The Fine Art Thread

[Arvestaked]

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[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by Arvestaked

That is a good piece, one that I like.

[Arvestaked]

Originally posted by Anonymouse That is a good piece, one that I like.

Yes it is very good. I drove up to San Fransisco about 3 years ago just to see an exhibit of his there and it was very much worth the drive. They had about a hundred of his works. I consider him to be one of the few important figurative painters of the twentieth century. He was twisted though; I cringed at some of his paintings. He has this one piece that is what I remember to be a hallway of a sort with a freshly removed lump of bleeding flesh and bone on the ground. It was pretty funny.

[Anonymouse]

This is a self-portrait of Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. It is at the Norton Simon Musum. Anyway, this was a piece that I really liked ( done in pastel ) when I worked there. As I would roam the galleries I really liked this portrait, since it is obviously from someone who has mastered portraits with pastel, and I happen to love pastel. This guy was the portrait artist of his time, having contemporaries sit in for him such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Louis XV.

[Anonymouse]

And the master himself when it comes to portraits, Rembrandt van Rijn.

[sleuth]

[sleuth]

celebration of life

[sleuth]

A male face that is shaped by nude women.