Favourite painters

[Nihilen]

And yours is a Lautrec, damn, divine intervention/fate are telling us something.

 

[Salomé]

There's actually a whole movement dedicated to this. they call it impressionism.

Pointillism, n'est pas?

Seurat?

Or nowadays, pixelation.

 

[Nihilen]

Yup, that is it actually, but I am not really a fan.

Pointillism is a technique used by impressionists, or an inter-movement probably.

It's got to be Seurat, here's one of the most famous pointillist's paintings

Circus.

 

[Salomé]

^ I don't like it either. Bit anal for my tastes.

 

[Bella]

Monet is who I was thinking of.

 

[Salomé]

Monet is who I was thinking of.

Now you're talking. More splodges than dots.

Takes me back to the Orangery...

 

[Nihilen]

^ I don't like it either. Bit anal for my tastes.

O much more than this.

It's an infinity of tiny little dots applied layer after layer on a huge canvas.

It is actually punishment, being colouful doesn't make it more appealing.

 

[Bella]

Yeah, it's softer.

 

[rhinosaur]

I like certain paintings more than I like certain painters.

Dali - The Elephants

Frederic Edwin Church - El Rio de Luz

 

[Nihilen]

The most "oriental" painting of Dali's

 

[Salomé]

That Church is gorgeous - I've never seen that before.

I forgot about Dali. Yeah, surrealism rocks with melting clocks!

 

[Nihilen]

How can one forget about Dali

You definitely need this one:

The persistence of memory

 

[Salomé]

How Indeed! I have him on my website too!

I love this

What was his type? Any ideas?

 

[Nihilen]

Strong INFP most probably.

I could very much identify with dali when I used to lean more to the F

 

[Salomé]

^ inclined to agree, although he was pretty larger-than-life for an innie.

 

[Nihilen]

I read his autobiography.

You can't get more introverted than Dali.

The turning point was after he met his "better half" Gala.

It would be interesting to know gala's type. And what made their couple so perfect

 

[Salomé]

^ well, she's got some ass on her, for a start!

Zeus is impressed.

 

[Sniffles]

Overal I tend to enjoy Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, and Romantic styles of painting.

One of my favorites is Jacques-Louis David, especially his Oath of the Horatii:

Eugene Delacroix in another favorite of mine, especially his Liberty Leading the People:

I like paintings protraying heroic and religious themes.

 

[Nihilen]

I like paintings protraying heroic and religious themes.

Like Rembrandt's Sacrifice of Isaac

"LULZWHAT ? A JOKE YOU SAY ?"

 

[Sniffles]

Like Rembrandt's Sacrifice of Isaac

Yes exactly.

I also like Giotto di Bondone's St. Francis preaching to the birds

Alessandro Botticelli's St. Augustine in the Cell

Claudio Coello's The Triumph of St. Augustine

"LULZWHAT ? A JOKE YOU SAY ?"