The Stolen 'Scream'

[ozzy72]

I'm with Doug, this kind of stuff is rubbish, and anyone stupid enough to pay for it deserves to be parted from his money
I also hate Picasso, van Gogh etc.
Real art to me is something that depicts an aspect of real life, Constable or Renoir are great. I have a lovely Lancaster painting just above my head which two of my aunts got me for my 18th birthday, it is lovely.

Mark

Ps. What about that Dutch bloke that squirted paint out of his bum, and people were paying a fortune for it? Or the sheep cut in half and put in a glass tank full of some nasty preservative? Is this art?

[Hagar]

I'm not questioning the artistic value. Just the outrageous prices some "expert" puts on these "masterpieces" when to my eyes there's plenty of equally good, if not better, work by other artists that never get a look-in. Also the fact that most artists don't seem to be appreciated until they're dead.

I do have to question the talent of people like Damien Hurst (the cows) & that silly woman (forget her name & maybe not so silly) who won a

[Fozzer]

One of my favourite "Old Masters" by Botticelli....
...( I can't think why... ....)...!
"Venus Rising"



...and anything by Michaelangelo... ...

Those are what I call "Masterpieces"... ...!

Cheers all... ...!

Paul.

[Politically Incorrect]

...( I can't think why... ....)...!

Maybe it reminds you of lovely Vera?


Another "artist" I don't understand is Warhol, I'm mean come on your going to pay a price like that of a painting of a Cambells Soup can? MORONS!

I think a real artist is someone like Bob Ross, good old classic "hobby" style painting of landscapes.
My Grandmother is my favorite artist, she paints a lot like Bob Ross, beautiful landscapes that look almost like photographs! And she is where I found my knack for woodworking, and creating art out of wood. I guess out of all the odd balls in my family some good genes were passed on

[Scorpiоn]

I thought I was the only one!  I have no admiration for Picasso or the like.  Call me a purist, but real art captures an instance of real life.  Most of this other "art" I consider subserviant to true art - it's eyecandy, yes, but it's not art.  The most outlandish thing I drew was a Corsair making a low pass over dinosaurs.  That's as abstract as art should get, in my humble opinion.

Just my two cents.

PS: In other words, this jolly ol' Texan could give a hoot more!

[Wing Nut]

I gotta differ with you all on this one.  A Van Gogh will fill me with awe, while a Monet will move me almost to tears.  Munch has never been a favorite, but The Scream is excellent imho.  Picasso is fantastic...

Portrait de Daniel Kahnweiler
1910. 100.6cm x 72.8cm
Oil on canvas

[ozzy72]

Monet is v.nice indeed, I was lucky to see his exhibition at the National Gallery in London a few years back as my office was a 5 min. walk from it. I also got to see the Salvador Dali exhibition, man what was he on?
The paintings were brilliant, mad, but brilliant!!!

[Hagar]

I don't pretend to like "modern" art but I'm in no position to criticise. If looking at something gives people pleasure that's fine with me. Picasso was an extremely talented conventional artist before he took up his own particular brand of "Cubism" I believe they call it. From what I can make out much of his work is overtly sexual in nature & he seems to have been obsessed with one particular model. Most geniuses are odd in some way & some are very strange indeed.

I'm sure that not every single thing any artist ever did could possibly be called a masterpiece. Put Picasso's, Dali's or any other famous name to it & it's apparently worth millions. This is something I never figured out.
Brian Sewell, one art critic whose opinions I DO respect, said that "The Scream" is not Munch's best work & " It wouldn't be the end of the world if it disappeared ".

What I will never understand is the "experts" drooling over what appears to me as so much rubbish - some are literally piles of rubbish - like many of the exhibits in the Tate Modern art museum in London. The point here is, how do you define art?

[Fozzer]

...another one of my favourite painters...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1529-1569)...>>>

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/

A couple of his paintings.
It is possible to spend hours looking at them and still find something new in the detail... ...!





Enjoy... ...!

Paul.

[Politically Incorrect]

You know Dread I'm not much into art but that painting you have posted is quite interesting!
Makes you stare long and hard at it, I'm not positive but I believe that is a nun? neat!
And I like the ones Fozzer posted.
I have looked for about 20 minutes and still can't find Waldo! (kidding) very interesting indeed!

I guess maybe I should broaden my horizons a little and spend some time looking at some

[flyboy 28]

This is my kinda artwork--

[alrot]

Hehe,a picture as hostage. No guns required,any sharp object will work.

Dont get it,do you mean the guy who scream in the picure looks like an hostage.....LOL..

[Wing Nut]

You know Dread I'm not much into art but that painting you have posted is quite interesting!
Makes you stare long and hard at it, I'm not positive but I believe that is a nun? neat!
And I like the ones Fozzer posted.
I have looked for about 20 minutes and still can't find Waldo! (kidding) very interesting indeed!

I guess maybe I should broaden my horizons a little and spend some time looking at some

That painting is hanging here in Chicago at the Art Institute.  I have seen it in person and (without trying to sound like an art snob) the way he uses color if incredible.  I could stand and stare at the textures for hours on end.

[Travis]

Dont get it,do you mean the guy who scream in the picure looks like an hostage.....LOL..

He means whoever took the painting is holding it for ransom.  No guns needed, just a sharp object (for cutting canvas . . .)

[Politically Incorrect]

That painting is hanging here in Chicago at the Art Institute.  I have seen it in person and (without trying to sound like an art snob) the way he uses color if incredible.  I could stand and stare at the textures for hours on end.

I like it I saved it to look at more It does have some 3d characteristics too it, oh my God am I becoming a "art snob"?! By the way please help this feeble mind of mine, is that Picasso?

And Flyboy that is a sweet piece too!!!!