(February 20, 2018 at 5:26 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(February 20, 2018 at 4:14 pm)Shell B Wrote: The two paintings you shared are just weird to me. I get that they're the way they are on purpose, but perspective and proportions are all fucked up, and I find it hard not to think of it as amateur, though I'm sure they're very talented artists. It's just the way it gets interpreted in my mind.
Look at those two paintings THIS way. They are not "trying to be weird." They express emotion mixed in with realism. For Nude in Bathtub, it may help to realize that the subject of the painting was the artist's wife who died of cancer years before he painted it. There is a lot of emotion conveyed in the distortion. The actual painting is really big too. Hard to coney it online. It's like 8 feet tall. When you stand in front of it, the colors really work on your eyes.
One does not need to know the cancer story in order to appreciate it, but it may help to view it with this in mind, as you can see it more as a peice that encapsulates the inward feeling involved in the expression... much like Van Gogh.
Yep, I feel stuff seeing those ones as well. Looks like I do have feelings after all.
