• mazdak
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    10 months ago

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  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    2 years ago

    Picasso could easily smoke the guy on the left in the term of realism.

    Fun fact: Plenty of "modern" artist can do "classical" art just fine, it's that they choose not to.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Not available in my country due to copyright grounds.

        Truly ahead of his time

        • Bruja [she/her, love/loves]
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          2 years ago

          Pretty sure there’s nowhere in the world a painting from 1897, where the artist died in 1973, would be under legal protection but another user hooked you up.
          As a bonus, a lovely realistic painting from the year before which should be open:
          https://i.ibb.co/Y0tKK5R/portrait-of-the-artist-s-mother-1896.jpg

          • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            That is such a beautiful and expressive painting, that's amazing so much emotion can get charged into something so simple

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        Which makes sense, Raphael had to pioneer techniques which Picasso could use, but Picasso had to make new techniques to make the stuff he wanted.

        Edit: this is the fourth time autocorrect has made what i say sound bad.. i don't think Picasso made "jew techniques"

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The hilarious thing is that both Picasso and Godward are common in galleries, he's not some fucking obscure genius, he's a well-known, respected but conservative painter of the time. He's just not fucking Picasso.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Art is when you make something as realistic as possible and the more realer it is the artyer it is.

    Creativity? Subjectivity? Expression of the inner soul? Trying something new? What's that?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    :reddit-logo: , land of gimmicky "photorealistic" sketches that were done with humblebrag mediums where a photo would suffice, and also land of le grimdark and/or le sexy versions of video game characters. :awooga: Everything else is useless; learn to code! :so-true:

    • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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      2 years ago

      land of gimmicky “photorealistic” sketches

      And 80% of them without exaggeration are just Waltuh Breaking Bad :jesse-wtf:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Photorealistic Walter White :geordi-no:

        Hal's abstract masterpiece collapsing after hours of manic painting :geordi-yes:

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Le grimdark based science meth man with slur wife is what real art is all about. :so-true:

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Dae based meth man did nothing wrong except should have killed that slur Skyler maybe? The blue curtains in the treat are so so good! :so-true:

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    2 years ago

    i'm not even a Picasso stan but the immense anti-intellectual cope here is rich. they're obsessed with the construction of a canon of Objectively Beautiful Works but they can't accept that the defenders and creators of the canon, the people who have actually devoted their entire lives to the creation, criticism, and study of art, don't share their subjective but strongly felt opinions about what ideas should be totally excluded without any consideration.

  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    because JWG was soooo classical that's why his art would be out of place in any gallery with pieces before 1870

    jfc these people literally stan art & artists while knowing nothing about them the subjects of a lot of godward's art are classical, but the composition & craft are anything but. MF find me an 18th century painter with that advanced a grasp on detail & dedication to backgrounds. find me the conservatives who were championing his breed of orientalist erotic shit & not heralding it as the end of western civilisation. and then find me anyone before the 1870s who could create 'classical' paintings with a firmer grasp on the clothing and fashions of the ancient world than 'vibes'. fucking hell look at a David and compare it to late 19th century shit dudes were literally painting opera costumes as historical fact

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      He is literally the opposite of everything both the Pre-Raphelites and the Impressionists/Post-Impressionists stand for.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      But look at all those photorealistic drawings of based Walter White! :wojak-nooo:

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It will be Picasso. Not because he was objectively 'better' but because he was objectively 'new' and from that style dirived a thousand copycats, each trying to express themselves the same way. I've always had a penchant for Futurism myself, it's a shame most of them were fucking fascists, but I've always thought socialist futurism would be an interesting historical genre if it existed.

  • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Do you think it might be the most famous artist in human history who isn't named Da Vinci? Or the guy I've never heard of?

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    There's a world of difference between a Picasso and one of now hundreds of "gotcha" pieces like a can of shit with a label on it to dab on the buyer and the credulous spectators.

    I can see some valid frustration and grievance with the now-stale side of contemporary art that's been basically saying "fuck you, pay me" but without the usual proletarian charm to the message if the can of shit is a money laundering method for the buyer and trader.

    That said, fuck the contemporary reactionary demand for roughly the same painting hundreds if not thousands of times. It's like weebs that keep demanding roughly the same show but with color swaps on the hair and some slight shuffling of who is the yandere, who is the tsundere, and who looks like a child but is actually centuries old and what mix of vampire/demon/angel/succubus/dragon made that possible again. :pathetic:

  • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Art folks - you know it when you see it.

    Aesthetics is a real thing: can this object speak to some subconscious understanding and resonate with a voice of truth. Technical skill may help approach that point, but I'm fully of the opinion that artistic expression is a gift bestowed on a select few. I always thought of myself as a artist until a true genius came to my community. Their work made me realize I was an amateur, and even if I studied for years I could never approach their expression. It threw me into an existential crisis, but made me realize that pursuit of expression and self-actualization is in itself rewarding. Coming to grips with my own limitations allowed me to more fully enjoy my expressive creativity.

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Your average conservative coomer needs legibly drawn and highly detailed paintings of le traditional woman that he can beat off to