October 6, 2008

[Niveous]

DRC: It's been a wacky day full of a lot of IT stuff, many conversations on Kimbo "The Hype is Over" Slice, a strange nightmare, and learning about the onders of Zoltan Chaney. You need to see Zoltan Chaney on YouTube.

QotD: Do you have a favorite painting?

[roymond]

QotD: When I worked at Time Inc. we could get into MOMA for free, so going for 20 minutes during lunch or just to clear the head was easy. I spent a lot of time sitting in front of Kandinsky paintings, like this one (not his geometric ones). Then I'd go back to the office feeling like I had a mini vacation.

[jimtyrrell]

I don't spend much time in galleries or anything, but I've always loved this painting. Well, since I first heard of it in a Scott Mccloud book on comics, anyway.

[Spud]

I am fortunate enough to own many of my favorites, which are, of course, by people that I know. I should photograph my collection sometime, if only for insurance purposes. Never had a painting stolen. YET. I will post a few here later.

[HeuristicsInc]

I don't spend much time in galleries or anything, but I've always loved this painting. Well, since I first heard of it in a Scott Mccloud book on comics, anyway.

er, it may be modern art so i can't be sure, but is that painting just grey with two triangles?

dunno about favorite painting... i like lots of paintings. some of my favorites were done by my great-grandfather and i have several of his in my house.
-bill

[Paco Del Stinko]

Ha! The big N. It took me a minute. I don't know what my favorite is, but this is one of them. It's at the MFA in Boston. Her lover's head is in the pot. Isabella and the Pot of Basil.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I don't know Art, but I know his sister *budump bump*
I've always liked more geometrical stuff for some reason. I've always liked Nagel.

[JonPorobil]

Brugel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus comes to mind. But of course, that's relatively famous.

Years ago, I saw an obscure painting in a museum in North Carolina, and though I've never seen it in person again, it stuck with me. Roger Brown's American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes. Looking it up tonight was the first time I've seen it since then.

[king_arthur]

When I visited NYC (1988), I came across Balthus' "Therese" in the Met.

http://artchive.com/artchive/B/balthus/ ... e.jpg.html

On that same visit, I think I spent 45 minutes sitting in front of Renoir's "In the Meadow."

http://www.overstockart.com/inmeadow.html

It doesn't look particularly impressive on that webpage, but seeing the real thing in the museum, it just absolutely glowed. I have seen many photos, reproductions, posters, etc. of this painting, and it is apparently really difficult to capture the true colors...

Charles

[fluffy]

My grandmother (on my father's side) was a potter and an illustrator. During her career she was pretty prolific and was part of the art-pottery renaissance in Chicago. I have one of her pots. It is very nice. I wish I could have gotten to know her better when she was still alive. She died when I was 11, and most of the time I knew her she was more of a lurking presence in the back of my grandpa's house as she'd been battling emphysema for years. I do remember her teaching me to play chess when I was 6 or 7 or so, but even back then she was very impatient and sickly.

A few months ago I interviewed my grandpa to preserve his voice and stories, and he eventually talked about her for a bit. She sounded like I'd have gotten along with her really well.