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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 26, 2009 5:47:32 GMT 2
I haven't found a similar thread in the archives, so I started one This thread is for sharing your favorite images of visual art - which can range anything from paintings to sculpture to interesting architecture and beyond - and telling us something about it, why it's personally meaningful or significant to you, or any thoughts you have about it. As with other descriptive threads, don't just post an image/picture but tell us something about it... It's always interesting to have a discussion about Art and why it affects and inspires us so strongly. I'll start There's a contemporary painter by the name of Thomas Uttech. I came across an album of his art two years ago at a local Museum shop, and completely by accident. After looking at his organic Northern landscapes, I could have sworn it was Finland he painted - only a Finn, I thought, could weave such color magic on the canvas and still have his landscapes come out distinctly cold, primordial, and Nordic. As it turned out, Uttech is an American living in Wisconsin (the same state where I currently reside) and it was his wild forested surroundings that he painted, the very same that I can see if I drive an hour north of my home. Still, North is North... it is true that even here there are woods that have been left untouched, and their primordial power can still be felt. It is more of an internal condition, I reckon: once aware of that power, you can see and feel it in any northern climate. A glimpse of Hyperborea... Swirling and pulsing with the shamanic, primeval rhythm of Life, at once heathen and magical: His art reminds me of a deep meditative inner state that can be strongly felt when surrounded by Nature... And indeed, Uttech has strong spiritual Native-American influences in his life, and that nature-bound spirituality pervades his art. He's one of my favorite artists now. (p.s. I've actually been wanting to share this Native-spirituality-inspired forest art with other members of the Korpiklaani forum - somehow it seems very "on-topic" and goes well with the spirit of Korpiklaani's music too! - thought you all would appreciate it also So let's see what your own favorites are!
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Post by Mighty Croc on Apr 26, 2009 6:28:28 GMT 2
Woooooow... These are ones of the best paintings I ever saw - especially the last one, a bear and a sunset - it's perfect for being an album cover fore some atmospheric heathen metal CD... It reminds me about the Drudkh CD covers - unfortunately, I don't know who is the artist there.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 26, 2009 7:46:43 GMT 2
Aren't they?... My consciousness never ceased to be haunted by them after laying eyes on them for the first time. You can almost hear the music that emanates from those paintings - the vibrations, the energy waves that the Spirit of Nature sets forth... When looking at the paintings with birds filling the air, I'm actually reminded of Pragnavit's song "Cry of Jurata", or rather when I listen to it, these are the images that arise before my eyes. Also the music of Ruhr Hunter seems to paint those images anew in my head... I don't know if you're familiar with Ruhr Hunter, but if not, I recommend this forest folk drone project very highly. To me, Ruhr Hunter sounds just like these paintings look.
Of Drudkh, I think they used some 19th century paintings for most of their covers, some of them I seem to recognize from having seen them in art books, though I still can't remember the artists' names. Eastern European, probably.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2009 8:00:42 GMT 2
Brilliant idea, Hjalagh! With this topic ,you'll make me post even more...and l shouldn't.. Anyway, those paintings are easy to make your exoftalmic....so close to the Nature....l'm swallowing my words as those images utterly make me speechless... Me,l've got many fave artists,but l'll start with one l discovered two years ago by ,,accident" : Zsögödi Nagy Imre (a transylvanian painter ,with hungarian origin). His works are...impresionism meets Kk.,.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2009 10:21:53 GMT 2
@both Hjalagh and Croc: don't they remind you of N. Ustinov's illustrations too?
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Post by maenthis on Apr 26, 2009 11:52:42 GMT 2
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2009 13:18:48 GMT 2
I've heard about Siudmak, but never actually checked his works. This short raid is making me check out some more. From what l see here he is indeed easy to relate with good old moustached Dali and a bit with Magritte if l look better. Oh,but there's a common feature here with one of Pink Floyd's art cover albums too....or is it just me?hmm...
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Post by Mighty Croc on Apr 26, 2009 19:33:53 GMT 2
When looking at the paintings with birds filling the air, I'm actually reminded of Pragnavit's song "Cry of Jurata", or rather when I listen to it, these are the images that arise before my eyes. Right! But, as I can remember, there was some kind of the wash sound... or maybe I was sure that the birds crying there are gulls - so this soundscape makes me think about a big rock on the seashore, where the journeyman wanderer is standing alone, opening his heart to the majesty of Nature... Sorry for off-topix
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 26, 2009 21:44:53 GMT 2
@ maenthis: I've never heard of Siudmak before, his art looks so interesting... Gonna have to look more into his works. I like surrealism, it at once detaches the images from the ordinary and remixes them with striking contrasts, it's as if the beholder sees them for the very first time. The tightrope horse rider reminds me of the Rune :Ehwaz: it's actually a good image to illustrate its meaning. @walkyrie: You may be thinking of Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the Moon"? It has a crystal refracting a light spectrum on the cover. Come to think of it, "Wish You Were Here" is also kinda surreal and would fit right in. Definitely goes with the spacy entrancing music of his. @ Croc: Exactly, the wash sound! When I hear it, it makes me feel that it's the energy vibration/energy waves coming from the whole natural landscape, washing over the listener with its power - dense and all consuming... as if the entire expanse of space is filled and flooded with this energy - the primordial Breath... So for me, Uttech's bird landscapes evoke that feeling also, because they're more dense and the air is filled with them, and the flight and movement of countless birds set those waves in motion, the ripple effect of the great energy flow, the ever densening Natural power and shamanic hyper-awareness entering ever deeper within the Self. of course, there's never a wrong way of interpreting any art, visual or musical Looking at art is more like experiencing something deep within oneself... it's no longer external, but reveals something deep and personal within to the beholder.
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Post by Mighty Croc on Apr 27, 2009 7:51:32 GMT 2
It's sad, but I never tried to get into visual art - now I think it's ime for me to start... Hjalagh, thank you for introducing Uttech's art. I see that most of his paintings' names are not in English - it's some Native Americans' language, isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2009 10:05:03 GMT 2
When l said bout that resemblance with Pink Floyd's art cover albums, Hjalagh, l actually meant the style....it didn't occur a particular cover album....although if l think of the Pulse's...
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 29, 2009 6:10:02 GMT 2
It's sad, but I never tried to get into visual art - now I think it's time for me to start... Hjalagh, thank you for introducing Uttech's art. I see that most of his paintings' names are not in English - it's some Native Americans' language, isn't it? Glad you enjoyed it y'know, art is like metal, it's such a wide spectrum that there's something in it for everyone and it's never too late in life to get into Uttech's paintings' names are Native American, I'm not sure which N.A. language but I'll look in my book... there's very little info about him online, it's sad that he is not very widely known. A cruel fate of living artists who are taken for granted by their contemporaries.. One thing I do know about him is that he takes long hikes and trips in the wild forests and regions for inspiration for his art, but he never draws or sketches while on his trips, only meditates and absorbs the experience of Nature... and then he returns to his studio and only starts drawing then, indoors, from his inner vision. I think that's why his art is so powerful, it's his own sincere experience of the Primordial being channeled onto the canvas. I'll post more info about him after I look into that book of his art.
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Post by Mighty Croc on Apr 29, 2009 20:29:41 GMT 2
That's really interesting - but I couldn't find many information about Tom Uttech in the net - even his paintings (I found only 40 or near that)
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 20:37:28 GMT 2
Blast from....since ever in fact! I'm such a fool for Van Gogh's paintings....each time new sensations, new discoveries..,pretty childish, but that's my speechless speech after admiring a few of his works...for the 56268472561 time ;D
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Post by Bartbär on May 10, 2009 3:28:51 GMT 2
Just a couple of my favorites, without pictures for now until I get used to the whole forum thing. Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Robert Wilhelm Ekman, Arthur Rackman, Caspar David Friedrich, and many many more. The paintings that inspire me the most are those based around various European Epics, like the Kalevala scenes of Gallen-Kallela, and many Slavic paintings, since I absolutely am in love with the art style that has come from those lands. Anything based around some form of traditional lore, heathenry, or philosophy in picture form always moves me.
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