Author Topic: Picture This! (Read 35789 times)

Nearly Sane · « **on:** October 07, 2021, 02:59:47 PM »

Using the attachments facility, I thought I would start a thread where posters can put up pictures they like, it can be art, or photographs, or as here a vintage poster

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2021, 03:16:27 PM »

Good idea - I have always been fascinated by this painting which used to hang in the National Gallery (it still might, but I haven't been for far too long a time). It is the use of candlelight and shade that I like rather than the actual subject matter.

Gerard van Honthorst - Christ before the High Priest

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2021, 03:21:42 PM »

Yes, I love paintings with that sort of portrayal of light. Here is one of my favourites which hangs in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. Rembrandt's Man In Armour

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2021, 08:37:52 AM »

Moe light at play. This time Rene Magritte, L'Empire des lumières, 1955

Gordon · « **Reply #4 on:** October 08, 2021, 09:34:38 AM »

I've never been good with heights - and old pictures, like this one, of workers building skyscrapers are terrifying to me.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2021, 01:09:23 AM »

Just posted a song by Bonnie Dobson in the song thread. This is the album cover

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2021, 12:32:40 PM »

Album covers are a rich vein.

I give you what I think is King Crimson's finest hour*(both musically and pictorially), In the Wake of Poseiden:

(* this is upto 1975 when Fripp disbanded KC - I am less familiar with their later work when they reformed from 1981 onwards)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2021, 01:04:33 PM »

As of course are film posters. One of the things I enjoy about TalkingPictures TV is they put stuff on Twitter with posters for upcoming films

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #8 on:** October 27, 2021, 09:26:56 AM »

Love this - Erin Hanson

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #9 on:** October 27, 2021, 09:27:31 AM »

And this - Courbet

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #10 on:** October 27, 2021, 09:36:24 AM »

Propaganda poster for Cuba supporting Laos

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #11 on:** October 31, 2021, 09:57:49 AM »

Every so often a photograph pops up and I think..... what. Wait.

This is one such. A young Leonard Nimoy and Peter Falk in a film of a Genet play - The Balcony:

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2021, 07:08:24 PM »

Love this

Udayana · « **Reply #13 on:** November 23, 2021, 02:31:49 PM »

Lamenting Women, from the tomb (TT55) of Ramose, c. 1411-1375 BC.

Dicky Underpants · « **Reply #14 on:** November 23, 2021, 04:31:49 PM »

Quote from: Trentvoyager on October 07, 2021, 03:16:27 PM

Good idea - I have always been fascinated by this painting which used to hang in the National Gallery (it still might, but I haven't been for far too long a time). It is the use of candlelight and shade that I like rather than the actual subject matter.

Gerard van Honthorst - Christ before the High Priest

We're doomed, doomed. Like Trentvoyager, it's not the religious context that I like; simply the magnificent drama of the scene.

John Martin - The Great Day of His Wrath

Dicky Underpants · « **Reply #15 on:** November 23, 2021, 04:37:36 PM »

Something not often seen - nearly the full circle:

https://www.withinafrica.com/p598184178/e4f032388

Dicky Underpants · « **Reply #16 on:** November 23, 2021, 05:42:13 PM »

I rather like this one of Damian Hirst's Verity which I took at Ilfracombe earlier this year:

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #17 on:** November 23, 2021, 05:49:16 PM »

That is very good. I feel a Hirst off coming on. This from 3 years ago:

PS just noticed it is sideways - but when you click to enlarge it ends up the correct way up and very large!

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #18 on:** January 22, 2022, 11:45:49 AM »

I have been an admirer of Kandinsky's work for many a long year:

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #19 on:** November 18, 2022, 05:50:34 PM »

Love this photo. Kids of the McKenzie family, Plantation Street, Glasgow, 1965.

Photo: Eric Watt

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #20 on:** December 10, 2022, 03:57:11 PM »

Picture my friend took this morning in Edinburgh

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #21 on:** January 18, 2023, 07:58:45 PM »

'Rene Lalique "Silenes" Vase ,1938

Crafted of both clear and frosted glass in the expressive Silenes pattern created by Lalique, this vessel features a repeating design of the Greek god Pan. The god of the wild is intertwined with dense vines in high relief and washed in a light gray patina, and it is a superb example of Lalique’s love of both natural and mythical forms.'

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #22 on:** January 20, 2023, 03:31:43 PM »

View up Loch Ard to Ben Lomond

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #23 on:** February 03, 2023, 09:33:31 AM »

Two days before the day the music died

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #24 on:** February 03, 2023, 09:34:59 AM »

Stirling and up to Stuc a'Chroin

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