Incredible oil painting that is so realistic it could be a photograph.

[Ponce]

All that I can say is.........incredable wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038438/Incredible-oil-painting-realistic-photograph-voted-national-gallerys-best.html

[Dogman]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/17/article-0-0DEC465F00000578-301_468x675.jpg

[nunaem]

That beats the shit out of Picasso. Abstract art is for the talentless.

[nunaem]

OT: Here is a video about today's degenerate 'art':


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ4CeNu6Vr4&feature=channel_video_title

[drafter]

It's that transition from "focused" to "a bit blurry" that really makes it look like a "real" photograph.

Most "art" these days is definitely crap. Follow the money and it always seems to lead to the same place. They definitely have a knack for packaging crap and selling it to suckers for lots of money.

[Dogman]

It's that transition from "focused" to "a bit blurry" that really makes it look like a "real" photograph.

Most "art" these days is definitely crap. Follow the money and it always seems to lead to the same place. They definitely have a knack for packaging crap and selling it to suckers for lots of money. Unfortunaly it is called following the money! Payed by rich idiots that do not have a clue what real art is , even if it slapped them in the face.

[solid]

Amazing. Though, why didn't he paint a beautiful smiling woman, instead of a grumpy depressed guy?

[madfranks]

Amazing. Though, why didn't he paint a beautiful smiling woman, instead of a grumpy depressed guy?

I agree with you there, but still what a sight. I've done some painting in my day, but I've never been able to paint a portrait. Those are very difficult.

[solid]

I agree with you there, but still what a sight. I've done some painting in my day, but I've never been able to paint a portrait. Those are very difficult.

Yeah, it really is quite a sight. I admire folks with an artistic talent. I don't have an artistic bone in my body, though I wish I did.

I still would have done a portrait of a hot babe though...;D

[ximmy]

That beats the shit out of Picasso. Abstract art is for the talentless.

An unlearned statement... to say the least... or the level of "retard" here never ceases to amaze me... even more than art... :)
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Prepare to be schooled if you dare... ~ximmy

Picasso's "Secret" Guernica

....The painting became a timely and prophetic vision of the Second World War and is now recognised as an international icon for peace.
Despite the enormous interest the painting generated in his lifetime, Picasso obstinately refused to explain Guernica's imagery. Guernica has been the subject of more books than any other work in modern art and it is often described as..."the most important work of art of the twentieth century", yet its meanings have to this day eluded some of the most renowned scholars....

Four years research into an unauthenticated Picasso drawing of a crucifixion, dated 12 May, 1934, has provided a wealth of new information about Picasso's use of symbolism. The study has also led to some remarkable discoveries about Guernica... listed here are a few examples... [including secret harlequins and hidden images of death] http://web.org.uk/picasso/secret_guernica.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_uGbQanNw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_uGbQanNw

[nunaem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_uGbQanNw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_uGbQanNw


WTF is this shit? Are you serious? WTF am I looking at?

The Nazis knew what to do with this garbage.


A large amount of 'degenerate art' by Picasso, Dalí, Ernst, Klee, Léger and Miró was destroyed in a bonfire on the night of July 27, 1942 in the gardens of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

[mamboni]

Art, like beauty, is very much in the eyes of the beholder. For centuries, western painting was inclined towards greater realism in depictions of life. The techniques of perspective, shading and lighting and subtle use of color were progressively refined and improved. The apex was reached in 18th century Italian art IMHO.

The goal of ultrarealism in painting is more a craft and a technical mastery than art in the creative sense. But modern art has taken great liberties and has certainly blurred the lines between true artistic genius and pure opportunistic garbage IMHO. I will not name names.

I showed precocious ability in art at a young age, around 7. When I was 11, I was sent to the local university to attend painting and drawing classes. My first love was science, but drawing came incredibly easy to me. My high school art teacher, unbeknownst to me, submitted some of my works to a famous American painter. The latter invited [insisted] I attend his painting workshop. It was an honor; but it was all day Sunday and I hated getting up early in the AM and the long train ride to the museum. I was one of twenty from all of New York City.

To be sure, I struggled with oil painting - I preferred pencil and especially etching. In the second year at the studio something clicked. We worked off nude models and I had painted a torso and arm that came to life and jumped off the campus. Before this all my prior efforts had been flat and dead. This particular afternoon the Master instructed all of us to place our works against the back wall of the studio that he may critique them - we were quite nervous. The Mater paused before the works and his eyes fixed upon my canvass. Then his voice leaped out of his mouth, some combination of surprise and perhaps anger "Who's is this! Who's is this!?" I could not utter a word - I was petrified. He stared at the painting for several minutes then turned on his heels which was our que to return our canvasses to their places and get back to work.

I never returned to the studio after that day. I knew then that painting, no matter how much talent one might possess, demanded many years of hard work and labor, learning the crasft and honing one's technical skills. My life dream was to become a medical scientist, not an artist. I am very sad to recall this episode because perhaps the cruelist thing about life is that it forces one to choose but one vocation in this age of ultraspecialization.

[Twisted Titan]

For Master Mei



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth



Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,



And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.



I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[Ponce]

Me? I take the most interesting road that will lead me to a new adventure...... after all, to be secured is to be dead.