artisticliberty: pixiv id: 1562684 please do not take! (pietà)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-10-14 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[they are... art books! the big thin ones with lots of pictures in them. fox opens one up and starts flipping through it]

I have been doing some reading on the history of art. After a certain point, I cannot find anything recent--but there is plenty to learn beyond that, thankfully. Just looking at these pictures fills me with intense emotions, some of which I cannot understand. Sometimes they fill me with sadness and sorrow, and sometimes they fill me with joy and wonder. And there are some that feel... mysterious, as though there is something unknown hidden in the depths of the painting that I cannot yet see. But it is important, I think, that art makes me feel something.

[he pauses at a centerfold page of van gogh's starry night.]

... I thought that, perhaps, if you could see something beautiful, it might help you.
Edited 2018-10-14 05:26 (UTC)
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[personal profile] criminaljustice 2018-10-14 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[he wasn't really sure where Fox was going with this but then the picture of the painting... and the explanation... and...

...

oh wow.

was not expecting to feel a little punched in the gut of feelings??? for seemingly no reason??? it's just... a painting.

but he's still going to hesitantly reach out to let his fingers trace the various whirls in the brushstrokes that make up the sky.]

... it's lovely.
artisticliberty: pixiv id: 1562684 (ten studies in female physiognomy)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-10-14 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[fox... sparkles a little]

I thought so, too. I find myself moved by nearly all of Van Gogh's art; it's truly inspiring. Of all the Impressionists, his work is by far the most beautiful, I think.
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[personal profile] criminaljustice 2018-10-14 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really know much about art.
artisticliberty: pixiv id: 1562684 (portrait of dora maar)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-10-14 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Would you like to learn a thing or two?
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[personal profile] criminaljustice 2018-10-14 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[... the dere is so strong rn.]

I'd love to.
artisticliberty: pixiv id: 1562684 (sunflowers)

[personal profile] artisticliberty 2018-10-15 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[>will you spend the afternoon looking at pretty pictures and listening to fox ramble about art?

yes/no]
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[personal profile] criminaljustice 2018-10-15 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[>YES]