Original art
During the 80s, the tropical trend – think palm trees, sunsets, neon, and pastels – was in full swing. Represented in film posters, album covers (hello Wham!), clothing and home decor, designers began expressing themselves through extraordinary colors, florals, and angular shapes that embodied the colorful, tropical style Chinese Motorbike Spares.
Retro design isn’t always a hit with everyone. Some people may not connect with the nostalgic vibe or might find it too outdated for their tastes. This can lead to confusion or a sense of disconnection, especially for those who prefer more modern, sleek, or minimalist aesthetics.
An era that brought us hair metal, synth-pop, hip-hop beats, and lovelorn ballads, there’s no question that the 80s were an incredibly diverse time for music. Gracing us with the likes of The Cure, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, and ACDC, the 80s decade was a big turning point for the development of digital music.
Cinematic artwork
Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Dreams’ brings Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Wheatfield with Crows’ to life. The film captures the emotional turbulence of Van Gogh’s painting, creating a visual homage that resonates with the artist’s troubled genius.
As they each branch off, Cameron finds himself face to face with Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. This masterpiece of Pointillism seems to speak to the character’s angst, and specifically to his fear of disintegration and meaninglessness. John Hughes, the film’s director, accentuates this point by gradually zooming into the artwork, revealing its elemental point-based nature.
One of the most important figures of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso continuously experimented throughout his career, completely redefining artistic practice and its purpose. Not only a master painter but also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramics artist, etching artist and writer, Picasso’s work matured from the naturalism of his childhood through Cubism, Surrealism and beyond, shaping the direction of modern and contemporary art through…
After setting up the intricate details of Bruegel’s masterwork within a single shot, director Lech Majewski strings his film together in a series of vignettes dramatizing the everyday life of peasants depicted within the painting. These stories are broken up with intermittent monologues by other characters, including Bruegel himself (Rutger Hauer).
William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’ mirrors the paradoxical nature of René Magritte’s ‘The Empire of Lights’. The film’s play on light and darkness reflects Magritte’s exploration of reality and illusion, adding a surreal depth to the cinematic narrative.
This conversation is of course reflected in the painting before them, as Q takes on the role of Bond’s new Quartermaster. The technological advances he represents are synonymous with the forces that take down the “great old warship, being ignominiously hauled away for scrap.” Once again, the art in the movie is not only serving a decorative purpose, but actually contributing to themes in the plot.
Classic artwork
St. George can be seen spearing the plague-bearing dragon while the princess is holding the dragon’s leash. The sky shows the emergence of the storm, which suggests that divine intervention helped him to victory.
The famous painting St. George and The Dragon by Paolo Uccello is a clear visual depiction of a gothicizing tendency of the artist. It represents a scene from a popular story of St. George and the dragon.
While less overtly dreamy than Dali, Magritte shared Surrealism’s desire to unchain imagination yet through realism’s familiar codes upset and emptied from within. “Everything we see hides another thing,” he declared. Continually reproduced worldwide from ads to album covers, The Son of Man provokes us to slip loose from conventional visions -“thought unfettered towards infinity” as both threat and poetic release.
The Garden of Earthly Delights, the best art of all time, is the most monumental triptych by Hieronymus Bosch, painted by the artist between 1500 and 1510, currently located in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The triptych is literally overflowing with figures, fantastic constructions, monsters, caricatures of reality, which will take at least a month to examine in detail. The phantasmagoric surrealistic world created by Bosch is absolutely incompatible with any of the existing religions.
Another masterpiece from Leonardo da Vinci, “The Last Supper,” is famous for its architectural precision, emotional intensity, and portrayal of a significant moment in Christian narratives. Its deteriorating condition adds to its aura as a fading but undying beacon of art history.