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03-30-2007, 08:44 AM
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Here is a picture.
I can't believe he actually made him naked. When I first heard about this I thought, well maybe he is trying to make a statement about how Easter has become all about easter eggs and chocolate bunnies, but why would he make it a point to sculpt Jesus in the nude?
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03-31-2007, 04:55 AM
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I've been amazed by impressionism, initially Van Gogh and Gogan, then Monet replaced them and then the magic Edgar Dega's work does with light and ballet dancers
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04-02-2007, 09:10 AM
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I have always liked these by Monet.
He was a pretty busy guy. He would paint the same scene at different times of the day or under different weather conditions.
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04-02-2007, 11:54 AM
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A boyfriend of mine and I almost broke up once, because of a fight over who was the beter painter, Monet or Manet. can you believe it!!
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04-02-2007, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by africanhope
A boyfriend of mine and I almost broke up once, because of a fight over who was the beter painter, Monet or Manet. can you believe it!!
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definitely Monet!
hope you think the same or if not, don't break up with me  |
04-02-2007, 12:06 PM
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may be we shouldn't comare them though, look at this: 
he cares about bounderies much further than Monet. their ways are totally different. technically, Manet is great, but in Monet's canvases, there a childish (I mean inocent, happy and stuff like that) dream, (except that exhausting work on that church in different times of the day, that he drew it 28 times) you can't get any where else.
I almost have a crush on him though he's dead  lol
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04-02-2007, 03:20 PM
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Well, I have a crush on Audrey Hepburn, so I can't say anything.
They don't build them like that anymore.
Now that is a work of art.
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Ayn Rand, Anthem.
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04-02-2007, 03:22 PM
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I haven't read up on him as much as I would like to, but I am a small fan of Frank Loyd Wright. I think it would be cool to be an architect and build some really neat houses.
This one is a little cliche, but so far as I've seen, this is probably my favorite FLW house.
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04-02-2007, 04:38 PM
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I am not really an arts expert, but there are some artists I like.
Among the architects I might be a fan of Otto Wagner. One of the major heads of the Secession style (the Austrian version of Jugendstil, ie art nouveau). The great thing about his buildings is, that I see them nearly daily as he was the architect of the precedessor of the Viennese subway. 
To give you an idea here are some examples of his major works:
The two buildings on the right are Wagners work.
He built also two churches, some real gems as its extremely difficult to find art nouveau churches in the world. (Except for the Sagrada familia in Barcelona of course, but its style is already quite distinctive from Wagner's churches again)
Church at Steinhof. Planned and built for serving as the church for the major psychatry of Vienna. And it still does.
And the other one is even more impressive. You know beneath the Subway, the buildings above, the main post building, he also planned the central cemetary that up today belongs to Europes largest with over 3 mio burried people. Heres the church:
The special thing of it is its interior. I really admire it. Its modern but so complex at the same time. Its the sort of modern architecture I can relate to. Its different from those modern concrete monsters or glass palaces with a cross on their top, so that people recognize it should be a church.
 
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04-02-2007, 04:53 PM
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It's about time you posted something from Austria Slarti. I was wondering when you were going to show us some more of that bad ass architecture you guys have over there. Do you have any dates on any of these buildings, or at least a ball park year they might have been built? The exteriors are pretty unfamiliar to me, but then again I never studied much past the baroque and rococco in Europe. The exteriors are unlike anything I've ever seen, but the interior of the churches look a little familiar in that they seem to keep some of the ideas of the Rennaissance, but they are still a lot different. I'm guessing these were built in the 1700's? I've been meaning to get some books on modern stuff, but I just can't get out of the classical period and the Rennaissance.
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Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask no one to live for me, nor do I live for others. I covet no mans soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.
Ayn Rand, Anthem.
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