The NSMB Art Gallery

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

RE: The NSMB Art Gallery

hitlerfromhell · My penish a-so small

fountainhead is quite the enjoyable read, very inspiring. One of my favorite american written novels thus far. Granted i'm not a fan of American Novels in general

-- Edited by hitlerfromhell at 05:10, 2008-08-09

Jason · Only in cartoons

Have you read Atlas Shrugged, hitler? If you like the Fountainhead I'm sure you'll like it. I found it refreshing how Ayn Rand writes about the greatness in mankind, which is in stark contrast to the modernist trend on dwelling on everything that sucks or is painful about life. There is so much good in the world, there is so much to enjoy in life. More depressing works have their place and can be beautiful masterpieces in their own right, but I can't love them the way I do with Rand's writings.

hitlerfromhell · My penish a-so small

Jason wrote:

Have you read Atlas Shrugged, hitler? If you like the Fountainhead I'm sure you'll like it. I found it refreshing how Ayn Rand writes about the greatness in mankind, which is in stark contrast to the modernist trend on dwelling on everything that sucks or is painful about life. There is so much good in the world, there is so much to enjoy in life. More depressing works have their place and can be beautiful masterpieces in their own right, but I can't love them the way I do with Rand's writings.

I don't like being preached when i read my novels, so i may like Atlas Shrugged less than i do Fountainhead. But it certainly intrigues me so i'll probably pick it up soon. I really should have read this book sooner, i've had this book for quite a while and i've been curious about Rand's style of writing and novels for some time

MATHSEX · MASTER BATOR

hitlerfromhell wrote:

museums are great, but most don't really feature alot of contemporary artists, and the ones that are featured i don't really care for. I plan on going to the Art Gallery of Ontario when it re-opens nov.14. What artists would you or anyone else recommend for a person who likes dali? Sculptures included.

-- Edited by hitlerfromhell at 02:25, 2008-08-09

go to the prado in madrid. while you're in europe, you might as well go to the sistine chapel, the louvre, the orsay, the guggenheim, and the alhambra. when you come back across the pond, go the the met in nyc

Jason · Only in cartoons

The sketches of Mercedes Helnwein are fantastic. Incredibly detailed and yet fanciful. Beautiful.

I think one of my favorites is the one in the "Local News" collection of the school girl with a handgun and a crocodile.

Andy001 · Spaghetti

Those Goya paintings are prett awesome.

Andy001 · Spaghetti

Art will never be my best friend, I feel. But there are some things that I like.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Jason wrote:

The sketches of Mercedes Helnwein are fantastic. Incredibly detailed and yet fanciful. Beautiful.

I think one of my favorites is the one in the "Local News" collection of the school girl with a handgun and a crocodile.

BAD TASTE

Andy001 · Spaghetti

I have a soft spot for the work of Joan Miró.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/miro_joan.html

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DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

What the **** is any of that supposed to be?

Andy001 · Spaghetti

Well, the titles should explain the last two at least.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

I hate art like that. Draw some people or a sunset or something.

Andy001 · Spaghetti

I think the colours are beautiful.

SlashXLA · Senior Member

DEATHPIGGIE wrote:

Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee. I dug this painting when I saw it awhile ago.

That reminds me of Peter Arbo.

Jason · Only in cartoons

DEATHPIGGIE wrote:

Durp, if it's not realistic, it's not good durp durp!

Andy001 · Spaghetti

He's entitled to his opinion. It's not a hugely uncommon one.

Jason · Only in cartoons

Some of those paintings (the second and fourth) remind me of Wassily Kandinsky, who I revere as one of the greatest abstract painters of all time.

DEATHPIGGIE · I'm fat and nobody likes me

Blah blah abstract. Don't be a dick. Paint something real.

Jason · Only in cartoons

No painting is "real"; no artist, not even realists, can actually reproduce reality in their work. The best they can do is frame an image that exists in reality, and even the very placement of a frame is a statement, an artificializing of the natural. And that can be beauty, and it can be full of meaning. But it is not real.

I like abstract painting; there is beauty in form and in color that can exist independently of representational subjects.