Wow. Well that bork pretty bad.

Banksy is my favorite contemporary artist, I dont know if he is considered avant garde but i like how he challanges the artistic main stream

Beautiful post-impressionist paintings done by a painter friend of mine: http://peisajcitadin.blogspot.com/2010/11/citadin.html

Unfortunately the images are too large for me to show them here with hotlinks.

I visited the Rodin Museum once, this summer, but I didn't like it much. Quite a complicated story  

I am a great fan of Rodin and of sculpture in general. His erotic drawings are something to drool over, indeed.

What happened was that I went there for a contemporary art exhibition, unaware of the fact that they don't have a sepparate space. You might be familiar with this: for each kind of visit I need a certain state of mind. The state of mind needed in order to go and let myself to permeate to the stimuli provided by a full aesthetic experience of a museum collection is different to the state of mind with which I go to make a short and somewhat "professional" visit to see a temporary exhibition. So having to browse the museum to find the guy's artworks bugged me quite a lot, because I was not planning to see the collections. (By this time you have recognized the obssesive compulsive. ) So being in a negative state of mind, things got worse as I discovered that this was the first museum I saw in France that hadn't been renovated in the last decads. That annoyed me even more. Ancient parquet making noise under our feet, bad lighting, ugly old curtains, overall a grey and depressing atmosphere, reminding me of departmental museums from Eastern Europe. So Rodin didn't have much to do with my ruined experience.

I can understand being put off by such annoyances. 'tis a shame the upkeep of the gallery has been somewhat neglected.Earlier this year I refused to go the 'Masters of Pairs' exhibition gracing my town, first because of the price, but also because of the swarming crowds, making it neigh on impossible to get within 20metres of a damn painting (so I'd be told by others), but luckily because of the course I was undertaking at uni, I was able to reign free before it was open one morning. I also have a habit of wearing headphones while browse, as the academic pretensions one can unwilling over hear can be off-putting, tho' rather amusing if I'm a happy mood. 

I first stumbled upon Rodin's watercolours via an entry in Paul Klee's Diaries. The latter artist is one of my favourites, especially his degenerate style sketching, which peak my amusement to the utmost with their suitably humours titles. Currently, my sister an I are (very slowly, with the likelihood of 'never' being the ultimatum) designing some clothing based around some of his Polyphonic paintings, such as:

 

For an artist who in his formative stages was dissatisfied with his abilities to utilize colours in his works, he knocked up an astounding eye (in my opinion) for it in his later works.  


Edited by Apsalar - November 24 2010 at 00:51

A couple of nice gothy pics from a photographer named Crina Preda (who I can't locate on the internet anywhere):

Murakami at Versailles, in pictures:


http://www.parisdeuxieme.com/2010/11/murakami-vs-versailles-part-i.html
http://www.parisdeuxieme.com/2010/11/murakami-vs-versailles-part-ii.html
http://www.parisdeuxieme.com/2010/11/murakami-vs-versailles-part-iii.html

A splendid installation that made strong waves on the internet during ther last days:



More pictures and short description here: http://www.sweet-station.com/blog/?p=14452

NecronCommander wrote: I've never been very big into art but it's always something I've wanted to know more about, so thanks to everyone in this thread for giving me some things to look further into. I have always enjoyed math-related art and some abstract art though. One artist in the music business I rather like is John Dyer Baizley, who in addition to making the artwork for his band Baroness does a lot of artwork on his own.  He's got somewhat of a contemporary baroque style that's pretty cool.

I like this stuff. Does this guy also make the covers for Alcest? I've seen this style employed more and more for album covers in the last few years, especially for stoner, psychedelic, post-metal, and other such musical genres. It fits the music very well IMO. I wouldn't call it "baroque" though, it's obvious  that the main source of inspiration is Art Nouveau (also known as "Secession", "Jugendstill" or "Art 1900"). Just think of Adolphe Mucha, the prototypical Art Nouveau painter and decorator:







Not all Art Nouveau was happy and shiny, though:









(All the above images by Edvard Munch)





(^ Gustav Klimt)