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Apr 27, 2009 - 6:07 PM
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Olivier
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I particularly like Van Gogh's Starry Night
... the swirls, the colors; the flame-like tree whose silhouette makes me think so much of an oddly-shaped castle atop an oddly-shaped mountain...
This other Starry Night of his is very nice, too (I just wish he had not included the couple; the scenery was enough, and they look much too large).
I also love painted (pulp) covers and posters.
In yet another genre, Elvgren, Vallejo and I-forget-his-name made some wonderful paintings whose mastery of anatomy, shading and texture is as impressive as that of "classical" artists.
More specific examples don't come to my mind right now, or I can't remember the titles.
Broadly speaking, I am not interested in totally abstract art; there can be some nice things, but I don't care for haphazard forms and blotches or "one black circle and one green line on white" kind of paintings; whether it's "academic" or pointillism or impressionism does not atter much, as long as the result is pleasant; I like paintings that represent things, whether the artist strives for absolute realism (what we now call photorealism) or offers a more simple, "naive" representation of reality.
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Apr 27, 2009 - 9:35 PM
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manderley
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I haven't figured out how to post photos, but I do collect original old Turn-Of-The-Century-1900 Art Nouveau posters, particularly French-Italian-German, by the likes of Cheret, Mucha, Cappiello, Steinlen, Hohenstein, etc. I've also collected a few old English, Royal Academy, watercolors and paintings from the late 1800s.
As for paintings, I tend to like antique things which have almost a photographic realism, like Canaletto, Alma-Tadema, the Dutch masters, and watercolors by Turner, etc. I also like the impressionists like Van Gogh and Monet.
My guilty pleasure is rain or snow-slicked period Paris street scenes by a very minor painter, Antoine Blanchard. Unfortunately, the "real" ones---the quality ones actually painted by him---are very hard to come by because his paintings---as duplicate copies, or in style---have been forged so much by hacks over the years. In most cases, they even forge the signature.
A good Blanchard---a real one---is pretty easy to detect, but some galleries are offering fakes, presumably without knowledge, for very high prices. Let the buyer beware.
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