Angela Harlem
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Awesome. Thanks Acrobat Angel!
Tom Roberts, Australian Landscape painter, Heidelberg School, Shearing the Rams 1888-90:
There's so many more.
Whoa, this is always as difficult. I'm an art junkie and love several artists. Lately I've been very much into photography. But one of the most impressive exhibitions I've seen was Edward Hopper in London a couple of years ago. Night hawks is probably my fave from him:
Gleeson died just recently. He was definitely one of my favourite Australian artists. Seeing some of his original work above five years ago had a huge effect on me, in particular "Spain".
... but, I have to say that Goya's Third of May is probably the greatest and most influential painting of the past two centuries:
I did a speech about Goya earlier this year, which is a pleasure because there's so much to say about his individual works. It's easy to ramble.
Ooh, that's good. I like this one. There's a lot to think about in it, too.
Ahhh!!! I did this one in my HSC and compared it to Guernica! Oh, Guernica. How could I forget THAT??? Brilliant works, both of them. I remember the christ-like pose, the white shirt contrasting, the difference in detail of the faces... Some essays, you just don't forget.
Why did I stop studying art? Damn criminals. I hate them all anyway. I want to be surrounded my gorgeous art again.
Me too. Just wonderful. I was fortunate to see a huge exhibit of his works in Toronto maybe 3 years ago. And there are some good pieces at MOMA that I saw this summer.
Rothko's works are especially hard to appreciate fully without seeing them in person; I never considered him anything more than 'interesting' until I saw the collection of his paintings at the Smithsonian.