As this is an artistic blog I thought I would mention some of my favourite painters, like Brad Davis from the eighties. I remember vaguely, a painting by this chap which was to all itnents and purposes a landscape with patterned border. It was strange, but also big and bold and dare i say it over the top. The brush strokes, if I remember was big and powerful and chunky. I suppose you could say it was also flamboyant. I liked Davis because of he was adventurous, and during the eighties I was into art, to some extent. I wasnt pretentious about it, but also remember someone called Sandro Chia, an Italian, who also painted some really funny stuff, well it made me laugh, and i liked his style. Unlike someone I know i wasn't a poser.
I still like art and i like Beryl Cook, again big and over the top style like Davis and Chia. She is striking when she portrays large ladies and now that i am larger than i was i can appreciate Cook and her fatties.
David G
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I have quite wide and varied likes as far as the visual arts go.
Anything and everything from the stoic Neo-classicism of Jacques Louis David (even the Academy style of Ingres – yes, shut up Sergio!) to the passionate Romanticism of Goya. I love the calmness of the Dutch Masters, their landscapes, still-lives and interiors but also the weird symbolism of Marc Chagall, or the wild expressionism of, say, Van Gogh.
You get the idea then, my tastes are hard to pin down. I’m also very interested in architecture!
I have a tendency to gravitate to – I hesitate to use the word religious as that tends to give people the wrong impression – but definitely “spiritual” art. Obviously for a very long time art in the western world meant, almost exclusively, religious art - because of the importance of the church as a patron. I’m happy with this as, whilst not religious myself, I greatly enjoy the art of churches and cathedrals - as this allows me the twin appreciation of the architecture and the interiors’ frescoes and/or alterpieces, etc.
Wonderful stuff!
So, coming down the line from primal magico-religious art; the Byzantine tradition; the Italian Renaissance’s adopted son, El Greco (the Greek whose best work is Spanish to boot!); Britain’s William Blake (we’re not worthy!) & Samuel Palmer, the sublime landscapes of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich; artists from the Neo-Romantic movement in post-war Britain, but most especially Cecil Collins (Oooh, he’s just wonderful!); the Belgian Symbolist painter William Degouve de Nuncques…etc., etc.
Early Renaissance Italian (more late mediaeval really – definitely not High Renaissance though – too slick for my tastes for the most part) frescoes and architecture is particularly delightful – Duccio and Giotto! I like to think of this as “working” art – art for the veneration of God, with politics and vain glory kept to a minimum (never completely not there, of course!) due to the conventions of the day. And not just art for art’s sake. Not that there’s anything wrong with art for its own sake of course.
I suppose I see Blake and Collins as continuations of this tradition.
Axasha.
Axasha, you should have posted this, it's an art lesson, you certainly know your stuff.
Spasibo EL!
I'm not really that knowledgeable, just really really enjoy my art history.
Axasha.
Axasha, El has a very good point. You should have posted this. Your knowledge is far superior to mine. I only have vague recollections of a few old artists who struck me as being good at the time. You obviously are streets ahead of me and you make me feel a bit foolish that I posted.
Your art knowledge deserves greater exposure. Bet it is far superior to the poser.
*Blushes*
Not at all!
Once you get past the jargon, art’s not difficult.
Sergio and I have had many a…ahem… “debate” on the portraiture of Ingres for example.
Sergei hates it; I love it.
For me, it’s just nice to get the chance to even discuss artists like Ingres. Haven’t done this since uni - not many people I know want to. >sob<
That’s why the blog is such good fun.
And oh yes, Sergio and I have agreed to disagree!
Axasha.
As if Serge would know Axasha. You sound what your talking about so I would listen to you.
David G
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