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Title: yuletide contemplation
Post by: soapy on December 19, 2006, 08:03:05 am: we are in the pinch of it, and one requires contemplative imagery with which to extemporise and reflect on the year

does the form of the triptych aid ones search for the inner truth..?

(http://www.iit.edu/~nash/triptych.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on December 19, 2006, 08:09:34 am: Quote from: soapy on December 19, 2006, 08:03:05 am
Does the form of the triptych aid ones search for the inner truth..?

Perhaps...

(http://www.artnet.de/artwork_images_424196454_155986_francis-bacon.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: soapy on December 19, 2006, 09:15:03 am: ah bacon is the modern keeper of the tradition, yes

(http://www.francis-bacon.com/francis/images/gallery_main_pics/gall_main_58.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: soapy on December 19, 2006, 09:21:23 am: master of the magdalen, madonna and child enthroned

(http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/images/ep/images/41.100.8.L.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on December 19, 2006, 01:33:58 pm: Never understood the man when I was young, but with (a little) age, I find Rothko most persuasive:

(http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/790bg.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: soapy on December 19, 2006, 01:50:06 pm: "I am not an abstract painter. I am not interested in the relationship between form and colour. The only thing I care about is the expression of man's basic emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, destiny."
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: jfw on December 19, 2006, 01:52:03 pm: bish bash BOSCH?

(http://www.urbanaddiction.com/archives/garden%20small.jpg)

detail here (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bosch/delightd.jpg.html)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on December 19, 2006, 01:56:11 pm: Great call jfw!

Bosch. So fascinating: world upon world.
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: jfw on December 19, 2006, 02:08:33 pm: Quote from: Houdini on December 19, 2006, 01:56:11 pm
world upon world.

its like accessing some subconcious undercurrent of thoughts - and instead of quickly patching up the hole and repressing it - cracking the pipe wide open and channelling it onto a canvas

(http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bosch/delightd.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: r-man on December 19, 2006, 02:11:31 pm: Here's my own Bosch triptych. I call it

Spin (and the Practicalities of Verbal Hygiene)

(http://www.ogormans.co.uk/images/WAE24162.jpg)(http://www.ogormans.co.uk/images/WAE2416SGB.jpg)(http://www.ogormans.co.uk/images/WFCX2467GB.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: soapy on December 19, 2006, 02:17:35 pm: ah, the meditation on a row of washing machines in a laundrette, very festive depressive
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on December 19, 2006, 02:26:31 pm: It's cool!

I can magic eye-it into 5.
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on December 19, 2006, 02:28:22 pm: F U C K S A N T A !
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: r-man on December 19, 2006, 02:32:29 pm: Whilst googling for Calum Colvin (who I dimly remember from A-level art days)
http://www.calumcolvin.com/sitesrch.htm
http://www.calumcolvin.com/media/ossian/thumbs8b.htm

I came across this, which I quite like:

GlassHouse Triptych by Brian McClelland

(http://fineart.ac.uk/images/works/Ulst/700/ul0015.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: r-man on December 19, 2006, 02:39:53 pm: Quote from: Houdini on December 19, 2006, 02:26:31 pm
It's cool!

I can magic eye-it into 5.

Good to know I'm not the only one who does that to everything... ;D
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: andy popp on December 20, 2006, 11:15:18 am: Cool thread. I've nothing to add except to urge anyone to go and see Rothko in the flesh, as it were. Only then does it begin to make sense
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on December 21, 2006, 06:14:52 pm: Titian, when 3 isn't enough.

(http://www.wga.hu/art/t/tiziano/4religio/resurrec.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on December 28, 2006, 09:27:55 am: I've no idea where this one came from, but I like it.

(http://www.wquercus.com/acadie/images/2004/triptych.jpg)

And this, which is just stunning, Antonio Vivarini.

(http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/v/vivarini/antonio/triptych.jpg)

And this wee beauty here,

(http://www.evergreen.edu/visualarts/facstaffimages/triptych.gif)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: soapy on January 02, 2007, 12:52:42 pm: leda and the swan (http://www.wmofa.com/gallery/Matisse,_Henri/Leda_and_the_Swan_(triptych)_1944-6.jpg)
Title: Re: yuletide contemplation
Post by: Houdini on January 02, 2007, 04:22:42 pm: Aerial Burnout (textile) Gretchen Hill.

(http://www.gretchenhill.com/Media/Gallery1/Aerial-Burnout-a.jpg)