{"id":369,"date":"2017-11-09T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasifkamal.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:56:36","slug":"10-remarkable-paintings-bizarre-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasifkamal.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/09\/10-remarkable-paintings-bizarre-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Remarkable Paintings with Bizarre Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0– Vincent Van Gogh\u00a0<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Not only do artists put in a lot of thought and effort into their paintings but are also very skeptical when it comes to naming their paintings. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>The title given to a painting is a verbal representation of the painting in itself. Artists are such perfectionists that they see through every imperfection and paint it\u00a0 flawlessly. And once they are done with their perfect masterpiece, an artist then works on naming his brainchild. Every piece of art has a story of its own and what lies within the painting only reaches the viewer after they have read the and the viewers are left to figure out what the painting really means on their own. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>\u201cIt’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.\u201d –<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Henry David Thoreau<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>
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\n<\/span>But some artists have really gone overboard with it came to naming their paintings. Here’s a list of a few of such bizarrely-named masterpieces that would made you wonder in awe –<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The Scream<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Scream by Edvard Munch<\/p><\/div>\n


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\n<\/span>Edvard Munch describes his inspiration for this world-renowned\u00a0 oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard painting in his diary as of 22 January, 1892 –<\/span>
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\n<\/span>“One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord\u2014the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream.”<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The Scream, also known as The Cry has four versions, the fourth 1895 pastel-on-board\u00a0version was the most colorful and vibrant of the four versions painted by Munch and the only version whose frame was hand-painted by the artist to include his poem, detailing the work’s inspiration and was sold for $119,922,600 at\u00a0Sotheby’s\u00a0Impressionist and Modern Art auction on 2 May 2012 becoming the fourth highest nominal priced painting ever sold at an auction.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Well, that’s something huh?<\/span>
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The Kiss<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Kiss by Gustav Klimt<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/span>Gustav Klimt\u00a0painted this magnificent piece of art in his “Golden Period”, a time when Klimt lavished his work with gold leaf(gold hammered into thin sheets).<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The painting was bought at the Austrian auction where it was displayed for the first time, even before Gustav Klimt had added his final golden touches to it.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The Kiss was sold for $135 million, the highest price ever reported on a painting. The work is composed of oil paint with applied layers of\u00a0gold leaf, only adding to the beauty of this brilliant masterpiece.<\/span>
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The American Gothic<\/b><\/p>\n

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The American Gothic by Grant Wood<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/span>Have you ever heard of a painting that was inspired on a house rather than the people illustrated in it?<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Well, that’s the story of the Dribble House. Apparently, the artist Grant Wood was on a drive and spotted this house. His artistic mind was instantly drawn to it. Not that the house was very beautiful or anything, he actually found it “absurd and pretentious to have a gothic-styled window on a house with such a flimsy frame”. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>But the house intrigued him and he sketched it on an envelope and later, painted after obtaining the permission of the Jones family, Wood made a sketch in oil on paperboard from the house’s front yard. This sketch displayed a steeper roof and a longer window. The people in the painting are merely his assumption of the “type” of people he thought should have lived there!<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The painting is now a widely considered masterpiece of the early modern period.<\/span><\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>The Son of a Man<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Son of a Man by Rene Magritte<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/span>This 1964 painting is a self-portrait by Belgian artist, Rene Magritte. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>The painting as bizzare as the name.The man’s face is largely obscured by a green apple, with the man’s eye peeking at the edge. And why do you think is the man’s right arm bending backwards at the elbow?<\/span>
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\n<\/span>“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” – Rene Magrit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Night Watch<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

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The Night Watch by Rembrandt van Rijn<\/p><\/div>\n


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\n<\/span>\u00a0This oversized painting (11.91\u00a0ft \u00d7\u00a014.34\u00a0ft) is a splendid masterpiece depicting the movement in the otherwise static military group portrait. You would be interested to observe Rembrandt’s detail for the use of light and shadow. All these making it one of his best works now placed at Rijksmuseum,\u00a0Amsterdam.<\/span>
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The Mystical Nativity<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Mystical Nativity by Sandro Botticelli<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/span>Sandro Botticelli’s oil painting, \u2018The Mystical Nativity’\u00a0in a general view is one of the nativity scene, with the Holy family. There are symbolic and unusual iconographies of the angels, demons and the king’s with no gifts and other intriguing details that relate back to the context of Savonarola\u2019s sermons.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The painting from the early Renaissance period is now on display at the National Gallery, London.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The Green Christ<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Green Christ by Paul Gauguin<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/span>\u2018The Green Christ\u2019 and \u2018The Yellow Christ\u2019 are two famous works from the French artist,\u00a0Paul Gauguin.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The paintings are among the best works of Symbolism. \u2018The Green Christ\u00a0was painted by Paul Gauguin in 1888 in France. It is an oil on canvas piece and is currently located at the Mus\u00e9es royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.\u00a0<\/span>
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The Third of May 1808<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

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The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n<\/span>The painting, along with, \u2018The Second of May 1808\u2019, describes the uprising of Spanish people and fight against the French reign.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>This oil on canvas painting is 106\u00a0\u00d7\u00a0137\u00a0inches long now on display at Museo del Prado, Madrid.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The Snail<\/b>
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The Snail by Henri Matisse<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/span>Matisse first drew the snail, then used the colored paper to interpret it. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>The painting is a Gouache on paper against a white background. The color patches have a spiral arrangement just like that of a snail’s shell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/b>Pyramid of Skulls<\/b>
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Pyramid of Skulls by Paul C\u00e9zanne<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/span>“For in this lethargic world<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>Perpetually prey to old remorse<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>The only laughter to still make sense<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span><\/i>Is that of death’s heads.” – <\/span><\/i>Paul C\u00e9zanne<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Paul C\u00e9zanne, a famous French Post-Impressionist painted four human skulls placed in a pyramidal form. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>The artist was obsessed with the subject of morality. Even more so after the death of his mother and his deteriorating health inspired a number of still life paintings made by him between 1898 and 1905 of skulls.\u00a0He also fancied skulls exclaiming, “How beautiful a skull is to paint!<\/span>
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