The Art Thread

[zabu of nΩd]

This thread is for posting or discussing works of art. This can include album art, but since we've already got a rather massive album art thread in the main GMD, I'd recommend that we stick with non-album stuff.

I'm hoping this thread will also help to divert non-member-related pictures from the "pics thread", since that thread would be much cooler if it focused on the actual lives and doings of the people who post here.

That said, I'll start things off with one of my favorites - the Flammarion woodcut:

The print depicts a man, dressed as a medieval pilgrim and carrying a pilgrim's staff, peering through the sky as if it were a curtain to look at the inner workings of the universe. One of the elements of the cosmic machinery bears a strong resemblance to traditional pictorial representations of the "wheel in the middle of a wheel" described in the visions of the prophet Ezekiel (see Merkabah).

The caption in Flammarion's book translates as "A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touched..." The image accompanies a text which reads, in part, "What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?" The print is often described as being medieval due to its visual style, its fanciful vision of the world, and to what appears to be a depiction of a flat Earth.

I love the concepts behind this piece. It kind of makes me wish the universe actually were designed like that -- discovering the edge of the world would be the coolest thing ever!

 

[AchrisK]

That's awesome!

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (John Constable, 1831)

 

[thisisaformicatable]

Goya, Inquisition Scene

Goya, Prison Interior

 

[Vitor]

can be 3d arts???

if yes, look this site 3D ARTISTS

there are 130 pages of new arts. enjoy!!!

 

[Cythraul]

Francis Bacon, Figure Writing Reflected in the Mirror

Wassily Kandinsky, Song of the Volga

 

[Cythraul]

Goya, Inquisition Scene

Goya, Prison Interior

Goya is one of my favorite painters of all time.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Eh, a little plain and depressing for me. Of course, that's what he was going for in most of his work, it seems.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Wassily Kandinsky, Song of the Volga

Fuckin' psychedelic.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

This guy is fucking amazing.

 

[Cythraul]

Hmmm, I'm not a big fan of that kind of stuff but it looks like it would make for some cool video game graphics or whatever.

 

[cookiecutter]

My favorite artist of all time is Salvador Dali, including of course the famous:

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I like the Dali elephants. My favorite in The Temptation of St. Anthony is the one on the right that's carrying a stone tower on his back. :zombie:

 

[cookiecutter]

That guy was nuts.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

 

[Divine Victim]

William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, tugged to her Last Berth to be broken up, 1838

Surely one of the most evokative paintings ever.

 

[Susperia]

can be 3d arts???

if yes, look this site 3D ARTISTS

there are 130 pages of new arts. enjoy!!!

That's not 3D....They looked like graphic art.

3D art is sculptural art. I don't know why they're calling themselves 3D.


edit:^ I love Turner's work.

 

[Susperia]

Some of my favorites.
I'm probably going to be posting in this thread a lot. =]

Odd Nerdrum, Two Tongues, 2000

(detail)
Odd Nerdrum, Love Divided, 2005

Those of you who saw my thesis work for my show probably can see the similarities to my work in Nerdrum's, he's a big inspiration for me.

Jenny Saville, Host, 2000

Jenny Saville, Reverse, 2003

Lisa Yuskavage, Kathy On A Pedestal, 2000

William Bouguereau, The Flagellation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 1880

William Bouguereau, Nymphs and Satyr, 1873

 

[DarkBliss]

I like the Dali elephants. My favorite in The Temptation of St. Anthony is the one on the right that's carrying a stone tower on his back. :zombie:

Greatness
I love his works. I have the reproduction of Swans Reflecting Elephants on the wall above my bed.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

this thread is one of the greatest threads ever. So many magnificient paintings.