Welcome to the newly re-opened gallery, the place to post your favourite Artists work.

One of my favourites is HENRI ROUSSEAU 1844-1910
A self-taught French Post Impressionist painter   (we share birthdays of May21st!)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/CORPOD/BE005904.jpg

                      CARNIVAL EVENING

I like Rosseau a bit, too.. I have a book of his..he's okay.

Rene Magritte is my personal favorite painter.. a lot of impossible landscapes and cool portraits. Here's one, called "The Pleasure Principle"... I'll scan some more later..

http://www.zenunbound.com/graphics/pleasure-principle-40.jpg

This is one of my favourite paintings. It's Monet's Artist's Garden at Giverny. For a while I used it as my laptop's wallpaper.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/last/giverny/monet.giverny.jpg

Some photos of the actual garden can be seen at this site: http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm

This is one of my favourite paintings. It's Monet's Artist's Garden at Giverny. For a while I used it as my laptop's wallpaper.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/last/giverny/monet.giverny.jpg

Some photos of the actual garden can be seen at this site: http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm


Ooh, psychedelic.

I don't have a painting for the gallery, but are you familiar with ic of Sister Wendy who appears on public tv? Here's how one person described the Nun. "Sister Wendy Beckett takes you on a gallery tour that blends art, history, culture and storytelling into one delightful experience. Sister Wendy, described as "a phenomenon" by The Washington Post and a "pop star" by The New York Times, tours some of America

Here's another one. This is Paul Cezanne's Still Life With Basket.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/sl/basket-apples/cezanne.basket-apples.jpg

I like Paul Klee.
http://www.raederscheidt.com/Blick%20aus%20dem%20Atelierfenster%20von%20Paul%20Klee.jpg

Millet

http://webed.vw.cc.va.us/vwbaile/Media/gleaners.jpg

and Lautrec

http://gemaelde-archiv.gemaelde-webshop.de/gemaelde/std/de-henri-toulouselautrec-ball-im-moulin-rouge-la-goulu-09666.jpg

"Sister Wendy Beckett takes you on a gallery tour that blends art, history, culture and storytelling into one delightful experience. Sister Wendy, described as "a phenomenon" by The Washington Post.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/SisterWendy.jpg

Edited

Yeah she's narrated some programmes over here in the UK too Mike, and is a really interesting charming character.


Some great pictures here keep them coming!

I love this. It's 'Hydrometric demonstration of how to kill by temperature' by Max Ernst.

http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/Art/hydrometric.jpg

       she's a cool Nun.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/SisterWendy.jpg



I love her even though she could eat watermelon through a picket fence :D

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Artists/s/John_Singer_Sargent/OtherImages/lily/lily_sm4.jpg

John Singer Sargent is my artist Idol. I LOVE his work and have about 5 or more books on his stuff.

http://home.comcast.net/~nvaldez/images/PublicArt/IKnowYouRider2.jpg

Welcome to the newly re-opened gallery, the place to post your favourite Artists work.

One of my favourites is HENRI ROUSSEAU 1844-1910
A self-taught French Post Impressionist painter   (we share birthdays of May21st!)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/CORPOD/BE005904.jpg

                      CARNIVAL EVENING


He was also born on my birthday :0)

http://home.comcast.net/~nvaldez/images/PublicArt/IKnowYouRider2.jpg


Cool! Where is that?

Cool! Where is that?



New York City

I wish I could see some of these in person, just to see them in perspective:

http://happycarpenter.blogs.com/the_happy_carpenter/sidewalk_art_the_well-thumb.jpg

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/images/sidewalkart_pool.jpg

http://www.kurtwenner.com/images/perseus.jpg

http://www.thefunnypage.com/sidewalk-art/2.jpg

More Magritte, called "Homesick":

http://members.fortunecity.com/cobayo/imagenes/texto/nostalgia.jpg

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/degas/ballet/degas.dance-opera.jpg

I thought I'd throw some Degas into this thread :) This is Dance Class at the Opera.

So many beautiful paintings, I wish I had them all hanging in my home. Nice thread Jules
Crow pipe ceremony by Howard Terpning
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/PeacePipe.jpg

Here's my boy, Kurt Schwitters
http://www.poster.net/schwitters-k/schwitters-k-konstruktives-bild-1926-2602495.jpg

Frank Stella(hometown boy)


http://www.usembassycanada.gov/content/embconsul/artwork-images/stella-02.jpg

I am really enjoying seeing all these pictures, just brilliant   :) :)

Here's another of my favourites

American Folk Artist AMMI PHILLIPS   1788-1865
she painted a lot in New England I think.

http://www.journalofantiques.com/images11/fa3.jpg
Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog (1830-35)

..and I love this DEGAS too.


http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/degas/ballet/degas.dance-opera.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~nvaldez/images/PublicArt/IKnowYouRider2.jpg

I wish I could see some of these in person, just to see them in perspective:

http://happycarpenter.blogs.com/the_happy_carpenter/sidewalk_art_the_well-thumb.jpg

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/images/sidewalkart_pool.jpg

http://www.kurtwenner.com/images/perseus.jpg

http://www.thefunnypage.com/sidewalk-art/2.jpg




I just LOVE that surreal stuff in public spaces, it's just brilliant.

As I remember New York also had some beautiful Bronze carved monkeys and little characters and such perched all over the place in that lovely parked area near the Financial district on the Hudson River.

I really am loving this thread. It is also nice to see different styles. as you can tell, I"m partial to one genre but I have enjoyed all the contributions made here.
great thread!

This is a Thomas Kinkade titled  "A Quiet Evening"  I gave it to my wife as a homewarming gift and is hanging in our family room.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/quietevening.jpg

I really am loving this thread. It is also nice to see different styles. as you can tell, I"m partial to one genre but I have enjoyed all the contributions made here.
great thread!


I agree, everyone is sharing some great stuff here.

More Magritte, called "Homesick":

http://members.fortunecity.com/cobayo/imagenes/texto/nostalgia.jpg


Crap, hold on.. I didn't know it would do that...

Once more, Rene Magritte's "Homesick":

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/TheMoonandAntarctica/Homesick.jpg

http://www.zenunbound.com/graphics/pleasure-principle-40.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v473/TheMoonandAntarctica/Homesick.jpg

I totally love these 2 pics that Tubeway General posted - is Magritte the same artist who painted a huge tap in the sky with running water from it?

Here's my boy, Kurt Schwitters
http://www.poster.net/schwitters-k/schwitters-k-konstruktives-bild-1926-2602495.jpg



What is that supposed to be? ???

For something a bit different, here's a photograph:

http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mammals/Images_animals/hello.jpg

This is one of the dolphins part of the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program. More information (and pictures) can be found at this website:
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mammals/index.html

And as long as we're branching out here, I thought I'd include one of my favourite examples of architecture. This is I. M. Pei's pyramid, located at the Louvre in France.

http://www.lclark.edu/~miller/pyramids/pei-large.jpg

Here's my boy, Kurt Schwitters
http://www.poster.net/schwitters-k/schwitters-k-konstruktives-bild-1926-2602495.jpg


Preeeetty...

I can't believe I forgot this one! Another of my favourite paintings...

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/botticelli/venus/venus.jpg

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus ... such amazing detail in this

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/HAD/5266~The-Ship-Posters.jpg
                SALVADOR DALI - The Ship

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/AWI/f734-magritte.jpg
            RENE MAGRITTE - Golconde 1953




When I was a teenager I had quite a few DALI posters on my bedroom walls.

Victor Moscoso

http://www.pixelcreation.fr/diaporama/summer_of_love/09.jpg

60s rock poster artist from San Francisco.  Fantastic stuff, true pschedelic posters

I just love that Art print above by Victor Moscoso
puts me in mind of Pop Artist Andy Warhol

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MCG/FW929.jpg

  ANDY WARHOL - Elvis,1961 (triple Elvis)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/AWI/NR653.jpg

                         Birth of Venus

http://www.greenhill.org/divisions/montgomery_library/projects/US/wcw/Sunday%20Afternoon%20on%20the%20Island%20of%20La%20Grande%20Jatte.jpg
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
                  By George Seurat




I don't know why but I have always liked this painting.



Cat

I don't know why but I have always liked this painting.


That's a nice one!

When I was a teenager I had quite a few DALI posters on my bedroom walls.


I have one up right now..

The artroom in my bedroom stands as thus: Two pictures of Dogs playing poker, The Persistence of Memory, and an Escher waterfall.

I like the Hannah Hoch montages....
http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/rhethtml/dadamaps/dermond_300.jpg

Victor Moscoso

http://www.pixelcreation.fr/diaporama/summer_of_love/09.jpg

60s rock poster artist from San Francisco.  Fantastic stuff, true pschedelic posters


Wow, that is psychedelic!

I like it.

Wow, that is psychedelic!

I like it.


I agree, way cool

I love this scenic painting by American Artist Edward Hopper, probably more famous for his Nighthawks pic and stunning paintings of New England.
http://www.corcoran.org/collection/images/43.6.jpg
           EDWARD HOPPER 1882-1967
                   Ground Swell 1939

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/GDF/Z1670E.jpg
                        Nighthawks

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/HAD/5513.jpg
                     Lighthouse at Two Points 1929

http://americanart.si.edu/images/1986/1986.6.41_1c.jpg
                  White River at Sharon 1937

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/GDF/Z1670E.jpg
                        Nighthawks



Oooh, I really like this one.

here is my favorite artist. Oskar kokoschka.
he did many exhibit posters in his time and we have two hanging up at home.
http://www.buceriuskunstforum.de/img/11/startbild.jpg

Oooh, I really like this one.


Is THAT what it's called? Hm. I always knew that, never had a name for it. Cool.

http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/images/projects_04/photo_opie_04_view5_400x295w.jpg


Nantra,Pool Attendant

http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/images/projects_04/photo_opie_04_view5_400x295w.jpg


Nantra,Pool Attendant


That's what gets me about Modern Art, how can that display be interpreted as 'Pool Attendant'??

Hmm..ponders and scratches head....anybody?

That's what gets me about Modern Art, how can that display be interpreted as 'Pool Attendant'??

Hmm..ponders and scratches head....anybody?
maybe the male was a poolside cabana boy at a beach hotel?

maybe the male was a poolside cabana boy at a beach hotel?


Doesn't look like a confident one! You see that scared little expression on his face?

I bought this poster by Scottish Artist JACK VETTRIANO a few weeks back to have framed.

http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/0/Jack-Vettriano-Narcisstic-Bathers-205695.jpg
                 Narcissistic Bathers


http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/0/Jack-Vettriano-Back-Where-You-Belong-205014.jpg
                 Back Where You Belong


I love the simplicity of this picture - yet it's so full of emotion

I bought this poster by Scottish Artist JACK VETTRIANO a few weeks back to have framed.

http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/0/Jack-Vettriano-Narcisstic-Bathers-205695.jpg
                 Narcissistic Bathers


http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/0/Jack-Vettriano-Back-Where-You-Belong-205014.jpg
                 Back Where You Belong


I love the simplicity of this picture - yet it's so full of emotion

yeah, both of those are pretty cool. Two very nice acquisitions.

Here is Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party


http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/land/dejeuner-canotiers/renoir.dejeuner-canotiers.jpg

Maxfield Parrish's  Ecstacy is one of my favorites.

Maxfield Parrish's  Ecstacy is one of my favorites.


Ooh! I like that.

I just hope we aren't breaking any Copyright laws posting artwork here.. Aw, what the hell, you only live once right?

another of my all time favorite CONTEMPORARY artists ( I have favorites in the classic categories also)
would be Steve Hanks.

this one is called A Quiet Place

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/ultraviolet521/IMG_0527.jpg

An Olmec piece that I took a picture of while at the de Young Museum in S.F. yesterday.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/ultraviolet521/IMG_0514.jpg

I couldn't leave out my favorite artist, John Singer Sargent :0) I also took this picture although it's a tad bit blurry.

Maxfield Parrish's  Ecstacy is one of my favorites.
I like this one.


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/ultraviolet521/IMG_0514.jpg

I couldn't leave out my favorite artist, John Singer Sargent :0) I also took this picture although it's a tad bit blurry.
and this one.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/ultraviolet521/IMG_0514.jpg

I couldn't leave out my favorite artist, John Singer Sargent :0) I also took this picture although it's a tad bit blurry.


Very nice

yeah, both of those are pretty cool. Two very nice acquisitions.


..at first it looks like they're searching for Starfish or shells or something but the psychology is deeper than that.
It kinda spoiled it for me when I found out the title but I still like the picture/characters.

Maxfield Parrish's  Ecstacy is one of my favorites.


Very beautiful. I remember seeing these at a poster shop. I fell in love with them.

Sureeal art. I am not sure who the artist is.

I love this one also. It was in Picasso's early period before he discovered Cubism and Abstract art.
This is  entitled "Paul as a Harlequin"

^ adorable painting by Picasso. Too bad he hadn't done more like that.

I am not a big Manet person, but I love this portrait of his sister in law, Berthe Morisot (also quite a painter herself).

http://www.svreeland.com/ls-manet-berthe-1.jpg

Steve Hanks "Crib Quilt"  , He's famous for his paintings of women, children, quilts , cats, sunlight, seascapes, patterns. I just love his work, It's so warm and inviting and very  realistic. You would think you're looking at a photo rather than a painting.

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/Image-Library/Exempla/Davinci-mona-lisa-1503-06.jpg

I always loved The Mona Lisa

ya gotta wonder what she's really smiling about, eh?

ya gotta wonder what she's really smiling about, eh?


The world may never know,Abix.  ;)

I've always loved South American art/crafts and such, especially those papier-mache dancing skeletons.
Here are some beautiful pictures by SA artists.  Frida Kahlo anyone?

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Diego-Rivera/El-Vendedor-De-Alcatraces-Print-C10083437.jpeg
                     El Vendedor De Alcatraces



http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Simon-Silva/Las-Camadres-Print-C10288749.jpeg
                      Las Camadres

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/vangogh.jpg

                VAN GOGH, Vincent
                  The Starry Night
                          1889

http://www.artinaclick.com/images/tel/tel2445a_2_8373.jpg

Frida Kahlo's Autorretrato con Bonito

http://www.artinaclick.com/images/tel/tel2445a_2_8373.jpg

Frida Kahlo's Autorretrato con Bonito
great painting Andrew, makes me wish i had artistic talent.
she looks like Penelope Cruz to me

great painting Andrew, makes me wish i had artistic talent.
she looks like Penelope Cruz to me

It is..Kahlo had quite a troubled life - I read she was seriously smashed up by a road traffic accident as a young woman and spent her entire life in severe pain. An interesting, talented and stunning woman.

It is..Kahlo had quite a troubled life - I read she was seriously smashed up by a road traffic accident as a young woman and spent her entire life in severe pain. An interesting, talented and stunning woman.


I agree. It's amazing that she managed to continue painting after all that. If any of y'all are interested in her, I recommend the movie Frida from a few years ago. It starred Salma Hayek as Kahlo and it was a very good portrayal of her life.

Just to carry on the theme of South American Art - these are the masks/dancing skeletons that I was on about. Reading up on them I see they are used to celebrate our equivalent of Halloween in late October.

Days of the Dead or Los Dias de los Muertos


http://www.crizmac.com/free_resources/roadside%20scholar/rs5/rs5lsds4.jpg

I haven't posted in any art awhile, so here's one of George
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/george2.jpg

here's another http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/george.jpg

                         Charles John

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/self/self-1629.jpg

A Rembrandt self-portrait

Pics Courtesy of Ultraviolet52

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/ultraviolet521/GasMasks.jpg


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/warslj/images/art_gassed_b.jpg
          John Singer Sargent

Pics Courtesy of Ultraviolet52

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e10/ultraviolet521/GasMasks.jpg


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/warslj/images/art_gassed_b.jpg
          John Singer Sargent
dark, but i like em  8)

I like the second a lot.

I haven't posted in any art awhile, so here's one of George
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/george2.jpg


Wow, George looks strikingly like Jesus there  ;D

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/poussin93.jpg

Queen Esther Before Assuerus (King Xerxes).
also known as The swooning of Esther
artist - Nicolas Poussin 1640

I haven't posted in any art awhile, so here's one of George
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/george2.jpg


Kinda looks a bit like 70's singer Paul Davis .. long hair, beard ... It's not gonna be a "cool night" for him ;D

I haven't posted in any art awhile, so here's one of George
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c235/badfingermike/george2.jpg


Did you draw this, Mike? If so, I hope I didn't offend you about the comment of him looking like Jesus. That's just because he really did look like Jesus in real life.

And, yeah, Jason, that really DOES look like Paul Davis.. good observation!  ;D

Did you draw this, Mike? If so, I hope I didn't offend you about the comment of him looking like Jesus. That's just because he really did look like Jesus in real life.

And, yeah, Jason, that really DOES look like Paul Davis.. good observation!  ;D
I wish I were that good, and sorry about not replying to your earlier comment. No offense whatsoever, when you posted that comment I was in total agreement, looks alot like Jesus Christ. I tried to make out the artist name but I can't find the site anymore where the image was located.

I wish I were that good, and sorry about not replying to your earlier comment. No offense whatsoever, when you posted that comment I was in total agreement, looks alot like Jesus Christ. I tried to make out the artist name but I can't find the site anymore where the image was located.


Ohh, whew.. okay. I know how it feels when people can make silly little comments like that, so I didn't want you to feel bad about it. I am sure one of these days you could draw something like that  ;)

It is a very nice drawing though  :)

Ohh, whew.. okay. I know how it feels when people can make silly little comments like that, so I didn't want you to feel bad about it. I am sure one of these days you could draw something like that  ;)

It is a very nice drawing though  :)
It is hard to understand or decipher peoples feelings from our posts sometimes, but in this case, I was not offended at all, you gotta really say something harsh to offend me. I have zero to minor talent painting or drawing. Maybe zero talent with that is the more accurate but I enjoy other peoples artwork.

I've always loved this picture by Norwegian artist EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944) and have it at home as a poster, sometimes can identify with the character. Also known as 'The Cry'


http://imagecache3.allposters.com/images/EUR/1200-9010.jpg
      Edvard Munch -The Scream 1893

Here's one of LOUIS WAINS illustrations typical of his style - he loved to humanise animals and put them in various human situations/activities. This man had a tragic life, he became poverty stricken as he was out of work, then bankrupt due to serious mental illness, and then admitted into an asylum in London called the Bedlam Asylum, were he ended his days.
Sadly he also signed away (unknowingly) the copyrights to all of his illustrations, so he, or his family never gained from the royalties of the masses of prints that have been produced from his originals. He also adored cats which is always great by me. It gauls me thinking about the sadness of his life, he was obviously a lovely man and suffered a lot.


                  LOUIS WAIN 1860-1939

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/P1pp1s/LouisWain-CatsPaddling.jpg

                          Cats Paddling     



                   

Right now I'm into artist Alexei Butirskiy.  Here is a larger copy of my avatar

http://www.visionsfineart.com/butirskiy/images/chance_meeting.jpg
He also does some lovely autumn paintings...

Right now I'm into artist Alexei Butirskiy.  Here is a larger copy of my avatar

http://www.visionsfineart.com/butirskiy/images/chance_meeting.jpg
He also does some lovely autumn paintings...



That.. is so beautiful. It gives me the best feeling.