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Reply #150 - Jan 11th, 2021 at 5:23pm
 
Colonials were given the name “diggers” by the British, because many of them came to Australia to do just that. Here is Hobson's Bay at the Height of the Gold Rush. When the diggers arrived in the fastest sailing ships ever built.




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Reply #151 - Jan 12th, 2021 at 9:40am
 
Being reminded of early Australian lanscapes has me remembering a dismissive judgement I made of early Tasmanian scenes. Until I moved to Tasmania, and experienced for myself the light in autumn, I took images such as the one below (Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent, 1875 WC Piguenit) to be over romanticised. No, the light in autumn and spring here really is ‘romantic’.


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Reply #152 - Jan 13th, 2021 at 8:03pm
 
This thread has triggered a lot of memories of paintings I became aware of at a very early age and the effect they had. The scene below (Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio, 1854-55) puzzled me, especially the old man on the right staring at the models buns. The weirdly ambiguous background is almost dreamlike and to  this day still makes no sense unless it’s an attempt at illustrating the artist’s sub-conscious. Must read up on it..

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Reply #153 - Jan 14th, 2021 at 7:41am
 
Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 13th, 2021 at 8:03pm:
This thread has triggered a lot of memories of paintings I became aware of at a very early age and the effect they had. The scene below (Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio, 1854-55) puzzled me, especially the old man on the right staring at the models buns. The weirdly ambiguous background is almost dreamlike and to  this day still makes no sense unless it’s an attempt at illustrating the artist’s sub-conscious. Must read up on it..


They are all people from Courbet's life. Baudelaire is reading on the far right.

I started this thread with a Courbet painting. He was prolific across genres. Along with Klee, my personal favourite.

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Reply #154 - Jan 14th, 2021 at 9:03am
 
Frank wrote on Jan 14th, 2021 at 7:41am:
They are all people from Courbet's life. Baudelaire is reading on the far right.

Thanks ,but I was hoping someone could identify the old bugger on the right oggling the models buns. Strange were the fine arts can take one’s curiosity.

As to Klee I’m conflicted. I find some of his work fun but others make me feel I should be standing on my head to view them (see below)
Reminds me of an evening spent viewing high definition slides of Roger Kemps work. Every so often his wife would chime in  ‘Darling, you’ve got it upside down’.
Him ‘It doesn’t matter’. 

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Reply #155 - Jan 14th, 2021 at 9:20am
 
It's Champfleury,  among the first to recognise Courber's talent. Here's a clise-up.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-courbet/portrait-of-champfleury-1855

A photo of him.
https://xn--rpubliquedeslettres-bzb.fr/champfleury-9782824901152.php
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Reply #156 - Jan 14th, 2021 at 10:29am
 
Frank wrote on Jan 14th, 2021 at 9:20am:
It's Champfleury,  among the first to recognise Courber's talent. Here's a clise-up.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-courbet/portrait-of-champfleury-1855

A photo of him.
https://xn--rpubliquedeslettres-bzb.fr/champfleury-9782824901152.php


Thanks for the links but they don’t answer my suspicion that Courbet was simply suggesting Chamfleury was in some way a voyeur.
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Reply #157 - Jan 14th, 2021 at 1:27pm
 
I find Paul Klee's work interesting, but I don't spend a lot of time on his 2 dimensional geometries. This one is not so much like patchwork.


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Reply #158 - Jan 14th, 2021 at 2:07pm
 
issuevoter wrote on Jan 14th, 2021 at 1:27pm:
I find Paul Klee's work interesting, but I don't spend a lot of time on his 2 dimensional geometries. This one is not so much like patchwork.


https://i.postimg.cc/13PKWjK7/shepherd-1929-paul-klee.jpg

This is one of those works where the actual process of creating it and the fun it gave the artist is on full display. 
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Reply #159 - Jan 14th, 2021 at 10:24pm
 
Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 13th, 2021 at 8:03pm:
This thread has triggered a lot of memories of paintings I became aware of at a very early age and the effect they had. The scene below (Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio, 1854-55) puzzled me, especially the old man on the right staring at the models buns. The weirdly ambiguous background is almost dreamlike and to  this day still makes no sense unless it’s an attempt at illustrating the artist’s sub-conscious. Must read up on it..


I remember seeing this painting being discussed some time ago and so many questions about the subjects!
Puzzling it is!
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Reply #160 - Jan 15th, 2021 at 5:33pm
 
Sophia wrote on Jan 14th, 2021 at 10:24pm:
Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 13th, 2021 at 8:03pm:
This thread has triggered a lot of memories of paintings I became aware of at a very early age and the effect they had. The scene below (Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio, 1854-55) puzzled me, especially the old man on the right staring at the models buns. The weirdly ambiguous background is almost dreamlike and to  this day still makes no sense unless it’s an attempt at illustrating the artist’s sub-conscious. Must read up on it..


I remember seeing this painting being discussed some time ago and so many questions about the subjects!
Puzzling it is!


Er..... ummmm........ the title of the painting offers some very large clues:"The Painter's Studio: A Real
Allegory
Summing Up Seven Years of My Life as an Artist from 1848 to 1855"


Allegory: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/allegory
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Reply #161 - Jan 15th, 2021 at 11:43pm
 
Frank wrote on Jan 15th, 2021 at 5:33pm:
Sophia wrote on Jan 14th, 2021 at 10:24pm:
Ayn Marx wrote on Jan 13th, 2021 at 8:03pm:
This thread has triggered a lot of memories of paintings I became aware of at a very early age and the effect they had. The scene below (Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio, 1854-55) puzzled me, especially the old man on the right staring at the models buns. The weirdly ambiguous background is almost dreamlike and to  this day still makes no sense unless it’s an attempt at illustrating the artist’s sub-conscious. Must read up on it..


I remember seeing this painting being discussed some time ago and so many questions about the subjects!
Puzzling it is!


Er..... ummmm........ the title of the painting offers some very large clues:"The Painter's Studio: A Real
Allegory
Summing Up Seven Years of My Life as an Artist from 1848 to 1855"


Allegory: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/allegory

Oh well, that explains it all then!
Some paintings tell a thousand words...but this one...like, where's the dips, entres , drinks...all them people, and one nude.
And the artist is painting a landscape of some sort...
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Reply #162 - Jan 15th, 2021 at 11:48pm
 
issuevoter wrote on Jan 11th, 2021 at 5:23pm:
Colonials were given the name “diggers” by the British, because many of them came to Australia to do just that. Here is Hobson's Bay at the Height of the Gold Rush. When the diggers arrived in the fastest sailing ships ever built.




https://i.postimg.cc/YC9814pX/Hobson-s-Bay-Gold-Rush.png

Just love these type of paintings with the tall ships and masts.

In Ancestry, I actually traced back to the 1500's for a elder cousin's husband....the tall ships from England to America.

When I see these paintings, this is what it must have been like.

Fascinating to trace back into the past, the history of ships that sailed from one country to another.

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Reply #163 - Jan 16th, 2021 at 8:51am
 
Sophia wrote on Jan 15th, 2021 at 11:48pm:
issuevoter wrote on Jan 11th, 2021 at 5:23pm:
Colonials were given the name “diggers” by the British, because many of them came to Australia to do just that. Here is Hobson's Bay at the Height of the Gold Rush. When the diggers arrived in the fastest sailing ships ever built.




https://i.postimg.cc/YC9814pX/Hobson-s-Bay-Gold-Rush.png

Just love these type of paintings with the tall ships and masts.

In Ancestry, I actually traced back to the 1500's for a elder cousin's husband....the tall ships from England to America.

When I see these paintings, this is what it must have been like.

Fascinating to trace back into the past, the history of ships that sailed from one country to another.



Lois, I am glad you are interested in ships. I don't mean this in a critical way, but you should know that the term "Tall Ship," was not used during the era. They were sailing ships and square riggers. "Tall Ship," is a poetic allusion, created by John Masefield in the poem Sea Fever. It got popularised in the 1960s with the advent of the Tall Ships Race for sail training vessels.
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Reply #164 - Jan 16th, 2021 at 1:46pm
 
issuevoter wrote on Jan 16th, 2021 at 8:51am:
Sophia wrote on Jan 15th, 2021 at 11:48pm:
issuevoter wrote on Jan 11th, 2021 at 5:23pm:
Colonials were given the name “diggers” by the British, because many of them came to Australia to do just that. Here is Hobson's Bay at the Height of the Gold Rush. When the diggers arrived in the fastest sailing ships ever built.




https://i.postimg.cc/YC9814pX/Hobson-s-Bay-Gold-Rush.png

Just love these type of paintings with the tall ships and masts.

In Ancestry, I actually traced back to the 1500's for a elder cousin's husband....the tall ships from England to America.

When I see these paintings, this is what it must have been like.

Fascinating to trace back into the past, the history of ships that sailed from one country to another.



Lois, I am glad you are interested in ships. I don't mean this in a critical way, but you should know that the term "Tall Ship," was not used during the era. They were sailing ships and square riggers. "Tall Ship," is a poetic allusion, created by John Masefield in the poem Sea Fever. It got popularised in the 1960s with the advent of the Tall Ships Race for sail training vessels.

So tall ships was a short order.  Smiley
Learn something new all the time from old paintings, after all!

I had sailed on an old vessel with them sails and steering wheel, the sea became so rough... I was standing at back, and the captain says “conditions can change, and change quick!”  Huh
All I saw was front of vessel wildly bouncing from side to side
Yet at back, was very steady
Must look for my old film photos to see name of that ship.
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