If you look closely, I think those are broken egg shells. "If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to?" Or what was it the operator said in Serenity? Firefly was a great series, too bad it didn't have more seasons.
I'd never even heard of it (no TV) until a friend shared the movie Serenity with me when I visited her many years ago. I was so taken by it that I stopped on the drive home to buy a copy. The store clerk was the one who told me it was a series. I promptly bought the series, too.
It's interesting that Claude Monet chose to call this painting The Magpie (painted 1869) considering how small a part the bird plays in the scene. A metaphor for the smallness of us in nature? Another striking thing about this painting is the use of whites and greys in the snowscape.
It reminds me of everything depending on a red wheelbarrow sitting in the rain. Without the bird, there's no focal point for story. "A winter garden" is the most commonly chosen theme among my design students with Mrs. Dracula's quilt being a distant second. The colors they choose to represent winter are interesting, everything from clear white, green, and red to dark depressing grays and black. I'd chose violet shadows on the snow, blue, apricot, and a faint wash of pale green low in the sunset sky.
Baroque painting encompasses a great range of styles, as most important and major painting during the period beginning around 1600 and continuing throughout the 17th century, and into the early 18th century is identified today as Baroque painting. In its most typical manifestations, Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich, deep colour, and intense light and dark shadows. The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600), by Caravaggio. Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. The beam of light, which enters the picture from the direction of a real window, expresses in the blink of an eye the conversion of St Matthew, the hinge on which his destiny will turn, with no flying angels, parting clouds or other artifacts.
Baroque literature and poetry spanned the same era. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, commonly referred to as Don Quixote, is considered baroque. The epic poem Paradise Lost, by John Milton, is an example of baroque poetry from that period. Here's the passage describing the flight of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.
The Paradiesgärtlein (Garden of Paradise) is a panel painting created around 1410 by an unknown painter referred to as Upper Rhenish Master. The Paradiesgärtlein is one of the earliest paintings to naturalistically depict flora and fauna. The painting belongs to the Maria im Rosenhag (Mary in the rose bower) type, but the painter adapted that style uniquely. In contrast to depictions current at the time, the Virgin Mary is not depicted in the centre of the image, but in the upper left corner, engrossed in a book. She is surrounded by Saints. To her right, Saint Dorothy is plucking a cherry, Saint Barbara is drawing water from a well, and Saint Cecilia holds a psaltery, on which the Child Jesus is plucking the strings. At the feet of Saint George, there is a small dead dragon, and at those of Archangel Michael, a small black demon. Saint Oswald is leaning against a tree trunk.
There are those who consider architecture to be an art form. I disagree, and offer this image of the Antwerp Port Authority in Belgium in support of my position: Q.E.D.
There's not total agreement as to whether architecture is art. Some might say this building is art because of the complex ways in which the glass façade reflects and interplays with the sky and with the water. For me, it's art if it can arouse emotion within the observer. But art is subjective. Not every piece appeals to every person. Clearly, this piece doesn't speak to you. Would you feel different about the art produced by famed designer and architect Frank Lloyd Wright? He's been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. Here's a link to his page on artsy
Bad art is still art. It's just... bad. The example of architecture above strikes me as hilariously funny on several different levels.
I've been inside a Wright home. Nice stick-built house, lots of redwood, but a 'work of art'? Not to my eyes. Can't really compare it to the example of the Glass Goiter School of architecture above.
The reach of art. The Song of the Lark (below) is an 1884 painting by Jules Breton, exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. At the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt unveiled it as the “most beloved work in America,” and declared it her personal favourite. Early in Bill Murray’s career, a chance encounter with it saved his life. Contemplating suicide, he went out walking and ended up the Art Institute, standing before The Song of the Lark. The sight of it got him thinking: Bill Murray Explains How a 19th Century Painting Saved His Life Spoiler: The Song of the Lark
Picture of Dancing House in Prague reminded me of Kafka's quote on books needing to be the axe for the frozen sea within us. As for my definition of art, I guess it's a portrayal of what could have been, or what could be. What if rather than what is.
