Art Everywhere : Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:35 am  

This is billed as the biggest art exhibition ever. Poster sites across the country are going to be displaying famous British works of art You can vote/donate here ... or just look at them all http://arteverywhere.org.uk/artworks/ Personally, I am quite keen on the idea and I think Joe Public will take to it. Apparently, Waterhouse's "Lady of Shallot" is the public's favourite so far but, of course, we'll all have our own preferences.

This is billed as the biggest art exhibition ever. Poster sites across the country are going to be displaying famous British works of art You can vote/donate here ... or just look at them all http://arteverywhere.org.uk/artworks/ Personally, I am quite keen on the idea and I think Joe Public will take to it. Apparently, Waterhouse's "Lady of Shallot" is the public's favourite so far but, of course, we'll all have our own preferences.

Re: Art Everywhere : Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:50 am  

There's a few favourites on there, Turners "Norham Castle" and the Thomas Jones "A Wall in Naples" is the sort of thing I like.

But the most powerful image on there is the John Singer Sargent "Gassed", I probably did see this at the Imperial War Museum when I went all those years ago, but recently I saw a copy of it used as a theatre backdrop at The Edinburgh Festival during a play based on WW1 - I'm not sure how big the original is (seem to recall its pretty big) but when its blown up to stretch the full width and height of a theatre stage then its the sort of thing that distracts you for a long while in its complexity and detail - tells you everything you need to know about its subject matter without words.

Re: Art Everywhere : Thu Aug 08, 2013 7:51 am  

Bloody Pre-Raphelites. Mawkish, sentimental twaddle – and often with an idolatry of woman as dead or about to die (see here and Millais's Ophelia, which is also in the list).

I came across this a few weeks ago via Facebook, where a thread was going on with people whinging that Lucian Freud wasn't art, for instance.

The whinging was so bad it prompted a donation and a selection – in my case, Lowry's Going to the Match (which certainly won't surprise Jerry, at any rate ). But like El Barbudo, I think it's a cracking idea.

Re: Art Everywhere : Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:18 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

... But the most powerful image on there is the John Singer Sargent "Gassed"...

Agreed.
I too, saw it at the Imperial War Museum ... took me ages to tear myself away from it ... and yes, it's big all right.

I like his "Carnation, lily, lily, rose", for the glow of the lantern light.
(Not in this selection).
Mintball would see it as a bit pretty-pretty, I reckon.

Mintball wrote:

Bloody Pre-Raphelites. Mawkish, sentimental twaddle...

But well-painted though, eh?


I'm a sucker for clever representation of the effects of light, hence I love many of the Dutch masters ... but here, the two by Joseph Wright 'of Derby', whilst showing-off a bit, are superbly executed.

Re: Art Everywhere : Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:30 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

... But well-painted though, eh?

Technically very good indeed. I just detest the subject matter for reasons

El Barbudo wrote:

I'm a sucker for clever representation of the effects of light, hence I love many of the Dutch masters ... but here, the two by Joseph Wright 'of Derby', whilst showing-off a bit, are superbly executed.

Totally agree – Joseph Wright 'of Derby is wonderful. And a huge part of why I love Rembrandt.