Art?

**Beanz** · 01-23-2014 09:53 PM

Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire".

For me this is a very moving painting. It is on the surface a recorded document of a famous ship, with a history of it's own, that of being a pivotal part in the battle of Trafalgar, being towed into decommission by a modern steam vessel, the last of it's kind and a full stop at the end of an era. The ships fate is sealed, it is to be broken up it's usefulness now having passed, but really it seems to be as much about a sixty year old Joseph William Turner at the peak of his craft coming to terms with the transience of his own life. The ghost like vessel is almost an apparition and painting itself is undergoing a re-evaluation and revolution now that the mechanical age is dawning. His apptitude in capturing something as ethereal and ever changing as light with a paint brush is as remarkable as his amazing apptitude in making us care so much about an inanimate object.

**Beanz** · 01-23-2014 10:03 PM

There was a great documentary on the BBC recently about the American Painter Andrew Wyeth by Michael Palin (he of Monty Python fame). Often disregarded by critics who are all too happy to big up Edward Hopper it explored Wyeth's work and whether it's rural setting and his unwillingness to play the fame game had lead to his under rated appeal. You may be familiar with the painting below "Christina's World"

I may have posted this before apologies if I have I am a bit out of it. Great watch though

**Andre** · 01-28-2014 12:26 PM

**Memphis** · 02-06-2014 10:20 AM

Another offering from my scribbles. Lennox Lewis from the cover of Mamas Boy, wax oils on canvass. Its not exactly the finished article, I didn't do a great job of covering the painting that's underneath and I've started to scratch the paint off so I've had to stop. Doesn't show in a picture but the painting underneath does give a nice texture to it.

Lennox.jpg