The LoT Gallery of Art
 

Right now, it's empty. Let's fill it.

We're talking art in this thread. Favorite artists, favorite paintings, favorite photography shots, etc.

Post them here. And we can discuss them or just look at them.

If you need help posting photos, go to Photobucket.com. You can upload pictures to that site and then you can insert an image here in this thread. There are other sites as well...

Have at it.
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My favorite artist and one of my favorite portraits of his wife. If I ever saw this portrait in person, I think I would cry tears of joy in front of everyone. Love it love it.

Ooh! I will start with some photographs I love. As you all might guess, because of my love of old Hollywood, I'm a real sucker for glamour shots and vintage portrait photographers. I'll start with Edward Steichen as a fav and also add here one of my favorite shots by Cartier-Bresson.


A wonderful photo!


Edward Steichen portrait of the back of Douglas Fairbanks. I recognized him immedately!


Great composition!


A Steinway never looked so swanky!


One of the 400 decked out for the Beaux Arts Ball in NY circa 1930

More to come!

That is a wonderful painting! Modigliani had such a tragic life, but I agree with you, a wonderful painter! Thanks for posting this, I'd forgotten h w wonderful it is!:snap:

I made this for my desktop background... It is called "Darkwater"

Takashi Murakami makes me smile...in a psilocybic sort of way.

Snowflake ~ I love those shots. I love sepia (sepia) tone pictures. The Steinway picture is beautiful.

I love old Hollywood, too. I totally got that vibe when I went to Hearst Castle. So many legendary actors visiting the castle and partying and having a great time. The fact that Hearst made them throw impromptu theatre performances makes it even more special. Imagine a play with Clark Gable, Bette Davis and Cary Grant in it... Wow.
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Ilike Modigliani - though I prefer his nudes:



Of course, I've always been a fan of the "Obalisque" genre:



(Ingres)

Photography-wise I really enjoy Man Ray, I think he really captured the Dada Spirt in that Media:



My real favorites come from the German Expressionists of both Die Blaue Ritter:

Kandinski:





Franz Marc:




Paul Klee:




And from Die Brucke:

Ludwig Kirchner:



Of course I love German Expressionist Cinema as exemplified by the Cabinet of Dr. Calligari:










Whew - I could go on, but I'll leave the Pre-Raphs & Casper David Freiderich to Not Afraid.

Dali. Can never get enough Dali. Particularly things like his Alice in Wonderland illustrations...



And his illustrations of the Divine Comedy...

I'm loving this thread because I know so little about art. Cool new artists for me.

Here's Under the Wave of Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, one of my current faves and my desktop background.

I heart Yoshi-tomo Nara. I saw his stuff at the San Jose Contemporary Art Museum. It was fabulous. I also got to see the dog sculpture up close.

tracilicious - I don't know anything about art. But I love looking at it. Often, I can't even express why I like something, I just do. :) I love that wave pic.

GD - Love Dali. I remember when his Lincoln portrait came out. So very cool.

Y'all ought to come out to the Dali Museum here in St. Petersburg, Florida. It's certainly worth a day trip from Orlando. It's the most Dali you'll ever get to see in one place.

Bigger than the one in Montmatre?

Well, now that I look at the website for that one (Dali at Montmartre)
probably not.

Okay, it's by far the most Dali you'll get to see in America.
Dali Museum

Hello, Dali, well hello, Dali, it's so nice to have you back where you belong....

I quite like a Klee now and then

My dad owns a set of silver olympic coins from the 1984 olympics that were designed by Dali. They are simply awesome. I've always loved his stuff.

Dali is cool, but Magritte's my favorite Surrealist:

Escher. 'nuff said.

I was very bored of Dali for a while...until I visited the museum 10 years ago. The Prints Plus catalog of Dali posters does a terrible disservice to the man. His sculpture, the endless supply of wood engraved illustrations of important texts, his writings are simply amazing.

Okay, this one's a no brainer, but must be mentioned. Van Gogh. I mean, just look at this...



And a close up, 'cause no view of Van Gogh is complete without a look at the texture

I like Van Gogh, but i LOVE Matisse.

My beloved Pre-Raphaelites.

Andy Warhol
 

Jen like Art. Art is cool. Jen look at Art and go "ooh".

Jen not remember names of Artists. Jen not remember dates or movements or big words for styles. Jen not know what to search internet for to post in thread.

Jen like Art in thread, go "ooh". :)

Me feel same way. Me look up 'art' in Google. Me put art painters names in and search. Me find.

Renoir

I was never really a fan of Degas' ballerinas until I saw this one in person. I was so mesmerized. Stared at her for like 15 minutes in the museum. This images does not do her justice.
Fin d'arabesque ou danseuse saluant

I agree with Babette. Degas' Ballet scenes are so etherial, transparent even, that they just draw you into them and you pratically feel and hear the environment. Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena has a great collection of Degas.

The Symbolists:

Gustav Moreau




Odelon Redon





Gustav Klimt

My favorite Assemblage artist, Joseph Cornell:

John S. Sargent - El Jaleo, 1882
 

I saw this at the Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum here in Boston. This picture does no justice to this painting. It is wall sized and from afar, it looks like you're walking into a party. It's amazing.

I was going to post something, but I'm a dolt and don't know how to keep the images from being too wide and requiring scrollage.

Try two - good ol' Bosch

I love the eyes in these two:

(Raphael)

Tom Roberts is a great Aussie Life artist - one of his most famous, which I love, and which my father has a print hanging in the living room that I grew up in, is called "Shearing The Rams" - It captures the real essence of the typical outback shearing shed of the time. (and it's not too different today)

A Friend In Need :D

Zippy Meets Colonel Sanders :)

OMG!! I LOVE that Doggie Poker one - I had it in at least two of my previous homes. :blush: :eek:

Of the classicists, I love Lawrence Alma Tadema (one painting, Spring, is at the Getty). His ability to render detail such as marble and flowers can really only be appreciated in person. His models are firmly victorian, but his idyllic scenes of ancient life are paintings I love.

Here is an example of his work with flowers, the image is huge, as is the original painting. He apparently had huge flower gardens at his home in London and he would have basket upon basket of roses delivered daily while he worked on this painting.

Alma Tadema's The Coign of Vantage hangs in my bath


As does Gerome's gorgeous The Bath and this lousy image off the web does not do it any kind of justice, if anyone comes to visit me in SF, we'll go to the Palace de Legion d'honour and see it in person, it's a favorite museum for me in a spectacular location and I am anxious to revisit it and see the new DeYoung and the Asian in the old Library building. Come see me in SF and we can be tourists together!



My knowledge of art you can put in a thimble, but I love looking at it!

Art Deco
 

I love these two paintings (one is a book cover - couldn't find a pic of it) but I have no idea who did them. I love art deco stuff. :)

GC, that's Tamara de Lempicka.

Ooh! Wonderful paintings! And I absolutely love her studio, moderne and streamlined....

If I could go back in time for an event, many come to mind, but for design, the 1939 Chicago Worlds Fair might be it! All that streaminling stuff, Norman bel Geddes, etc. great stuff!:snap:

I enjoy much of Tom of Finland's work.

So raunchy! Love it. Post it, baby! :)

Or maybe not...

I love the Plein Air California Impressionists.

Dana Bartlett:


Marion K. Wachtel:



Alson Skinner Clark:



John Marshall Gamble



Just to name a few.

Speaking of California Impressioninst, the the art dealer, David Sheets, son of painter Millard Sheets was really good friend of ours and Millard's widow lives across the street from my sister in Gualala, CA. We had this really strange know-too-many-of-the-same-people things going on. I got to visit the house Millard and Mary built (called Barking Rocks for the seals that lived on the rocks just beyond the cliff). It is by far the most spectacular house I've ever seen....and the artwork.....to DIE for!

OK - I will !!!! :evil:

These don't even begin to do it justice, but the artwork for the series Evangelion is spectacular. A search brings up 99% character art, which is amazing of itself, but the water color backgrounds are what grab my eye.

Oooooh! Herbert Draper! I hadn't thought about him in a long time!