The Art Thread

**Ophelia** · 09-06-2007, 11:17 AM

Change into your favorite black ensemble and grab a glass of very dry red wine at the door. Play Moby very low in the background. Lets look at some art shall we?

Twilight Swim

Le Jardin III

Atchafalya Memories

Discuss.

Irn Bru · 09-06-2007, 11:39 AM

Do we have to listen to Moby?

**Ophelia** · 09-06-2007, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Irn Bru

Do we have to listen to Moby?

No. Insert music of choice or silence if preferred.

Irn Bru · 09-06-2007, 11:48 AM

Which is your favourite of the three? Mines would have to be the first one. Because I'm generally not a fan of the style that the second one is done in or people without facial features.

Plus, fish with shark fins are nifty as hell. And kinda surreal.

**Ophelia** · 09-06-2007, 11:52 AM

I like the first one the best as well. It's creepy pretty. The colors are nice too. The second is also my least favorite. I like the third, but it is not my fav by this painter. I like the faceless part though.

Irn Bru · 09-06-2007, 12:11 PM

Any idea why she has a couple of goldfish around her neck?!

**Ophelia** · 09-06-2007, 12:14 PM

Nope. But this one is by the same artist -

Woman who loves fish

Irn Bru · 09-06-2007, 12:17 PM

Hmm. Kinda scary.

**Ophelia** · 09-06-2007, 12:26 PM

yea. I like the shark one better.

**Jocasta** · 09-06-2007, 02:40 PM

Rather than googling, can you tell us who the artist/artists is/are? And maybe why you chose these particular pictures?

Cool thread, do we get nibbles?

**Ophelia** · 09-06-2007, 03:20 PM

^These are just random peices I saved to my computer one day when I was bored. They are from all different art galleries. I didn't get the names of the artist. Sorry. I just saved whatever I liked or what caught my eye that day.

Now, the third painting, the one called Achafalya Memories is by an Artist named Foret who lives in Louisiana. I really love her work and have one of her paintings. They are so beautiful and lonely. Here is my favorite of hers.
Moonlight Sonata

Irn Bru · 09-06-2007, 05:22 PM

I like that one more than the first one, but I'm still not into the facelessness of it all.

09-06-2007, 06:29 PM

My favourite of all paintings would be from Titian. I studied Titian during my seniour year of high school. All of his paintings were vastly full of life.

Bacchus and Ariadne
Titian, 1520–1523

A little about the painting's story:

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Ariadne has been left on the island of Naxos, deserted by her lover Theseus, whose ship sails away to the far left. She is discovered on the shore by the god Bacchus, leading a procession of revellers in a chariot drawn by two cheetahs . Bacchus is depicted in mid-air as he leaps out of the chariot to protect Ariadne from these beasts. In the sky above the figure of Ariadne is a crown of stars, the constellation Corona Borealis that Bacchus promises for his new lover.

**Ophelia** · 09-06-2007, 07:17 PM

^Very Nice. I love it. Thanks Phoenix.

**MissyO** · 09-06-2007, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ://.Phoenix.

My favourite of all paintings would be from Titian. I studied Titian during my senior year of high school. All of his paintings were vastly full of life.

Ah. Now the obsession with Redheads makes sense.

Captain Beefheart · 09-11-2007, 04:55 AM

The work of Francis Bacon (the painter, not the philosopher-scientist) has of late come to fascinate me more and more. His work demonstrates incredible insight regarding the nature of trauma, pain, finitude, flesh, animality, etc. Of course if you're not into those things, you won't feel this guy's work at all. His work explores in a visual way many of the things that theorists such as Blanchot, Bataille, Derrida, Irigaray, and Levinas do with written words.

Hate: Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock.

My contribution: La persistencia de la memoria(The persistence of Memory) by Salvador Dali:

Irn Bru · 09-11-2007, 03:49 PM

I quite like some of Dali's art. I had to study it last term at uni, looking at this piece:

http://www.duke.edu/web/lit132/dali_...ism-autumn.jpg

And after seeing a Warhol exhibition in Edinburgh, I'm quite liking his work. Random stuff.

Captain Beefheart · 09-12-2007, 03:02 AM

Warhol was nothing but hype. His only work I like a pen and ink drawing of a building and a room that has shiny silver pillow case shaped balloons that float around.

All the anti-art establishment glory his apologists spew is just garbage. It's not the Art world's fault Monet couldn't be born in Pittsburgh.

Irn Bru · 09-12-2007, 11:05 AM

I played with the giant silver balloons!! :D And got into trouble cause I misjudged how high up it was and hit it a LITTLE too hard, but there were kids kicking them about. Stupid art gallery guy.

**Ophelia** · 09-20-2007, 12:47 PM

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LAX

The Red Tree

09-06-2007, 11:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 7,011 My Profile	The Art Thread Change into your favorite black ensemble and grab a glass of very dry red wine at the door. Play Moby very low in the background. Lets look at some art shall we? Twilight Swim Le Jardin III Atchafalya Memories Discuss. Last edited by Ophelia : 09-06-2007 at 11:18 AM.

09-11-2007, 04:55 AM	#16 (permalink)
Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 3,675 My Profile	The work of Francis Bacon (the painter, not the philosopher-scientist) has of late come to fascinate me more and more. His work demonstrates incredible insight regarding the nature of trauma, pain, finitude, flesh, animality, etc. Of course if you're not into those things, you won't feel this guy's work at all. His work explores in a visual way many of the things that theorists such as Blanchot, Bataille, Derrida, Irigaray, and Levinas do with written words. Hate: Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock. My contribution: La persistencia de la memoria(The persistence of Memory) by Salvador Dali: Last edited by Captain Beefheart : 09-11-2007 at 04:59 AM.

09-06-2007, 11:39 AM	#2 (permalink)
Irn Bru Technological Disaster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Land of Haggis Posts: 248 My Profile	Do we have to listen to Moby?

09-06-2007, 11:48 AM	#4 (permalink)
Irn Bru Technological Disaster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Land of Haggis Posts: 248 My Profile	Which is your favourite of the three? Mines would have to be the first one. Because I'm generally not a fan of the style that the second one is done in or people without facial features. Plus, fish with shark fins are nifty as hell. And kinda surreal.

09-06-2007, 11:52 AM	#5 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 7,011 My Profile	I like the first one the best as well. It's creepy pretty. The colors are nice too. The second is also my least favorite. I like the third, but it is not my fav by this painter. I like the faceless part though.

09-06-2007, 12:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
Irn Bru Technological Disaster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Land of Haggis Posts: 248 My Profile	Any idea why she has a couple of goldfish around her neck?!

09-06-2007, 12:14 PM	#7 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 7,011 My Profile	Nope. But this one is by the same artist - Woman who loves fish

09-06-2007, 12:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
Irn Bru Technological Disaster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Land of Haggis Posts: 248 My Profile	Hmm. Kinda scary.

09-06-2007, 12:26 PM	#9 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 7,011 My Profile	yea. I like the shark one better.

09-06-2007, 02:40 PM	#10 (permalink)
Jocasta Joshtopian Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Shaftesbury Avenue Posts: 17,803 My Profile	Rather than googling, can you tell us who the artist/artists is/are? And maybe why you chose these particular pictures? Cool thread, do we get nibbles?

09-06-2007, 03:20 PM	#11 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 7,011 My Profile	^These are just random peices I saved to my computer one day when I was bored. They are from all different art galleries. I didn't get the names of the artist. Sorry. I just saved whatever I liked or what caught my eye that day. Now, the third painting, the one called Achafalya Memories is by an Artist named Foret who lives in Louisiana. I really love her work and have one of her paintings. They are so beautiful and lonely. Here is my favorite of hers. Moonlight Sonata

09-06-2007, 05:22 PM	#12 (permalink)
Irn Bru Technological Disaster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Land of Haggis Posts: 248 My Profile	I like that one more than the first one, but I'm still not into the facelessness of it all.

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09-06-2007, 07:17 PM	#14 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 7,011 My Profile	^Very Nice. I love it. Thanks Phoenix.

09-11-2007, 03:49 PM	#17 (permalink)
Irn Bru Technological Disaster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Land of Haggis Posts: 248 My Profile	I quite like some of Dali's art. I had to study it last term at uni, looking at this piece: http://www.duke.edu/web/lit132/dali_...ism-autumn.jpg And after seeing a Warhol exhibition in Edinburgh, I'm quite liking his work. Random stuff.

09-12-2007, 03:02 AM	#18 (permalink)
Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 3,675 My Profile	Warhol was nothing but hype. His only work I like a pen and ink drawing of a building and a room that has shiny silver pillow case shaped balloons that float around. All the anti-art establishment glory his apologists spew is just garbage. It's not the Art world's fault Monet couldn't be born in Pittsburgh.

09-12-2007, 11:05 AM	#19 (permalink)
Irn Bru Technological Disaster Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Land of Haggis Posts: 248 My Profile	I played with the giant silver balloons!! :D And got into trouble cause I misjudged how high up it was and hit it a LITTLE too hard, but there were kids kicking them about. Stupid art gallery guy.

09-20-2007, 12:47 PM	#20 (permalink)
Ophelia JOHO Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Joshtopia Posts: 7,011 My Profile	no title No title LAX The Red Tree