Favorite classical painters

[hatredisnotavalue]

I was so moved when I saw this Seurat painting on temporary display at the Boston Museum of Art. This is a bad representation of the actual painting, but the original was just so beautiful.

[Longgrain]

1. Gauguin...

When I was an art student in Boston I spent hours looking at this one...

[hatredisnotavalue]

4. big fan of Gauguin

Did you ever make it over to the Gardiner Museum to see the Renoirs?.

[Longgrain]

5. A couple times....

I also used to go to the Fogg Museum on the Harvard campus. Did you know it's the third or forth largest art collection in the country, yet only one tenth of their works are on display!

[hatredisnotavalue]

6. I did not know that...

Why aren't these works displayed?

[Longgrain]

7. There was an article about it in the Boston Globe

last week...

They are not displayed because there is just not enough space in the Fogg Museum...

Most of them are just left in storage...:shrug:

[hatredisnotavalue]

8. That is too sad...

There is plenty of room in my house for them..as I am sure you could move a couple of pieces of art work in your home to make way for them. :) What about hanging them in public libraries or schools or government buildings?

[Longgrain]

12. Actually since you brought it up

There is an original painting by Norman Rockwell that is owned by a public school in my hometown...assested to be worth several hundreds of dollars...

I live in a small, industrial town in North Central MA...It's amazing the art that comes from here...

[hatredisnotavalue]

13. I know what you mean

I live in Maine, have you ever heard of the Farnsworth Museum?
http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/

Extensive collection of Wyeth paintings.

[Longgrain]

15. Yow! I almost went to art school in Maine...

Not to be vain...but the local community college owns one of my paintings...

[hatredisnotavalue]

16. No way..that is so cool...

I knew there was something I liked about you:)

[Longgrain]

17. Thanks here's another...

It hangs in my parents house...damned if anyone wants it...

(p.s. a portion of it can be seen in my Sig line photo...)



This was the painting that did me in as an artist...

[hatredisnotavalue]

18. Wonderful!

I bet you sold the railroad painting to Westbrook College. Am I right? They have a tremendous program buying art that they feel deserves to be promoted.

What is the name of the piece in your parent's house? Holy Toledo it is very good. Can you tell me how you were inspired to create it?
Such talented people on DU !

[Longgrain]

20. The railroad painting is at Mount Wachusett Community College

in Gardner MA...

The big one is entitled "If this were August; This would be perfect."

I still don't have a really good photo of it (Like I said, it's huge)

but here's a scan from a local newspaper artical...



And a photo from when it was still a work-in-progress...

[mark414]

19. longgrain i love your paintings

even the weird ones!

[Longgrain]

21. Thanks for the encouragement

I'm starting to get back into it again after a long hiatus. I have the support of fellow DUers like you to thank. :hi:

[mark414]

22. glad to hear that

i've never said anything about them before but damn they're incredible

[Wwagsthedog]

2. Vermeer..........

We actually went Den Haag in Nov to see The Girl With The Pearl Earing. Beautiful art from so long ago.

Need another hit pretty soon.

[hatredisnotavalue]

3. I bet it was absolutely beautiful n/t

[Wwagsthedog]

9. NW Europe is a tresuretrove of art.

We spent four weeks, after the restoration of king george, in France and Amsterdam. And we could go back for another month and still did not see it all.

Spent a week in/around Amsterdam. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

Go there!

[CottonBear]

10. A Boticelli in a round frame at the Uffizi in Florence.

I forget the name (my bad - former art history major). It is a Madonna (Boticelli's muse/model - you know her - riding in on a clam shell to the beach!) surrounded by beautiful young boy cherubs. She is wearing a pink gown. I sat, awestruck, on a bench in front of this painting for almost 40 minutes! It was so beautiful. The Uffizi is amazing.

[hatredisnotavalue]

11. I know of the painting

that must have been so inspiring to see it for real.

[CottonBear]

14. It was beyond inspiring.

I had never seen that painting in any book. It was a total amazing surprise. Boticelli painted a lace veil over her dress. She was so real it was if she might step out of the beautiful gilded frame at any moment. He must have loved her very much to paint her with such genius.