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Anonymous — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 13:31:14 GMT

Sir Henry Moore ... old alumni of where I went to Senior school.

'I'd rather have my sculpture in the landscape, than on the most beautiful building I know'

One of his recurring themes ... ... ... King and Queen ... ... ... in Scotland, I believe, hopefully still in situ.

One of my favourite pieces of his work, yes we studied his work to GCE A level in 3D Art classes

A long-stitch tapestry I did from a kit and which my then husband had framed for me.

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TallTrees — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:08:20 GMT

That's really lovely @Anonymous thanks for sharing your work with us😊❤
I love art I have done many watercolours of my favourite subject "wildlife" buildings too and landscapes. Beautiful stitching wispa 🥰

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pgn — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:21:44 GMT

Lovely photo, landscape looks like Scotland.

The tapestry looks lovely and warm. Bet it took ages to finish!

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Mi-Amigo — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 16:56:12 GMT

Lovely topic.

@Anonymous You are certainly talented, producing such a tapestry.

As my abilities in art are very limited, am I allowed to share one of my favourite paintings on this thread

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Anonymous — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 20:47:59 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:
That's really lovely @Anonymous thanks for sharing your work with us😊❤
I love art I have done many watercolours of my favourite subject "wildlife" buildings too and landscapes. Beautiful stitching wispa 🥰

Any photos of your watercolours @TallTrees

I have done several of these long stitch kit tapestries for friends and family

My sister designs her own and does tapestry the traditional way = stitch in each hole of the canvas

Thank you for your kind words TallTrees

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Anonymous — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 20:54:54 GMT

@pgn wrote:
Lovely photo, landscape looks like Scotland.

The tapestry looks lovely and warm. Bet it took ages to finish!

Thank you @pgn

I have done fishing boats on a pebble beach - tuxedo cat amongst flowers - a Mediterranean garden - anenomies in a bowl & a Middle Eastern one which is almost finished, but cannot hold the bodkin anymore

I wouldn't like to say how long each tapestry took as they are all different sizes.

I do like the Autumn colours in the tapestry I posted a photo of.

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Anonymous — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 20:55:40 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Lovely topic.
@Anonymous You are certainly talented, producing such a tapestry.
As my abilities in art are very limited, am I allowed to share one of my favourite paintings on this thread

Of course you are allowed to share a favourite painting of yours @Mi-Amigo

Salvador Dali ? ... ... ... What is the title of the painting ? ... ... ... and can you say why you like it ?

Thank you for your kind words @Mi-Amigo

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Mi-Amigo — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:29:48 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Of course you are allowed to share a favourite painting of yours @Mi-Amigo
Salvador Dali ? ... ... ... What is the title of the painting ? ... ... ... and can you say why you like it ?
Thank you for your kind words @Mi-Amigo

Thanks @Anonymous

The painting is Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. I like the whole surreal concept and the questions it raises - are they clocks or pocket watches? why are they melting? what does it mean? - and rather than offer my answers to those questions, think it better for each person viewing it to have his/her own answers and interpretation as to what it means and represents...

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TallTrees — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 06:56:09 GMT

Hello @Mi-Amigo

Very nice picture. I agree with you @Mi-Amigo

This is a very nice topic.

Hope to continue the thread with other art items that we like.

Thank you @Anonymous

I do have some paintings of my own on the wall.

I will take one or two and post them here.

I also did "china painting" I really enjoyed that.

You need a kiln, I used the one at the college.

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Anonymous — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 07:49:57 GMT

The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali ... which you @Mi-Amigo have posted as your favourite painting

I am hopeless with the Surrealists @Mi-Amigo

I just have loads of questions : what is that object which looks like it has been beached upon the shore with a bill like a duck and has a floppy pocket watch upon it

Why are the pockets watches floppy

There are ants on a tray-like pocket watch

There seems to be a solar powered block levitating

A dead tree growing out of a table

A nice seashore in the distance

Only questions, I have with the Surrealists

There were a group of talented students of Art in Senior school a couple of years above me and what they painted was superb ... Surrealist type paintings on the walls of the Art room

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Cleoriff — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 08:28:59 GMT

Two of my favourite artists are Gustav Klimt and Kandinsky.

Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and I bought this print from Ikea in Spain (yes Ikea!) to go on the wall in my apartment in Spain.

Its called Water Serpent.

He did a range called sea serpents, sea urchins, water serpents. I have no artistic reason for buying it, other than it went with the decor of the apartment. It certainly was a talking point...

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Mi-Amigo — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 08:30:01 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I just have loads of questions : what is that object which looks like it has been beached upon the shore with a bill like a duck and has a floppy pocket watch upon it
Why are the pockets watches floppy
There are ants on a tray-like pocket watch
There seems to be a solar powered block levitating
A dead tree growing out of a table
A nice seashore in the distance

To me, that`s the whole point @Anonymous . Everyone will "see" something different. While you see a duck, ants, and a solar powered block, others will think the objects are something else...

I would have loved to have seen the surreal painting by the students in your Art class

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TallTrees — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 19:07:12 GMT

Pretty painting @Cleoriff

Part of her hair reminds me of a milleflori paperweight very colourful.

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TallTrees — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 19:45:30 GMT

A MATISSE for you @Anonymous

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Cleoriff — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 19:53:18 GMT

You may like this one @TallTrees . It's by Jane Bannon

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TallTrees — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:03:15 GMT

That is really beautiful @Cleoriff
It's so detailed, must have taken many hours to do and a very fine brush!
Thank you I am putting it in my gallery ❤

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Cleoriff — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 20:08:37 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:
That is really beautiful @Cleoriff
It's so detailed, must have taken many hours to do and a very fine brush!
Thank you I am putting it in my gallery ❤

The prints are available from Wayfair @TallTrees

https://www.wayfair.co.uk/home-decor/pdp/east-urban-home-bees-on-thistle-by-jane-bannon-print-in-greypurple-caca9720.html

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TallTrees — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:50:01 GMT

Ah thank you @Cleoriff

Suits me of course

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Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:12:12 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:
A MATISSE for you @Anonymous

Thank you @TallTrees

Havn't seen this before

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Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:14:17 GMT

@Cleoriff and @TallTrees

That bee picture you have posted Cleo by Jane Bannon is so delicately done

Very beautiful