If you like art
 

Just found this channel that gives the history and details of great art and have watched a few. Very interesting and informative. Two that I really liked.

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Thank you for this tip, Shaun. I will spend some time watching these.

+1 - I'll definitely enjoy these. Thanks!

I have some really good art painted on Velvet...the Elvis is my fav...

Dogs playing poker is mine.

Good grief does that ever bring back memories of Thanksgiving at my uncle's house.

I'm guessing Fat Elvis in a caftan?

Who wouldn't like Art? He's a nice guy.

Saw this in Amsterdam.

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Leonard is getting lonely, Tabs, if you’re ever interested in thinning your inventory of velvets.

Like a Jackson Pollock?

I watched the first video. Amazing how much preparation Hopper put into a painting. Every tiny detail in the painting had a purpose.

Van Gogh is one of my favorite painters. Went to Paris two years ago just to see his work, and eat.

I have a few hundred pics like this.

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Shaun,

Thank you for sharing the links. Edward Hopper is one of my favorite artists.

Even though Van Gogh’s pictures are beautiful in themselves, their true genius lies in what Vincent was trying to say. The letters between he and brother Theo provide unprecedented insight into his thinking process and his emotional turmoil.

Vincent was not only an artistic genius, he was also an intellectual giant and very much ahead of his time.

There are numerous examples in his correspondence predicting exactly how his art would come to be appreciated and precisely the magnitude of that appreciation.

He not infrequently discusses how he would some day lead the entire world to a new way of seeing, feeling and expressing.

Very well worth the time to watch. Thanks Shaun.

Having spent many hours appreciating and studying the visual arts, I have to limit my exposure because of a mysterious agitation that creeps up.

I’ve come to understand this agitation as being the result of the conflict between inspiration and frustration. To me, Vincent will always be a hero because he persevered with a singularity of purpose that I find incomprehensible yet profoundly optimistic because, yes, indeed it can be done.

Those who are feeling more ambitious may go here:

https://kupdf.net/download/gombrich-the-story-of-art_58f51a00dc0d602b39da9848_pdf

(at least read the introduction)

and here:

https://www.scribd.com/document/351945663/Gombrich-1961-Art-and-Illusion-Princeton-Univ-Pr-1984-pdf

I dated a girl for four years that earned a fine art degree (this was while she was earning it). It helps even the most heathen guy to absorb a little bit of fistication.