i got a little toasted & saved a fuckton of timurid period art so im not sure what this specifically is

but like check it out tho

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    This is one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen, god Islamic art and architecture is beautiful. That's what you get when you invent algebra

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      https://www.reddit.com/r/modernart/comments/pmtn0z/palau_de_la_m%C3%BAsica_catalana_architecturecatalan/

      I really love how Moorish architecture in Spain influenced Catalonia's art nouveau. The exterior of that concert hall is just stunning.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Islamic art and architecture is so dope. I went to a museum in Kuala Lumpur that had a lot of great stuff, but the ones that blew my mind were the Chinese Muslim art. Such a cool collision of different aesthetics.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Imagine building a beautiful structure devoted to your faith and then Tool rips it off for album covers.

  • baby_trump [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    I'm always so impressed by the things built by preindustrial people. I can't imagine the level of skill and effort needed to create something as elaborate as this without the benefit of modern tools and machinery.

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      It's difficult to comprehend a life where all you do is paint nice things on walls given the system we live under. Someone that paints a building these days will be instructed to do it quickly and make it plain white, and then be rushed off to their next job. All of the art and joy has been removed because it's not economically 'efficient' under capitalism. So we live in plain white apartments and work in plain white offices and drink coffee at plain white cafes. We're trapped in that scene from American Psycho where all of the business cards are the same.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I remember studying art history in college as an elective and while a lot of the artists out there were literally financed by aristocrats and part of a guild, it's fucking unimaginable that some people were just told: "Ok just get like really really good at drawing stuff, don't worry about anything else"

        and then they did

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan_Mosque,_Thatta

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I've been interested in taking psilocybin for a while and am only limited by by inability to get any but like holy shit was everyone in early history just getting cooked out of their minds on shrooms? A lot of old art has some seriously psychedelic vibes even across vastly different cultures