Unless it's done by rigged CG "puppets" that just automatically move between keyframes like quite pioneeringly used in South Park, then in crap flash cartoons from the mid 2000s before Paw Patrol 3D took over, but taken to a higher level in recent stuff like Bluey (which I see bits of and it always looks lovely).

[Brian Freeze]

If anyone is interested, Radio 4 have just finished a three part series called Dead Famous, exploring the lives and works of Vermeer, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo.

I haven't got round to giving it a listen yet, but if anyone wants to check it out and recommend it or not, that'd be ace.

I listened to them last night, I am an ignoramus and learnt a bit about each artist or their art so thanks for the pointer. They weren't perfect but what is?

[Blue Jam]

Visited the National Portrait Gallery of Scotchland for the first time today and saw this up close:



Subject is Tommy Robertson, owner of Backtracks record shop in Tollcross. Very impressive detail up close, title checks out.

[Underturd]

Bill Gates if he went down a different path.

[Blue Jam]

Bill Gates if he went down a different path.

Think it might be that bloke from Nathan For You.