Welcome to #checkin for Sunday, October 25, 2026!
Good evening/afternoon/morning, everyone, and welcome to today's #checkin. The storm caused havoc on the rail network here in NRW again; trees fell on the tracks, and some tracks are still not yet fully cleared. Despite that, today is International Artists Day, and my current favorite independent artists are John Hein (from Canada) and Iain Welsh (from England).
I love their wonderful drawings of dogs and their adventures.
Do you have a favorite artists?
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Kenny Chaffin
in reply to Christoph S • • •Many favorites, but this being Picasso's birthday I posted this in another thread:
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Joyce Donahue
in reply to Christoph S • • •I have become a big fan of Leonora Carrington's surrealistic art.
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Mark Wollschlager
in reply to Christoph S • • •Kandinsky, Ikki Matsumoto , Escher, Braque , Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso, Joseph Cornell, Calder, Brâncuși
Sanibel Island Florida Artist | Ikki Matsumoto
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Joyce Donahue
in reply to Christoph S • • •Another favorite is Tamara de Lempicka.
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Jay Bryant
in reply to Christoph S • • •I like a lot of art. One of my oldest friends is an art teacher (and artist, of course). We were college roommates. He put up his original art all over the room. I put poems in between. We arranged carpet samples on the tile floor to keep the place warm and to make a pattern we liked. We accidentally won the dorm's room decorating contest. We hadn't entered (hadn't heard about it), but our neighbors entered us.
Some favorite movements include impressionism, expressionism, art deco, and surrealism. If I have to name a favorite artist, it's probably Monet.
I have original art, made by artist friends, on almost every wall of my abode. I have three prints (two of which are signed by the artists, one of whom was a student of mine) and one framed puzzle that my aunt gave me. Everything else is original. I have quite a collection of original sculpture, too.
I really do love art.
Photography can be art, too. Here's one of my favorite photographic artists, a surrealist: tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamu…
Elena Vizerskaya, 1980 | Surrealist photographer
Tutt'Art@ | Pittura * Scultura * Poesia * Musicalike this
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Muse
in reply to Christoph S • • •I of course love van Gogh. I love many many artists. Here are a few you may or may not know.
Paul Signac did amazing stuff!
As did Théo van Rysselberghe.
I'm also into illustrators like Fleur Cowles
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •My favorite painting -- I try to visit it when I go to DC (It hands in the US National Gallery.)
In the Dining Room - 1886
Berthe Morisot
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Rod Mesa
in reply to Christoph S • • •Saw this painting at the MOCASD satellite downtown. Stunning show.
Odd Nerdrum
Saw this one at SFMOMA. Knocked me out.
Reading, Gerhard Richter, 1994
Gerhard Richter - 124 artworks - painting
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DeanC
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Carsten Raddatz
in reply to Christoph S • •Modern art it is. I can cry my eyes out, or at least spend a very long time in front of Dan Flavin, Yves Klein, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, or Bill Viola. That encompasses quite a range, I know.
Conceptual art that shows the upper left 4 pixels of an electronic screen in 90x60cm each or larger because that is select reality that speaks. (When given freedom in high school art class that was all I did, with a much lower degree of actual artistry tho.)
Rothko's soft vision thrills, the large mostly monochromatic canvases move me a ton, since the colours do shift all the time from my own nervous system doing whatever. Stuart will know. Seen some in NYC MoMa, Tate Modern, and our own National Gallery. I can get enough of that at some point, however I can outlast most people staring while feeling out at sea.
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Mark Wollschlager
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Carsten Raddatz
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •@Carsten Raddatz - I was trapped on a train in the London tube under the Tate during a big wind storm that caused things to shut down.
It was rush hour so the train was packed - really squeezed with no room to move. My ex is claustrophobic so she was going crazy. I, on the other hand, was squished up against .... well, let's just say that I had an enjoyable time exchanging smiles with the person with whom I was being used in an experiment in cold fusion.
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in reply to Christoph S • • •By-the-way, we have this poster hanging in our main stairwell at home...
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Muse
in reply to Christoph S • • •The Tube Map nearly looked very different
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •@Muse - I got the poster at the London Underground museum. That museum (the London Underground one) is definitely worth a visit, but then again the Tate is also worthwhile.
(I haven't been to London in several years; I had not realized that the tube now extends to some of my old stomping/work grounds - Slough, Taplow, Maidenhead.)
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((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))
in reply to Christoph S • • •BTW this process of "upload-the-image, share it to nowhere, grab the link, use that instead, label it twice" is for the birds.
Is Diaspora* development well and truly dead? @Andrew Pam
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in reply to Christoph S • • •i sometimes really like old art. like this one here, the group of princesses by schadow , found in the alte nationalgalerie in berlin:
preußische Kronprinzessin und spätere Königin Luise und ihre jüngere Schwester Friederike, 1795
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Christoph S • • •I am rather fond of sculpture - as part of a "mixed media workshop" - several days of administration approved chaos - I discovered that if you pound or rub various sculptures, particularly the metal ones, that they can make fun sounds, Particularly the "cubi" one. (2rd URL)
The UCLA sculpture garden had small one of a really pretty woman - naked of course - that I remember fondly.
But my faves are "Zenobia in Chains" (first URL) and "The Prophet" (3rd URL)
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Cubi - Wikipedia
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