Favorite Paintings Two

Original thread:

St. Louis de Toulouse by Antonio Vivarini

I'm not a religious person but I do like this painting. I can't remember if this was on the old thread and I'm repeating myself.

The Musicians by Caravaggio for its languid, decadent, homoerotic vibe.

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis

More Maud Lewis

Northern River by Tom Thomson

Lobster Fishermen, 1940-41. Marsden Hartley.

OK, perhaps not my favorite, not even of Hartley’s. But I love his work. It seduces me.

Lobster Fishermen, 1940-41. Marsden Hartley.

^^^^^ Apologies for the duplicate post.

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin (Sarah Morris), 1773, John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

Detail of "Carousels in Honor of Queen Christina" by Filippo Gagliardi and Filippo Lauri.

These are the kind of understated costumes that gay men love.

Love that painting, R10. Great choice.

"The Moon by Day" by Margaret French

painting set in Fire Island

Consuelo Vanderbilt - and her swan like neck

The Tangled Garden by J.E.H. MacDonald

Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool by Edward Wadsworth

Edward Wadsworth

Long lost Courbet found in the basement of Penn dental school.

Milton Avery, Rothko, Miro, Jackson Pollock.

As someone who can draw and paint and has frequently been oohed and awed over and called an artist, they are very puzzling.

Maybe a succession of paintings and try your best and have it be weird, and maybe not even very good but continue doing it unapologetically. People will think it's clever, want to purchase the result of the vibe that inspired you.

Very puzzling. It looks like shit but hey, that's art! A urinal is art! Cash me outside girl made $52 million in a year. A shark covered in formaldehyde sold for millions.

Very weird. Just do random shit with a passion and pour it out. Eventually you to will be part of the art trend and your name will be cited and famous.

Winslow Homer - Undertow

All the Beauty of the World is a memoir by a man who was plunged into grief by his young brothers death and became a Met Museum guard for ten years. It was unexpectedly lovely and a great introduction to art and museums, it’s a very accessible read, relatively short and the eBook has links to works mentioned in the text.

Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Konrat by Oskar Kokoschka, 1909. I've seen it in the Museum of Modern Art.

Ah, Milton Avery. Not my favorite-ever artist per se, but OP you adorable cad, you've reminded me of the good ole days when I was in grad school and had meaning and purpose and drive. I did my thesis on Milton Avery! I got to spend time with his daughter and grandson at his old apartment in Manhattan and explore the archives. Avery's feel for color is really something else. Just wonderful.

Interesting combination of tragedy and sexy male bodies, R19.

Pearblossom Highway by David Hockney

The Death of Chatterton (Henry Wallis)

Portrait with Snakes by Nicolas Party

Study of a Nude Man, attributed to Gustave Courbet

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sun Setting over a Lake, c.1840

A large work (3' x 4'), this is the most astonishing painting I've ever seen (I saw it at the Auckland Art Gallery's [italic]Light From Tate[/italic] exhibition, which is still running).

No photograph can capture the miraculous depth of colour or the luscious texture of the heavily-worked surface. I think it's the most magnificent painting I've ever seen in person. It stood out even many other gobsmacking works in that same exhibition.

Another from the [italic]Light from Tate[/italic] exhibition, an incredible Monet: Poplars on the Epte, from1891.

Entrance to Lincoln Tunnel, Night-Time by Philip Pearlstein

Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue by Dosso Dossi

Apollo by Dosso Dossi

QUESTION:

What is your opinion of AI (artificial intelligence) Art?

R33, even though it looks good, there's no real emotion behind it so I think it's inferior.

Besides, some experts are saying the scenario of AI getting away from us and turning on us is not just science fiction but a possibility.

Thank you, R34! I hope many more will weigh in.

I don't know a lot about it, and I suppose I don't know a lot about art either. I like what I like, and I don't like what I don't like. But (IMHO) the purpose of art is to evoke emotion and/or discussion.

The piece linked below is entitled "Bon Voyage" by Jonas Peterson. Here are the specs;

Digital art / Giclee Print / Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308 gsm

Size: 24x36 inches

First limited edition of 25 - all prints are numbered, and hand signed.

Image size is printed as listed. 2-inch border is added to allow for framing.

Now, when I first saw it, the piece immediately took me to the place of the old southern Black Baptist church and the duty to God. In fact, I immediately started humming to myself an old meter hymn; "A Charge I Have To Keep". So, the "emotion" button was hit. I suppose given its title I could somehow twist it to match my perception of the piece.

What do you (and others) think?

It is an intriguing work of art, R35. I like it. I don't know anything about AI art. It seems you always have a person associated with an AI artwork. I wonder how much the person is guiding the process and how much the computer is actually "creating".

I like this. Jason Allen's AI generated "Théatre d'Opéra Spatial".

^Ohhhh....

That one IS very nice!

Thanks R38.

I think a human artists using AI as a tool is fine. Pure AI Art is more akin to poor magazine illustration.

There are no paintings but...

Check out this guy's work!

Those sculptures are amazing, R41. Thanks for posting them.

I always found this portrait of Napoleon to be mesmerizing

Love the grandeur of Ingre's painting, R43. One of my favourites.

While casting no aspersions on Ingres (@43), Napoleon himself deserves a big ol' "Mary!"

The Children of Nathan Starr by Ambrose Andrews, 1835

Is it charming? Is it a bit spooky? Who's to say?

Water Memory - a photography by Cara Romero, 2015

Pueblo corn dancers in an aquatic performance

* a photograph

Oops. Drunk on cooking sherry again.

“The Garden Door”, William Bruce Ellis Rankenby (1926).

Ranken's "Covent Garden" is quite nice.

R49, Ranken was clever to make the painting ambiguous so gay men could interpret it in their own way. A straight male painter would have made the woman the gentlemen were courting the center of attention.

Maybe like this engraving titled "Our Society" from 1891. The men's faces aren't even shown clearly.

Lots of handsome young men in Ranken's paintings.

The Polo Player.

True, Ranken was very likely one of us. Not a whole lot of detail in the wikipedia article.

Some articles on Ranken just say he's gay.

Yes, he definitely looks like one of us in the 1903 photograph by Adolph de Meyer. It looks like he was a big success in high society and lived a comfortable life. Good for him.

Those are Oscar Wilde's gentlemen callers, R49.

The Birches by Neil Welliver

Pink Azalea by William Merritt Chase

Allée of Chestnut Trees by Alfred Sisley

Annibale Carracci self portrait

Two Sisters by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Kyle Thurman

Hungarian Karoly Ferenezy's "Evening Bathers" (1905).

He was a member of the Nagybánya Artists' Colony, with his style overtaking that of its founder, Simon Hollósy.

Luigi Lucioni's portrait of Paul Cadmus (oil, 1928).

John Singer Sargent, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

Morning by Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin

photography by Kathrin Linkersdorff

Albert Weisgerber (German, 1878-1915), Self-portrait, 1908.

115 years ago, but he looks so contemporary.

I know almost nothing about art, but I was mesmerized by this portrait when I first saw it in person. Maybe it was just the scale of it. But I couldn't take my eyes off of it.

The Cat at Play by Henriette Ronner

A drawing in the Rijksmuseum.

The print above is L'Éte by Jean Moyreau.

Liking much of contemporary artist Fernando Cidoncha's work. He's also a sculptor.

This one is called "Prudence."

Link to his website in next post.

Very nice, R74 and R75. An artist I had never heard of.

Cidoncha has an interesting instagram feed as well.

Caravaggio’s Medusa.

Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park series.

Meagre Company by Frans Hals

Caravaggio's Medusa is powerful. Thanks, R78.

The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Rubens. A bit of homoeroticism.

The Beach at Heist by Georges Lemmen

Artist Wade Reynolds

"Young Man Posing" (1968)

Oil on Canvas

Thanks R84. Cool painting.

Here's a little article on Wade Reynolds.

I also like that painting called "Young Man in Interior" (the one with the guy with his feet up on the coffee table near the open window).

Crucifixion Diptych by Rogier van Der Weyden

The Ninth Wave by Aivazovsky

The ninth wave refers to a huge wave after a series of incrementally larger waves.

A ship has been wrecked in a storm and the survivors try to save themselves by clinging to the debris.

Swiss artist, Seline Burn

"Farther in the Furrow"

Other works-links on her IG: selineburn

"Two Satyrs" by Rubens.

great thread, more please

Rockwell Kent, "Men and Mountains." I'm not convinced he was straight.

Definitely not my favorite painting. I'm a little shocked by its graphic nature. I guess some people centuries ago were into violence porn.

Two Followrs of Cadmus Devoured by a Dragon by Cornelis van Haarlem

Tropic by Wifredo Lam

Composition #57, Pattern 29 by Robert Gribbroek

Naked men wrestling, R92? I love it. I wonder if Kent was gay or bi.

Greenland Swimmer by Rockwell Kent

Kind of a flat butt on the guy in R97. My verdict: not gay.

Maybe Kent was straight, R98. Maybe painting nude guys doesn't prove anything. When I saw his photo in the wikipedia article, he pinged to me a bit but I could be completely wrong.

Nothing at all gay about naked guys wrestling, Rockwell!

Haha, R100. I've looked online but I can't find any article that suggests Kent was probably a gay man.

Favorite porcelain figurine.

Excuse me...

How are you all getting the images to show in the thread?

This really is one of my FAVORITE threads, but it suffered when DL changed its image posting protocol. I suppose that was because of copyright issues. Anyway... yes, I know that I could just click an image's link to see the image but call me lazy (or whatever else) but I don't like doing that. It takes the joy of the thread away from me when before I could just scroll the thread and experience an immediate reaction from an image that "struck" me.

The painter at R64 is spelled wrong; it should be Ferenczy.

Just trying something.

Someone said that if you copy an image off pinterest, it should show up without clicking, R103. I tried that for R105 and it doesn't work.

I guess you do it like this, R103.

I followed R29's instructions on the thread at R107 and it works.

The stunning [italic]Conversion of Saint Paul on the Way to Damascus[/italic] by Caravaggio.

It's best seen in situ in the Cerasi Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, where it faces another Caravaggio masterpiece, [italic]The Crucifixion of Saint Peter[/italic].

^ The Cerasi Chapel ^

Caravaggio was a genius, R110, and one of my favorite painters but sometimes I wonder if he deliberately tried to get the goat of his patrons. In this painting of the "Crucifixion of St. Peter", which is in the same chapel as the one you mentioned, one of the most prominent things is the guy's butt. Not very dignified.

I love his painting of "The Entombment of Christ", even though the composition is distractingly obvious --- an arc that goes from the woman with the raised arms to Christ's body.

Blue Umbrella 2 by Alex Katz

The Wedding Dress: 1911

Frederick William Elwell (1870-1958)

The Flower Girl: 2022

Dima Dmitriev

Dima Dmitriev was born in Moscow, Russia, and is the second generation of artists in his family. He moved to Prague, Czech Republic, where he graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. As his paintings gained attention and praise at fine art exhibitions throughout Europe, Dima became one of the most talked about young artists living in Prague’s flourishing artistic community. Dmitriev has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Dmitriev’s paintings represent forms of “visual paradise”. He describes this as the process of extracting the color, light, and texture from real places and distilling these onto his canvases as idealized worlds. Dima rarely uses a brush. His preferred tool is the palette knife. Dmitriev also adds depth and color saturation to some of his works by starting with black, rather than the traditional white, canvas. Dima’s Impressionistic composition and style combined with his mastery of the palette knife create oil paintings that are vibrant and sculptural. His works often include themes of childhood, nature and the sea. Numerous institutions including AT&T, Vodafone, AWD Holding AG, Proton Therapy Center have acquired his paintings for their art collections. His works are also in private collections in the Czech Republic, United States, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Russia, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Australia, Qatar, and the Dominican Republic and others.

Rothko

I really enjoy these threads. Thank you so much R107 for helping to bring back my joy (see R103) that Muriel had so abruptly and unceremoniously taken away from me. Here's my question (and please feel free to help me in clarifying what I am asking)... There is SO MUCH art throughout the world, (and I have been exposed to a lot of work that I like right here in these threads), how do Interior Designers, et alia find pieces that work for them (or their client's) lives/environments?

For example, An Interior Designer wants a certain mood for a space. Is there some type of software where the Designer inputs facets of that mood and then the search returns a listing of artwork and/or artists that the Designer might want to consider? And then, prior to the computer age what would people do?

I know it's a silly question, but it is my question and so many of you are SO well-versed in art and the art world that you might be able to shed some light on the subject for me.

While I understand their cause and would more than likely agree with it, this type of destruction and/or attempted destruction/vandalism is something I absolutely DO NOT support! These people, if convicted, should be given a minimum of hard labor in prison, IMHO. Some might say that's too harsh because it's "just" a painting. But no, the destruction of antiquities should be looked upon as sacrosanct.

Woman In a Boat-1922

Pekka Halonen (23 September 1865 – 1 December 1933) was a Finnish painter of landscapes and people in the national romantic and Realist styles. Halonen chronicled the Finnish landscape and its people. He had an early interest in Symbolism, but Gauguin's decorative Synthetism, as well as Japanese woodcuts, had a deeper impression on his work. Many of his paintings depict simple scenes from his everyday surroundings, such as Sauna in the Snow (1908), which vividly captures the stillness and subtle fragrance of freshly fallen snow. When at the beginning of the 20th century Finland's existence was threatened, Halonen strove to foster a sense of national pride through symbolic interpretations of the Finnish landscape.

Halonen stated that he never painted for anyone but himself. He felt that "Art should not jar the nerves like sandpaper – it should produce a feeling of peace."

Carl Larsson, male nude. Not your typical Carl Larsson.

Thank you for making me aware of Pekka Halonen, R121.

His work is simply amazing.

Malcolm T. Liepke

"Pulling off his shirt"

More evidence that Rockwell Kent had latent homo tendencies? What straight man would limn Bacchus' tush so exquisitely? And make him fondle Silenus' knee while he pours wine into his wide open mouth? Even the leopard looks a little embarrassed.

Nice composition, too!

Yannis Tsarouchis - The Arrest of Three Communists

^Now, isn't that quite interesting...

Is the communist hiding under the table also a nudist?

(Gay) Yannis Tsarouchis has a lot of homoerotic themes in his work.

The Foundation has a section on his paintings.

Sailors seemed popular with him.

Irma kukhianidze born on January 21, 1970 in Kutaisi. In 1987 she graduated from the Tbilisi Public School # 7 . 1984-87 studied in Maisuradze art school. 1989-94 she studied at the State Academy of Arts .

[quote]“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?”--Shannon Alder

A Group Of Four Nudes

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara Rozalia Gurwik-Gorska

Born: May 16, 1898; Warsaw, Poland

Died: March 18, 1980; Cuernavaca, Mexico

Nationality: Polish, Russian, French

Art Movement: Art Deco

Field: painting

Influenced by: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Pablo Picasso, André Lhote, Cubism

Teachers: Maurice Denis, André Lhote

Art institution: Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France

Official site: tamaradelempickaestate(dot)com

"Holy Ghost"

Annie Frances Lee (3 March 1935 – 24 November 2014) was an American artist. She is known for her depiction of African-American everyday life. Her work is characterized by images without facial features. She used body language to show emotion and expression in her work. Her most popular paintings are Blue Monday and My Cup Runneth Over.

Tamrara Maria Gorska

She was born Maria Gorska of well-to-do parents in turn-of- the-century Poland. After her mother and father divorced, her wealthy grandmother spoiled her with clothes and travel. By age 14 she was attending school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Tamara vacationed in St. Petersburg with her Aunt Stephanie, whose millionaire banker husband had their home decorated by the famous French firm Maison Jansen. All this high living gave the young girl an idea of how she wanted to live and what her future should be.

Soon after Russia and Germany declared war in 1914, she fell in love with the most handsome bachelor in Warsaw, a lawyer named Taduesz Lempicki. She set her sights on him and two years later they were married in fashionable St. Petersburg. Her banker uncle provided the dowry, and Lempicki, who had no money of his own, was delighted to marry this beautiful l6 year old girl. A year later, Taduesz was arrested by the Bolsheviks, and Tamara braved the Russian Revolution to free him, using her good looks to charm favors from the necessary officials. The couple fled to Paris and that‘s where the story of Tamara de Lempicka‘s fantastic life really begins.

Paris

Now known as Tamara de Lempicka, the refugee studied art and worked day and night. She became a well-known portrait painter with a distinctive Art Deco manner. Quintessentialy French, Deco was the part of an exotic, sexy, and glamorous Paris that epitomized Tamara‘s living and painting style. Between the wars, she painted portraits of writers, entertainers, artists, scientists, industrialists, and many of Eastern Europe‘s exiled nobility. Her daughter, Kizette de Lempica-Foxhall wrote in her biograpy of Tamara De Lempica Passion By Design, „She painted them all, the rich, the successful, the renowned, the best. The work brought her critical acclaim, social celebrity and considerable wealth.

America

At the threat of a second World War, she left Paris for America. She went to Hollywood, to become the „Favorite Artist of the Hollywood Stars“. She and her second husband, Baron Raoul Kuffner, one of her earliest and wealthiest patrons, moved into American film director King Vidor‘s former house in Beverly Hills. The Baron and Tamara moved to New York City in 1943, to a stunning apartment at 322 East 57th Street. Here, two-story north light studio she continued painting in the old style for another year or two. Tamara decorated the apartment with the antiques she and the Baron had rescued from his Hungarian estate.

Painting: Adam & Eve

Paris

When the war was over, she reopened her famous Paris studio in the rue Mechain, redecorated in rococo style. Friends then asked her to decorate apartments in New York City with her individual touch. After the Baron‘s death in 1962, she moved to Houston to be near her daughter Kizette. She began painting with a palette knife, much in vogue at the time. The Iolas Gallery in New York exhibited her newest and latest paintings in 1962, but the critics were indifferent, there were not many buyers, and she swore to herself that she would never exhibit again. The advent of Abstract Expressionism and her advancing age halted her career in the 1950‘s and 1960‘s. Somewhat forgotten, her work ignored, she continued to paint, storing her canvases, new and old, in an attic and a warehouse.

In 1966, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs mounted a commemorative exhibition in Paris called „Les Annees ‚25“. Its success created the first serious interest in Art Deco. This inspired a young man named Alain Blondel to open the Galerie du Luxembourg and launch a major retrospective of Tamara de Lempicka. It was a revelation in the art world and was to have been followed by an exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York City. But Tamara, ever imperious, made too many demands on how the exhibit was to be mounted, and the curator at Knoedler walked away. Gradually, as Art Deco and figurative painting came into favor again, she was rediscovered by the art world.

Mexico

In 1978 she moved to Mexico permanently, buying a beautiful house in Cuernavaca called Tres Bambus, built by a Japanese architect in a chic neighborhood. She despaired of growing old and in her last years sought the company of young people. She mourned at the loss of her beauty and was cantankerous to the end.

Tamara de Lempicka died in her sleep on March 18, 1980 with her daughter Kizette at her side. Her wish to be cremated and have her ashes spread on the top of the volcano Popocatepetl was carried out.

Painting: Dr. Boucard

Self-portrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti) is Tamara Łempicka’s most famous and most reproduced work. It quickly became an iconic effigy of the modern woman of the interwar period.

Tamara Łempicka portrayed herself sitting behind the wheel of a sports car. Her regular facial features, alabaster complexion, and statuesque profile liken the artist to ancient Greek sculptures. This connotation is bolstered by the accumulation of bright, almost monochromatic elements: a flesh-coloured glove, a small, grey-and-beige aviator hat, and a windblown shawl of the same colour covering the artist’s neck. In the painting’s lower part, one can see the shiny, green-and-turquoise signature of the artist, stylised to resemble a modern, geometrised logo. ‘TJL’ letters, framed in a rectangle, are short for ‘Tamara Junosza Lempicka’. Although the artist usually signed her works as ‘de Lempicka’, this time she also used the Junosza coat of arms which belonged to her husband Tadeusz Łempicki.

By portraying herself as sitting in a car – a vehicle which is fast, elegant, and modern – Łempicka clearly makes a nod to the Futurism movement, characterised by its fascination with speed, technology, and urban life. It is possible that Łempicka was inspired by André Kertész’s 1927 photo, in which the Hungarian photographer immortalised a young woman in an aviator hat driving a sport car. The theme in Łempicka’s painting fits into the cult of the machine on one hand, and on the other portrays the car as a tool of women’s emancipation. A woman driving a car, especially in the 1920s, enters a sphere dominated by men. She is a modern amazon who exchanged her horse for a mechanical mode of transport.

The artist poses as a femme fatale – an independent, liberated, attractive and sometimes dangerous woman. It is emphasised by red lips, short hair, and a come-hither look cast down from half-closed eyelids directly at the viewer. The famous Self-portrait is consciously connected to the image created by Łempicka. The artist photographed herself in stylisations which made her resemble film stars (she was reportedly mistaken for Greta Garbo) and also sent photos of herself to luxury fashion magazines. Her strategy paid off – she was covered by Harper’s Bazaar among others. In January 1932, a reporter who interviewed Łempicka in Warsaw presented the painter to the readers of the Świat magazine as follows:

A totally Parisian silhouette. Big, bright and acute eyes, blond hair and a Greek nose. Carmine lips and ochre-manicured nails. Considerable height – for a woman. Ideal outfits, and the furs – the most expensive ones! Her image stirs up interest by itself.

Sculptural and geometrised composition used by Łempicka is very characteristic of her. The artist aptly combined cubist forms with a classical aesthetic, creating a combination of tradition and modernity in her painting. She used pure colours and the items portrayed by her had a polished surface and a metallic sheen. Łempicka’s art in the 1920s and the 1930s resembled luxury fashion magazine illustrations of the interwar period in a way. The aesthetic of her works fits them perfectly, as well as did the theme – primarily, the artist painted portraits of beautiful, elegant women, often tinged with eroticism.

The Self-portrait was commissioned by the German fashion magazine Die Dame. Reportedly, the publisher saw the artist driving a car in Monte Carlo and immediately asked her for a similar painting for a cover. Łempicka claimed that she was not recognised and the man was simply fascinated by the encountered scene. It does not seem probable, but it does fit the myth consciously created by the artist. Interestingly, at the time Łempicka drove a yellow Renault, but depicted a green Bugatti in the painting – she considered it to be more elegant.

In reality, at that time Łempicka already realised several projects for Die Dame, four covers in total – In the Middle of Summer (1928) and the wintry Saint Moritz (1929) to name just two of them. Her paintings also appeared on the covers of Polish magazines (of the Warsaw-based weekly Świat for example). The commercial commissions were very well paid and the wide distribution reinforced the artist’s recognizability.

Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti) gained massive popularity precisely as a reproduction. The image known from Die Dame’s cover quickly became an iconic portrayal of a modern, liberated woman and one of the art déco movement’s flagship examples. The original painting, painted with oil on a relatively small wooden board (35 x 27 cm), is currently a part of a private collection. It was exhibited as a stand-alone artwork quite late, only in 1972.

This Yannis Tsarouchis is QUITE interesting! I must study more about him.

Yannis Tsarouchis (Greek: Γιάννης Τσαρούχης; 13 January 1910 – 20 July 1989) was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including soldiers, sailors, and nude males. Born in Piraeus, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1929–1935). He was also a student of Photios Kontoglou, who introduced him to Byzantine iconography, while he also studied popular architecture and dressing customs. Together with Dimitris Pikionis, Kontoglou and Angeliki Hatzimichali he led the movement for the introduction of Greek tradition in painting. From 1935 to 1936 he visited Istanbul, Paris and Italy. He came in contact with the Renaissance art and Impressionism. He discovered the works of Theophilos Hatzimihail and met influential artists such as Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti. He returned to Greece in 1936 and two years later he produced his first personal exhibition in Athens. He later fought in the Greco-Italian War in 1940. In 1949, he and other artists, including Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Yannis Moralis, Nikos Nikolaou, Nikos Engonopoulos and Panayiotis Tetsis, established the "Armos" art group. In 1951 he had exhibitions in Paris and London. In 1958 he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 1967 he moved to Paris. Tsarouchis "filled his canvases with homoerotic images of vulnerable men and (to a much lesser extent) strong women. In 1982 the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum in Maroussi, Athens, was inaugurated. The Museum is actually hosted in the house of the artist.

La garde oubliée--signé en grec et daté '1955' (en bas à gauche)--huile sur toile

Hmm... Your thoughts?

Entitled: "Fade In The Water"

Cepeda Brunson: Self taught visual artist from Charlotte, N.C. I specialize in portrait painting sense 2012. He is a graphic designer, body paint artist, and art instructor. He works with multiple mediums such as acrylics, oils, watercolors, and fabrics.

What a beautiful Monet!

I'm collecting 1950s 1960s flowers in vase still live paintings. They must have ELEGANZA and GLAMOUR!

^Check out Eugene Petit EXCEPT... he's much earlier than the 1950's-60's. Why that specific time period, R141?

Titled A Vase of Flowers:

Right now? This one.

R142 oh the Hollywood Regency of it all. Douglas Sirk. Billy Baldwin. The brush strokes. The modern lux frames in light colors.

Boyaryna Morozova by Surikov. It’s part of the permanent collection of the Tretyakovka.

"Sole Patron" - Aaron Westerberg, 2023

"Male Nude in the Studio of Bonnat", Laurits Tuxen, 1876-1877

Muskeln ("Muscles"), by Osmar Schindler, 1907

CORRECTION and my sincere apologies! R140 is NOT a Monet. The artist is Tatyana Chernykh, and the work is titled; "Flowers on the Window Sill"

Tatiana Chernykh is Russian, born in Moscow, but draws inspiration from nature and Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. And the artist’s genes are in her blood - her father was a painter. It is not surprising that painting captured and captivated Tatyana from a young age. As a girl, she often went to plein airs with her parents. And I saw with my own eyes how one must be able to notice the beauty of one’s native land. And then she worked a lot next to her father, standing at the next easel - both in the studio and outdoors. And she always listened carefully to the advice of her mentor, adopting his invaluable creative experience. Today Tatyana Chernykh is a recognized master. She is a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the painting section of the International Federation of Artists, a full member of the New York Art Club named after Catherine Lorillard Woolf (USA), winner and winner of many prestigious art competitions. She is also an Interior Designer

Julia Rivera is a talented and well-educated painter who has pleased many art collectors with her daring use of color, the internal rhythms of her compositions, and above all, her playful and refreshing imagery.

Rivera has created a name for herself through art restoration, apart from her repairs she is a talented and multifaceted artist. She was born in the Bronx in 1965, but since then has done an enormous amount of studying and exhibiting across the globe. She attended Escuela de Artes Plásticas in Puerto Rico, she then received her MA in 17th-century painting and restoration at the Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy. Rivera has art in numerous permanent collections across the globe in Texas, Madrid, and Paris.

Born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1965. Julia Rivera treasures solid academic training spent in several countries and academies. She studied painting at the SACI school in Florence, Italy. Study sculpture at the Art League of Manhattan, N.Y. Participate in a study trip at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France. She studied additional studies at the New York Art Studio in Manhattan, N.Y, C. Completed her studies at the School of Plastic Arts in San Juan where she obtained her Bachelor's degree in Art Education.

Mallarme pointed out that a good poem has to be enigmatic. I believe that good works also have to possess magic and mystery. A good work of art does not let us know everything. Influenced by Gorky, Miro, Chagall and Matta, and quite aware of what has happened in the field of ‘lite’ neo-figuration during the last three decades, Rivera combines humor and poetry to conceive well balanced scenarios where the mundane and metaphysical establish dialogue about time and the human condition.

The young Boris Pasternak painted by his father.

Honey we all knew it was not Monet but pitied you too much to correct you.

Another...

My favorite by the artist: "Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)", Jackson Pollock, 1950.

I have a 2'x3' canvas print of this one on my bedroom wall. I ordered it on Etsy in 2019. The origin? Ukraine, of all places.

The real painting is housed at The Met, and measures over eight feet high, and more than seventeen feet wide. I'll finally be seeing it in person this summer.

I love Pollock's work, and went to see "Lavender Mist" at the National Gallery, last May. The first time I went to see it, I was told the painting was in storage. That was almost thirty years ago. So, it was a full-circle moment.

[quote]Honey we all knew it was not Monet but pitied you too much to correct you.

Aw... Don't pity me, R153. I welcome correction! Besides posting works that I like I'm here to learn from those of you who are much more sophisticated, upscale, and snobbish, in the art world far more than I am. I want to be like you one day!

R155 I think you might have found inspiration 15 years ago on DL. Nowadays it's mostly low brow, featuring bitter ruminative battles about a couple of figures in pop culture and current affairs.

"Favorite Subject" by MIchael Breyette

"Episode de la guerre des nerfs" by Bernard Réquichot

Sadly, a photo doesn't really capture the depth of the collage technique.

For R157

One of my favorite artists is Judith Leyster. Her paintings have a joyfulness, showing people drinking, playing music or cards instead of so many old world paintings with stiff, rigid subjects that are hard to see as actual living people.

Interesting....

"The Weight of Grief"--1898

Oskar Zwintscher

Oskar Zwintscher (2 May 1870, in Leipzig – 12 February 1916, in Dresden) was a German painter. He is often associated with the Jugendstil movement. Feel the devastation in Grief. A tribute to the tragedy of grief, the artwork depicts a crushed figure weighed down by despair.

"The thrill, the fear, the hope"

by David Rodríguez Tovar

René Gruau

Count Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli delle Caminate, professionally known as René Gruau (4 February 1909 – 31 March 2004) was a fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry. Because of Gruau's inherent skills and creativity, he contributed to a change in the entire fashion industry through the new pictures that represented the already popular designs created by designers in the industry. The benefits, including economic stimulation and enhancement of advertising are still present in the industry today via a new way of fashion illustration, fashion photography. Gruau became one of the best known and favorite artists of the haute couture world during the 1940s and 50s working with Femina, Marie Claire, L'Officiel, L'Album Du Figaro and an assortment of "high-style" magazines. Gruau's artwork is recognized and commended internationally in some of Paris and Italy's most prestigious art museums including the Louvre in Paris and the Blank in Italy. In addition to his international fame and recognition, "Gruau's artwork is known for its timeless and enduring style".

Rene Gruau’s style combines an influence of Japanese woodblock prints and the simplified forms of Toulouse Lautrec with a bright and lively color palette. The combination of these elements lends his works an unmistakable feeling of joie de vivre and elegance. While fashion is often the subject of Gruau’s works, it is the female form that most grabs the viewer’s attention. ”Gruau’s women are not gamines and never pinups,” Gilles de Bure wrote in ”Gruau,” a biography published in 1989. ”They stroll along the Avenue Montaigne, the paths of the Bagatelle, the Croisette in Cannes. They float, they appear, they disappear as if they had neither body nor flesh.

During Gruau's lifelong career he collaborated with fashion houses such as Givenchy, Balenciaga, Lanvin, Schiaparelli, and Dior in the fashion area of haute couture. His advertising campaigns for Moulin Rouge and Lido de Paris utilized an old-world aesthetic, celebrating the traditional poster-art graphics of Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard and the pre-1900 Parisian artists. He continued to work in advertising designing the hugely influential cinema poster for Fellini's La Dolce Vita in 1959 and working on campaigns for names such as Dior, Air France, Martini, and Omega watches. He has been exhibited internationally at the Paris Musee du Costume and The Musee de la Publicite. The 2011 Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection of Christian Dior by John Galliano was heavily inspired by Gruau's works

Illustration: Femme au chapeau-Circa 1990

René Gruau

The Departure Of The Witches

^Ha! I like this rendition/interpretation much better than the original! It's not because it's all male. To me, it gets the meaning and message across more effectively than the original.

Oddly, R167 and R168, are not as moving and compelling to me as R165

I really like R165. I just bought it. I will frame it and hang it. In offending no one, it doesn't send an overt "gay" vibe for me unlike R162, and definitely R157.

Thanks, R165!

You’re welcome r170

"An Ordinary Day for Mona Lisa", Gerhard Gluck (2008)

Daaaamn, R35, I just got chills all over. The man in that painting is a dead ringer for one of my late uncles.

Gleaming Waters by Henry Scott Tuke

Bathers by the Pond, Duncan Grant (1920-1)

This painting by Duncan Grant depicts a group of male nudes relaxing in the warm afternoon sun by the pond at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex. Charleston was the artistic hub and home to members of the Bloomsbury Group, a prominent group of liberal artists and writers working during the early twentieth century.

Not only was this painting thought to have been hung at Charleston in Maynard Keynes’ bedroom – a room that the economist occupied on visits between 1916 and 1924 – but it is likely that the reclining figure at the centre of this painting was based on Keynes himself. Keynes and Duncan Grant were in a serious relationship several years earlier and it is possible that Bathers by the Pond is a depiction of several of Grant’s lovers, including David Garnett. Garnett had strawberry blond hair and a ruddy complexion that is recognisable in the figure in the top right-hand corner of this work.

St Roch Forgotten by John McCrady

An early work by Lodewijk Karel "Loki" Bruckman: "Les Frères Bruckman", 1923.

From the Gods and Foolish Grandeur blog:

[quote] The son of a house painter, he was one of five children. He and his twin brother, Karel Lodewijk Bruckman (1903–1982), attended The Hague's Royal Academy of Art together. He first worked as a set painter and drawing teacher, before making his career as a fine artist. In 1949, he and his life partner and manager Evert Zeeven moved to the United States. They lived together in New York City and Provincetown, and also in Morelia in Mexico, but returned to the Netherlands in 1968. Zeeven died at the end of 1993, and Bruckman followed a year and a half later at the age of ninety-one.

Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”

I didn’t see this mentioned here or the previous thread. Fascinating to me. I just showed my partner a two hour plus video deep dive on YouTube about it. We’re now planning a visit to the Prado Museum to see it in person.