rocala Posted August 14, 2018 Another painting by Hughes. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted August 14, 2018 Sorry. That one didn't "Wow!" me. But then, sometimes I am hard to please. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted August 14, 2018 7 hours ago, rocala said: Another painting by Hughes. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rocala Posted August 21, 2018 (edited) A Distant View of Niagara Falls - Thomas Cole Edited August 21, 2018 by rocala 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rocala Posted August 21, 2018 April Love by Arthur Hughes 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted August 21, 2018 A red haired April. Yeah, that's a "WoW!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rocala Posted August 21, 2018 1 minute ago, Marblehead said: A red haired April. Yeah, that's a "WoW!" Stay back - I saw her first 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stosh Posted August 22, 2018 On 8/14/2018 at 7:53 AM, NOONE said: Wow! I have the same wallpaper! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted August 22, 2018 A drawing by one of our members when he was 16 years old. Limahong 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted August 23, 2018 3 hours ago, Marblehead said: A drawing by one of our members when he was 16 years old. Limahong Wow he drew that @ 16? That is pure awesome. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rocala Posted August 24, 2018 This is Mystical Mangroves by Keith Stillwagon 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) Famous modern Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in artistic commentary toward the current Chinese government. In response, the Chinese government demolished his art studio without warning. Edited August 28, 2018 by moment 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) I apologize that this is not a painting. But, I believe that Ai Weiwei's statement above needs more elaboration. Straight (2008-12) Artwork description & Analysis: Both a stylized representation of an earthquake and an image of its effects, Straight is a statement about a specific instance of governmental corruption and negligence. The province of Sichuan suffered massive casualties in an earthquake of 2008, leaving 90,000 dead or missing. Over 5,000 were children killed when poorly constructed schools collapsed on top of them. Ai, a self-taught architect, was outraged to discover that this could have been avoided. Both a memorial and a call to action, Straight is part of the artist's broader effort to hold the Chinese government responsible and urge it to take preventative steps to avoid future disaster. It took him four years to complete this monumental floor sculpture --almost 40 feet long and 20 feet wide - weighing 200 tons. To construct it, he collected the bent and broken steel reinforcement bars that were part of the badly built schools. He commissioned metal workers to straighten and mend them until they looked as they would have before the earthquake. He arranged the bars in waves that resemble the oscillations in an earthquake on a seismograph. The fissures between them resemble fault lines. The thousands of individual components reference the individual lives lost, a typical feature of Ai's symbolism. The Chinese government did not appreciate the attention the artist drew to this national embarrassment and this marked the beginning of an especially turbulent period in Ai's adversarial relationship with Chinese authorities. Steel reinforcing bars - Royal Academy of Arts, London Edited August 27, 2018 by moment 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted August 27, 2018 (edited) Edited August 27, 2018 by moment 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whitesilk Posted August 27, 2018 Image not a painting: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredaze Posted August 29, 2018 by Vladimir Kush 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
futuredaze Posted August 29, 2018 (edited) On 8/14/2018 at 4:53 AM, NOONE said: It is like a combination of cubism and "watching paint dry." I like it just because it is probably a good conversation starter. Edited August 29, 2018 by futuredaze Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
