Why not?
Part of the reason why I love visual arts like drawing, painting or photography is because they provide a snap of what was important to those who came before. Mythological figures, biblical, political, animals, food. It's all there and it provides a unifying experience. It helps show us that we all, deep inside, worry about the same things and that we can find beauty in many different places.
There is a website that I am hooked on called www.the-athenaeum.org/ which is constantly updated with thousands of artworks. There is a section where you can just have it load random art and the themes and stories above are repeated over and over again. There are nudes, shipwrecks, landscapes, illustrations and portraits.
The thing I find most interesting is the different interpretations of the same theme. Judith Beheading Holofernes is an oddly popular one.
DON'T CLICK IF YOU DON'T WISH TO SEE A DUDE GETTING HIS NOGGIN CHOPPED OFF.
Caravaggio has one:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=25919#
Artemisia Gentileschi:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=101893
A couple actually:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=101892
Titian:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=36919
There are thousands of paintings that cover bible scenes. There are many for Shakespeare, for Greek myths. The same scene put through different hands. They produce something familiar and yet unique in their own way. Each showing a different way to observe a scene that reflects the artist's culture, background and interests. Art is amazing.
Not just visual art, though that is what I love the most, but all kinds of art. I might talk more on it later, but I think I've gone on long enough. Carry on.
Part of the reason why I love visual arts like drawing, painting or photography is because they provide a snap of what was important to those who came before. Mythological figures, biblical, political, animals, food. It's all there and it provides a unifying experience. It helps show us that we all, deep inside, worry about the same things and that we can find beauty in many different places.
There is a website that I am hooked on called www.the-athenaeum.org/ which is constantly updated with thousands of artworks. There is a section where you can just have it load random art and the themes and stories above are repeated over and over again. There are nudes, shipwrecks, landscapes, illustrations and portraits.
The thing I find most interesting is the different interpretations of the same theme. Judith Beheading Holofernes is an oddly popular one.
DON'T CLICK IF YOU DON'T WISH TO SEE A DUDE GETTING HIS NOGGIN CHOPPED OFF.
Caravaggio has one:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=25919#
Artemisia Gentileschi:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/full.php?ID=101893
A couple actually:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=101892
Titian:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=36919
There are thousands of paintings that cover bible scenes. There are many for Shakespeare, for Greek myths. The same scene put through different hands. They produce something familiar and yet unique in their own way. Each showing a different way to observe a scene that reflects the artist's culture, background and interests. Art is amazing.
Not just visual art, though that is what I love the most, but all kinds of art. I might talk more on it later, but I think I've gone on long enough. Carry on.
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