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Milton Avery, Seascape, 1945
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Milton Avery, Seascape, 1945
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 2, 2023 3:56 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 6, 2023 1:23 PM |
The Musicians by Caravaggio for its languid, decadent, homoerotic vibe.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 6, 2023 1:36 PM |
Lobster Fishermen, 1940-41. Marsden Hartley.
OK, perhaps not my favorite, not even of Hartley’s. But I love his work. It seduces me.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 6, 2023 3:19 PM |
^^^^^ Apologies for the duplicate post.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 6, 2023 3:21 PM |
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin (Sarah Morris), 1773, John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 6, 2023 3:24 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 7, 2023 1:34 AM |
"The Moon by Day" by Margaret French
painting set in Fire Island
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 7, 2023 3:08 PM |
Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool by Edward Wadsworth
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 7, 2023 8:56 PM |
Long lost Courbet found in the basement of Penn dental school.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 9, 2023 1:16 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 9, 2023 1:26 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 9, 2023 1:48 PM |
Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Konrat by Oskar Kokoschka, 1909. I've seen it in the Museum of Modern Art.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 9, 2023 1:49 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 9, 2023 2:42 PM |
Interesting combination of tragedy and sexy male bodies, R19.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 9, 2023 2:58 PM |
Study of a Nude Man, attributed to Gustave Courbet
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 23, 2023 6:13 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 23, 2023 11:22 AM |
Another from the [italic]Light from Tate[/italic] exhibition, an incredible Monet: Poplars on the Epte, from1891.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 23, 2023 11:25 AM |
Entrance to Lincoln Tunnel, Night-Time by Philip Pearlstein
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 6, 2023 2:08 AM |
QUESTION:
What is your opinion of AI (artificial intelligence) Art?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 11, 2023 2:03 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 11, 2023 2:14 PM |
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?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 11, 2023 2:40 PM |
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".
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 11, 2023 3:00 PM |
I like this. Jason Allen's AI generated "Théatre d'Opéra Spatial".
by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 11, 2023 3:08 PM |
^Ohhhh....
That one IS very nice!
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 11, 2023 3:32 PM |
Thanks R38.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 11, 2023 3:40 PM |
I think a human artists using AI as a tool is fine. Pure AI Art is more akin to poor magazine illustration.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 12, 2023 7:49 PM |
There are no paintings but...
Check out this guy's work!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 16, 2023 4:03 PM |
Those sculptures are amazing, R41. Thanks for posting them.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 16, 2023 4:10 PM |
I always found this portrait of Napoleon to be mesmerizing
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 16, 2023 4:11 PM |
Love the grandeur of Ingre's painting, R43. One of my favourites.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 16, 2023 4:26 PM |
While casting no aspersions on Ingres (@43), Napoleon himself deserves a big ol' "Mary!"
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 16, 2023 5:08 PM |
The Children of Nathan Starr by Ambrose Andrews, 1835
Is it charming? Is it a bit spooky? Who's to say?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 17, 2023 2:04 AM |
Water Memory - a photography by Cara Romero, 2015
Pueblo corn dancers in an aquatic performance
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 17, 2023 6:26 AM |
* a photograph
Oops. Drunk on cooking sherry again.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 17, 2023 6:57 AM |
“The Garden Door”, William Bruce Ellis Rankenby (1926).
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 19, 2023 1:19 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 19, 2023 1:32 AM |
Maybe like this engraving titled "Our Society" from 1891. The men's faces aren't even shown clearly.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 19, 2023 1:36 AM |
Lots of handsome young men in Ranken's paintings.
The Polo Player.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 19, 2023 1:36 AM |
True, Ranken was very likely one of us. Not a whole lot of detail in the wikipedia article.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 19, 2023 1:38 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 19, 2023 1:55 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 19, 2023 2:02 AM |
Those are Oscar Wilde's gentlemen callers, R49.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 19, 2023 2:28 AM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | June 22, 2023 8:59 AM |
Luigi Lucioni's portrait of Paul Cadmus (oil, 1928).
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 23, 2023 12:04 AM |
Albert Weisgerber (German, 1878-1915), Self-portrait, 1908.
115 years ago, but he looks so contemporary.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 14, 2023 9:55 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 14, 2023 10:33 PM |
The print above is L'Éte by Jean Moyreau.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 14, 2023 3:11 PM |
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.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | November 20, 2023 7:06 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 75 | November 20, 2023 7:06 AM |
Very nice, R74 and R75. An artist I had never heard of.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | November 20, 2023 1:40 PM |
Cidoncha has an interesting instagram feed as well.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | November 20, 2023 8:31 PM |
Caravaggio's Medusa is powerful. Thanks, R78.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | November 20, 2023 9:37 PM |
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Rubens. A bit of homoeroticism.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 20, 2023 9:40 PM |
Artist Wade Reynolds
"Young Man Posing" (1968)
Oil on Canvas
by Anonymous | reply 84 | November 23, 2023 9:52 PM |
Thanks R84. Cool painting.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | November 23, 2023 11:27 PM |
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).
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 23, 2023 11:53 PM |
Crucifixion Diptych by Rogier van Der Weyden
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 28, 2023 4:59 PM |
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.
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