Art Lovers discussion

So this folder will probably only contain one thread. Anyone can post whatever piece of art they happen to see, or remember, or think about and share it with the rest of us. If you so desire, you may explain why you shared that particular piece.

It doesn't have to be famous or expensive art, just a piece (or pieces) you want to post.

Let's see what we come up with!

Rhyme No. 1
Robert Delaunay
1938

Ellen Dittebrandt

Silver Rain
Yelena Sidorova

Art by Hazel Zakariya

She “paints” beautiful art on smoothie bowls using natural ingredients.

Amalie wrote: "Art by Hazel Zakariya

She “paints” beautiful art on smoothie bowls using natural ingredients.

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I love these! Thank you for sharing, Amalie! Question: What is a "smoothie bowl"?

Here you go, Heather.

A smoothie bowl

Amalie wrote: "Here you go, Heather.

A smoothie bowl"

What? So she paints those ON a smoothie then you eat it? What a waste!

Well, I don't think it would be very appetizing, but it wouldn't last either.

Hi everyone,
I know this thread hasn't been used in quite sometime, but I have been thinking about Picasso's Guernica (1937) a lot.


I am sure this was spurred by recent events in Ukraine. I am reminded of time being cyclical, and that really great art is timeless.

Divvy wrote: "Hi everyone,
I know this thread hasn't been used in quite sometime, but I have been thinking about Picasso's Guernica (1937) a lot.


I am sure this was spurred by recent events in Ukraine. I am ..."

Thanks for posting this Divvy.
It’s indeed a powerful reminder of the horrors of war.
Let’s hope and prey that the conflict is soon over.
Ukraine is not near Belgium but it’s not that far either.
Measured in American distances it’s about the same as New York to New Orleans or Dallas to Los Angeles.

Divvy wrote: "Hi everyone,
I know this thread hasn't been used in quite sometime, but I have been thinking about Picasso's Guernica (1937) a lot.


I am sure this was spurred by recent events in Ukraine. I am ..."

Like Dirk, Thank you for posting this Davina! This really is a powerful painting and reminder of the atrocities of war. No wonder it's been on your mind.
I truly hope this conflict is over soon, and over peacefully for all involved. I hope it doesn't involve other nations, but I hope for peace for those nations already involved. It's such a sad state of affairs. It's difficult not to think about war at this time.

The Surrender of Breda
Diego Velázquez
1634-1635

Battle of Chesma at Night
Ivan Aivazovsky
1848

...Attending school there (Simferopol, the capital of the province of Theodosia, a Black Sea Port), Ivan's circle of friends expanded to include the son of Natalia Feodorovna Naryshkin, a woman with links to the Russian nobility who took a liking to Ivan and helped him secure a six-year scholarship to the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

Sixteen-year-old Ivan's week-long journey to St. Petersburg, across the Ukrainian steppes to Moscow and on to the splendid city experiencing its golden age, must have felt to Aivazovsky like a great breakthrough. He would make good use of the opportunity, even though he found the Academy's training rigidly formal and its social protocols unfamiliar. A report that he spent a lot of time in the Academy's sickbay with chest pains suggests that Aivazovsky was not entirely happy in St. Petersburg, but he worked hard and coped better with the pressure when he was put into the landscape class of Maxim Nikiforovich Vorobiov. His new teacher was a fiddle player like Aivazovsky (who had taught himself to play at the age of ten), and Vorobiov's interest in "atmosphere" in painting appealed to his young student.

More...https://www.theartstory.org/artist/ai...

Divvy wrote: "Hi everyone,
I know this thread hasn't been used in quite sometime, but I have been thinking about Picasso's Guernica (1937) a lot.


I am sure this was spurred by recent events in Ukraine. I am ..."

And...Welcome back, or Hi if you're just stopping by, Divvy! Good to see you! I'm glad you opened another thread. Thank you!