Opposed to finding TRUTH in SCIENCE, which is a general problem (universal rational path) that can largely be defined independent of the context, TRUTH finding in ART is a personalized problem (private emotional path) that is fully dominated by the context. In 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 and Proust are 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, as a start listen to my 100 seconds (1 hs) tastelinkers or my top of the pops selection.
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 portret | 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 |
1650 Diego Velazquez / Pope Innocent X | Portrait of a pope that hides a truth that was revealed in 1953 and beyond |
1656 Diego Velazquez / Infanta Margarita | Paint the child |
1659 Pieter de Hooch / Binnenplaats met rokende man en drinkende vrouw | Paint the bourgeois addiction to smoking and drinking |
1660 Johannes Vermeer / Melkmeisje | My favourite painter paints the extra ordinary light on an ordinary milkmaid |
1661 Johannes Vermeer / Gezicht op Delft | My favourite painter paints the ultimate city view |
1664 Philips Koninck / Panoramisch Landschap | Paint the clouds |
1699 Caspar van Wittel / Piazza Navona | Paint the city view |
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 |
1876 Gustave Caillebotte / Floor Scrapers | Paint the labour |
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 |
1881 Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Luncheon of the Boating Party | Paint the party |
1885 Jan Veth / Portert van AlbertVerwey | The ultimate portrait |
1887 Antonio Mancini / Aurelia | Paint the Women |
1890 Kate Bisschop Swift / Balcony | A female Vermeer/Renoir that painted in an out of fashion style but better than Han van Meegeren |
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 |
1896 Kate Bisschop Swift / Close up uur | A female Vermeer |
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 |
1907 Kees van Dongen / Akrobaat | Paint the grace of an female acrobat |
1911 Edvard Munch / The Sun | Paint the power of the sun |
1913 Bart Van Der Leck / Buiten met de fiets | The Dutch bicycle |
1914 Jan Mankes / Jonge Witte Geit | 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 ! |
1918 Gustav Klimt / Portrait of Johanna Staude | He loved women too much |
1921 Paul Klee / Adam and Little eve | Paint the essence of Eve |
1923 Alida Pott / Portret of Hilda Idema | Paint the essence of consciousness |
1927 Joan Miro / Peinture Poeme (Musique, Seine, Michel, Bataille et Moi) | Paint the flow of surrealistic dream patterns |
1928 Edward Hopper / Night Windows | Paint the flow of air |
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 |
1938 Frida Kahlo / The Suicide of Dorothy Hale | Paint the suicide in a non appreciated scheme |
1943 Willem Gerard Hofker / Ni Goesti Kompiang Mawar | Paint the oriental mystic beauty |
1944 Piet Mondriaan / Victory Boogie Woogie | Abstract ultimo |
1953 Francis Bacon / Study After Velazquez Portrait of Pope Innocent X | Paint the truth behind a face of the catholic church after 303 years of truth finding |
1950-1985? Ovartaci / Untitled Not dated | Madness Outsider Art |
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, the Churchill equivalent was burned |
1976 Francoise Gilot / Woman Fixing her Hair | After publication "Life with Picasso" he did want to see his children he got with her; this painting was sold for 1.584 EUR in feb 2023, amazing price difference between the male pig and female piglet artist |
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 / Blauwe Pop | Picture the essence of attitude |
1991 Siri Beerends / Ballon met vliegende vis | Dat kan mijn dochter van 5 ook |
1993 Lucian Freud / Self portraits | Harsh reality and wearing my favourite brand of ever lasting repairable Timberland shoes |
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 / Compilatie | Dat kan mijn kind ook |
2020 Abdoulaye Konate / Coucher de soleil | Display the sunny colors |
2021 Ingrid Sikkens et al./ HET EINDE | THE END will get us in the end |