Sharing is Caring - Paintings You Like
As the title suggests, sharing is caring. That said, this thread is intended as an informal free-for-all for classical- or not so classical works. Just sit back, relax and have a comment or two. Maybe tell us about the pieces you like and who or what inspires you. Or just leave a painting (bonus points for having a source).
Vincent Van Gogh: The Prisoner's Round
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Raden Saleh Syarif Bustaman (1807-1880), a pioneer of Indonesian painting during the Dutch East Indies.
Raden Saleh created paintings in the style of European romanticism combined with elements of Javanese cultural roots.
The Arrest of Prince Diponegoro (Dutch: Gevangenname van Prins Diponegoro) was created in 1857.
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Prince Diponegoro is depicted with his face turned upwards, as his followers cry, and beside him stands the arrogant-looking de Kock.
The Diponegoro War or the Java War against the Dutch lasted for almost five years, between 1825 and 1830. The guerrilla warfare method of Prince Diponegoro and his troops was very troublesome for the colonial government.
On March 28, 1830, Prince Diponegoro went to the house of the Kedu Resident in Magelang to fulfill the Dutch invitation to discuss the possibility of a truce. However, Pangeran Diponegoro was arrested and exiled.
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I love it! I was looking up Raden Saleh and felt pleasantly surprised. You can really see his progress and I think his landscapes in particular are beautiful. Same with the few naval paintings I've seen thus far.
Usually we don't hear much about Indonesian history, or the Dutch colonial empire for that matter and its impact on Southeast Asia.
Honestly, I've also just admired Raden Saleh, giving me new knowledge that Indonesia has extraordinary artists.
We have made me dive further into the history of my own people, thank you for this community event.
I like these works, especially the things related to planes and perspectives, as well as the colors. This is definitely a great artist; I have already entered him for my "Art and Writing" contest.
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Se puede decir que el arresto del Principe fue una trampa, ya que fue en son de paz, fue en representación política para discutir una posible tregua pero fue arrestado y exiliado, eso fue una total traición, algo un poco bajo del contrincante.
Al final de todo esto quien gano la guerra? Valio la pena el sacrificio del principe?
Buen artista, hermosa pintura.
In the end, Prince Diponegoro was moved to Fort Rotterdam in Makassar, South Sulawesi. It was there that Prince Diponegoro died on January 8, 1855, at the age of 69.
It was for me discovery of this artist, he captured a moment of history and it is done with a lot of love to both his historical time and to art, how he paid attention to figures, their position, clothes, the feeling that it is something important been discussed.
Thanks for your detailed observation on the beauty of the painting @stef1
There have been many artists who have re-created the historical events of their nations through their works, which I find very interesting, because sometimes a picture says more than a thousand words.
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Greetings friend @grebmot
My favorite painter is Armando Reverón.
A Venezuelan who was born to love the art of painting, and who always showed a style different from others. Nature gave him a respite and a new source of inspiration, his works led him to be considered among the most important of Venezuela, along with Arturo Michelena and Martin Tovar y Tovar.
Armando Reverol Un paseo en el parque (1922)
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Armando Reverón, Landscape, 1922
The longer I look the more interesting it gets. At first glance the man seems very minimalist but there's something going on I can't exactly articulate.
According to what I know, he changed his painting style several times, depending on the experiences he had in each period. He liked to draw people, his wife Juana was his great model.
Un gran artista nuestro Armando Reveron, utilizo sus privilegiadas manos para pintar paisajes hermosos, para descatar lo bello del ser humano dentro de la naturaleza.
La verdad es que las obras de Reverón reflejan un poco su carácter, bastante temperamental y cambiante. Quizás por eso, se paseó por muchos estilos pictóricos. Esta obra me gusta. Suerte, @adeljose.
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La delicadeza de sus trazos y los colores difuminados hacen que la obra de Armando Reverón tenga un carácter especial, una firma directa con tan solo la contemplación de sus pinturas.
A pesar de haber experimentado con diferentes técnicas, su estilo fue realmente original. En sus obras siempre buscaba la luz.
Hello everyone!!
The painter that I present is Carlos "Cejota" from Villacura. I have seen his art since I was little, since he lives next door to my mom... In every house in the area there is a painting or carving by this artist. He had a fresh, colorful style and always captured the traditions of our country.
Cuadro de CejotaInformación del pintor
A talented and humble artist, the pride of my people and my country.
My favorite artist is Vincent Van Gogh... But his name alone already presents his works, his talent and his undoubted art.
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I find it amazing everyone in the area has one of his paintings. Notone single soup dared to say: This is not my cup of tea?
Did he or his work inspire you or others? Was er for example a painting class?
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He was such a noble man that every year he held parties to celebrate Children's Day, and gave away paintings as prizes.
At Christmas he painted some walls with drawings, I remember that once he painted a Saint Nicholas on the wall of my house!!
But the main reason why all the neighbors have their art is because he had AIDS and in order to pay the costs of his illness he sold his paintings and carvings.
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That indeed is special and a painting for a prize is awesome. I would have loved to see that wall.
Thabks for replying and giving valuable info.
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Hola, My favorite painter is...
Pedro Angel Gonzalez (1901-1981) is a painter, sculptor and author of engravings, native of Margarita Island, Venezuela. Landscape painter, his main theme is the outside world, the urban and natural landscape mainly, in a simple and realistic way allowing the light. Varied techniques highlighting: Etching, messotinta.
La Guaira Street
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There's definitely some special sauce going on with this one. I've been staring at the painting for a while now, a bit like I was looking for a set of lost keys. I really enjoy the diversity of colors, for starters. It all blends like a good soup. Probably not the best way of phrasing it, but I'm intrigued! :-)
Hello, relax haha I understand and appreciate the interest, everyone looks at it from their own perspective and that is the beauty of art. It fills me with pride to introduce you to this great artist of my island, it is this simplicity and play of color what I love about him, apart from the fact that the children of the island in my time we attended the School of Plastic Arts that bears his name, you can imagine how special this artist is.
A big greeting from Margarita Island, Venezuela.
Have a good one and thanks for sharing!
Un artista de tu región, me imagino como ha pintado las hermosas casa y bellos paisajes de Margaritas, en esta obra nos presentas una calle de la Guaira, donde plasmo con sutileza y realismo estas casa y la calle.
Gracias por participar, bendiciones.
Hola 😃está es una de sus obras emblema por eso la comparto,gracias @yancar.
Me encanta que hayas escogido un artista de tu terruño. Me encantan los colores y la perspectiva. Podría escribir una historia a partir de este cuadro. Te deseo suerte.
Gracias sol,siempre tan gentil,valorando el arte 🤗
Esa zona de la Guaira la han puesto muy hermosa y turística... Está lindo el cuadro, ¿se puede catalogar en el genero abstracto?...
Hola @jacksylondon, no lo creo pues el maestro era paisajista y le gustaba pintar la realidad con luz y color.Feliz día mi linda.
Tanto de Margarita cómo de la Guaira es una excelente representación pictórica. El realismo de las calles y sus colores me hacen pensar en todas esas personas tras las ventanas. ¿Será que ellos nos observan a nosotros?
Yo quisiera contar sus historias tal vez ellos quieren contar las mías.
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This reminds me of the paintings for sale in Spain (and the islands) years back. I like the simplicity, colours and serenity. Would it fit in my house? I am not sure.
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Ivan Aivazovsky: Azure Grotto, Naples 1841
I'm not the right person to make any value judgements about art, at least beyond personal taste, but I enjoy this one. If I were forced to articulate why I'd probably sound like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, critiquing his mom's painting. "One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way."
Can't say much about Ivan Aivazovsky as a person, or his larger body of work for that matter. I just stumbled upon him more or less by accident.
That is also my favourite Artist, he is a maritime artist and this one is my favourite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Wave
He is a master in choosing the colours to show the drama of natural disaster and also the beauty of that power. This painting always made me stun and think, what those people think when they were floating on that wooden wreck of ship. Seeing such beauty of night, sun coming down the horizon did they fear of darkness of night or they hoped to see the full moon, who knows.
As to the "Prisoners" it is really sad painting, even the colours were chosen in such palette that make people sad watching that.
Yeah, I noticed. He manages to give nature a lot of personality. Large and in charge!
I'm not sure if I would call the Van Gogh painting sad, but it's hard for me to describe. In a sense it almost seems like page taken from an experimental comic book. Or a cartoon for that matter. A little bit of music might change the tone completely.
Is this art? A painting?
Aren't most great artists dealing with sadness, depressions?
Generally, but not necessarily. There's this infamous japanese manga artist who specializes this fucked up stuff, truly, but then in real life he's more or less just a goofy sweatheart who throws cat poses. Meanwhile you've got someone like Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame, known for dozens of heartfelt movies about little girls having quirky adventures, and the man talks like he was part of that soccer team that crashed into the Andes Mountains.
This work is brilliant. It conveys anguish to me in particular: the waves, the moon and the small raft that looks as fragile as life itself.
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The Azure Grotto reminds me of those in Malta. Perhaps the blue there is closer to turquoise? There are some caves where they filmed The Blue Lagoon and some James Bond. I forgot which one since I always fall asleep if a James Bond film is playing.
But.. Ivan created indeed a beautiful piece. It's a bit pity it shows so small. I wonder if you had it where would you place it to enjoy it most.
Thanks for sharing, all I can think of are two paintings, one made by a child years ago (very colourful and she doesn't understand I still have it) and the other one is Edvard Munch's The Scream but it's not what I like to share. So I wait.
@tezzmax is there a paining you like to share or an artist perhaps?
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Oh, not any at the moment.
I should with time.
see the post about what @grebmot wrote!
Oh okay.
I'll try to.
Hahaha. At sea, everyone goes their own way, especially fishermen, because sometimes they devour each other, hehe.
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Photo's sourceMy favourite painter
Here you can see a watercolor painting by one of the greatest painters of Bangladesh, Zainul Abedin, about the greatest famine in Bengal.
Zainul Abedin collected numerous pictures throughout his life and even built a museum to preserve Bengali art. His most popular pictures are about the famine in 1770.
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I checked on Google and he is certainly recognized as a painter who marked the history of your country.
With my Western eyes, when I saw the image you shared, it seemed like a caricature because of the clean lines and the wonderful simplicity with which he can express his vision.
It speaks to me of the power of art to become a spokesperson for serious situations, making social denunciation.
https://doodles.google/doodle/zainul-abedins-105th-birthday/
Can you explain to me what you like about it? Does it speak to you? Would you buy it?
It's an interesting painting more like a simple drawing like a cartoon.
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Ma'am, there was a terrible famine in our country in the year 1776 during the British rule. Where about 10 million people died due to food shortage. And Zainul Abedin, the greatest painter of Bangladesh, highlighted the horror of the famine at that time. He painted many pictures of the famine with his extraordinary drawing talent. The picture I shared is one of those paintings.
Thank you for explaining. Do you like it or not because that is not clear to me. I do understand this artist is famous but that doesn't mran you have to like his style.
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Its beautiful painting of Anna Molka Ahmed the first Pakistan painter, although I have limited knowledge about the art and painting. But I truly liked her painting. In a delicately she painted old tree which represent the village civilization old people sit together and did a lot of gossiping the problem of people were solved there.
Moreover the scene of village which represent the cool and calm environment perhaps she wanted to show the simple culture of village and its beauty in her own way which is really attractive for me I have seen her many painting but I liked this one because I love village culture love and its value and yeah these are clearly seen in her art work. Simply its mind blowing for us and I am proud of her art work bring first Pakistani painter and female.
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Finally, a woman as if art is only for men. I can't see the painting very well but the colours are light and remind me of a field of flowers in spring. A great choice.
Thank you for sharing.
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Yeah you guess right and i also liked it thats why i have shared it.