Your Favourite Art Piece!

Be it a painting, a statue, an installation, a building or whatever!

Here's one of mine;

View Of Delt by Johannes Vermeer, 1659-60



Signature: Signed with monogram, below left on the boat.

Provenance: This, the most famous painting by Vermeer, was part of the Amsterdam sale of 1696, no. 31: "The town of Delft in perspective, to be seen from the south, by J. van der Meer of Delft; fl 200." Sale S. J. Sinistra et al., Amsterdam; 1822, no. 112. For F 2,900 to de Vries. Purchased by the state of the Netherlands.

Topographic views of cities had become a tradition by the time Vermeer painted his famous canvas. Hendrik Vroom was the author of two such works depicting Delft, but they are more archaic because they followed the traditional panoramic approach that we remember from the two cityscapes by Hercules Seghers at the Berlin museum. The latter artist was one of the first to make use of the inverted Galilean telescope to transcribe the preliminary prints and their proportions (more than twice as high as wide) into the more conventional format of his paintings.

Vermeer executed his View of Delft on the spot, but the optical instrument pointed toward the city and providing the artist with the aspect translated onto canvas, which we admire for its conciseness and special structure, was not the camera obscura but the inverted telescope. It is only the latter that condenses the panoramic view of a given sector, diminishes the figures of the foreground to a smaller than normal magnification, emphasizes the foreground as we see it in the picture, and by the same token makes the remainder of the composition recede into space. The image thus obtained provides us with optical effects that, without being unique in Dutch seventeenth-century painting, as often claimed, convey a cityscape that is united in the composition and enveloped atmospherically into glowing light.

We admire the town, but it is not a profile view of a township, but a painting, an idealized representation of Delft, with its main characteristics simplified and then cast into the framework of a harbour mirroring selected reflections in the water, and a rich, full sky with magnificent cloud formations looming over it. This is chronologically the last painting by Vermeer that was executed in rich, full pigmentation, with colour accents put in with a fully loaded brush. The artist outdid himself in a rendition of his hometown, which stands as a truly great interpretation of nature.
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I am going to look at this painting tomorrow, I think. I feel like going out.

I don't feel paintings, statues, installations and art like that . Don't know why, but it does very little for me. When I am at a vernissage I feel like a complete fool . I have been to a Van Gogh exhibition this week and I couldn't believe how packed the place was. For me it was rather boring to look at the pictures .

Martina, now orgs official resident fairy/pixie
Your name...it means Warrior. So, you are the "warrior fairy!"

Serious said:

I don't feel paintings, statues, installations and art like that . Don't know why, but it does very little for me. When I am at a vernissage I feel like a complete fool . I have been to a Van Gogh exhibition this week and I couldn't believe how packed the place was. For me it was rather boring to look at the pictures .

HamsterHuey said:

Serious said:

I don't feel paintings, statues, installations and art like that . Don't know why, but it does very little for me. When I am at a vernissage I feel like a complete fool . I have been to a Van Gogh exhibition this week and I couldn't believe how packed the place was. For me it was rather boring to look at the pictures .

That's okay. We need to have people like you as well. I am not into midget throwing myself.

Martina, now orgs official resident fairy/pixie
Your name...it means Warrior. So, you are the "warrior fairy!"

I don't have a favorite, but right now I like these 2 paintings.. they're very abstract

Serious said:

I don't feel paintings, statues, installations and art like that . Don't know why, but it does very little for me. When I am at a vernissage I feel like a complete fool . I have been to a Van Gogh exhibition this week and I couldn't believe how packed the place was. For me it was rather boring to look at the pictures .

I have no favourites, but i like this very much

garganta said:

garganta said:

Serious said:

I don't feel paintings, statues, installations and art like that . .

so glad to know I am not the only one to feel that way!

sigh.

Jackers.

PANDURITO said:

garganta said:

so glad to know I am not the only one to feel that way!

Are you a vegetarian too?

i go through phases. i'm still obsessed with francis bacon at the moment. i'd give an arm to see this in person.

garganta said:

garganta said:

Serious said:

I don't feel paintings, statues, installations and art like that . Don't know why, but it does very little for me. When I am at a vernissage I feel like a complete fool . I have been to a Van Gogh exhibition this week and I couldn't believe how packed the place was. For me it was rather boring to look at the pictures .

so glad to know I am not the only one to feel that way!

I can appreciate some paintings and scultures, sure but they rarely manage to move me like a great piece of music (any genre) or a good book or film do. Don´t know why!

sorry hamster! don´t want to spoil your arty thread!

Martina, now orgs official resident fairy/pixie
Your name...it means Warrior. So, you are the "warrior fairy!"

PANDURITO said:

garganta said:

no...why you ask?

There goes another theory

garganta said:

what theory?

Gimmesomehorns said:

I have no favourites, but i like this very much

I love bunny


it makes me grin from ear to ear

Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (Caravaggio) [thought to date 1595]

I love the mixture of spirituality and eroticism through the human male in this work. It has and continues to inspire me.

All of a sudden there was a dazzling light. It was as though the heavens were exploding and splashing forth all their glory in millions of waterfalls of colours and stars. And in the centre of that bright whirlpool was a core of blinding light that flashed down from the depths of the sky with terrifying speed until suddenly it stopped, motionless and sacred, above a pointed rock in front of Francis. It was a fiery figure with wings, nailed to a cross of fire. Two flaming wings rose straight upward, two others opened out horizontally, and two more covered the figure. And the wounds in the hands and feet and heart were blazing rays of blood. The sparkling features of the Being wore an expression of supernatural beauty and grief. It was the face of Jesus, and Jesus spoke. Then suddenly streams of fire and blood shot from His wounds and pierced the hands and feet of Francis with nails and his heart with the stab of a lance. As Francis uttered a mighty shout of joy and pain, the fiery image impressed itself into his body, as into a mirrored reflection of itself, with all its love, its beauty, and its grief. And it vanished within him. Another cry pierced the air. Then, with nails and wounds through his body, and with his soul and spirit aflame, Francis sank down, unconscious, in his blood.

HamsterHuey said:

Here's one of mine;

View Of Delt by Johannes Vermeer, 1659-60



Signature: Signed with monogram, below left on the boat.

Provenance: This, the most famous painting by Vermeer, was part of the Amsterdam sale of 1696, no. 31: "The town of Delft in perspective, to be seen from the south, by J. van der Meer of Delft; fl 200." Sale S. J. Sinistra et al., Amsterdam; 1822, no. 112. For F 2,900 to de Vries. Purchased by the state of the Netherlands.

Topographic views of cities had become a tradition by the time Vermeer painted his famous canvas. Hendrik Vroom was the author of two such works depicting Delft, but they are more archaic because they followed the traditional panoramic approach that we remember from the two cityscapes by Hercules Seghers at the Berlin museum. The latter artist was one of the first to make use of the inverted Galilean telescope to transcribe the preliminary prints and their proportions (more than twice as high as wide) into the more conventional format of his paintings.

Vermeer executed his View of Delft on the spot, but the optical instrument pointed toward the city and providing the artist with the aspect translated onto canvas, which we admire for its conciseness and special structure, was not the camera obscura but the inverted telescope. It is only the latter that condenses the panoramic view of a given sector, diminishes the figures of the foreground to a smaller than normal magnification, emphasizes the foreground as we see it in the picture, and by the same token makes the remainder of the composition recede into space. The image thus obtained provides us with optical effects that, without being unique in Dutch seventeenth-century painting, as often claimed, convey a cityscape that is united in the composition and enveloped atmospherically into glowing light.

We admire the town, but it is not a profile view of a township, but a painting, an idealized representation of Delft, with its main characteristics simplified and then cast into the framework of a harbour mirroring selected reflections in the water, and a rich, full sky with magnificent cloud formations looming over it. This is chronologically the last painting by Vermeer that was executed in rich, full pigmentation, with colour accents put in with a fully loaded brush. The artist outdid himself in a rendition of his hometown, which stands as a truly great interpretation of nature.
[Edited 11/19/08 1:02am]

Gimmesomehorns said:

I have no favourites, but i like this very much

'let it roll off your back, like water off a duck.' kwaak philosophy

I Like The Ones That Capture Facial Expressions And I Can Never Again Find The One I Liked The Best


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'let it roll off your back, like water off a duck.' kwaak philosophy

Mara said:

You might get into troble if you keep showing off your skull radiography

PANDURITO said:

You might get into troble if you keep showing off your skull radiography

Nice smile, by the way

PANDURITO said:

Nice smile, by the way