i8hibsh Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I've always loved art (although lost touch with it recently), I enjoyed it at school, and at school I went on an art trip to Claude Monet's beautiful house and gardens and this kind of cementing my appreciation for art. Anyway in 2000 I went to a Noah Billie exhibition in Florida (He is a native American artist from the Seminole tribe)and his work blew my mind. Just good honest feel good paintings. I was just googling his work as for some reason it popped into my head recently and it is beautiful. If you get the chance google him. What artists do you like? any particular paintings? Also, there is a shop next to Au Bar on Shandwick place that sells gorgeous paintings, anyone bought any from there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexton Hardcastle Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Is this you showing your sensitive side? I prefer the pervert/stalker side myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8hibsh Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 Is this you showing your sensitive side? I prefer the pervert/stalker side myself. I also like the female art form in magazines, does that count? In all seriousness though I am not that one dimensional, I love art just like the next man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I like early Edward Atkinson Hornel. Like this http://www.antiques-scotland.co.uk/images/August02/soth_glen02_lot1064.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Therapist Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I own a number of very limited edition Artists Proofs by Todd White, and met him when he was in Edinburgh last year. He was kind enough to draw a caricature of me and Mrs Therapist and, under my wine-driven promptings, wrote HMFC 1874 on the reverse. http://www.artofwhite.com/white/home/ I also own two large portraits (oil on canvas) by celebrated Scottish artist Alan Sutherland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freebird Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Pretty much anything by Dali or H.R. Giger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1874M Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I've got the Matador - Joan Miro in my front room (obviously a print and not the real deal) http://www.globalgallery.com/canvas/003-26822/ Like any Surrealist stuff and always wanted to read up on it but never have! More modern artist would be - Peter Howson who's stuff is quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gershwin Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Dali. I just love looking at anything he's done. Maybe Jeff Koons for his 80s work with his wife called 'Made in Heaven' - ha ha - that has to be google by those over the age of 18. Or those who like Porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I think that the finest sculptor in the world was Antonio Canova http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/12649-popup.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gershwin Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Also, I quite like this dutch graphic designer called Parra. http://www.bigactive.com/illustration/parra His style has kinda been pinched by quite a few illustrators but I still love his typography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_jambo Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Cezanne. Did an art project about his work at school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leginten Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I like a lot of German art around the Max Beckmann/Otto Dix period. Also love Kirchner and the other Expressionists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercrutch Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I've always loved art (although lost touch with it recently), I enjoyed it at school, and at school I went on an art trip to Claude Monet's beautiful house and gardens and this kind of cementing my appreciation for art. Anyway in 2000 I went to a Noah Billie exhibition in Florida (He is a native American artist from the Seminole tribe)and his work blew my mind. Just good honest feel good paintings. I was just googling his work as for some reason it popped into my head recently and it is beautiful. If you get the chance google him. What artists do you like? any particular paintings? Also, there is a shop next to Au Bar on Shandwick place that sells gorgeous paintings, anyone bought any from there? :eek: When did this happen. I must have missed it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Therapist Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Also, there is a shop next to Au Bar on Shandwick place that sells gorgeous paintings, anyone bought any from there? That place is gash. Try Art et Facts at Roseburn - they always have some very interesting stuff. I also have an Ashley More original. A very talented local artist. http://www.moreashley.co.uk/gallery_two.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pammiep Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I'm right into Doug Hyde at the moment. Ive got a few of the limited edition prints. Just bought 'Lost without you' cos it reminds me of a photograph I have of my son and my old lab. http://www.DOUG-HYDE.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Whittaker's Tache Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Im a big Eduardo Paolozzi fan Love the fact that you can interact with his work all over Edinburgh Plus he was from the toon too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gorgie kev Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 :eek: When did this happen. I must have missed it.. He's turning :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJambo Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 i really like rob hains work, also quite like john duffin's material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.J Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 At last, a true intellectual thread in the Shed. I've always been a big fan of Hockney's work. I know, I know, it's pretty much all "fruity", but the man is a genius. Warhol not far behind - in fact if the pair of them could have a "paint off", I'd be stumped in who to support. Also like some of Constable's work, but not in the same league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Romanov Saviour of HMFC Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Sorry to break it to you lads but art is for poofs. FACT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micole Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Joseph Paton his work is outstanding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.J Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Sorry to break it to you lads but art is for poofs. FACT. Aye, but poofs who get to see naked burds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobblers Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Always had a soft spot for Rolf Harris myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Bill Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Whistler's Mother I've been to see the great painting twice now at the world class Mus?e d'Orsay in Paris. Buffalo Bill . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Dali, Munch or Picasso; mainstream I know Out if interest, what's the name of the work that features a desolate looking bar, with a couple on one side and a shadey-looking dude on the other? Like that one. As you can probably see, I know art, me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.J Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Out if interest, what's the name of the work that features a desolate looking bar, with a couple on one side and a shadey-looking dude on the other? Like that one. That was the photo I took of Crofters the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 That was the photo I took of Crofters the other day. I must've been in the toilet at the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blairdin Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I love the van Gogh gallery in Amsterdam. It's almost in chronoligical order, so you can see the guy losing his ming through his paintings. Best local artist is a guy called Ronnie Leckie, based on the Isle of Mull. He does landscapes of highland and island scenes. Stunning IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slashishere Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 ok its not a painting but it is a classic! I do like a bit of pop art, Roy lictenstein being one of my favs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalamazoo Jambo Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Maybe Jeff Koons for his 80s work with his wife called 'Made in Heaven' - ha ha - that has to be google by those over the age of 18. Or those who like Porn. Have seen a couple of Jeff Koons exhibits in the last few months - one in Chicago and one in New York. Not bothered about the 'Made In Heaven' stuff (there was some of that in Chicago) - luckily I took my Mum to the New York exhibit . He has, however, done a lot of cool stuff... Another favourite piece of art is the white hart in the Wilton Diptych... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slashishere Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 This, by Tretchikoff, I believe is the biggest selling art print of all time, but I am happy to be corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo121 Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Im not educated in the finer artwork but I really like Jack Vettriano's work and also some of Peter Howsons, more specifically the artwork he did on the Beatles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 It's a bit of a cliche but you never really get a lot of artists until you see the work in the flesh. For example the astonishing colour of Van Goghs work or the sheer scale of pieces like Miro's Blue paintings or Jacksn Pollock work. I love Modigliani bt not sure if I I appreciate sculpture as much as painting and drawing. We have a few originals around the house but nothing too expensive or rare. Just things we like. Which is surely the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Did anyone else go and see the painting mentioned in Dostoevsky's The Idiot when we were partying in Basle? http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator/spec59.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmiyaRomanova Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Im a big Eduardo Paolozzi fan Love the fact that you can interact with his work all over Edinburgh Plus he was from the toon too Me too - I love his reconstructed studio space in the Dean Gallery at Belford. So tempting just to reach over the rail and....... Amazingly, up until a year or two ago you could pick up original screenprints on eBay for around ?100 or so. Pride of place on my living room wall are..... and a more vibrantly coloured version of... Would love to have one of his small sculptures, but they're beyond my price range and likely to remain so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmiyaRomanova Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Out if interest, what's the name of the work that features a desolate looking bar, with a couple on one side and a shadey-looking dude on the other? Like that one. This one? Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercrutch Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 At last, a true intellectual thread in the Shed. I've always been a big fan of Hockney's work. I know, I know, it's pretty much all "fruity", but the man is a genius. Warhol not far behind - in fact if the pair of them could have a "paint off", I'd be stumped in who to support. Also like some of Constable's work, but not in the same league. I can't explain how wrong that statement is. Have you ever met the OP...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neave Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 This one? Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks'. That's the one! Cheers. Would love a print of that for my living room or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8hibsh Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 That place is gash. Try Art et Facts at Roseburn - they always have some very interesting stuff. I also have an Ashley More original. A very talented local artist. http://www.moreashley.co.uk/gallery_two.htm There is a painting in the window that I see everyday (noone has bought it yet), it is of a Middle Eastern women. Her face is covered and all you see are her eyes. It has a red background. A gorgeous piece of work. If I had the spare ??? I'd buy it in flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8hibsh Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 Whistler's Mother I've been to see the great painting twice now at the world class Mus?e d'Orsay in Paris. Buffalo Bill . I adore this piece. However, I think of Mr Bean nowadays when I see this painting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8hibsh Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 ok its not a painting but it is a classic! I do like a bit of pop art, Roy lictenstein being one of my favs Never really got pop art but I appreciate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8hibsh Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 This one? Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks'. That is a quality piece. Very 1920's Chicago gangster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmiyaRomanova Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 Quite enjoying Josh Keyes' work at the moment.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DikT. Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I know he is over exposed but I like McKenzie Thorpe's stuff. Also looking forward to seeing Da Vinci's exhibition in Stirling when I get home. Also liked Ken Currie's stuff from a few years ago. Got a couple of Dorothy Stirling originals as well. Quirky but nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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