Artists / Painters

Originally posted by Captain Strange
And now you work in an office ordering paper clips and pencils.
Hell, not your fault, no way you could have known.
BTW Hope the Elder JW brethren okd that art course.

I have never worked in an office unlike a namby pamby button pusher like you. My ruddy complexion is formed by natures elements and my body honed by physical toil, the like of what a fatty like you could only dream of.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
But I too work for a living, not in an office, but outside, rain or shine, summer and winter.

Please elaborate.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
My ruddy complexion is formed by natures elements and my body honed by physical toil, .

Thanks to trudging the streets with the JWs ?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
One would be Vermeer and his "Girl with a Pearl".

"Johannes Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)"

YouTube

Enjoy.

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Originally posted by drewnogal
"The way the painting was described using lines was interesting.I don't know whether Vermeer consciously
thought about arranging the light and dark tones in that way?"
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A few months ago I attended an Artists Series Lecture on Vermeer which included
illustrative large screen examples of this technique which he perfected.

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Pick one.

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From North America.
Frida Kahlo

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Only discovered her a few years ago when researching female artists for a lesson.
A remarkable woman and such emotional art.
She was apparently in pain her whole life.
I think she may have committed suicide - I'll check later.

Frida Kahlo
Artemisia Gentileschi
Henri Matisse
Georges Braque
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Berthe Morisot

and American artist, Georgia O'Keefe

Originally posted by hakima
Frida Kahlo
Artemisia Gentileschi
Henri Matisse
Georges Braque
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Berthe Morisot

and American artist, Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe ... I really don't get that - all those bloody flowers!

School I was at did an Art module based on "Day of the Dead"
and that goat(?) skull painting. Can't stand her work since!

A.Y. Jackson
Robert Bateman
Bruce Parsons