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Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Cezanne's "Still Life with a Basket of Apples"
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JohnWesleyDowney
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8/5 11:36pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Heart of the Andes" by Church
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Wow, that Niagra Falls painting is amazing. It conveys the power of the water and the size of the falls, I get a sense not only of scale, but the tremendous volume of water, the weight it carries. That's an incredible achievement. I like the distribution of light as well.
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Obi-Dawn Kenobi
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8/6 10:35am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Heart of the Andes" by Church
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I'm always impressed when someone can paint water well. The Niagra Falls painting is wonderful.
As for Delacroix, I see what you mean about the bored look on the king's face. But I've always enjoyed that particular painting for the beauty of the figures. I see a fluidity in Delacroix's work that always draws me in, the way he paints figures and fabrics. I love those aspects of his work.
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Zaz
Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre
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8/6 8:11pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Heart of the Andes" by Church
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Yes, that's a remarkable painting. Seen the original, too.
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Zaz
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8/20 11:15pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Heart of the Andes" by Church
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Next: Edouard Manet "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe"
1863, oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
This picture caused a sensation, not because of the nudity, but because the nudity was not classical. An ordinary Parisienne has doffed her clothes during a picnic. She has two clothed male companions, and a semi-dressed female one. She stares out of the picture with a challenging air and no sense of shame. The other element that outraged critics was the 'unfinished' nature of the painting. This was later dubbed impressionism.
Very carefully composed, with harsh contrasts derived from the stage and Japanese woodblocks.
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Zaz
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9/1 8:42pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" by Edouard Manet
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Next: "Symphony in White No. 2: the Little White Girl" by James McNeill Whistler
1864, oil on canvas, Tate Museum, London
As opposed to the "Big White Girl" ("Symphony in White, No. 1")
The portrait is of Jo Hiffernan, Whistler's mistress (aka La Belle Irlandais), and shows the influence of Japanese prints.
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Zaz
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9/14 9:58pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Symphony in White No. 2" by James McNeill Whistler
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Next: "Prisoners From the Front" by Winslow Homer
1866, oil on canvas, MOMA, New York
Homer was an artist-correspondent in the Civil War, and this picture depicts a distant cousin of his (the Union officer on the right) and three Rebel prisoners--the fancy young Virginian, the elderly man, and a poor white. Shows the influence of photography and Gustave Courbet:
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Zaz
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9/26 8:38pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Prisoners From The Front" by Winslow Homer
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Next: Berthe Morisot "The Cradle"
c. 1872, oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
This is the artist's sister, with her infant daughter. Extreme contrasts, and strong diagonals.
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Zaz
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10/6 8:55pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Cradle" by Berthe Morisot
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Next: Edgar Degas: "The Dance Class"
c. 1876 oil on convas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
One of many of Degas' studies of dancers, this one features dance master, Jules Perrot, and his students. Large, complex and beautifully designed.
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Zaz
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10/15 9:18pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Dance Class" by Edgar Degas
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Next: "Salome Dancing Before Herod" by Gustave Moreau
c. 1876, oil on canvas, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A very odd painting, which is odder when you look at it closely. Salome appears to be levitating. The executioner looks transparent. The idol in the background is Diana of Ephesus, and that's a cascade of bulls' testicles on her torso, believe it or not. Moreau was obsessively occupied with the biblical story, and some of that comes across.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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10/15 11:24pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Dance Class" by Edgar Degas
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The contrast between those last two paintings is startling.
That last one has a definite horror quality to it.
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Zaz
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10/24 10:44pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Salome Dancing Before Herod" by Gustave Moreau
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Next: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette"
1876, oil on canvas, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
More vitality than usual with Renoir, and it's nicely composed, but he had a chocolate-box sensibility.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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10/25 7:53am
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Renoir, "The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette"
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I read somewhere that most of the people in this one are people Renoir knew.
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Zaz
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10/25 7:03pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Renoir, "The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette"
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Yes, it was painted from life. He still turns everyone into a Renoir subject. None of these people look particularly realistic.
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Zaz
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11/3 9:19pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Renoir, "The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette"
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Next: "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" by John Singer Sargent
c. 1886, oil on canvas, Tate, London
Painted from life over two successive autumns, the light effects are brilliantly illuminated.
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Zaz
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11/11 6:42pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" by John Singer Sargent
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Next: "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grand Jatte" by Georges Seurat
c. 1886, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
Yet another outdoor picture, this one's technique the opposite of unpremedidated...pointillism.
It took two years to complete.
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