Anything related to the arts outside of traditional gaming and otaku spaces. Discuss literature, music, cinema, painting, etc. Also feel free to share your own creative endeavors (whether they are moe moe or not).
Hotei Pointing at the Moon (c. 1800-1837) - Sengai Gibon
The Land of Cockaigne (1567) - Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842) - J.M.W. Turner
Winter Landscape With Ice Skaters (1608) - Hendrick Avercamp
Imaginary Numbers (1954) - Yves Tanguy
Nocturne (1875-1878) - James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Prometheus Bound (1847) - Thomas Cole
Pyramid of Skulls (1901) - Paul Cézanne
Boys Blowing Bubbles (1640s) - Michaelina Wautier
Untitled (Blue Divided by Blue) (1966) - Mark Rothko
The Ox-Cart (1884) - Vincent van Gogh
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Nocturne (1875-1878) - James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Untitled (Blue Divided by Blue) (1966) - Mark Rothko
The Whistler is fantastic, I've loved that painting for a while. I've still yet to see a Rothko in person, and I know that's very much the intended and required setting, so I suppose I'm waiting to get the full effect of those.
Love the Hammershøi. His scenes are perfectly serene to me.
Hammershøi is like a geometer who, having demonstrated his mastery of the pure categories of thought, refrains from putting them on display and instead subordinates them to a love for the ordinary and the unremarkable as the deepest embodiment of earthly beauty.
Love the Hammershøi. His scenes are perfectly serene to me.
Hammershøi is like a geometer who, having demonstrated his mastery of the pure categories of thought, refrains from putting them on display and instead subordinates them to a love for the ordinary and the unremarkable as the deepest embodiment of earthly beauty.
I had actually never heard of Hammershoi before this thread but he's quickly becoming a new favorite. His work is so hauntingly beautiful and sad. It's incredible that such mundane and subtle domestic interiors are able to illicit a reaction in me. One of my biggest pet peeves in art is what i call emotional manipulation, where it seems like the artist is trying really hard to make you feel something but their work does not have the depth to back it up. An example what i would consider emotionally manipulative art would be the work of Ludovico Einaudi (sorry if any of you are fans). His work always seemed to me to be incredibly vapid, and although it may make me feel something in the moment i always feel a little bit scammed afterwards. His work is like fast food that's easy to take in, digest, get a hit out of, and then forget about. I think Hammershoi is the exact opposite of this. He was harder to get down but I don't think I'll ever be able to let go of him after I've fully taken his work in. Maybe you all can put this into better words than i can and i hope you'll forgive my little bit of elitism, art is ultimalty very personal and you all might have different experiences than I do.
Honestly my knowledge of painting is very shallow compared to other forms of arts like music.
But since I still have some favourites, I would try to share.
The Anastasis fresco in the parecclesion of the Chora Church, Istanbul (c. 1315)
It's common for monks to leave a "death poem" as a sort of last message and epitaph for yourself. Sengai Gibon, Rinzai monk, left this as a "death painting" of sorts. He never explained anything about it. What's most unusual about it is if you look at the brushwork: The Japanese style would have you draw from right to left. You can tell that the ink on the brush is getting thinner and lighter as it moves from right to left. However, you can see that the square is "under" the triangle which is "under" the circle when you see how they overlap, implying it was drawn the opposite way... but somehow also getting darker with ink. A strange, provocative little detail, like a visual kouan of its own. It's an amazing example of mystery through simplicity. D.T. Suzuki later called this painting "The Universe" and explained it as a comprehensive representation of all things.
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The Empress Theodora at the Coliseum by Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant - 1889
It stands out to me for some reason I can't pinpoint. I like her expression a lot.
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If I can be so bold as to call this a "painting", this is a bunch of hands stenciled in Cueva de las Manos in Argentina by prehistoric people. It really shook me when I first looked at it. It's probably the strongest reaction I've ever had to a painting. Actually, a lot of the time when I look at it, I don't think much of it, but other times I think it's one of the most haunting things I've ever seen.
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This was done by Ingo Swann, but I can't find the title, or even when it was painted. I'm assuming it was 70's or 80's. I love roads, highways, gas stations, things like that, but traditional paintings naturally don't tend to feature such things.
