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Blixa wrote:Image

thinking of love

Amazing.

Can you share the name of this one for me as well?
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zeezrom wrote:
Blixa wrote:Image

thinking of love

Amazing.

Can you share the name of this one for me as well?


Oh yeah, he's an interesting one because he's Japanese. Not something you would guess from the style, right?

I'll have to wait til I'm home to call up the details for you.

My parents have a reproduction of this in their bedroom. It's certainly one of the paintings I've looked at the most in my life, perhaps the even THE most looked at. I think it exerted a life-long influence over me.
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Love by Gustav Klimt
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Blixa wrote:My parents have a reproduction of this in their bedroom. It's certainly one of the paintings I've looked at the most in my life, perhaps the even THE most looked at. I think it exerted a life-long influence over me.

Very cool.

My grandmother painted her own "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" and we had it on our wall in the house I grew up in. I was scared of it.
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zeezrom wrote:
My grandmother painted her own "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" and we had it on our wall in the house I grew up in. I was scared of it.


That's awesome! I wish you had a picture of it.
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Blixa wrote:
zeezrom wrote:
My grandmother painted her own "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" and we had it on our wall in the house I grew up in. I was scared of it.


That's awesome! I wish you had a picture of it.

We still have it!

It hangs in our office/toy room. I will PM you a picture of it.
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zeezrom wrote:
It hangs in our office/toy room. I will PM you a picture of it.


please do!
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Ok...looked it up. This is Tsugouharu Foujita. I think you will find his biography of great interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuguharu_Foujita

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He was also a cat lover and painted exquisite watercolours of them:

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You can also Google to see more of his work. I can't post the lovely nudes he was known for because philistinism.
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