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

 

Here's one of my all-time favorites, Ivan Aivazovsky's Darial Gorge

 

Darial Gorge, 1862 - Ivan Aivazovsky

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) – Caspar David Friedrich

 

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14 minutes ago, moment said:

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) – Caspar David Friedrich

 


That is a great painting. A very good friend of mine has an image of that in his studio. He happens to be one of the great landscape painters on the planet and I am fortunate to own one of his paintings. 

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1 minute ago, ralis said:


That is a great painting. A very good friend of mine has an image of that in his studio. He happens to be one of the great landscape painters on the planet and I am fortunate to own one of his paintings. 

 

Always good to hear from you, ralis!

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“Warning Mother” by Leonora Carrington. IMO one of the greatest of the surrealist painters, better than the overrated douche Dali and the mediocre Magritte, but they unjustly are the famous ones.

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2 hours ago, SirPalomides said:

“Warning Mother” by Leonora Carrington. IMO one of the greatest of the surrealist painters, better than the overrated douche Dali and the mediocre Magritte, but they unjustly are the famous ones.

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I don't entirely agree.  Leonora was inspired by the occult.  Dali mostly was inspired by fits of paronoia.  They were both very good in their own ways.  The foundation that they sprang off of was this person:

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The Song of Love (1914) - Giorgio de Chirico

 

The Song of Love (1914) – Giorgio de Chirico

 

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24 minutes ago, moment said:

 

I don't entirely agree.  Leonora was inspired by the occult.  Dali mostly was inspired by fits of paronoia.  They were both very good in their own ways.  The foundation that they sprang off of was this person:

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The Song of Love (1914) - Giorgio de Chirico

 

The Song of Love (1914) – Giorgio de Chirico

 


Dali invented the paranoiac critical technique which as I recall was a deliberate induction of paranoia- for instance, you go for a walk and see a crow, and then deliberately read crow-like patterns into all the surrounding architecture or landscape.  It is an interesting artistic exercise for sure. As for his motivations... well I think Andre Breton was write to dub him with the anagram “Avida Dollars.”

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1 hour ago, SirPalomides said:


Dali invented the paranoiac critical technique which as I recall was a deliberate induction of paranoia- for instance, you go for a walk and see a crow, and then deliberately read crow-like patterns into all the surrounding architecture or landscape.  It is an interesting artistic exercise for sure. As for his motivations... well I think Andre Breton was write to dub him with the anagram “Avida Dollars.”

 There is no doubt that Dali later abandoned, much of the surrealistic philosophy in favor of capitalism.  But, that does not negate the worth of his ealier works.

The only thing I have ever held against him on a personal level, is that he was an avowed fascist, that supported that monster Franco. 

 

As to your initial post on Leonora Carrington, she was a master storyteller.  Have you ever read her short story "The Debutante"?

It gives real insight into how her head worked.

 

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Fu Xi discovering the trigrams (dragon horse to the left). Painted by Qiu Ying (16th century)

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Nice thread. 

 

Paintings I like are many.  Where do I start?  Landscape, portrait, still life, allegory, alchemy?  Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa?  Recent, ancient, well-known, mostly unknown?  OK, let's start somewhere...  last in first out?  A contemporary Ukrainian artist, Yevgeny Leshchenko.  A classical naïvist.  Here's from his cats series:

 

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48 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

Nice thread. 

 

Paintings I like are many.  Where do I start?  Landscape, portrait, still life, allegory, alchemy?  Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa?  Recent, ancient, well-known, mostly unknown?  OK, let's start somewhere...  last in first out?  A contemporary Ukrainian artist, Yevgeny Leshchenko.  A classical naïvist.  Here's from his cats series:

 

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That was fun!

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I’m surprised I never heard of that Visit to William Blake’s Inn Book- that looks fantastic. And thanks Taomeow for the Leschenko paintings, they’re gorgeous.

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6 minutes ago, SirPalomides said:

I’m surprised I never heard of that Visit to William Blake’s Inn Book- that looks fantastic. And thanks Taomeow for the Leschenko paintings, they’re gorgeous.

 

I think the old 70s and 80s children's books honestly have artwork worthy of galleries. The author of Strega Nona to me has more feeling and soul to it than a lot of the digital stuff made using Flash vectors and PhotoShop. 

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I love Strega Nona, I got my own copy signed by Tomi DiPaola actually. There are actually still plenty of amazing children’s book illustrators- it is actually a great place to look for traditional fine art. Among my favorites are Russian artist Gennady Spirin and Japanese-American KY Kraft. I’ll dig up some images.

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Here’s a Gennady Spirin illustration from the Lord is My Shepherd and another one from the Sea King’s Daughter (based on the story of Sadko) 

 

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Taomeow might like this one by Remedios Varo, the Paradise of Cats. Like Leonora Carrington she is a surrealist with a big inspiration from occult and alchemical images (it is more obvious in some of her other paintings)

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Cool! :) 

 

Reminded me of another painting -- an illustration a local artist friend, Anna Sobko, made to a chapter from my novel-to-be which I read to a few people.  (Anna used to be an animated movies director at Moldova-Film, the Moldovan film studio and production company that ceased to exist with the demise of the Soviet Union.)  She didn't get my point though.  The snow leopard in that episode was very young and inexperienced, and the ibex was huge, way too big for her to take on.  In Anna's rendition, the cat is not really challenged -- her situation is more like the first one of those Picasso paintings, whereas in my chapter it was, pound for pound, worse than in his second.   

 

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