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George - Get your hands on a book entitled, The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe. Here Here's a brief insight into the book: I highly recommend it to anyone frustrated with the trend that Modern Art needs to be "explained." Edited to add: I found more on this book Here

The Killers - "Mr. Brightside"

Close enough - it's "The Others" You're up!

Wow Lindy! Thanks so much for all of that. Someday we need to compare notes on JSS - also my favorite artist. I recently got to see quite a few of his paintings while I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. I'll add one last tidbit: JSS was fanatic about having the same light hitting his canvas as was hitting his subject (not always easy to do.) He painted most of his portraits at near full size and would position the canvas so that it was close to the subject and, while painting, would run back a few paces until the image he was painting and the subject appeared to be the same size. Once he figured out his next stroke he would run up to the painting, brush in hand and make his strokes. The watercolors that JSS did were also quite something. I'll post one or two of those later on in the thread. Anyway - who would like to post the next piece? *I'm sure that information about art and artists will surface on this thread, but by no means does that mean the original intent of the thread is to be abandoned. The same questions apply. If you really like or don't like a piece - feel free to say so.

Two pics:

Count, I always preview the post before I actually post it. It doesn't always work, but most of the time it does.

Wing's turn...

That's about how I feel Mstar. I don't believe there is a right or wrong way to interpret a piece of art. You either like it or you don't. You either see stuff in it or you don't. It either moves you in some way or it doesn't. Simple. What do you do now? I'd say, please start looking for a piece of art to post. Please.

Thanks guys and gals! :) Personally, I like the piece. I could live with it (no - it doesn't go with my decor and its way too big for my walls but I can dream...) I look at it from the POV of the problem of painting this scene. The evening light, the reflected light of the lanterns on sleeves and faces - all just astound me. Hopefully there will be more on this painting. If not, someone please post one tomorrow.

The concept is simple. Someone posts a photo of a piece of visual art - painting, drawing, sculpture. Please post the title and artist if you can. Also if you have any interesting information about the piece or the artist, throw it in for chits and grins. I've found that it's interesting to know the "problem" an artist sets out to solve in a work of art. Then a few questions get answered by you and anyone else that cares to comment. Hopefully, a new piece will show up at least on a daily basis. Mods - Please don't move this to the Gallery too soon. Who knows, the thread my just die from neglect and you won't need to go through the trouble. Okay - I'll start: This first piece is a painting entitled "Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose" by John Singer Sargent. The painting took a long time to complete, even longer than usual for Sargent, because he painted this during twilight - so he only had a few minutes a day to paint. Here's some Background on the Painting Here are the questions: 1. Do you like/hate it? 2. Would you enjoy living with this piece? (Sometimes you like a piece but still wouldn't want to live with it.) 3. What if anything does this piece make you feel?

I only see a Lion - should I even dare to guess on one pic? LionHeart?

We might be laughing a bit too loud Aw but that never hurt no one

"48 Hours" ?

Stop right there! I *think* the title is "Love by the Dashboard Lights" by Meatloaf

Threads like this are almost comical when you take a step back. Play nice. Clean up and turn off the lights when you're done. When you figure it all out, write a report and send it to the powers that be.

Who knows. Maybe. Not my intention.

Here's my take on global warming: Whether it is happening or not is almost not worth arguing - it STILL makes the most sense to NOT pee in your own wheaties or poison your own nest. So to that end we should be looking to pollute as little as possible and to find the absolute cleanest fuels. Do you need a study to tell you to get better at something? Edited to fix bad grammar

Dontcha think someone would have said something about the fact that this whole family of cat and kittens..... .....TALKS!??? I bet The Velveteen Rabbit made it to that table too. I once had to sit through a long lecture by the local yokel's wifey-poo about how this marvelous book, was really promoting debbil spurts because it spoke of a toy becoming real through the love of a child. How absurd! Uhhhhh... now that you're all mature and such you need to toss your imagination out the window. And don't you dare promote a creative thought in your kids. Needless to say, when the time came, I bought a copy of that book and read it to my daughter.

C.S. Lewis (I'm not sure I recognize his style here - but he did not turn to Christianity until later in life. He was a professor at Oxford, IIRC.)

Here ya' go, Bow. From the 2000 movie:

That's the point.

Here's an observation I learned in Artistic Anatomy: Look in a mirror and follow the center line running from the bottom septum of the nose, to the filtrum, to the upper lip, to the bottom lip. You should be able to see a sort of "in and out" pattern down that center line. Septum - out Filtrum - in Upper lip - out Bottom lip - in It's not much more than an observation. I did learn that the body is full of these types of alternating patterns, though.

That makes a lot more sense George. I was really just taking a stab in the dark.

Dot - today this would be entitled the "Abduction of the Sebine Women" The man who is grabbing the woman to abduct her is a Roman. The man on the ground is a Sebine who appears to have been over powered. Remember here too that Giambologna's self-imposed limitation was that he wanted to sculpt this from one piece of marble, so it has to be a rather tight composition. And yes, Sudo, the photo with the man's hands on the woman's hip is not from the sculpture that Rhino posted - although that sculpture has an equal amount of incredible detail.

"Bladerunner"?