Art

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

What sort of images to you find visually attractive?

I tend to be attracted to images which make use of light, I think. I hadn't really managed to narrow it down that far before, but it's almost always a picture with interesting texture and light which grabs my attention.

Or, in much the sam way that I like to look at the sea, anything with lots of sea in I like. So Rocks at Port-Coton, the Lion Rock, Belle-Île by Monet is one of my favourites.



Are there particular styles of art you like?
I do like impressionists. I love Turner, often regarded as a preface to Impressionism.
Consider Inverary Pier, Loch Fyne, Morning


or Snow Storm Off the harbour entrance.



What makes an image pleasing?

For me, it's all about light and movement, or maybe a sense of place.

My children have other views. Andreas was very rude in a Turner exhibition recently, such that I had to take him out. I said 'How would you feel if someone said that about art that you liked? How about those men with the jaguars, if someone were rude about them?' (gesture towards the visiting statues he had been enjoying). 'Don't be silly mummy, that's a Michelangelo' he replied. I felt justly told.

Where we agree is the Henry Moore style. They like power and strength and movement, and I can understand that.
I think it was this one of which Andreas said 'See how she loves the baby, see how happy they are, it's beautiful' as he dragged me across the gallery.



Judith often sees something and feels an urge to draw it. I don't have that urge, so I just gaze in wonder and hold her pencils.


There was more to this, so I might come back to it later.

Comments

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those are excellent paintings, thanks for the pointers. I don't really have much of an idea of Turner in my head but I may have to investigate.

We're much more of a Hepworth house than a Moore house ;-)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Maybe i should introduce the children to Hepworth. They're loving the Moore at kings cross, is how the interest came about.