Paintings & Pictures - Art you like

[steve-in-kville]

Do photos count? Here's a photo from back in September that I forgot I had... until this weekend:

https://imgur.com/H9GISPq

[temporal1]

2022
It took me the longest time to locate this thread, and one other: http://forum.mennonet.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3524
i believe there may be another, art-related? not sure.

RZehr,
Did you locate a suitable work of art?

This is off-topic, but i was looking for a place to put it.
i hope it tickles others’ funny bones like it does mine.


i enjoyed studying Art History in high school. We would have had fun with this one.
i’d take that course again.
The text we used is now college level.

“History of Art” / by H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269 ... ory-of-art

[MaxPC]

"Triumph of the Cross" by Laureti is one of my favorites.

[Neto]

We have various pieces of art in our home, some painted by friends or family, some by my wife.
I attempted to paint a wild thistle flower years ago (with my wife coaching me), but I just couldn't get it to look the way I wanted it. It's probably still here some place, unfinished. But the art I like is something with a message - art that "says something".

[MaxPC]

But the art I like is something with a message - art that "says something".

My taste in art is similar to yours wherein the art has meaning, preferably several layers of meaning. For that reason I prefer Tintoretto's Last Supper. One cannot miss Jesus who is moving, in a dynamic posture of reaching out to a man with the angels overhead; the individual faces convey so much and there is even a cat watching for a handout from the dishwasher. There are echoes of other Gospel stories in this one painting and I like to simply look at it and meditate on the Scripture messages they convey.

[temporal1]

.. “ART YOU LIKE”

Rather than begin a new topic, i hope this addition will be ok here?

KINTSUGI / “How To Use the Japanese Concept of Kintsugi to Rebuild Your Self-Worth”
In Kintsugi, beauty is found in the broken and mended. Our imperfections, much like these cracks, make us uniquely beautiful.
https://betterhumans.pub/how-to-use-the ... 254e91f00e

If you are a regular reader of my posts, you probably already know that a few years ago, I found myself entangled in an emotionally abusive relationship that left deep imprints on my self-esteem and self-worth. The relationship left me shattered, my spirit and identity fragmented like a ceramic plate dropped from a great height. This distressing encounter with emotional abuse pushed me into a darkness where I questioned my worth, my abilities, and even my very existence.

In this gloom, I realized I could not return to the person I was before this relationship.
That version of myself was gone, swept away in the storm that had blown through my life.

But as I began the process of healing, of picking up the fragments of my self-esteem and piecing them back together, I found that I was becoming a different person — stronger, wiser, more resilient. I was not the same, but that didn’t mean I was worse off.

It was during this journey of mending and self-discovery that I stumbled upon a Japanese philosophy that resonated with my experience in a profound way. The philosophy is called Kintsugi, an art form that embraces brokenness and repair as an intrinsic part of an object’s history, and more than that, a metaphorical narrative of resilience, healing, and rebirth.

Kintsugi artisans do not hide the fractures in a broken pottery piece; they illuminate them, filling the fissures with precious metals like gold or silver. Instead of disguising the damage, they honor it, they celebrate it, turning the cracked piece into a masterpiece, even more beautiful and precious than it was before its breakage. ..

There are numbers of how-to videos on KINTSUGI.

i can’t read or admire without thinking, “Jesus is present.”

[RZehr]

Wow, I think those are interesting bowls.

[Neto]

I’m looking for a suggestion of a great picture/painting to hang in a certain place.
To get an idea of what I like, here are two that we have:
Eric Enstroms, “Grace” photo: https://society6.com/product/eric-enstr ... lsrc=aw.ds
The Encounter painting by Daniel Cariola, https://magdala-gift-shop.myshopify.com ... as-replica

And we don’t have these next two, but I like them. Might buy one of these:
“The Angelus”, by Jean Francois- Millet https://www.wayfair.com/Buyenlarge--The ... SmEALw_wcB
And I like “ The Mennonite Preacher Anslo and his Wife”, by Rembrandt https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi ... roject.jpg

What pictures do you like?

I like your 2nd & third ones, especially the 2nd, maybe partly because I've never seen it before. (The first is very common, so I wouldn't choose it, although it's a meaningful piece. The 4th I cannot view, as wikipedia is blocked for me.)

(EDIT: I didn't look at the date before I responded - Didn't know I was responding to something that was put up so long ago.....)