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RE: Sharing is Caring - Paintings You Like
Ivan Aivazovsky: Azure Grotto, Naples 1841
I'm not the right person to make any value judgements about art, at least beyond personal taste, but I enjoy this one. If I were forced to articulate why I'd probably sound like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, critiquing his mom's painting. "One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way."
Can't say much about Ivan Aivazovsky as a person, or his larger body of work for that matter. I just stumbled upon him more or less by accident.
That is also my favourite Artist, he is a maritime artist and this one is my favourite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninth_Wave
He is a master in choosing the colours to show the drama of natural disaster and also the beauty of that power. This painting always made me stun and think, what those people think when they were floating on that wooden wreck of ship. Seeing such beauty of night, sun coming down the horizon did they fear of darkness of night or they hoped to see the full moon, who knows.
As to the "Prisoners" it is really sad painting, even the colours were chosen in such palette that make people sad watching that.
Yeah, I noticed. He manages to give nature a lot of personality. Large and in charge!
I'm not sure if I would call the Van Gogh painting sad, but it's hard for me to describe. In a sense it almost seems like page taken from an experimental comic book. Or a cartoon for that matter. A little bit of music might change the tone completely.
Is this art? A painting?
Aren't most great artists dealing with sadness, depressions?
Generally, but not necessarily. There's this infamous japanese manga artist who specializes this fucked up stuff, truly, but then in real life he's more or less just a goofy sweatheart who throws cat poses. Meanwhile you've got someone like Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame, known for dozens of heartfelt movies about little girls having quirky adventures, and the man talks like he was part of that soccer team that crashed into the Andes Mountains.
This work is brilliant. It conveys anguish to me in particular: the waves, the moon and the small raft that looks as fragile as life itself.
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The Azure Grotto reminds me of those in Malta. Perhaps the blue there is closer to turquoise? There are some caves where they filmed The Blue Lagoon and some James Bond. I forgot which one since I always fall asleep if a James Bond film is playing.
But.. Ivan created indeed a beautiful piece. It's a bit pity it shows so small. I wonder if you had it where would you place it to enjoy it most.
Thanks for sharing, all I can think of are two paintings, one made by a child years ago (very colourful and she doesn't understand I still have it) and the other one is Edvard Munch's The Scream but it's not what I like to share. So I wait.
@tezzmax is there a paining you like to share or an artist perhaps?
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Oh, not any at the moment.
I should with time.
see the post about what @grebmot wrote!
Oh okay.
I'll try to.
Hahaha. At sea, everyone goes their own way, especially fishermen, because sometimes they devour each other, hehe.
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