Favourite Works of Art

Frankenstein illustrations by Bernie Wrightson.

 

@Damocles,

You never fail to make a shitty day bright, mate. You make me bust my arse off with laughter.

Azura is a snack, what can I say. One of my favourite female characters (second only to Camilla of course. )

 

Very powerful! I like it!

 

(artist: vivi Team Luna Heart Artist (@violapuff) / Twitter)



(artist: Streyah Art Raffle ON GOING! (@streyah_) / Twitter)

I still prefer Azura, but Camilla definitely has something about her (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

Football is art. 'Nuff said

Banner of AJAX player Abdelhak Nouri, who fell into a coma in a previous game (Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam, 2017)


Banner of Union Berlin vs. Hertha Berlin (Stadion an der alten Försterei, Berlin, 2019)


Alan Pardew & Chris Powell banner in Ghostbusters theme (Cars Jeans Stadion, The Hague, 2020)


Die Gelbe Wand (the stand for hardcore supporters) of Borussia Dortmund (Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, 2016)


Droit au but, which means: straight to the point (Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, 2015)

 

The monk by the sea

Caspar David Friedrich, German Romantic landscape painter.

Romanticism contrasts the immensity of nature with the finiteness of the human being who, however, becomes aware of his own nature and spiritual greatness.

 

Does anybody know where this delightful statue is located. It came up randomly on the internet.

 

Good choice! My favourite Romantic painter - here he is looking into the sublime.

I love this painting so much.

 

Kópakonan – The Seal Woman - Visit Faroe Islands

 

Thank you Damocles.

 

Brilliant read. There is a myth in Ireland that the seals come to change back to human form. They also spend one night roaming the land.

 

Them Irish’ll believe anything.
Leprechaun’s etc…..x

 

At one time we believed the English were helping us. But as it turned out someone tossed the Blythe into the air killing a million people through starvation or emigration.

 

I believe it Elmer.

We stand condemned by history on so many fronts.

 

I've always loved Patrick Nagel's pop-art. I actually discovered his work when I went through some albums in a record shop when I was about 16 years old. I stumbled upon some Duran Duran albums and decided to buy them purely because the album covers perfectly depict feminine beauty in a sensual yet elegant way. Here are a few of them + other known works:

 

This is located in Roundwood, Ireland. A place called Victor's Indian palace. It's all outdoors. An amazing walk of sculptures.

 

“The Morning Visitor” by Dino Buzzati

 

Fascinating work, Daniel. I interpret it as a depiction of rape. Very disturbing.

 

I interpret it as rape as well. Rape of tinnitus. It’s always lurking there in the background, when you are moving around you’re less bothered by it, but as soon as you stop, BAM, you get raped.

 

And what can the damned do for the damned...



...but suffer and watch as their own time comes.

"Das Jüngste Gericht, Detail der Hölle" - Fra Angelico (1431)

 

Wow, these demons sure know how to treat the human body like an amusement park.

I wonder if they have a tinnitus inducing torture chamber in Hell. The painter probably thought it would be too gruesome to depict something like that and rather chose something more ''torture friendly'' like feeding people to demons and cooking them in a nice stew for the Lord of Darkness ;P

 

Unfortunately it was someone we both saw yesterday, asking for help here, that prompted this image in my mind.

I feel like we're those poor f*ckers in the stew telling those other poor f*ckers in the stew how to deal with being cooked alive.

 

Dancers in blue.


Natalia Rak

 

Christiaan! I absolutely adore these! Wow!

 

Thank you for sharing these. I enjoyed reading about them.