I think the the best in-person experience I had with a painting was Malevich's black square.
It's just so square, man.
I know this post is from months ago but I just gotta say I really like this painting and have never seen it before today.No, it's "Thai Food (Miami Beach)" by Hervé Di Rosa.
The imposing flat green surface that takes up about half the painting, the yellow sky, the incongruently detailed plants and trees, the bizarrely simplified cars, the black-yet-glowing dog lurking in the shadows, the way the power line seems to clip through the side of the building... it's hard to take your eyes off it.
Fun fact: the painting actually portrays a real restaurant, though it closed a few years ago.
Yes, his use of light is spectacular.Always loved Nymphs and Satyr. The way he paints the light damn near puts me in a trance.
I imagine I'd have some kind of religious experience if I ever saw it in person.
"People call me the painter of dancing girls," Degas once explained to Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard. "It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes."
this is the besta painting of a group of old dudes clawing at a woman who's trying to escape (with a ton of babies for no reason? Is the other old dude at the top going to help her or what?)
Well, at least he knows what his fetish is.
Y'all know Vermeer basically just traced, right? His use of color to depict realism and depth is great but it has been proven he traced his his art with early technology.
You know that that is just a theory and never proven, right? There are signs that it could have been the case, but no direct prove.
Furthermore, why would that even take away from his accomplishments? Like painting is just tracing and coloring in the blanks. The use of colors and light is not great, it is amazing and unmatched for centuries.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite, but I'm a sucker for Jan van Eyck's paintings.
they're the right amount of detailed without going overboard, and with enough mystical symbolism to whet my curiosity. The fact that he was painting such things in the 1400's (six hundred years ago) just blows my mind.
EDIT: So does van Eyck's use of colors and how he paints clothes. He just seems to give them actual weight.
Oh I am not trying to take away anything from Vermeer at all. Amazing works of art that stand the test of time and will continue to be amazing for the rest of recorded humanity.
I do think though, it is important to understand the process to create works. Vermeer's realism was so far ahead of anyone at the same time that people couldn't believe (and still are amazed) that it was done "freehand". Vermeer's works and process have literally been recreated and the theory has serious support behind it.
It does NOTHING to remove any accomplishments of the works themselves. Tracing doesn't bring life and depth to painting, but it assisted in bringing realism in a time it was not possible.
And honestly, it's more of a testament to the impressiveness of Vermeer in all, than does to diminish anything.
I love this.Yeah, not a fan, sorry OP.
I like Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky and his obsession with the sea.
Yeah it resides in the Cappella di San Severo here in Napoli where the main attraction and centerpiece is the Cristo Velato (Veiled Christ) made by Giuseppe Sanmartino but whenever i go there i always go to its right to watch Il Disinganno, a much more impressive sculpture if you ask me.great, beautiful sculpture that one. Speaking of intricate marble details, this one always blows my mind. Queirolo's Il Disinganno.
HE MADE A NET OUT OF MARBLE JESUS FUCK
That is, indeed, nuts.great, beautiful sculpture that one. Speaking of intricate marble details, this one always blows my mind. Queirolo's Il Disinganno.
HE MADE A NET OUT OF MARBLE JESUS FUCK
I was actually gonna post that im partial to some Beksinski myself so nice choice.
In a Roman Osteria
By Carl Bloch
not uncommonly seen on the internet with the caption "why dont you paint a picture, it'll last longer"
How come nobody's blowing into the toy to get bubbles? Oh ... heh .... ok.
i am fuckin losing it at the cardboard cut out for the cat.A popular radio DJ in the UK recreated this image after being inundated with messages saying he looked just like the man in the painting.
Need some good Scandinavian vibes in here, always liked this for just showing an ordinary festive situation that would put a smile on anyone's face..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip,_Hip,_Hurrah!