Imagine, for example, The Garden of Earthly Delights (the famous triptych by Hieronymus Bosch) without any people. Or Fra Angelico's Annunciation with no Virgin and no angel on the scene. These are some of the ‘hacks’ at Ballester’s current exhibition Espacios Ocultos.
According to his official site, Ballester's work seeks to "purge all human anecdotes" from historical landscape painting and invert the hierarchy, giving priority to traditionally considered “background”.
Honestly, I don’t mind what the artist is seeking with his work. I just love those frightening landscapes!
All Images © José Manuel Ballester
Current Exhibition: Galería Distrito Cu4tro (Madrid) / [Via: EPS]
See also: Famous painters copied photographs (Fogonazos)
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Imagine all human figures vanishing from painting masterpieces
16 septiembre 2008
No people, no animals, no movement. Spanish artist José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960) cleared every living creatures from some of the most famous paintings from El Prado Museum. The result, a collection of disturbing desert landscapes, is now exhibited at a little gallery in Madrid.
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Now because the paintings do not have living things in them, they can be sold Islamic people.
Bosch-Disney Golf Course?
Actually, I found the human-free paintings to be quite restful, almost like gazing at tourism tryptichs. Imagining myself there...
!Que ironia!
>>Now because the paintings do not have living things in them, they can be sold Islamic people.
To be pedantic, these paintings have been stripped of _animals_, not living things, since they have trees.
Ooops! You're right!
Actually, muslim people don't have problems with humans in the paintings...
As can easily be seen here:
http://mimoza.marmara.edu.tr/~avni/H62SANAT/minyatur.htm
Read, for Christ's sake!
Interesting post, aberron. Just let's imagine Van gogh's "the shout" without the shouter... amazing.
metáliko: Imagine "the shout" being painted by Munch. LOL :-)
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