Post your favorite pieces of art here.

volchok · December 2, 2013, 1:23am

Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581

Lys · June 17, 2014, 1:32pm

Caspar David Friedrich, Tannen am Wasserfall (1828)

Lys · June 17, 2014, 1:39pm

Caspar David Friedrich. Two Men Contemplating the Moon.

Lys · June 17, 2014, 1:40pm

Caspar David Friedrich.

Lys · June 17, 2014, 1:42pm

Caspar David Friedrich. Inside the Forest Under the Moonlight.

Lys · June 17, 2014, 1:44pm

Casper David Friedrich. Temple of Juno in Agrient.

Lys · June 17, 2014, 1:59pm

Nicholas Roerich. Chintamani Stone.

Arcturus_Descending · June 20, 2014, 2:21pm

god i wish i could be there right now - but alone.

Arcturus_Descending · June 20, 2014, 2:28pm

Something about this just grabs me. i love Scott Mutter’s work.

Lys · July 4, 2014, 3:32pm

Alma Tadema, Love Votaries

Bianca · July 4, 2014, 8:11pm

Bianca · July 4, 2014, 8:25pm

Vladimir Mukhin.

Arminius · August 8, 2014, 2:34am

Post your favorite pieces of art here?

Do you mean all arts, or merely visual arts?

If you mean all arts, then I post a piece of music: “A Passion Play” (1973) by Jethro Tull.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWtV4DACpVg[/youtube]

If you mean merely visual arts, then I post this: “Felsenschlucht” (“Rocky Gorge”) (about 1822) by Caspar David Friedrich.

Arcturus_Descending · August 8, 2014, 1:23pm

That somehow reminds me of words which Rumi’ might have uttered.

Arcturus_Descending · August 8, 2014, 1:26pm

Tyrannus:

The Roses of Heliogabalus is a famous painting of 1888 by the Anglo-Dutch academician Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, at present in private hands. It is based on a probably invented episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, (204–222), taken from the Augustan History. Although the Latin refers to “violets and other flowers”, Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus attempting[citation needed] to smother his unsuspecting guests in rose-petals released from false ceiling panels. The original reference is this:
Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.[1]

In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his parasites in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top.[2]
In his notes to the Augustan History, Thayer notes that “Nero did this also (Suetonius, Nero, xxxi), and a similar ceiling in the house of Trimalchio is described in Petronius, Sat., lx.” (Satyricon).[3]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus

And there was fun to be had by all.

Arminius · August 9, 2014, 1:18am

@ Lys

Why is Caspar D. Friedrich your favourite painter?

gib · August 9, 2014, 4:21am

Is it narcissistic of me to post my own drawing as a current favorite?

Arminius · August 9, 2014, 9:45pm

Yes. But never mind because it makes no sense anyway.

Arminius · August 9, 2014, 10:56pm

“THICK AS A BRICK” (1972) by Jethro Tull.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvBpW0ksE-k[/youtube]

Lys · August 17, 2014, 9:03pm

He captures the Daimonic in his atmospheres.