Balinese paintings, at some I shot a section only. Shot 2010 in Ubud (Bali, Indonesia), known to be the center of Balinese Art.
Henry H Parker (1858-1930) Dunkheld & Birnam from Craigibarns Sleeping Waters, The River Wey By the Mill More here
just a nice story, to go with the painting, in the late eighteenhundreds, when monet was pennyless and not famous, he went to the stationmaster of a paris railway station, telling the man that he was monet the famous painter, and had the man shunt the trains so that he could make his paintings.. to his eternal fame, the station master swallowed that line, so we now have some paintings we would otherwise not have had.. [ i hope even r29k likes it..]
It doesn't 'impress' me much as well. I like some more colorful paintings of nature he did. (his water lilies and garden)
those are much later works, yen, i know them well.. but i still prefer those gare st.lazare things; the soot of the industrial revolution caught blackhanded, like.... this is really what impressionism was about, imho..
Maybe I am not that familiar with impressionism, I just decide from my gut feeling what I like. I actually prefer surrealism. But no doubt he has been one of the greatest artists of history.
a man has no better yardstick, yen.. i happen to like the impression [sic] created, for what it implies, and for what it showed.. but if someone differs in opinion, like r29k, that is a-okay by me..
I mean there are very nice pictures with water colors and i like them a lot,but in other hand there are these pictures where they draw two lines and a circle and people buy them for 1-2-3 million dollars,maybe i´m crazy,i dunno... This is ok and looks nice and takes more than 2 min:
The way I look at art, it has to be beautiful to me and if it reminds me of something even better. The last 3 images I posted, the first one reminds me of Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, there is a little road leading out part of the Imperial city and the view from high up is some what like that. The second pic reminds me of a creek I traveled up a couple of times right here in South America. The third has a mill, I have never seen an old water mill in real life before and I love the scenery that accompanies it.
nothing wrong with that, r29k, as for water mills, i saw a great many of those, in holland and in germany, and i love them.. it is a centuries old technology, that just works. and yes, they create a beautifull scenery, just because they exist, and if some artist depicts that, there is very little he can do wrong, i think..
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” sold for $119.9 million at a Sotheby’s (US:BID) auction in New York, outstripping estimates of $80 million for the work, according to reports. The 1895 painting by the Norwegian expressionist depicts a terrified man holding his cheeks along an Oslo fjord. The sale exceeded the $106.5 million paid for Pablo Picasso’s 1932 work, “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” bought at a Christie’s auction in 2010. Yesterday the most expensive artwork was sold for incredibly 119 million US dollars Don´t know if you look at the picture and for how much it was sold,i don´t honestly get it. Maybe i´m crazy or i don´t understand what true art is
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