Post art you like

[Tom62]

I love Enki Bilal's work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXhEJDX4Zvs

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Albert Bierstadt. Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie. 1886.  

Bierstadt was a 19th-century American landscape painter whose work fits into both the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School.  His paintings hang in major museums today, but, even though he made a lot of money selling his work, he never achieved fame in his lifetime.  Interest in him did not begin until the 1940s.

Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie has been my favorite painting in all the world since the 1980s.  It hangs here in Brooklyn--on the fifth floor of The Brooklyn Museum--and is absolutely huge: 83 x 142 1/4 in. (210.8 x 361.3 cm).  I love how the tiny Native American hunting scene at the bottom center and the tiny bird in the whitest part of the sky give the landscape a sense of scale.

This masterpiece disappeared in the late 19th century and was given up as lost forever until the mid-1970s, when it turned up in a deceased person's house in London, of all places.  No one knows how it got across the ocean (considering how large it is) or why that person had it.  (I always imagine the English senior citizen buying it at a yard sale...)

[OldGit]

Post art.  I like it.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Yipes!  Tough crowd!

I'll try again.

Here is my second favorite painting.  This one is located in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known here in New York as The Met.  

Eurocentrists say the three greatest museums in the world are The Met, The Louvre (Paris), and The Hermitage (Saint Petersburg--the former Leningrad--in Russia).

Pierre Auguste Cot.  The Storm.  1880.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Yipes!  Tough crowd!

Just because we don't comment at length, doesn't mean we don't like your posts.  I thought your last selection was beautiful (and this one)

[Crow]

Eurocentrists say the three greatest museums in the world are The Met, The Louvre (Paris), and The Hermitage (Saint Petersburg--the former Leningrad--in Russia).

My personal favorite is the Saatchi gallery I love how it constantly challenges you on so many different levels, walking around it is a total joy and full of surprises. I don't know whats more fun looking at the art or watching the expressions of unsuspecting viewers.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Yipes!  Tough crowd!

Just because we don't comment at length, doesn't mean we don't like your posts.   I thought your last selection was beautiful (and this one)

Glad you said that.  As you get to know me, you'll discover I have an underinflated ego and an overinflated ego simultaneously.  (Yet another reason I am TheWalkingContradiction...)

Underinflated...  Because of my insecurities, I fear that people ignore me because I am making a fool of myself or because I bore them.

Overinflated...  I must confess that I do tend to be a bit of an attention whore from time to time.  (Here, "whore" is being used as gay male jargon about a gay male--myself in this case; it is not a reference to women.)

Anyway...

The following picture is another favorite, and it reminds me of NoHandlebarsAttached's second piece on the previous page.  Unlike the others I have posted, I have never seen the original.  It hangs in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

(Belgian artist) René Magritte.   Le Chateau des Pyrénées.  1959.  (Chateau = castle).

[TheWalkingContradiction]

My personal favorite is the Saatchi gallery I love how it constantly challenges you on so many different levels, walking around it is a total joy and full of surprises. I don't know whats more fun looking at the art or watching the expressions of unsuspecting viewers.

I have just checked it out on line.  It looks wonderful. 

[DeterminedJuliet]

Yipes!  Tough crowd!

Just because we don't comment at length, doesn't mean we don't like your posts.   I thought your last selection was beautiful (and this one)

Glad you said that.  As you get to know me, you'll discover I have an underinflated ego and an overinflated ego simultaneously.  (Yet another reason I am TheWalkingContradiction...)

Underinflated...  Because of my insecurities, I fear that people ignore me because I am making a fool of myself or because I bore them.

Overinflated...  I must confess that I do tend to be a bit of an attention whore from time to time.  (Here, "whore" is being used as gay male jargon about a gay male--myself in this case; it is not a reference to women.)

Don't worry, once you make peace with the fact that many of us have the attention-span of monkeys with ADD, you'll feel right at home. I think it's very safe to say that you make many quality contributions here, even if people don't always explicitly say so.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Don't worry, once you make peace with the fact that many of us have the attention-span of monkeys with ADD, you'll feel right at home. I think it's very safe to say that you make many quality contributions here, even if people don't always explicitly say so.

The attention whore in me has been satisfied for the evening.  

My own OCD is, of course, the polar opposite of ADD: far too much attention to detail and anxiety over it--with a healthy dose of rigidity (that I always fight against) thrown in.  Ironically, I also have low-level ADD.  It isn't enough to interfere too much with my habits, but when it competes with OCD it confuses me to no end.  I fight that too.

[xSilverPhinx]

I would totally try to minecraft something like that.

Gravity? What is this gravity you speak of?

[DeterminedJuliet]

It hasn't seemed to be an issue so far, but I just added a little disclaimer at the beginning of the thread asking everyone to link to (rather than post to) images that could be considered "not safe for work". I know it's a tricky gray area, but it's probably better to error on the side of caution. I had forgotten that this was is in the forum rules, initially.

 

[Budhorse4]

Glad you said that.  As you get to know me, you'll discover I have an underinflated ego and an overinflated ego simultaneously.  (Yet another reason I am TheWalkingContradiction...)

Underinflated...  Because of my insecurities, I fear that people ignore me because I am making a fool of myself or because I bore them.

Overinflated...  I must confess that I do tend to be a bit of an attention whore from time to time.  (Here, "whore" is being used as gay male jargon about a gay male--myself in this case; it is not a reference to women.)

I know the feel, bro. That feeling that you know people like you, but at the same time the crippling anxiety that everybody hates you and only pretends to be your friend.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Glad you said that.  As you get to know me, you'll discover I have an underinflated ego and an overinflated ego simultaneously.  (Yet another reason I am TheWalkingContradiction...)

Underinflated...  Because of my insecurities, I fear that people ignore me because I am making a fool of myself or because I bore them.

Overinflated...  I must confess that I do tend to be a bit of an attention whore from time to time.  (Here, "whore" is being used as gay male jargon about a gay male--myself in this case; it is not a reference to women.)

I know the feel, bro. That feeling that you know people like you, but at the same time the crippling anxiety that everybody hates you and only pretends to be your friend.

Ah yes, you've got it exactly.  Hard to lick--but not impossible.

[TheWalkingContradiction]

Years ago I bought some 1940s and 1950s National Geographics at a yard sale.  I still have the ones whose articles or pictures fascinated me, but I did not keep them all.  One of the ones I did not keep had the following ad as its back cover, and I decided to detach, frame and hang it.

In my personal utopia that could never and will never exist in the real world, it is always the 1950s--except that there is no war, no military draft, no racism, no sexism, and no homophobia.  Life continues in the happy snappy way represented by this picture.