The Fine Art Thread

[Anonymouse]

This thread is designed to explore the wonderful world of fine art, through the eyes of us forumers. You can include any piece of art work from the neolithic age, all the way to today. Feel free, for this is designed to give those with a limited knowledge a chance to show us what works they like.



This piece by far transcends most pieces.



This was painted when Mr. Van Gogh was in an asylum and it was painted from his memory, not the outdoors as was preferred. Isn't it marvelous?



This is another one of my favorites penetrating on existential fear displayed by the artist.



And of course, the illustrious Rembrandt, whom I believe is perhaps unrivaled when it came to the painting of the portrait.

Now let's see your picks.

[jahannam]

I was gonna post a Paleolothic cave painting, but you've excluded that time period in your question.
your loss.
HA!

[fIReBuRntInHeLL]

Nice thread!
But where are Monet, Picasso, Durer, Rembrant?

[Anonymouse]

Venus of Willendorf, another one of my favorites.

[jahannam]

venus of willendorf is your favorite?
PLLEASE tell me why...
cuz I mean yes,It does carry value since it's the oldest sculpture piece found and it was found in Austria and so on and so forth...
but favorite?
that thing is the ugliest "work of art" I've ever seen.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by jahannam venus of willendorf is your favorite?
PLLEASE tell me why...
cuz I mean yes,It does carry value since it's the oldest sculpture piece found and it was found in Austria and so on and so forth...
but favorite?
that thing is the ugliest "work of art" I've ever seen.

Look, either contribute to the fine art thread or stop your incessant whining.

[jahannam]

HA!
ladies and gentlemen.
and for the FIRST TIME in Armenian club forum history Anonymouse doesn't hold his position.
he GIVES UP!
I'm so happy... I'm goin to lunch hahahhaa
YESSSSSSS

[Arvestaked]

Robert Motherwell



Clyfford Still



Mark Rothko



Kazimir Malevich



Arshile Gorky



Antranik Patanian (my father)

[Emil]

Here is my contribution:


The triptych is done by Hieronymus Bosch and is in the Prado in Spain. Here is a quote from a website regarding Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights is the most famous and unconventional of Hieronymus Bosch's pieces, it exhibits many of the same themes found in his earlier works, and most notably that humankind is given over to sin.

The three paintings in this triptych are the most wonderfully imaginative and enigmatic series of exotic scenes ever depicted in the history of art. The triptych depicts the history of the world and the progression of sin. Beginning on the outside shutters with the creation of the world, the story progresses from Adam and Eve and original sin on the left panel to the torments of hell, a dark, icy, yet fiery nightmarish vision, on the right.

The Garden of Delights in the center illustrates a world deeply engaged in sinful pleasures. Endlessly provocative, almost like some pictorial and philosophical puzzle, the subject matter defies categorization and resists definition altogether. The left panel shows Eve in the Garden of Eden and the right shows the terrors of hell. The center panel is just bewildering beyond description.

Also about Bosch: "Hieronymous Bosch produced some of the most inventive fantasy paintings that have ever existed. His obsessive and nightmarish vision has its antecedents in the Gothic twilight world of the late Middle Ages and, although the allegorical medieval world view is now lost, there have been many recent attempts to 'read' his pictures, not least by those who have attempted to interpret Bosch by dream analysis. The Garden of Earthly Delights demonstrates Bosch's dazzling ability to build up a hugely detailed landscape through a series of bizarre exaggerations and distortions. The complete work consists of four paintings on a series of folding panels; the outer panel reveals the Third Day of Creation when closed. Inside, The Garden of Earthly Delights is flanked on the left by the Garden of Eden and on the right by Hell. A wild sexual orgy features in the central panel, where lust is shown to be the cause of man's downfall. There are over a thousand figures in this work altogether. Standing alone in its lifetime, Bosch's work has a timeless and modern quality that greatly endeared him to Surrealists in the twentieth century."

As you can tell he is my favorite painter, I have the poster of The Garden of Earthly Delights hanging in my room.

Emil

[xBaron Dants]

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