Something in the geometry...

[Experiencer7]

Does anyone else find images like these intriguing?

 

[dianadee13]

The second image looks like a European victorian image, found on early christmas cards. Dont find much beyond that. The first looks like a biblical depiction of the ascention. I maybe wrong but tis difficult to see all the details. What is it that you find intruiging?

 

[dusty]

As far as geometry goes,

Yes I can see what you mean about the saucer like shape in the first image, though it could just be a way of depicting ascension, as dianadee13 said. Reminds me most of domed roofs like the Pantheon in Rome or maybe even Houston's Astrodome.

The second image looks to me like an illustration from a childrens book. Maybe a story about a little girl who likes to play tricks on others with lifesized animal shaped balloons.
Please tell of what it means or suggests to you.

Here's one that is personal to me,

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.victorianweb.org/decadence/painting/klinger/4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.victorianweb.org/decadence/painting/klinger/4.html&usg=__id-_rF3PDYMWeNuaeMQAhAJMTQw=&h=304&w=720&sz=103&hl=en&start=7&um=1&tbnid=Nj1mItnEclD6iM:&tbnh=59&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Brape%2Betching%26hl%3Den%26um%3D1

I wrote about seeing some strange bird when I was a child in the Your personal experiences forum, some time ago and this is the closest image of what I saw I can find.

Mark

 

[dianadee13]

I think the imagery on the first reminds us that there is more to the universe than we could know. Many of the paintings and imagery of the past seem to scream that out in one way or another. Angels, cherubs, flying saucers are all there in art. I'm not an art historian so cant direct you to any particular time period but I do believe it may run throughout history. I think circular shapes go back to the Egyptian times, the sun god 'Ra' was depicted as a circle.

 

[thefoundryman]

The orders of ascending angelic order, is an early renaissance depiction. Cherubim, Seraphim, and the Archangels.I believe that one is Raphael if I'm not mistaken. I remember this one from art history, Raphael incorporated a UFO in the background of a portrait, as well he depicted Ezekiel's biblical account of the "wheel within a wheel, rolling in the sky"....Hmmm I wonder what that could've been. This is how he depicted what came out of that 'wheel' and how his perception translated it.

 

[AnnetteMarie]

I think they were all high from the paint fumes. either that or lsd...

 

[Experiencer7]

Honestly folks., the second image was supposed to be a Gustave Dore print of a similar scene. Sorry 'bout dat. Here's the image;


http://rosaecruz.no.sapo.pt/MEcclesia/symbols/Dore-empyrean.jpg

 

[Experiencer7]

As far as geometry goes,

Yes I can see what you mean about the saucer like shape in the first image, though it could just be a way of depicting ascension, as dianadee13 said. Reminds me most of domed roofs like the Pantheon in Rome or maybe even Houston's Astrodome.

The second image looks to me like an illustration from a childrens book. Maybe a story about a little girl who likes to play tricks on others with lifesized animal shaped balloons.
Please tell of what it means or suggests to you.

Here's one that is personal to me,

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...40&prev=/images?q=the+rape+etching&hl=en&um=1

I wrote about seeing some strange bird when I was a child in the Your personal experiences forum, some time ago and this is the closest image of what I saw I can find.

Mark

Was it really that big?

 

[Experiencer7]

The second image looks like a European victorian image, found on early christmas cards. Dont find much beyond that. The first looks like a biblical depiction of the ascention. I maybe wrong but tis difficult to see all the details. What is it that you find intruiging?

I wish I could give you a definitive answer. I only know that it strikes a chord. But the melody is still beyond me.

 

[bobheck]

Does anyone else find images like these intriguing?

Of course we do. That is why it is art. Classical painters loved playing with depth, perception, and light/shadow and all that cool stuff. Their work was meant to make people do a double-take and notice them. After all, paintings were the avant-garde media of the time.

These are beautiful, to be sure, and, yes, intriguing. They were meant to be.

I really don't think there is anything else involved, IMHO. No paranormal or underlying meaning. Just great art.

 

[ddd999]

Of course we do. That is why it is art. Classical painters loved playing with depth, perception, and light/shadow and all that cool stuff. Their work was meant to make people do a double-take and notice them. After all, paintings were the avant-garde media of the time.

These are beautiful, to be sure, and, yes, intriguing. They were meant to be.

I really don't think there is anything else involved, IMHO. No paranormal or underlying meaning. Just great art.

100% agree with you... Great post.

P.S. You had me at "Of course..." LoL

 

[dusty]

Was it really that big?

The perspective is different, but overall yes. Though I would say the wings look slightly to long, also I never saw this thing in flight, in fact it seemed to me that it was having difficulty with it's left wing. I didn't stick around to find out why.

Mark

 

[skunkape]

This woman had "something in the geometry" in a painting or two.
Remember these were made in the early 1900's, long before the Abstract Art Movement.
The Philosophy of the Mystery
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[Experiencer7]

This woman had "something in the geometry" in a painting or two.
Remember these were made in the early 1900's, long before the Abstract Art Movement.
The Philosophy of the Mystery
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Cool gallery.

 

[Bixyboo]

The orders of ascending angelic order, is an early renaissance depiction. Cherubim, Seraphim, and the Archangels.I believe that one is Raphael if I'm not mistaken. I remember this one from art history, Raphael incorporated a UFO in the background of a portrait, as well he depicted Ezekiel's biblical account of the "wheel within a wheel, rolling in the sky"....Hmmm I wonder what that could've been. This is how he depicted what came out of that 'wheel' and how his perception translated it.

Read 'Spaceships of Ezekiel' interesting book!

 

[Experiencer7]

Of course we do. That is why it is art. Classical painters loved playing with depth, perception, and light/shadow and all that cool stuff. Their work was meant to make people do a double-take and notice them. After all, paintings were the avant-garde media of the time.

These are beautiful, to be sure, and, yes, intriguing. They were meant to be.

I really don't think there is anything else involved, IMHO. No paranormal or underlying meaning. Just great art.

Ok. Perhaps these are more to the point;

 

[bobheck]

Ok. Perhaps these are more to the point;

Now that IS strange. Some omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent yet unbeknownst force has made the obviously telling images you uploaded not visible to all of us by design. A clear sign of divine obfuscation. Freaky.

..... Or maybe you just didn't check to make sure your uploads worked. Assuming the longshot -- that this is actually the reason the images are not there, a suggestion: try using the manage attachments feature in the advanced posting screen and do not choose inline when uploading attachments. Sometimes that helps.

Just curious, what prompted you to dig this thread up after 7 months? Not that it doesn't deserve it or anything...just curious. And I do want to see the images. I love great art.

 

[Experiencer7]

Now that IS strange. Some omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent yet unbeknownst force has made the obviously telling images you uploaded not visible to all of us by design. A clear sign of divine obfuscation. Freaky.

..... Or maybe you just didn't check to make sure your uploads worked. Assuming the longshot -- that this is actually the reason the images are not there, a suggestion: try using the manage attachments feature in the advanced posting screen and do not choose inline when uploading attachments. Sometimes that helps.

Just curious, what prompted you to dig this thread up after 7 months? Not that it doesn't deserve it or anything...just curious. And I do want to see the images. I love great art.

Think I fixed it. Scroll back. What strikes me., is that unlike a photographic fluke or artifact., these flying sombreros were placed in the background intentionally. They may be representations of completely mundane objects or symbolic in nature. Hell., some of them may be artifacts of deterioration or bleed through. I'm no expert.

I pulled away from the forum for awhile. Just got around to scanning past post.

 

[bobheck]

Think I fixed it. Scroll back. What strikes me., is that unlike a photographic fluke or artifact., these flying sombreros were placed in the background intentionally. They may be representations of completely mundane objects or symbolic in nature. Hell., some of them may be artifacts of deterioration or bleed through. I'm no expert.

I pulled away from the forum for awhile. Just got around to scanning past post.

OK, that is nothing about the geometry, really. Those are depictions of saucer shaped objects in the sky, flat out. I have seen many older pictures, cave paintings, native American drawings, etc..., with these things in them. I firmly believe that the UFO phenomenon has been present throughout at least human history, perhaps even longer than that.

Great pictures. Thanks.

 

[Experiencer7]

You would think the preponderance of historical evidence alone would lend credence to more contemporary sightings.
Art is metaphor. Aliens, gods angels., someone or thing beyond our full understanding has been meddling in human affairs for a very long time.