luka
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there's a brilliant analysis of this painting by bridget riley called 'the colour connection' i have it here and im half tempted to type it out but it's so long. lt's collected in a great book of hers called the eyes mind so look out for it.
Corpsey
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I've got a book by Matthew Collins which talks about how the painting is two triangles of colour, the diagnol divide being burst into by Bacchus - who's also bursting 'out' of the canvas to my eyes, uncannily lit as he is.
I struggle with titian (knowing he's considered by many the greatest painter of all) but that painting is one where I really see what the hype is all about.
I struggle with titian (knowing he's considered by many the greatest painter of all) but that painting is one where I really see what the hype is all about.
luka
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This is my other favourite titian in the national gallery.
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Decent piece on Degas for those who know his work but precious little about him (me) https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/julian-barnes/humph-he-ha . I love the idea that he was obsessively reworking 'finished' pieces even after they'd been sold, like a bedroom music producer.
Not into Gauguin's endless Tahiti fetishism, but this (can't get the image to embed):
https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images...d-to-vincent-van-gogh-les-misérables-1888.jpg
Waterhouse.... x 2....not sure what's going on with the image function...
Not into Gauguin's endless Tahiti fetishism, but this (can't get the image to embed):
https://uploads1.wikiart.org/images...d-to-vincent-van-gogh-les-misérables-1888.jpg
Waterhouse.... x 2....not sure what's going on with the image function...
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Corpsey
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I've got a book about venetian painting which contrasts these two paintings, by Raphael and Titian, to show the difference between Florentine and Venetian painting.
I should type it up in here cos it's quite interesting. It's all to do with how light falls on solid and monumental forms in the Raphael, spotlighting them to show them as clearly as possible, whereas in the Titian, light doesn't fall on all the figures evenly, the light (and by extension colour) is what the painting is really composed of.
See I can't explain it properly. I'll type the passage in here some day.
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Corpsey
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That second Gainsborough is among my favourite at the National Gallery - it's a painting of his daughters, unfinished (you can see the ghost of an angry cat in the foremost daughter's lap), and I think it was even painted just as a sort of test or practice, but it's really touching to see this affectionate (attentive - the singularity of their faces) painting of these two little girls, long ago old, long ago dead, preserved
This painting by Rubens of his daughter is similarly touching
Corpsey
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I know what you mean but I find them touching in spite of how mannered they are, and perhaps even more so given how mannered they are - it's that classic English thing (prepare to puke again) of holding in emotion for the sake of propriety. also I think they're just painted brilliantly. obviously my taste is more conservative than yours though lol
Saying that I do prefer Turner to Gainsborough and to 90% of other painters for that matter
Saying that I do prefer Turner to Gainsborough and to 90% of other painters for that matter