Amazing Art

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 15:42:33

That last one is American Artist Goerge Inness'. European Art is (or was, I should say) the best in my opinion. Nowadays it is just state subsidized and gets put into vast dank warehouses where nobody sees it. The Spaniard with the acute malignant narcissism presided over the destruction of European Art. It was already imploding anyway.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 15:51:33

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 15:57:14

Picasso... (heh, heh, randy dude)

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 16:05:54

Of course, it took its toll. .

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 16:13:33

If only it could last. .

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 16:33:04

of course, some people like the modernist stuff. Some of it is very nice

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 19:02:34

the shapes are curious sometimes

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 19:06:37

i.e. ya gotta climb these mountains to get any relief :lol:

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 19:33:03

By the way, Aaron, if there is one thing I understand well, its visual imagery. I know what you were saying with your visual montage even if you didn't. Something tells me I'm not among your favorites here.

by **Specop_007** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 19:52:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')omething tells me I'm not among your favorites here.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 19:58:16

We can share that distinction. Passed you by dude. Who will get barred first?

by **PhilBiker** » Thu 09 Jun 2005, 09:00:23

Jim Kunstler does painting also, and pretty good stuff IMO. Interesting looks into the world we live in.

I don't fell comfortable stealing his bandwidth, but I'll link to the work:

Gallery
Gallery 2

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Thu 09 Jun 2005, 09:55:15

One of the major problems for artists in the industrial age is that the industrial landscape is so ugly. Suburbia, too, would at least look nicer if they could put all the telephone poles and wires underground. I used to think I would live to see the day they put that crap underground. Well I guess its coming down, alright, but not in the way I would have liked.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 00:23:31

Jackson Pollock was the American originator of 'action painting'. Huge success in the late 50s with these drip-paintings. Anybody see that movie with Ed Harris about Pollock? I havn't seen it yet. I do know that after he became famous with this stuff that immediately the glossy fashion mags started to use him and his art to sell high priced crap like perfumes, and fancy imported wines. This has often been noted as the irony of 'revolutionary painting': the more radical it was and the more the artist succeeded with a rebel outsider role, the more quickly the establishment embraced and endorsed his or her work, leaving the artist in an existential quandry.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 00:36:14

Pollock wrapped his car around a tree. This guy, Basquiat, whose pictures were selling for huge sums died of a herion OD. Now this is diturbing in its mood, but I understand Paul Simon owns a lot of it. I guess it makes the owners feel 'hip' or maybe it expresses a pained alienation to life. I guess I can understand that, but I think that its too bad that art in this day and age is either treacle sentimental bullshit or psychotic nightmares

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 01:01:16

The most beloved and recognizable artist of the last two centuries or more is no doubt Van Gogh. I have a big collections of photos of his works on another CD which isn't on my computer. But people know his stuff, generally. What a sad story, poor Vincent's. If he could have lived on for another decade without committing suicide, he would have lived to see his fame soar to heights he never would have dreamed of. Something similar happened to Maurice Utrillo, a drunken lout who was arrested for indecent exposure in the Paris subways. But Maurice didn't do himself in and actually lived to see his own work selling at much higher prices than Picasso's. Maurice was under house arrest and supervised by his mother, Suzanne Valadon, a painter herself. A local grocer, quite an entrepreneurial fellow, sent bottles of wine up to Maurice in his second floor captivity in exchange for paintings which were sent down by rope. The grocer made a fortune from them. Maurice Utrillo was known for his remark, 'I'm not crazy, I'm just an alcoholic'.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 15:50:08

Vincent Van Gogh was a painter that touches ours hearts, but my favorite modern era painter is Paul Cezanne. He struggled with his inner demons and came out on top with refined, poised, and beautiful art, which, like Japanese aethetic, deals with the joys of harmonious arrangement, and in Cezannes' case, color.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 15:53:59

In the case of Cezanne, you really have to see the actual paintings to appreciate what a breakthrough he made in the use of color. Astonishing.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 16:03:26

Next to Marcel Duchamp, Cezanne was the most influential painter of modern times. Of course, Picasso is the one they all envy. But you can't follow Picasso and why anyone would envy him I don't know. A superstar stuck in a malignant nightmare. No wonder he went out with a massive display of malignant pornographic paintings which creep out anyone who sees them. (funny, those later paintings don't turn up on websearches, least not the ones I've made.)

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