Art exhibition - post your favorit leftist art or pictures

[El Che]

The Unemployed by José Clemente Orozco, mexican muralist.
http://www.barriolife.com/artists/orozco/theunemployed.jpg
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On Strike by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, german social realist
http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/h/Herkomer_Sir_Hubert_von/large/On_Strike.jpg
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Portrait of a Man by Raphael Soyer,Russian/American Social Realist Painter.
http://www.citypaper.com/2000-07-05/gallery-2.jpg
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Industria Moderna (modern industry) by Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist.
http://www.diegorivera.com/murals/images/new%20workers2.jpg

[El Che]

I especialy like portrait of a man

[sabre]

yes portrait of a man is wonderful, it really captures the essence and emotion of a lower class working man

[El Che]

And modern industry to me representes the sorid "machine". Its "brave-new-worldness" is very well depicted. It comes across to you as "aint-human", as instrumentalization of people that cease to be people and become part of an ugly, disgusting and alienating "machine". To me modern industry is a surealist painting, of a realist artist, depicting capitalism.

(Edited by El Che at 5:10 pm on Mar. 16, 2002)

[Sasafrás]

I love art from Latin America & Spain! Modern Industry is great but the others are good as well. I see that you got 'The Unemployed' from BarrioLife.com. I like that site, I visit there occasionally.

These are a couple of my favorite paintings. The first one should be very familiar to everyone.

http://171.64.54.94/dali/images/1931_06.jpg'The Persistance of Memory' by Salvador Dalí

http://www.nirak.net/frida/images/frida37.jpg
'Autoretrato con Collar de Espinas y Colibri' by Frida Kahlo

I'm not too sure of Dalí's political ideas. Was he a leftist of any sort? I don't know a lot about him, but I love his paintings.

And, I read that Kahlo supposedly 'dated' Trotsky, but I have no idea. I know that she was married to Rivera, but I don't know about the Trotsky thing. Is that true?

[Fires of History]

How do you put a gif. or jpg. in the post?

If someone tells me how, I will post quite a bit of art.

Cheers,
Trance

[libereco]

first you need to upload the picture somewhere...then you get the url. Say it's http://www.chuchu.com/bubu.gif

for posting the picure you put an [img ] tag before the url and a [/ img] tag after.

you have to leave out the blank space in each of those though.

[Fires of History]

Libereco,

Oh well, I *certainly don't* have the URL's.

I'm talking about several years of downloads lol

Oh well,
Trance

[Supermodel]

Picasso's Guernica: the bombing of Guernica by fascists:
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/images_persons6/guernica.jpeg

[libereco]

Quote: from Fires of History on 11:06 am on Mar. 19, 2002
Libereco,

Oh well, I *certainly don't* have the URL's.

I'm talking about several years of downloads lol

Oh well,
Trance


then you'll have to find some free webhosting service that alows linking to pictures...sadly nowadays hardly any allow that. :-/

[El Che]

That painting is rather disturbing SM, but I guess thats the whole point of it...

Also La Rainbueax that self portrait of yours what do you think it represents? because to me the message seems one of suffering, what do you think?

(Edited by El Che at 5:56 pm on Mar. 21, 2002)

[Supermodel]

heironymous bosch, hell.....
http://192.41.13.240/artchive/b/bosch/judge_r.jpg

[Supermodel]

Thomas Cole, St. John in the Wilderness

http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/a21.JPG

[Valkyrie]

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Starry Night
Saint-Rémy: June, 1889
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm.
F 612, JH 1731
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art


Ekkk! *I'm trying cut and paste Van Gogh, but it's not working. * BUMMER!!!!! *I don't know how to do the tag shit... *help!!!! *:(:(:(:( *

[Valkyrie]

Wow! Bosch's Hell is great. You can get lost in it for hours. The symbolism is incredible.

I like modern industry too.

[libereco]

Quote: from Paris on 7:40 pm on Mar. 21, 2002
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Starry Night
Saint-Rémy: June, 1889
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm.
F 612, JH 1731
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art


Ekkk! *I'm trying cut and paste Van Gogh, but it's not working. * BUMMER!!!!! *I don't know how to do the tag shit... *help!!!! *:(:(:(:( *



assuming you're using internet explorer, you right click on the image click on Properties and copy the URL the adress.

then you come here and use the urlhere tags to post it.
you have to leave the * out though.

[Supermodel]

This was a brilliant idea el Che, I feel like I'm wandering in a gallery!! Anyone for a glass of white wine and brie!!????
Here's starry night....I think....

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/images/small/0612.jpg

[Valkyrie]

Hey, thanks Supermodel!!! That indeed is Starry Night. I was hoping someone would do that!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Starry Night is Van Gogh's masterpiece. Painted after he lopped off his ear and confined himself to a mental hospital. It was the period of his most creative work.

(Edited by Paris at 12:31 am on Mar. 22, 2002)

[Fires of History]

Bosch's "Hell" is great.

I pretty much want to rename it, "Third World" though.

Peace,
Trance

[MJM]

Dali is my fav artist. I don't think he was a commie but.


temptation of st anthony (http://www.virtualdali.com/Pho46TemptationStAnthony.htm)

gallery (http://www.virtualdali.com/thumbClassic.htm)

All the pics are in .jpg format so I can't post them :-(

[libereco]

http://www.virtualdali.com/Assets/paintings/The%20Temptation%20of%20Saint%20Anthony.jpg

[MJM]

So we can post .jpgs then?

[Sasafrás]

El Che, I hope you read this.. I've been responding late to you a lot lately! Yeah, 'Autoretrato con Collar de Espinas y Colibri,' to me also represents Kahlo's suffering and also her obsession with herself, her own beauty (She truly was bellísima), and the beauty of nature. She seems to really love animals.

libereco, I LOVE that Dalí painting you just posted! I love Dalí, I have a screensaver on my upstairs computer. I can't put it on the family computer since most of his paintings include nudity.. :)

Supermodel and Paris, Van Gogh is also one of my favorite artists! He's great! It always seems like the greatest people's greatness is not recognized until after they are dead.

Bosch is way awesome! I just discovered him. He has that one painting that's really good, it's got the three parts to it and its title includes something like "good & evil," I think. What is it?

:confused:

[Son of Scargill]

http://192.41.13.240/artchive/b/bruegel/mad_meg.jpg

Dulle Griet(Mad Meg)-Pieter Bruegel
In a similar vein to Hieronymus Bosch.

http://192.41.13.240/artchive/b/bruegel/wedding.jpg

Peasant Wedding-Pieter Bruegel

I also like"Triumph of Death"by Bruegel,but I didn't want to depress you all too much.

(Edited by Son of Scargill at 4:38 pm on Mar. 25, 2002)

[El Che]

Very nice, both of them.

[El Che]

El Che, I hope you read this.. I've been responding late to you a lot lately! Yeah, 'Autoretrato con Collar de Espinas y Colibri,' to me also represents Kahlo's suffering and also her obsession with herself, her own beauty (She truly was bellísima), and the beauty of nature. She seems to really love animals.

I`m intrugued :), why did she sufer?

[Sasafrás]

She had a lot of problems. She had polio when she was a little girl. She was in a terrible bus accident later. For the rest of her life, she suffered from physical & emotional pains due to the accident, miscarriages, her dysfunctional marriage, etc. The physical pains often caused her to be hospitalized for long periods of time.

[I Will Deny You]

http://www.vancouverpostcards.com/t_logan1015.jpg

[Valkyrie]

That one is cool. Who painted that?

[Son of Scargill]

http://192.41.13.240/artchive/d/delacroix/delacroix_liberty.jpg
Liberty leading the People-Eugene Delacroix.

El Che,thanks for the painting by Von Herkomer,excellent portrayal of the anguish,fear and hopes of the worker versus the Goliath that is industry.The determination in the eyes of the man say it all for me.Timeless!

[Son of Scargill]

http://192.41.13.240/artchive/d/delacroix/thumbs/delacroix_liberty.jpg
hopefully,this is a better overall image?

Misses a lot of the detail though.

(Edited by Son of Scargill at 9:34 am on Mar. 26, 2002)

[I Will Deny You]

If you click on "picture" in my signature, it'll take you to the artist's website.

[El Che]

I`m glad you liked it Scargill.

This is Hard Times by the same author:
http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/h/Herkomer_Sir_Hubert_von/large/Hard_Times.jpg

[El Che]

steel-workers by V.Malagis
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/socialist-realism/steel-workers.jpg
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Angústia by David Alfaro Siqueiros
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/subject/art/visual_arts/painting/exhibits/muralists/angustia.jpg
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Babushka by Vasily M. Arapov
http://www.sma.shs.nebo.edu/images/arapov.jpg

[Fires of History]

El Che,

THANK YOU for posting "Hard Times" It stirred me more than most can even get near.

Loooooong story, but that picture brings a lot of emotion back to me. It reminds me of my under-educated father just trying to find work, trying to feed his wife and kids. It makes me think of the system that forces so many into sub-human jobs, or crime, out of desperation.

Thank you again comrade. Got this one saved.

DEATH TO CAPITALI$M!!!

[El Che]

FoH, I know how you feel, so does Herkomer. That is the power and beauty of art as a form of expression, it is--as from of content-- superior to written word in many ways. Feelings are universal, in art we find immediate recognition of the universal, be it painting, music, dance, you name it. We find identification, in this case identification of the sentiment of oppression and all the feelings that come with that. From sadness and resignation to anger and revolt. But the identification in its self is conforting, we know the author--at least--feels the same way, that is actualy his intention, to show he feels the same way, and that is in its self a moral suport.

Anyway, somethings are best left unsaid.

[Sasafrás]

I love "Angústia"! That's beautiful..

All this stuff ya'll are posting is great!

(Edited by La Rainbeaux at 11:15 am on Mar. 27, 2002)

[SA160]

Quote: from Son of Scargill on 9:33 am on Mar. 26, 2002
http://192.41.13.240/artchive/d/delacroix/thumbs/delacroix_liberty.jpg
hopefully,this is a better overall image?

One of my students did a "detournement" of that painting. It does not represent anymore a bourgeois revolution but a profoundly leftist re-interpretation of all revolutions. I love it so much it hangs on my wall right besides me. I'll have to take a picture of it and post it here.

Misses a lot of the detail though.

(Edited by Son of Scargill at 9:34 am on Mar. 26, 2002)

[Son of Scargill]

SA160,I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes it.I also feel it embodies the spirit of all rebellion,even with the historical symbolism within it.

El Che,thanks for bringing Herkomer to my attention.I must check out more of his work.

[Borincano]

Diego Rivera: Mexican Communist/Artist (http://www.fbuch.com/diego.htm)

[Borincano]

Revolutionary Art of Perú (http://www.csrp.org/art2.htm)

[Supermodel]

Leonardo Da Vinci:

http://banzai.msi.umn.edu/leonardo/vinci/womb.jpg


[img]http://banzai.msi.umn.edu/leonardo/vinci/ldv_oldmen.jpg[/img

(Edited by Supermodel at 9:15 pm on June 11, 2002)

[Valkyrie]

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/index.asp