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RE: Sharing is Caring - Paintings You Like
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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