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Favorite painters?
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5/19/2016 3:19:15 AM Posted: 1 year ago I like Goya's stuff (Black Paintings in particular) myself.
Zdzislaw Beksinski had some great pieces as well: http://i.imgur.com... Ego sum qui sum. Deus lo vult. "America is ungovernable; those who served the revolution have plowed the sea." - Simon Bolivar "A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again." - George Bernard Shaw |
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5/19/2016 2:33:57 PM Posted: 1 year ago At 5/19/2016 3:19:15 AM, someloser wrote: Van Gogh had some great pieces too, plus the Doctor Who episode about him is one of my favorite episode. You're probably thinking right now "haha I'm a genius". Well you're not -Valkrin inferno: "I don't know, are you attracted to women?" ButterCat: "No, Vaarka is mine!" All hail scum Vaarka, wielder of the bastard sword, smiter of nations, destroyer of spiders -VOT "Vaarka, I've been thinking about this for a long time now," (pulls out small box made of macaroni) "W-will you be my noodle buddy?" -Kirigaya |
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5/24/2016 11:13:38 PM Posted: 1 year ago Caravaggio, Da Vinchi also a general fan of neo-classical art, with no painters of that specified.
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5/25/2016 12:00:46 AM Posted: 1 year ago At 5/19/2016 3:19:15 AM, someloser wrote: J. M. W. Turner, Hudson River School painters (Church, Cole, Gifford, Bierstadt, Richards), Caspar David Friedrich, Degas, Thomas Eakins, Vernet, some classical Venetian school painters (Canaletto, Guardi), Edward Lear, Monet, Dorothea Tanning. "See now Oblivion shimmering all around us, its very tranquility deadlier than tempest. How little all our keels have troubled it." - Lord Dunsany - "Over her head the stars, the thoughts of God in the heavens, Shone on the eyes of man, who had ceased to marvel and worship" - Henry Longfellow - "We enjoy, we see nothing by direct vision; but only by reflection, and in anatomical dismemberment." - Thomas Carlyle - |
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6/4/2016 9:28:06 PM Posted: 1 year ago At 5/19/2016 3:19:15 AM, someloser wrote: Jack B Yeats. "Bonjour" -Feu Diqiu: "Asian men are generally perceived as more feminine..." Me: "Are you feminine?" Diqiu: "Hey, no!" "Do really really really good pens turn you on?" -Hayd "bsh1's profile pic is what the snapchat filter would look like on steroids"- VOT "let's keep it simple and traditional :D" -Biodome |
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6/5/2016 3:46:34 AM Posted: 1 year ago It's not for everyone, but I've always liked the Chicago Imagist painter Roger Brown. His work is so quintessentially American midwestern.
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6/5/2016 5:42:46 AM Posted: 1 year ago At 5/25/2016 12:00:46 AM, Skepsikyma wrote:At 5/19/2016 3:19:15 AM, someloser wrote: If you like Turner, you may want to try Zhang Daqian :P https://www.google.com.hk... I think it is well established that the only reason aliens come to earth is to slice up cows and examine inside peoples' bottoms. Unless you are a cow or suffer haemerrhoids I don't think there is anything to worry about from aliens. - keithprosser Don't be a stat cynic: http://www.debate.org... Response to conservative views on deforestation: http://www.debate.org... Topics I'd like to debate (not debating ATM): http://tinyurl.com... |
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6/5/2016 5:51:22 AM Posted: 1 year ago At 6/5/2016 5:42:46 AM, Diqiucun_Cunmin wrote:At 5/25/2016 12:00:46 AM, Skepsikyma wrote:At 5/19/2016 3:19:15 AM, someloser wrote: Stunning. One of my favorite exhibits of all time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was this huge traveling collection of Kano paintings. It really interested me in that whole general style of Eastern painting (their schools being heavily influenced by China's), but it's very hard to find extensive collections in my area of the world. "See now Oblivion shimmering all around us, its very tranquility deadlier than tempest. How little all our keels have troubled it." - Lord Dunsany - "Over her head the stars, the thoughts of God in the heavens, Shone on the eyes of man, who had ceased to marvel and worship" - Henry Longfellow - "We enjoy, we see nothing by direct vision; but only by reflection, and in anatomical dismemberment." - Thomas Carlyle - |
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6/11/2016 9:49:43 AM Posted: 1 year ago Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, they're among the top classical painters.
As for "modern" art, this guy is quite impressive, https://www.youtube.com... Bronto? Congrats. Kumbaya. poet |