Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery
Indeed…spent a few moments pondering and dare I say, googling …
“At the heart of Jesus’ humor is paradox. Nowhere is paradox more explicit than in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5), which celebrate a happiness (blessedness) begot of poverty of spirit, mourning, meekness, etc. Happiness in a sick society is enjoyed not by espousing the values of that society, but by countering those values and moving into a new, strange dimension. Our culture does not educate us to see the humor, even the laughter in paradox. A Zen master would understand. Perhaps the greatest laugh of all is the confident, joyful laugh in the face of adversity.”
Is this another Leonardo da Vinci? Not accepted as such for the London exhibition.
Adriano de Sousa Lopes – A Blusa Azul
An Kyon: Dream Journey to Peach Blossom Land
Hodgkin: Bay of Naples
Van Der Weyden : Portrait of a Lady
Nuno Goncalves : Princesa Joana
Botticelli : Birth of Venus
Modigliani : Jeanne Hebuterne
Kahlo : Self Portrait with Parrots
Just been watching on TV about the Turner Prize in UK, here’s one artist on the shortlist, George Shaw
i’m on the lookout for any great current painters, recommendations please
Feng Zhengjie (1968- )
Takashi Murakami (1962- )
Serebriakova: Self-Portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
odd nerdum: buried alive
Caravaggio: Judith Beheading Holofernes
Gentileschi: Judith Beheading Holofernes
One of many paintings in my new- trumpet blast, proud to present- list Paintings by Women. Suggestions welcome. I should scan back through this thread too.
Bharti Kher
cool!
It is good, isn’t it- i only came across it recently, she’s Anglo-Indian and also does striking sculptures
“New Planet” by Konstantin Yuon
Edward Hopper: Solitary Figure in Theatre, 1904
Lucas Cranach:
Madonna and Child
Venus and Cupid
The Ill-Matched Couple
Vermeer: Woman Reading a Letter
Helen Davison: A Bit of Orange
Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and Sea
Bonnard: Almond Tree in Blossom
The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer, Lucian Freud, 2004-2005
EDIT:
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (also known as Big Sue), Lucian Freud, 1995
Sunny Morning Eight Legs, Lucian Freud, 1997
Mulher-Cão, Paula Rego, 1994
Rothko Chapel
Kenji
I guess saving the world is a serious business. Or the knowledge of forthcoming crucifixion. But i am trying to imagine a painting a la Hals’ Laughing Cavalier! Maybe Chaplin should have played Christ.