. I never have understood what people see in Seurat. There is only one of Picasso's works I like. It is an unnamed statue, often referred to as "Da Picasso", in Chicago's Daley Plaza. Here it is...
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| Posted by: CelticRose 30-Nov-2003, 05:34 PM |
| I have many favorite artists of different styles and periods. I would say my absolute favorite time period was that of the Pre-raphaelite/Victorian era. I love how they took their inspiration from poetry and put it to canvas.....storytelling painting! I love how the artists were able to take the time period and put to paint brush the perfection of realism and detail. Takes the viewer back in time making one feel as though they are there! here in one of my favorite paintings that I have hung in my studio. The Lady of Shallot by John William Waterhouse. |
| Posted by: silverdragon 30-Nov-2003, 06:28 PM |
| Evind Earle, a California artist (only recently deceased) who painted the California I see and not what my camera captures... somehow he paints the magic. This one is entitled, "Fire, Red and Gold" |
| Posted by: MDF3530 30-Nov-2003, 06:37 PM |
| I've always liked Monet, da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Degas, Rembrandt and the guy who did Dogs Playing Poker . I never have understood what people see in Seurat. There is only one of Picasso's works I like. It is an unnamed statue, often referred to as "Da Picasso", in Chicago's Daley Plaza. Here it is... |
| Posted by: maggiemahone1 30-Nov-2003, 06:49 PM |
| MDF, It looks as though it has wings! I think I would have to study it a bit more to really understand it's concept! maggiemahone1 |
| Posted by: CelticRose 30-Nov-2003, 07:02 PM |
| Ooh! Beautiful artwork already! I, too love Monet, Renoir, Rembrandt. In fact, when I was an art student in college, I had to pick one old master to study. I chose Rembrandt and have several books of his works. This one is in my studio too and is by Edward Leighton. I love this piece. |
| Posted by: maggiemahone1 30-Nov-2003, 07:09 PM |
| Ohhh!!!! That picture certainly tells a story, CelticRose. It looks like to me as though she is seeing her love off and just has to see and touch him one more time! Beautiful!!!! maggiemahone1 |
| Posted by: CelticRose 30-Nov-2003, 07:17 PM |
| Yeah! Maggiemahone! That's why I love these Victorian artists so well. Cause they do my favorite time period......the Renaissance! |
| Posted by: MDF3530 30-Nov-2003, 07:19 PM |
| Maggie, I think that "Da Picasso" is supposed to be a dragon. I think that most people see what they want to in his artwork. |
| Posted by: Therasa 30-Nov-2003, 09:33 PM |
| Rose- *sigh* Those pics are beautiful. I love them. Funny thing, that is what I cross stitch. Those kinds of period pieces. (check out Mirabilia, some of them are what I have done, rose of sharon, the dreamer, faerie idle, and many more) MDF-we have the same statue in our town, actually, we did until two years ago. And I have to say, (sorry) I hated the thing. It was here for as long as I can remember. Ours was painted though, reddish orange. Of all colors...good lord. But, Monet!! love, Picasso!! love, and so many more. But it has to be along the same period as the ones Rose has shown here. Very few from after. Now I need a scanner, I want to put in some of the pics I have done and some that I have found. Take care |
| Posted by: CelticRose 30-Nov-2003, 10:05 PM |
Theresa! You and I have the same tastes in a lot of things, except Elvis!   You cross stitch those pictures? I bet they are beautiful! I would love to see them. Buy yourself a scanner for Christmas!  Siverdragon -- I keep forgetting to tell you how much I loved that piece you showed of Evind Earle's! Breathtakingly beautiful! Thank you for sharing! I can only wish I could paint like that! I mistitled one artist above. Should have been Edmund Blair Leighton. Here is another of his that is in my studio hung! I love this man's work! A wedding has just taken place and already the groom is called out to war!  |
| Posted by: silverdragon 01-Dec-2003, 12:03 AM |
| I'm glad you appreciate his work, CelticRose! and his name is Eyvind Earle -- my bad spelling... sorry about that. It was his work that encouraged me to take up drawing/painting about 4 years ago and thus led by a very roundabout path to my current filmmaking classes. I wish I could afford one of his paintings - or even a print. |
| Posted by: barddas 01-Dec-2003, 09:01 AM |
| Oh, I love Waterhouse too! I have a print of the Lady of Shallot, and the Crystal ball... I also like H. R. Gieger. He did the concept art for the Alien films. He uses lots of greys, and black tomes... very dark, gothic....creepy, but nice I also like Froud. He does very nice faerie artwork.... |
| Posted by: CelticRose 01-Dec-2003, 01:50 PM |
| Silverdragon! You are in film making classes? Wow! That must be really exciting. Is that something you plan to pursue professionally? I would like to see more of this artists' work, Eyvind Earle! Post your favorite pieces of his work here. barddas! I just realized that you part of the band "barddas" I didn't realize you were in it. I just thought it happened to be your favorite band -- which I am sure it is too! I love faery art! I must look up this Froud guy. One of my favorite faery paintings is hung up in my studio too, but Robert Hughes -- Midsummer Dream. |
| Posted by: barddas 01-Dec-2003, 03:35 PM |
| Yup that's me! No film stuff here.. just music and photography.... My brother does computer animation, and is writing/drawing his own comic book though...  here is a link to Brian froud... http://www.worldoffroud.com/ Here is a link to Gieger http://www.hrgiger.com/ |
| Posted by: silverdragon 01-Dec-2003, 03:48 PM | ||
Yes, filmmaking classes, and it IS exciting! It IS something I plan to pursue professionally -- I live in the right town, after all... I was looking for something to combine the following facts:1. I have LOTS of computer background, 2. I have artistic pretensions, and 3. I can't stand doing the same thing for more than an hour straight. Filmmaking seems to fill the bill, with the digital direction it's heading... if I don't let myself get trapped in the cubicles of a large studio. Directing/producing my first student film is FUN!!! Post-production isn't finished yet... Here's some more Eyvind Earle eye candy: "Herd of Horses" |
| Posted by: CelticRose 01-Dec-2003, 06:00 PM |
| Silverdragen! That is just too cool to be doing film. I wish you the very best with that. I have a friend in L.A. who is an aspiring actress. She has taken acting classes and now has an agent and doing auditions, so I know it is a tough business and very competitive. But all us artists know all about that stuff, don't we? Loved the other painting from Earle! He is really very unique, isn't he? Thanks for sharing. Barddas! So which one is you in the photo of you and your band mate? Like to put a face with a name. Not sure which music is yours yet as I am new here and still trying to learn all the music being played! Thanks for sharing the artists. Really awesome work both artists. Very monochromatic the one artist, Gieger. I loved the faeries by Froud. My favorite one was of Syphl. (Think I spelled that right). I love fantasy art too. Love the work of Amy Brown's work. her site is http://www.amybrownart.com to see all her faeries.  |
| Posted by: oldraven 01-Dec-2003, 06:26 PM |
| Props to Barddas. Giger is an amazing artist, and quite imaginative. Tod MacFarlane is another, and M.C. Escher. All great for thier time. If you want to see an up and comer who will knock your socks off, check out Enayla. She does primarily photoshop painting, but believe me, there's no trickery there. It's 100% freehand done with a Wacom tablet. My favorite of hers. http://images.deviantart.com/i/2002/31/e/3/Autumn_Whisperlings.jpg A detial shot http://images.deviantart.com/i/2002/31/9/b/Closeup_of_Autumn_Whispers.jpg http://enayla.deviantart.com/gallery/ Since most of her work is commisioned, http://www.deviantart.com/view/862698/ is her only available print through DA. If you want it, just click on print available and follow the road signs. |
| Posted by: CelticRose 01-Dec-2003, 07:26 PM |
| OMG! OldRaven! I have seen one piece of Enayla's work before, but could never remember her name! Her work is phenomenal. Not sure what a Wacom tablet is since I am not computer illiterate. But thank you for sharing her work. Wow! She is amazing! |
| Posted by: barddas 02-Dec-2003, 08:06 AM | ||
I am the one with the long blonde hair..... Boris Valaja(sp) is good too.. I just wish he wouldn't combind sci-fi and mythology figures .... |
| Posted by: barddas 02-Dec-2003, 08:09 AM | ||
So OldRaven, does this mean I am not the only comic book reader here??!!!! Tod MacFarlane does great work! I loved hisSpiderman series back in the early 90's. Jim Lee is Awesome too! His work on Batman has really been nice.... |
| Posted by: Roisin-Teagan 02-Dec-2003, 03:24 PM |
| I too love Waterhouse's work. I really have many favorites from different periods. For instance, from the Renaissance period I love Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. From the Baroque Rembrandt is my favorite, while Monet, Manet, Renoir, and Degas are my favorites from the Impressionist movement. From the Post-Impressionists, van Gogh and Gauguin are nice, while from Expressionism Henri Matisse is my favorite. I do admire Picasso's work even though most of his inspiration seem to come from an overactive sex drive (Picasso is the Master I researched in College. I chose the one I least understood, so I could learn something new). There are countless others I admire. Art is my passion. In my art studio I have a lot of my own work hanging up. Other artist's work hanging on my wall are Renoir's and Monets. |
| Posted by: CelticRose 02-Dec-2003, 04:15 PM | ||
Well barrdas, you are the nice looking one then! You and Eowyn would go good together!  Never heard of the artist you speak of. Gotta research that one. |
| Posted by: CelticRose 02-Dec-2003, 04:26 PM |
| Roisin! I love your name! It means "little Rose" in Irish, does it not? You love a lot of the same artist I do! Now I took art history many years ago but I truly forgot what era which artist falls into so thank you for adding that too. I also love Mary Cassat. I have a calendar of hers hung in my art studio. Now I am interested in what type of artwork you do, Roisin? Why have we not seen any pictures of your work in the artwork thread? I would love to see your work. I have been obnoxious enough to show my stuff in there. Do you work full-time as an artist? Come show and tell in the artwork thread....please! |
| Posted by: silverdragon 02-Dec-2003, 04:29 PM | ||||
PMFJI, but I believe the correct spelling is Boris Vallejo. he produces tasty calendars each year... |
| Posted by: oldraven 02-Dec-2003, 09:14 PM | ||||
I used to read a lot of comics, buying up all the old ones I could for a quarter at the used book stores, and always buying when I could aford new. Also read a lot of my older brother's comics. But it's been a while. I do remember Jim Lee's Batman though. Quite unique, and was crazy with the textures and solid shading (big black shadows all over the place). http://store4.yimg.com/I/thundermall_1765_4240 My all time favorite series was X-men's Age of Appocolypse (X-men Deluxe, '97-98ish). One heck of a mad line. I still don't know how it ended, and it's driving me out of my mind. The series where Prof X's son goes back in time to kill Eric but kills his father instead, allowing Appocolypse to emerge early and take over the planet. You'd have loved it. Good guys were now bad, bad guy's were good. So cool. |
| Posted by: CelticRose 02-Dec-2003, 09:31 PM | ||
Silverdragen! Amazing piece of artwork there. I have never heard of that artist, but the fantasy genre is a bit of a new world for me. Being a painter myself, I have worked exclusively with Native American portraiture, so I have kept up with that world for many many years. One of my favorite southwest artists is Don Crowley. His website is http://www/doncrowley.com but here is an example of his work. |
| Posted by: Guest 03-Dec-2003, 02:04 PM |
| The Crowley is amazing, CelticRose. Thanks! |
| Posted by: silverdragon 03-Dec-2003, 02:06 PM |
| Oops... that last was mine... hadn't logged in... sorry |
| Posted by: CelticRose 03-Dec-2003, 02:22 PM |
| Thanks Silverdragon! this is my other favorite southwest artist. I have several of his prints hung in my home.! The artist is Howard Terpening. http://.www.katsgallery.com |
| Posted by: Roisin-Teagan 07-Dec-2003, 01:44 PM | ||
Hi Rosemary, I know I'm answering you so late, but I just stumbled upon your post. I did get your PM. No, I do not work fulltime as an artist, but would oneday love to. My art is both abstract and realistic. I sculpt abstract designs and paint and draw realistic scenes and people. Like I said in my PM, when I'm able to get my scanner up and running, I'll post a few things. Oh, by the way I loved Art History at the University. When you study what past Masters have created it inspires you. I also went and took a look at your art you posted----LOVE THEM! I noticed that they were done in either charcoal, pastels, and oils. Your subject matter is very interesting as well. I especially love the American Indians and the different dogs you created.  |
| Posted by: CelticRose 07-Dec-2003, 03:51 PM |
| Hi Roisin! good to hear from you. My work is done either in colored pencil or oils, but mostly colored pencil. I really love the medium. It takes a long time to finish a piece, but there is just something about that medium that really thrills me. I guess it is because I love to draw so much. I like that better than painting with a brush. Thanks for looking at my work, btw. Anxious to see yours! I hope your dream comes true for you to work full-time as an artist. It is a real blessing to be able to do so, but then a lot of work in trying to market it too. Kind of takes the enjoyment out of it. But I wish you much success!  |
| Posted by: A Shrule Egan 07-Dec-2003, 08:21 PM |
| I had the pleasure of growing up not far from the home of Lou Kennel. He was the art director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He also designed the floats for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in the 1930's and 40's. We couldn't afford his paintings back then but I have since acquired 17 of his paintings at auctions and antique shops. It was a lot of fun standing next to him in his barn workshop for hours watching him create his paintings. Sometimes he would ask what we wanted added in the painting and would gladly oblige. The C.R. Bard Corporation built a new headquarters in Summit, New Jersey and purchased one of his opera backdrops for $330,000 and built the new lobby around the painting. I also like paintings from George Wheatley. His paintings are all nautical by nature but his detail is what really stands out. Wheatley painted in the 1920's. Another of my favorites is Hans Junga. He lived in The Thousand Islands of New York State and painted some incredible scenes of The Thousand Islands. Some of the sunsets are so real. I got to meet him a few years ago and unfortunately, he passed away last year. |
| Posted by: Siusaidh Blues 27-Jan-2004, 11:53 AM | ||
There was a good Picasso exhibit at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta several years ago and I learned a lot about him there - there was such a wide variety of his art from different periods in his life. I never knew he started out doing such traditional-looking work, and I could see he was just trying to find his own way to express himself shen he began turning to the more abstract style he became so famous for. There were some pieces that showed such a great sense of humor - I'll always remember this sculpture of a goat, made from bottles and baskets: it was so funny! I always felt uncomfortable with Picasso's work somehow - have you seen some of his portraits of women?? I think he hated women sometimes; his art seems to show a love/hate obsession. Some of the portraits I saw of Dora Mar expressed such hostility it was disturbing. But then again, I admire someone who can put that much emotion in a painting. That's a talent we artists can only hope to master sometimes... |
| Posted by: CelticRose 27-Jan-2004, 01:50 PM |
| Call me weird, but Picasso is one artist I never cared for! |
| Posted by: RavenWing 27-Jan-2004, 04:24 PM |
| I think Picasso was amazing. Most people don't realize that he did "normal" art as well and it is stunning. My all-time favorite artist is VanGogh. His works have left the most profound impact on my own work. I even did a copy of Starry Night when I was in early elementary school. I think that one may have won some awards. Anyway, Starry Night is still one of my favorite paintings. I'll see if I can find a link to it. http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p_0612.htm |
| Posted by: CelticRose 27-Jan-2004, 04:37 PM |
| RW! The Van Gogh, Starry Night, is an amazing painting. I love his work too! Another underestimated artist of his time. Do you paint yourself? I can't remember..........my brain! I know we have talked about our favorite artists, but I forget if you said you did artwork too. Like the kilt painted on your avatar idea though! |
| Posted by: RavenWing 28-Jan-2004, 12:21 PM | ||
I do paint some. I have just been blocked for ages. |
| Posted by: CelticRose 28-Jan-2004, 01:22 PM |
| I am kind of going through a block period myself. I have drawn and painted all my life and for the past year and a half I have just had a really hard time with anything I have tried to do . It has been rather discouraging. I am going through some kind of mental block or something. I don't know what it is. |
| Posted by: Siusaidh Blues 29-Jan-2004, 09:55 AM | ||
I've just been reading about Vincent, I got a great book that contains many of his letters to Theo and other people... its fascinating to read his accounts of where and when he did certain paintings, and also about his emotions during the creation of some of the drawings & paintings we're so familiar with now. I saw some of his paintings first during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta GA when they were part of the 'Rings' exhibit at the High; the strength of his colors alone was enough to stop me in my tracks. But the most amazing encounter was in 1998 at the Art Institute of Chicago; I entered one of the rooms and there was a self portrait that took my breath. I walked right up to it slowly and just stood there a minute... I swear there was such loneliness in those eyes, such a sense of the isolation an artist feels when they're working from the heart only to have people respond with indifference. It felt like a conversation, and I think I actually murmured 'I wish I could give you a hug, Vinnie, everything is going to be okay.' |
| Posted by: RavenWing 29-Jan-2004, 10:14 AM | ||
EXACTLY! He was able to convey raw emotion in one swipe if a paintbrush. It is amazing. |
| Posted by: Siusaidh Blues 03-Feb-2004, 01:12 PM |
| There is a point where technique becomes your own voice, isn't there, and you are able to take what's inside you and express it through your pencil or brush... sometimes I think my most important goal is to become eloquent! Oops, the writer in me is peeking out there... |
| Posted by: emerald-eyedwanderer 28-Apr-2004, 03:39 PM |
I have a wide range of favourites...  Where to start... Well of course I love all the brilliant artists like Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Munch, Picasso, Monet, and Michelangelo. Lately I have come across newer artists that I adore. Laurie Lipton is somewhat dark but her paintings are emotional. http://www.laurielipton.com/index.html |
| Posted by: emerald-eyedwanderer 28-Apr-2004, 05:25 PM |
| I really like this site- check it out http://www.artofimagination.org/ - Em |
| Posted by: Shadows 15-Sep-2004, 08:49 PM |
| My all time favorite is M.C. Esher, but my favorite contemporary Is David Jones, a close and personal friend. He works mainly in acrilic, but has also worked in oils. The one I include here is one of my favorites. |
| Posted by: urian 16-Sep-2004, 11:20 AM |
| My favorite modern artist is faairly unknown unless you play card games like Vampire, werewolf or Magic the gathering. His name is Richard Kane Ferguson and I can barely describe his work so I wll throw a link to a fan site with some of them http://www.geocities.com/earthmagiks/rkfa-e.html The other favorite is a long lost relative..tom lovell Here are some links to his stuff http://www.galleryone.com/images/kim/lovell%20-%20surrender%20at%20appomattox.jpg http://www.artfinders.com/printart/lovellt/images/1989fleetpassi2[1 http://illustratedgallery.com/collection/lovell.htm http://www.mormonum.org/pictures/moroni_hide.jpg I'll stop now..but he was such a talented artist I could go on |
| Posted by: urian 16-Sep-2004, 11:22 AM |
| ok..I lied..one more I believe this is his work..the first time I found it online it was credited to him http://www.mormonum.org/pictures/resurected.jpg |
| Posted by: celtica 16-Sep-2004, 12:43 PM |
| Urian, that's really beautiful !!! I love Tom Lovell's work, specially the Moroni and the Magazine Covers  . These paintings are so expressive ! You're all artists in the family, that's great  For Kane Ferguson I can't say for the moment, the link is temporarily out of order...I'll see later  |
| Posted by: susieq76 16-Sep-2004, 02:20 PM | ||
Yeah - where can I get me one of those?!  |
| Posted by: susieq76 16-Sep-2004, 02:21 PM |
| My fave artist is Mary Cassat. She has some great pictures - especially of mothers and their children. |
| Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 19-Sep-2004, 12:47 PM |
| http://www.nga.gov/collection/collect.htm is a site you MUST check out. |
| Posted by: MerlinAmbrosius 12-Jan-2009, 06:32 PM |
| My favorite artist is undeniably Vincent Van Gogh... His was the purest of art as it came from his soul...he was and is even today consider the most brilliant impressionist of all time and I beleive so as well...though I would say that Monet was good Van Gogh is my favorite. For those who don't really know about his life. Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints. In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment. In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature. Reference:http://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/bio.html |
| Posted by: MerlinAmbrosius 18-Mar-2009, 01:48 PM |
| Chapters of his life, Between November of 1881 and July of 1890, Vincent van Gogh painted almost 900 paintings. Since his death, he has become one of the most famous painters in the world. Van Gogh’s paintings have captured the minds and hearts of millions of art lovers and have made art lovers of those new to world of art. The following excerpts are from letters that Van Gogh wrote expressing how he evolved as a painter. There are also links to pages describing some of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, Starry Night, Sunflowers, Irises, and The Potato Eaters, in great detail. In December of 1881, at the age of 28 just as he began his first paintings Vincent wrote to his brother Theo about becoming a painter, “Theo, I am so very happy with my paintbox, and I think my getting it now, after having drawn almost exclusively for at least a year, better than if I had started with it immediately… For, Theo, with painting my real career begins. Don't you think I am right to consider it so?” Van Gogh worked at a feverish pace costing him money, causing him mental and physical stress and leaving him no time for any other source of income. But he was persistent. In a letter from March of 1882, Van Gogh wrote again to his brother Theo, “Although I find myself in financial difficulties, I nevertheless have the feeling that there is nothing more solid than a `handicraft' in the literal sense of working with one's hands. If you became a painter, one of the things that would surprise you is that painting and everything connected with it is quite hard work in physical terms. Leaving aside the mental exertion, the hard thought, it demands considerable physical effort, and that day after day.” In the same letter to Theo from 1882, Van Gogh writes, “There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it: how to do it - with much drawing and little colour; how not to do it - with much colour and little drawing. Van Gogh firmly believed that to be a great painter you had to first master drawing before adding color. Over the years Van Gogh clearly mastered drawing and began to use more color. In time, one of the most recognizable aspects of Van Gogh’s paintings became his bold use of color. About a year before his death Van Gogh predicted that there would be a great “painter of the future” who would know how to use color like no one else and would become the future of painting. He expressed this in a letter to his brother Theo in May of 1888, “As for me, I shall go on working, and here and there something of my work will prove of lasting value - but who will there be to achieve for figure painting what Claude Monet has achieved for landscape? However, you must feel, as I do, that someone like that is on the way - Rodin? - he does not use colour - it won't be him. But the painter of the future will be a colourist the like of which has never yet been seen. But I'm sure I am right to think that it will come in a later generation, and it is up to us to do all we can to encourage it, without question or complaint.” During his lifetime Van Gogh was never famous as a painter and struggled to make a living as an artist. Van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime The Red Vineyard. This painting sold in Brussels for 400 Francs only a few months before his death. Vincent van Gogh died at the age of 37 bringing his career as a painter to an end, but beginning his legacy as the great painter of the future who inspired the world. About a week after his death, Van Gogh’s brother Theo wrote to his sister Elizabeth about Van Gogh’s legacy as a great artist, “In the last letter which he wrote me and which dates from some four days before his death, it says, “I try to do as well as certain painters whom I have greatly loved and admired.” People should realize that he was a great artist, something which often coincides with being a great human being. In the course of time this will surely be acknowledged, and many will regret his early death.” A self portrait which I think is simply a remarquable piece. |
| Posted by: AngeliqueMoorman 24-Jan-2018, 12:56 AM |
| There are many artists who create beautiful work, including many favorite artists of mine. Lisa O'Malley is one of them and one of my favorite artists. Her latest work... 'Forest Grove' You can find Lisa on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LisaOMalleyArt/ On Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/eveningstardust  |