The Art Thread

first style of drawing called as Tugra in ottomans... It's the ornement style writing of sultan's name for coins or stamps etc.

and 2nd is a kind of spell called "besmele". the content of besleme is like "bismillah ir-rahman ir-rahim" or just "bismillah" as short form. or there is a longer style of it too which begins like like "euzibilliahi imuna shaytan irradjim... ..."

It means "in the name of the God who is Rahman & Rahim" (i don't know what these two arabian words mean eighter!!!) and it's using before spells. and spellings of quran is ending buy "amin" (like amen = accept it)..


Note: Turks were using Uygur Letters (which is writing up to down) just before islam. Uygur Letters are actually still using in Mogolia. After the Arabs captured and islamized the turkish land, arabian letters has begun to use. after ottomans collapsed and new turkish republic founded, in 1928, latin letters began to use. still in some turkic states (turkmenistan, bashkir, gargavuz etc.) crylic letters are using. in china, uygur turks are using chinese letters etc..
 
Escher and van Gogh were both dutch- tahnk you for putting em in here.
I am really into art- especially Jugendstil and Art Nouveau but also the paintings of the pre raphaelite artists have my special interest. I will post some nice links for you.

Here's a poem from my favourite poet> Robert Frost
I know many of his poems by heart.

Fire and Ice

Some say the world will end in fire
Some say ice
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice is also great
And would suffice

Now please think about his words, his poetry is seemingly about ordinary subjects ( woods, nature, simple things) but if you look into them a bit more you will find a worls of wisdom.
I think this poem could be applied to the current situation in Israel> how cold feelings, hatred, can destroy so much.

Morticia.
 
A Poem From Edgar Allan Poe

Lenore​

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll!- a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?- weep now or nevermore!
See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
Come! let the burial rite be read- the funeral song be sung!-
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,
And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her- that she died!
How shall the ritual, then, be read?- the requiem how be sung
By you- by yours, the evil eye,- by yours, the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"

Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song
Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong.
The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy
bride.
For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes
The life still there, upon her hair- the death upon her eyes.

"Avaunt! avaunt! from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven-
From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven-
From grief and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of
Heaven!
Let no bell toll, then,- lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth,
Should catch the note as it doth float up from the damned Earth!
And I!- to-night my heart is light!- no dirge will I upraise,
But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!"​
 
Edgar Allan Poe's poems are wonderful... That's definitely what I call "art".
I especially like "The Raven", "To Helen" and "Annabel Lee". "Lenore" is also very beautiful, thanks for sending it...
But I'll post here another one of my favourites... You can read the others from http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/

To One In Paradise

Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine -
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.

Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries,
"On! on!" - but o'er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast!

For, alas! alas! with me
The light of Life is o'er!
"No more - no more - no more -"
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blaster tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!

And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams -
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
​
 
Thank You for the information, cem_eesti! :)

Now a painting from Francisco de Zurbaran, "Meditation of Saint Francis"
(I know it's a little bit too big, sorry)

meditati.jpg
 
Here are some mosque photos. I don't which mosques they are, but as I remember they were taken by Ara Güler (one of the most famous photographers in Turkey) I especially like the second one.

guler_056_as11.jpg


guler_061_as16.jpg
 
Nice paint Skybreak. :)

Unconscious i can't see the pictures...i tried with explorer and mozilla but nothing happened...:(

I'm glad you liked the angel sculptures Slash:)
 
Hey Slash, the photos you posted are really something!!! :kickass:
First time i see this kind of 3D street art...very clever ;) !!! A very realistic way of art expression!!! I can't stop looking at them!!! :)
 
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