Pictures that make you think.

[AZRIEL]

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[Lookn4awillin1]

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[ejls]

[ejls]

[richief]

Originally Posted by Incubus

WTF are you talking about?

The leaf drifting in from the window. if you look just in front of the leaf instead of at the leaf then the shape and shadows appear to be a little head, but it could just be me.

[michael saint]

My favorite ceiling.

[smcaaphd]

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[Lookn4awillin1]

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[richief]

Originally Posted by smcaaphd

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I like that. thank-ewe

[chris4sylvia]

Any image of the destruction that was caused by the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, should make anyone think that this must never happen again...

[smcaaphd]

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[Lookn4awillin1]

Originally Posted by smcaaphd

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My favorite avatar onsite enlarged!

[thisotherguy]

Originally Posted by richief

If I ever find you I will nail your head to the floor.


Twat.

I tend to agree with you. That painting is amazing

[thisotherguy]

Makes me think about the way things could be for better or for worse.

[Amenti]

I've recently become a bit of a fan of Georgia O'Keefe. I quite like her "Cow's skull with calico roses" piece for the beautiful simplicity

[richief]

Originally Posted by Incubus

WTF are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Destor

I don't see it either

The leaf drifting in from the window. if you look just in front of the leaf instead of at the leaf then the shape and shadows appear to be a little head, but it could just be me.
And thanks for all the contributions, some very haunting and thought invoking pictures.

[Doc Fantasy]

"The Clockmaker"

I really like this painting. I believe it's because of the strong industrial feel of the piece. It also speaks of time being deconstructed.
Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, who is Russian, painted it in 1914.

[IVA HARDON]

Originally Posted by Wafarer

Thanks Rich, I like your pic, for me it can just represent a guy who needs a quiet place to think, like I often do of late(noisy apt)..

here's one that inspires me to take a journey

THE GREATEST BAND..................RIP FALLEN FREEBIRDS.

[Lookn4awillin1]

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[richief]

Maybe it is representing the dichotomy of the human mind, the yin and yang, serenity and anger, the fact that behind the quiet calm exterior could live the angry killer.

Just a thought but what the fuck do I know.

[chris4sylvia]

Originally Posted by richief

Maybe it is representing the dichotomy of the human mind, the yin and yang, serenity and anger, the fact that behind the quiet calm exterior could live the angry killer.

Just a thought but what the fuck do I know.

Or the devout, loyal, say nothing against them puppy dog and his mistress...

[Spicoli_Herb]

wtf just random shit

[Carrie_J]

Ah, well - I definitely thought WTF!!

[aesopstails]

About 15 years ago, I noticed a painting at a pub in Washington D.C., depicting a ship sailing off the edge of the Earth. I later found myself thinking about it, regretting that I did not get any information about it, and not even remembering the name of the pub. (‘Twas one of many!) I was disappointed that I had no luck identifying it on-line, either.

Then, about 5 years ago, I was given Thomas Friedman’s book about economic globalization - The World Is Flat - and guess what picture was on the cover?

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Since then, I’ve seen a few different versions of that painting - different colorizations and, in one version, one ship has already gone over the edge, with another soon to follow.

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Sometimes that painting makes me consider how often we believe only what we can see or what has been “proven” to our satisfaction, and how many beliefs have a way of evolving over time. It reminds me that different cultures often have different beliefs - seldom is one entirely “right” and the other entirely “wrong” - but, in this case, it amuses me that most Greek philosophers dismissed the idea of a flat Earth by the first century A.D. but, as late as the 17th century, most Chinese still believed that it was flat.

Recently, the picture has made me think of how people handle catastrophe and mortality in different ways - fighting the inescapable right up to the bitter end, accepting one’s fate calmly and offering little resistance, or any number of scenarios in-between.

Don’t you just hate it when stuff makes you think?

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/10/17/8358061/index.htm

[richief]

Originally Posted by aesopstails

About 15 years ago, I noticed a painting at a pub in Washington D.C., depicting a ship sailing off the edge of the Earth. I later found myself thinking about it, regretting that I did not get any information about it, and not even remembering the name of the pub. (‘Twas one of many!) I was disappointed that I had no luck identifying it on-line, either.

Then, about 5 years ago, I was given Thomas Friedman’s book about economic globalization - The World Is Flat - and guess what picture was on the cover?

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Since then, I’ve seen a few different versions of that painting - different colorizations and, in one version, one ship has already gone over the edge, with another soon to follow.

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Sometimes that painting makes me consider how often we believe only what we can see or what has been “proven” to our satisfaction, and how many beliefs have a way of evolving over time. It reminds me that different cultures often have different beliefs - seldom is one entirely “right” and the other entirely “wrong” - but, in this case, it amuses me that most Greek philosophers dismissed the idea of a flat Earth by the first century A.D. but, as late as the 17th century, most Chinese still believed that it was flat.

Recently, the picture has made me think of how people handle catastrophe and mortality in different ways - fighting the inescapable right up to the bitter end, accepting one’s fate calmly and offering little resistance, or any number of scenarios in-between.

Don’t you just hate it when stuff makes you think?

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/10/17/8358061/index.htm

When I was younger I treated art as a purely visual medium and thought that people who stood there espousing their views of what they see in the picture as pretentious assholes, now I can stand and look at paintings and think, some make me happy others sad, some just leave me cold, but they make me think which I think is now a better way of looking at art, but I still think the people who stand their espousing their views of what they see as pretentious twats.

Looking at you flat earth pics made me think almost instantly where does all the water come from. Odd.

[aesopstails]

Originally Posted by richief

When I was younger I treated art as a purely visual medium and thought that people who stood there espousing their views of what they see in the picture as pretentious assholes, now I can stand and look at paintings and think, some make me happy others sad, some just leave me cold, but they make me think which I think is now a better way of looking at art, but I still think the people who stand their espousing their views of what they see as pretentious twats.

OK - so I just see a coupla boats and lots of water.

Happy now?

[richief]

Originally Posted by aesopstails

OK - so I just see a coupla boats and lots of water.

Happy now?

No, I'm not saying don't think or say what you see, maybe I should have said. "Those guys that strike a dramatic pose and speak ,like a ham actor performing Hamlet, with a voice that carries as far as he can make it. "Yes and what the artist is trying to say here that if you sail your ship to close to the edge you will fall of, or, to put it more succinctly be careful what you do in life it is dangerous"

I see adventure and discovery is sometimes dangerous, as well as thinking where does all the water come from.

[aesopstails]

Then you're gonna LOVE this shit.

Years back, I visited the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, where one whole wall was taken up by a canvas that was painted blue - that's it - just blue. Like if you took a roller and covered a wall in your house with blue paint.

Now I (of all people) appreciate sarcasm, but it was hanging in an art museum! I'm so glad they hang a little card identifying each piece... the name of this piece is... wait for it... "Blue".

And here's the buffoon who explained it:

"Monochrome abstraction—the use of one color over an entire canvas—has been a strategy adopted by many painters wishing to challenge expectations of what an image can and should represent. Klein likened monochrome painting to an "open window to freedom." He worked with a chemist to develop his own particular brand of blue. Made from pure color pigment and a binding medium, it is called International Klein Blue. Klein adopted this hue as a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness of his own particular utopian vision of the world."

http://www.moma.org/collection/objec...bject_id=80103

Good night, now - I just bored myself to sleep!

[richief]

Originally Posted by aesopstails

Then you're gonna LOVE this shit.

Years back, I visited the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, where one whole wall was taken up by a canvas that was painted blue - that's it - just blue. Like if you took a roller and covered a wall in your house with blue paint.

Now I (of all people) appreciate sarcasm, but it was hanging in an art museum! I'm so glad they hang a little card identifying each piece... the name of this piece is... wait for it... "Blue".

And here's the buffoon who explained it:

"Monochrome abstraction—the use of one color over an entire canvas—has been a strategy adopted by many painters wishing to challenge expectations of what an image can and should represent. Klein likened monochrome painting to an "open window to freedom." He worked with a chemist to develop his own particular brand of blue. Made from pure color pigment and a binding medium, it is called International Klein Blue. Klein adopted this hue as a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness of his own particular utopian vision of the world."

http://www.moma.org/collection/objec...bject_id=80103

Good night, now - I just bored myself to sleep!

Oh that made me giggle.

[Eve8Air1]

I just love the idea of storms and to capture them on cmaera is amazing they make you want to explore the world in new ways.



I also have a soft spot for pictures done by Anne Geddes.

[richief]

I'm sure the above is an honest mistake.

[deviousdave]

Originally Posted by richief

I like this picture, a haunting quality but does anyone else see the little dwarf staring at her backside. The leaf coming in through the window looks like a little fellow in the shadows. Or is it just me.

ooh nice spot, thats some freaky art right there !

[deviousdave]

I do like this one of awelsh chapel

[deviousdave]

Originally Posted by aesopstails

Then you're gonna LOVE this shit.

Years back, I visited the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, where one whole wall was taken up by a canvas that was painted blue - that's it - just blue. Like if you took a roller and covered a wall in your house with blue paint.

Now I (of all people) appreciate sarcasm, but it was hanging in an art museum! I'm so glad they hang a little card identifying each piece... the name of this piece is... wait for it... "Blue".

And here's the buffoon who explained it:

"Monochrome abstraction—the use of one color over an entire canvas—has been a strategy adopted by many painters wishing to challenge expectations of what an image can and should represent. Klein likened monochrome painting to an "open window to freedom." He worked with a chemist to develop his own particular brand of blue. Made from pure color pigment and a binding medium, it is called International Klein Blue. Klein adopted this hue as a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness of his own particular utopian vision of the world."

http://www.moma.org/collection/objec...bject_id=80103

Good night, now - I just bored myself to sleep!

Lol, looks like xnxx blue

[christina2706]

Hope you like this one.

[richief]

Originally Posted by christina2706

Hope you like this one.

That is lovely Chrissie. Thanks love.

[sullygom]

I'm feeling ropey!!

[sullygom]

I could have sworn this thread was named "pictures speak louder than just talking about wanking !"

[richief]

I just like this pic. no thought involved just a little relaxation.

[aesopstails]

I saw this recently - it's "Couple By Sea" by D.C. Newman Collins.

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Though it's not a particularly sad scene (their facial expressions aren't visible), it immediately reminded me of a song by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem ("The Dutchman", written by Michael Peter Smith), which manages to be both sad and romantic at the same time.

[aesopstails]

Too late to edit, but this is a link to the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KtRI2bNX0

[dkbikes]

Here are a few.

[Incubus]

[Distant Lover]

Originally Posted by richief

I doubt many on here can remember the spanish civil war, but we
should all know about Guernica, a town in the Basque region which was bombed in '37 by the
Nazi Condor squadron, at the request of the National forces, it was also a test to see what
affect the bombing of civilians would have in a time of war.

During the Second World War a member of the Gestapo showed Picasso a copy of Guernica, and asked, "Did you do that?"

Picasso answered, "No. You did."

[richief]

[richief]

This picture just makes me sit quietly and think of someone who is full of charm and wit, so sensuous and yet down to earth a fallen demi-goddess who is here to save me.

[Katie Unleashed]

Hmmm...

[SemiLunate]

Saw this image in a restaurant in Spain... and it really caught my attention. I really want to know the story of these people.

[liltxsmile]

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[liltxsmile]

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