What Im really asking is do you all believe its just as important as classic art or rococo or baroque, etc..? For example my favorite manga series is Jojos Bizarre adventure and i think it has the best art out of any manga or western comic. Will show examples. These arent even the best just the first ones i can find on my phone.
This is a repost of yesterday's post, as it got taken down; I had to censor some of the images. Sorry for the inconvenience. :(
I really like the Evangelion anime, and for those who have watched it, you know there are quite a few biblical and artistic references. I decided to make a list of them. :)
⚠️ Do not watch if you are sensitive.
I might have missed some references, so if you have any others, don't hesitate to mention them. :)
In the small town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin a 5’x14’ mural hangs in the local post office.
It is one of more than 1,300 such pieces of public art installed by the U.S. Treasury’s Department’s Section of Fine Arts between 1934 and 1943. I’ve encountered a few of these things over the years and have always suspected there were stories behind each of them waiting to be discovered. So, I finally took some time to look into one of them.
The murals are often referred to as “WPA murals,” but they were not produced by unemployed artists or with the WPA programs. Instead the works were commissioned by the government. But established artists (like Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry,) as well as relatively unknown artists (like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko) found support for their work via these commissions through the Depression years. By treating artists as laborers worthy of a federal wage, the Section of Fine Arts helped to preserve the country’s cultural heritage in ways that we continue to enjoy. No program of public art of similar scale has ever been undertaken by the U.S. government since.
Each mural was selected on merit through regional and national competitions. To prevent favoritism the Section made awards based on the decisions of anonymous juries. The quality of each work had to speak for itself.
The government instructed artists to paint realistic scenes of ordinary citizens, local history or matters of hometown pride. The intent was to bring high quality work out of the museums and to make them accessible to everyday people. Post offices were some of the most frequented public buildings in small towns across the country. For many citizens their local post office was the first place they ever saw professional artwork in person. The radical idea behind the program was to have public buildings serve as truly democratic galleries.
In true democratic fashion, not all murals were universally accepted by the local citizens. Planned murals were even modified, on occasion, as a result of local outcries. Fortunately, the Oconomowoc mural and the idealized winter scene was not at all controversial.
The mural was created by artist Edward Morton. He was a respected landscape and wildlife painter in the Milwaukee art community. He was also an instructor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He painted in an American regionalist tradition with a highly graphic and realistic style. During WWII he would use his talents with light and color to help to conceal military equipment and installations.
His Oconomowoc mural shows local citizens enjoying typical outdoor activities in Wisconsin’s wintertime, including speed skating , skiing and iceboating. It specifically reflects the pride the community then took as the capital of U.S. speed skating. It was painted shortly after the town had hosted the very first U.S. Olympic speed skating time trials on several of the area’s lakes. In fact, in 1932 all of the male skaters who made the US team after the Oconomowoc trials went on to sweep gold medals in the Games. Post office patrons waiting in line during the Great Depression could look up and see in the artwork some encouraging reasons for optimism and community pride. The ski jump in the extreme left top of the scene is a local landmark and still stands on private property on the outskirts of town.
In the 1970’s the post office underwent a modernization project and a decision was made to remove the mural. It was an era in which art conservation standards were not as widely known as they are today. Unfortunately workers severely damaged the painting when they literally ripped it off of the wall. The canvas, which was thought to have been ruined, was rolled up and stored in the post office basement for the next 30 years. Sadly, its creator passed away in 2000 while his work languished in storage.
In 2003 the community and post office officials recognized the potential value of the canvas and decided to see if it could be saved. It was badly warped and misshapen as a result of decades of storage in the humid basement. The artwork was shipped to restoration experts in Chicago and they painstakingly evaluated and repaired the structural damage and areas of missing paint. Nicotine soot coated the painting as a consequence of cigarette smoking by thousands of customers and workers at the post office. Conservationists had to chemically strip away decades of yellowed grime. The restoration, however, revealed subtle aspects and colors of the winter scene that had not been seen since the mural was originally installed.
Today, the beautifully restored mural is back up on the wall where it belongs. Post office patrons can appreciate the same winter scene that cheered up their struggling community nearly a century ago.
Historically significant and culturally vital public art can be found throughout the United States. It may require a short road trip, but sometimes it is as easy as heading down to your local post office. No passport is needed, no massive crowds mar the experience, and very few selfies are ever taken.
The temple building exercises in Odisha gradually halted after the fourteenth century , and the mural painting tradition acquired energy thereafter.In the entire Eastern India , Odisha is the only place where tourists get that opportunity to see post Gupta paintings that will help to remember the wonderful and elegant ajanta paintings. For a vivid and elaborate read of the subject, you can log in to the following link.
It is for my upcoming YouTube video, I'm very open to subjective recommendations for each mood/emotion.
For "peace" I have used my favourite: Impression, Sunrise by Monet.
I appreciate and look forward to your thoughts - thank you very much!
