My local museum actually has all 8 of their monets out at once for a change. There’s usually a few loaned out. And I was really struck by just how they complimented each other and just how much more
Powerful they were together. We must lose so much when we just see one work by an artist plucked out and put next to someone else. Unavoidable obviously but still losing something
I used to have a bunch of the paperback taschen artist books but sold them when briefly moved into a small flat and I wasn’t going to many art things
Really getting back into art exhibits and cataloging what I’ve seen and have a larger house and am looking at getting a few good shelves full of artist or movement books (and harder of tracking down catalogues of shows and museums I was too poor to buy the books for)
I’m not totally hung up on having matching sets and I will be mainly looking second hand but wondered if I anyone had strong opinions on the taschen basic art series or the Thames and Hudson world of art ones or another similar series
Large colour illustrations would be the main draw and a reasonable level of coverage of works from different sources
As I said I used to have some of the taschen ones and the text was quite dry and characterless (almost certainly in translation) but the images were good
I have plenty of general history of art ones. I want to build up an artist by artist collection over a few years
Anyone got any thoughts or preferences.
Anyone got any good resource management strategy games for switch one. The sort of thing that on your phone is pay to win or tons of ads. Any setting or cuteness really
One player especially. Multiplayer mode fine but needs to be one player too
On an art trip to Munich and Vienna and amongst all the major stuff that has totally blown me away I’ve really liked Alexej Von Jawlensky’s stuff.
Not pretending his is a first tier figure but I’m a sucker for colour. For paintings of non conforming women (and to a lesser extent men) and like expressionist and early 20th century art generally. I also find between the wars Germany very interesting.
So he’s in my wheelhouse rather than having to win me around and as I said I’m not claiming he’s top tier but his work is so much fun.
I’m guessing I’m in the right place for him generally but anyone got any favourites away from Munich and Vienna?
Puckett/parobeck
Dini detective
Morrison
Grant/breyfogle
Absolute Snyder
Gotham central
Englehart/rogers
O’neil/various but the adams ones are doing a lot of heavy lifting. The other artists are great too but Adams hides oneils issues a bit more
Snyder/n52
Moench both runs but especially Jones
Edit Kind of wish Matt Wagner had done a proper run I could list. And that I’d remembered robinsons one year later before I typed moench
Was lucky enough to see this at the Thyssen last November but was doing Madrid with just a backpack so didn’t buy a book. Is there a full contents list anywhere online.
Am trying to put together what I’ve seen in exhibits and am mainly learning that AI lies in the most obvious over the top ways
I’ve never really considered myself much of a renaissance guy. I mean obviously I know it and like it compared to some guy in the street but I’m more post-impressionist early 20th century person and renaissances stuff in bigger galleries is probably the closest I get to museum fatigue (probably down to number of babies and saints) where something really has to break through to me
But twice recently I’ve been really struck by tintorettos over other things in same galleries by artists I on paper like more.
I think it’s probably that I respond to colour so strongly and there’s something specific in how he mixes whites and reds that really explodes for me. Will try and post pics
I’d love to go to Venice one day but it’s not on the medium term list so the really famous ones are out for a bit and as I outlined I think I would probably respond harder if it’s not one of several hundred Italian religious paintings. Anyone got any that blew them away?
Will try and resee the national gallery ones soon
Lucky enough to see this one in person today (kitchen maid with supper at emmaus) and the way it foregrounds the domestic (and female and black) and pushes Christ back into the corner really struck me as something truly special. It doesn’t even really downplay it. It works as something spiritual floating over her real life and it also works at asking questions which presumably wouldn’t have been that easy to ask in the Spain of his day.
Plus it’s just amazing use of the canvas and the eye and everything else he’s so good at
Just got an email from global comix saying image will be leaving the service (apart from a few titles). It’s been my main way of reading image comics for a while as am digital only these days.
I tend to read in trades and there really isn’t much chance of me switching to buying online copies of trades for the sort of prices you could get a physical one and there is absolutely zero chance of me changing to physical copies after selling a massive house clogging physical collection
Has anyone heard of image going towards their own marvel unlimited/dc infinite subscription model in the near future as I would happily pay monthly
How come they miss out worlds finest. It’s in continuity. Tpbs are in print. It’s better than a lot of the dreary lotdk arcs.
This sub is always concerned with timelines and canon over quality yet also pretends a huge chunk of Batman comics don’t have him teaming up with superman or green lantern and fighting imps and aliens.
Sorry if this isn’t the right sub. Please point me towards one for viewing museum art if one exists
Have a trip to Munich and Vienna to see art booked for early August and am at the planning stage. I don’t speak German but wondered if anyone here had any knowledge of any temporary exhibits on this summer in either city that would be must sees.
Particularly one with high quality loans or rarely displayed drawings or prints
Also is the alte pinatothek the only place showing stuff from the closed neue P
Current definites are
Alte P
Lenbachhaus
p moderne
Leopold
Albertina
Kunsthistoriches
Succession mural
Belvedere
I’ve been to the Belvedere before on a quick visit (companion not really into art) but none of the others
Anywhere else I should try and fit in (I have a little spare time in Vienna. Not much in Munich
Just came across this Kane opening page (tec 374). No idea how good the story is yet but was struck my how ‘show not tell’ it was compared to almost all 60s Batman. Really demonstrates that infantino was trying to put some more visual storytelling into the line. You can read this page without words.
Wouldn’t have looked out of place at marvel whereas a lot of 60s dc feels very very static and over written
On my last few visits this was out on loan somewhere so lovely to see it for the first time in a while and get new things from it. If you visit a second tier place with sought after paintings enough you start to see them move in and out and back to a different spot then they left and see them juxtaposed with different neighbours and that along with the difffences in time of year and in you makes the painting have a slightly different feel than the other times.
Your own personal, across the decades, relationship with a painting.
Was listening to an x-men podcast this morning that was essentially just mocking loebs awful writing for an hour from various spread out parts of his career. Was just taken as read that he was terrible
Yet here his work is always on the recommendation lists
I kind of get it. I bought long Halloween as floppies, Tim Sale had me excited too but the mystery doesn’t really hang together and everything since has been progressively worse. People are a bit more grudging and mixed about hush. But it’s also still something people recommend
Often Nice art and it’s a visual medium so I can see reasons to read his stuff for the art but it seems to be more actual approval amongst Batman fans than elsewhere.
Last night I read the king tut storyline (because of a post on here) and the one off issue 49 which is genuinely one of the best standalone Batman as detective stories I’ve read. Really great issue
The writers on the others I’ve looked at are not really people who inspire me to check them but to be honest the ones on those stories weren’t either and they were great
Anyone got any others they really like
Sorry if this isn’t the place. Anyone know of a sub about actively going to see great paintings.
Anyway I’m planning some trips for next year and Paris and Munich are options. The neue pinakothek and the Pompidou centre are both closed for long term renovations.
It’s possible to find some details about alternate viewing options for the Munich collection, obviously it’s not everything but there seem to be quite a few things on show and presumably the best known stuff will be amongst them
Still possibly a shame to miss out on the rest of course
I’m finding it very hard to work out what’s still viewable in Paris from the Pompidou. The Kandinskys in particular are a major part of my decision making about where to go
Anyone have any recent experience of seeing stuff from the Pompidou while it’s closed. I know the Pompidou has a bunch of satellite museums in other countries
Obviously there’s still tons to see in both cities and but just trying to plan the best times.
Love this portrait in the Thyssen. I’ve had positive reactions to others of his but not been struck by their directness and the modernity of the subject (it’s obviously of its time but you can imagine her now as well). Anyone know any others of his that have a similar vibe?
Hoping to visit for a long weekend in a few months from south wales
Plan is to fly in on the Thursday Probably go to Edinburgh and back by train on the Friday and spend Saturday and most of Sunday in Glasgow
I’d really like to visit the kelvingrove museum. The Burrell collection and the hunterin around Glasgow (and maybe gallery of modern art)
Edinburgh would be the national gallery of Scotland and the national gallery modern.
I think the Edinburgh ones are quite close together and I tend to be a fairly quick viewer who has things he wants to see rather than someone who takes ages on each painting
How easy would it be to do the kelvingrove and hunterin in a single day
Also is the airport to polok house/burrel collection fairly easily done if I arrive at the airport at say 11/12 in the morning. Public transport or uber I guess.
Also if I have a spare three or four hours are there any other good art destinations?
Hope someone can help with logistics.
Big comics reader wanting to try a few manga I get recommended online. Largely old stuff like vinland saga or full metal alchemist. I already pay for Marvel unlimited. Dc infinite and global comix
Got the webtoons app (android) and read the first chapter of full metal alchemist.
I don’t mind watching ads or waiting to read for chapters but won’t be buying coins as I have hundreds of thousands of American comics available
On the services I am paying for and don’t want to pay for any one specific comic
Is it possible to just slowly read an older series through to the end for free or will you definitely have to pay at some point. (Again watching ads is fine)