I was wondering the same thing

This is not The truth at the bottom of a well. This is Truth coming from the well armed with her whip to chastise humanity) .

My bad. The post title is now updated with the correct name.

Also, the full title is The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Way to Damascus.

Ah thank you for pointing that out. I’ve updated the the post title.

I don’t think I’d find make the time to read articles so personally I’d prefer just having the art here (and of course articles can be linked to from the post body - but would probably be overlooked).

It is settled then

That is brilliant.

Seriously, if you’ve run across this and are thinking “wtf is this abstract mess?”

Take a step back, follow the line, then step back again and ignore the line while looking at the shapes. Then step back again and look at the whole. There’s a depth to this that isn’t apparent on the surface.

It really does exactly what good abstract is supposed to.

I tried to do what you said but the sheer brightness of the line (especially where it gets thicker towards the top left) makes it harder for me to ignore it

i support numbering the art for referencing, but i’m also a big fan of artists choosing not to name their works because that’d leave the viewers with a greater freedom for interpretation. they’d have to be more abstract for this to make sense though.

I want to live in his world

oh damn i didn’t know what i posted was a cropped version

I may have said this before but your works remind me of the Voyager Golden Records

Why is this here?

Oh shit you’re right. This was not a painting as I first thought, it’s a photograph.

gonna delete the post now.

The Codex Seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language.

The Codex is an encyclopedia in manuscript with copious hand-drawn, colored-pencil illustrations of bizarre and fantastical flora, fauna, anatomies, fashions, and foods. The illustrations are often surreal parodies of things in the real world, such as a bleeding fruit, a plant that grows into roughly the shape of a chair and is subsequently made into one, and a copulating couple who metamorphose into an alligator.

From Wikipedia