The art discussion thread

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You seem to ask that question a lot fenway. You must have a great interest in people. Where did that interest originate? :stuck_out_tongue:

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i do :slight_smile: . its great to see lads with a passion for something outside the norm like yourself with cricket or SS and art.

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Can’t really say Fenway but I remember being very impressed when seeing the Guggenheim in Bilbao 10 years ago and have carried on from there.

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SS, having watched a very good doco about Frank Lloyd Wright recently, I was thinking about starting an architecture appreciation thread, but would it be more fitting to include it in the art discussion thread?

(BTW - you didn’t answer my 100 Myles thread recently?)

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Came across this on a free android app


The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjungman/projects/Sitz-ElGreco/Entierro del Conde de Orgaz.jpg

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Wouldn’t really have a bull’s notion about art, but found myself with a few hours to kill on my own in Lyon this morning and was staying quite close to the MusĂ©e des Beaux Arts so said I’d have a wander around. Very much enjoyed it, unfortunately I spent so much time admiring the sculptures and older paintings that I had to leave to catch my flight before I could get to the 20th century paintings. Anyway, for what it’s worth my favourites were:

I’d also make mention of Janmot’s series of paintings (16 of them I think) The Poem of the Soul. In terms of sculptures, the plaster model of Bartholomé’s Monument of the Dead probably impressed me most.

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There is a Turner exhibition on in Krakow at the moment, might stroll in some weekend.

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Great idea Fitzy, it’s a cognate discipline but I think it needs its own thread. Start one up there.

Ye need something given yer Leonardo Da Vinci is away in London! That Leonardo exhibition in London is practically sold out till after Xmas.

That Saint Francis is class, have seen some similar ones. Alot of painters got into trouble for daring to depict the saint as a real man, rather than a supernatural being.

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Thinly veiled how can a mucker from Meanus be interested in art [quote=“fenwaypark, post: 458492”]

i do :slight_smile: . its great to see lads with a passion for something outside the norm like yourself with cricket or SS and art.
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That St Francis is a stunning artwork.

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The Death of Marat by by Jacques-Louis David. Maybe Eoghan Harris will be in something like this one day.

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resourcesb/dav_marat.jpg

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even a serious discussion on art can come across as the ramblings of hand flappers at a cocktail party air kissing one another

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I think we’ve already had The Death of Marat on here, WTB, despite its enjoyable subject matter I feel you need a better excuse than the death of Eoghan Harris to get away with rediscussing this work. Could you please post your favourite pre-Raphaelite work so we can blow hard about it.

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I saw this used in a TedTalk presentation on the psychology behind the left-right political divide. Very interesting stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc

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Models stripping in the Musee D’Orsay, Paris :smiley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJLvHZJ064

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Cracking arses on all 3 :clap:

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There is a playfulness about these birds which is quite intoxicating, MBB. Did they recover their raincoats later I wonder?

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I wasn’t able to avail of the sound, but I could only imagine the merriment being coveyed via that medium.

The thought sadly did occur to me about the coats when I saw them toss them aside. I presume this is a sign of settledness and old age creeping in.

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Similarly I was concerned that one of the girl’s knickers had the label sticking up, I had an urge to turn it down for her. It is such practical things that concern us nowadays mate.

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Veering into modern art and the dreaded subject of video art, we took in this piece over Easter at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Its actually quite brilliant.

http://www.mca.com.au/exhibition/christian-marclay-the-clock/

Basically the idea is that at any given time, the screen is showing a scene or still from a film with that time featured. It goes for 24 hours. We watched it for an hour.