Post 43 of my favorite works of art

Amazing stuff this guy does. I really wanted to find the prints that he did where he took an ink pad in each yellow, red, and blue and made these portaits. He didn’t use a brush or a pen he used HIS THUMB. When you look close you can see all the prints marks from his thumb but from a distance they are these portraits.
I can’t understand why these are not more prominent in his body of work. Though small in size, this little portraits are just amazing and really kind of characterize art as a means of expressions through anything.

If anyone has a copy put it up here. Everyone should see them.

Great stuff.

I was in Europe with a friend and we’d never seen anything like this before.

I don’t have anyone’s name but we could not believe the craftsmanship that went into one of these sculptures.
We saw some that had arrest at gethsemane, or some other devotional piece that had lots of little figures in it.

I inculde one from the Far East but still seems to have that delicate exactness. Boxwood would seem to be an unforgiving medium but I don’t know. I couldn’t find any of the others I’ve seen.

I hope that our European friends don’t take any of this granted because in the states, we don’t see much of this.

Amazing stuff. You just can’t get past the craft of it.

Nobody picks this guy, right? I went to France and at Orsay are some incredible studies in terra cotta he did for his larger pieces. These little terra cottas are just incredible. So much better than the fully realized sculptures, and that’s saying a lot.

Really good sculpture, for me, is one of human form that has warmth of flesh and is animated. I freaking LOVE a good sculpture that has these qualites. Forget Rodin, look at some Carpeux!
Aside: not taking anything away from Rodin but there are others out there are very good.

It’s hard to pick one of Sargent’s to post. The street scenes in Italy that looked like he splashed them together in 10 minutes (including setting up the easel) but are just so right on, or the water colors, or the charcoal drawings that look like paintings – throughout his life he was rarely ‘off’ and that was probably the beef people have with him. He never seemed to explore or change his style.
I’d kill for his sense of tone and the ability to hit those tones flawlessly.

I love Rembrandt’s etchings and dry points.
The mood is unique to him and can be spotted in an instant. The shadow pattern is pleasing and serene. Despite the monotone the shadows have unbelievable depth even after reworking the plate several time.
Check out the light that hits the wall on the right. The luminosity is astounding, even in this computer graphic. You’ve got to see these.
Great stuff