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