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So basicly post your favourite art here, or art you just like and want to share your likes;) You can share info on the art, or just let it speak for itself.

And fittingly for the subject:

Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Symposion

In the painting various influencal Finish artist are gathered. And well... When artists gather;)
 

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Finnish art

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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Hugo Simberg

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Helene Schjerfbeck

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Swedish painter and writer Lars Lerin (b.1954)

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Gio Black Peter (f. 1979)

Gio Black Peter, born 1979 Giovanni Paolo Andrade Guevara, in Guatemala - painter, photographer, performance artist, film maker, actor, singer/songwriter, bandleader (Gio Black Peter Group).

Art with lots of explicit nudity and sexuality that isn't commercial porn.

Close connections to artists Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny.

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I don't know, but feels like looking at good paintings about other season relief my springdepression for a while:p It's so amazing how a painting can capture a feeling, lot more than a actual photo of the scenery:heart:

Eero Järnefelts paintings:






And Hugo Simbergs frost:
 

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The Rose Garden at Wargemont - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

I think it's almost impossible to mistake late Turner - his paintings from the 1830s and 1840s - for something else. Early Turner - around turn of the century 1800 - is just like any romantic painter. But late Turner! - that's something entirely else!

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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

If you wanna know what German Romantic painting is, have a look at Caspar David Friedrich!

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I have always loved The Wonderer Above Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich!:heart:

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I miss the proper seasons. Spring in Finland is pretty crappy:worried:
 

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Odd Nerdrum (b. 1944)

Among contemporary Scandinavian painters few have been so consistently controversial for the last 30+ years as Norwegian Odd Nerdrum. He wants to get back to the art of Caravaggio and Rembrandt, getting invectives again and again from art critics and curators.

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)

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Some very nice stuff here but I'll stick with Canaletto (Venice or London). No examples - too much output. For any Brits, there is an exhibition currently doing the rounds.
 

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After Canalettos paintings, the real Venice could be a disappointment:)



 

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Nobody knows this ... this why I post it and this is NOT a joke: "Blue" by Derek Jarman.

 

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Caravaggisti & Anti-Caravaggisti

It seems that Caravaggio's three latest biographers - Helen Langdon, Peter Robb and Andrew Graham-Dixon - agree on at least two fundamental points :

1) That he during his short life managed to become the most admired and famed painter in Europe;

2) That he was an aggressive, violent and downright dangerous man, living in a very violent and dangerous city - Rome around 1600 being probably much more dangerous than Chicago in the 1920s. Which also meant, that some of them who admired him the most as a painter, at the same time were his fierce enemies personally.

So let's talk a bit about Caravaggisti (those who admired him as a painter and emulated his style and artistic methods) and Anti-Caravaggisti (those who for one or another reason hated his guts).

Caravaggisti
In the years immediately following his death 1610, the other first rate painters in Europe were strongly influenced by him; Diego Velazquez, Peter Paul Rubens and Pietro da Cortona were all under his spell.

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Anti-Caravaggisti

Giovanni Baglione

Among the leading Anti-Caravaggisti Giovanni Baglione - who wrote the second of Caravaggio's biography not long after his death - was probably the best example of a person who seriously hated Caravaggio's guts, but at the same time was deeply influenced as a painter by his style and artistic methods.

The following painting is an allegory named Sacred Love versus Profane Love, and it has two versions of which I give you the one most interesting concerning Baglione's personal relations to Caravaggio. Look at the dark figure in the paintings lower left hand corner! It's a portrait of Caravaggio as the Devil, soon to engage in fucking the butt of a beautiful boy - and everything painted in strongly caravaggistic style!
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Nicolas Poussin

Among fierce adversaries of Caravaggio's painting, few were more influential than Nicolas Poussin, who said that Caravaggio had come to the world to destroy painting!
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Vicente Carducho

Carducho's criticism directly aimed at Caravaggio's relentless naturalism and sung eulogies on neo-platonist idealism in art. Caravaggios art wanted to show the world and the human beings as they actually were - with all their dirty feet, callous hand, all the violence and bloody mess BUT AT THE SAME TIME also so damn beautiful, sexy, cute, sweet etc.

But according to Carducho the purpose of art was to show what the world SHOULD BE, and he stated, that Caravaggio was the Anti-Christ of art! Tough shit!
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Thank you for sharing this with us Gorgik this is pretty miraculous ...
....is this still herr a porn site?
 

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Thank you for sharing this with us Gorgik this is pretty miraculous ...
....is this still herr a porn site?

Sure it's still a gay porn forum - but of the most broadminded kind!!!

My idea is that GH is like a Caravaggio-painting, wanting to show us everything - ugly AND beautiful, scary AND sweet, violent AND wonderful...
 

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Some more Caravaggisti in the 17th century.

Artemisia Gentileschi

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Bartolomeo Manfredi

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Georges de la Tour

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Gerrit van Honthorst

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Valentin de Boulogne

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Nicolas Regnier

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Caravaggio-revival in neo-classicist and romantic painting

There was about a hundred year long period of forgetfulness of Caravaggio's art from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century, but there came a revival of Caravaggism in Neoclassicist (second half of the 18th century) and Romantic (early 19th century) painting.

What did Joseph Wright of Derby, Jacques-Louis David and Theodore Gericault learn from Caravaggio?

First his absolute mastery of candle light and the harsh contrasts of bright light and deep dark shadows.

Second his absolutely relentless naturalism. If there ever was a total anti-Platonist in European art, it was Caravaggio!

Joseph Wright of Derby

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Jacques-Louis David

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Theodore Gericault

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Thank you for sharing this with us Gorgik this is pretty miraculous ...
....is this still herr a porn site?

Well I personally don't like porn in paintings, but male nudity goes:p

Paintings by Magnus Enckell:







 
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