Vintage Bike Art, a picture thread, hopefully.
10-22-14, 05:17 AM
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10-22-14, 05:19 AM
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This one looks pretty cool, in a pedestrian sort of way ...
AllPosters.com -- cycling, vintage art.
This one looks pretty cool, in a pedestrian sort of way ...
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10-22-14, 07:26 AM
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Much digital art is impressive, to be sure. But to me, the art I like comes from the brain, and heart, through the hand, to the paper, or canvas.
10-22-14, 10:24 AM
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To me to. Although that link of Cartier-Bresson I posted earlier violates that rule already. I stumbled upon it at an exhibition of his work, amongst some of the best photography I've seen.
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Very true, Italuminum. Having a mechanism between the eye and the art, like a camera, certainly doesn't disqualify something as being art. Neither does a computer.
By the way, H. Cartier-Bresson is probably my favorite photographer. The master.
I'd love to get that book to go with my others of his work.
By the way, H. Cartier-Bresson is probably my favorite photographer. The master.
I'd love to get that book to go with my others of his work.
10-22-14, 11:37 AM
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You and I are on the same page, @Bianchigirll, two of those have saved my screen in the past. This one too. I think they're all there:
10-22-14, 12:34 PM
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I was watching Antiques Roadshow the other night and a guest had a collection of late 1800's bicycle catalogs that he found when renovating an old home. Someone had stashed them inside a wall and they look to be in fantastic condition. The artwork on them is very impressive.
link to the video clip:
American Bicycle Catalog Collection, ca. 1895 | Roadshow Archive | PBS
link to the video clip:
American Bicycle Catalog Collection, ca. 1895 | Roadshow Archive | PBS
10-22-14, 01:32 PM
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Beautiful work, @Lamplight!
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10-22-14, 02:27 PM
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i cant yet im a new member... but in the future maybe... some one was talking to me about raleigh lenton and similarities with one' rudge clubman'
he said it handled great . i read, and you prob know raleigh took over 'rudge'.i heard about rudge cause there was one on the bay the badge includes the
'HOW' red indian hand palm its cool. you certainly got an interesting large collection there.[reg harris,is that the name or did he actually tt on it ?]
best wishes..kevin
he said it handled great . i read, and you prob know raleigh took over 'rudge'.i heard about rudge cause there was one on the bay the badge includes the
'HOW' red indian hand palm its cool. you certainly got an interesting large collection there.[reg harris,is that the name or did he actually tt on it ?]
best wishes..kevin
10-22-14, 06:06 PM
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Beautiful work, @Lamplight!
I think I would too. Although they are both beautiful. It's just that, despite the hours and labor that go into some digitally-aided illustrations, I much prefer to the evidence of the artist's hand in a drawing or painting. The subtle differences and character found in a hand-drawn line.
Much digital art is impressive, to be sure. But to me, the art I like comes from the brain, and heart, through the hand, to the paper, or canvas.
Much digital art is impressive, to be sure. But to me, the art I like comes from the brain, and heart, through the hand, to the paper, or canvas.
10-25-14, 07:52 PM
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As promised, here is my latest. This is the first time I've attempted drawing an actual bike, instead of just making it up as I went.
Jan Heine's Rene Herse:
Jan Heine's Rene Herse:
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10-25-14, 08:36 PM
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@Lamplight, you make some awesome drawings.
Back on the topic of bike art, let's not forget the wonderful stuff the Italian futurists put out, coinciding with the boom in Italian cycling industry and the dawn of the era of cycle racing. Here's Umberto Boccioni's "dynamism of a cyclist"
As per the Guggenheim blurb:
[h=1]"This beautiful painting, with its silvery lights and its vortex of cones and fin-like forms, is among Umberto Boccioni’s most accomplished studies of dynamic movement. Although the bicycle was first invented in 1818, it was not until the 1890s that the modern bicycle, with its diamond-patterned frame, roller-chain drive and pneumatic tires, had become established. The racing cyclist can be taken as a characteristic Futurist symbol of dynamic modern life—man moving swiftly through time and space by the propulsion of his legs enhanced by modern technology. This subject highlights the dynamic fusion of cycle, figure (bent double over his handlebars with his backside in the air), and space in single plastic form.
Boccioni made innumerable preparatory drawings for the Dynamism of a Cyclist, in which a network of arching lines, dominate the diagrammatic construction of the unified form—lines which in the painting are for the most part, but not always, resolved into curving planes animated by the choppy, still Divisionist brushwork with which Boccioni gave such surface vitality to all of his mature work."[/h]
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Back on the topic of bike art, let's not forget the wonderful stuff the Italian futurists put out, coinciding with the boom in Italian cycling industry and the dawn of the era of cycle racing. Here's Umberto Boccioni's "dynamism of a cyclist"
As per the Guggenheim blurb:
[h=1]"This beautiful painting, with its silvery lights and its vortex of cones and fin-like forms, is among Umberto Boccioni’s most accomplished studies of dynamic movement. Although the bicycle was first invented in 1818, it was not until the 1890s that the modern bicycle, with its diamond-patterned frame, roller-chain drive and pneumatic tires, had become established. The racing cyclist can be taken as a characteristic Futurist symbol of dynamic modern life—man moving swiftly through time and space by the propulsion of his legs enhanced by modern technology. This subject highlights the dynamic fusion of cycle, figure (bent double over his handlebars with his backside in the air), and space in single plastic form.
Boccioni made innumerable preparatory drawings for the Dynamism of a Cyclist, in which a network of arching lines, dominate the diagrammatic construction of the unified form—lines which in the painting are for the most part, but not always, resolved into curving planes animated by the choppy, still Divisionist brushwork with which Boccioni gave such surface vitality to all of his mature work."[/h]
Guggenheim
10-26-14, 05:44 AM
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Thanks for that, Italuminum. Great stuff.
Taliah Lempert. Very accomplished. I like her style.
Dave's Masi Detail 4 | Bicycle Paintings, Prints and Custom Bike Art Portraits
Taliah Lempert. Very accomplished. I like her style.
Dave's Masi Detail 4 | Bicycle Paintings, Prints and Custom Bike Art Portraits
