Opposed to finding TRUTH in SCIENCE, which should be considered as a general problem (rational path), TRUTH finding in ART is a personal problem (emotional path), and many roads can be taken in both approaches.
When following the ART approach we could start with literature in which case one has to read a large set of books and starting points are difficult to give. In general Shakespeare is accepted as top but not of the pops. In music it is not clear if TRUTH can be found, but listening to music will contribute to understanding the world of emotions,
Bach
and
Beatles
are accepted as
top of the pops .
However, reading and listening will take a lot of time, a better alternative is to study pictures, "a picture is worth a thousand words" and can be interpreted fast, so here we go with a Dutch bias view on reality:
41900 bc Anonymus / Hunting scenes | Earliest known cave art by modern humans, representing a daily life truth |
1070 Anonymus / Bayeux tapestry | 620 men, 190 horses, 37 trees, 35 dogs, 33 buildings, 32 ships, 6 women, 2 camels, from a time when women were of lower status |
1434 Jan van Eyck / Arnolfini portrait | Paint the pregnancy |
1560 Pieter Bruegel de oude / Kinderspelen | Paint the children playing |
1612 Artemisia Gentileschi / Judith and Holofernes | The result of me too |
1621 Peter Paul Rubens / Isabella Brant | Paint the smile of a woman |
1648 Gerard ter Borch / Het sluiten van de Vrede van Munster | More than 50 men signing the piece treaty of Munster |
1656 Digo Velazquez / Infanta Margarita | Paint the child |
1658 Johannes Vermeer / Milkmaid | Paint the light |
1659 Pieter de Hooch / Binnenplaats met rokende man en drinkende vrouw | Paint the bourgeois addiction to smoking and drinking |
1699 Caspar van Wittel / Piazza Navona | Paint the cityview |
1791 Francisco Goya / The Straw Manikin | Paint the joy |
1820 Francisco Goya / Desastres della Guerra No.05 | Draw the worst result of human stupidity |
1849 Raden Saleh / Javanese Landscape | Paint the Orient with Tigers Listening to the Sound of a Travelling Group |
1872 Jozef Israëls / Kinderen der Zee | Paint the focus of children |
1877 Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Portrait of Jeanne Samary | Paint the cuteness of a face |
1880 William Stott of Oldham / Prince or Shepherd | Paint the tranquility of the countryside |
1887 Antonio Mancini / Aurelia | Paint the Women |
1891 Ilja Repin / Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks | Paint the anti diplomacy approach |
1893 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec / In Bed | Sometimes the title says it all |
1899 Claude Monet / Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge | Paint the ideal garden |
1905 Axel Gallen / Lake Keitele | Paint the water surface |
1906 Paula Moderson Becker / Self portrait | Paint the intimacy of the 6th Wedding Anniversary |
1911 Edvard Munch / The Sun | Paint the power of the sun |
1914 Jan Mankes / Young white goat | Paint the essence of a goat |
1915 Egon Schiele / Sitzendes Paar (Egon und Edith Schiele) | We zien er al bijna zo uit maar is niet erg hoor ! |
1921 Paul Klee / Adam and Little eve | Paint the essence of Eve |
1923 Alida Pott / Portret of Hilda Idema | Paint the essence of consciousness |
1933 Jeanne Bieruma Oosting / Dame | Paint the essence of female nudity from a female perspective |
1937 Pablo Picasso / Guernica | Paint the worst result of human stupidity |
1937 Rene Magritte / The Therapeutist | Would you cancel a painting from a sadist who tries to make money with forgeries |
1943 Willem Gerard Hofker / Ni Goesti Kompiang Mawar | Paint the oriental mystic beauty |
1944 Piet Mondriaan / Victory Boogie Woogie | Abstract ultimo |
1967 Marc Chagall / Carnival of Flowers | Paint the intimacy of love |
1971 Sjoerd de Vries / Portret van Adriaan Anne Marie van der Meulen | Verboden voor publikatie door Van Der Meulen, de waarheid is soms hard |
1976 Wolfgang Mattheuer / Kuss in Kahn | Paint the intimacy of an embracement |
1987 Madi Phala / These Guys Are Heavy | Black Artists matter with a view on violence |
1988 Ingrid Sikkens / Pop Blue | Picture the essence of attitude |
1991 Siri Beerends / Ballon met vliegende vis | Dat kan mijn dochter van 5 ook |
1993 Paul Rebeyrolle / Hommage a Courbet no 6 | Paint the essence of female nudity from a male perspective |
1995 Anselm Kiefer / Sternenfall | Is this heaven or is this hell ? |
1998 Paula Rego / Triptych | The most fascinating women |
2008 James Morrison / Low water | Paint the water and the weather |
2012 Wikipedia Kleuterschool / Compilation | Dat kan mijn kind ook |
2020 Abdoulaye Konate / Coucher de soleil | Display the sunny colors |
2021 Ingrid Sikkens et al./ THE END | THE END will get us in the end |