I could start out picking pockets and eventually work my way up to cat burglar. You should get permission before you spray on people's buildings or public property. Paint jobs are expensive, and it's heartbreaking to have one ruined by some twat and his can of spray paint.Wreckognize wrote:
But that's how the vast majority of graffiti artists start. No one starts out doing top to bottom train cars or murals on walls. Most people start out tagging their name and progress from there. It's how you learn to develop your own style and master your can control.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Some graffiti can be pretty, but the vast majority of it is just unwanted signatures spammily scrawled on others people's property.
I used to be a tagger when i was 15
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I'm not debating the ethics of graffiti, just pointing out that tagging is an integral part of the graffiti subculture.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I could start out picking pockets and eventually work my way up to cat burglar. You should get permission before you spray on people's buildings or public property. Paint jobs are expensive, and it's heartbreaking to have one ruined by some twat and his can of spray paint.Wreckognize wrote:
But that's how the vast majority of graffiti artists start. No one starts out doing top to bottom train cars or murals on walls. Most people start out tagging their name and progress from there. It's how you learn to develop your own style and master your can control.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Some graffiti can be pretty, but the vast majority of it is just unwanted signatures spammily scrawled on others people's property.
i think it's art.Wreckognize wrote:
I'm not debating the ethics of graffiti, just pointing out that tagging is an integral part of the graffiti subculture.
not everyone hangs in the Louvre, despite what cognoscenti might think
Art is of course subjective.
Same goes for graffiti, I'd argue a lot of it if not most is art. I'd also argue a lot of it is bad art.
Same goes for graffiti, I'd argue a lot of it if not most is art. I'd also argue a lot of it is bad art.
Things like the above mural are definitely one in thousands of thousands. I wouldn't have a problem with that at all, but it is still better (not to mention legal) to acquire permission.
This one came a little over a hundred years after the Mona Lisa. Not really too fair to compare them given the time in between the two. This one doesn't hold the same significance in the art world as the Mona either but personally I think all in all this is a better painting. Very pretty girl. Pretty face + headscarf = me wanting to desperately see what is under there. Anyways compare it to the Mona and tell me what you think. By the way Scarlet Johansson was in a movie about this painting. Ch-Ch-Check it out.
Her hair. Her hair is under that scarf. its is keeping it out of her face. mistery solved
I can see the argument that tags are a sort of modern calligraphy. But you still shouldn't tag people's stuff or at least tag abandoned property or free art zones.
Yes her hair is under the scarf. Thank you. I'm talking about a sort of eroticism based off of the want of something you can't have that you know is amazing.Adams_BJ wrote:
Her hair. Her hair is under that scarf. its is keeping it out of her face. mistery solved
inane little opines
i saw the mona lisa about 2 weeks ago. it was pretty damn good, but the environment and people around ruined it.
what really took my breath away and had quite a profound impact on me (for a painting) was the van gogh self-portraits i saw. getting right up close to the cracks and seeing how a tiny pointillist dot of paint in the iris of an eyeball could inflect so much emotion and change the impression and effect of the whole thing.
breath-taking to see in the orsay.
mac enjoying a painting more because the female subject appeals to you more on an 'erotic' level is hardly 'disinterested contemplation', is it? seems like a silly pretense to like art when really all you're looking for is porn-esque female objectification, rendered in centuries-old paint rather than contemporary pixels.
what really took my breath away and had quite a profound impact on me (for a painting) was the van gogh self-portraits i saw. getting right up close to the cracks and seeing how a tiny pointillist dot of paint in the iris of an eyeball could inflect so much emotion and change the impression and effect of the whole thing.
breath-taking to see in the orsay.
mac enjoying a painting more because the female subject appeals to you more on an 'erotic' level is hardly 'disinterested contemplation', is it? seems like a silly pretense to like art when really all you're looking for is porn-esque female objectification, rendered in centuries-old paint rather than contemporary pixels.
The name of the piece, L.H.O.O.Q. (in French èl ache o o qu), is a pun, since the letters when pronounced in French form the sentence "Elle a chaud au cul", which can be roughly translated as "She has a hot ass". - wiki
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The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
Flawless restoration.
You want the scarf? How is she going to keep her hair out of her face?Macbeth wrote:
Yes her hair is under the scarf. Thank you. I'm talking about a sort of eroticism based off of the want of something you can't have that you know is amazing.Adams_BJ wrote:
Her hair. Her hair is under that scarf. its is keeping it out of her face. mistery solved
oh hush
I met a girl that knew a bit about art a little while ago. She could name styles of art she liked and artist but couldn't name a single piece that she could put down as her favorite. I pressed her and bit and she named "The Apotheosis of War" by Vasily Vereshchagin as one of her favs.
Good painting. Really morbid too. Can't say it is one of my favorites but I can appreciate it. Vasily was a Russian painter who spent time in central Asia. He painted a good few painting of life in the area. The painting is inspired by the 14th century Turko-Mongol conqueror Timur. During his conquest he would leave mountains of skulls as his calling card. Anyway as far as Vasily Ver goes my favorite is "Napoleon at Borodino". Pretty famous painting you probably have seen it before.
He focused a lot of Napoleon in Russia as well as Russian and British military action in central Asia during the mid to late 19th century. Some really nice realist paintings like this one.
Ch-Ch-Check him out if you are into that kind of stuff.
I met a girl that knew a bit about art a little while ago. She could name styles of art she liked and artist but couldn't name a single piece that she could put down as her favorite. I pressed her and bit and she named "The Apotheosis of War" by Vasily Vereshchagin as one of her favs.
Good painting. Really morbid too. Can't say it is one of my favorites but I can appreciate it. Vasily was a Russian painter who spent time in central Asia. He painted a good few painting of life in the area. The painting is inspired by the 14th century Turko-Mongol conqueror Timur. During his conquest he would leave mountains of skulls as his calling card. Anyway as far as Vasily Ver goes my favorite is "Napoleon at Borodino". Pretty famous painting you probably have seen it before.
He focused a lot of Napoleon in Russia as well as Russian and British military action in central Asia during the mid to late 19th century. Some really nice realist paintings like this one.
Ch-Ch-Check him out if you are into that kind of stuff.
I saw the Racławice Panorama a while back, it's a bit propagandist.