Are there any convincing portraits of heaven in art?

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I've always wanted heaven to be like 8 1/2

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hughpearman.com/articles/bus.htm

― art vandelay (what?), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I've always wanted heaven to be like 8 1/2

The spa? The harem? The unfinished set?

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

the anxiety and confusion?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Exactly. Maybe heaven could be in b&w, but that's as far as I'd want the similarity to go.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/251/death2mu.jpg

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxpost Gotta admit, that's a pretty damn fine bus station.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

not what the poster asked for, but I can't recommend Diane Keaton's "Heaven" strongly enough, it's a really fun, very strange film that edits together interviews with strange people talking about their conceptions of heaven cut in with footage of various filmic depictions of the place. was blown away when Keaton's debut as a film director produced a Negativland-inspired piece of cut-up weirdness, it's not at all like her later films like "Baby Boom".

http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Swami-Prem-Amitabh/dp/B000066748

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8091/biggieandtupacrw8.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Heaven.

Heaven is a place.

A place where nothing.

Nothing ever happens.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just in Marfa, TX, saw some Robert Irwin shit...it made me think how sad all portraits ofheaven make me. They're all so antiseptic and absent of warmth...I never really saw how streets of gold or whatever prophets have promised is supposed to be appealing.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 28 October 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

heaven is such an odd concept to begin with

― latebloomer: Winner of the Congressional Medal of....UGLY (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 October 2006 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://planettom.home.mindspring.com/images/hopper.nighthawks.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 28 October 2006 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

No, wait:

http://www.nuncoo.com/blog/archives/nighthawks.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 28 October 2006 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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