The Keswick one is so relaxing and nice to look at, especially when I enlarge it so I can see the detail. The brushwork is really nice, and the clouds, sea, sand, everything is glistening with a delicate silvery sheen. I was at the seashore back last month, and this makes me wish I were back! I see that there are several of this artist's paintings for sale online.
I just wish I could date it. At one point I thought it was from the 60s, but I'm really not sure. It could be from the 90s or brand new for all I know!
And that Turner one is so Romantically and terrifyingly dark and stormy and powerful. You can just feel the turbulence and danger—all underneath that tranquil, glimmering moon—which the clouds, however, threaten to obscure.
I wonder what the size of the original is? And what is the size of the Keswick painting?
The Keswick painting is 50 inches wide and 38 inches tall, including the frame. The original Fishermen At Sea, according to art-facts.com, is 36" x 48.125".
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
I just wish I could date it. At one point I thought it was from the 60s, but I'm really not sure. It could be from the 90s or brand new for all I know!
I saw a reference to one from the 80's and another in the 70's.
...I like to pretend that the the Keswick one depicts a mother and daughter waiting at the shore for their husband/father, but in the meantime he is battling a big storm.
Maybe he's busy fighting the storm in the Turner painting!
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show
a fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
and celluloid heroes never really die...
...I like to pretend that the the Keswick one depicts a mother and daughter waiting at the shore for their husband/father, but in the meantime he is battling a big storm.
Maybe he's busy fighting the storm in the Turner painting!
That's what I meant
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show
a fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
and celluloid heroes never really die...
Speaking of abstracts, here's one by Picasso, Still Life (1922). This one (unlike much of Picasso's work) has a calming, restful quality about it to me. I read an interesting Smithsonian article about another Picasso painting discovered underneath this one.
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Your painting is very pretty! It is very 1960s to me. I love the thinness of it, if that makes sense at all to you.
You trying to tell me you didn't hear that shriek? That was something trying to get out of its premature grave, and I don't want to be here when it does. - Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
I've been looking around at some more of Kazimir Malevich's works.
I learned he was the origin of the Suprematism movement. Information: "What a viewer sees in a work belonging to Suprematism is simplicity and reduction. The main interest of the artists was to search for the so-called zero degree of painting, the point beyond which the medium could not go without ceasing to be art. As a consequence, they used extremely simple motifs, subjects and forms."
Here is a Malevich Composition suprémiste from 1936. I like how the long thin lines act as a connection and make the whole thing appear to be balancing somehow, regardless of gravity.
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