Because Lists?

*looks sullenly at calendar*
--uyyy, I hafta do a blog today, don't I?


*looks even more sullenly at blog topics*
cinemagraph gif cinemagraph bbc earth planet eagle
*sighs pickily and looks at watch*

...alright, well, howzabout an...um...top 10 list? Haven't done that before

wELL FINE BE THAT WAY BUT I HAVE A BLOG TO WRITE SO--
GO SIT ON A CACTUS / by Rowan Sterenberg
whatEVER
SAY SOMETHING LOVING
...
where was I
oh yes
Top 10 List of...um...

*scrolls idly through personal list of top 10s*

*gets annoyed bc top 10s aren't enuff 4 picky taste*

*flails angrily as computer decides to shut down randomly and has to be rebooted!!*

*sighs again*

...okay, it's between artists or sports. Because. Which one?

(*pretends to listen to deafening silence @ 3:30 a.m. during foal watch*)
François Sola nous perd dans l'espace et le temps grâce au procédé du cinemagraph et de ses gifs animés qui semblent figés et vivant à la fois.
*yawns*

arTISTS IT IS! tHANK 4 INPUT! *bows*
i got me one of those
*moves on bc this blog isn't writing itself*

...ok, disclaimers:
a) there are a lot more artists I like than this, so I'm now regretting this a bit. I don't wanna leave anything out. But there it is.
#WHATEVER

b) ....
I forgot what the higgety piggle my point (b) was. r.u.kidding.me.

TEN THOUSAND BLISTERING TYPHOONS

Ok. Let's just do this. *huffs*
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Hannah's Top 10 Artists (At the Moment)
--and I can't include NEARLY all the nice lovely works of these artists so SORRY--

1. Monet
Cliff Walk at Pourville (detail) by Claude Monet
...as in Claude Monet. Known for his water lilies, but did SO much else too. I have a treasured copy of the above work, too. Dis boi...
So
*prolific
*talented
*incredible
*ashamed at how terrible I am in comparison
Peaches - Claude Oscar Monet - www.claudemonetgallery.org
HOWW


2. Matisse
Henri Matisse - Confidence, 1922
--as in Henry Matisse. Recent addition to my favorites (though I recall my mom often mentioning him). Known for incredibly fine technique; also high on my list bc of how he was so good at capturing the *essence* of artistic moments. I still don't understand just how, but I rather like his stuff. A lot. It makes me smile. :)
Henri Matisse - Dishes and Melon, 1907 at Barnes Foundation Philadelphia PA

3. Norman Rockwell
Th late Norman Rockwell painted "Triple Self-Portrait" in 1960 for the Feb. 13 cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
--A guy who did weekly covers for the Saturday Evening Post, and had an INCREDIBLE grasp of lifelike stuff, working from models/arrangements, and capturing MOMENTS. Has a really intriguing sort of story as well. Several books' worth of his art are somewhere around my house. ;)
Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges, known as the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South (1960).  Escorted by US Marshals, she was jeered, threatened and had things thrown at her. Ruby was only 6 years old.

4. Alexander Calder
"Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions."--Alexander Calder
First encountered in a local art museum exhibit (which my mother took me to) several years ago, and something about his works...stuck with younger me. How he molded and arranged and played with such solid, earthy things like metal and wood and wire--and made them into intriguing, flying, living pieces and mobiles and settings--still something I love.
Alexander Calder - memories of school field trip to Guggenheim to see his mobiles/stabiles
(also, still really want a replica of some of his mobiles. #wishfulthinking)

5. Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter, Mycologist: The Beloved Children’s Book Author’s Little-Known Scientific Studies and Illustrations of Mushrooms | Brain Pickings
Perhaps a bit more unknown -- but the author known for Peter Rabbit (and much more) was also KILLER at sketching and watercolors. Especially studies and nature/botanical stuff. Look it up, you'll be amazed.
Beatrix Potter by kathie

6.Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh -Blossoming Almond Tree
One of the very few artists who
a) makes me feel like the art is something my hand is over -- almost painting from the flesh (if that makes sense),
Van Gogh - Vento
and
b) makes me want to slightly cry when I look at it. Somehow, his heart and struggles and persona and sadness strike through all of his works to me, and...emotions. Quite incredible to me.

7. Diego Velazquez
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, 1599–1660). Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670), 1650. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971 (1971.86) #mustache #movember
INCREDIBLE painter from way back. I think I saw an exhibit of his, too -- how he does so much that up close, seems to be a slapdash of paint, but when you step back, resolves into these insane, layered, exquisite details...takes my breath away.

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist. Velázquez's artwork was a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Édouard Manet. Since that time, more modern artists, including Spain's Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, as well as the Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon, paid tribute by recreating his work.
(also had a sense of humor sometimes hehe)

8. Edgar Degas
Dancers Near a Set, Edgar Degas c. 1889
--dat boi most probably known most for his "ballerina" paintings. Most dancers, if you ask them, will (a) know of them, and (b) possibly like them, bc they're pretty but also often V ACCURATE as pertains to dat dancer lyfe. :-D
Edgar Degas - Arlequin danse, c. 1890.

9. Michelangelo
'David' is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo. It depicts the Biblical story of David and Goliath. The statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, in Florence, Italy, in 1873.
...the way this guy connected with his art, and just...brought things out of it..
You know what, I'm not even gonna try and describe all the ways I love his work. It is what it is.
anatomy by Michelangelo - human study
(OH AND HEY HE SAID COOL STUFF TOO WOW JUST KEEPS GETTING UNFAIRLY MORE AWESOME)
Michelangelo. great artist started his career in Orto de' Medici's garden…

10. Da Vinci
...yah yah, we all know Da Vinci for his more popular works, but I actually really enjoy some of his quieter, less regaled stuff. Just saying.
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 - 1519) | Virgin of the Rocks, detail - 1495-1508. National Gallery, London.

An eye in profile Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise 1519)   #TuscanyAgriturismoGiratola


❤ aND HIS SKETCHES OH MY GOODNESS HIS SKETCHES ❤
*swoons*

yah im a classical art nerd
and proud
get over it

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...alright, well, that's it. This post took forever to drum up, but life happens. Many things to go do.
l8r m8rs
(is that even a thing)
(n0)
(ok kewl)
✌✌✌✌✌
~hw

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