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I'm not familiar with that drawing. Could you upload a copy (use the "Attach files" link below the Edit window) and be sure to include a link to the source so we obey copyright laws.phinds said:Huh ???
Well, if you had spelled Turner right in the OP I might have got it. You had "rain, steam, speed, Tiurner. Clearly other's did, I admit.mcastillo356 said:
So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.mcastillo356 said:
Oops...! Painting, I meant painting.pinball1970 said:So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.
Yet, Beethoven, Bach, and Berry made it all onto the Golden Record.pinball1970 said:So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.
Justin Bieber has a reproduction of the image tattooed on his left leg.fresh_42 said:Drawings:
Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels, Dürer
If you only knew, it is far worse than that.Hornbein said:Justin Bieber has a reproduction of the image tattooed on his left leg.
...Deldicque said. “It (the charcoal drawing) is a work of very great quality done by a great artist.”
“It is almost certainly a preparatory work for an oil painting,” he added.
pinball1970 said:Assassination of Marat. Jacques David. 1793
Glad Bach got three in. The missing B is obviously the Beatles.fresh_42 said:Yet, Beethoven, Bach, and Berry made it all onto the Golden Record.
Agree absolutely. Once I discovered art history I was absolutely hooked. I only did this in earnest for 12 months age 15-16 but I still remember the landmarks and the Marat painting was one of them.Klystron said:View attachment 346635
This painting led me to study Existentialism and eventually see Peter Weiss's brilliant satire Marat/Sade on film. IMS German language with English subtitles except when the Marquis quotes his own writing.
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Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.
Get back to work.Klystron said:Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.
I was never a fan of Van Gough until I saw this, The Potato eaters 1885.fresh_42 said:Paintings:
Skrik, Munch
Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône, van Gogh
pinball1970 said:I was never a fan of Van Gough until I saw this, The Potato eaters 1885.
On the other hand, the Norwegian page cites Munch's diary ...German Wikipedia said:(Norwegian Skrik, German originally also Geschrei [Shouting])
... so Angst might have been the better title.Norwegian Wikipedia said:I cross the road with friends – only I don’t – I felt as if I were afraid – The skies are turning bloody red – I stand, laid low, and ready to die – see out the flaming skies as blood and black over the blue fjord and by – My friends will go away – I am overcome by fear – and feel a very strange and terrible feeling towards nature.
Yes, fortunate indeed. I`ve been googling, because it's the first time I see a work of him. Still impressed by the painting.BWV said:Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)
BWV said:Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)
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Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world (Source: Wikipedia)symbolipoint said:Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.
symbolipoint said:Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.
Penrose was a big fan.symbolipoint said:Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.
Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.
Penrose, a greatpinball1970 said:Penrose was a big fan.
Did you know him that you can say he wasn't big?mcastillo356 said:Penrose, a great
I meant he is, alive and kicking.fresh_42 said:Did you know him that you can say he wasn't big?
I was wondering whether his passion for Escher can be related to his passion for a very particular view on the beginning of our universe?!mcastillo356 said:I meant he is, alive and kicking.
Love
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/875fresh_42 said:I was wondering whether his passion for Escher can be related to his passion for a very particular view on the beginning of our universe?!