Daft-Vader's Artistic Apprecation Thread (AAT)

Yes in this thread we post classical works of art and discuss them. Feel free to post any classical piece of art...

First, The Scream...

[image=http://riverdaughter.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/the-scream.jpeg]

and the Melting Clocks:

[image=http://www.msdlists.com/surrealism/images/full%20size/Dali%20Persistence%20of%20Time.jpg]

 

Eh, Munch and Dali are not that old.

Old:
[image=http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/10/FriedrichCDoakwoodabbey.jpg]

Even older:
[image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Hieronymus_Bosch_023.jpg]

 

Well, if age is what we are looking for...

[image=http://www.eyesclosed.org/img/hires/cave_painting_l.jpg]

But this was more classical then it having to be old...

 

Caspar David Friedrich is THE painter of the German romanticism. And Hieronimus Bosch was a visionary in his times. Somewhere Middle Age, IIRC.

This is my fave pic of Mondrian:
[image=http://www.lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de/~za183/mondrian/mondrian3.jpg]

I love his tree series.

 

It doesn't look that much like a tree...

[image=http://www.germes-online.com/direct/dbimage/50342584/Classical_Scenery_Painting.jpg]

Paintings that look like what they are... two boats

 

It's the last pic in the series I think. he starts out with trees looking like trees and ends with things like this:
[image=http://cealdecote.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/mondrian.jpg]


Ship or not ship?
[image=http://data68.sevenload.com/slcom/zm/dd/dinjggd/lhjymnqqpkge.jpg~/Optische-Taeuschung-Schiffe.jpg]

 

That is good

[image=http://people.dbq.edu/students/ama/images/Poseidon.jpg]

 

Bosch!!

Do you know which cave the cave painting came from?

[image=http://exterior.pntic.mec.es/fhua0001/tutelageo/Viajetoledo/velazquez-las-meninas.jpg]

Velazquez - Las Meninas

[image=http://home.worldonline.co.za/~townshend/graphics/wolfedeath_large.jpg]

Benjamin West - The Death of General Wolf

 

Well it says Lacaux,France on the bottom... All I know...

[image=http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t373/T373854A.jpg]

Cave paining from eastern Zimbabwe, made by San (Bushmen) people

 

Oh ha, didn't click

Lascaux's a pretty cool place, from what I've heard. It's like 16 thousand years old and the cave paintings are so delicate that only a select few scientists have access.

[image=http://boards.theforce.net/science_fiction_and_fantasy_books_and_comics/b10749/30231079/p1/?29]


Hall of the Bulls at Lascaux


[image=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7079/images/nature04521-f5.2.jpg]


That's from Chauvet, which is around 30,000 years old.

 

That's very beautiful.

As far as artistic appreciation goes, I appreciate music more than painted or sculptured art.

 

I love some kinds of art erratically and completely without logical reasons.
I like almost everything that plays on optical illusions though. I grew up with pic by Escher on the walls and never stopped being amazed by it.

[image=http://data11.sevenload.com/slcom/gy/kh/qoojggd/fumwmnjkqkge.jpg~/Optische-Taeuschung-Wuerfel.jpg]

[image=http://www.michael-holzapfel.de/weblinks/b_escher.jpg]

[image=http://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/optical_illusion_18.jpg]

 

I love these ones...

 

And why don't you like the horses?

 

Its nice, but I like the others best (I have seen the steps one before as well...)

 

I am seeing a lot of this stuff here.

[image=http://www.ruvr.ru/files/Image/Editiors/Germany/Ikone.JPG]

All fake of course.
Some are pretty, I consder buying.