Those of you who have studied art, do tell who you love.
I know so little, but I have become aquainted with Renoir. I love....
"Spring Bouquet" or is it Grande Vasso di Fiori?
"Girls at the Piano" "Deux Jeunne Filles" "La Lecture" "In the Meadow" "Girls Picking Flowers"
Did he use his daughters as models for these? They remind me so much of my own girls.
Who else painted in the same style and what is the style?
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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner
If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles, how can it be called progress?
Monet is also a French impressionist. He is one of our favorites. Jean-Thomas always love his gardens. They are so full of color and light. Jean-Thomas always said he could walk in Monet's gardens and smell the beautiful flowers all around him. He loves the light and bright colors and says that is how his garden shall be. Full of light and color and wonderful smells. RebeccaAnn
Renoir, Monet, Gauguin, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and van Gogh are my favorites. I've never cared for Picasso or Degas.
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Mike F.
May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
I really like Leonardo Da Vinci works because this man was able to capture reality and put it on canvas and also because he was way ahead of his time, he was simply a genius. And Michelangelo who was also a great artist. Nobody today can paint like this anymore unfortunately. Videos and digital cameras replaced them.
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"Few men are brave:many become so through training and discipline." Flavius Vegetius Renatus
"I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strenght to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." Christopher Reeve
One of my favorites has always been the spanish painter Francisco Goya. As an amateur painter myself, when I was younger, I many times copied his paintings in a vain effort to imitate his style. While in Spain, after seeing the real paintings from his "black painting" period near the end of his life (1793-94), I realized I would never achieve that kind of passion and technique and gave up painting forever!
He began as a painter to the Spanish Crown, with courtly paintings and ended a madman, isolated, deaf, painting dark semi-impressionist paintings of fantasy, witchcraft, war and nightmare! This obviously marked a change in his technique and it later influenced several impressionist period painters. He is sometimes considered the last of the great masters and a transition between them and impressionist painters.
JMW Turner. There is something in the essence of his work that crosses a line between media into pure artistic intention, somehow -- looking at Turner is like hearing Beethoven, or perhaps reading Melville.