Anybody like fine art ?
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To each his own.
Goya was in a dark period at this time, descending into madness, due to illness.
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AGO owns the Rothko so, they get money by loaning it out, therefore it is seldom on display
Its paintings like these that make my heart race and fall to my knees in awe. I love art so much!
Interesting story about a lost painting, possibly by Tom Thomson, reappearing.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...d-to-be-thomson-original-resurfaces-1.7563008
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...d-to-be-thomson-original-resurfaces-1.7563008
Something a little more modern. Nighthawks, by Edvard Hopper;
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I offer this story to illustrate how art appreciation is a very personal matter. One person's average piece of art can be another person's masterpiece.
As a kid I lusted after the painting "At the crease" by Canadian artist Ken Danby. In the mid 1980's when I was in university I was walking through Scarborough Town Center when I saw a print of it in a store window. It wasn't cheap for a student, but I saved up and ran back to buy it, hoping it would still be there. When I got home I awkwardly hung it up in my room, and it has been there ever since. I still recall the feeling of joy when I said to myself "I FINALLY own it". It's not THE Mona Lisa, but it is MY Mona Lisa.
As a kid I lusted after the painting "At the crease" by Canadian artist Ken Danby. In the mid 1980's when I was in university I was walking through Scarborough Town Center when I saw a print of it in a store window. It wasn't cheap for a student, but I saved up and ran back to buy it, hoping it would still be there. When I got home I awkwardly hung it up in my room, and it has been there ever since. I still recall the feeling of joy when I said to myself "I FINALLY own it". It's not THE Mona Lisa, but it is MY Mona Lisa.
I see that paintings here are good. I also like fine art, and by fine art i mean real art and not just ununderstandable things which people call art. I also like to experiment and use deepnude ai for creating some sort of an art but using maybe old vintage photos of women but in some sort different situations. This is also some sort of an art for me
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As a Canadian, I appreciate the art done by the Group of Seven, and what they were trying to do for a young country. These guys were alive in a time when artists had jobs, plying their artistic talents in the media of the day and painting was their passion. A passion which they hoped would translate into a full time job where they could earn a real living. Many went to Europe and studied the European Masters and paid special attention to landscapes. I won't go into full detail here, but a good read on this subject matter is "Defiant Spirits" by King.
Here's one by A Y Jackson;
Here's one by A Y Jackson;
You have to understand the whole post expressionism movement to understand this type of painting and truly appreciate. It started after 1930. Depression, post war. There was no real hope. Painting anything truly figurative like people, landscape or anything religious would seem hypocritical. The artists of this movement started to have their material do the talking. The strokes, the projection of paints on a canvas, the colors and even the size of the painting was use to convey the emotions. It was also a movement intimately linked to poetry and music. We are leaving the Great Masters behind as well as the techniques that were used for ages. You are left to wonder what this painting makes you feel rather to how pretty it is.
Post expressionism is personally one of my favorite movement. Jackson Pollock's wife Lee Krasner is one of my favorites as well as Elain de Kooning (Willem's wife). During the era, women also made a real statement in art which was considered for the most part, a men thing.
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Interesting, and just for documentation - you were not on or recently on any special substances or meds? Yes, being serious. I've heard of the phenomena but never on a rothko.
That is a great question. I was not on anything, but I understand where you are coming from as MDMA is the love drug and mushroom creates experiences .
Rothko himself says his paintings are a religious transcendental experience that very few understand, maybe 1%
You just have to sit with a Rothko and wait and maybe it will happen. It does not happen every time but reading what Rothko said - after I had the experience as I had never bothered with Rothko before I experienced the painting - I fully believe the experience is the real objective of Rothko, otherwise it is just pretty paint.
The question I have is it a mental construct of a transcendental experience? or is it a real expansion of our consciousness?
This same question should be asked of any transcendental experience including - but not exclusive to - psychedelics
We are talking about an expansion of our own consciousness.
The most important question we can ask and few are asking.
The experience is real in the sense we experience it but is it real in the sense there is an awareness outside of are normal state of consciousness that is not manufactured by a mental construct?
This is the greatest question ev er asked, is it not?
My sense is that thois awareness induced by the painting is a mental construct. But that does not mean all transcendental expeweiences are a mental construct
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Rothko's painting was used as part of the backdrop to Bert Cooper's office in Mad Men.
Revolutionary German painter's self-portrait - Albrecht Durer. He was a northern contemporary of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
Revolutionary German painter's self-portrait - Albrecht Durer. He was a northern contemporary of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
