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Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 12:04pm

There is no Yarts board so I start this here, under what comes closest to the Yarts. This is the 'what are you looking at' thread....

I spent a few days on the South Coast earlier this week and was thinking of the difficulty of painting seascapes well. Of course everyone does it in seaside towns, the shops and holiday rentals are full of them but they are mostly simple or kitchy or ofherwise unsuccessful. Seascapes, like sunsets and sunrises, are irresistable but very hard to paint well.

Turner's seascapes are famous and wonderful but one of my favourites is by one of my favourite painters, Courbet, The Seaside at Palavas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seaside_at_Palavas#/media/File%3AGustave_Cou...

Readers are invited to nominate their favourite seascape paintings - or indeed paintings on any other subject.

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Mr Hammer Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 25212 Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #1 - Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 12:41pm i nominate Friedrich's 'Wanderer above the sea of fog' before anyone else.
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 52645 Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #2 - Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 4:54pm Mr Hammer wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 12:41pm: i nominate Friedrich's 'Wanderer above the sea of fog' before anyone else. That's the one on the cover of the Penguin Nietzsche Reader.
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Re: Paintings
Reply #3 - Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 6:31pm

Frank wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 12:04pm:

There is no Yarts board so I start this here, under what comes closest to the Yarts. This is the 'what are you looking at' thread....

I spent a few days on the South Coast earlier this week and was thinking of the difficulty of painting seascapes well. Of course everyone does it in seaside towns, the shops and holiday rentals are full of them but they are mostly simple or kitchy or ofherwise unsuccessful. Seascapes, like sunsets and sunrises, are irresistable but very hard to paint well.

Turner's seascapes are famous and wonderful but one of my favourites is by one of my favourite painters, Courbet, The Seaside at Palavas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seaside_at_Palavas#/media/File%3AGustave_Cou...

Readers are invited to nominate their favourite seascape paintings - or indeed paintings on any other subject.

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thats beautiful frank yet so simple I do a bit of painting ..have a loooooong way to go....but it can be very rewarding however the sea is really hard...or any water for that matter most ocean painting are done using photos I do have a seascape its not bad but not that great either...lol...

Winslow Homers the herring net is gorgeous I think.

Turner had a way with history seeing his work at the National Gallery was a treat,

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Reply #4 - Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 7:23pm

cods wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 6:31pm:

Frank wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 12:04pm:

There is no Yarts board so I start this here, under what comes closest to the Yarts. This is the 'what are you looking at' thread....

I spent a few days on the South Coast earlier this week and was thinking of the difficulty of painting seascapes well. Of course everyone does it in seaside towns, the shops and holiday rentals are full of them but they are mostly simple or kitchy or ofherwise unsuccessful. Seascapes, like sunsets and sunrises, are irresistable but very hard to paint well.

Turner's seascapes are famous and wonderful but one of my favourites is by one of my favourite painters, Courbet, The Seaside at Palavas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seaside_at_Palavas#/media/File%3AGustave_Cou...

Readers are invited to nominate their favourite seascape paintings - or indeed paintings on any other subject.

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thats beautiful frank yet so simple I do a bit of painting ..have a loooooong way to go....but it can be very rewarding however the sea is really hard...or any water for that matter most ocean painting are done using photos I do have a seascape its not bad but not that great either...lol...

Winslow Homers the herring net is gorgeous I think.

Turner had a way with history seeing his work at the National Gallery was a treat,

That is a wonderful painting, the herring net.
As with Courbet and the others, having a human element in the painting might be what makes a seascape great. It illustrates the scale of difference between us and the sea.

But then you look at Arthur Streeton's an Impression from the Deep and in Australia you instantly get it.
http://z5p8x8m2.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arthur-Streeton-An-Impression-from-the-Deep-1889-AGSA.jpg

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Re: Paintings
Reply #5 - Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 7:27pm

Frank wrote on Oct 2^nd, 2020 at 12:04pm:

There is no Yarts board so I start this here, under what comes closest to the Yarts. This is the 'what are you looking at' thread....

I spent a few days on the South Coast earlier this week and was thinking of the difficulty of painting seascapes well. Of course everyone does it in seaside towns, the shops and holiday rentals are full of them but they are mostly simple or kitchy or ofherwise unsuccessful. Seascapes, like sunsets and sunrises, are irresistable but very hard to paint well.

Turner's seascapes are famous and wonderful but one of my favourites is by one of my favourite painters, Courbet, The Seaside at Palavas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seaside_at_Palavas#/media/File%3AGustave_Cou...

Readers are invited to nominate their favourite seascape paintings - or indeed paintings on any other subject.

Thanks, 'Turners' are great paintings.
I love art

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Ayn Marx Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2937 South of Australia Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #6 - Dec 23^rd, 2020 at 9:06am https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/ivan-aivazovsky-part-2-the-ma ster-of-seascapes/
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 53070 Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #7 - Dec 23^rd, 2020 at 6:10pm Here's a nice harmonious Sydney of early colonists and aboriginals just doing their thing... until one Free Settler with the American Right to have a gun, broke the silence with one odd angry shot.
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Ayn Marx Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2937 South of Australia Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #8 - Dec 23^rd, 2020 at 7:34pm Can images be inserted here from the desktop or must they be held somewhere out on the web? Think I just answered my own question. The attached work by Carrivagio has me in two minds. On one level it’s a brilliant portrait but knowing the artist was prone to pedophilia sours my appreciation.
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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #9 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 5:53pm I like the Dunk Island school, especially Noel Wood's work.
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Reply #10 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 7:30pm

I think i will always prefer Renaissance and classical style paintings,
to the impressionist style.

Though i do like Monet's paintings.

I had a youth hosteling tour [with a friend] through Italy/Europe in 1970's. [mainly Italy]

We went to every gallery and museum we came across.

The art galleries completely spoiled me for the beauty and detail in many of the Renaissance and classical paintings on display.

What a fabulous time we had.

We [i personally] won't see those days again.

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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #11 - Dec 26^th, 2020 at 8:52am Sharing interest in the Tropical North with the Dunk Island school, here is one by the great Ray Crooke of a scene at TI.
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Neferti Gold Member Offline Posts: 7965 Canberra Gender:	Re: Paintings Reply #12 - Dec 26^th, 2020 at 9:26am How about Tom Roberts, an Australian artist.
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