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Originally Posted by Ergo
Very interesting thread, I like most works here. However I believe that everyone here tends to mythicize the artists.
This Nerdrum is quite interesting sometimes. Others I don’t see the point copycatting again and again well known classical styles with modern themes besides the technical virtuosity.
Dalí was a genius as a painter but a clown as a salesperson of his own art. I will not overemphasize too much his own circus’ show.
The scene relating how the presence of the paintings “in the flesh” makes you cry just because the hands of the artist/deity were there before makes me question how much the emotion comes from the work itself or from the environmental bullshit.
In other words, how many people would (and in fact did) eat shit signed by Picasso.
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Well, hello there.
Thanks for the additions. I was going to bring Schiele up eventually.
If to appreciate a person for their unique vision and ability is to mythicize them, then yes, I mythicize them. Only I'm fully and consciously aware that they are not gods, but all too human. And I like it that way.
As for the 'environmental' bullshit. I'm not quite sure what you're referring to.
For me, I think most of my reaction (as mentioned above) comes from the fact that I have spent so much time looking at these works of art in books without ever seeing them in real life. And I mean
all of my life, since I was very young and looking at my parents' art books. Art has added depth to my existence and has been very formative as to my attitudes, outlooks - how I view the world...not to mention my aesthetic tastes. It's momentous for me when I can actually stand there and see the brush strokes and feel physically close to them. If that's bullshit, then so be it. Doesn't change anything for me. Granted, I am not a stranger to heightened emotional experiences, lol.
But please, hang around and post some more.
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Now here is a man who has been mythologized by many and dismissed as a simple illustrator by many more. Sure he's no Rembrandt, but there's no doubting his talent as a painter. I especially love how he portrays women. And, much like Nerdrum, his use of darkness and forbidding (or forboding?), let's just say
unforgiving landscapes.
I've talked about my daughter, the artist, in my journal. Frank Frazetta has been a major influence on her work...which is obvious when you look at much of it.
Nah, no social anxieties being played on here, move along...
My personal favorite.
Self-Portrait
Beautiful portrait of his wife