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Tha1ChiefRocka
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- #41
- Posted: 12/31/2017 04:35
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Quote: | I do this about 2-3 times a year on average (in a more extensive sense). |
I hope this is not out of line to ask, but what do you do for a living? Do you really have time to go over the Sistine Chapel extensively that often in your free time, or is this part of a job as some kind of art historian? I'm honestly just curious.
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AfterHours
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- #42
- Posted: 12/31/2017 06:02
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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: | Quote: | I do this about 2-3 times a year on average (in a more extensive sense). |
I hope this is not out of line to ask, but what do you do for a living? Do you really have time to go over the Sistine Chapel extensively that often in your free time, or is this part of a job as some kind of art historian? I'm honestly just curious. |
It's a fair question. I don't divulge much about my personal life over the internet but, without going into specifics: I work in consulting, work with a computer programming company and do work with various humanitarian/social betterment programs.
By "extensive" I do not mean all day or for consecutive hours on end. My life is way too busy for that -- with just work alone, not to mention other things...
I just mean that I go through the work (Sistine Chapel) or a section of it, and study/eval it in detail -- but do so in rather short increments of time, spread out daily, over perhaps the course of a two week or three week period overall. I also have a lot of mobile/travel time in between certain work/projects, and I use internet on my phone a lot to do certain aspects of research/study ... plus art books (including those with huge up close photos), the 3D Sistine Chapel virtual tour (link on the images & links section of paintings list) and so forth...
Now that you mention it though, I do wish I was an art historian (especially for the Sistine Chapel - maybe not as a long term career but "on the side", more like a job that I didn't need so was more like a hobby). It's one thing to visit a work like The Sistine Chapel in person, but to be able to actually get up close to it enough to really evaluate it, is something that, unless you ARE that art historian or allowed that kind of access, is only possible through the internet (one thing I am VERY thankful for!) ... and HQ Art books... _________________ Best Classical
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Tha1ChiefRocka
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- #43
- Posted: 12/31/2017 16:14
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Ahh, I see. I just had this mental image of someone sitting at a desk with a magnifying glass looking at every inch of the Sistine Chapel. Thanks for clearing up my imagination.
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AfterHours
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- Posted: 12/31/2017 18:34
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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: | Ahh, I see. I just had this mental image of someone sitting at a desk with a magnifying glass looking at every inch of the Sistine Chapel. Thanks for clearing up my imagination. |
Hehe
Though I do recommend looking at paintings up close to get a good assimilation of the artist's brush strokes and aspects like subtelty/care and the effort/emotional investment applied. _________________ Best Classical
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Tha1ChiefRocka
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- #45
- Posted: 12/31/2017 23:11
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AfterHours wrote: | Hehe
Though I do recommend looking at paintings up close to get a good assimilation of the artist's brush strokes and aspects like subtelty/care and the effort/emotional investment applied. |
Agreed. I live in Kansas City which has one of the best art museums in the country, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, and I spent a good long while staring at this Albrecht Bouts painting when it was at a special exhibition with a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
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AfterHours
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- #46
- Posted: 01/02/2018 22:54
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Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: | AfterHours wrote: | Hehe
Though I do recommend looking at paintings up close to get a good assimilation of the artist's brush strokes and aspects like subtelty/care and the effort/emotional investment applied. |
Agreed. I live in Kansas City which has one of the best art museums in the country, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, and I spent a good long while staring at this Albrecht Bouts painting when it was at a special exhibition with a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
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Right on, I can see why. Its been a few years since I saw this work, but looking at it anew, I really like how Bouts seems to imbue his brush strokes with such careful consideration of each vivid detail, and with his strokes/technique/heavy and layered visualization, seems to apply the work with the same weight of exhaustion/bearing of sin, grief and suffering as he is depicting in the painting -- like he really took on the character and emotions of the work as he was creating it. _________________ Best Classical
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- #47
- Posted: 01/13/2018 01:33
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Over the years, I've been asked countless times (by PM, in forums, or otherwise) about Scaruffi's ratings/rankings/opinions in relation to mine (often very similar -- he is almost always first -- obviously not surprising because I use his selections as a guide and not the other way around). So for those interested in some of the paintings I rank/rate highly that he doesn't include (yet?) on his lists/ebook/selections/galleries of his website:
Yesterday, I recommended Werner Tubke's Peasants' War Panorama to him and covered some of the points I feel are extraordinary about it, including images + virtual panorama for his own viewing. I also told him just how highly I rank it (only The Sistine Chapel higher in the history of paintings; one of the greatest works of art of the 20th century, any medium)...
He replied that he isn't quite sure if he agrees with me or not on it's quality but that he does agree that it's an important work.
I also recommended Dino Valls' works to him, specifically covering Psicostasia, Ars Magna and Dies Irae, and Vall's psychosexual, mythology and symbology preoccupations. To which he thanked me for reminding me of his work and promptly uploaded them onto his website, now featured in his most recent links on the home page. He included Ars Magna and Dies Irae (among others I include on my "Extended List") on his Valls page, so it appears that we largely agree on his standout selections -- but he did not include Psicostasia so he may not agree with me that it is his greatest work, or perhaps hasn't evaluated it yet. _________________ Best Classical
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- Posted: 01/27/2018 00:41
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I've been immersed in various works by Dali, especially his astonishing Metamorphosis of Narcissus of which I am putting an analysis together (with what little time I've had, otherwise I'd have posted it by now). I've also been revisiting some paintings of Michelangelo and Da Vinci that I've never rated and ranked, so if I draw conclusions on those, I'll probably add them to my "Greatest Paintings - Extended List" as soon as I can.
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GentlemenPro
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