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I didn't know that the soldiers with the coolest uniforms during the American Civil War were mostly micks. I had 'em pegged as Frogs.
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The use of photos(tracing) is also where women step into the galleries and say "See, I am as good as men." However, there is a fine line here because Vermeer used Camera Obscura(sp). Although he could paint light like no one else, after all the lighting in Holland has its own character like no where else, Vermeer was not all that well with drawing. You will notice there is a difference between the way he handled geometrics, the straight line, and the way he handles whats in between the lines. For example a cheek bone(Zygomatic) has no linear shape that can be mapped out by a straight edge. His flesh looks like porcelain, his metal looks like metal. Photography was the first nail in the coffin for painting and the second and all subsequent nails were the result of the Frankfurt School. The hard fact is this: the use of photography is copying at best. Copying is not drawing. Copying a photo is like reading something and then calling it your own intellect. The two most common traits of photo use are the lack of a sense of time and gravity. Think of it like this, if you were to leave the room and come back would the person in the portrait have changed or are they still frozen in their posture and facial expression. To not have a sense of gravity in a portrait is a major flaw. Everything about the human body is shaped by gravity, and the story of the body is it's constant negotiation with gravity from birth to death. The two most significant energies known to man are light and gravity. As for the relation of artist and model, in real time, John Singer Sargent is among the best. |
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Let's just say that I'm a subject matter expert in the field, and you are incorrect. This is by hand. Using a tool such as a brush, airbrush, eraser, knife, or pencil does not mean that that something is not done by hand. Otherwise, only finger painting would be considered "by hand". Tracing using an image transfer technique, projector, stencil, saral paper, pounce pattern, etc, does not mean it's not done by hand. It just means that it's not 100% free-hand. We can argue the merits and definitions, get all semantic about it, till the end of time. In the business, by hand means there is no computer modification (or water-slide/micro-vinyl used in the picture itself) to the picture's final product. 100% free hand means there was no tracing or image transfer involved. As far as the merits of photorealism, there's not much of a market for it in the real world. The amount of time involved in such a painting puts it well beyond all but the most wealthy.......and they aren't really into that market. A good illusion (where you trick the eye into believing what it sees even though it actually doesn't look like the real thing) is where the market is at. |
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People like paintings because they aren't photographs, they are obviously something that was done by hand. |
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The platypus is rightly held as one of the most bizarre animals. It is a beaver with a duck's mouth and a duck's eggs but it nurses. The males have poison glands. But what I did not know is that when they swim for their food they do not primarily rely on their sight or even their smell. They close their eyes, ears and nose and rely on a low grade electricity-driven sense called electro-location in their bills. They are a part of the only 2 mammal family (the other being the echidna) to have it. Pretty neat! |
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The real purpose behind Dru's class, is to learn his color theory, his methodology, and the tricks to create the detail that he is famous for. Incorporating these into every day illusions (without going all the way to photorealism) will result in superior artwork that customers appreciate. |
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Spare me the vocational jargen, I have heard and experienced enough of it to know it has nothing to do with art. |
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Allow me to restate my claim from the last post.
I am not an expert. This is an expert: http://www.johnsingersargent.org/ |
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Back to the thread! In the mid-90's, the eight men most responsible for looting all of Russia's resources and transferring the assets overseas were: Anatoliy Chubais Boris Berezovsky Alexander Smolensky Vladimir Potanin Mikhail Freedman Vladimir Gusinsky Mikhail Khordakovsky Vladimir Vinogradov |
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Not coincidentally, the only living members of the prototheria sub-class are the monotremes, and the only living members of the monotreme order are platypi and echidnas. Echidnas are not too strange to look at, but platypi are fucking bizarre creatures. Cloacal, egg-laying, milk-secreting, reptile-boned, poisonous, duck-billed, aquatic mammals. When the first specimens starting going back to England from Australia, they were thought to have been made out of the remains of several different species specifically to fool biologists. |
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A University of North Carolina class project found 17 out of 22 fish they bought labeled as Red Snapper were actually some other kind of snapper.
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When you see "natural raspberry flavor" on an ingredient list, for example, you might assume that the flavor is derived from raspberry fruits. In fact, natural raspberry flavor, or castoreum, comes from the anal extracts of a North American beaver.
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Colin Powell was literally a "shabbos goy".
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Tapenade (French pronunciation: [tapənad], Occitan: tapenada [tapeˈnadɔ]) is a Provençal[1] dish consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil.[2] Its name comes from the Provençal word for capers, tapenas (pronounced [taˈpenɔs]). It is a popular food in the south of France, where it is generally eaten as an hors d’œuvre, spread on bread. Sometimes it is also used to stuff fillets for a main course.
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[BTW, this is not the thread for proving you're better than everyone else. That's for every other thread. This thread is a celebration of IGNORANCE DEFLOWERED.]
Neti-Pot - never heard of this until today 9-23-12 http://www.webmd.com/allergies/sinus...e-11/neti-pots |
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