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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 11/11/08 7:43pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon..."
	Stunning really. Don't figure how Seurat kept his sanity, if indeed he did have it when he came up with pointillism. I especially like one of his called something like Channell at Gravelines, all blues and greys. But this is great too. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/17/08 11:52pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon..."
	This is one I'd like to see personally.
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yankee8255 Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 11/18/08 3:05am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon..."
	I've been to the Chicago Art Institute, definitely worth a visit. This piece is obviously a highlight. And somehow instrumental Smiths goes with it perfectly There are also a few small scale studies Seurat did for this at the Met in New York.
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Obi-Dawn Kenobi Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 11/18/08 7:01am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon..."
	I've also seen the Seurat multiple times. A fascinating piece to look at up close. -----signature----- http://makingmischief.net/ "In this interdependent world, war is outdated." -The Dalai Lama
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/18/08 1:17pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon..."
	So, Dawn, how close can you get to the painting before the effect dissipates?
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 11/24/08 9:36pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon..."
	Next: Vincent Van Gogh "Wheatfield with Cypresses" c. 1889, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London This is a Provencal landscape, with a twisted sky, twisted mountains, twisted path, twisted olive trees (on the left), twisted cypresses (on the right), all in an astonishing range of colours. In May, 1889, he had committed himself to the asylum in St. Remy after slashing his ear. He was allowed to work outside the asylum's walled garden, and he painted three versions of this painting, of which this is the second.
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Obi-Dawn Kenobi Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jan '00	Date Posted: 11/25/08 1:51pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Cypresses"
	Oh, sorry Zaz, I totally missed your question about the Seurat. Hmmm, I've never really judged distances, but you can get pretty close (5 or 6 feet I'd guess) without losing the overall picture. It could also be that the image is so familiar to me that I don't lose it up close. Next time I visit the Art Institute I'll pay closer attention. That's a nice Van Gogh. I also love seeing his work in person. The Art Institute had a fantastic exhibit of his work once. Nothing beats being able to see the brush strokes and thickness of the paint in real life. This particular painting has nice movement and I adore his clouds. -----signature----- http://makingmischief.net/ "In this interdependent world, war is outdated." -The Dalai Lama
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 11/25/08 2:08pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Cypresses"
	The sky in Van Gogh paintings is always just incredible; even in some of his Self-Portraits you can see it; constant movement. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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MarcusP2 Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jul '04	Date Posted: 11/25/08 4:12pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Cypresses"
	I was at the Met today, and saw an earlier study for the Seurat and what appears to be another in the Cypresses series by Van Gogh (sorry, not an expert.) Both were incredible. The Van Gogh is probably my favourite painting of the ones I saw there. -----signature----- Darth Revan Fan Club: Technical Specialist Uncle Eddie was my favourite wrestler Gentle Giant owns my bank account.
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Jag4Me Title: C&G and FCC Game Hostess Registered: Jan '08	Date Posted: 11/25/08 5:22pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Cypresses"
	Rogue1-and-a-half posted: The sky in Van Gogh paintings is always just incredible; even in some of his Self-Portraits you can see it; constant movement. Love the sky in this one, it's fabulous. -----signature----- The Other Innocent Diva Twin Master to EnviousSerious-Rue "I only have moral and ethical objections to something if I'm not being included." - Darth_wanderguard Darth_wanderguard is mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/1/08 7:26pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Cypresses"
	Next: Paul Cezanne "Still Life With a Basket of Apples" 1890-4, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago An extremely dynamic composition, in which every element contributes to the whole.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/8/08 11:03pm Subject: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Cezanne's "Still Life with a Basket of Apples"
	Next: "Where Are You Going?" by Paul Gauguin c. 1893, oil on canvas, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg This painting was completed toward the end of Gauguin's first stay at Tahiti. The subject is probably Tehamana, Gauguin's 13-year-old lover. The picture is inscribed: "Ea haere ia oe" ("Where are you going?") which is a Tahitian greeting rather than a question. But it had real resonance for Gauguin, who wasn't sure of his future. The picture was taken to France with him, and sold to Ivan Morozov, a Russian industrialist, which is how it ended up in the Hermitage.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/12/08 1:57pm Subject: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Gauguin's "Where Are You Going?"
	I'm not sure I entirely buy into the myth that Gaugin, among others, was chasing in Tahiti; often the "primitive" artworks just look sloppy to me. This one, I must admit, is better than a lot of Gaugins from this period. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 12/23/08 8:18pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Gauguin's "Where Are You Going?"
	Next: Edvard Munch, "The Scream" 1893, tempera and pastel on panel, National Gallery, Oslo Edvard Munch: "The clouds were turning blood-red. I sensed a scream passing through nature." The book describes it as: "...[it] has become modern man's universal symbol of inner anguish and despair." Munch wrote on the painting: "This picture must have been painted by a madman." It was painted, however, six years after the original hallucinatory experience, and was the result of six refinements of the original image. The original was called "Despair" Munch's mother died of TB when he was five; his sister of the same disease at sixteen; another sister was schizophrenic; his brother died young after a short, unhappy marriage. He himself was an alcoholic. He had plenty to be depressed about. "The Scream" was stolen in 1994, but recovered in good condition.
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NYCitygurl Title: Manager of SFFBC, C&G, NSWFF, and Icons Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 12/26/08 9:33pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Munch's "The Scream"
	I'm usually not into anything Baroque and later, but this is one of my exceptions - I love this piece -----signature----- I agree with RJ Officially Idri's Muse
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