Art in High-Def.

I have been enjoying a series on Gallery HDTV which is called, "The Private Life of a Masterpiece". It is an old BBC show which has been recreated for HDTV. It's an amazing show. I have always been an art lover and I am the type of person who can sit in front of a painting and view it, ponder on it, reflect on it and basically use it as a literary tool. My wife and friends sometimes don't see why I sometimes take so long to sit infront of a painting. When I look at good art, I tend to ponder about various things in life and what is the artist trying to convey through his art.

Enough of the mumbo jumbo...So far I have seen the episode about Sandro Botticelli's Primavera and Vincent van Gogh's ("Goth") Sunflowers (the 9th version). As many of don't know (including myself before I watched the show) that Vincent painted 10 versions of the Sunflower painting and his 9th is considered the masterpiece since the background is yellow and the main subject is in yellow too. Primavera on the other hand was truly magnificant because of its detail and techniques. Since it is an renaissance painting, to appreciate the painting we need to look at from bottom up. When you look at it that way, it's truly amazing since it looks like an elegant tapestry.

Here is an image of the Sunflowers:

Here is an image of Primavera:

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