Are there any convincing portraits of heaven in art?

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I don't think they have any paintings of Ally yet.

TOMBOT, Friday, 29 October 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

ohhhhh how sweet.


PUKE

caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

There's those krishna style pics of heaven on earth with all the animals around krishna in a verdant field, type of thing..

Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i think of things like this:
http://members.aol.com/mindwebart4/agnes.jpg
rather then this:
http://www.initaly.com/regions/friuli/pix/tiepolo/assumpt.jpg

anthony, Friday, 29 October 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

those are both pretty interesting i think. one is of course static and the other is rather dynamic.

ryan (ryan), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I've always thought School of Athens to be an excellent idea of heaven (although I'd want more women).

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link

School of Athens looks like too much work. I thought Heaven might be about taking a break from thinking 'bout stuff.

papa november (papa november), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Spencer OTM

gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 October 2004 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

the martin isnt static at all, it just hums instead of sings

anthony, Friday, 29 October 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, you're right. it's beautiful.

ryan (ryan), Friday, 29 October 2004 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Got a picture of your house
And you're standing by the door
It's black and white and faded
And it's looking pretty worn

See the factory that I worked
Silhouetted in the back
The memories are gray
but man they're really coming back

I don't need to be the king of the world
As long as I'm the hero of this little girl

Heaven isn't too far away
Closer to it every day
No matter what your friends might say...

How I love the way you move
And the sparkle in your eyes
There's a color deep inside them
Like a blue surburban sky

When I come home late at night
And you're in bed asleep
I wrap my arms around you
So I can feel you breathe

I don't need to be a superman
As long as you will always be my biggest fan

Heaven isn't too far away
Closer to it every day
No matter what your friends might say
We'll find a way
whoa yeah, babe

Now the lights are going out
Along the boulevard
The memories come rushing back
and it makes it pretty hard

I've got nowhere left to go
And no one really cares
I don't know what to do
But I'm never giving up on you

Heaven isn't too far away
Closer to it every day (ah-ah)
No matter what your friends say
I know we're gonna find a way

Heaven
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
Heaven
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
Heaven
It's not too far away
oh-oh
whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
yeah
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latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
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

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

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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