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Daggs' pic makes me think that the Harry Potter films were influenced by Escher - with the moving staircases maybe.
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a fave painter is a bit like a fave band/song/film/telly prog etc. to me
tonight I choose Albrecht Dürer
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Zdzisław Beksiński
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Y'ssum, Caravaggio's da main man fer me and what a badass mo'fo he was too.

Closely followed by Cezanne, Suerat, Lichtenstein, them pre-raphaelite chappies - but I actually think 'Athena' did them more harm than good. Heironymous Bosch and Stubbs
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tonight Matthew, I'd like to be the Pre-Raphaelites
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James Blast wrote:tonight Matthew, I'd like to be the Pre-Raphaelites
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Biggy's yer man on them http://www.nigelkurt.com/gallery/tattoos/ 13th row down ;)
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Debaser wrote:Biggy's yer man on them http://www.nigelkurt.com/gallery/tattoos/ 13th row down ;)
Dear God Woman! that was a truly stomach turning experience. I don't do tatts at the best of times. :urff:
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Pre-1800 it has to be Caravaggio - I went around Rome in 1986 searching out his paintings in the various churches. Rembrandt also did that chiaroscuro thing very well.

Early twentieth century and I'd go for just about anything by the German Expressionists (can't really count Egon Schiele though - he was a mediocre painter but a genius at drawing). Top faves: Dix, Kokoschka, and Ludwig Meidner. Elsewhere in the world: Francis Bacon (always), Giacometti (his paintings are unfairly overshadowed by his sculpture), Joseph Cornell (not a painter, but brilliant anyway), Jasper Johns (frequently), Anselm Kiefer (often), Rauschenberg (again, not a painter, but deserves a mention), Mark Rothko (occasionally) and Lucian Freud (in his moments of genius).

For contemporary painters, Martin Kippenberger and Jenny Saville are the only ones I really rate, but then painting is pretty much dead at the moment, and mixed media and installation is far more predominant, and in that category I'd have to rate Rachel Whiteread and Marc Quinn very highly as the UK's best.
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James Blast wrote:tonight Matthew, I'd like to be the Pre-Raphaelites
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wasn´t there a song by Loreena McKennitt called Lady of Shalott? :innocent:
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Debaser wrote:
James Blast wrote:tonight Matthew, I'd like to be the Pre-Raphaelites
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Biggy's yer man on them http://www.nigelkurt.com/gallery/tattoos/ 13th row down ;)

You mean this one Ness ?
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Yep, Rossetti was the man. I spent years doing research on him & eventually intend to put a book together. His life was so mad I can't believe it hasn't been done as a film.
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My art hero from this last century is without a doubt H.R. Giger

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The most talented man in the history of the world is undoubtedly Leonardo Da Vinci. As well as inventing stuff, doing anatomical drawings which are still used today, solving mathmatical problems of any kind by writing backwards, write with his right hand and draw with his left hand at the same time .....besides all that and much more ... he would do a bit of painting.

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BTW - the angel on the bottom right of the Da Vinci painting - I have it tattooed on my right shin. Just thought James Blast would like to know.
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Yep, Rossetti was the man. His life was so mad I can't believe it hasn't been done as a film.
OOOh, who would you have play him in the blockbuster?
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lazarus corporation wrote:For contemporary painters, Martin Kippenberger and Jenny Saville are the only ones I really rate
Just scanning over your post Paul, I was sure that said Jimmy Saville :eek: :lol: . A man of many talents, truly... (none of them visible).

Jenny Saville... now wasn't she the one that did the fat burd painting that's on the cover of the Manic Street Preachers' Holy Bible? :?
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biggy wrote:BTW - the angel on the bottom right of the Da Vinci painting - I have it tattooed on my right shin. Just thought James Blast would like to know.
did you know there's a vulture in everyone of Leo's painting, if you can find it?
just something my art history lecture told us at art school, last century
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This vulture is quite hard to spot but it is there.

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personally, I always thought it looked more like a cormorrant but I guess vulture has a more threatening ring to it

the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is a beautiful painting, thanks for posting that one Biggy Image
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Personally, I think it looks like folds in the cloth & I think Freud is a cock.
Freud reckoned that Leonardo had hidden a vulture in his painting because he was a repressed homosexual.
Da Vinci apparently wrote somewhere that when he was a baby a vulture hit him in the face with it's tail. That's where old Sigmund got his vulture idea from.
Freud really did come up with a lorry load of old bollocks didn't he.
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I completely agree, his Grandson still turned out a top bloke. Clement still tells the tale of how his Grandfather sold him his pocket watch. On his death bed.
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LOL, I hadn't heard that one.
I did enjoy Clement's dog food period.
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I have a lot of time for old Clem, he's a very interesting man that has lived quite a life, I recommend a read of Freud Ego, his first book of memoirs. Crap title, I know, but a fine read.
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boudicca wrote:
lazarus corporation wrote:For contemporary painters, Martin Kippenberger and Jenny Saville are the only ones I really rate
Just scanning over your post Paul, I was sure that said Jimmy Saville :eek: :lol: . A man of many talents, truly... (none of them visible).

Jenny Saville... now wasn't she the one that did the fat burd painting that's on the cover of the Manic Street Preachers' Holy Bible? :?
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Yes, the Manics used one of her paintings for an album cover. I went to see her give a lecture in Loughborough about her paintings some years ago and she was excellent.
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biggy wrote:This vulture is quite hard to spot but it is there.
Oooh just like 'Where's Wally/Waldo' or like looking for the pair of glasses (oh and sometimes a bone) in every Biff, Chip and Floppy book (Oxford Reading Tree at it's finest)
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