The TV Tropes Museum of Art is an art museum located in the Western Corner of the Internet, and it is one of the largest museums to exist or ever will exist, located on TV Tropes on the internet.
The museum collection is made up of more than infinity objects, dating from the earliest of comic strips to the latest high-definition video games.
Examples
Somnicultos
- Artist: Raven Underwell
- Media: N/A
- Date: December 19th 2003
- Location: Hednet Gallery
Somnicultos ("Sleep Guardians") is a nightmarish, Beksiński-esq sculpture of a monster of metal. Her work is believed to tap into a human primal fear of the unknown, with various select viewers of the sculpture report suffering nightmares and even visual and auditory hallucinations of the creature. It was this controversy that made Underwell a household name in the modern art crowd.
When interviewed, Underwell claims that she had a vision of an alternate reality where she saw these "alien machines" hovering over her, these godlike beings the creators of humanity.
Boy with Apple
- Artist: Johannes Van Hoytl the Younger
- Media: Oil on Canvas
- Date: High Renaissance Era
- Location: N/A
Boy with Apple was a portrait made to represent a boy on the cusp of manhood. Blonde, light smooth-skinned, the portrait is considered to one of the best of Czech mannerist, Habsburg high Renaissance, Budapest neo-humanist Van Hoytl's works.
Vigo the Carpathain
- Artist: N/A
- Media: Oil on Canvas
- Date: 15th Century
- Location: N/A
Vigo the Carpathian - also known as Scourge of Carpathia, Sorrow of Moldavia, Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, Vigo the Unholy and Vigo the Butch - was born on 1505 in a small, relatively unknown kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula called Carpathia. While much of his life is lost to time, he soon rose to power and took the throne of his home country in a revolt, whereupon he was quickly dreaded as a cruel and psychotic autocrat. Eventually, a revolution not dissimilar to the execution of the Romanovs occurred, whereupon he was poisoned, shot, stabbed, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered by his own peasantry. Many rumors circled about him before and after his death, some claiming he was a practitioner in unholy magic, that he had survived and helped stage the Russian Revolution as "mad Abbot of Tsbirsk" Jalmar Litvinov.
This painting was a portrait depicting the infamous 16th century warlord of the Balkan Kingdom of Carpathia. The name of the painter was lost to time, but it was speculated that Viggo was directly involved in its creation. It would regularly exchange hands throughout history until it came into the possession of the Manhattan Museum of Art's permanent collection in 1989 where it was undergoing restoration before it quickly vanished in the Great Gasleak of 89.
The only surviving remnants of the piece open to the public are photographs, though many have come to believe that the painting houses the spirit of the Carpathian tyrant, as all photographs taken of the painting feature the eyes glowing a menacing red. While the exact details have never been released to the general public, some say that it was confiscated and left in the possession of local paranormal investigators Peter Venkman, Ray Stanz, Egon Spenglar and Winston Zeddemore.
Spring Song
- Artist: Morticia Addams
- Media: Oil on Canvas
- Date: November 20, 1964
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
One of many works of art made by underground, self-proclaimed modernist Morticia Addams. One of many paintings that went unsold, Spring Song was painted within the Addams Family manor and sold in a garage sale years after its creation.
Miasma
- Artist: Sander Cohen
- Media: N/A
- Date: 1958
- Location: The Gallery of the Artist's Struggle, Rapture, North Atlantic Ocean
Miasma is an expressionist painting created by the eccentric artist Sander Cohen. It appears to be a strange disturbing figure against a swirling background of colors with the mouth locked wide open. Many have compared the piece to Francis Bacon's infamous "Screaming Popes" series that came out in America around the same time. Like Bacon, Cohen's work illustrates humanity's predilection for self-destruction, but while Bacon used traditional painting techniques and subject matters to maintain hope in the medium, Cohen developed a bleaker outlook out of a spiraling addiction to Rapture's then designer-drug and mental illness, both of which reached their breaking points at Rapture's 1958 New Year's Eve Riots.
The Portrait
- Artist: René Magritte
- Media: Oil on Canvas
- Date: 1935
- Location: Museum of Modern Art in New York
The Portrait is one of the most famous examples of the works of renowned surrealist painter René Magritte, as it is believed by many art critics and analyzers to not be a legitimate Magritte, either a forgery deliberately passed off as a Magritte or the product of a painter with a similar style mistaken for one.
An anonymous document leaked online - labeled simply "SCP-099
" - was found to make the claim that these rumors are indeed correct, with implications that the SCP Foundation, an espionage organization working directly under the United Nations, is responsible for the forgery. Reasons for this, whether true or untrue, is [REDACTED].
The painting - or forgery, whichever the case may be - is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, donated by renowned art collector Kay Sage.
Bold and Brash
- Artist: Squidward Tentacles
- Media: N/A
- Date: September 21, 2001
- Location: Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean
The painting has a yellow background. A naked caricature portrait of Squidward is the center of the piece, but with only four limbs instead of six. Also, this caricature has no mouth. The color of the caricature is green.
Goodbye Walt
- Artist: Barbara Lake
- Media: Enamel on Canvas
- Date: May 25, 2018
- Location: Arcadia, California
Goodbye Walt is an expressionist piece by medical doctor and part-time painter Barbara Lake.
After narrowly surviving a car crash, Lake claimed to have had visions of strange, horned monsters while she was in recovery, a dream that she would later depict in canvas in her "Troll" series. According to Lake, the painting is meant to be a portrait of her ex-boyfriend Walter Strickler, who suddenly left Arcadia shortly after the incident. Unlike in the other characters in her "Troll" series, the horns on this character are much more prominent, giving indication of scorn and menace.
Mopression
- Artist: Squidward Tentacles
- Media: N/A
- Date: October 2, 2010
- Location: Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean
Mopression has a lot of gray spikes scattered all over the statue's body, with a huge, gaping mouth on the stomach with sharp teeth all around inside, thin arms, and eye stalks with fork-like shapes at the top. The body itself is very geometric.
The work was commissioned by Tentacles' then-employer Eugene Krabs in a gambit to advertise his restaurant the krusty Krab.
Squidward en Repose
- Artist: Squidward Tentacles
- Media: N/A
- Date: September 21, 2001
- Location: Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean
It is a figurine that looks like Squidward but is abstractly made. It has two springs on the top, what looks like a wing on one side, two light yellow eyes with large mahogany-brown pupils, a nose resembling Squidward's, a hole underneath, and a light orange base.
