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[Azat]

speaking of great architecture, you guys need to see the incredible building that Frank Ghery just built in LA. The Disney Hall that just had it's opening. Incredible

[Azat]

http://www.antonigaudi.net/

I was wrong the cathedral was started in 1883

[ED]

http://www.antonigaudi.net/

I was wrong the cathedral was started in 1883

Thanks Azat

with luck we are planing a summer vacation to Italy and Spain, looking forword to a nice change

[Stormig]

Don't like to paint, prefer pencil (and my art teacher used to "complain" that I held the brush like a pencil).

[Sip]

I was at the Louvre in Paris a couple of years ago ... UNBELIEVABLE museum ... so many fantastic pieces of work ... but then there was this one room that was PACKED. There was almost no room to go in and there was only ONE painting on one wall. Well, I like the rest of the sheep managed to make my way in to check out this amazing work ...

these are a couple of pictures I managed to snap (click for bigger)



This was by far my most favorite work though



These are among some of my other favorites. Extremely realistic looking and BIG.



That last one was life size! Very real looking and very spooky.

[nairi]

Armat jan, thanks for sharing your work with us!! But could you also post a copy of all your avatars so that we can see them in the future as well? If you don't want to for whatever reason, that's also ok.

[Armat]

Armat jan, thanks for sharing your work with us!! But could you also post a copy of all your avatars so that we can see them in the future as well? If you don't want to for whatever reason, that's also ok.

Nairi jan, I like that but I simply don't know how.It seems I must have the pictures on the web first since it asks for url but I may be wrong since Azat did place one up.If it can be done from my computer then please tell me



Edit note: image added - Azat

[Armat]

Sasun J, you are looking for the David Smith.I like his work a lot.

[Azat]

Thanks Azat

with luck we are planing a summer vacation to Italy and Spain, looking forword to a nice change

Edward jan, just in case you have a large suitcase, can I come too.

I LOVE Spain. and Italy too been to both. 2.5 weeks in spain(not enough) and 3 weeks in Italy(way too short)

Would you mind if I make couple of recommendations in Spain?

Prado Museum - To die for. Just incredible probably top 5 in the world. Dont forget to go to the adjacent building to see Guernica. Be prepared to be searched heavily.

Toledo - 1 hour drive from Madrid. Great medieval city. Make sure to visit the cathedral and the small museum next to it to see the works of El Greco

Modern Art museum in Madrid.

Madrid overall is a great city, but the city that I LOVE is Barcelona

Swim in the mediterranean. if I can do it in January, so should every one that visits.

Picasso Museum

Miro Museum

Dali Museum

Gaudi buildings

Walk everyday on Las Ramblas

Visit Montserrat. it is an old monastery in the high mountains north of Barcelona. Built right into the mountain. make sure to buy a bit of yogurt and dried nuts from the ladies that stand there and sell that stuff. It is too tasty to describe it.

If you have time try to visit Seville. It is a beautiful moorish city about 4 hours south of Madrid.

Spain is just great. Lots of things to see and do. VERY nice people and the spanish women at HOT HOT HOT

Oh man, how I miss Spain. I can write pages and pages.

[Azat]

Nairi jan, I like that but I simply don't know how.It seems I must have the pictures on the web first since it asks for url but I may be wrong since Azat did place one up.If it can be done from my computer then please tell me

Armat jan, I have been copying the images to my server and adding a link here. I have done it for 3 images not 1 my friend.

You just need to go back and check this thread.

IF you want to email me 20-30 of your images, I can put them on my server and that way you can have your images online for this site as well as to show others.

[DominO]

Don't like to paint, prefer pencil (and my art teacher used to "complain" that I held the brush like a pencil).

I LOVE to paint. Oil and acrylic... Once I wanted to become a painter, that was in my artiistic phases, I was mixed between that and being a musical composer... I did neither.

[Sasun]

That's funny, I also at some point wanted to be a painter. This happened when I was strongly influenced by Gogen, Michelangelo and others. I went as far as buying color pencils but that was the end of it

Armat jan, thanks for the info. I checked the web, I am not sure that David Smith is the guy I was looking for. Maybe he is.

[DominO]

That's funny, I also at some point wanted to be a painter. This happened when I was strongly influenced by Gogen, Michelangelo and others. I went as far as buying color pencils but that was the end of it 

Armat jan, thanks for the info. I checked the web, I am not sure that David Smith is the guy I was looking for. Maybe he is.

Hehe! So, we have that in comment, beside our never ending exitancialist discussion. Actually, for me it was more than just a little interest. I never have done abtrait art, I was impressed at everything sur-realist... I donèt think you are surprised on that. Right?

Edited by Fadix, 23 October 2003 - 09:45 PM.

[vava]

This is a great thread!

Thanks Armat! You're works are really interesting - can't wait for your website

[vava]

When I was younger - I took the compulsory art class in high school - I guess I was 14 or so. I had a terrible experience. My art teacher HATED me (which is very strange, if you ask me ) She graded me the same on every project - didn't matter if I worked for weeks, or whipped something together a few hours before the project was due. Every assignment, I received a 62% (C-!! my worst high-school grade, and man, my parents flipped!) Not only that, she ostracized me in the class - she always picked on MY work... if she wanted to demonstrate how NOT to do something, she pointed at ME! I could go on....

But all that to say, (and regrettably) I have never taken an art class, or taken up art since then. But I do have some creative expression at least - photography, music, etc...

[Sasun]

Hehe! So, we have that in comment, beside our never ending exitancialist discussion. Actually, for me it was more than just a little interest. I never have done abtrait art, I was impressed at everything sur-realist... I donèt think you are surprised on that. Right?

Domino, yes I was not as serious. Well, we have many thing in common I guess, we end up in the same threads wasting almost the same amount of time
One of my (much less real) dreams used to be to become rock singer and guitar player (somewhat similar to your composer dream). Ask me if I can sing or play guitar - no.
Well, you are full of mysteries. For example, how come your avatar sometimes blinks and sometimes does not?

I also liked and still like surrealism - Dali, Bosch, I like the works of one other guy whose name I forget now. Now you tell me what his name is, he has a painting where a painter(probably him) is painting a woman for himself. The woman looks very real and almost done, and the title of the painting is something like "Dreaming the impossible". He has many other similar works.

[DominO]

Domino, yes I was not as serious. Well, we have many thing in common I guess, we end up in the same threads wasting almost the same amount of time
One of my (much less real) dreams used to be to become rock singer and guitar player (somewhat similar to your composer dream). Ask me if I can sing or play guitar - no.
Well, you are full of mysteries. For example, how come your avatar sometimes blinks and sometimes does not?

I also liked and still like surrealism - Dali, Bosch, I like the works of one other guy whose name I forget now. Now you tell me what his name is, he has a painting where a painter(probably him) is painting a woman for himself. The woman looks very real and almost done, and the title of the painting is something like "Dreaming the impossible". He has many other similar works.

Are you talking About Gustave Courbets "l'Atelier du peintre." But he was rather a realist and not really surrealist. THere is many paintings discribed like you say, and beside that, 8 years have passed since I have not touched that subject.

[Sasun]

Are you talking About Gustave Courbets "l'Atelier du peintre."

Not likely, I think he is a 20th century painter.

[DominO]

Not likely, I think he is a 20th century painter.

I will be thinking of who it may be in bed, since its more than time for me to go to sleep before I start telling nonesenses.

[Sasun]

OK, don't worry, found him. Its Belgian Rene Magritte. Couldn't find the painting I was talking about but here is one other fascinating work of his

EDIT: Sasun, apparently the owner of the site which you linked to for the image is unhappy that you did so, and changed the link. He does allow you to download the image and put it on your server (or ours) - for now, I've removed it - but THIS was his message... Thanks

Edited by vava, 25 October 2003 - 08:31 AM.