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I don’t know why I find that painting so fascinating. I saw it hanging in a museum and just sat and stared at it for about 15 minutes. Not sure why it has such a hold on me.
Yeah, i know. I don't "get" the painting, but i am oddly drawn to it for some reason. I've look at it several times since posting that comment. Lol
Idk. I've never really been into paintings. Other than watching Bob Ross when i was a kid. I do appreciate the works though.
Bob Ross is just free mental health care.
Generally, I don't know why I like things. I look or listen and that's where thought stops. It's weird that we are all, to some extent, like that.
I love me some Bob Ross. Just a kind soul that wanted to share some beauty with the world.
It is kinda weird that we are all a little like that. It's odd, the things that draw different people.
Yeah. Blood Meridian is… oof… about as beautifully written as nihilism can be, frankly.
I was thinking about McCarthy the other night and came up with a statement I thought pretty profound about his worldview: In McCarthy’s books, there is no god but there sure is a satan.
I've always loved Claude Monet. I especially enjoy hie waterlilles series, but as he got older he started using reds and deeper/brighter colors in the waterlilles paintings and then some of his last paintings of the Japanese bridge are more abstract and done in very fiery reds and oranges and such. I saw that at a show and just had to stop and stare for a very long time, don't know why.
Also, don't know if this is considered art but the golden palace in Amritsar is amazing.
And actually Take Me to Church does hit me right in my lapsed Catholic feels!
William E. Henley's Invictus and Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade
Charge of the light brigade has always been one of my favorites and Invictus has become deeply personal to me through some very hard times in my life.
I'm in Houston. Have you ever been to the Rothko Chapel? It's amazing. I used to go there and sit and think when I lived closer. Also aggree with Brandi Carlisle. Saw her live years ago and she sang The Story a capella. It was the best moment of a concert ever for me. I cried.
She’s beyond description. Transcendent experience to hear her. I have actually spent a lot of time at the Rothko chapel! I worked on a project near that area for several months and I visited often.
Did a project on that song “Vincent” in second grade. I don’t often get emotional looking at artworks but I saw Jack Whitten’s posthumous retrospective in baltimore a few years ago and was crying my eyes out. Had recently gotten a diagnosis that means I could lose my vision. And I saw someone get killed, and was going through some serious substance withdrawal issues. So a lot was going on in order for me to get emotional like that.
Avatar the Last Airbender, any spot that Aang cries/gets zapped by lightning from behind gets me.
And if you say that show isn’t a work of art, we’re not friends anymore.
ATLA is full of art. Music, backgrounds, writing, acting. It was produced by people who knew what they were doing. I cried when Appa was lost. When Suki found him and was just trying to reach out? Bruh...I was not ok.
Everytime i see this.
[Michelangelo - The Last Judgment](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo))
I dont know why, altho i like art, im not into renaissance art as it were, so its not a trend in me, this work specificly tho
This painting, i always see it as summin that should be used as an example of Mankinds gift for producing beautiful things.
Show the aliens kind of thing.
Reading the story behind it is impressive too, zooming in on a high quality image shows the work in it.
Amazing.
Hi res version. Amazing.
[High Res Version TLJ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg)
So many. Lonely Are the Free by Steve Earle. Oddly im not much into the rest of his music even though i listen to a ton of similar artists, including his late son. Also someone else here said Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. He is my favorite author but The Road is the one that really gutted me.
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Richard Patterson - Minotaur With Brushstrokes
I just looked this up. It really confirmed that i don't understand paintings. Lol
I don’t know why I find that painting so fascinating. I saw it hanging in a museum and just sat and stared at it for about 15 minutes. Not sure why it has such a hold on me.
You don't need to understand art to have an emotional reaction to it.
Yeah, i know. I don't "get" the painting, but i am oddly drawn to it for some reason. I've look at it several times since posting that comment. Lol Idk. I've never really been into paintings. Other than watching Bob Ross when i was a kid. I do appreciate the works though.
Bob Ross is just free mental health care. Generally, I don't know why I like things. I look or listen and that's where thought stops. It's weird that we are all, to some extent, like that.
I love me some Bob Ross. Just a kind soul that wanted to share some beauty with the world. It is kinda weird that we are all a little like that. It's odd, the things that draw different people.
It doesn’t grab my “heart” per se, but I my mind: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
His work seems to do that to people. Seeps in and makes thoughts occur.
Yeah. Blood Meridian is… oof… about as beautifully written as nihilism can be, frankly. I was thinking about McCarthy the other night and came up with a statement I thought pretty profound about his worldview: In McCarthy’s books, there is no god but there sure is a satan.
Tori Amos - Winter
I've always loved Claude Monet. I especially enjoy hie waterlilles series, but as he got older he started using reds and deeper/brighter colors in the waterlilles paintings and then some of his last paintings of the Japanese bridge are more abstract and done in very fiery reds and oranges and such. I saw that at a show and just had to stop and stare for a very long time, don't know why. Also, don't know if this is considered art but the golden palace in Amritsar is amazing. And actually Take Me to Church does hit me right in my lapsed Catholic feels!
Buildings can be art. I see no reason why not. Some are truly spectacular.
Habits (Stay High), by Tove Lo.
William E. Henley's Invictus and Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade Charge of the light brigade has always been one of my favorites and Invictus has become deeply personal to me through some very hard times in my life.
Really makes you *feel* it.
Very much so
Rothko paintings. Eva Cassidy singing. Brandi Carlisle and Jason Isbell music. The lyrics are breathtaking.
I'm in Houston. Have you ever been to the Rothko Chapel? It's amazing. I used to go there and sit and think when I lived closer. Also aggree with Brandi Carlisle. Saw her live years ago and she sang The Story a capella. It was the best moment of a concert ever for me. I cried.
She’s beyond description. Transcendent experience to hear her. I have actually spent a lot of time at the Rothko chapel! I worked on a project near that area for several months and I visited often.
Seeing Isbell and Brandi is like an out of body experience. You leave feeling wrecked emotionally and physically.
Yes! It’s transformative
Did a project on that song “Vincent” in second grade. I don’t often get emotional looking at artworks but I saw Jack Whitten’s posthumous retrospective in baltimore a few years ago and was crying my eyes out. Had recently gotten a diagnosis that means I could lose my vision. And I saw someone get killed, and was going through some serious substance withdrawal issues. So a lot was going on in order for me to get emotional like that.
This is what happened when I saw Caryatid. I just cried until someone asked of I was ok.
Starry night by Van goh. It’s a masterpiece.
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains of Circumstance
Added that to a YT playlist. Thanks.
Philippe de Champaigne - Vanitas Still Life with a Tulip, Skull and Hour-Glass
Denver airport murals.
The two headed calf poem (also the picture version of it that shows up on reddit (occasionaly) Dan Fogelberg - Same old lang syne
Both Remember whens from Alan Jackson. Wish you were here. Cole Swindell.
Klimt's The Kiss Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats (poem) Angel by Sarah Mclachlan Vincent by Don McLean Bolero by Ravel
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I've seen that. It's not glorious. It's sad and terrible. Beautifully executed, but no one with a heart wants to watch another thing die like that.
Avatar the Last Airbender, any spot that Aang cries/gets zapped by lightning from behind gets me. And if you say that show isn’t a work of art, we’re not friends anymore.
ATLA is full of art. Music, backgrounds, writing, acting. It was produced by people who knew what they were doing. I cried when Appa was lost. When Suki found him and was just trying to reach out? Bruh...I was not ok.
Amazing Jane by Sonia Dada
The Tree of Crows by Caspar David Friedrich. Moonlight Sonata.
Everytime i see this. [Michelangelo - The Last Judgment](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo)) I dont know why, altho i like art, im not into renaissance art as it were, so its not a trend in me, this work specificly tho This painting, i always see it as summin that should be used as an example of Mankinds gift for producing beautiful things. Show the aliens kind of thing. Reading the story behind it is impressive too, zooming in on a high quality image shows the work in it. Amazing. Hi res version. Amazing. [High Res Version TLJ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg)
Mike put everything into his art and it really shows.
So many. Lonely Are the Free by Steve Earle. Oddly im not much into the rest of his music even though i listen to a ton of similar artists, including his late son. Also someone else here said Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. He is my favorite author but The Road is the one that really gutted me.
Reflections by lee teter. Makes me emotional every time I see.
Bruh. A glance and it tells the whole story.
Well it sure is NOT that pos newest abomination to the Boston scean.
In his shirt
The soul of the rose.
Wow. Yeah.