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Post by ARENA on Oct 19, 2023 6:32:29 GMT
My great passion in art and architecture is 🦚 La Belle Epoque 🦚
I follow the site on Facebook.
Anyone else a lover?
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Post by honeybear on Oct 19, 2023 7:16:03 GMT
I love it too. I'll bet you see lots of it in France
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Post by spot on Oct 19, 2023 8:53:27 GMT
It's a remarkably wide period of time, it's over 40 years. It begins with recovering from Bismarck founding the German Empire by trashing great swathes of France, and ends with the German Empire deciding to do exactly the same thing again in 1914. There's no powered road traffic at the start and the roads are packed with choking petrol fumes when it finishes. I strongly suspect La Belle Epoque was fun for the cultured rich and their envious wealthy American visitors but absolute hell for the poor.
I agree art became more interesting, but only on the way to the 20s when the ideas abandoned representation and took off. As for the architecture, I have far more sympathy with Le Corbusier than the fol-de-rols and minutiae of the pre-war years.
Would you like to break the period into smaller chunks for us?
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Post by toots on Oct 19, 2023 9:22:59 GMT
Nice, but for me it’s Art Deco every time, and I have an absolute passion for the Chrysler building. I’m never going to see it for real but I have a black and white line drawing of the top of it. Also, if I thought I could get away with it, the house would be littered with Erte pictures.
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Post by ARENA on Oct 19, 2023 10:57:00 GMT
I admire it totally from an aesthetic point of view. I also admire art deco but the poor suffered in that era just as much if you go down the historic route.In fact art and the poor has always been unrelated.
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Post by spot on Oct 21, 2023 16:51:30 GMT
I admire it totally from an aesthetic point of view. I also admire art deco but the poor suffered in that era just as much if you go down the historic route.In fact art and the poor has always been unrelated. My judgement is that art suffers if it lacks the underlying foundation of craft, regardless of talent. I can think of few pre-war artists who had no underlying technical skill to support their artistic vision, though I'd go out on a limb and say poor Vincent didn't have a clue, and obviously even he taught himself a few techniques along the way. Turner by contrast was both an artist and a professional. I know whose works I admire more. Oh - I have never felt the slightest quickening of my pulse when confronted with Gauguin. I freely admit that says more about me than about him. I do find it very difficult to know what an artist has achieved until I stand in front of the original. After that I can see posters and copies in books and remember what I saw. As for the architecture, name me a building or two. |
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Post by ARENA on Oct 27, 2023 11:53:32 GMT
Fydor Bronnikov self portrait
file:///C:/Users/Owner/Desktop/self-portrait-1856.jpg!Large.jpg
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Post by spot on Oct 27, 2023 13:28:18 GMT
If we could see onto your hard drive with that "file:///C:/" link, Arena, you'd be very annoyed with us. I can't see a large version on the web to link to as an alternative but www.wikiart.org/en/fyodor-bronnikov/self-portrait-1856 gives an impression. He's still just in his 20s there, three years out of art school, born to an iconographer, he had to struggle to gain recognition at a major art school. That's such a thin economic skim of paint too, even the hat. It's engaging. |
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Post by althea on Nov 12, 2023 12:35:17 GMT
Do you paint, Spot? Some of your views suggest you may.
I dabble, with no training, just enthusiasm. Since I paint for myself, I can please myself.
I have a friend who left art college because they took all the joy out of art for her.
She says she got heartily sick of painting blocks of grey to learn technique.
When I look at art, I can always see something in a painting which delights me, even if I don't like the subject.
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 20, 2024 19:53:28 GMT
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Post by rikiiboy on Mar 20, 2024 19:54:40 GMT
Nice, but for me it’s Art Deco every time, and I have an absolute passion for the Chrysler building. I’m never going to see it for real but I have a black and white line drawing of the top of it. Also, if I thought I could get away with it, the house would be littered with Erte pictures. |
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Post by toots on Mar 21, 2024 16:53:20 GMT
Nice, but for me it’s Art Deco every time, and I have an absolute passion for the Chrysler building. I’m never going to see it for real but I have a black and white line drawing of the top of it. Also, if I thought I could get away with it, the house would be littered with Erte pictures. Beautiful ❤️ |
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