Hi guys...thought I'd toss out an art thread. I have a great many favorites out of the past, but here's something new I hope you'll like. Some of this stuff just takes my breath away.

Contemporary Art That I Like

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 24, 2001

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And here's one of my favorite guys from days of old...I think my favorite from this bunch is The Milkmaid. What an incredible mastery of light and shade Vermeer had!

Jan Vermeer

Please feel free to contribute your favorites. I'm curious...

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 24, 2001.

David Delamare Beautiful mermaid art =)

-- (cin@cin.cin), August 24, 2001.

oops sorry i messed up the link

David Delamare

-- (cin@cin.cin), August 24, 2001.

Unknow n artists use all-natural canvass

-- Rich (living_in_interesting_times@hotmail.com), August 24, 2001.

Thanks, cin and Rich -- fascinating stuff.

Another of my favorites...this one's called "Ecstasy", by Maxfield Parrish

Ecst asy

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 24, 2001.

And three of my favorite Rockwells...

Freedom of Speech

Saying Grace

Girl at a Mirror

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 24, 2001.

That is some lovely art eve, I think I could get lost in that first site linked.

This one is my favorite: Illustrated Mermaid

I would LOVE to get my hands on a print of this.

-- (cin@cin.cin), August 24, 2001.

I mean larger than 8x10, such as the original size

-- (cin@cin.cin), August 24, 2001.

One more for now; then I gotta split for a while...

I love Renoir's impressionism as well. Here's one of what was actually several variations he did of two girls at a piano...

Two Girls at a Piano

I'm sorry if this image is too big; but obviously there's a tradeoff...although you lose context, you get the detail.

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 24, 2001.

Thanks, cin. The mermaid painting was gorgeous, by the way -- blew me away. And I'm very much looking forward to diving into the rest of 'em; quite mesmerizing.

Here's another try at the Girls at a Piano; somehow I messed up the last link.

Two Girls at a Piano

Rich, I want to ask you some things on your art; first off, I'm interested in how the artist plans these things. Seems it would be incredibly difficult to get the geometry just right on such a large scale.

I dunno, though -- maybe it would be easy. My geometry is pretty much limited to what the scarecrow said when he got his brain -- the Pythagorean theorem. And I believe he even got it wrong.

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 24, 2001.

We have many matted prints around the house that SO purchased, and many more waiting to go to the place that mats them. Right now, I'd say that my favorite is Flaming June by Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896). It's hung above the fireplace in the frontroom. Heh. Daughter #2 STILL thinks that the one breast shouldn't have been revealed such.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), August 24, 2001.

Well, I was GONNA go...:)

Anita, that's absolutely beautiful! And I've seen it before -- just somehow never followed up to find out who did it.

Regarding your daughter -- you know, you can't win sometimes. I can imagine a son thinking or saying the reverse -- ("Hmmm....well, there's ONE, anyway....")

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 24, 2001.

Absolutely Stunning Photography from the Schatz*Ornstein Studios.

-- 1 (2@3.com), August 24, 2001.

Etc hings by Monir are wrought with symbolism. I own Amanda Suite 2 and 4 and a larger piece too. The photos on-line don't fully do them justice because much of the fine detail is lost. Seeing them up close, you can get lost in them for hours.

-- 1 (2@3.com), August 24, 2001.

Eve: Only someone invited IN would enjoy "Flaming June". In the foyer, one is met with John Singer Sargent.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), August 24, 2001.

Wow. There are a lot of talented people in this world.

-- David L (bumpkin@dnet.net), August 24, 2001.

more shitty folksy crap. please do not pass this off as art assholes.

-- yawn (yawn@yawn.com), August 25, 2001.

1, loved the wonderful photos; the Monir works didn't do much for me, though. I usually don't go for abstract art, but maybe you're right -- I'd probably have to see one up close.

Anita, I'm very intrigued; this one's pulling me in. I'd like to see a larger shot if the web has one.

Hi Dave; glad you could make it to the gallery. Do you have anything to put up? I mean, just on loan for the exhibit. You can have it back when the thread's done. Hey...even a chess set'll do.

"yawn": What is your idea of art? Can you post some examples?

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 25, 2001.

Hi Eve. I don't really have anything to add to what's been exhibited. I think I was most struck by the crop designs Rich posted, because of how much was accomplished using such a simple medium.

However, for the benefit of "yawn" I have posted a link to Jackson Pollock. I have no interest in art that I could stare at for an hour only to realize that I don't grasp it any more than at first glance. But undoubtedly a connoisseur such as "yawn" can grasp Pollock's art without any exertion, while regarding the rest of us even more condescendingly.

-- David L (bumpkin@dnet.net), August 25, 2001.

Art from this generation:

Finding beauty in nature

Best Wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 25, 2001.

That had an explanation. For full page go to:

Finding Beauty in Nature

Real Abstract.

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 25, 2001.

Z, thanks, but somehow it just isn't my cup of tea. Better than Pollock, though. :)

Dave, thanks for showing us all what, IMO, is pretty much the antithesis of art. And as far as I'm concerned, most of Pollock's stuff could be replicated by practically any ten-year-old, and to one extent or another, probably has been.

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 25, 2001.

And check THIS guy's stuff out...

Michael Wilkinson Sculpture

-- Eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), August 25, 2001.