Painting

[mvuent]

We don't seek realism in a van gogh painting, for example, but then again, on some level do we? We seek a sense of a real world transmuted into paint... Or a real emotional reaction. Everything about kinkade's paintings seems fake

i think they capture something "real" (in an emotional or imaginal sense) about the suburbs. in the area where i grew up, you'd never see an actual kinkade painting on someone's wall, the neighbors are mostly too liberal and tasteful for that, but when you go on a walk, his works feel like a kind of dream hovering over the houses and yards and parks (particularly the older ones), exerting gravitational force on them, and on your perception of them. the platonic ideal, even if not consciously realized.

very much feel the same uneasiness about the blank light beyond the windows in his paintings that comes up in both the medium article and the didion quote. but the way the medium writer concludes that they're terrifying depictions of apocalypse feels glib and reductive. that sort of concealed intensity could have positive or negative connotations, possibly both.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Corpsey]

 

[hmg]

 

[kid charlemagne]

Playboy: We began this discussion of your movie by comparing filmmakers to painters. Were you as interested in painting as in, say, rock music when you were growing up?

Dylan: Yeah, I've always painted. I've always held on to that one way or another.

Playboy: Do you feel you use your colors in the same way you use notes or chords?

Dylan: Oh, yeah. There's much information you could get on the meaning of colors. Every color has a certain mood and feeling. For instance, red is a very vital color. There's a lot of reds in this movie, and a lot of blue. A lot of cobalt blue.

Playboy: Why cobalt blue

Dylan: It's the color of dissension.

Playboy: Did you study painting?

Dylan: A lot of ideas I have were influenced by an old man who had definite ideas on life and the universe and nature-- all that matters.

 

[luka]

I can see why someone wouldnt like this but there are a few interesting things going on

The way the smoke, the clouds, the water, the snow in the mountain all echo each other, and the smoke/clouds seem to blend into the atmosphere, so you get a sense of this cycle of vapor and condensation

Jack Vettriano: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper’

The Scot painted singing butlers, ‘broads’ in bras and tough guys in suits, in works critics found lurid, chintzy, devoid of irony and often sexist. But they were also hugely popular – showing the power of ‘I get it’ art

www.theguardian.com

 

[version]

Brueghel painting stolen from Poland in 1974 found in local Dutch museum

Art detective and magazine help crack case of Flemish masterpiece thought to have been stolen by Polish agents

www.theguardian.com

 

[version]

Dylan: A lot of ideas I have were influenced by an old man who had definite ideas on life and the universe and nature-- all that matters.

That old man? LeBron James.

 

[IdleRich]

Pretty magical I think.

 

[IdleRich]

Probably more of a drawing but whatever...



Klimt when he was a teenager.