Artwork: What is a picture, photograph or painting that, for you, symbolizes what it means to have or live "the good life"?
Thomas Kinkade's paintings Thomas Kinkade's work often portrays bucolic, idyllic settings such as gardens, streams, stone cottages, lighthouses and Main Streets. His hometown of Placerville (where his works are omnipresent) is the inspiration of many of his street and snow scenes.Reint Withaar's Paintings The South of France and his native Holland are an eternal source for Reint Withaar’s depictions of idyllic country scenes and landscapes. The artist recreates the beauty of nature in his incomparable style, combined with a longing for a peaceful, ideal world. A peaceful life in the countryside sounds like "the good life" to me. The CountrysideDeep into the wood where the Bluebells growNext to them the wild garlic will showAn old oak creeks with a century of ageWith brand new shoots and the sun they craveA crystal clear brook where the Sticklebacks nestFlows into a stream where the bull rushes restThe Swifts swoop down like dive bombing planesIn a field of mown hay set in country lanesIn the distance a Wood Pigeon coosAnd the rest of the birds also voice their viewsBeneath this sun filled clear blue skyHear the distinctive sound of a Pheasant cryAs dusk sets in with moon rising higherfar away glows a farmers pyreSoon to come the majestic BatSkillfully collecting Moth and GnatThese are the delights that the countryside bringsPeaceful bliss as the Nightjar sings-Anton PhelvinSource: Thomas Kinkade.Helen - Блог - Март, 2010 - Страница 2 - Привет.ру Page on familyfriendpoems.com
What are the most iconic paintings in human history?
Guernica (Pablo Picasso)The Scream (Edvard Munch)Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) The Birth of Venus (Sandro Boticelli)American Gothic (Grant Wood) Girl with Pearl Earring (Johannes Vermeer) Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh)The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dalí) Sistine Chapel Ceiling (Michelangelo)Number 1 (Jackson Pollock)Dogs Playing Poker (Cassius Marcellus Coolidge)Water Lilies (Claude Monet)The Arnolfini Wedding (Jan van Eyck) The Third of May 1808 (Francisco Goya)Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States (Howard Chandler Christy) Night Hawks (Edward Hopper)Jesus Christ (Warner Sallman)The Astronomer (Johannes Vermeer) The Death of Socrates (Jacques-Louis David)The School at Athens (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)Liberty Leading the People (Eugène Delacroix) Freedom from Want / The Thanksgiving Picture (Norman Percevel Rockwell)Napoleon at St. Bernard Pass (Jacques-Louis David)El Abrazo (Juan Genovés)Man, Controller of the Universe (mural) (Diego Rivera)