Maybe that is your definition of maturity. For me it's making the right decision no matter the millenia.
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The greatest painting in all of human history is Titian's Assumption of the Virgin
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Maybe that is your definition of maturity. For me it's making the right decision no matter the millenia.
Oh come down from your moral skyscraper for a minute and just enjoy the artwork. Save the right and wrong of it for another thread or another time. There's so much to enjoy here without needing to spoil it with excessive thought on whether people who are famous for smearing colors on different materials were good people prior to their death centuries ago...
Anyway, another good one by Gustave Dore that I absolutely adore. Way simpler in scope this time too.
If you haven't had the pleasure, A Wild Ride Through the Night is a fantastic read and gives a lot of his paintings and woodcuts a fun, very different backstory than their original intention.
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nothing to add, except i randomly was reading about the massacre of innocents and came across giotto and the arena chapel. i think this stuff made me genuinely feel stuff
Dude's gettin a lot of mileage out of that face.
Maybe La danse by Marc Chagall?
Fits your color scheme, even if that's not a demon on display. And staying on topic, I love this painting myself. The whole Chagall museum in Nice was one one of the best art experiences I ever had, the big areas of colour totally suck you into the paintings in real life.
Absolutely. It's funny and creepy to think that this thing was on Goya's dining room wall.
It's exactly the same for me in fact, saw it at MoMA and found it very stricking. The light contrast creates a warm yet strange atmosphere, it's so complex to describe for a pretty simple thing.
I just want to say again, as someone who used to not "get" visual art.
Go to an art museum.
The pretenses melt away when you're facing some of this stuff in person. There's a surreal beauty that absolutely cannot be captured by looking at pictures. Looking at pictures of masterpiece paintings either in print or on your computer screen is like watching an epic movie on your phone or listening to a symphony over the loudspeakers at a department store.
Go to a museum. Buy something while you're there, they deserve your money.
Go to an art museum.
The pretenses melt away when you're facing some of this stuff in person. There's a surreal beauty that absolutely cannot be captured by looking at pictures. Looking at pictures of masterpiece paintings either in print or on your computer screen is like watching an epic movie on your phone or listening to a symphony over the loudspeakers at a department store.
Go to a museum. Buy something while you're there, they deserve your money.
No
Much better! Bosch used to scare me, now I think his paintings are awesome
Always liked El Greco
Much better! Bosch used to scare me, now I think his paintings are awesome
Always liked El Greco
Another favorite of mine is Matisse's Bathers by a River. It's an underrated work at the Art Institute and one that I always try to visit when I'm there. It's was part of an important period for him as he moved away from the bright Fauvist palette to more restrained earth tones and sharper, sparse forms that came to define his more mature work. It's size is mesmerizing and really makes an impression in person. It helps that while appreciating it I've had pleasant conversations with the gallery guards on more than one occasion too
Maybe La danse by Marc Chagall?
Fits your color scheme, even if that's not a demon on display. And staying on topic, I love this painting myself. The whole Chagall museum in Nice was one one of the best art experiences I ever had, the big areas of colour totally suck you into the paintings in real life.
No, but i like that painting tho
It was a green field with the dancing demon on it. Its not realistic but also not abstract
Colors are too drab and I'm personally not a fan of that super dramatic style and focus on idealistic humans in robes older paintings have
I'm unable to choose a favorite painting, I love so many. I really think painting is one of the finest things made by mankind. Even in this thread, I like so many of the paintings posted I can't even mention.
But this painting, in particular, shakes me to the core. There is something hidden, some dark secret, it's not meant to be understood. The more you look the weirder it gets. It goes deep inside the brain. Maybe its mystery is what is bewitching about it, but this is just too awesome: Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time by Agnolo Bronzino.
PS: When it comes to art historians, Wendy Beckett is the GOAT.
But this painting, in particular, shakes me to the core. There is something hidden, some dark secret, it's not meant to be understood. The more you look the weirder it gets. It goes deep inside the brain. Maybe its mystery is what is bewitching about it, but this is just too awesome: Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time by Agnolo Bronzino.
PS: When it comes to art historians, Wendy Beckett is the GOAT.
Shit, that's a powerful painting.Adolf Hirémy Hirschl's The Souls of Acheron has been a recent favorite:
Also, Caravaggios stuff is wonderful.
This thread is awesome, even if i'm not that into old art, some paintings are really great.
Great to see several John Martin's earlier in the thread but his most powerful painting is The Great Day of His Wrath:
Small images don't do it justice. Seeing this in person feels like you're actually falling into the void.
Small images don't do it justice. Seeing this in person feels like you're actually falling into the void.
This thread has honestly made me appreciate of Art. Was never interested in it before but wow. I love the detailed panoramas of worlds, like Martin's, I've always imagined places so it's beautiful to see them brought to life. Need to find more
All those curves are too emotional for me.
Ahh. Piet Mondrian
I tried to match my keyboard to this
All those curves are too emotional for me.
Ahh. Piet Mondrian
I'm not an art person or anything, but I never understood these kinds of paintings. Give me a ruler and I could do that. It shouldn't even be in the same forum thread as most of these other works.
Then why didn't you do it?
Honestly, it's utterly ponderous that people look at art and go "I could that, therefore it's not art." That should inspire you to create art. Secondly, seeing it in person is a whole different thing. Getting close to a Mondrian actually affects you. It's indescribable. Third, design is art. Balance, measurements, calculations, etc. All those things are taken into consideration when people create realistic portraits of humans. Mondrian was bringing than aesthetic to a basic level. His influence is large. And the reason you can even claim that you could do that, is because he thought to do it first and popularized it.
It's also easy to say "I could have done that" when nobody had even thought of doing it before.
Adolf Hirémy Hirschl's The Souls of Acheron has been a recent favorite:
This guy is good.
Came looking for this.This is the greatest painting ever.
I laugh every time.
The School of Athens by Raphael. It's my favorite because it's an uplifting ode to the unending human pursuit of knowledge, one of our noblest characteristics.
Other personal favorites:
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus often attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder. I love it because I just really like the story of Icarus, but also because of its unabashed reminder that the universe doesn't give a shit about you.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1803 version currently at the Belvedere, Vienna, by Jacque-Louis David.
Human greatness, human ambition, human arrogance. Love it.
Not so much "art", but "art news". Anyone who's thinking of going to Amsterdam should make a point of hitting up the Rijksmuseum, especially in the coming months, as Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' is to Undergo Years of Restoration, whilst it remains in public viewing, so museum visitors can track its progress.
