posted January 10, 2012 06:40 PM            

I used to think I could not paint when I was younger because I compared my paintings with those of my Grandmother. She was/is a classical painter (Libra influences). I got frustrated with not being able to reconcile the 'real' look with what I wanted to express. I also got frustrated because the water color paint did not feel relevant to the things I was trying to paint in all their 3D, multi-texturedness (ok maybe a little Taurus Mars in that last part lol). I later discovered Van Gogh and Impressionism and I really did shed some tears because I found that I COULD paint and that what I needed to express was relevant too in this medium.

As far as the combining of Venus (mine in Aqua) and Mercury, I am also taken by Surrealism. I love the freedom and openness of it and also the way it is still personal and romantic. I especially like a newer Surrealist (I read somewhere that he is an Aquarius, however he is currently having an exhibit called 'Aries the Ram'), Vladimir Kush. He hits the pisces/aqua-ness of me PERFECTLY!!! OHH! http://vladimirkush.com/Originals-Available/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=600%3Adeparture-of-the-winged-ship

While I have noticed that alot of the PAINTERS I like have aries/pisces placements (I am pisces/aries sun aries rising), when it comes to SCHOOLS of art I think maybe the connection to the preferred style is drawn from one's Mercury and Venus a little more..

What do you guys like?

posted January 10, 2012 06:53 PM            

impressionism is certainly very easy to like. i like monet and yeah van gogh too.

i did a test once on the bbc website. the religious form of art was what topped my results. i remember it coz i didn't know different schools back then.

i like abstraction and portraiture the most.

maybe even sculpture..

posted January 10, 2012 07:51 PM            

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Originally posted by sand:
aries merc. taurus venus.

impressionism is certainly very easy to like. i like monet and yeah van gogh too.

i did a test once on the bbc website. the religious form of art was what topped my results. i remember it coz i didn't know different schools back then.

i like abstraction and portraiture the most.

maybe even sculpture..

prefer to buy than to make tho lol!

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I can see that making sense with you merc and venus. Aries would like the attention on lone solitary portraits. It places great personal attention on one hand onto the artist and how the artist views that person. This ends up being the way much of the world views that person (Mona Lisa, anyone)

The sculptures DEFINITELY makes sense with the Venus and Taurus. (I get this enough from my mars in Taurus) Sculptures are somewhat more tangible and durable than paintings and you can PHYSICALLY enjoy them. (I am guilty of sneaking touches of Degas statues lol Heey, the guy leaves fingerprints in his work -he's practically taunting you to feel it! lol)

I see the Venus in Taurus stringly in Religious art because, to me, Religious paintings are so PHYSICAL. You know, so sinewy and muscular. They are very much studies on the human form.

My fav 'Religious' (now considered Mythical I guess) painting:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=584

The first thing I thought of when I saw your merc and venus combination here is this bust I saw at the Getty:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1390

In person it is phenomenal esp. compared to the alot of the other (drab-er) busts. This one really is a portrait and dialogue of how the artist felt and viewed the subject and it is a window into the persona. I also has so much more 'touchablility' then other busts I saw. (I didn't get to touch this one, though because the security guard was right there! :-(

posted January 10, 2012 10:01 PM            

im very crafty, i enjoy silversmithing as well, wire wrapping, and collage stuff. but i also LOVE to draw, since the beginning of my exhistance haha. i do enjoy to paint, very much, manipulating paint is definitely really interesting. i love charcoal on large scale drawings just cause its a PAIN with graphite.

soo personally, when its myself making something, i really enjoy still life-particularly anatomy like bones, skulls, skeletons, animals and i enjoy sketching people. more so body contours than faces.. but i love to draw eyes. its either that or the complete opposite surrealism. wierd creatures, textures, nature incorperated, symbols, and typically fairly colorful but when im in the mood i get some pretty dark and morbid creations too. i love cartoon drawings too, just little doodles are awesome

with other artists ii love surrealist art. im not very limited to any medium but there are some styles i LOOOVE. my room is covered in artists that i adore. im not sure ive found a pattern in sign either..

mercury-virgo/libra cusp conjunct sun/mars in libra
venus-scorpio conjunct pluto
venus is my chart ruler, rising and sun

posted January 10, 2012 10:04 PM            

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Originally posted by Neptune'sDaughter:
Defeat and chironrising I'm not understanding what you're finding confusing??..

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posted January 10, 2012 10:10 PM            

some of the many :3

posted January 10, 2012 10:20 PM            

i need the art to be intelecutally stimulating
i need it to generate a lot of questions
this is why i like abstract art
you're left to figure out so much on your own.
i also find messy things really hit me hard sometimes
(never thought about it,
but i'm guess that could be explained by my venus in aries...

just did a random search...i kinda like this
but usually messier....more passionate...
i guess venus aries is action....so brush strokes (action) mean something to me
ie. was the brush used softly, was it pressed hard, etc
harder is usually better, more emotional....
lol
interesting topic though

posted January 10, 2012 10:26 PM            

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Originally posted by BeholdAstarte:
i love art, its been apart of my life since as long as i can remember. my mom is a graphic designer, her brother (my uncle) is also a graphic designer, and their other brother (my other uncle hehe) owns a tattoo shop in asia. on my dads side my auntie taught me caligraphy when i was 8 and always did crafts with me like mosaics. my other aunt blows glass and my g-pa use to do lapidary/cut stones and make jewelry/silversmithing.

im very crafty, i enjoy silversmithing as well, wire wrapping, and collage stuff. but i also LOVE to draw, since the beginning of my exhistance haha. i do enjoy to paint, very much, manipulating paint is definitely really interesting. i love charcoal on large scale drawings just cause its a PAIN with graphite.

soo personally, when its myself making something, i really enjoy still life-particularly anatomy like bones, skulls, skeletons, animals and i enjoy sketching people. more so body contours than faces.. but i love to draw eyes. its either that or the complete opposite surrealism. wierd creatures, textures, nature incorperated, symbols, and typically fairly colorful but when im in the mood i get some pretty dark and morbid creations too. i love cartoon drawings too, just little doodles are awesome

with other artists ii love surrealist art. im not very limited to any medium but there are some styles i LOOOVE. my room is covered in artists that i adore. im not sure ive found a pattern in sign either..

mercury-virgo/libra cusp conjunct sun/mars in libra
venus-scorpio conjunct pluto
venus is my chart ruler, rising and sun

ill post some of my favos

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When I was reading your post I just KNEW you were going to day Virgo! You just reminded me of my mothet's Virgoan creative energy. She would never see how creative she was when I was growing up, but I thought that she had such a comforting way of making her artistic expressions integrateable with everday life! Also, I thought the anatomy and boned wad very Virgoan as Virgo rules health care. I know my friend with virgo rising is very into that stuff (she's in nursing, too)

I see the link with scorpio influence tying in with virgo giving you a like for the warped and 'disfigured' bodies of surrealism. Makes sense to me lol

posted January 10, 2012 10:28 PM            

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Originally posted by defeat:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Neptune'sDaughter:
[b]Defeat and chironrising I'm not understanding what you're finding confusing??..

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Oh ok. Just wanted to make sure I had been clear in what I was trying to say lol

posted January 10, 2012 10:29 PM            

my moon is sag
neptune in cap.

do you see it in the above examples?

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i also like dark colours...could that be neputne in cap?

posted January 10, 2012 10:53 PM            

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Originally posted by Neptune'sDaughter:
When I was reading your post I just KNEW you were going to day Virgo! You just reminded me of my mothet's Virgoan creative energy. She would never see how creative she was when I was growing up, but I thought that she had such a comforting way of making her artistic expressions integrateable with everday life! Also, I thought the anatomy and boned wad very Virgoan as Virgo rules health care. I know my friend with virgo rising is very into that stuff (she's in nursing, too)

I see the link with scorpio influence tying in with virgo giving you a like for the warped and 'disfigured' bodies of surrealism. Makes sense to me lol

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haha thats funny, i can see how the virgo/scorpio tie together too! im a big time perfectionist. ive learn to let go a lot and that nothing is perfect haha but im also a virgo moon and my sun/mars/merc are in the 6th house tehe.

ive noticed how creative virgo can be, my dad is a virgo and some of the things he comes up with is surpisingly inventive, and i know a lot of virgo artists/friends and they are really good/creative. i dont think virgo gets enough credit in that field. maybe its that virgo modesty that has a hard time acknowledging that creative energy since the sign is sort of hard on itself. id love to see your momma's work of arts

posted January 10, 2012 10:57 PM            

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Originally posted by hmm:
i also find art to be more emotional than anything
so i think moon would be another thing to consider
or neptune
neptune is all about communicating in subtle forms (aka art)

my moon is sag
neptune in cap.

do you see it in the above examples?

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i also like dark colours...could that be neputne in cap?

idk..
i feel like painting now....

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all the gemini plus that sag do show in the art you chose, very scattered and restless!

posted January 11, 2012 01:25 AM            

As far as art goes. My favorite style is surrealism. I do like when it has crossovers however. I like anything that is "realistic with twists in reality thrown in".

These will highlight my artistic style that I am drawn to:

This one is around 3000 pixels so I am hyperlinking it instead

This is a music video, but it is completely art to me. The entire band/project is very focused on it. It also highlights my style a ton

posted January 11, 2012 03:48 AM            

MC Cancer Venus sextile H12 Virgo Mercury,I like art deco,expressionism(Cancer Venus); Caravaggio...artists that are essentially good at drawing-Di Vinci,Goya (Virgo Merc).

posted January 12, 2012 05:25 PM            

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Originally posted by BeholdAstarte:
haha thats funny, i can see how the virgo/scorpio tie together too! im a big time perfectionist. ive learn to let go a lot and that nothing is perfect haha but im also a virgo moon and my sun/mars/merc are in the 6th house tehe.

ive noticed how creative virgo can be, my dad is a virgo and some of the things he comes up with is surpisingly inventive, and i know a lot of virgo artists/friends and they are really good/creative. i dont think virgo gets enough credit in that field. maybe its that virgo modesty that has a hard time acknowledging that creative energy since the sign is sort of hard on itself. id love to see your momma's work of arts

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I agree! Virgos (that I've known -aka ALOT lol) have such an earthy, live-able artisticness that they quite often seem oblivious to or that they downplay and are shy about. Actually, one of my favorite things about being friends/close with virgos is to cross that opposing bridge and meet each other half way at this 'ralistic fairyland'. When I was younger I could play music by ear but I was also overwhelmed by alot I wanted to express and which medium I should use. My lil brother (Virgo) would yell from his room "Come on Sis, play the piano -I'll play the drums for you and you can sing!" He was the first one to want to hear my music outside of me and he was able to help it out and 'ground' me. He is also easily talented in ANYthing he tries!

My mother is shy like that BIG time. She would always compare her creativity with that of me (pisces sun/merc), my sister (aries sun) and my grandma (libra). Growing up she did not think that things that she did were creative or artistic compared to my grandma and my aunt and later compared to us kids. We all played instruments self-taught and did all sorts of art mediums and writing, etc. Yet I constantly tried to point out how she was creative and artistic in everything she did. Dressing, home decor, storytelling -life in general she taught us to see vividly and inspirationally. From little things like her keeping her own coloring books and secret 'design' notebooks that contained her clothing and jewelry ideas to major home renovations and design. The reason us kids are so creative and artistic is because she really nurtured our confidence that we are innately and uniquely talented and that we should be humble but proud of it. Not once in our childhood were we told we could not create something that we dreamt up. NEVER. In true Virgo sun, Aries Moon fashion my mom would say "Write it down! Remember it! Don't tell everybody and when you can one day COPYRIGHT it -you can really do that someday. You could be the first to do that! You could make money off of that!" So yeah for all her faults (I have scorpmoon conjunct pluto opposed mars for crying out loud) THAT aspect of creativity and artistic vision and support was absolutely priceless!!

Right now she is back to school for fashion/jewelry design and starting her own business. She was going into cosmetology until she got pregnant with me young. We are out of contact but I am so proud of her for that ^.^
Oh yeah, She is also a 12th house Neptune.