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The most downright depressive painting you've ever seen

post #1 of 13
4/5/10 at 11:07pm
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I have been following the thread, http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f9/mos...-heard-474921/ and I have been inspired to make an addendum thread about painting. "Depressive", can be a tricky word here. There is a fine line between, "depressive", "melancholy", and "horrifying". I find Francis Bacon is often horrifying but not depressive. It took some soul searching to get the painting below. Also, I find Mark Rothko is often melancholy and not depressing. The painting below by Rothko is at MOCA in Los Angeles. I have seen it many times and I fluctuate between feeling that it is depressing, melancholy, and even spiritual. The one thing both of these paintings have in common is that they are both masterpieces. So whatever you think "depressive" is, please post photos of your most depressive "paintings" here.
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post #2 of 13
4/5/10 at 11:41pm
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Francis Bacon
Study for Portrait lll (after the Life Mask of William Blake)
1955



Mark Rothko
No. 12 (Black on Dark Sienna on Purple)
1960
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post #3 of 13
4/6/10 at 12:15am
That poor little guy.

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post #4 of 13
4/6/10 at 1:21am
I get depressed whenever I see this

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post #5 of 13
4/6/10 at 6:33am
"A picture is worth a thousand words"

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post #6 of 13
4/6/10 at 12:15pm
^yes.
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post #7 of 13
4/6/10 at 12:50pm
I always found the photorealist self portraits from guys like Close and Bechtle very sad. To me, it was because to examine oneself in such a hyper way, must bring home one's own frail animal nature, a collection of parts as you will. To me at least, to really look at yourself, then display that, is a way to compensate for the ultimate futility of it all.
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post #8 of 13
4/6/10 at 1:12pm
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^^^ Thank you for your reply. I do find Robert Bechtle's paintings to be rather sad, more so than Chuck Close's. Bechtle's paintings takes the vast suburban landscape and wedges it in between people. Alienation and loneliness are the result. In the painting below, this family is together but they are not close.



Robert Bechtle
‘61 Pontiac
1968–69
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post #9 of 13
4/6/10 at 1:30pm
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post #10 of 13
4/6/10 at 1:30pm
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post #11 of 13
4/6/10 at 3:08pm
this, by Donald Roller Wilson:
LL
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post #12 of 13
4/6/10 at 3:10pm
Lazarus Short
The image is too small.
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post #13 of 13
4/6/10 at 3:17pm
I don't know how to fix it.
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