yip, depressingly futile. have a techy type mate that would like that, i have a faint recollection of seeing it in his place years back. he was also into images of quarks and suchlike.
I got interested in bosch and dali when doing o level art at school(1969). Will try and get that up on my telly as its lost on iphone. Its part of a three panel painting, the last panel is called hell which is really weird.
Yep saw that in Madrid, have you seen the really scary one by Goya, Saturn devouring his son? It's quite demented
An art thread. Like it. I love surrealist art. the madder the better. Bosch, Dali and Dadd, the high priests of weird. But all astonishing draftsmen. I agree with Brian Sewell, that Dali should be considered an old master. Don't know how mental Bosch was but Dadd ended his life in a lunatic asylum and Dali was more or less barking, though some thought it was a deliberate act. Someone pointed out that an anagram of Salvidor Dali is avida dollars.. Goya's Satan Devouring his Children gave me nightmares when i was a kid. His style was the inspiration for Mervin Peake's weird gothic caricatures in his Gormenghast books.
Pieter Brueghel The Elder is a favourite of mine. The mixture of the mundane and the downright bizarre, cheek-by-jowl in the same painting, is both marvellously whimsical and subtly evocative of the mindset of Man from that time. The picture below first came to my notice as a jigsaw puzzle many years ago. You may feel that this trivialises art, reducing it to a game or pastime but it really made me look and think about the subject of the puzzle. It has had a lasting effect on me.
i dont have the words, but that stuff seriously depresses me.been dragged round a lot of exhibitions and showings by arty exe girlfriends and mates. i see rats, futility, despair. depression. saddens me.
This title alone told me it was pretentious guff A CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATION OF THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS So must be high quality art
Whilst in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid I took a photo of Picasso's Guernica.. Apparently photography is not allowed on the top floor!
