Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery

Carel Weight: Albert Bridge

Claudio Bravo

I’ll try again. Some early Edvard Munch:

The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens)

i just found this thread. Kenji – more please!
i’ll try one too hope the sizing is right

Postcard from Trotsky to Trotsky (Comic-map made by both Trotsky in heaven and Trotsky in hell – a really dialectical condition)
Terry Atkinson 1982

Hynek Martinec “Zuzana”

The Celebration of Svantovit – Alfons Mucha

Disks of Newton – 1912 by Frantisek Kupka

Kleopatra – 1912-1957 by jan Zrzavy

Spící – 1937 by Toyen

Člověk sépie – 1934 by Jindřich Štyrský

Few more by Jindřich Štyrský, collection “Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream’” 1933.

Zdeněk Sýkora, Detail No. 21, 1986

Zdeněk Sýkora, Linie, 1995

Josef Čapek, Prostitute 1917

FRANTIŠEK HUDEČEK – 1948

Antonín Procházka, Kopretiny, 1922

Emil Filla, Reader of Dostoevsky, 1907

Bohumil Kubišta, Kiss of Death, 1912

Václav Špála, Dvě ženy u vody, 1914,

Otaka Kubin, Postava II, 1912

Bohumil Kubišta, Dvojník, 1911

Let me post more of the paintings (DECADENCE)

Jaroslav Panuška, Expressive Head, c. 1900,

František Kaván, Despair, 1898 – 1899,

František Kupka, Path of Silence, 1903,

Josef Váchal, The Somnambulist, before 1910,

František Kobliha, from the series “Cleopatra”, 1910,

Karel Hlaváček, My Christ (Self-Portrait), 1897,

Jan Preisler, Black Lake

Max Svabinsky, 1904,

Viktor Oliva, Absinthe Drinker, 1901

Moderated

Nostromo’s paintings are terrible!

Jesse, at least he finally found the appropriate thread.

Adolf Hoffmeister, 1964, Illustration of H.G. Wells’ Men In The Moon

František Muzika, Indian Summer IV, 1941

Karel Teige, Collage no. 293, 1944

Ladislav Sutnar, Venuše s prstem na rtech, 1966

http://paz83.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/quarto-stato.jpg

Il quarto stato, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Renoir_-The_Two_Sisters,_On_theTerrace.jpg

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, On the Terrace

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/Bonheur_Matisse.jpg

I can’t do it!!!

I’m very pleased with a book i got cheap, Amazing Rare Things. Here’s one picture in it

Caiman and Coral Snake by Maria Sibylla Merian, 17th-18th century naturalist and artist

Rosa Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais, 1849

Vilhelm Hammershøi:

Very good, and Dreyer was an admirer of and influenced by Hammershoi

I’m currently going through a phase of tremendously admiring Spaniard Juan Gris (1887-1927)

All the 20th century ideas of modern art? He grasped. His work has a chic-ness that Picasso never had.

I have appreciated the rise of growing interest in the work of Patrick Caulfield:

I like the bizarre, unsettling work of Eric Fischl:

Naturally (like so many cinematographers) I am enamoured of Edward Hopper:

The latest work of Wayne Thiebaud is truly genius:

ah yes, i like a similar Thiebaud; Reservoir, i think it’s called. Yes here it is

Kenji: He is fantastic, and you’re right about Dreyer i think. The “scandinavian whiteness” as Truffaut once called it.

Also i’m sure that Tarkovsky must have seen an Hammershøi-painting and imagined a camera floating smoothly around in the empty rooms. Just watch this mirror-video from 6:20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pu49SYGRnk

PS: how is it possible to embed a video in the thread?

Some more Wayne Thiebaud:

Thiebaud seems to be managing something new

He seems to be inspired by the fauvists and also – in mood – by other painters like Hopper and Diebenkorn. I think he is catching the “american feeling” like Hopper did earlier.

… there is no art that makes me feel so proud of being Italian.

Giotto Di Bondone, Cappella degli Scrovegni (particolare)
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effetti del Buon Governo in Città
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Masaccio, Cappella Brancacci – Cacciata dal Paradiso Terrestre
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Piero Della Francesca, Flagellazione di Cristo
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Botticelli, Adorazione dei Magi
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Leonardo Da Vinci, Studio per la Battaglia di Anghiari
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Paolo Veronese, Cena in Casa di Levi
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Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, Le Sette Opere di Misericordia

great tread…may very well be the best of all the site!
was trying some magritte to post…but i better learn from you
where can i find such nice image to post?
or do you have them on your own computers?
thanks!

It’s kewl that Thiebaud has found a completely new vocabulary & style in his old age….

He could’ve just kept on trundling out pictures of cakes as he did in the 60’s and 70’s…

But his latest paintings of the last 20 years have a whole new set of excellent ideas afoot. I espceially like all the strange liberties he takes with Perspective…. It’s like: they make no sense… yet they make perfect sense…