Thursday Two Questions Meme - Art
Winter in the Country 1857
by: George Henry Durrie
Scene in the Arctic 1880
by: William Bradford
Oranges in Tissue Paper 1890
by: William Joseph McCloskey
Today I am bringing you a few of my favorite paintings from the DeYoung Museum here in San Francisco. I am an art lover and though I do appreciate modern art, my heart is with traditional pieces. I have always enjoyed snow scenes and the artist George Henry Durrie in my opinion is one of the best and my favorite. He is one of the top artists for the Currier and Ives collections.
Winter scenes have always touched my heart and made me feel safe and comfortable. I also noticed that while typing the information for each painting that they and others that I admire hail from the nineteenth century. The coincidence is that my favorite poets also lived in that same time frame.
1. Could it be I was poetic shutterbug in an earlier life and lived among these artists?
2. What types of art do you enjoy?
As a side note I want to thank the DeYoung Museum for allowing shutterbugs like myself to snap photos of their gorgeous collections.
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Comments
These are beautiful paintings!
I enjoy the works of artists like Van Gogh and Monet.
I have to say I am more of a modern, or traditional art lover. Nature lover, paintings draws me in when it means something to me. For example a place that I can relate to, so it's not any different from you since you can relate to these paintings.
Have you ever dressed in the nineteenth century's attire? How do you like yourself in it?
You are an artist, so naturally, these paintings speak to you and pull you in..so I think :-)
You art, me dance :)
2. I like life like art. I must really see something that wows me. If I'm staring at a line across a page, then I'll be numb.
Aloha!
And those you showed are lovely!
2. I enjoy looking at historical artifacts and paintings from the 16-17th century. Those things fascinate me a lot