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    Posted: August 23 2010 at 00:46
Hello, folks. I've been trying to broaden my artistic knowledge and horizons, so I think it would be fun if you guys shared some artwork. It can either be art that you admire (including album covers, if you'd like), or original work. Personally, I'm a big fan of strange and unconventional art. Here's one of my favorite paintings; it's "Man with Lollipop" by Picasso:
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Not quite as structured as post-Impressionism or eerily dynamic as Italian Futurism, but frankly, I like to laugh.
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That one does make me lol


Oh, and Dali is always good.


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Bosch

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Dali

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"...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..."
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OK, Walter introduced Christ and Brian mentioned Dali, so don't blame me for posting this Tongue 
 
Dali's ''Christ of St John of the Cross'' usually hangs in Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, but it's currently on a 6-month loan to Atlanta. Inspired by Spanish mysticism and nuclear physics, Dali manages to unite modern science and religious tradition. I just think it's a beautiful painting. Must listen to some Camel...
 
dali-christ-of-st-john-of-the-cross.jpg dali image by pmacd77  
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2010 at 02:24
I love that one!
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This is amazing, and in way too large a resolution to post the originals here. Shocked
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Not keen on Dali.

Have to say seeing that Christ one above doesn't improve m,y opinion.

The Parting by Tissot i quite like



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Salvador Dalí - The Last Supper
 
I like Dalí's depiction of the Last Supper.
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Oh God.......awful!
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I'm generally not a big fan of "fine" art (I have issues with gallery culture, but I'm aware this is very much my problem), but here's a few exceptions to the rule:

Teun Hocks. His painted photographic self-portraits never fail to delight me. Part-Magritte, part-Buster Keaton:





I also rather like Kahn & Selesnick, who specialise in long panoramic photographs depicting absurd imagined societies:



I'm also pretty big on Dada and related avant-gardery, but that's more to do with words, actions and art all colliding in one big noisy mess, which can't really be summarised by a bit of ineffectual googling.

I hate art, and that's why I love it.
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Great stuff TP!!!Approve
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2010 at 07:34
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Great stuff TP!!!Approve


Thanks! Dali can f**k off, btw. Like Warhol, he was a far better self-publicist than he was an artist. Blergh.
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Thanks to someone on P.A. (I forget who), I've come to admire the work of Zdzislaw Beksinski.











Not everyone's cup of tea, I realise.  I like the darkness of these works, especially.  Plus I like Fantasy Fiction, so these fit in nicely with my weird thoughts.

There's also a lot of imagery in some of these.  Especially the "death" pictures.  I could look at them for hours and still find new things.


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Dark stuff!

I like the one with the pillars though.


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I think it was Tuzvihar who promoted this artist. 
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Actually, Ian, I like the first one I posted the most because of the starkness of the blue of the robe.  It gives out a little hope.

I have a bigger and more vivid version of that as my desktop image.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2010 at 07:40
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

I think it was Tuzvihar who promoted this artist. 


It could well have been.  He is Polish after all.

It's also the more tragic that Beksinski was shot dead. Cry
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2010 at 07:41
How about this Beksinski, Ian?




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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2010 at 07:52
Pretty good James.

Is he an artist as in Art Gallery artist or an illustrator?
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