General / Off-Topic The Art Thread

[Shinji Ikari]

Welcome to the art thread!

This is a thread for drawings, paintings or sculptures made by you, a relative or a nice artist.

If possible it'd cool to follow this template to know a bit more of the artist.

Photo: Here post the photo of the piece of art you want to showcase, preferably so that it's immediately visible in the post.

Name: Write down the name of the piece of art.

Artist name: Quite self explanatory.

Published year: Quite self explanatory.

Technique: The type of materials or method used to make the painting/drawing/sculpture.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Los Aeronautas

José Parra

2012

Oil

 

[Manticore]

Sandro Botticelli, Divina Commedia, par. 5 (disegno, 1485/90)

I like modern art too but I've just finished reading Dante's Divine Comedy which included some (not all) of Botticelli's illustrations.

Rock on the Renaissance...

 

[Sir.Tj]

[h=1]The Fighting Temeraire[/h]JWM Turner
1839
Oil on Canvas

The 98-gun ship 'Temeraire' played a distinguished role in Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, after which she was known as the 'Fighting Temeraire'. The ship remained in service until 1838 when she was decommissioned and towed from Sheerness to Rotherhithe to be broken up.

The painting was thought to represent the decline of Britain's naval power. The 'Temeraire' is shown travelling east, away from the sunset, even though Rotherhithe is west of Sheerness, but Turner's main concern was to evoke a sense of loss, rather than to give an exact recording of the event. The spectacularly colourful setting of the sun draws a parallel with the passing of the old warship. By contrast the new steam-powered tug is smaller and more prosaic.

Turner was in his sixties when he painted 'The Fighting Temeraire'. It shows his mastery of painting techniques to suggest sea and sky. Paint laid on thickly is used to render the sun's rays striking the clouds. By contrast, the ship's rigging is meticulously painted.

 

[Manticore]

JWM Turner

Amazing to see his work "in the flesh" (so to speak). The surface..........

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

One of my favourites, the reproduction of the light is astonishing...

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768, Oil on canvas.

My uncle paints as a hobby...

Oil on board. Original is Tess III by Fabian Perez.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

One of my favourites, the reproduction of the light is astonishing...


An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768, Oil on canvas.

My uncle paints as a hobby...



Oil on board. Original is Tess III by Fabian Perez.

That lighting sure is excellent.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

This are practice drawings I made back when I learned to draw so all are from 2017 and made with graphite pencils.

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[rootsrat]

Great thread! I'm very fond of art. I'm actually a founding father of a couple of big art groups called "Polish InvadARTs" and "Barking Man", we were organising free art exhibitions in Leeds for about 10 years, hosting a variety of local and international artists - the exhibitions always ended with an afterparty with independent DJ's and bands performing and people dancing amongst the artwork... Ah, good old times! I'm not involved with either anymore, life happened etc.

Here's a photo series called "Keep Your Aim High" that I made some time ago. Vast majority was taken in Leeds, UK (with a few exceptions). It is an ongoing project, but I haven't done any new photos for couple of years now... I probably should return to it at some point. I have also written the poem.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pmalacha/albums/72157635136403989

I also write short stories and poetry, but that's all in Polish

 

[Goose4291]

[h=1]The Fighting Temeraire[/h]JWM Turner
1839
Oil on Canvas

The 98-gun ship 'Temeraire' played a distinguished role in Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, after which she was known as the 'Fighting Temeraire'. The ship remained in service until 1838 when she was decommissioned and towed from Sheerness to Rotherhithe to be broken up.

The painting was thought to represent the decline of Britain's naval power. The 'Temeraire' is shown travelling east, away from the sunset, even though Rotherhithe is west of Sheerness, but Turner's main concern was to evoke a sense of loss, rather than to give an exact recording of the event. The spectacularly colourful setting of the sun draws a parallel with the passing of the old warship. By contrast the new steam-powered tug is smaller and more prosaic.

Turner was in his sixties when he painted 'The Fighting Temeraire'. It shows his mastery of painting techniques to suggest sea and sky. Paint laid on thickly is used to render the sun's rays striking the clouds. By contrast, the ship's rigging is meticulously painted.

The interesting thing I find about this iconic painting is that Teremaire was demasted at this point in her life, so its a bit of artistic license.

 

[Manticore]

Salvador Dalí, 'Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment'

 

[Sir.Tj]

Another one from JWMT

See if you can find the rabbit...

[h=1]Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway[/h][FONT=Roboto, Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Helvetica Neue, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol]Joseph Mallord William Turner
1839
Oil on Canvas
[/FONT]The scene is fairly certainly identifiable as Maidenhead railway bridge, across the Thames between Taplow and Maidenhead. The bridge, which was begun on Brunel's design in 1837 and finished in 1839, has two main arches of brick, very wide and flat. The view is to the east, towards London.

 

[rootsrat]

Zdzisław Beksiński (he didn't title his works). I'm sure you've seen his works before. He has a very unique style.

His life story is very tragic as well... From mental issues and suicide of his son to his tragic death by stabbing over a petty amount of money someone wanted to steal from his flat...

There is an amazing biographical movie about him and his family called "The Last Family". Highly recommended!

 

[drama]

 

[Sir.Tj]

You're either a fan of Rembrandt or Sam Vimes

 

[Manticore]

Went to Rembrandt's house once... it's old.

Nu descendant l’escalier n° 2-Marcel Duchamp

 

[Zieman]

Another one from JWMT

See if you can find the rabbit...

In the middel of bottom left quarter?
But I did find the horse!

Spoiler

the bridge structure looks like horse to me in this painting

 

[Manticore]

Nicolas Poussin-Les Bergers d'Arcadie

 

[Vasea Azure]

Necronom IV, 1976 by Hans Rudolf Giger.
Fantastic Realism

The Call, by Alex Andreyev
Digital Art, Surreal

artist gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/alexandreev/

 

[Goose4291]

I'm quite partial to Geoff Hunt's work that he did for the covers of all Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series.

This is the one that currently adorns the first book