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hystericali

Following on from some discussions on another thread, I thought it was about time that we all had a place to share our favourite pieces of Art, Design, Visual Arts, Sculpture and Architecture....

Share your favourite pieces here, I'm off to find mine!

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Sylvie · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

Wonderful idea Ali

I'm going to prepare this !!!!

and what about speaking about it as well, what we are feeling about it ???

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hystericali · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

you found the thread!

We can share what ever we want, how it makes us feel etc, and what we interpret! Anything really!
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MUSE CALENDAR 2006/07
27th August 2006 - Leeds Festival
17th November 2006 - Nottingham Arena
18th November 2006 - Sheffield Arena
16th June 2007 - WEMBLEY STADIUM
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Ham of the Problematique · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

My favourite painting at the moment is 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' by Dorothea Tanning. http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/Vi...p;searchid=5287&tabview=image
I saw it at the Tate Modern a few months ago and was enthralled by it.
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Have the feeling that that painting is about dreams...seems Daliesque somehow (though admittedly it's not in his style).

hystericali · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

My all time favourite picture is 'The Luncheon of the Boating Party' by Renoir, I think its a beautiful painting, it captures a nice gentle (possibly Sunday, wll in my mind) lunch. The attention to detail, especially with what is on the table is amazing. Its just a nice happy picture to me. I had to analyse it at college and failed, its one of those 'its nice because it is' situations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party

I'm also trying to find the pencil sketches Picasso did as his studies for Geurnica. I remember seeing the amazing pencil sketches he did of the horses, which display the incredible talent he had, before converting them into his cubist style. These sketches show the understanding he had of his subject.

As for architecture, there can be only one - the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. I've been lucky enough to have visited it and words do not do it justice, just look at the pictures instead!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Familia
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MUSE CALENDAR 2006/07
27th August 2006 - Leeds Festival
17th November 2006 - Nottingham Arena
18th November 2006 - Sheffield Arena
16th June 2007 - WEMBLEY STADIUM
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hystericali · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject:

I forgot my favourite painter, how could I........ :roll:

Edgar Degas, just work your way through the wikipedia link!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degas

check out the series he painted of the ballerinas, and his 'toilette' as I call them pictures which have a 'through the keyhole' vouyeristic (spelling, sorry) quality to them, but in a beatiful and tasteful manner.
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MUSE CALENDAR 2006/07
27th August 2006 - Leeds Festival
17th November 2006 - Nottingham Arena
18th November 2006 - Sheffield Arena
16th June 2007 - WEMBLEY STADIUM
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Sylvie · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject:

Great Ali!! If you have a look in the museum thread I opened, there is a slide show about the Metropolitan Museum of Arts of New York, I saw there Renoir's & Degas'' your favourite painters and I'll put mine about Rodin with amazing pics!

Degas' paintings are amazing, you will find many ones in Le Louvre museum.

Impressionnism was my first love in painting but I now like the 19th period that really attracts me, I mean the emotion of faces that really seduce me.

This site in Barcelone is very well known, this is a great architecture. Lucky you, I've never been there. I'm rather a purist, I prefer simple lines, whatever they are in sculptures, paintings or architecture but not in poetry!!!

Thanks to share Ali, it was a great pleasure!

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Northern-Star · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject:

hannah i really liked the Eine Kleine Nachtmusik never studied art, but i do appreciate it as a novice

I really admire Dali, I went to the Dali exhibition in Paris a few years ago, it was great to see some of his pieces, including the Lips

http://www.poster.net/dali-salvad...-reflecting-elephants-8300079.jpg this is one of my faves of his

I also like some of HR Gigers work(artist who created the design for the Alien creature) heres one I like http://www.therionweb.de/giger/other2/hr_giger_pumpexcursion_I.jpg

Also I am facinated by this artist, MC Escher
example: http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge/015-20758/
this is all i can think of now

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Sylvie · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject:

Sorry Hannah I like this painting too, the theme is quite outside any reality, there are kind of elfies in it. I like Dali but not everything because I have classical tastes but I love this one :
http://dali.uffs.net/galerie/pict...l_standing_near_the_window_01.jpg
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Helen · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:39 am Post subject:

find this building fascinating - its the Flat Iron building in NYC

Sylvie · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:

yes, they are Haussman architecture I think, there are several ones, it is just near Broadway, I saw them in Manuella's car in august.

I like this oil Cot's painting very much... "Pause for thoughts", I see myself here, this is a strange sensation.

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