Paintings you like

[doc benway]

Winter Rides In by Diné artist Shonto Begay.

I love the details of his brush work, it reminds me a bit of van Gogh.

Begay describes being influenced as a child by the sounds of his mother working a loom.

The rhythm of the loom led to his staccato, broken, and layered brush strokes.

 

[Taomeow]

3 hours ago, 心神 ~ said:

Yes, I kind of relate to that. I really like paintings that feature the back of a person, a sort of anti-portrait. 

 

 

How about this one?  Rene Magritte, La reproduction interdite, 1937

 

 

   

[心神 ~]

3 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

How about this one?  Rene Magritte, La reproduction interdite, 1937

 

 

   

 

Very cool. Unsettling, moody, Atlas Shrugged or perhaps The Secret History sort of vibes. I'm not familiar with a lot of Rene Magritte, but looking up his paintings, they remind me of MC Escher. The mirror element reminds me of this Anna Karenina illustration by Angela Barrett. Story context aside, I think it would create a more haunting ambience if her eyes were obscured:

 

 

[Taomeow]

34 minutes ago, 心神 ~ said:

Very cool. Unsettling, moody, Atlas Shrugged or perhaps The Secret History sort of vibes. I'm not familiar with a lot of Rene Magritte, but looking up his paintings, they remind me of MC Escher. The mirror element reminds me of this Anna Karenina illustration by Angela Barrett. Story context aside, I think it would create a more haunting ambience if her eyes were obscured:

 

 

 I chanced upon a Magritte exhibition in New York once, at the Met.  It's interesting how reproductions give one an idea of "what it's about" and of whether "I like it," but originals do more -- not speaking out of snobbery, just my experience.  I believe this "more" is about qi.   

 

Magritte played a lot with one of my favorite ideas -- increasingly displaced in modern times -- that the map is not the territory, the cat walking in the street is not the cat video, the caffeine pill is not coffee, the symbol/image/representation/idea is not reality.  "The tao that can be told is not the eternal tao," ditto the tao that can be painted, videotaped, AI generated, reduced to a meme, a slogan, a simulacrum.  Sometimes he was more than explicit about conveying this idea -- as here, driving the point across with no frills: This is not a pipe.

 

 

And sometimes, less obviously, the idea that our inner representation/evaluation of things is not proportional to their actual nature, significance and dimensions: Personal values

   

 

Rape:

 

 

         

Edited June 1 by Taomeow

[Sanity Check]

 

 

AI generated art.

 

[Nungali]

Now you are in the wrong thread 

 

PAINTINGS !   

 

[Gerard]

Bulls in Altamira cave, Spain. Amongst the very first by the first Homo Sapiens:

 

[Cobie]

 

13 hours ago, Nungali said:

... you are in the wrong thread   PAINTINGS !   

OP

On 24-4-2020 at 9:29 PM, SirPalomides said:

It says paintings but any 2-dimensional art is fine.

 

Edited June 3 by Cobie

[Nungali]

19 hours ago, Gerard said:

Bulls in Altamira cave, Spain. Amongst the very first by the first Homo Sapiens:

 

 

 

... and not 'just' paintings .  This is what we usually see ; a still picture . 

 

But if you watch a film of some of them , like Lascaux   (or ever had the advantage of being there ! )  and it is filmed right ; IE, a slow 'procession' past the paintings in flickering torch or candle  light , you will notice they also use the rock surface and the flickering light to make it look as though some of the animals are moving .

 

This is also apparent in some of the still shots where we see multiple outlines ; 

 

   

 

 

.....    the paintings  'come alive'  . 

[SirPalomides]

On 6/3/2025 at 8:22 AM, Cobie said:

 

OP

 

 

Y'know, not that I have any real authority, but since my OP authority is being invoked, I'm gonna come out of the woodwork here and decree that AI slop is verboten. 

[Taomeow]

/\ key word "art."  Meaning maybe murals, artistic photos, collages, what not that might fall under the category?  

"AI art" is an oxymoron though.  What it really is is a technology for producing banal kitsch in order to stunt people's esthetic development, as part of the overall dumbing-down effort.   (Although acclaimed art in the traditional sense has also produced many atrocities of abysmal taste and quite a few money-laundering scams, presented as "art" by corrupt critics and accepted by the public because there's many ways to play the public like a fiddle.)

[心神 ~]

@Taomeow I tend toward impressionist, post-impressionist, and maybe pre-raphaelite works? But I spent some time looking into Rene Magritte and other surrealist painters/paintings, and found some I quite like. 

 

I enjoy the dreamy, liminal space atmosphere in many of them. And the meta-layering-unity-duality and false appearances aspect is fascinating. Like "separating" a thing to show it's wholeness and interconnectedness, revealing nothing can truly be separated.

 

I keep coming back to view La Reproduction Interdite. It's wonderful, thanks again for sharing it.

 

 

Rene Magritte, The World of Images (1950)

 

 

Rene Magritte, The Flash (1959)

 

 

Rene Magritte, Architecture in the Moonlight (1956)

 

 

Neil Simone, Unknown

 

 

Neil Simone, Stemming the Tide

 

 

Antonio Nunziante, Untitled (1956)

 

 

Rebecca Chaperone, Present Company (2022)

 

 

Rafal Oblinsky, Ophelia (2024)

 

 

Welder Wings (Francisco Abril and Nuria Velasco), Unknown 

 

 

Owen Gent, Unknown

 

 

Moonassi, Keep You Burning (2023)

 

Edited June 5 by 心神 ~

[心神 ~]

Aigana Gali, Collected Works

 

"Aigana Gali is a British-Kazakh multidisciplinary artist whose work spans canvas, paper, textiles, and bronze. Born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, along the ancient Silk Road, her Eurasian heritage deeply influences her art, with references to Tengriism—the ancient spiritual traditions of the steppe—woven into her work. Gali’s notable series—Creation Myth, Steppe, and Tengri—reflect her artistic evolution and explore themes of ancient wisdom, nature’s cycles, and cosmic order."

 

 

Mediator II

 

 

Mediator IV (Saule) (2022)

 

 

ALGYZ (2023)

 

 

Tolpan

 

 

ALNUR (2023)

 

 

Turquoise Mediator (2022)

 

 

Unknown

 

 

Mediator III (She)

 

 

Oliara, The Dark Moon (2022)

 

 

TURAN (2024)

 

Edited June 9 by 心神 ~