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OGEE - the Beautiful Human Art Topic
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I've always had a soft spot for the South Hall staircase in BBC Television Center. (Using it almost daily for the last 11 years might have something to do with that 
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It is an angled cantilevered design, only supported on one side, and stretches from the basement to the 6th floor. It's one of the things that sums up the 50's charm of the place for me.
)It is an angled cantilevered design, only supported on one side, and stretches from the basement to the 6th floor. It's one of the things that sums up the 50's charm of the place for me.
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This is a painting by the Belgian René Magritte. I just heard about it in the book I'm currently reading, and looked it up, and I really like it.
Le Château des Pyrénées (The Castle of the Pyrénées), 1959.
Le Château des Pyrénées (The Castle of the Pyrénées), 1959.
Oooh thank you Sam for bringing up Magritte. I love his work.
I personally love Magritte's form of surrealism which is weird and otherworldly and yet still seems to be metaphysically taking place in our reality. I think that makes it much more shocking and impactful than the dreamscape constructions of other Surrealists like Salvador Dalí.
Also, I like the Bowler Hat motif...
I think this painting, 'The Month Of The Grape Harvest' is my favourite, even if the name has always left me baffled:
It's such an intrusive painting with for all we know, thousands of faces staring directly at you, through what we assume is meant to be a window in our house. It eludes to paranoia that the world is watching and judging you, it has an element of the fear of being surveilled, and I think most obviously and most prominently it suggests feeling a severe lack of privacy. I think this picture is by a man who desperately wants to shut those windows and escape from everyone. It's a sad painting, a disturbing painting, and a beautiful, quite fragile painting of someone feeling alone in the crowd.
Other favourites of mine include:
'The Lovers'
'The Great Family'
I personally love Magritte's form of surrealism which is weird and otherworldly and yet still seems to be metaphysically taking place in our reality. I think that makes it much more shocking and impactful than the dreamscape constructions of other Surrealists like Salvador Dalí.
Also, I like the Bowler Hat motif...
I think this painting, 'The Month Of The Grape Harvest' is my favourite, even if the name has always left me baffled:
It's such an intrusive painting with for all we know, thousands of faces staring directly at you, through what we assume is meant to be a window in our house. It eludes to paranoia that the world is watching and judging you, it has an element of the fear of being surveilled, and I think most obviously and most prominently it suggests feeling a severe lack of privacy. I think this picture is by a man who desperately wants to shut those windows and escape from everyone. It's a sad painting, a disturbing painting, and a beautiful, quite fragile painting of someone feeling alone in the crowd.
Other favourites of mine include:
'The Lovers'
'The Great Family'
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DiogoJ42 said:I've always had a soft spot for the South Hall staircase in BBC Television Center. (Using it almost daily for the last 11 years might have something to do with that
It is an angled cantilevered design, only supported on one side, and stretches from the basement to the 6th floor. It's one of the things that sums up the 50's charm of the place for me.
You wouldn't happen to be Andrew Georgiades? Or know him?