The Art Thread

[Pacifica]

I love the cathedral looming through the fog in the background. Or is it a castle?

 

[Terry S.]

Her hair seems in danger from the torch.

She's in danger from the other wee bucko's elbow too.

 

[Adrian]

I love the cathedral looming through the fog in the background. Or is it a castle?

Cathedral, methinks.

 

[Terry S.]

Ditto. The crosses atop the spires are the giveaway.

 

[Agrippa]

Vasilij Vasil'evič Vereščagin: Night Bivouac of Great Army in Russia 1812, 1896

 

[Adrian]

Some soothing winter landscapes by Geoff Kersey (contemporary UK artist)

Winter in Halldale Woods

Chatsworth Park

 

[Agrippa]

Dec 10, 2020: Happy Chanukkah!

 

[Adrian]

Julian Fałat, Bear Hunt (1888), The Historical Museum in Bielsko-Biała

 

[Adrian]

Somnio niveum Christi Nativitatis Festum...

Ivan Shishkin, Winter (1890)

 

[Adrian]

Roman Kochanowski, Winter Landscape (1886) National Museum in Kraków

Roman Kochanowski, Winter Landscape (1887) National Museum in Kraków

 

[Agrippa]

Victor Vasnetsov, The Snow Maiden (1899)

 

[Agrippa]

Dec 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party (source. W. D. Cooper: Boston Tea Party)

 

[Agrippa]

William Hogarth: A Midnight Conversation ( 1732)

 

[Adrian]

Evgeny Lushpin, Christmas Eve (2018)

 

[Agrippa]

Evgeny Lushpin, Christmas Eve (2018)
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Very impressive: Evgeny Lushpin painted Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany.

 

[Adrian]

Very impressive: Evgeny Lushpin painted Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany.
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Almost like a photograph. Evgeny Lushpin is indeed a skilled contemporaty hiperrealistic artist. Check out his gallery

some of his paintings that imho are worth distinctive mention:
1) Still life with phaistos disk (2012)

2) Dewar's Vessel Still Life (2009)

3) Winter Icon (2016)

 

[Agrippa]

Iuvat comparare...
Colin Campbell Cooper: Flatiron Building, Manhattan (1908)

 

[Agrippa]

Gaston La Touche: Dinner at the Casino (1903)

 

[Adrian]

Ivan Shishkin, Winter in a forest (Rime), (1877)

 

[Adrian]

Inspired be recent charcoal art works of @Hawkwood

Edgar Degas, Head of a Young Roman Girl (1856) - left; John Singer Sargent, Margaretta Drexel, Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham - right

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