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Post by Maolsheachlann on Dec 14, 2022 9:57:59 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen that light effect. But why does it have to be realistic?
I've never actually been to an auction in my 45 years.
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Post by cato on Dec 14, 2022 11:09:54 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen that light effect. But why does it have to be realistic? I've never actually been to an auction in my 45 years. Something to add to the bucket list. Going to court (as a spectator) is also recommended for a view of how our legal system operates. |
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Post by cato on Dec 14, 2022 11:12:27 GMT
I am bidding on this one at an auction today. Main doubt has been aroused about the greenish colour of the sheep wool. Could it ever be seen this nuance in light rain? I don´t know what to make of this. The title of the painting is "Sheep hill at Gränna". Gränna is the name of a small town surrounded by pastures. Artist is David Wallin (1876-1957). The sheeps in the scenery are seen very small, near the middle a little to the left just down the hill top. View AttachmentThere is a famous Iron Age Fort in Donegal called the Grianan (sun fort) of Ailech. Any connection with the place name? |
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Post by Tomas on Dec 14, 2022 12:15:42 GMT
I am bidding on this one at an auction today. Main doubt has been aroused about the greenish colour of the sheep wool. Could it ever be seen this nuance in light rain? I don´t know what to make of this. The title of the painting is "Sheep hill at Gränna". Gränna is the name of a small town surrounded by pastures. Artist is David Wallin (1876-1957). The sheeps in the scenery are seen very small, near the middle a little to the left just down the hill top. View AttachmentThere is a famous Iron Age Fort in Donegal called the Grianan (sun fort) of Ailech. Any connection with the place name? Etymological explanation is it comes from an ancient Swedish word meaning literally (and near phonetically!) "neighbourhood". It was situated between a very deep lake and a height close by, not as a village but rather like an open area a bit away from nearest settlements. The present small town dates from the mid-17th century. Gränna/Grenna sounds close to "neighbour" or neighbourhood - granne/grannskap. In the older form (says the lexikon from our Institute for Language and Folklore Memories in Uppsala, my single source here) it was a plural variant of that root, thus like saying "the areas next door-nearby" or so. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Dec 14, 2022 15:22:55 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen that light effect. But why does it have to be realistic? I've never actually been to an auction in my 45 years. Something to add to the bucket list. Going to court (as a spectator) is also recommended for a view of how our legal system operates. Well, I feel I have that covered. I was on the jury for a criminal case that lasted several weeks. Quite a sobering experience, especially seeing the slapdash and nonchalant way my fellow-jurors approached their task. |
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Post by Séamus on Jun 9, 2023 9:01:14 GMT
I was a disturbed by an obituary that I read early this week.
The elderly Californian had been highly influential in music and cinema for some time. He seemed to use his talents for solely projecting darkness and disorder;having renounced Christianity in his youth, embracing an occult group, he had direct involvement in devil-themed songs, including a couple recorded by LedZeppelin and RollingStones.
It matters little whether he or Robert Plant are really devil-worshippers- they indisputably stifle the very thing that all arts should do, even in their most bohemian forms,- create beauty.
I later came across two images of 15th Century masterpieces in a book which spoke strongly of the theme.
Hans Memling Angel Musicians (currently in an Antwerp museum) and Geertgen tot Sint Jans' Virgin and Child (now in the industrial city of Rotterdam) both use soft gold against darkness to portray the ethereal angelic world. Even, given, that the angels are in a state that can't experience darkness like us, we can see our own world in a powerful way.
Both images are largely themed around music- actually an amazing study in themselves of the evolution of musical instruments. One does and doesn't recognise what the angels are playing. In Sint Jans' painting the blessed spirits are merged into the background, as they often were in Raphael's, but are no less real: eagle eyes have noticed that the Holy Infant, who is Himself playing some sort of maracas or bells, is looking directly at the one and only angel who is playing the same thing.
The pathetic dragon under Mary's feet resembles a dying chameleon or other small lizard.
Little interest in devils here.
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Post by assisi on Jun 13, 2023 14:35:47 GMT
I was a disturbed by an obituary that I read early this week. The elderly Californian had been highly influential in music and cinema for some time. He seemed to use his talents for solely projecting darkness and disorder;having renounced Christianity in his youth, embracing an occult group, he had direct involvement in devil-themed songs, including a couple recorded by LedZeppelin and RollingStones. It matters little whether he or Robert Plant are really devil-worshippers- they indisputably stifle the very thing that all arts should do, even in their most bohemian forms,- create beauty. Seamus. You don't happen to remember the name of the Californian who died, just out of curiosity? |
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Post by Séamus on Jun 14, 2023 0:03:45 GMT
I was a disturbed by an obituary that I read early this week. The elderly Californian had been highly influential in music and cinema for some time. He seemed to use his talents for solely projecting darkness and disorder;having renounced Christianity in his youth, embracing an occult group, he had direct involvement in devil-themed songs, including a couple recorded by LedZeppelin and RollingStones. It matters little whether he or Robert Plant are really devil-worshippers- they indisputably stifle the very thing that all arts should do, even in their most bohemian forms,- create beauty. Seamus. You don't happen to remember the name of the Californian who died, just out of curiosity? Think it was Kenneth Anger |
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Post by Séamus on Dec 17, 2023 12:26:41 GMT
"THE Turner prize has long been a joke that dishonours the memory of the great 19th century British artist after whom it is named. Far from celebrating great art, it promotes the decadent shallowness, ugly pretentiousness and political groupthink of the contemporary cultural scene.
But this year's winning entry was like a grotesque parody of those traits.
Hailed as a commentary on themes of Brexit, immigration and austerity, the chosen sculptures comprised metal pedestrian barriers adorned with barbed wire and some tattered Union Jack bunting. With aching predictability, the victor was a trans artist by the name of Jesse Darling, whose acceptance of the award at a ceremony in Eastbourne was accompanied by a display of the Palestinian flag, "There's genocide going on," Darling said.
It was a gesture as banal as the prize-winning installation." cf international express Leo McKinstry
+We'd all like to see an end to conflict- but isn't it always strange how many supporters of Muslim-majority societies are the very people who couldn't live there themselves?)
I'd always associated Turner with nautical images, discovering recently that, towards the end of his life,he created an impressionistic piece of one the lesser celebrated parts of scripture, The Angel Standing In The Sun, from the 19th chapter of Apocalypse.
Commentators have said that some of the shadowy figures represent Adam and Eve and possibly human or infant sacrifice, or maybe Cain with people from a subculture he created; distant birds of prey can be noticed also.
Appropriate or inappropriate that an award in his name might actually celebrate the same fall and decadence of the human family that they seem to favour?
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Post by Séamus on Jan 3, 2024 11:56:43 GMT
I had been unaware, before the media attention that followed her abdication speech on Sunday, that Queen Margrethe of Denmark was an illustrator in her own right,once creating black and white images for a Danish edition of Lord of the Rings in the 1970s. She seemed to favour the Éowyn-type scenes- person vs reptilian beast seemed to feature in other examples of her art also.
Even granting that she came to the throne during the Cold War in a nation close to the Iron Curtain,she had a long and relatively peaceful reign- one wonders why she favours such dark-against-light dualistic creations?
There's a detail in a 17th century painting (Rest During the Flight Into Egypt and the Slaughter of the Innocents by 'Il Genovesino') that might be missed in most imaging of the scene- one cherub has taken a break from adoration to make sure the donkey gets it's nourishment. It didn't take modern organisations to decide that this was a necessary part of humanity.
AustraliaPost has issued a small stamp series on extinct animals- the images used are by John Gould's classic 1863 book, still perhaps the most famous collection of Australian mammals drawings ever. An interesting point is that one of the three drawings was also used a few decades ago by AustraliaPost for an endangered mammals issue,not a nice development (but maybe one of the dark issues now facing mankind that Margrethe II likes to symbolically portray.)
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Post by Séamus on Jan 9, 2024 3:31:33 GMT
"Pressure in a 750ml bottle of sparkling wine is about three times that of a standard car tyre.
The cork can travel to the eye in less than 0.05 seconds, making blinking useless.
Ethan Waisberg and colleagues from Cambridge University's department of ophthalmology say [that labelling bottles with warnings] may seem cautious but cork eye injuries are an often overlooked and a substantial threat to optical health." journo,n.massey
whatever of people's New Year champagne cracking, seeing Britain's 2024 New Year honours and noting the two MN campaigning former-rugby players being honoured by Charles3 with CBEs, I couldn't help speculating how much input came from the widely published photo or photos of Kevin Sinfield carrying his motor neurone-victim friend over the line at a fundraising marathon; it certainly epitomizes the power of an image, whether or not Rob Burrow was physically carried for more than the snapshot or whether or not he is even emotionally carried by his one-time teammate any more than by family or others around him.
Will be in bronze some day I'd imagine.
A century after many people in Ireland debated the removal of Nelson's Column,or Nelson himself, from Dubliner centre, the British have themselves considered the same about similar monuments across the Irish Sea, due to alleged association that the general had with slavery- but some historians have pointed to the presence of African marines fighting alongside Horatio on the plaques attached to some of these obelisks- apparently an historically accurate attitude to emancipated slaves.
It's always interesting to remember that John Paul's 1990s Catechism finished it's section on the Eighth Commandment, bearing false witness, with a couple of paragraphs about art.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 9, 2024 9:13:50 GMT
"Pressure in a 750ml bottle of sparkling wine is about three times that of a standard car tyre. The cork can travel to the eye in less than 0.05 seconds, making blinking useless. Ethan Waisberg and colleagues from Cambridge University's department of ophthalmology say [that labelling bottles with warnings] may seem cautious but cork eye injuries are an often overlooked and a substantial threat to optical health." journo,n.massey whatever of people's New Year champagne cracking, seeing Britain's 2024 New Year honours and noting the two MN campaigning former-rugby players being honoured by Charles2 with CBEs, I couldn't help speculating how much input came from the widely published photo or photos of Kevin Sinfield carrying his motor neurone-victim friend over the line at a fundraising marathon; it certainly epitomizes the power of an image, whether or not Rob Burrow was physically carried for more than the snapshot or whether or not he is even emotionally carried by his one-time teammate any more than by family or others around him. Will be in bronze some day I'd imagine. A century after many people in Ireland debated the removal of Nelson's Column,or Nelson himself, from Dubliner centre, the British have themselves considered the same about similar monuments across the Irish Sea, due to alleged association that the general had with slavery- but some historians have pointed to the presence of African marines fighting alongside Horatio on the plaques attached to some of these obelisks- apparently an historically accurate attitude to emancipated slaves. It's always interesting to remember that John Paul's 1990s Catechism finished it's section on the Eighth Commandment, bearing false witness, with a couple of paragraphs about art. Well, Nelson was obviously an LGBTQXZW*$!! hero as well, with his famous "Kiss me, Hardy" line. Obviously after giving his life for England, he decided to die with a gesture of homosexual liberation on his lips. Not to mention Hardy's. |
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Post by Séamus on Jan 10, 2024 8:03:31 GMT
"Pressure in a 750ml bottle of sparkling wine is about three times that of a standard car tyre. The cork can travel to the eye in less than 0.05 seconds, making blinking useless. Ethan Waisberg and colleagues from Cambridge University's department of ophthalmology say [that labelling bottles with warnings] may seem cautious but cork eye injuries are an often overlooked and a substantial threat to optical health." journo,n.massey whatever of people's New Year champagne cracking, seeing Britain's 2024 New Year honours and noting the two MN campaigning former-rugby players being honoured by Charles2 with CBEs, I couldn't help speculating how much input came from the widely published photo or photos of Kevin Sinfield carrying his motor neurone-victim friend over the line at a fundraising marathon; it certainly epitomizes the power of an image, whether or not Rob Burrow was physically carried for more than the snapshot or whether or not he is even emotionally carried by his one-time teammate any more than by family or others around him. Will be in bronze some day I'd imagine. A century after many people in Ireland debated the removal of Nelson's Column,or Nelson himself, from Dubliner centre, the British have themselves considered the same about similar monuments across the Irish Sea, due to alleged association that the general had with slavery- but some historians have pointed to the presence of African marines fighting alongside Horatio on the plaques attached to some of these obelisks- apparently an historically accurate attitude to emancipated slaves. It's always interesting to remember that John Paul's 1990s Catechism finished it's section on the Eighth Commandment, bearing false witness, with a couple of paragraphs about art. Well, Nelson was obviously an LGBTQXZW*$!! hero as well, with his famous "Kiss me, Hardy" line. Obviously after giving his life for England, he decided to die with a gesture of homosexual liberation on his lips. Not to mention Hardy's. Probably wasn't appropriate in sculpture at any rate. |
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Post by Séamus on Jan 16, 2024 3:34:27 GMT
Tomorrow is the feast of Anthony of Egypt, who unwittingly led the way to Surrealism via Hieronymus Bosch, who went to town depicting the hermit's diabolical visions in a way that, if it didn't influence Dali centuries later, would have certainly left him green with surrealist-envy.
In a similar vein it is due to circumstances too bizarre to relate,that I've had to look through images of St Anne last week.
After admiring anew Bartolomé Murillo's powerful Anne teaching the young Mary- I can only imagine what it is to see it in person- I rediscovered what I had always thought was a Flemish or Dutch Anne and Joachim at the Golden Gate; turns out Frier was Swiss.
It was worth refocusing on- after a superficial look it's simply an unrealistic image of two people dressed in high-renaissance finery who can't possibly look more different than two Jews in the time of the Roman Empire...but rediscovering the beauty of the two stately figures intertwined in each other's arms,perhaps it depicts the soul of realty more than any anthropologically correct image could. Without the robes-of-state dress the unity wouldn't be the same.
I'm not sure who the two witnesses are- a sour-looking woman in regal dress and a very opposite benign-looking man in worker's clothes. Perhaps two opposites were needed to show contrast to the very complimentary couple.
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Post by Tomas on Jan 30, 2024 9:59:31 GMT
 This painting speaks of the difference in between centuries. How could we claim to be better off in a world where chickens are fed stucked up in thousands, as if factories where not made for steel and industry only? |
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