The Fine Art Appreciation Thread

grindy · 04-16-2017, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Chiomara

Pieter Bruegel I - To run one’s head against a brick wall

Crygel ben ick, en van sinnen stuer,
dus loop ick met den hooffde tegen den muer.

I am touchy and out of my senses bull-headed,
so I bang my head against a brick wall.

I think this one might actually be a copy painted by his son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger.

Chiomara · 04-25-2017, 03:05 PM

‘The Heavens as they were on April 25, 1384 (CE)’ by the Persian polymath Mahmud ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan al-Kashi (1410 - 11 C.E.)

Chiomara · 04-26-2017, 03:52 PM

Annalynn Hammond - Masquerade #3

Ruben Pang (Singaporean, b. 1990, Singapore) - Faith Healer, 2014 Paintings: Oil on Aluminum Composite Panel

Spoiler for a single nipple:

Il Sogno di Saffo - Agostino Arrivabene (2012)

DwnWthVwls · 04-26-2017, 04:10 PM

Kitchen Window by Carle Weese

Unknown

Miwa Yanagi - The Dark Fairy Tales of Miwa Yanagi

Chiomara · 04-30-2017, 03:52 PM

I love that last one, Dwn.

Sheep aka Ssheepp aka Sheepeden (based Beijing, China) - 至幸, 2013 Pencil, Pen, transparent Watercolors

Akino Kondoh

Spoiler for too big:

Alphonse Adolf Bichard - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1886.

Chiomara · 05-03-2017, 02:56 PM

(^ this one's probably my all-time favorite photo)

Imogen Cunningham

Lady Clementina Hawarden

The Grape-Vine Swing
ca. 1895

**Frownland** · 05-03-2017, 02:58 PM

I really like the last one, very genuine moment.

DwnWthVwls · 05-03-2017, 03:06 PM

A still from "Meshes of the Afternoon"

Pepijn Simon (https://www.saatchiart.com/pepijnsimon)

Chiomara · 05-03-2017, 03:10 PM

^ Always loved that photo of Maya Deren.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frownland

I really like the last one, very genuine moment.

Yes, it's so lovely.

Chiomara · 05-07-2017, 09:40 AM

Atsushi Takenouchi, Butoh dancer (no clue who the photographer is)

Projection III 2016 Morgaen Muñoz

Edward S. Curtis. Tó Neinilii (Rain God), Yebichai ceremonial costume, Navajo, 1904

Edward Steichen - Dana’s hands, c.1923

Zdzisław Beksiński

James Chia Han Lee

04-26-2017, 03:52 PM	#63 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	Annalynn Hammond - Masquerade #3 Ruben Pang (Singaporean, b. 1990, Singapore) - Faith Healer, 2014 Paintings: Oil on Aluminum Composite Panel Spoiler for a single nipple: Nicole Eisenman - Another Green World (2015) Il Sogno di Saffo - Agostino Arrivabene (2012)

04-30-2017, 03:52 PM	#65 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	I love that last one, Dwn. Sheep aka Ssheepp aka Sheepeden (based Beijing, China) - 至幸, 2013 Pencil, Pen, transparent Watercolors Akino Kondoh Spoiler for too big: Joel-Peter Witkin - Harvest - 1984 Alphonse Adolf Bichard - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 1886.

05-03-2017, 02:58 PM	#67 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I really like the last one, very genuine moment. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-07-2017, 09:40 AM	#70 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	Atsushi Takenouchi, Butoh dancer (no clue who the photographer is) Projection III 2016 Morgaen Muñoz Edward S. Curtis. Tó Neinilii (Rain God), Yebichai ceremonial costume, Navajo, 1904 Edward Steichen - Dana’s hands, c.1923 Zdzisław Beksiński James Chia Han Lee Last edited by Chiomara; 05-07-2017 at 11:38 AM.

04-25-2017, 03:05 PM	#62 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	‘The Heavens as they were on April 25, 1384 (CE)’ by the Persian polymath Mahmud ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan al-Kashi (1410 - 11 C.E.)

05-03-2017, 02:56 PM	#66 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	(^ this one's probably my all-time favorite photo) Imogen Cunningham Lady Clementina Hawarden The Grape-Vine Swing ca. 1895