Art

[2025-08-08 Fri 01:16] Disabling this page again. Sorry if you were redirected from an art-related link, but that’s just too messy to host on my small website. If I ever have the time, I will work on making it exportable.
[2025-07-21 Mon 23:25] You can also click on an image to open it in a new tab. This can be helpful if the lazyloader makes the image appear in a late stage (so you will see a gray loader instead of it). The page size is big because it loads a lot of images. I got this feedback from IRC, but the whole purpose of this page, as mentioned before, is only for personal reference.
[2025-07-19 Sat 21:16] Sometimes I find myself continually questioning the fundamental purpose of art and beauty. That tension becomes especially pronounced when I consider how the same aesthetic principles that govern a Bach fugue or a neoclassical building also manifest in engineering: the graceful curve of a suspension bridge’s cables, the elegant logic of a well-designed algorithm, or the satisfying economy of a mechanical solution that achieves maximum effect with minimal means. Paul Graham’s observations in “Hackers and Painters” about the fundamental similarity between engineering and painting suggest that perhaps what we call beauty is actually our recognition of deeper structural harmonies—patterns that reveal themselves whether we’re contemplating the mathematical relationships in a Mozart sonata, the load distribution in a cathedral’s flying buttresses, or the recursive elegance of a piece of code that solves a complex problem with startling simplicity. This leads me to wonder whether aesthetic experience represents not mere decoration or distraction from reality, but rather our most direct method of perceiving the underlying order that governs natural and human-made systems alike. Maybe that’s a TODO to discuss in a post later. Or a wondering thought that will die with me.
[2025-07-17 Thu 20:59] I updated the page to include lazy-loading and collapsed all the headings by default, you will have to click them to get them folded. This will require JS to run (for some reason, lazy-loading is not working properly on some mobile phones)
[2025-07-16 Wed 05:59]: Some artist are only partially included here, because I absolutely adore every work of them, and I find it unnecessary to include each. As of now, these are:
- Thomas Cole
[2025-05-09 Fri 04:59] This part is currently available. It used to be marked as a private note. I’m making it available now just for the case of the references I might use in my blog. I plan some day to turn this page into a more pleasant-to-browse website.
[2024-02-17 Sat 23:47] I’m a bit confused of how to write my notes on the images, including the artist metadata and my points, in an unstructured data format (plaintext) but still, make it easy for me when the day comes and I want to process this data. Maybe I just should go intuitively?
[2024-02-17 Sat 23:30] I’ve been thinking of building a PKMS-like software but for managing my art collections. By now, I’m considering just maintaining them on this node. Thus, here you can find my favorite paintings and my notes on them.

People

Ivan Aivazovsky

Emile Claus

John Constable

William Ashford

Carl Aagaard

Alexey Bogolyubov

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld

Peter Paul Rubens

Knud Baade

Gustav Pope

Jacques Clement Wagrez

Walter Crane

Francesco Albani

Jacques Stella

Joachim Wtewael

Anselm Feuerbach

Joseph Hauber

Mattia Preti

Battistello Caracciolo

Guido Reni

Domingos Sequeira

Giulio Cesare Procaccini

Giulio Cesare Procaccini was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan.

Reza Abbasi

Giuseppe Abbati

Edwin Austin Abbey

Oswald Achenbach

Eduard Quitton

Albrecht Adam

His paintings make me want to play Assassin’s Creed again.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Arnold Böcklin

Nicolai Abildgaard

Jacques-Laurent Agasse

Mariotto Albertinelli

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Carmignano Visitation

Denis van Alsloot

Jurriaan Andriessen

Alexandre Antigna

Sandro Botticelli

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau Motherhood Paintings

Bouguereau early competitions

[2025-06-13 Fri 14:13] This video: https://youtu.be/8qA5g4Evg5I mentions something very interesting, that William Bouguereau won a prize for a figure painting in the École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, although his practice was only two hours in the morning, compared to his peers who were full-time students.

Frederic William Burton

Alexandre Cabanel

Frederic Edwin Church

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[2025-07-16 Wed 17:48] I need to schedule meditating his works for a full day.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

TODO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Courbet

TODO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_da_Correggio

TODO https://www.wikiart.org/en/jan-cossiers

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois

Thomas Couture

Frank Cadogan Cowper

TODO Louis-Philippe Crépin

Jasper Francis Cropsey

TODO Everyday, a beautiful painting. @general

[2025-08-03 Sun 03:37] I will probably stop adding notes like “next is”. My new browse can pin the tab for good, so tracking where I stopped is no longer a problem.
[2025-07-24 Thu 19:28] Next is Corot, 135
[2025-07-21 Mon 02:03] https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-corot/all-works#!%23filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry
[2025-07-18 Fri 17:46] John Constable 3 / 108 Wooded Landscape
[2025-07-16 Wed 17:48] Skipping Thomas Cole.
[2025-07-13 Sun 22:28] 26, Thomas
[2025-07-05 Sat 08:29] 25, Thomas https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-cole/all-works#!%23filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry
[2025-06-27 Fri 20:39] Next is Léon Cogniet , 1794 - 1880 , 20 artworks
[2025-06-23 Mon 19:14] Claricia is next
[2025-06-20 Fri 13:14] Next is Rosalba Carriera ,
[2025-06-16 Mon 11:25] Next is reviewing the Bs on the other website. There’s also another new website that I think deserves checking the As.
[2025-06-07 Sat 20:47] William-Adolphe Bouguereau 218 / 430
[2025-06-07 Sat 14:55] Next is Soul Carried to Heaven (1878) William-Adolphe Bouguereau 141 / 430
[2025-05-12 Mon 02:01] Next is ALLIO, Domenico I
[2025-05-11 Sun 00:23] ABONDIO, Antonio
[2025-05-10 Sat 04:04] https://www.wga.hu/html_m/a/index.html Juan de La start
[2025-05-09 Fri 04:57] 23 Sandro Botticelli
[2025-05-07 Wed 03:14] Alma 118
[2025-05-04 Sun 05:24] 164, Alma
[2025-05-02 Fri 23:38] At 567, Ivan.
[2025-05-02 Fri 00:17] At 374, Ivan

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