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Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 8:50:02 PM   
amoryblane


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Status: offline 		This is an obviously difficult question to answer, but I'm always curious which artists and which works of art really appeal to people.  My tastes are pretty eclectic and include names like Kirchner, Klee, Jenny Saville, Picasso, Francis Bacon, Magritte (a little flippant I know but hey, Son of Man was one of the first posters I ever owned when I was a kid), &c. 

But my absolute favorite painting, the one that gets under my skin and into my bloodstream, is the Saint Sebastian by Reni that hangs in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa.  The first time I ever saw it (in an art book) it excited me sensually, intellectually, erotically, and viscerally like no other painting I'd ever seen.  I knew what the dictionary said "sublime" meant, but seeing the painting was the first time I ever had the qualitative sensation of experiencing the sublime.

In case you're not familiar with it, here's a link to a good online image




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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 9:02:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		I fell in love with VanGogh's Sunflowers years ago.  Sunflowers are one of my vanilla "fetishes" (along with comfy jammies).  They just always make me feel happy when I look at them.  It's quite simplistic, I know. 

There is one other, I've long since forgotten the name or the artist.  It was a picture of a man standing with his head bowed and his hand against the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C.  The reflections shows his fellow soldiers that have fallen.  When I was younger I couldn't afford to buy it, but someday hope to find it and at least get a print of it.  I've seen it many times over the years and it always brings tears to my eyes and a knot in my throat.

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 9:22:07 PM   
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Call me silly, or maybe just sentimental... but Van Gogh's Starry Night still takes my breath away

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 9:28:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		VanGogh is....well, he's VanGogh.  I actually have a college text book filled with his paintings and information about his life.  A friend lent it to me a couple of years ago, and it never seemed to find its way back to him.  I should feel bad about that, but I love the book too much to feel bad.  And he never asked for it back, so I think that clears me at least a little of keeping it so long.

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 9:30:24 PM   
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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 9:52:00 PM   
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ORIGINAL: amoryblane

This is an obviously difficult question to answer, but I'm always curious which artists and which works of art really appeal to people.  My tastes are pretty eclectic and include names like Kirchner, Klee, Jenny Saville, Picasso, Francis Bacon, Magritte (a little flippant I know but hey, Son of Man was one of the first posters I ever owned when I was a kid), &c. 

But my absolute favorite painting, the one that gets under my skin and into my bloodstream, is the Saint Sebastian by Reni that hangs in the Palazzo Rosso in Genoa.  The first time I ever saw it (in an art book) it excited me sensually, intellectually, erotically, and viscerally like no other painting I'd ever seen.  I knew what the dictionary said "sublime" meant, but seeing the painting was the first time I ever had the qualitative sensation of experiencing the sublime.

In case you're not familiar with it, here's a link to a good online image





Before medical bills became my major cost in life I purchased two paintings by John Van Cleef.  He painted in both oil and water colors with seascapes being his favorite subject.  I think the painter attracted me as much as his paintings.  He was originally from the Netherlands.  My partner told me that Van Cleef worked in the underground during WW2 and was the only spy known to be sentenced to death by both the Nazis and the Japanese.  Van Cleef smuggled out information from Germany but  was himself captured and sentenced to death and was sent to a concentration camp.  He had the numbers on his arm etc.  He was so valuable that they broke him out.  However because he was wanted by the Nazis they sent him to the Pacific threater where he acted as a Dutch sympathizer.  Again, he got the information out but was himself caught trying to escape and sentenced to death by the Japanese.  I do not know how they got him out but they did and he was finally restricted to the rear areas.  My partner kept trying to have him write his memoirs but he never did and died with all that knowledge.  There was a very big funeral attended mostly by x service men. Everytime I walk passed the paintings I think of the "Ferret."

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 9:56:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		When I was a kid (around 13) I cleaned a neighbor's house after school on Friday's.  She had a small book of Renoir paintings in her living room and I found myself totally drawn to it.  Every week, about halfway through my cleaning, I would stop and leaf through the book.  The Two Girls At the Piano was always my favorite, as it resembled my sister and I.  I had the great fortune of seeing this at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY three years ago, and it brought tears to my eyes.

There's a current artist out of Spain who I love - Jose Royo.  I have a framed print of one of his paintings in my living room.  You can find his stuff here.  


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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 10:52:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am drawn to particular styles, primarily surrealism and fantasy art.  Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, Frank Frazetta and Luis Royo grace my walls as calendars.

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/5/2009 11:08:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		I like the Dutch masters.  Vermeer pops immediately to mind.

Dali.

Vallejo, Frazetta.

Olivia (I own a litho of one of her Bettie Page pieces..#28 out of 50 that is signed by both Bettie and Olivia)


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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 12:01:13 AM   
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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 12:54:41 AM   
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Dogs Playing Poker by C.M. Coolidge. No I'm not really kidding that much. I'm not much of an art critic. I hated having to take a required art history course in college. It bored me to tears. Funny enough though, I do actually enjoy going to art museums and looking around. I can't really talk about the art I see; I either like it or I don't. I can't be around an art snob very long, because I'm one of those people that think Norman Rockwell was brilliant.

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 12:56:33 AM   
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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 12:57:21 AM   
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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 2:13:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for an extremely interesting post.  I don't think I knew anything about von Cleef, but he sounds like a fascinating and courageous man.  The best art and best artists always find ways both in their work and in their lives to try to stand up against the dull, beastly farce of fascism.

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 2:18:30 AM   
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Dogs Playing Poker by C.M. Coolidge. No I'm not really kidding that much. I'm not much of an art critic. I hated having to take a required art history course in college. It bored me to tears. Funny enough though, I do actually enjoy going to art museums and looking around. I can't really talk about the art I see; I either like it or I don't. I can't be around an art snob very long, because I'm one of those people that think Norman Rockwell was brilliant.


To be honest, I don't get Cassius Coolidge's work.  It's a little too "arty" for my taste.  I only bring out references to his Chiens Jouant au Poker  if I am reaaaaallllly trying to impress somebody!


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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 2:22:33 AM   
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I like the Dutch masters.  Vermeer pops immediately to mind.

Dali.

Vallejo, Frazetta.

Olivia (I own a litho of one of her Bettie Page pieces..#28 out of 50 that is signed by both Bettie and Olivia)



Good choices all.  And You're very lucky re:  The Olivia Berardinis piece.  That makes me drool over Bettie herself, and the artwork, and Olivia's talents.  And I'm not a guy who likes to drool, because drool is yucky.  So high praise indeed!

Seriously, that's amazingly rad.


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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 4:29:16 AM   
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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 4:59:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		points over to her picture... this is my favorite.  I have an obsession with angels/cherubs.  The Sistine cherubs by Raphael is my top fav but a very close second is probably The First Kiss by William Adolphe Bouguereau 

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 5:12:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		http://arts.anu.edu.au/polsci/courses/pols1005/2007/images/picasso.guernica2.jpg  (Guernica) by Picasso.
The Slave Ship by Turner.
The Tower of Babel by Brueghel.

And many, many more... 

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RE: Favorite painting? - 5/6/2009 5:16:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Im a big fan of erotic, fantasy and pinup art,(put the three together and Im in heaven)
Vallejo, Sorayama, Olivia, Royo is wonderful, I have a thing for  "The Caress" right now 
Classic art, not so big on the names, but I know what I like when I see it
Modern/contempory art mostly leaves me dead
Escher I like a great deal, one of my favourite posters I took everywhere with me for about 8 years was Wings of Love, by Stephen Pearson.
Oh and I like THIS one tooo.
I have to admit to having half a hard drive full of "art" i like.
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