Art What is your favorite drawing?

[mcastillo356]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_–_The_Great_Western_Railway

 

[phinds]

Huh ???

 

[fresh_42]

Paintings:
Skrik, Munch
Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône, van Gogh

Drawings:
Der Feldhase, Dürer
Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels, Dürer

 

[berkeman]

https://www.researchgate.net/figure...atomical-drawings-of-the-upper_fig1_324468491

 

[Bystander]

Picasso's Don Quixote.

 

[berkeman]

Huh ???

I'm not familiar with that drawing. Could you upload a copy (use the "Attach files" link below the Edit window) and be sure to include a link to the source so we obey copyright laws.

 

[phinds]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_–_The_Great_Western_Railway

Well, if you had spelled Turner right in the OP I might have got it. You had "rain, steam, speed, Tiurner. Clearly other's did, I admit.

 

[pinball1970]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_–_The_Great_Western_Railway

So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.

 

[pinball1970]

Assassination of Marat. Jacques David. 1793
The Arnolfini portrait. Jan Van Eyck. 1434

There is another from Gombrich, 18th or 19th century that made my jaw drop when I saw it. Cannot remember the artist or the subject matter! I just remember the wow. I will see if I can grab a copy.

 

[mcastillo356]

So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.

Oops...! Painting, I meant painting.
Best wishes!

 

[fresh_42]

So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.

Yet, Beethoven, Bach, and Berry made it all onto the Golden Record.

 

[Hornbein]

Drawings:
Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels, Dürer

Justin Bieber has a reproduction of the image tattooed on his left leg.

 

[Hornbein]

Drawings : I'd go with George Grosz.

 

[fresh_42]

Justin Bieber has a reproduction of the image tattooed on his left leg.

If you only knew, it is far worse than that.

 

[Klystron]

While difficult to reconcile the enigmatic beauty of Mona Lisa with the anatomical detail of Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in post #4, plebe that I am, I suggest Mona Lisa as Monna Vanna as a favorite drawing and painting.

The painting in photographic reproduction:

Excerpted Monna Vanna:
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images...na-lisa-restricted.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill/f_webp

From the article:

...Deldicque said. “It (the charcoal drawing) is a work of very great quality done by a great artist.”

“It is almost certainly a preparatory work for an oil painting,” he added.

Note: I insert a picture of Mona Lisa as so popular and recognizable to avoid copywright confusion. La Monna Vanna article belongs to CNN. The drawings?

 

[Klystron]

Assassination of Marat. Jacques David. 1793

This painting led me to study Existentialism and eventually see Peter Weiss's brilliant satire Marat/Sade on film. IMS German language with English subtitles except when the Marquis quotes his own writing.

Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.

 

[pinball1970]

Yet, Beethoven, Bach, and Berry made it all onto the Golden Record.

Glad Bach got three in. The missing B is obviously the Beatles.
I checked NASA site. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/
That's not a comprehensive list though is it?
For the sake of the thread I suppose we should check images on Voyager and see if they include art?
I will look tomorrow, difficult to crop properly on this device.

 

[pinball1970]

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This painting led me to study Existentialism and eventually see Peter Weiss's brilliant satire Marat/Sade on film. IMS German language with English subtitles except when the Marquis quotes his own writing.
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Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.

Agree absolutely. Once I discovered art history I was absolutely hooked. I only did this in earnest for 12 months age 15-16 but I still remember the landmarks and the Marat painting was one of them.

 

[Hornbein]

Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.

Get back to work.

 

[pinball1970]

Paintings:
Skrik, Munch
Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône, van Gogh

I was never a fan of Van Gough until I saw this, The Potato eaters 1885.

It is not one of my favourite paintings but is one of the biggest surprises and I do like the painting very much.

I cannot really tell that it is him, unlike his style if you think of the more famous ones.

 

[fresh_42]

I was never a fan of Van Gough until I saw this, The Potato eaters 1885.

I generally agree. It is more the coloring with a deep blue, which is why I like La Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône. I'm a fan of so-called winter colors.

Munch's Skrik doesn't have these colors but I like it for its common interpretation. As I searched for its true title, I found out that this interpretation (despair, depression) was questionable.

(Norwegian Skrik, German originally also Geschrei [Shouting])

On the other hand, the Norwegian page cites Munch's diary ...

I cross the road with friends – only I don’t – I felt as if I were afraid – The skies are turning bloody red – I stand, laid low, and ready to die – see out the flaming skies as blood and black over the blue fjord and by – My friends will go away – I am overcome by fear – and feel a very strange and terrible feeling towards nature.

... so Angst might have been the better title.

 

[BWV]

Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)

 

[mcastillo356]

Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)

Yes, fortunate indeed. I`ve been googling, because it's the first time I see a work of him. Still impressed by the painting.

 

[fresh_42]

Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)

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I had forgotten that I love Dadaism. All our lists were probably longer the longer we think about it.

Here is a poem by Ernst Jandl that I count as Dadaism although it has been later (1963).

ottos mops​

ottos mops trotzt
otto: fort mops fort
ottos mops hopst fort
otto: soso

otto holt koks
otto holt obst
otto horcht
otto: mops mops
otto hofft

ottos mops klopft
otto: komm mops komm
ottos mops kommt
ottos mops kotzt
otto: ogottogott

 

[BWV]

Also my avatar

Max Ernst. Surrealism and the Omnipotence of dreams​

 

[symbolipoint]

Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.

Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.

 

[mcastillo356]

Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.

Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world (Source: Wikipedia)

Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.

 

[pinball1970]

Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.

Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.

Penrose was a big fan.

 

[mcastillo356]

Penrose was a big fan.

Penrose, a great

 

[fresh_42]

We live in a modern world, and there have been electronic pictures long before AI generated politeness to the real outlook of celebrities. One of my favorites is a screenshot I generated in the 90s from a log file to check results. It was a linear text file in XML format. And it has been still the world of mainframes, so I have chosen a green-on-black coloring. I still like it, probably for the nostalgia it represents. On the other hand, we still use XML, don't we? (Sorry for this off-topic excourse.)

 

[fresh_42]

Penrose, a great

Did you know him that you can say he wasn't big?

 

[mcastillo356]

Did you know him that you can say he wasn't big?

I meant he is, alive and kicking.
Love

 

[fresh_42]

I meant he is, alive and kicking.
Love

I was wondering whether his passion for Escher can be related to his passion for a very particular view on the beginning of our universe?!

 

[mcastillo356]

I was wondering whether his passion for Escher can be related to his passion for a very particular view on the beginning of our universe?!

https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/875
I think this link doesn't bring a clue. Moreover, my PC tells is not safe. I've seen University of Oxford logo, so there it goes. I knock on wood.

 

[sbrothy]

John William Waterhouse's "Cleopatra" is my favorite.

I'm sure the person who's receiving that look is about to loose his/her head... :)

 

[fresh_42]

John William Waterhouse's "Cleopatra" is my favorite.

I'm sure the person who's receiving that look is about to loose his/her head... :)

That gave me a phishing warning.

 

[sbrothy]

That gave me a phishing warning.

Sorry. I thought shortening the URL was smart. Let mejust correct that.

EDIT: Hope that did the trick. Though I can't correct the part you quoted of course.

 

[sbrothy]

I don't know what gold oil paint cost when he painted that but, even though it's a small canvas, he must've used quite a bit.

That anyone can paint with such realism impresses me.

You heard the one about the reign of the Medici which gave us 300 years of constant war and assasination but also produced Michelangelo, Raphael, yeah the entire Renaissance, while 500 years of democracy in Switzerland gave us the cuckoo-clock. That's humans for you. :P

 

[fresh_42]

I wouldn't bet that the cuckoo clocks are from Switzerland.

The origins of the cuckoo clock are obscure. As early as 1619, a clock with a cuckoo cry entered the collection of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony.

It is actually the Black Forest that is famous for them. The Swiss gave us ...

Spoiler: Caution: off-topic

I was looking for a typical swiss painting and searched for Rigi paintings but I have only found paintings from English (William Turner) or German painters (Ernst-Ferdinand Oehme, Eduard Walther). Strange.

 

[sbrothy]

I wouldn't bet that the cuckoo clocks are from Switzerland.

It is actually the Black Forest that is famous for them. The Swiss gave us ...

Spoiler: Caution: off-topic

Hah, yeah I guess I asked for that running around spreading apocryphal stories. Luckily it didn't auto-start and my volume is turned down. :)

BTW, there's a wiki page which kills all these myths I'm sure you've also heard. That daddy longlegs are really poisonous if they could just bite through our skin, or that sharks must constantly swim lest they die. I think that the north/west hemisphere Coriolis bath tub rotation thing is laid to rest somewhere on there too.

Still, I hear them repeated at least weekly.

EDIT: OK. I'm done being off-topic.

 

[fresh_42]

Hah, yeah I guess I asked for that running around spreading apocryphal stories. Luckily it didn't auto-start and my volume is turned down. :)

Don't mind. The Germanic tribes in the Black Forest and those in the German part of Switzerland are closely related.

 

[mcastillo356]

This is the other I love. Is Edward Hopper's wife; the painting is a private collection. What might be she thinking, is she happy (doesn't look sad), just enjoying first sun rays... The modern Gioconda

 

[Klystron]

This is the other I love. Is Edward Hopper's wife; the painting is a private collection. What might be she thinking, is she happy (doesn't look sad), just enjoying first sun rays... The modern Gioconda

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Once again Hopper anticipates current (artistic) trends: a middle-aged woman with full body tattoos in this case. Notice also the sun splashed rear wall has no adornments yet is a riot of pastel shades. Cool.

 

[zeliha]

Hi, Last year i made copy of this painting this is very hard to make. I like colors of this one, keeps calm.

 

[mcastillo356]

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Hi, Last year i made copy of this painting this is very hard to make. I like colors of this one, keeps calm.

Yes, paradoxically a stormy mind's artwork. All of his work is, IMO, a seek for peace, except for the last one, full of black crows, which I consider some kind of surrender.

 

[osilmag]

Nighthawks

 

[Klystron]

Nighthawks
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There are several reproductions, that I will not post here, of this excellent piece with the pensive couple and tense solitary customer replaced by contemporary celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and James Dean from the 1960s. "Imitation is a form of praise."

 

[DaveC426913]

Well, this is my favourite right now, since I just finished it.

This is my first foray into acrylics.

I find myself waffling between a water colour technique (add wash to white page) and oil technique (blend colours on page).

 

[Klystron]

Well, this is my favourite right now, since I just finished it.

This is my first foray into acrylics.
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I find myself waffling between a water colour technique (add wash to white page) and oil technique (blend colours on page).

Not bad for first foray. I particularly like the spectacles. Questions: Is your platform paper, canvas or panel? Did you prepare the surface with acrylic gesso? Thanks.

As you mention water color, I guess thick paper?

 

[mcastillo356]

This is my first foray into acrylics.

I once or twice tried this technique, and found it really tricky.

I find myself waffling between a water colour technique (add wash to white page) and oil technique (blend colours on page).

Hard work, but nice result indeed.