Iconic Pieces Of Art That Shook The World
The definition of art varies from individual to individual. For some KRK is a work of art, and for some art is M.F Hussain’s product of imagination. Totally depends on one’s perspective, no judgement there. Great arts are those that coax viewers to understand and decipher the visual poetry composed by its Creator. Some artworks are so stimulating that they live on through ages, defying conventions and rules in the process. Here are a few groundbreaking masterpieces whose magnificence cannot be ignored :
The Arnolfini Wedding by Jan van Eyck
This is right out of some Illuminati handbook. The 1434 oil painting, at first glance looks like any basic art. But if you go all ACP Pradyuman on it and focus in on the mirror, it shows Sunny Leone. Okay, I am lying, but that would have been awesome eh! Seriously though the mirror does show two additional characters, one of which is speculated to be Eyck himself. Renaissance photo bombing at its best.
No. 5 by Jackson Pollock
I know it looks like something you could only see under black light, but believe me it’s not. It’s an abstract art by the great Jackson Pollock. His style has divided the population into groups, where a fraction believes he conned people into buying random paint splatter in the name of art, and another fraction who genuinely regard his work as the very best form of expressionism. The painting that you see above was sold for a whopping 156.8 million American dollars to an anonymous buyer. Time to re-evaluate your life decisions eh!
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
No, this is not a still from some erotic novel, you pervert. Behold Botticelli’s masterpiece. It is beautiful and sensuous, in other words if it were upto the CBFC they would totally censor this work of art in the name of cultural preservation.
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
Picasso’s Guernica is HUGE. Literally. It measures 3.5 metre (11 ft) tall and 7.8 metre (25.6 ft) wide. It features humans, animals and buildings, all depicted in his famous style. Guernica is definitely one of the most all-encasing Picasso works. Its dark, violent, and morbid theme will make you feel as uncomfortable as the time you were caught staring at something you were not supposed to.
Composition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky
Medically, synesthesia (A Mental Condition) is defined as the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. Like Whaaaaaat? Well, basically it means if you have this condition, you are getting laid. A person with synesthesia can actually hear colour, see and smell music and so on. Kandinsky’s Composition 8 is believed to be the product of his synesthesia. It’s beautiful and esoteric, unlike you.
Maybe art doesn’t evoke emotions in all of us but its cultural impact cannot be denied. Even cave-men* understood the importance of art as a mode of communication and the Egyptians too. So why don’t you go ahead and try your hand at painting? Come up with something like Pollock, I stress again that he actually did use a paint brush, so avoid.
