—Lillian Gish
Oil and masking tape on canvas, 228 x 136.2 cm
—Loretta Young
—Marlene Dietrich
Clifford Still, “PH-1039,” 1977, Oil on canvas, 113 x 93 in.
—Marilyn Monroe
A furtive shot of MM by Phil Stern when she was pregnant, married to Arthur Miller, and before her tragic miscarriage.
just a short note of support for your site. I am not a great one to tell you about art, just a common ordinary working class guy. However, your taste shows that you care about your audience. As I said , I know little about art, but I was able to find so much inspiration, not only in the paintings, but also in the photos.
Great artists, great eye for bringing out what they were trying to express. I loved almost every one. Some I am afraid, were over my head, so to speak, but art doesn’t always connect with everyone.
As far as Israel goes, I have written 2 times to the Israeli ministry, once 5 or 6 years ago and again just recently, pledging my support and my sorrow at the lack of leadership on the part of America in standing with Israel and her right to exist. I am sometimes naïve in doing things like this, but it can’t hurt to let people know that some of us here still care, even if it seems like everyone has turned their back on the only ally in the middle east we can count on.
Thank you for a great web site and thank you for your support of Israel. Many do not dare to stand up for her, for some reason. Let us hope that soon becomes a thing of the past. Shalom.
Thanks so much for the kind note.
Too much good stuff to comment on! I must say though, I have yet to see a photograph of yours that I haven’t really, really liked. Speaking of photos, that “Showgirls” pic is really cool too.
The Nares painting and the Penn photo: Brilliant juxtaposition.
budge:
Thanks so much.
The Los Alamos photo intrigues me. I was living in Los Alamos in 1968 (as I am now) but I was six at the time. Still, that looks like it was taken in the Hill Diner. Which, sadly, closed recently.
The way Gish is holding that shotgun looks like a fish holding a fly rod.
You sure find some interesting pictures Robert! I like Showgirls and you can just feel the tension in the interaction in The Key.
Who is this Nadia from the Ukraine? Some photographer took an interest in her – I have seen different photos of her over the weeks.
Most photogenic drug dealer? 😉
I thought the same thing, Bill, but last week (or two weeks ago?) Robert had another Chelbin photo of Natalia, who was in a Russian prison for stabbing someone. I thought it was the same subject when I first saw this week’s photo.
Michal Chelbin apparently likes to photograph prisoners, kids and circus folk. She has a unique eye which illuminates the subtle innocence, and the terrifying brutality, of people. Some of her photos are… disturbing.
Ach du meine Güte! Olga is a Picasso? I am stunned…
I visited http://www.pablopicasso.org and looked through his works (which omits this work, Olga. Why?) I was surprised that there were several pieces which I liked. One in particular caught my eye… The Roaster (1938). So now I must reverse my earlier comment (that I had never seen a Picaso I wanted). I like the Mediterranean Landscape, Don Quixote, Le Lecture, the 2 Harlequin paintings and the bull fighting paintings, but I love The Roaster. Now if I only had a few million dollars of disposable income lying around…
If your readers would like create their own Picasso, you can create your own Picasso Head at http://www.picassohead.com/create.html — but beware, if you save it, it will be posted in their Gallery and even though I saved it almost a half hour ago, they have NOT (as promised) sent me a link via email to retrieve my creation.
By the way, I am still enthralled with Nares. His colors, his strokes… genius!
After revisiting the site, I see now that they don’t actually email you the “painting” at PicassoHead, they send you a link via email (which I never did receive…)