• George W Bush unveils portraits of world leaders at presidential library in Dallas
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[QUOTE][IMG]http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2014/04/05/1226875/269073-1e045ebe-bc1a-11e3-8a33-c23c348170ff.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=SexualShark;44473817]putin looks displeased about his nose.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/lookalikes/big/putin_voldemort.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;44474840]I'd buy at least one of these Ducks Unlimited paintings if the minimum bid wasn't $300. [t]http://www.ducks.ca/assets/2013/12/winters-wolf-full.jpg[/t] Winter's Wolf - Guy Hobbs [t]http://www.ducks.ca/assets/2013/12/totem-and-bear-full.jpg[/t] Totem and Bear - Robert Bateman [t]http://www.ducks.ca/assets/2013/12/esprit-full.jpg[/t] Esprit d'automne - Martine Cyr THAT is what I call art. I'd link the Ducks Unlimited site, but since it's a fundraising auction it may be considered a no-no here.[/QUOTE] They're obviously very skilled but it just becomes kind of pointless when it looks like a photograph from any reasonable distance
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;44474352]Hitler was a pretty good painter, I wonder why he never got into art school.[/QUOTE] Why do you think he had this sudden urge to fuck shit up in poland??
[QUOTE=Venezuelan;44476004]They're obviously very skilled but it just becomes kind of pointless when it looks like a photograph from any reasonable distance[/QUOTE] I don't get your line of thinking, here. If it looks exactly like a photo, but is actually painted, then it's very impressive. Because of just how hard it is to make basic and coherent art, let alone such a perfect replica, being able to make something that looks just like a photo is mind-bogglingly talented and anything but pointless. To someone like me whose art skills are so saddeningly poor that even stick figures are a difficult venture (and I'm going to assume there are plenty of others like me), anyone who can make something even remotely artistic is like a god. Someone who can recreate reality using a brush on a level that's so detailed you have to look hard for brushstrokes is fucking Eldritch in their power to someone like me. I wouldn't even begin to call this kind of talent "pointless", not when the person in question can make something so amazingly accurate to reality with just liquid pigments, tools and time.
[QUOTE=Venezuelan;44476004]They're obviously very skilled but it just becomes kind of pointless when it looks like a photograph from any reasonable distance[/QUOTE] getting stuff to look realistic is like, kinda one of the big standards that good art is judged by. proper perspective, proportion, values and that sort of thing...unless the artist is very specifically going for some kind of cartoony or abstract style or something, going for the photographic look is hardly "pointless".
[QUOTE=Killuah;44475921]They look so naive, his paintings. How could he get President?[/QUOTE] Yes Killuah, in order to be a leader of a country you must have the ability to paint professionally Spot on
I'm not saying the talent is pointless, I'm just saying that since the advent of photography art has moved away from realistic depictions because who wants to put all that effort into recreating something that can be so easily captured already? I mean if it can pass for a photograph, its only value over an actual photograph is being able to say that it's not one. I mean I'm sure that dude just paints realistic nature scenes because he loves them and that's totally cool I just don't see why you'd want to purchase something when it's only value is that the artist (who's not you) is really fucking good at photorealism Basically, in summary, Picasso had a realism period and they were pretty damn skilled paintings, but there's a reason he's not remembered for them.
[QUOTE=BLOODGA$M;44475941]you have to be a good painter to be president? well there's the problem with this country, we need to start electing good painters![/QUOTE] No. But they show what kind of naive view on the world he has.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44476500]No. But they show what kind of naive view on the world he has.[/QUOTE] please, do elaborate. trying to be curious here, not sarcastic.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44476500]No. But they show what kind of naive view on the world he has.[/QUOTE] Have you ever looked in a mirror in your entire life? Judging him and claiming he has a naive worldview just because of some paintings he did of a few politicans is in itself fucking naive and an incredible fucking achievement of degeneracy.
[QUOTE=Killuah;44476500]No. But they show what kind of naive view on the world he has.[/QUOTE] I never understood why everyone thought you were retarded and gave you shit until now. I haven't seen a lot of your posts but this one did it for me
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;44475237]perspective looks a little fucked up imo[/QUOTE] That's just Teutonic architecture. I mean, the motherfuckers specifically design their town centers and towers to hold twice as many people as they should.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;44473806] [IMG]http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5369500-3x2-700x467.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] actually pretty good. putin actually looks depressed. [editline]7th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=T553412;44474331][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/The_Courtyard_of_the_Old_Residency_in_Munich_-_Adolf_Hitler.jpg/800px-The_Courtyard_of_the_Old_Residency_in_Munich_-_Adolf_Hitler.jpg[/t] Hitler was also a skilled painter, yet look at how he ended Artistic skills are one thing. Political clusterfucks are another.[/QUOTE] ironically he was a good leader, he took a nation falling apart and been destroyed by stuff from the first world war and turn it into a world power.. some of the things that the nazis did during the second world war were unthinkable but they did some good with constructing and creating a lot of things that people use today and don't even know about. but it would of ended quickly if the war had gone on for a few more years they had a prototype atomic weapon that was tested in Poland only the plane that was to deliver it was still in construction or several cities around the world would of been hit beginning with new york. that bomber was never constructed* but the plans still exist in a few archives, as for its counterpart the horten 229 it was..
[QUOTE=TurboSax;44476312]I don't get your line of thinking, here. If it looks exactly like a photo, but is actually painted, then it's very impressive. Because of just how hard it is to make basic and coherent art, let alone such a perfect replica, being able to make something that looks just like a photo is mind-bogglingly talented and anything but pointless. To someone like me whose art skills are so saddeningly poor that even stick figures are a difficult venture (and I'm going to assume there are plenty of others like me), anyone who can make something even remotely artistic is like a god. Someone who can recreate reality using a brush on a level that's so detailed you have to look hard for brushstrokes is fucking Eldritch in their power to someone like me. I wouldn't even begin to call this kind of talent "pointless", not when the person in question can make something so amazingly accurate to reality with just liquid pigments, tools and time.[/QUOTE] Sure as fuck it's impressive, I agree. But realistic paintings and such don't really hold my interest, I just look at them and be like "That's nice" and be done with it. Cartoony stuff, abstract stuff and so on, that's the kinda stuff that I can look at and be like "Woah that's really cool".
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;44474502]Personally I think it takes more talent to make something look real than to make something look "abstract." Some of my favourite paintings that I've seen recently has been Ducks Unlimited fundraising paintings that my store puts up, that are so detailed it looks like a photograph. I actually have to look for the brush strokes in most of them. In my opinion, that takes a hell of a lot of talent, and is a lot better than blotches on a canvas.[/QUOTE] Art is about far more than just technical skill
He gave Harper more emotions that photographs of Harper can actually capture. So good for him.
Sarkozy! [t]http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5369604-3x4-700x933.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Killuah;44476500]No. But they show what kind of naive view on the world he has.[/QUOTE] For painting world leaders?
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;44475237]perspective looks a little fucked up imo[/QUOTE] His perspectives were the worst, I don't think he grasped the concept of vanishing points or perspective lines. Without clear size relation, art pieces like his can easily fall apart
Those are pretty mediocre [QUOTE=Psychokitten;44475237]perspective looks a little fucked up imo[/QUOTE] It's actually basic level fucked
I've never see a war criminal slowly turn into a special needs child quite like him.
[QUOTE=Venezuelan;44476454]I'm not saying the talent is pointless, I'm just saying that since the advent of photography art has moved away from realistic depictions because who wants to put all that effort into recreating something that can be so easily captured already? I mean if it can pass for a photograph, its only value over an actual photograph is being able to say that it's not one. I mean I'm sure that dude just paints realistic nature scenes because he loves them and that's totally cool I just don't see why you'd want to purchase something when it's only value is that the artist (who's not you) is really fucking good at photorealism Basically, in summary, Picasso had a realism period and they were pretty damn skilled paintings, but there's a reason he's not remembered for them.[/QUOTE] A skilled painter can create imagery that isn't possible to photograph, because it doesn't exist in the real world (example: a guy in a ford fiesta jousting with a 300ft dragon) So yeah shut up jeez
Paint me the terror of war.
[QUOTE=DaCommie1;44474502]Personally I think it takes more talent to make something look real than to make something look "abstract." Some of my favourite paintings that I've seen recently has been Ducks Unlimited fundraising paintings that my store puts up, that are so detailed it looks like a photograph. I actually have to look for the brush strokes in most of them. In my opinion, that takes a hell of a lot of talent, and is a lot better than blotches on a canvas.[/QUOTE] The point of art isn't to do the hardest thing possible. Most people don't consider Yngwie Malmsteen to be better than The Beatles, even though his music may be more challenging to play.
[QUOTE=wewt!;44478252]A skilled painter can create imagery that isn't possible to photograph, because it doesn't exist in the real world (example: a guy in a ford fiesta jousting with a 300ft dragon) So yeah shut up jeez[/QUOTE] Uh yeah that's my point [editline]7th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44474555] [t]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vr5AdXrV-Wc/Ul6u_zwflnI/AAAAAAAAGiI/PaKLcv5SvDQ/s640/RainbowTroutRelease.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] I mean just look at this painting. Very few artistic liberties have been taken and yet it's so much more interesting and aesthetically pleasing than the other ones, which take none
man paints other men incredible
[QUOTE=godfatherk;44478403]Paint me the terror of war.[/QUOTE]he should use a captured taliban's keffiyeh as the canvas so he can paint war on terror
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;44476574]Have you ever looked in a mirror in your entire life? Judging him and claiming he has a naive worldview just because of some paintings he did of a few politicans is in itself fucking naive and an incredible fucking achievement of degeneracy.[/QUOTE] It's more about the poodles and all that. I mean, come on, the guy who played a big part in waging a few of the biggest wars in recent history is now painting poodles and portraits. Doesn't this sound kind of obscure and out of place?
[QUOTE=Killuah;44480099]It's more about the poodles and all that. I mean, come on, the guy who played a big part in waging a few of the biggest wars in recent history is now painting poodles and portraits. Doesn't this sound kind of obscure and out of place?[/QUOTE] Guess it would fit better that he joined some sort of secret operative team and go to the Middle East and kill people Would that be in place?
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;44480119]Guess it would fit better that he joined some sort of secret operative team and go to the Middle East and kill people Would that be in place?[/QUOTE] No. What are you doing.
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