Eh....a...thing? I don't know what it is.

Neon Dingo · Post by **Neon Dingo** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:30 am

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:33 am

Ok now that's hardcore. Not a style I'd usually appreciate, but the detail makes it worthwile to look at. Thumbs up all over the place.

InvisibleMonkey · Post by **InvisibleMonkey** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:40 am

It's so fuck scary, it's funny. Cause it has a pipe arm

Strap · Post by **Strap** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:47 am

So it's a representation of the twisted idea's that emurge from inside your head. scayr-e

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:03 am

Very White Zombie...I dig it.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:32 am

That thing is awesome. Always been a fan of well-detailed crazy stuff that has surrealistic setting not a surrealistic look.

Lunchmeat · Post by **Lunchmeat** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:41 am

I wish I had armpit hair like that. The ladies would flock to me.

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 10:34 am

It is obviously a twinkee machine.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:40 pm

Kashluk wrote:That thing is awesome. Always been a fan of well-detailed crazy stuff that has surrealistic setting not a surrealistic look.

What.
There is no setting there, it's white space.
How exactly do you see that as having a surrealistic setting as opposed to look?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:12 pm

The modern days surrealiss LOOK -> three black lines/rectangles/weird shapes on a white paper. Costs > 10 000 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬

Modern days surrealist SETTING -> very well done, but when you think about it, it makes no sense. Costs < 10 ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:18 pm

That's not surrealism, that's abstract. There's a big difference, abstract does suck.

http://peintre.beksinski.free.fr/index-1024.html

That's modern surrealism. Wait, all surrealism is modern. So wtf?
You're confusing abstract, which is bs.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:19 pm

Oh hey, maybe I am. It's 404 by the way.

Ghetto Goose · Post by **Ghetto Goose** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:44 pm

That drawing makes me think "Beavis and Butthead on Acid."

Good stuff.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:01 pm

Abstract :
http://www.abstract-art.com/abstraction ... -hide.html

Surreal :
http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/ ... i_1980.htm

Surreal > Shit > Abstract

And I'm pissed that other site 404'd, that was an amazing site - had tonnes of Beksinski's paintings, and huge, high res copies too. Good thing I've got them all saved already

Win.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:06 pm

Yes, surreal kicks major abstract ass any day.
I love surrealism.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 11:29 pm

Art Deco pwns:

Neon Dingo · Post by **Neon Dingo** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:36 am

That shit is kicks ass.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:19 am

Yes I thought so, that's why I made it my avatar. These are drawn by Tamara de Lempicka, a Polish/American from the late 19th / early 20th century. When I was at the Philidelphia Museum of Fine Art, I was browsing the gift shop and found this really cool art deco book, and I was THIS CLOSE to buying it, but I decided not to. I really wish I had though.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:28 am

It's pretty cool, the second one is almost surreal. Sorta a cross between abstract and surreal, no? I donno. I still prefer the realism of surrealism. Deco seems refreshing though, not something I've ever stopped to appreciate before.

iohkus · Post by **iohkus** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:39 am

ok dingo eat some shrooms and draw more k?

commission megatron to colour your work or something, colour would take it to another level

i don't know enough about art deco so i'll stick to my baseless and ignorant conclusion that :

surrealism > art deco

but those 3 pics remind me of cubism more than anything