The ART thread

[FRYandBENDER]

Wow, that is a panarama isn't it. I guess I missed it at first. I thought that maybe you had posted a photo taken with a panoramic camera.

Anyways, if anyone else reads this make sure you check out that link on the above post. It is pretty fricken sweet.

[Slartibartfas]

That is a load of statues and reliefs for the roof of a building, isnt it?



The building is supposed to be neo-greek I guess the statues as well.

[Slartibartfas]

Fry, you asked yourself about how it would be to live in such an idyllic part of a town. I want to show you a "Grätzl" (=neighborhood with a local identity) that is extremely neat, a pedestrian zone, but still not in the 1st district AND I know defnitely that completely normal people live there, among a large load of artists and alternatively minded people as well.

Welcome to the Spittelberg:
willkommen am spittelberg

Follow this link and you will once again see 360° pictures, but this time, you can follow the red circles to get to the next one of the chain of pictures. As far as I can see the whole neighborhood is included in the internet walk.

Spittelberg is considered to be a stronghold of "Biedermeier" architecture. I am unsure what makes Biedermeier to be Biedermeier. It might be a more sedate and not as elaborate style than baroque. A propos Biedermeier, there are current exhibitions in Vienna about it. I think I missed the most interesting one already. It was called: "Biedermeier; the invention of modernism" They brought there examples of Biedermeier that showed so clearly how progressive this period could be, in that way that it already anicipated in trends that should not be revived before the onbreaking modernism of the 20th century.

The second exhibition I think treats the issue of Biedermeier being the "art of the bourgouisie". And it shows how even this art was in reality fostered and formed by the aristocracy. The Biedermeier portraits of the emperor family, really weird.

[Izzibeth]

My favorite artist: Hiroaki Samura







His use of lines, brush strokes, and movement is awesome. I wish I could be more like him (in terms of the motivation to illustrate as well).

[Slartibartfas]

Hm, somehow I never got an access to this Japanese art. I dont know, it somehow does not enspire me.

Maybe its too foreign and alien to me??

[Izzibeth]

I'm not really big into the anime/manga stuff. Samura has a slightly different style.

For example:



as compared to...

[Slartibartfas]

Originally Posted by Izzibeth

I'm not really big into the anime/manga stuff. Samura has a slightly different style.

For example:
...
as compared to...
...

You are right, I definitely like the Samura picture by far more as well. Its simply worlds more mature.

[Slartibartfas]

Fry are you still interested in this thread?

I would have photographed some highlights of the book I mentioned above.
This book is from 1898 and principally a biography of Franz Josoph I, Emperor of Austria, king of Hungary and what not else. Its made in the style of Jugendstil and really grand names have contributed prints to this book. The name of it is:
"Das Buch vom Kaiser" (The book about the emperor)

The large prints are from Koloman Moser, but also artists like Josef Hoffmann etc contributed to the book.

[FRYandBENDER]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfas

Fry are you still interested in this thread?

Yeah, I was going to look through some of my old art history books from school this weekend and pick out some of my favorites. I'll even look through my old "Early American Art" book to show you what we were doing when America was first starting out.

[Slartibartfas]

Originally Posted by FRYandBENDER

Yeah, I was going to look through some of my old art history books from school this weekend and pick out some of my favorites. I'll even look through my old "Early American Art" book to show you what we were doing when America was first starting out.

What do you think about the prints above? Or about Jugendstil in general?

I personally love the female figure on the page that lists the artists. (The figure that holds with one hand the feather and with the other painting material). Especially here face and the hair. Perfect beauty in my eyes. Weird?