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I didn’t want to threadjack so starting another thread on this topic: Nibbler has a new avatar and I am wondering what the painting is called and who the artist is? (mom3 I think could help answer this as well).
My other interest in this is that I have a collection of paintings on my wish list of copies or prints to buy.
I have also (very slowly) been working on putting together a ppt deck with my favorite paintings for my families evening “Spiritual time” so I can share with my family more about the different paintings and painters. Sometimes much easier and more spiritual than reading scriptures.
So what other people’s favorite paintings?
One I have really appreciated lately is The School of Athens by Raphael. I have been reading about Greek History and Philosophy which speaks to me in a way Mormonism does not. This was a featured painting in a book called Philosophy for life and Other Dangerous Situations which I loved. And I’m about 1/3rd of the way through the Illiad right now.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone else has any favorite painting they would like to share.
I debated posting in the other thread. The worry was that I would derail it. I have no such worries in this thread since we started off with the same sentiment. 
I briefly changed my avatar to this:
I just did some digging and was surprised to find out that it was actually a photograph (I assumed it was a painting).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_%28photograph%29http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_%28photograph%29” class=”bbcode_url”> Maybe it was the colorization process that gave the photo that painted look.
Why I made the change:
This hung in my grandparent’s dining room. I remember seeing it every time I went to visit. My grandfather passed away and my grandmother asked if there was anything that I wanted. I asked for this picture.
I’m sorry to hear about your grandfather. Condolences to you and your family. Thank you for sharing, I find art to be a place I can really connect spiritually sometimes and I’m glad you have found something that connects you to your grandfather.
-SBRed
Quote:So what other people’s favorite paintings?
Currently, my favorite is Van Gogh’s “Irises” at the J Paul Getty Museum in LA.
Do a Google search. It’s worth it.
Mike – I have the “Irises in a Vase” in my kitchen, as well as Sunflowers and Red Flowers. Love them. http://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/vincent-van-gogh/irises-1889.jpg My favorite, this week is, Millet’s
The GleanersHey Nibbler, that was my favorite painting too. It hung on the wall in my dining room for many years. It was a wedding gift. It didn’t survive long in my home after the divorce 😥 But, the humility of the man always struck me, and it gave me a sense of peace and gratitude.My current favorite is called “Cathedral of Commerce” by Rob Gonsalves. It is a painting where the inside of a cathedral, including an altar, give way to a city skyline. My husband described it as “where your heart should be, and where it often it”. It’s pretty cool. Here is a link to it:
http://thinng.com/1093-rob-gonsalves-cathedral-of-commerce [attachment=0]tmp_24539-IMG_20150205_2250111449523856.jpg[/attachment] There’s something about seeing the originals up close, I’ve seen Degas in books all over the place, the dancers etc. and they never really stuck out to me. Then I saw one of them original, and it hit me. I almost cried in the middle of the Getty museum.
[attachment=0]monet road.jpg[/attachment] I love this painting. It is the road to Chailly by Monet. It hangs in my house. Seeing great art and stunning natural beauty I feel draws me to God and the Spirit in very strong ways.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Jheronimus_Bosch_023.jpg [/img] Imagine if our Temple film was like Hieronymus Bosch.
I walked past this painting in the Conference Center in SLC last summer after coping with thoughts from being recently divorced. Stopped and went back and stared at it for over 10 minutes. She Will Find What Is Lost by Brian Kershisnik
(I didn’t think for a minute it was car keys…but more something that I was feeling…and somehow feeling uplifted by the hope for unseen support while walking my path)
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We went to Deseret Bookstore…and found the print on display…a second time. It struck me even more profoundly. We purchased it and took it home.I have one I will post after I can find it and scan it. It’s a blueprint of a butterfly. As you “read” the painting from left to right, the blueprint gradually becomes a full-color image of a butterfly. I love its symbolism….one thing that I DID like from the temple ceremony (one of the few things) was the story of creation. How the video showed images of the creation before Christ actually created them. There was something about the idea of envisioning a “creation” and then making it come to life almost exactly as you envisioned it, that I find really energizing. This painting captures the creative process/feeling for me.
I first had that feeling when I composed a song for a jazz combo when I was a teenager. The musicians sight read it, and it sounded just like I heard it in my head. My notation of the song actually reflected what I had heard in my head, and it was a very Godlike feeling.
And then, a year ago, I read “On Becoming a Leader” by Warren Bennis. He gave a kind of verbose definition of leadership, which I shortened to this statement:
“Leadership is the process of turning vision into reality through the wise use of power”.
I see the butterfly image as an incarnation of that phrase. With the butterfly not only symbolizing creation, but also indicating that the best leaders create things that followers can sustain without the leaders’ influence (butterlies symbolize independence and freedom, as well as metamorphosis).
I’ve built a couple things in the last couple years in two organizations that are self-sustaining without me now, and generate significant amounts of money. That to me, is one of the most satisfying experiences — to create something that people think highly enough to continue without you, and which benefits society — evidenced by people’s willingness to pay money for it long after you have moved on to new achievements.
And the painting/image I will share, when I find it, epitomizes that experience.
I’ll try an experiment. I’ll delete my two posts if they become nauseating. I took people’s favorite paintings and created an animated gif out of them.
The first frame is only two colors, black & white.
The second frame is in grey-scale, 16 shades of grey (not 50).
The last frame is in color. Animated gifs have color limitations so the third frame isn’t even as colorful as it could be.
I got a little Rorschach effect out of the black and white images. For instance, I didn’t initially see the lady looking at the forest in Van Gogh’s “Irises”
Posts with images to follow.
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