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I personally don't go in for art much but my parents were and to a certain extent still are avid collectors of art and music, call them one and the same if you want. Concerning art. They never really collected large canvases but they did often buy large and detailed books from galleries that they visited. They have stored these compendiums in several boxes. They're re- decorating at the moment and I offered to house this collection for the duration. Yesterday evening I was having a look through some of these books and I stumbled across a book I thought I wouldn't see again. The works of Pieter Bruegel the elder who was a Dutch Renaissance Genre painter who's works mostly comprised of landscapes and peasant scenes. I've always publicly stated that a lot of art has never really made much of an impression on me except very detailed portrait paintings that in some cases can't be distinguished between a modern day photo. Anyway, this mans work has had a profound effect on me as when I was younger it terrified me, especially 'The invasion of Hell' scene and many others. It still does have an effect of me as it still made me uneasy to look at some of the more graphic pieces. I've seen images similar to this in my youth and they never had the effect this mans paintings had and I was old enough to understand the images from Bosnia when I was little (just to make my point clearer).


Do any of you have a particular painter or style of painting/type of art that envokes a real reaction from with inside be it your heart or head?


P.s Yes I suppose this is some sort of recompense for my other more base threads that appear to have caused a bit of an earthquake this morning but otherwise I'd be genuinely interested to here your answers regarding the above.

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I personally don't go in for art much but my parents were and to a certain extent still are avid collectors of art and music, call them one and the same if you want. Concerning art. They never really collected large canvases but they did often buy large and detailed books from galleries that they visited. They have stored these compendiums in several boxes. They're re- decorating at the moment and I offered to house this collection for the duration. Yesterday evening I was having a look through some of these books and I stumbled across a book I thought I wouldn't see again. The works of Pieter Bruegel the elder who was a Dutch Renaissance Genre painter who's works mostly comprised of landscapes and peasant scenes. I've always publicly stated that a lot of art has never really made much of an impression on me except very detailed portrait paintings that in some cases can't be distinguished between a modern day photo. Anyway, this mans work has had a profound effect on me as when I was younger it terrified me, especially 'The invasion of Hell' scene and many others. It still does have an effect of me as it still made me uneasy to look at some of the more graphic pieces. I've seen images similar to this in my youth and they never had the effect this mans paintings had and I was old enough to understand the images from Bosnia when I was little (just to make my point clearer).


Do any of you have a particular painter or style of painting/type of art that envokes a real reaction from with inside be it your heart or head?


P.s Yes I suppose this is some sort of recompense for my other more base threads that appear to have caused a bit of an earthquake this morning but otherwise I'd be genuinely interested to here your answers regarding the above.

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If they've got a lot of exhibition catalogues, you wouldn't have a look to see if they've got one for the National Gallery exhibtition "Russian Landscape" from about 2 years ago, would you? I went on the last day, was utterly bowled over by it, and have been searching for one ever since. (they'd run out)


Recently I've been trying to be more creative myself. I've signed up for a lino-printing workshop in August, it's a really interesting style. I'll probably be rubbish at it, but I'm gonna give it a go anyway. Lots of artists have used lino cut, Picasso most notably. I still remember being at school and the art teacher showing us work by an early 20th century German artist called Kathe Kollwitz; incredible, stark, powerful stuff. She's pretty much unknown these days, I think, but I highly recommend looking her up.

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If they've got a lot of exhibition catalogues, you wouldn't have a look to see if they've got one for the National Gallery exhibtition "Russian Landscape" from about 2 years ago, would you? I went on the last day, was utterly bowled over by it, and have been searching for one ever since. (they'd run out)


Recently I've been trying to be more creative myself. I've signed up for a lino-printing workshop in August, it's a really interesting style. I'll probably be rubbish at it, but I'm gonna give it a go anyway. Lots of artists have used lino cut, Picasso most notably. I still remember being at school and the art teacher showing us work by an early 20th century German artist called Kathe Kollwitz; incredible, stark, powerful stuff. She's pretty much unknown these days, I think, but I highly recommend looking her up.

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