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Old April 6, 2012, 03:05 AM
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^^ Fractals will always remind me of my housemate in first year of University who studied Mathematics and designed fractals all day on his computer. On the topic, really interesting to read the method behind the 'randomness' that seems to exist on the surface of his paintings.

I loved Bosch's one. It was beautifully preserved, given its age, and seemed to pictorially represent Dante's Divine Comedy. It was a really refreshing change from the usual Christ/Virgin Mary paintings.

The criticism that 'my three year old could paint this' is an interesting one. Are Rothko's paintings, famous for their warm colours and seemingly benign rectangles, less artistically meritocratic than, say, Richard Estes' photo-realist paintings?

Mark Rothko's Untitled (Green on Maroon)



Richard Estes' People's Flowers

Both of these paintings are from the same museum in Madrid, The Thyssen-Bornemisza but only one of them is called a masterpiece =p

For more about the paintings (and to see them in high res.) go here.
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