ART

OH MY BOB! I HEART ART! AND THAT RHYMED!! AND I'M NOT SURE WHY I'M WRITING IN ALL CAPS! So I guess I'll stop that now...Anywho, I like art. I'm probably not as good as someone like Robert but I like to think I specialize in it. So I'm just going to list off a whole bunch of artsits who I can tell you at the very least one piece of work they did because I'm bored and have nothing better to do. Literally.

Rembrandt, Titian, van Gogh, da Vinci, Magritte, Bosch, Bernini, Michaelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, Valezquez, El Greco, Brancusi, Lescot, Lahori, Vasari, van Allen, and many more that I just can' think of right now.

So the picture above. This is called de Nachtwacht or the Nightwatch/ the Shooting Company of Captain Franz Banning Cocq. It is a very unique picture in many ways and I won't go into all of them. That would take me a while considering I am very passionate about Rembrandt. However, this is one of Rembrandt's more important art pieces to know, especially for Quiz Bowl.

This painting to the right is Christina's World. This piece of work was done by a renowned American artist in 1948, A. Wyeth. It isn't necessarily the most important painting to know but I really like it. I dunno, I guess I just like paintings that don't have very much in them. This painting-for me- really sets the mood of being kind of forlorn, sad, and gloomy which are 3 feelings I am partial to. The girl in this painting-Christina-has a muscular disorder that prevents her lower half of her body from being able to move. In this picture, she is crawling towards her vegetable patch to get vegetables (no, fruit). Though I can't really see the vegetable garden...