Roy Lichtenstein...I love his work too. Here's some other pieces from the same era from The Existers that you may like....

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/23...350e437250.jpg

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http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/23...27c3567ecd.jpg

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..are you a big fan of pop art in general..?...it's always really interesting talking to people about art and what they like..and I guess why they like it...for me, if I was to hang something on my wall at home I would probably go for something like pop art...but less to do with any 'meaning' of it, more because it's fun and just something that would brighten up a room..shallow, lol....but it wouldn't really 'move' me...


...I don't really like the pretentiousness of art critics, when they tell you what a meaning of a piece of art is because like everything else, I think that's up to the individual to decide for themselves...a piece of art could be very deep and profound and I might not see any of that in it..to me it might be a load of rubbish or just a bland piece of art..when I say I like Van Gogh, it's because there's just something about his paintings that move me in that with his brushwork and how frantic a lot of it is, I can almost feel his emotions...his works to me kind of scream out 'suffering' and that's why it makes me feel so emotional when I look at it..feeling his pain...and things like the 9000 fallen soldiers in the sand, it's the emotions that conjures, which for me makes it a beautiful work of art...I have a friend who is very 'arty', in fact she teaches art and she often will try to explain an artist/a certain work and why I should like it...well, not exactly why I should like it but what it means...and she's the loveliest person but I kind of think to myself all the time, I just don't get it, I don't see it because somehow I just don't connect with that artist..it may be technically good but it just doesn't make me feel anything...I don't think there's any reasoning why you do connect with something including art, you just either do or you don't and no one can tell you what a piece of art means ... you decide that meaning... oh and one of the things I feel, say in the art of Edward Hopper is his loneliness/solitude..as if he always felt like an outsider looking in on life...hmmm, I'm not sure that I would ever hang an Edward Hopper works on my wall though because it isn't really my thing so I don't know if that makes sense....


..oh, sorry for the essay, I'm not sure where that came from...

I suppose I am. I like pieces that use bold, bright colours. I love the use of colour is some abstract art such as with Mark Rothko and Terry Frost.

I believe that a piece of art is viewed differently by people. What one person may see, or what feelings they may have about a piece, another person might not. They in turn could see/feel something different. I think that's what great about art, is that it can have so many connotations for different people.

I do like to hear from the artist though what their intention was and the thought process behind creating something. What their inspiration was. I bought an original piece from an artist once and although I had my own thoughts in my mind about the piece and what it represented for me, I asked them about what their intention was with it, and what it represented to them. I thought it only polite! Ha.

Not everything has a deep meaning for me, I just find some aesthetically pleasing. Different pieces affect me in very different ways. I suppose that's the versatility of art.

In complete contrast to what I said in the first paragraph, Ralph Gibson's "Hand Through A Doorway" always makes me think and wonder. It's not colourful, and it's a really simple in it's depiction, but it casts so many thoughts in my head.

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..I love black and white anyway but I see what you mean with that picture..it's kind of one of those 'in between' things where the door could be opening or closing and the hand is hovering..I don't know why but with images like that I always want to know more and the 'story'..who the hand belongs to, are they opening the door/closing it..alone or not..it's a simple image but there's so much more to it...

..Amazingly intricate pencil tip sculptures by Diem Chau..

http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-co...m-chau-2-1.jpg

Definitely. I love a piece like this because it leaves so much to the imagination, and everyone's perception is different and it makes it so much more personal. I always feel a sense of loneliness with that picture. Not personally, but in the subject itself. I like something thought provoking.

'12 Electric Chairs' by Andy Warhol...

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/or...6817474746.jpg

http://edu.warhol.org/podcasts/elect...r_image%20.jpg

..have you seen any Edward Hopper art..?..it's a completely different style and might not be your thing but his art has the same 'loneliness' ..like he's always on the outside of life and looking in and his subjects are often quite solitude figures as well, not quite belonging or a part of it...it's not so much his style of painting itself that I like but more what the images are 'saying'..if that makes sense..

I hadn't really seen much of Edward Hopper's works until you mentioned him. I then had a look at some of his pieces. Morning Sun was one that stuck out for me.

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I see what you mean. You can almost feel the emotion from his subjects in the paintings.

..yeah, Morning Sun is a good one, I can see why you like it...it's a lonely figure in an empty space, almost like a prison cell..there is no 'warmth', no sense of 'home' there..and also the outside is mainly the sky, so there is a nothingness about the world she is looking out on..a real 'lonely hearts' feel to it...I think that was his wife, Josephine Hopper, who was also an artist..she was his subject for many of his works..but I think they had quite an abusive/controlling type relationship..so it's also interesting, think, just how he sees and depicts females....

..one of the ones I like is 'House By A Railroad'...my son covered the works of Hopper when he was doing A Level Art and that was the one he chose to study and do in different mediums...we did some stuff together because I always liked to draw my interpretations of the artists he studied, not that I'm that good at art but I just like doing it..and it's nice to do things together like that lol...bonding....anyway I think I like it also because it kind of fits in with my fascination..(and imagination..) of abandoned buildings...something devoid of life and lonely yet that was not it's purpose...it's a bit like Lloyd Grossman..'who lived in a house like this..'...it's just another one that gets your thoughts going and that's what I like most with his works in general...hmmm, I'm not sure that the style is really my thing though if that makes sense....

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...r.railroad.jpg

..Paper sculptures...


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