Stranger

I am interested in traveling, progression, reading, knowledge, learning, wisdom, exploration, music, mental excavation, living...as if death is inevitable, self discovery, people, newness, public drunkenness, self-depravity, hold 'em, chess, movies, being challenged, challenging, sarcasm, certain sports, writing, poetry, philosophy, creating, art (although i do not consider myself an artist), wit, competition, transcendentality, the extraordinary

Rembrandt was a 17th century dutch painter/drawer who proliferated during a time called the Dutch Golden Age (because they had a lot of power and were experiencing a time where painting reached a pinnacle). Overall he fused the mundane and transmundane, he painted and drew over 100 self portraits, and was an innovator by using the "theatrical employment of light and shadows." He had a dramatic and robust mood in his work, he seemed very sympathetic towards humanity. Here are a few of his paintings:

Picasso - The Old Guitarist.

Van Gogh, who was a part of the post-impressionism movement, also was considered to pioneer what was to be known as expressionism. He suffered from frequent occurrences of mental illness, which explains his extraordinarily ability to capture life as it should be - vividly. This is a painting by Van Gogh entitled The Drinkers, I found it pertinent as I did relevant.

Claude Monet - the works of a man in which intrinsic beauty can be seen in the most simplest forms of the universe. His vision, his insight, for the nearness of things, for the inexorable attention to detail, can be made clear by the fact that as a visionary you see things unlike most people, you comprehend the essence of things beyond triviality.

Hieronymus Bosch was born in the middle of the 15th century and lived to be 66. His paintings have been inspirational to many. His acclaim never reached its full potential until the 20th century when art scholars declared his work to be of profound significance. Most people of his time looked at his work as merely jest, fantasy, or just amusement. In all truth, there were deep rooted messages and meanings behind his work. His fantastic visions (which have compared to Dali's; he is also viewed in a surrealist light...a surrealist of the 15th century!) incorporated biblical messages, mythical messages, as well as a reflection of the infinite repertoire that was his mind.
Last Judgement -
Christ Carrying The Cross -
This is a triptych w/Haywain in the middle and heaven and hell on either side -

Seven Deadly Sins and The Four Last Things -

Tree Man -

I'm not sure of the name of this next one but I know it's a part of a triptych that involves two Saints meeting one another -

"Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings. Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. The works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time. He is said to have been an inspiration for the surrealist movement in the twentieth century."