Think Draw - Picture - SCLBug + ENolde

Title: SCLBug + ENolde
created on 26 Jun 12

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Comments on this picture (30):
1. chelydra wrote: A picture by scladybg brought to mind Emil Nolde's last works.
2. clorophilla wrote: well, the result is wonderful!
3. mdawrcn wrote: Very nice.
4. Burgandy wrote: Love the richness of the colors!
5. Robyntalks wrote: beautiful!!
6. Meander wrote: This is so beautiful!
7. AFSOUTH wrote: Full of color!
8. KJLavigne wrote: Wonderful blend of color!
9. nancylee wrote: Thank you for introducing me to Emil Nolde! Google images of his work are amazing, and you absolutely do him justice! I learn so much from those of you who actually know about art. Will read up.
10. nancylee wrote: Hard to reconcile Nazism with these beautiful paintings.
11. chelydra wrote: You're ver welcome and thanks again to Ms Bug for opening my eyes to such possibilities. Or maybe REopening, because I did (try to) use color and space this way in my first years of oil painting - 1960-63...
12. chelydra wrote: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php ?pictureId=172134 (Ms Bug's inspirational picture)
13. lesley_gene wrote: Beautiful vibrant color! :)
14. linmar wrote: beautiful!
15. scladybug wrote: You are so welcome & so happy that my pic has reawakened your past again. That is very cool. Thank you also for ref. my pic.
16. scladybug wrote: So interesting how we evolve & change with time/age & how so often we end up back where we started again even if only for a brief time to visit. "Circle of LIfe"...
17. scladybug wrote: Forgot to mention that I love your beautiful picture filled with wonderful color & excitement. It has an interesting texture/movement to it too from the line patterns in the various color objects used.
18. chelydra wrote: NancyLee's comment 10 above raises an interesting point. The visual arts under the Nazis really were sterilized and stupid - a lot of beautiful nude young men, overtyly homoerotic...
19. chelydra wrote: (overtly) and plain dumpy women, fully clothed, attending church or being goof wives and mothers. But in music, many of the most impassioned and thrilling recordings ever made came out of the Third Reich...
20. chelydra wrote: ...preserved by German-invented tape recorders and many recently emerging from Soviet cold storage. The great conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler (not a Nazi but too close for comfort to the regime) never matched the intensity of the concerts he gave in swastik
21. chelydra wrote: ...swastika-bedecked halls of wartime Berlin. It's hard to remember that the masses (and geniuses) following Hitler did not have the benefit of hindsight... what they experienced...
22. chelydra wrote: ...was a very great nation coming back to life, economically and "spiritually" (the only word I recognize in Hitler speeches is "helige" - holy - which he uses all the time to describe the new Germany as its mission)...
23. chelydra wrote: (AND its mission I mean) ... the nightmare images of the Holocaust were not seen until after 1945... Anyone who espouses Nazism now should probably be shot on sight, but the people like Nolde were only guilty of the same kind of nasty anti-semitism that w
24. chelydra wrote: ...was common everywhere before World War Two. A lot of Nazi ideas came from the USA where they were quite mainstream. Research "eugenics" and "Henry Ford".
25. chelydra wrote: Anyway my point was just that the Nolde paintings have the same kind of awesome power and beauty of some of those recordings. I guess the adrenaline and anxiety from allied bombs was more a factor than any inspiration from Nazism itself. And remember, Nol
26. chelydra wrote: ...Nolde's best work by far came when he was in conflict with the Nazi Party.
27. chelydra wrote: Now my verbosity put both these into the top slot in new gallery... Anyone who objects to this happening should now that I object to it also. See message 50 in Forum topic "Changes to the Gallery". http://www.think draw.com/forumPosts.php?topicId=1237
28. chelydra wrote: But this glitch in the gallery system does allow my pics to compete (or appear to compete) with those from the TD superstars, so I don't object too much.
29. Normal wrote: Love the power in all this color!
30. nancylee wrote: I saw your comments on Nolde on another picture, but did not see these until I returned to this picture in my favorites. Your point about a great nation coming back to life is well-taken. I will think long about that. I had understood that post WWI econom