I love Füssli's Nightmare paintings too. Here's my favorite:
I love Füssli's Nightmare paintings too. Here's my favorite:
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
Since we got into scary paintings, anyone see any of Francisco Goya's work? Specifically, "Chronos Devouring One of his Children?" That is one freakishly frightening painting.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
I must admit I prefer the Renaissance artists, Da vinci, Michanagelo, Raphael, and many others. To me that is the height of painting as an art form.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Not to mention the awesome ninja action!Originally Posted by Virgil
What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it.
- Gertrude Stein
A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together.
- Virginia Woolf
I like Degas as well. I was tempted to just post another pre-Raphealite, but no, I am going with Degas.
Heroes on a half shell?
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"Frivolity is a stern taskmaster."
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This has been hanging in my parent's house since before I was born. Some days this painting is more real then on other days.
It has been hanging in my house for as long as I can remember too. It always makes me sad.
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
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Oh, how could I forget him among my favourites ?
My favourite, though, is another one: The Slumber of Reason produces Monsters. Very interesting idea.
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
I don't know much of Wyeth, but every time I'm shown something, it really does rock me. Great painting Reisa. Who would Christina be, BTW?Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth...he's great.
This has been hanging in my parent's house since before I was born. Some days this painting is more real then on other days.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
These are all really cool paintings ... thanks for the enlightenment, guys!
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
~Albert Einstein
Here are another two of my favourite paintings think i've mentioned them before and posted one of them elsewhere but anyhoodle!
And yes, i also want her dress!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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this is the Goya I was talking about. Absolutely gives me the shivers. It's called Chronos Devouring one of His Children.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Yes, absolutely.Here's an another one I like:
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Gothic Cathedral by the Waterside (a copy by Wilhelm Ahlborn)
This is one of my favourites:
My grandmother has a copy of it, not the original painting by Rubens of course. But I love it and it looks exactly like the original. I'm a fan of mythology and I've always loved the scene.
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”- Robert McCloskey
Wow. that cathedral almost looks real!Yes, absolutely.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Gothic Cathedral by the Waterside (a copy by Wilhelm Ahlborn)
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Is it just me that finds this painting a little bit suggestive?.....Oooh, I took Art History this term.
Black Iris III by Georgia O'Keeffe. I wrote a paper about this one; just beautiful.
Personally I love pretty much anything by Dali, but particularly Geopolitical Child.
I also love McKenzie Thorpe who ranges from some quite dark and disturbing work to childlike innocence.
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