gip and pic

[lobelia321]

GIP = Alexander Sacharoff by Alexei Jawlensky (cropped)

Note: Sacharoff was a man. He was a dancer in Munich at the beginning of the 20th C. Alexei Jawlensky painted him. He was the boyfriend of Marianne Werefkin who is my favourite woman painter. All three were Russian ex-pats in Munich, along with Vassily Kandinsky (whom I also love). I'm not sure who my favourite man painter is but my favourite painting is Velazquez's Las Meninas. But that is OT.

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[novanumbernine.livejournal.com]

*is always up for an interesting art post*

hmmm. i think my favourite painting must be "the arnolfini marriage". quite a trad choice for someone who deals with contemporary technology- and event-based stuff, but there is much to love about it. i always have to run into the national and just stand there grinning inanely at it if i'm ever passing by.

n.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Arnolfini Wedding is a divinely fabulous painting, and I adore it. And it's not at all a traditional choice. I completely disagree with the view that anything 'old' (which seems to mean anything before 1999 in particular and anything before the 20th C. in general, with the exception of the Impressionists) is 'staid', if that is what you imply by traditional. I love tradition, much as I love fanon, and I love the tradition of art because the tradition of art is simply the history of art. And Van Eyck is a completely radical painter, more thoughtful, interesting and philosophically far-fetching than anyone of the last 50 years.

[novanumbernine.livejournal.com]

*lol*

i guess it's because i am much more familiar with post-WW2 art than any other period that i feel it's an odd choice. even though it's still my choice, of course. :)

hmm. i do feel that - sadly - painting is a dying tradition, along with drawing. and the kids coming out of the art schools now are themselves being taught by tutors who cannot really paint, or draw. *moan moan*

kind of interesting that one of my very favourite contemporary artists is bill viola, who in many ways has a very painterly approach to video installation...

n.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Today we had a seminar on 'is painting dead'? I can't tell you the answer, though. My own opinion? Yup.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

P.S. That's why I'm a 19th-century babe.

[novanumbernine.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't go so far as to say that painting is dead, but it's definitely pretty damn poorly.

n.x ;)

[maralily.livejournal.com]

I like that very much. It has a hundred different stories in it.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you should see the original... *sighs*

The colour alone.