Le Tout P'ti FC Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 That was one of the paintings that I was talking about. If I remember correctly then most of those figures are almost full scale. The Night Watch is a colossal painting in every sense. It fills that room and grabs your attention. I've not been to the Rijksmuseum since it was refurbished. Definitely on the must-visit list next time I go back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 21 minutes ago, Le Tout P'ti FC said: The Night Watch is a colossal painting in every sense. It fills that room and grabs your attention. I've not been to the Rijksmuseum since it was refurbished. Definitely on the must-visit list next time I go back. Went to the Van Gogh Museum decades ago and you could barely see the paintings because of the lighting and glass protecting them. Sure it's improved, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 A few favourites of mine from David Cutter. He did the album artwork for beautiful souths 0898.SIBLING RIVALRYhttps://goo.gl/images/EdaV1DOLD RED EYEShttps://goo.gl/images/S5KsyX0898 Album coverhttps://goo.gl/images/qy48qr 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold Rover Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 Hopper, anyone? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Bold Rover said: Hopper, anyone? The old Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark album Crush had a pastiche of his famous "Early Sunday Morning" for its cover, very apt for a record which at first seemed quiet and respectable but turned out to be a very melancholy, bleak little affair - The Lights Are Going Out was identical to an early Sisters of Mercy track (minus the trying too hard to sound like the Velvet Underground nonsense they indulged it when Ben Gunn was still with them). But yeah, Hopper, no one quite captured the mood of "being lonely in a place of so many" quite like him. Edited November 12, 2016 by WaffenThinMint 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 On 11/11/2016 at 08:30, Bigmouth Strikes Again said: One of mine, Montrose basin at sunset....... Very nice. Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Intervention of the Sabines by David. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) Ken Currie's Glasgow Triptych is tremendous Edited November 12, 2016 by NewBornBairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 (edited) Also like Howson Edited November 12, 2016 by NewBornBairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Not a painting but a beautiful piece of art - Antonio Corradini's "Portrait of Modesty http://www.thingsworthdescribing.com/2013/08/01/antonio-corradinis-veiled-sculpture/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooky Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 I know he isn't always taken particularly seriously by some of the art worlds (the snobs!) but I'm a big fan of Jack Vettriano. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 On 11/11/2016 at 05:03, peasy23 said: Good idea for a thread. Not been for a while, but I do like to have a wander round Kelvingrove now and again. I've never been particularly artistic myself but paintings fascinates me. I find it remarkable that someone like Lowry, more famous for his "busy" works, can also come up with something so simple like this Seascape, which tbh a picture doesn't do justice to. Is that called "Belgrano"? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Manét for nothing and your chicks for free. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 16 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said: Is that called "Belgrano"? No, because it's not got lots of sharks swimming around saying "thank fk, something instead of tuna for once!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 One artist I've always admired in a transfixed, childlike fashion is Gustav Dore. If you wrote something which you find in the "Classical" section of your local bookshop, he's probably done an engraving of it: Heaven in Dante's Divine Comedy Lucifer running away in Milton's Paradise Lost He also seems to have liked painting Scotland - Loch Lomond 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Great thread! Another Van Gogh fan here and 'The Starry Night', shown up thread is one of my favourites. For me though, it's edged by the similarly themed 'Starry Night over the Rhone." Interestingly, images from the Hubble Telescope suggests that Vincent's psychotic episodes may have allowed him to observe the physical phenomenon of turbulent flow - hence the stars' appearance as swirls of light. The Fluid Dynamics of 'The Starry Night'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Anyone else a fan of Roger Dean? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Snelders Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Great works on here. I like this from Klimt but must admit I prefer art from the Renaissance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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