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Impressionist painters like Monet
mogley98
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I wonder if instead of being some kind of great painter these guys had bad eye sight and this is the best they could do? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Monet_-_Impression%2C_Sunrise.jpg/1280px-Monet_-_Impression%2C_Sunrise.jpg
Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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In life, it is sometimes not what you know that counts, it is who you know.
It's hard to see...is that a guy standing up in a bass boat?
IMHO, I wonder more about the eyesight of the people who consider such as art and pay 7 digit figures for such.
I can't figure it out, maybe my sophistication level does not reach the "stick your pinkie out" sort of fellers, gals and the uber gentrified.
Give me a farmer, his wife and a pitchfork picture any day. Another most excellent one is the dogs, smoking cigars playing cards...
I love a piece of art that makes me think. Like these water lilies by Monet, you have lilies in the water, lilies on the water, reflections on the water, and hanging willow in front. Or are some of the reflections floating on the water? And are some of the "willows" really water plants emerging through the surface? Are those cumulus cloud reflections, or trees on the bank against an overcast sky?
Looks like the kelp beds off of Seldovia or Halibut cove to me....
Roger that, with some discarded fish heads. And a brown bear track.
I have seen some of the 30 foot Monet panels. At arms length where he painted from it is simply color. When you back off 30 feet it is glorious water lollies. They could paint, and very well indeed for the most part. But for many artists, like Piccaso is so easy it is boring. Look at what he did at 16 -20. Thus he began to try to paint a 3 dimensional world on 2 dimensional canvas in new ways. So the impressionists looked to put the minimum on canvas that would express the scene and mood. That said, Van Gogh never did manage perspective very well. My favorites of the Impressionists are Pissaro and Alfred Sisely.
You have put way to much thought into this! Don
Don we travel to look at art, best college instructor I ever had taught art history and spent summers and sabbatical years traveling and photographing art and architecture. Though my majors were in other areas I never forgot that class, and have sought to see art (and collected in a very modest way) ever since. Next up is Amsterdam to see more Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and the Dutch masters. Also zoo friends.
@He Dog you ought to like this then. Carved marble. "Release from Deception".
I do, though Bernini's Rape of Prosperina is probably the finest sculpture I have ever seen. It is in the Borghese gallery in Rome.
Agreed. It's hard to believe this is stone.
I love the impressionist art. Love Van Gogh I have a reproduction of "Starry Night Over the Rhone" hanging on the wall.
He Dog I have been to Amsterdam and spent many hours in the Rembrandt museum. I still recall looking at "Night Watch." Magnificent to see it in person.
Those Dutch boys are good artists.
ps. Amsterdam is the home of Heineken beer. I went to the brewery. After the tour, you sit down in a little cafe and a good looking Dutch gal brings you glass, after glass of fresh Heineken. I was in there for about a half hour and it was a good thing I wasn't going to drive to the hotel.
This beer bears no resemblance to the Heineken you buy here. Export Heineken is made in Rotterdam, chemical preservatives are added, it is put on a [sometimes warm] not refrigerated cargo ship, then in America it is carried around in non refrigerated trucks.
Beer needs to be fresh to taste good, and it does not need to sit around for several days in a 105 degree trailer of an 18 wheeler. The fresh draft beer at the brewery in Amsterdam is fantastic!
Those Dutch boys make good beer.
I agree on the beer Allen, but Van Gogh was a post-impressionist.😁
There is incredible skill involved in getting recognizable and meaningful forms from brush strokes like that. Everyone that looks at that painting can recognize what it depicts and yet if you study the brush strokes they are incredibly simplistic. It's quite a gift to be able to create in such a way.
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That is pouring like an avalanche
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A friend of mine painted this. Zoom in.
Zoom in to find what? I see possible figures in the brush....is that it?
All done with a pallet knife?
Yep pallet knife and how he caught the impression of the light on the ripples.
Well heck, when I see this on a full sized monitor you don't need to zoom in to see the pallet knife work. On an iPhone you do.
Duhrrrrrrr
Post-Impressionist? Good God!
Well, what can I say after all I am a Neanderthal with 3 percent Neanderthal genes.
I still like van Gogh.
Now, Picasso, no way I can't stand his work. Garbage.
I thought the same until I saw the work he did in his teens. Painting portraits and still life scenes was just no longer any challenge and he began inventing. While I too would not hang much of it on the wall, he certainly had talent. My problem if I cannot get there with him. I feel much the same about Dahli.
A relative is the great niece of Gauguin and this was her Masters Thesis, a nod to “Wheat Field” by Monet.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
I usually just wondered what they were smoking
There are artist's and there are arteeest's.
The 2nd types are as flamboyant as their work.
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