Aberlour10 Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Your favorite painting......I know, its not easy for anybody to choose a one between so many that we like.... but if you really have to....let us post them directly as some kind of The Water Cooler Art Gallery...it will be interesting to see...whom, which style or age the members prefer. I am a great fan of the flemish and dutch painting form XV-XVII century, and choose "Enjoying the Ice" ( about 1630-34) by dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp. ( Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ) Robert http://we-english.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/enjoying-the-ice-avercamp.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Vincent_van_Gogh_(1853-1890)_-_Wheat_Field_with_Crows_(1890).jpg I think this one but I liked a small, unknown 16th century Christian painting in the Louvre that I can't find now. I seem to recall though that we shouldn't post lots of images? Is that true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 My tastes run more towards sculpture; however, I've always had a soft spot for the following by Pieter Bruegel the Elder www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/deathweb/bruegeltriumph1.jpg (Don't suppose anyone can tell me how to actually insert an image?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted November 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 >>>open new posting>>>>click on grey button "IMG">>>enter complete URL of the image" in the showed window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Piet Mondriaan: Composition in red, yellow and blue Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 http://www.spanisharts.com/history/del_impres_s.XX/arte_sXX/imagenes/dali_memoria.jpg Although: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~ltfang/ta/chem110b/scream.jpg Is fine, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted November 17, 2009 Report Share Posted November 17, 2009 Art is very personal. Always loved Joan Miro: Ubu Roi For sculptures, there is an active artist named Dale Chihuly who did the ceiling at the Bellagio: Chihuly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 This guy is sitting alone at the bar when a sultry, long-haired blonde temptress walks up to him and whispers in his ear, "I'll do anything you want for $100." The guy nods and says, "O.K. Come by tomorrow and paint my house." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 http://portraitxpress.files.wordpress.com/...0/mona-lisa.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 >>>open new posting>>>>click on grey button "IMG">>>enter complete URL of the image" in the showed window. thanks but what is "new postings"? In any event when I click on img i just get an error msg. sigh.... it says enter url but it does not say how or where to enter the url sigh.... no box pops up ...:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackshoe Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 click on "add reply". There's a whole bunch of "code buttons" at the top of the page. Click on "IMG". You should get a box in which to enter a url. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 click on "add reply". There's a whole bunch of "code buttons" at the top of the page. Click on "IMG". You should get a box in which to enter a url. thanks...when i click on new reply i do get a box.. 1) I click on new reply and then img and get no new box just an error msg saying enter a url. 2) I click on new reply and get a box and enter url and then img but same thing happens...no new box opens up and I just get an error msg saying enter url. ( thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 click on "add reply". There's a whole bunch of "code buttons" at the top of the page. Click on "IMG". You should get a box in which to enter a url. thanks...when i click on new reply i do get a box.. 1) I click on new reply and then img and get no new box just an error msg saying enter a url. 2) I click on new reply and get a box and enter url and then img but same thing happens...no new box opens up and I just get an error msg saying enter url. ( thanks I ran into the same problem with IE at workFirefox (at home) worked fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 btw can we post naked ladies too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babalu1997 Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 btw can we post naked ladies too? the David (after he started playing bridge online) http://xbartx.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/david.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vuroth Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Not sure I could think of a painting. As for photographs, though, I do have a clear favourite. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0610/newrings_cassini.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted November 20, 2009 Report Share Posted November 20, 2009 I like Norman Rockwell and some comics, if comics classifies as paintings. Editorial cartoons and Calvin and Get Fuzzy (though it's getting stupid now), things like that. Also like oil paintings with interesting themes and subjects, not the abstract kind of artwork. I've tried for 2 days to find this traditional Chinese art painting to link here, but can't find it anywhere. Don't know the name or artist. I liked it a lot. It's an epic painting depicting life in China in some dynasty or other. Everyone going about their lives, and apparently no occupation was repeated in the painting. It's extra long (horizontal) and stretches many meters. It seems rare to find a traditional Chinese style painting like that that focuses on people and what they do, instead of grand features like mountains and valleys, horses and waterfalls and gods and goddesses. Found a link: http://tupian.hudong.com/s/%E3%80%8A%E6%B8...8B/xgtupian/1/1Click on > button below the image to see each portion. They've interspaced portions with comments and other stuff, but almost everything up to the calligraphy one with words is part of the painting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfay Posted November 20, 2009 Report Share Posted November 20, 2009 http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3733/whistler1955189.jpg Sea and Rain: Variations in Violet and GreenJ.M Whistler, France, 1865 The colors are off in this JPEG, but I couldn't find a better version. Obviously there are many many works of art that really speak to you when you see them in person, but this was probably the first painting that ever did that to me many years ago. I imagine now that my mood and the day were such that it really had an impact on me at the time, and still does now, though maybe not as much as others. I have to agree with the OP about XV century Dutch art. One of my longtime favorites is Jan van Eyck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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