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Sure ya did, I've been keeping this thread alive since I joined and I have to say I don't recall you posting when I first joined, I wonder why that is?

The days of Sev and everyone else's random posts which lead to discussions, then the chats that would always occur between myself Noobs and Hatless. Good times, see Veritas you missed out on all of this.

 

Well you know his Post-Impressionism Starry Night Composition is very beautiful.
The painting brimming with whirling clouds, shining stars, and a bright crescent moon. The setting is one that viewers can relate to and van Gogh´s swirling sky directs the viewer´s eye around the painting, with spacing between the stars and the curving contours creating a dot-to-dot effect. These internal elements ensure fluidity and such contours were important for the artist even though they were becoming less significant for other Impressionists. Thus Starry Night´s composition was distinct from the Impressionist technique of the 19th century.


Van Gogh painted his iconic The Starry Night in 1889, while in an asylum in Saint-Rémy. "One of the most beautiful things by the painters of this century," he had written to Theo in April 1885, "has been the painting of Darkness that is still COLOR."

 

Assuming this thread started on JD

This thread did, it actually predates myself and Sev alike nearing the 2 year mark, from what I recall it was created in early 2010 by Cipher. We then joined in the later months of 2011 and basically kept it running over the next year and a bit until the collapse. Before that though it had seen many newcomers lay claim but all bowed out except for conversationalists that turned it into a chatroom and idiots that liked posting random crap, and I believe that we fall into both of those categories.

About Starry Night, it is unfortunate that this happens to be one of my favourite paintings by Van Gogh. He had such talent but his portraits and still life's just seemed dull despite the vibrant colours used. The impressionists had an air of grace about their work, this I think is best shown through this work. Its vectors that make the viewers eyes essentially caress every inch of this painting, it goes to show why he is such a well respected artist.
Using a method that other impressionists had since abandoned proved to be a well thought out move. It is a shame that other painters had left this technique.

 

Nah that isn't that weird Sev, while I personally don't do it as I tend to find the darker paintings more intriguing and that'd be horrible to try and live that life, I can understand where you are coming from. My thoughts are usually about the image itself not the possibilities that the people could be facing during their lives within that setting as that was what my highschool art classes required. So looking for symbolism, connections to other themes or maybe some techniques is what I generally do although of course not in that great of detail.
But the you get works like the image below and it really makes things harder regardless of approach

Seriously what the hell?

@Noobs, I think I know why you say the greek paintings specifically...

 

@Severus, yeah honestly I hav no idea what the hell I'm looking at either. All I can tell you is that it is an action painting [I think, it was his main style] by a guy named Jackson Pollock, makes analysing artworks harder when they are coded so that only a very "special" kind of mind can understand them. I am by no means an art major either, highschool art class was all and we had to try and look deeper into some of this idiots works, bloody tough to write about and relate other paintings to it.

A monkey would have done a better job Jay.

 

Nah that isn’t that weird Sev, while I personally don’t do it as I tend to find the darker paintings more intriguing and that’d be horrible to try and live that life, I can understand where you are coming from. My thoughts are usually about the image itself not the possibilities that the people could be facing during their lives within that setting as that was what my highschool art classes required. So looking for symbolism, connections to other themes or maybe some techniques is what I generally do although of course not in that great of detail.
But the you get works like the image below and it really makes things harder regardless of approach

Seriously what the hell?

@Noobs, I think I know why you say the greek paintings specifically…



What the hell am I looking at? lol

 

meerkats.



Makes sense.