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Have you never seen Jimmy Greaves!!
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I did see Jimmy Greaves, but dont regard Football or Snooker as art forms. And I dont agree with you in your assessment of cause and effect re Impressionism in general or Monet in particular. We'll just have to agree to differ. Happy to let you have the last word.
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....maybe someone should start a .."your favourite paintings" thread for the new year...
that would be fun....yep. |
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And to correct another misconception, the faster the table, the better the snooker. It is impossible to play good snooker on a slow table.
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And to play when it slopes down hill, that's probably why no one's playing in Night Cafe.
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....maybe someone should start a .."your favourite paintings" thread for the new year...
that would be fun....yep. I'll get in early and say mine would be those of Klimt. To counter the "Oil paint on canvas" theory many would consider his drawings superb and not just for the ...ahem...subject matter. Here is a link https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=klimt+drawings&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YjbDUo7IF-XR7AbIkYCADg&sqi=2&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1241&bih=605 |
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Here's one that people say their 5 year old could do.
Cy Twombly's Temeraire triptych. Naive-style genius at its finest imho. http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/239.2004.a-c/ |
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There was an excellent exhibition of Twombly's work at the Tate a few years ago. Colours as moods and the passing of time. Sublime.
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Indeed, Jed. Wish i had had the opportunity to see that.
I'm going to print a few of his off and stick them on the fridge with magnets... see if anyone notices!  Here is the 4 seasons, Autumn. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/twombly-quattro-stagioni-autunno-t07889 |
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Thanks for sharing those Clouseau.
Twombly invokes mixed feelings for me either good or bad but never indifferent. Quite often "I wish I'd thought of that". |
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I must confess I'd always regarded Twombly as a bit of a hack - seeing his pictures here and there in other galleries, one or two at a time, does not allow one to get into what he's trying to convey. But I left that exhibition a confirmed fan.
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Matisse Cut Outs
...just started at the Tate....stuff he did when he poorly and in his final years. http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/welcome-colourful-world-matisse-tate-modern |
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..and for anyone down my way or who wants a visit to a lovely part of the world...
an exhibition of Cezanne and others.....at the Ashmolean. http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/cezanne/ |
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Most Jackson Pollacks works, to many people are a load of guff that could be done by anyone, and I totally understand why people would think this.
Yet to me, some of them are truly amazing and fascinating to me, and I cant explain why  they just are. |
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egner
31 Dec 13 18:25 Joined: 11 Jan 07 | Topic/replies: 12,800 | Blogger: egner's blog ....maybe someone should start a .."your favourite paintings" thread for the new year... ....I shall start one....possibly more interest in the autumn /winter when more people are inside...we shall see. |
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There's an article in today's Mail on Sunday supplement about Jackson P. -- wasn't aware that he did figurative black paintings not long before he died - he was fed up with the "typical" abstract action paintings he is so famous for these days...sales of the black paintings were poor so he started to introduce colour again.
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The question for anyone who thinks the abstract stuff is so easy is this : Why don't YOU feckin' do it then...?
It's not like you need 50 million quid to make a movie - a couple of hundred quid will get you up and running.....FFS...  |
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I for one don't think it easy and can see that JP is extremely talented but I still don't like his works or that of any other abstract artist.
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...good stuff velasquez.
...believe it or not I have dabbled myself.......though certainly not confident enough to post it up!!!!! |
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Here's my favourite Pollock. It's FIVE metres long. That dripping took a lot of space.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pollock-summertime-number-9a-t03977 |
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Do you know how much that sold for bb?
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...his stuff is quite amazing......seems random......but at the same time the patterns seem to repeat which gives the whole thing a rhythm and pleases the eye.
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The best abstracts I've seen, Aka, are the big Gerhard Richter swipe paintings where he laid swathes of oil paint on the canvas, then dragged a huge wooden "swiper"
 across it to create a blurred or "speed" effect where the colours run into each other. Literally, a billion Euro idea... Best Scottish abstract painter is probably Barbara Rae. |
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Akabula. I dont know why but from previous debates, I had you down as a child of the sixties. Am I wrong?
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Akabula - Re Summertime 9a. No idea how much it fetched but I bet at todays values it was an absolute bargain in 1988.
nb - Do you like Bridget Riley? |
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Well I remember the 60s for having a great time as a teen if that's what you mean.
As regards BR again I can see the talent but in truth it hurts my eyes. |
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I much prefer something I can understand and reflects a time in history.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlEMQBoFiYo
gerhard richter painting euromaxx With big swiper hingmy... |
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Thanks Akabula, I wasn't far out then. I'd have BR as reflecting a time in history but who do you like. Hockney?
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Nobody in particular to be honest. When I worked in Glasgow I was at the Kelvingrove a couple of times a week.
Not just for the paintings although I probably spent more time on them than anything else. Christ of St of the Cross was right up my street for instance not that I could see it ever hanging in my house.  |
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Aka - how can a Gers fan like a Tim painting??
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I once picked up a hottie at George Square - she asked me for directions to see that Dali painting...we took the bus to the Kelvingrove but I forgot the painting had been moved to the religious museum...turned out she was a Poor Clare nun - first time she'd left the convent in ten years...anyway, we had to settle for Rembrandt and an iced bun in the tea room...
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Hey Aka - I just want to say, like, fur the record, like, that Kaffliks are much better painters than Proddies...
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You've a helluva fixation with religion Vel. Seems to be a Glasgow thing where it's the weapon of choice rather than a belief.
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PICASSO
GOYA VELAZQUEZ TITIAN RENOIR MONET MANET CARAVAGGIO RAPHAEL MICHELANGELO VERMEER --------------------- KAFFLIK XI......4-4-2... |
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Hey, Scottish guys have won Turner Prizes for less than this!
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Very good
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There you are - see, Egner is a proper artist who is willing to broaden his horizons.
Egner, would you like to PURCHASE this progressive text-based work (TITLE : KAFFLIK XI) for ONE BIT COIN? Failing that, I'll accept two bags of chocolate coins from Poundland. Get in at the bottom, mate, as the actress said to the bishop. It's showing at the White Cube Gallery in the Autumn, along with HANNE DARBOVEN'S "Larsson or Laudrup ; Who Was the Better Painter?" Watch this space! |
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Good night Egner. As you probably know, great works of art often meet with derision - and indeed, can cause consternation and downright ANGER, EGNER...however...we...we brave few must set our faces like flint as we battle the ignorance of the common herd...until the day dawns when our avant-garde masterpieces are selling for vast heaps of mazoola.
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The real fakes are the modern Artists since picasso. Picasso once described his art as crap so I'll take his word for it.
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