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.

I enjoyed that video. Nice quality production.

I was referred to a woman that needed a car, maybe 20 years ago. She had left the corporate world to a painter, and painted with oil based crayons. Beautiful stuff, with a recurring theme of "Cabin Fever," with duets of cabins or cabins flying in the air upside down. She is good- had won the Sausalito Art Festival painting division twice in a row, and one year Best in Show. She was prepared to trade in her VW squareback and put the rest on a credit card for another used car. I hooked her up with a killer deal on a Ford Escort wagon 2 year lease, and she bought it at the end. We are very casual friends, and I've gotten a couple of pieces from her. This was from a limited run of prints of a wine label she did.

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This popped up today, well worth 20 minutes of any art lover's time.

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Really good videos, I am now subscribed to the channel, thanks for sharing.

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Ohh I am...just have to get around to it..

I am a cheap SoB, but I am your SoB. And I do have a lot of bare wall space . . .

You're inspirational! after reading your post I went on line and ordered a velvet Elvis. I'm not kidding. A full 24" Elvis hand painted on velvet. My wife said "you ordered what?"
It will make for the perfect gift. I know just who it's going to and I'm sure it will be re gifted over and over bringing shock and awe every time. I'll hang it in the house first just to get a rise out of the wife (it won't be there for long). I love the poker dogs too, hmm

Absorbing a bit of fistication.
I hope that is more fun than it sounds. Because it sounds eyewatering.
Did she bring a tear to your eye, you heathen? :D

I love the way you think.:)

PM me

You said it before I could say it.

I offered you that J Opper for around 1k...that went so fast to a guy in NYC that it would make your head spin. He thought it was fabulous.

What is with the blacked out pics on the first page?

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Thanks Shaun, excellent find

Van Gogh must have used A LOT of paint by working in "impasto".

I commissioned this piece based on a very large version hanging for sale at a local bistro. Unfortunately, the artist changed the dynamite sticks into a grenade and zoomed in on the T-Rex. It doesn't look as good, but what can you do. It was cheap. I like the "never give up" quality of it.

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there's a version of the never give up attitude showing a frog in an eagles mouth but with one hand around the birds throat.

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Man cave art. Poker dogs and velvet Elvis flanking the 75" TV with the easy rider rifle rack hanging nearby

Hideous, all of it.

There’s an exhibition of his olive grove paintings in Dallas right now, about a week and a half left to go. There’s also an exhibition of Turner paintings, in Fort Worth.

Pete Beard does a great job on narration of historic artists
 

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