There isn't really a thread to discuss art, in all its many many formats, you uncultured slobs. So here goes.
1. Painting/Mural. Edward Mucnh - The Sun (1911)
A less famous cousin of The Scream, this huge mural emanates hope and light and power. The lines draw you in, everything is drawn to the sun. It's also slightly otherworldly to me. I like the colours, a lot.
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2. Painting. Piet Mondrian - Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue (1921)
I am not a big fan of these Mondrian abstracts, i think they're ok and in fact i prefer his impressionistic work on trees, but it was a visit to the Tate Modern and a free tour that included this painting, that made me understand abstract art just a little bit (from very little to very little plus a tiny bit). Mondrian was obsessed with the lines and form in nature, and potential reduction and simplification, and also the quest to remove the non-essential and represent pure abstraction of the soul. Looking at a timeline of his paintings, you can see trees and such become ever boxier sets of lines, and how this painting came about. In my own opinion, I don't think it's a coincidence that this painting was done post WW1 and this form took shape during the war.
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3. Play. William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost.
I went to see this play this year, I haven't seen many Shakespeare plays live (3?), but i thoroughly enjoyed this one, it felt accessible, funny, and strangely relevant for a 400 yr old work. Centred on love, finding it, repressing it, and convention, it felt like watching incels and tinder at points. Human nature has not changed, just the tools with which we express it.
what do you like?
