[MB.]

http://www.artrenewal.org/museum/b/Bouguereau_William/mark_walker2.asp

I feel like i've been looking for this guy all my life- absolutely amazing paintings!

[naked_turk]

w00t! They look so life-like! Beautiful, Bill, just beautiful.

[Repubcracy]

I LOOOOVE IT!! but this is the art I love!!! *squeel*

http://www.laerry.rpgdarkside.com/oekaki2/pictures/316.png

[Lt. Spoonman]

wow, "the ornament of the fields" is my favorite... look at the ground and the feet. remarkable.

[Yeddi]

That guy is seriously talented.

[Slip, Freudian]

You guys actually liked that?

I hated them all. That kind of romantic, pretty-pretty "art" makes me sick.

Some of Bouguereau's comments help us understand the manner in which he perceived nature and its representation in his art:


"Paint as you see and be accurate in your drawing: the whole secret of your art is there."9

"paint as you see"... and the guy has people in some of the most awkward and unnatural postures I have ever seen, and ANGELS ffs.

Sure, the guy can paint, but what he paints is sickening shit.

I do like his presentation of the human form, if only he would do the backgrounds with the same pedantity.

So like, I beg to differ.

EDIT: Now heres a painter for you:

http://www.phespirit.info/pictures/finland/p001001.htm

and he is Finnish too!

[Falleen Prince Xizor]

amazing...

really glorious

[Yeddi]

You guys actually liked that?

No particulary, but he's definatley talented.

[Boondock Saint]

I like both but its all shit compared to stick figures.

[Falleen Prince Xizor]

sarcasm is fun.

[Gustav Fluffy]

Sure, the guy can paint, but what he paints is sickening shit.

I could not have put it better myself.

[Ocker]

Why exactly is it so 'sickening'?

Because some of the works include mythological beings, or am I missing something?

Sounds like Hitler and his dislike for 'decadent' art.

Slip, Freudian, I agree, that guy is good as well, for some reason he reminds me of a lot of Australian art that features scenes from the colonial days.

[Groovesmith]

Dude these pictures kick ass Mr Bill... I love the faces!

Ive used them in a new sig jejeje they look kinda funkay

Nice one !

[Seán Himmelb(L)au]

I can't say that I like that Mark Walker guy- I agree, he is talented, but most art painted before 1900 just doesn't do it for me.

Here are my favourite artists:

Richard Deacon
This is a good link...
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artists/RichardDeacon
Wassily Knadinsky
Tracey Moffat
Marc Chagall
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Cy Twombly
Michael Majerus