What type of art are you drawn to?

All types; visual and musical.

@Tropical_Willie – No favorites? What are you listening to now?

I listen to classical, jazz, R&B, Broadway, Hawaiian and Rock & Roll (1950’s through 1980’s). I collect glass objects and paintings. I play ukulele, paint and do stain glass.

@Tropical_Willie -Interesting! I was listening to Sarah Vaughan yesterday while working. She had an amazing voice.
I work as a potter and painter but I have tried many other kinds of media.
I want to make shutters with stained glass inserts for a kitchen window. I learned to do it using the copper foil method. I missed the class where they demo’d using lead came.
The design I am using is very linear so the came makes sense,IMO.
Is lead came difficult to work with? I should be able to stretch it with out any extra equipment,right?

Monet types. Also, Alphonse Mucha.

Sculpture, I do love a good bust!
My mother knows this & has, I think, abandoned all hope her son will ever fully mature.

@ucme- LOL I’ll paint you a sign- “The Louvre or bust” !

@lucillelucillelucille Cheers pet & i’m certain your bust is rather splendid :D

Some artists that I’ve gotten into recently…

Marija Tiurina

Peter Vogel

@ucme-It would be had I not got that tattoo of a third nipple.

@raum -Her clay work is interesting!

Haha, well hi there Scaramanga

@Hi?

My favorite is theatre. I am a Shakespeare fiend. I love to watch Shakespeare. I read it for fun. I like contemporary plays too.

I love to listen to music, and I look for free concerts as often as possible. I love Hawaiian music, jazz, classical, and adult alternative. I listen to a lot of Hawaiian slack key guitar. My favorite artist is Makana.

In visual arts, I like contemporary modern painting. I love to explore my feelings when confronted with an abstract painting. I also like modern sculpture. I got lucky and found a really interesting piece made of Lucite at a secondhand store.

I am not enthusiastic about dance. I have very limited exposure to it, so I rarely think about it.

@Hawaii_Jake -My husband loves Shakespeare too.Henry V being his favorite.He likes the movie with Kenneth Branaugh. i watched it so I could stare at Brian Blessed.
You are the second to mention Hawaiian music.I might have to see what I am missing.
I didn’t know you painted. That’s my favorite out of what you’ve listed as it enables mindfullness in way few other things do for me.
I am not a good dancer but love to watch ballroom competitions.
By the way, one of the best dance scenes in a movie was in 7B7B, IMHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzJtP75NqM

Jan-Ole Schiemann

Cj Hendry

Sarah Sze

Miles Johnston

I could do this all day long.
Too much great stuff out there.

@raum -Hendry :)

I usually find hyperrealism more impressive than compelling. But I really dig her Rorschach paint blots.

EDIT: Actually, I take that back.
I’m also a big fan of Ron Mueck

@raum- I love the old masters more than anything but can appreciate other styles.

There’s always deep respect for the old masters. Even though they painted realistically, I don’t think of them as hyperrealists. Maybe it’s just me, but I think of hyperrealism as a subset of contemporary art.

@lucillelucillelucille Try this

Also, I was unclear. I don’t paint. I look at paintings.

@raum – Maybe but there were IMO, painters back then that painted in a very realistic style (to me, anyway)
There is one that comes to mind and of course I can’t remember the names of the work or artist but the woman in the painting reminds me of Sylvester Stallone.XD
The detail in her dress is amazing.

@Hawaii Jake- That is beautiful! Thanks for posting it :)

Ha! You should find it again and send Stallone a note about it.

@raum-It’s at the DIA in Detroit.
I wonder what kind of “fan mail” he’d send back to me XD

I put in “Stallone” but didn’t get any hits. Should tell the DIA to update their search engine. :P

@raum -I am laughing like a nut now! I wish i could remember the name. I suppose I could call and ask .XD

LOL! I would absolutely need a transcript of that phone call.

I’m totally serious.

@raum- I have a feeling it would be a short one. :)

@lucillelucillelucille I’ve done clay work for almost 55 years, green ware and thrown. Lead cane is not that hard, I took classes at the local community college. I’ve done glass beads from glass rods. In high school I played upright bass and had two semesters of improvisational jazz at a university music school.

@Tropical_Willie -So i would be able to stretch the came with my incredible strength. This is good to hear.
I have not done glass work. it is interesting to me as are plasma cutters.
As for the upright bass?? I am just plain envious.
Willie Dixon-Bassology sigh :)

I want to see some of your work, @Tropical_Willie!

@raum-Me too!
Btw- Can one still post a photo here that is visible without having to click a link? (within a thread)

Is this the painting in question?

Have to say “Does that look like Sylvester Stallone?” is a novel lens with which to view art. Art will never be the same again.

@raum -No! She was a woman of means!
The dress she was wearing had fine detail not one fish, two fish ,red fish, blue fish all over it! XD

Woman cleaning fish does not look like Sylvester Stallone! She looks like Dustin Hoffman.

I think Stallone and Hoffman actually look kind of similar with their slightly droopy cheeks. Am I crazy? Probably.

I like landscape photography the best.

Nah.
At least she doesn’t look like Bruce Jenner.

Dustin Hoffman as Rambo!
You mean Caitlyn Jenner?

@YARNLADY -A friend gave me a nice book on Ansel Adams. Lovely!

@lucille3. When you are finished with your shutter please post a picture! I love stained glass. I have tried to do it, but was not talented enough to actually piece together more than 3 pieces together.

@chyna-It will be awhile but will do.
Maybe you should try it again. Just take your time with it:)

Easy question for me. I want to feel what life is like in a different place and time.

Listening to Beethoven’s 3rd symphony from 1804 or Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool from 1949, I pretend I lived at the time and am trying to understand the weird music.

Standing in modern Frank Lloyd Wright homes, with newer fancy Queen Anne style places across the street, I project myself back and attempt to see what the neighbors saw at the time.

I see these things constantly. It’s my view of he world.

Photography.

All things that speak to me, grab me, or will not let me pass without taking another look. It can be architecture, an old chair with a beer bottle resting on the leg, a photograph, a child’s drawing, a painting or sculpture, you name it.

Just wild and unusual visions that come from ones mind, translated in to amazing works of art. Lately ive been obsessed with an Artist by the Name of Yayaoi Kusama, she’s known for creating Infinity Room exhibits, I’d love to experience this with someone dear to my heart.

@Call_Me_Jay -I like that way of looking at things.
@Sagacious -I know what you mean :)
@PaisleyFaye -That would be an awesome experience!

@lucillelucillelucille yes it would be beyond amazing! If you do a search on YouTube you can see more of her work! Some people consider her to be the Andey Warhol of Japan. I believe she’s like 80yrs old!!

@PaisleyFaye -I saw the photos and was intrigued for sure.:)

@lucillelucillelucille sometimes a photos just don’t do certain things justice, just saying.. Do you have room for another follower?

@PaisleyFaye -Of course! Nice to meet you :)