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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Nov 24, 2013 - 02:09pm PT
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SteveA, thanks for sharing more of your amazing collection!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Museum trip report - San Francisco Legion of Honor: Matisse from the SFMOMA collection and Anders Zorn: Sweden's Master Painter.
With SFMOMA closed for the massive expansion, other area venues benefit by being able to show from their collection.
The Legion has a one room, high quality Matisse exhibit going on right now. Matisse is a favorite of mine. I could have spent the whole time staring at the works. I just find his stuff mesmerizing. Here are two paintings from the show:
The main exhibit is the Anders Zorn. this was a new artist to the four of us and we were all blown away, I mean just mouths hanging open, stunned amazement at the quality of the work. Now the average person would probably recognize the names Matisse, Monet, Cezanne etc, but how many have heard of Zorn? And yet we all felt that the quality and sensitivity of the work was such that he should be a household name.
Well, even if this was the first time I had heard of him, I was happy to learn that he was very well known in his lifetime, probably the best portrait painter of his day. He made quite a bit of wealth from his work and moved in society circles.
Once of the things that impressed me was how well-travelled he was. He and his wife live in Sweden, Paris, Spain, the US and other places during his life and he took inspiration from all these places for his work.
He started out painting in watercolor and his technique was astounding. The earliest work is almost photorealistic, which is mind-blowing. Here was one of my favorites of the earlier work, when his style had started to loosen up a bit (1885):
Later on he began to work in oils. Here's one from 1897 that was one of my favorites. The photo doesn't do it justice, it's gorgeous in person.
Darn, having trouble uploading this one. Will try again later...
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Yeah, cannot wait to get up there and see that show...TFPU!
The Hockney show too.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, phylp... wow, i love the colors in the one with the dog...
thanks for sharing...
i just got another one of mine done, but it is kind of private, so i may not share it, though it it and one other, are really from a movie-still...
:)
and two private portraits... :
but, when i get the next crop done i will share...
say, phylp:
have YOU done any new ones to share, yet?
as always, so happy when paul shares!
hope some more folks step in tooo...
i found some neat one on line, by some artist, that i want to share,
(with their names, credit of course) just have not had dial up time, yet
for long share...
:)
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2013 - 10:21pm PT
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Good to see you're getting out and about Phylp. You still in the sling? Thanks for the report!
Hadn't heard of Zorn either.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, steve A... did not get to see the shares, yet, will come back, soon, i hope and try to let them load... :)
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Here it is.
Neebs no work for a while, right-handed and surgery as you know. Justin, no sling and it's coming along. Still a lot of night pain.
Paul, Daphne, Michael and I went to see the Hockney. Daphne loved it, but it left me and Michael unmoved. I respect him, no doubt, and I can see the skill and ideas, but there's not an emotional connection for me with this work. Still, very impressive show. the scale alone makes it worth it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 14, 2013 - 05:13am PT
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That Zorn's a much finer painter than we know, I'll bet. I've never heard of the man till now, but he looks like he's holding back, and maybe that's because of the fact it's a postacard and digitized. The eyes don't lie, do they doggie lovers?
The pink molding on this next work sucks, agreed?Here is a genuine photo of a painting which visited the lobby office yesterday. It was difficult to shoot. It kept wandering around, licking its paws.
The painter Pobla (I call him Larry to piss him off--he's Russian, it's easy) is maybe selling it to Tami and her husband. Tami works for the new Tioga Apartment Homes management as their charming rep in the office: and she has a friend, Michelle, a winsome lass, who visited yesterday while I was trying to do justice to Larry's, I mean Pobla's work.
Both women are very "in love" with this painting. I don't understand. It's even cruder than Matisse. :0)
What's the big deal with oil that looks like a child (a talented child, admittedly) did it? I suppose the charming Tami has her reasons for liking it and she's been looking at it daily at work to see if she wants it in her home. We both dissed the "frame"--pink molding, the Russian artist's big-time uninformed on the effectiveness of great framing.
You can't save a work of terrible art with voluptuous framing, but then framing can be a work of art on its own. Put it on the wall, empty, thus showing off your talent as a wall-painter, like your gallery of collected Lost Arrows and Bonatti 'biners might suggest you are a talented wall-climber. Just a suggestion from the box.
Because they are fun to look at, first of all, in my opinion, impressions are not meant to depict real life. How many lions are gonna be doing what we see that one in the painting doing? Never. Not this white punk. It's the imagination that is fired in us by simple works by people who enjoy working quietly and talking to others through their brushes and daubing.
It's what makes neebee's work appealing. She is our prime example, too, of the artist who arts for the sake of OtheRs, not that Art fella. You all get my drift. You are all respected judges of worthy (and not so worthy) art. You all own art. Art's so subjective it's funny. I can see right through a person by looking at what he puts on his walls and shelves. I'd love visiting you folks, having the docent's tour. Should that chance ever arise. Unless you don't want me seeing right through you, that is. But then, why have art and display it if you don't share it? Thank you all for sharing. It's been a fine experience, this year, with images.
"Merry Christmas," to oil!
And to water-color, still photography, and pastel, "Black and White!"
To quote the avid collector Thaddeus Hocking, "I've been inside too long. Don't ask me why, Dragonfly."
edit: There is another painting which accompanies this one, according to sources close to Pobla--the manager of Sunny's wig shop in the corner of Middle Earth (the Tioga Hotel). Pobla's studio--we've been there on The Flames--is down Main a few doors. We both agree he's a crazy man who HAPPENS to be Russian, like the manager is a straight guy who HAPPENS to run the wig shop for a relative and HAPPENS to be black. I must see this other painting which HAPPENS to complement the After Rousseau. Is it Before Michelangelo, but During the Zulu War? I love mysteries.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2013 - 10:04am PT
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At the Multicultural Arts Center on Main STreet, Merced, for sale in the Arbor Gallery by local artists.
Fired pottery bowls by Joan Rafel.
Bowls turned in wood by Pope Lawrence.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 10:57am PT
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hey there say, mouse... wow, nice share... i DID see this share of yours already... twice, makes it just as nice... (as to the art) ...
say, oddly, the pink frame thing brings out a type of highlight that is in the painting that might not otherwise catch the eye...
i liked it, in that way... though, if we could run around all over and try all kinds of frames, i'd sure find others that we'd all like, too...
say, to me, that art, meant the the subject in the painting, had fallen asleep, after playing 'music of africa' and was dreaming of the lion--though NOT of the lion getting ready to eat said-dreamer, :O
just seemed like the neat colors of the close, matching the music-instrument, sent the singer off to dreamland:
which was the darkness, lion and such... however, oh my, the painter
would and could, very much DIFFER on that idea, :))
i had some of mine that i finished that i'd like to have shared, but two were for a private family man, and the third and fourth, as well...
don't reckon i'd show them...
however, after the holidays, i do have about 12 i can show... :)
:)
there is this one, OIL--that is NOT DONE YET...
ONE of these??? i may have put up already???
THESE ARE ACRYLIC--as--i needed to get them done fast, for
surprise birthday gift, and thanksgiving gift:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2013 - 11:19am PT
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That first unfinished one is so very beautiful. I've seen it on the FB page as it progressed.
I have a spot for it, won't pay a lot for it, because it's one you should keep and make one more that's sorta like it but with the crops ready or already in--just thinkin' out loud. That should go for a lot more than what I paid for that portrait of Liz. It's real "showpiece."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 11:24am PT
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hey there say, DMT... thank you so much... i am trying to climb the ol' mountain trail, for sure...
occasionally i slip and slide back to some ol' rut of various boo-boo
blunder, but i am getting less and less of that... so the trail is more
even keel now... (well, for not being a boat) ;)
say phylp:
i love that midsummer dance once...wow, it make it FEEL real...
i don't always like the 'blur' styles of art, and i used to wonder why,
'til one day when me and one of friends were talking about stuff, by phone:
i think this is why:
when i was about ten? i had to get glasses... well, for the first time that i could recall THEN-- TREES were crisp and clear and i could see the edges... they were not blurred brown things with bushy green stuff...
i was really amazed :O
so i think, oh my, that THAT is why, whenever i start to try and paint that way, as it looks FUN to just smear around the colors with brush shapes only and not much form, and such--well, i just HAVE to fix it, :))
odd how life molds our art, :))
:)
well, i was babysitting and trying to finish secret santa gifts, so i
need to go sleep now... whewww, :)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 11:48am PT
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hey there say, mouse... yeah, i would like to paint a large one like this to keep... or sell... but i do awful, in sales... :O
so anything, jewelry, dreamcatchers, art, books, all are special gifts,
:)
THIS one is a gal's family, and she hoped to have it for christmas... she only could put in about almost half of what liz, went for... but she has four kids that she is still helping out, and two are in her home, still and she is a single mom--i rarely get paid for my work...
nearly all are gifts... but a gracious mouse, and this gal, and a handful of a few FUN folks, have sent me kind money for the paintings, later, and
i was really shocked and of course, very grateful...
and a climber gal, here, paid for a very nice fun one, i did for her, as
a job that she wanted... i had fun with that... and with yours!
NOW:
shocked, meaning, i never expected any at all... gifts are gift, you know, but wow, it always came right when i really REALLY needed it, so i think god must have nudged someone, very sweetly in those cases, :)
as he did with the liz, painting, :) ;)
WELL,
she will pay for shipping, etc, too, as this is large... :O
CAN'T WAIT to share the others... :)
there is ONE with stripes, later, that HOPE you will like...
i am not too good with stripes, as they move and change color, etc,
in material (like the one that phylp, share, above)...
:)
wow, i really got to go to sleep... be back later, all...
:)
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Dec 15, 2013 - 12:44pm PT
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Neebee, love that painting of the countryside and the house... very fine.
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Dec 15, 2013 - 01:27pm PT
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Some recent studio work.
The winter scene is a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law who broke her shoulder in 17 places last week in a fall. My father-in-law commissioned the piece prior to her fall. I was happy how this one turned out and hoping it will bring her some peace.
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 15, 2013 - 02:13pm PT
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Nice share, Mouse.
Gorgeous new work everybody!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2013 - 02:26pm PT
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Technical question: Why will neebee's photos not enlarge when clicked?
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Dec 15, 2013 - 03:08pm PT
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And Neebs has repeatedly said she has a dial up connection - too slow for larger images!
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bc
climber
Prescott, AZ
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Dec 15, 2013 - 03:19pm PT
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Two more recent paintings.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 15, 2013 - 09:49pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... as to this, did not have time before...
I can see right through a person by looking at what he puts on his walls and shelves. I'd love visiting you folks, having the docent's tour. Should that chance ever arise. Unless you don't want me seeing right through you, that is. But then, why have art and display it if you don't share it?
very true--you learn about about someone, by their wall...
in life, folks may make 'walls to keep folks out' ... but if you get
'past the court yard' the inner walls sure can reveal a lot, :)
fun share...
yep, phylp... the dial up ... only way i can get pics up, is if they are 400 and not much larger... even these take a long time, but not too long to wait... even these will stall, at times, too... :(
thanks to dingus, too for great info there...
also--oops, as to the ol' dial up neebee-notation:
the reason i share about the dial up so much is i FEEL so rude, :(
when i first GOT to the taco, the dial-up worked enough to function...
i was able to share a lot and help encourage and even read trip reports
'according to pics' as well...
BUT NOW??
sure can't figure why dial up was suddenly WORSE, :(
BUT NOW, i figure i got the answer:
now-a-days things are updating FAR TOO FAST, and all the sights have tech things that dial up just can't handle, so i don't 'do what i used to do' here... and at the other spots i visit..
in fact, i GAVE up on the epilepsy site, all together...
too complex--they made it all 'fancy' etc,
ooops, back to ART WORK HERE NOW...
:)
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