Visual arts

[SixesAlltheway]

Zdzislaw Beksinski

 

[SixesAlltheway]

More Beksinski

 

[SixesAlltheway]

Beksinski

 

[____no5]

Hey Sixes, do you really like those paintings, man??

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Just kidding

Here's three paintings of Matisse. Matisse and Rembrandt are the artists that I appreciate the most. And then is Picasso, but he does not count as he was extra terrestrial.

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well.. not completely

 

[SixesAlltheway]

Yes, I do, but I also have an attraction to horror and surrealism. Any thing that sparks the imagination.

Love the Rembrandt!

 

[____no5]

Yeah I can tell!! Surrealism?? Have you read Breton??

 

[SixesAlltheway]

Nope

 

[____no5]

He's considered to be the founder of the movement, he wrote the Surrealist Manifesto & I also enjoyed Nadja..

 

[SixesAlltheway]

Excellent. I'll remember that and see if I can find some time to read some of his

About Beksinski...His wife died, a year later his son committed suicide and six years later Beksinski was murdered. Talk about tragedy

 

[Forostar]

"Discovered" today by my wife.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893)
... known for his city night-scenes and landscapes ...

Park Row, Leeds

Liverpool from Wapping

Autumn morning

Whitby Harbour by Moonlight

On Hampstead Hill
"...exemplifying his skill with a variety of light sources, in capturing the mood of the passing of twilight into night."

 

[SixesAlltheway]

The atmosphere is glorious in those paintings. I particularly like "Autumn Morning"

 

[The Flash]

Those are some fantastic paintings, Foro.

 

[Forostar]

I love that light distribution!

 

[Brigantium]

I love those. He did a lot of Leeds, but they bear little resemblance to the Leeds of today
Whitby hasn't changed enormously, though

 

[Perun]

Wow, those are really nice! I guess the perspectives get a bit old after a while (it's always the same type of street view), but the guy certainly knows how to capture an atmosphere.
I especially like the Liverpool one. But as I said before, you can put an old sailing ship into anything and get me with it.

 

[Forostar]

Hehe indeed.
Well, I picked some I liked myself in particular but he did more different non-city stuff.
Check these sites if you like:

http://www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org/
http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Grimshaw.html

 

[Forostar]

Google Art Project has many paintings which you can watch in the greatest detail.

Browse by:
artists: http://www.googleartproject.com/artists/
collections: http://www.googleartproject.com/collections/
artworks: http://www.googleartproject.com/artworks/

Example: Direct link to Nightwatch (Nachtwacht):
http://www.googleartproject.com/col...ght-watch-rembrandt-harmensz-van-rijn/326424/

 

[SixesAlltheway]

This is an "old" thread I had forgot, here we go!

 

[Brigantium]

Arrrggghhhhh the bunnies!!!

 

[Perun]