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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 11, 2013 - 08:51pm PT
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"The Race" Oil on Canvas 68"x72"
"Party Buffalo IV" Oil on Canvas 48"x60"
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:12am PT
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I see an opening here - I see a similarity. Meet Chakra.
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Feb 12, 2013 - 01:44am PT
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(thanks Jefe, I suck at promoting my work)
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Feb 12, 2013 - 10:53am PT
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"Coyote Opera" Oil on Canvas 24"x30"
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 12, 2013 - 11:11am PT
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Mtn, those are top shelf. Pretty cool how you can capture the animal's anatomy without a realistic representation. Thanks.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Feb 12, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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BC and Mtn, I love your work. You guys both paint big!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Feb 14, 2013 - 12:47pm PT
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On Tuesday we went up to see the special double exhibits at the de Young, "Rembrandt's Century" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
The former is a huge exhibit taken mostly from the de Young's own collection. The works were almost all 17th century works on paper, mostly engravings and etchings. Personally, I found the exhibit so massive as to be overwhelming - I wish they had edited a bit the volume of what they showed. It's almost like somebody said "This is a rare opportunity to hand all this stuff - we might as well do it all".
Here was one of my favorites, Rembrandt's The Landscape with Three Trees:
If you look closely, there are a bunch of people and a lot of activity in this piece, but it's the overall composition and light/dark that's so appealing to me.
The other exhibit is "Girl with a Pearl Earring, Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis" Only 35 paintings but all very high quality, on special loan while the Mauritshuis is undergoing a significant expansion of its space.
Of course the Vermeer was breathtaking - the image is so well known I'm not bothering to post it. This is one of the other paintings that we were all especially taken with:
So gorgeous! A timeless image that could have been painted yesterday.
What would an exhibition like this be without some floral still lifes? I thought this one was especially lovely:
Looking at the tag, I was surprised to see that the artist was a woman. It was very unusual in that time for women to be professional artists. We were pleased to learn that her work was quite a commercial success in her lifetime.
My last "favorite" in this show was a Rembrandt portrait of an old man, painted just 2 years before his death. This was hung close to to other portraits by him, one a self portrait painted early on in his career, and it was wonderful to see how is style became looser and more expressive as he aged. I wondered if this could be because his eyesight was deteriorating but the info sign said that it's considered to be deliberate.
This is a show well worth seeing!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Feb 14, 2013 - 02:22pm PT
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Hey Phylp,
Great review... I've been looking forward to this show for awhile! On my way.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 16, 2013 - 01:57am PT
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Faux flowers. Hand-stitch by Liz B. 4.5 X 7 cm.
I was given this by my sister, who inherited it from my Mom, who got it from my late wife Liz, who made only this one, framed it, and then went on to some other craft, I guess.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2013 - 04:20pm PT
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this just in
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north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2013 - 02:20pm PT
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Eric Fischl
This painting has been known to be controversal because of the content. I really like how he painted the light and the way it plays with the blinds. Also like how he implied meanings and his questionable content, which many of his paintings have.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Feb 22, 2013 - 04:04pm PT
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Nice contributions all.
Tiki - I gotta see a detail of Hadji.
Phylp - nice report. That goldfinch is a beauty.
K2 - Your post reminded me of a silkscreen poster done by one of my design professors back in college, McRae Magleby, inspired by Hokusai's famous wave. It won tons of design awards, and reproductions still probably bring in royalties to McRae.
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Keith Leaman
Trad climber
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Feb 22, 2013 - 07:05pm PT
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My colleague, Sean is standing on a table in front of a mural that he and I and a few others painted for a Seattle arts fundraiser in 1993. The painting on muslin was mostly 19' tall and about 650' long (about 1/8 of a mile). It featured large copies of old masters and included the drapery and frieze and wainscoting, paneling.
The mural wound around the Grand Ballroom and in-out of several other spaces in the Sheraton Hotel. I painted the Lautrec copy on the left which was about 10'x 14'. The project took us about 4 months, was installed for the big event, and discarded a few days later. I contacted every college, high school and theater I could, trying to find a home for the thing, cut out and saved-donated a few of the large copies.
Here's my 12' x 9' copy of a familiar Renoir "le Loge" which took about a day and 1/2. We painted the frames too.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Feb 22, 2013 - 07:30pm PT
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Keith, that is just mind-boggling!
The piece intact sounds like something that might have found at least a temporary home in a place like Marfa, TX!
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Feb 23, 2013 - 10:39am PT
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Keith, those are awesome!!
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this just in
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north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2013 - 10:45am PT
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Tiki, saw your work at metalmark and it was impressive. I posted on your shameless art plug.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Feb 23, 2013 - 03:22pm PT
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TJI, Thanks Bro!
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Feb 23, 2013 - 06:53pm PT
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Feb 23, 2013 - 09:26pm PT
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A couple new works.
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