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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/27/08 8:16am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Munch's "The Scream"
	The painting has been appropriated by pop culture to a degree that you'd think would rob it of its power, but it doesn't, testament to the incredible emotion packed into the painting. Modern scholars say Munch probably had what amounts to an extremely severe panic attack, something medicine didn't understand in those days (or at least didn't have a catchy name for). Regardless, the work he created after the fact is incredibly haunting, a picture of such complete desolation as to be terrifying. This one kills me. I like Munch in general; Puberty is another horrifying one and The Sick Room is awful 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: 12/29/08 12:15am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Munch's "The Scream"
	Munch conveys the emotion visually, especially the blood-red sky pressing down on the man screaming. The Sick Room: Puberty:
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 12/29/08 7:35pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Munch's "The Scream"
	I can hardly even look at Puberty; that gaze is just incredibly terrifying and that shadow behind her seems filled with something evil and foreboding. I didn't even want to click on it right here in his thread; I remember the look on her face so vividly. I don't know why that one gets me so bad, but it does. -----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: 12/30/08 3:57pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Munch's "The Scream"
	There's a lot of debate about the shadow to the right of the girl in "Puberty"
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 1/11 8:28pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Munch's "The Scream"
	Next: "At the Moulin Rouge" by Henri Tolouse-Lautrec c. 1895, Art Institute of Chicago Toulouse-Lautrec was a scion of French provincial family which was suffering from too much inbreeding. He suffered from a number of medical conditions that rendered his life extremely difficult, and he died at 37, from alcoholism and syphilis. In this painting, he's in the middle distance, and the famous cabaret dancer Jane Avril has her back to us (we see her red hair). The lady in the checkered outfit is Spanish dancer La Macarona, the tall man looming above Toulouse-Lautrec is his cousin, Tapie de Celeyran. The woman on the right is probably May Milton, and her greenish face is almost Kabuki-like.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 1/18 8:22pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Toulouse-Lautrec's "At the Moulin Rogue"
	Claude Monet "The Japanese Bridge" 1899, oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art In 1883, Monet moved to a country property in Giverny, and in 1893, he persuaded the authorities to allow him to divert the river Epte to create a water garden. He painted it frequently...this is one of 12 paintings of the same subject in 1899.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/1 7:32pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Claude Monet "The Japanese Bridge"
	Next: Gustav Klimt "The Kiss" 1908, oil on canvas, Osterreichishe Galerie, Vienna Klimt is more decorative than artistic, at least in my opinion.
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Nrf-Hrdr Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 2/2 3:23am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Gustav Klimt "The Kiss"
	I like this one, I have a detail of it on my wall.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/3 12:07pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Gustav Klimt "The Kiss"
	Never been a Klimt fan...a little too...I can't think of a proper word...
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halibut Title: FF GSA & FF-UK RSA / Saga Mod Registered: Aug '00	Date Posted: 2/3 1:42pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Gustav Klimt "The Kiss"
	I was watching a TV show yesterday where they discussed The Scream and the 2 schools of thought 1) The subject is screaming 1) The subject is reacting to a scream. Quite interesting I thought And I am most displeased with the lack of Dali in this thread -----signature----- They are not "songs", they are "tracks" or "cues" ROTJ - "It has a nice mix of muppets and patricide that you don't see very often" - Darthboba Everybody knows that the bird is the word!
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/3 3:38pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Gustav Klimt "The Kiss"
	Dali isn't until later.
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 2/18 8:19pm Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Gustav Klimt "The Kiss"
	Next: Georges Braque, "Violin and Palette" 1910, oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Georges Braque was a painter, printmaker, muralist, stained-glass designer, book illustrator, and set designer.
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Viola_Telcontar Registered: Nov '04	Date Posted: 2/19 2:48am Subject: RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Georges Braque "Violin and Palette"
	The f-holes are inverted... -----signature----- The Art of War: http://boards.theforce.net/before_the_saga/b10475/25517824/ "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources" A. Einstein
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 3/1 8:58pm Subject: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Georges Braque "Violin and Palette"
	Next: "I and the Village" by Marc Chagall 1911, oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York This painting of a peasant and his cow probably derives from Russian icon painting, wherein a head and shoulders painting of a saint is illustrated with scenes from his life.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 3/2 2:01pm Subject: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Georges Braque "Violin and Palette"
	I've seen this one in person and I still don't get the love for it. -----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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