Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Good grief - no, Mona Lisa's eyebrows were cleaned off as part of an "oh shit, it's gone a bit tits up" conservation/cleaning attempt. The original painting had eyebrows. I thought everyone knew this?
Art that people rave about that's actually shit.
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Good grief - no, Mona Lisa's eyebrows were cleaned off as part of an "oh shit, it's gone a bit tits up" conservation/cleaning attempt. The original painting had eyebrows. I thought everyone knew this?
Orang Utan
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I don't ever intend to paint or create visual art. I just like looking at it sometimesYou'll go far then...
Miss Caphat
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I didn't know that....it seems like light eyebrows really were in fashion for a long time, as well as high foreheads and sort of bulgy eyes
bubblesmcgrath
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I didn't know that....it seems like light eyebrows really were in fashion for a long time, as well as high foreheads and sort of bulgy eyes
French collectors in the Napoleonic era and Victorian Brits were also a bit nuts about hacking willies off classical statues, that doesn't mean that ancient Greeks and Romans didn't have willies.
bubblesmcgrath
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I didn't know that....it seems like light eyebrows really were in fashion for a long time, as well as high foreheads and sort of bulgy eyes
Kind of thought the same. So many portraits show women of that time with very light or no eyebrows, and plucked hairlines to emphasise a high forehead ...
bubblesmcgrath
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bubblesmcgrath
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http://www.beautyblitz.com/history-eyebrows#slide-6
"Ye Olde EyebrowesWENDY RODEWALD-SULZ
Skinny brows were all the rage during medieval times in Europe, when women favored a pale, eggheaded look and plucked their hairlines to achieve it. The fashion continued through the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, whose bare brow and tweezed hairline enhanced the domed forehead and pallid complexion she painted with toxic white lead-based ceruse. During the 1600s, people rubbed walnut oil onto their children's eyebrows to inhibit hair growth."
Ne'er a fringe nor a raised eyebrow...
Thankfully the style didn't make a return lol
"Ye Olde EyebrowesWENDY RODEWALD-SULZ
Skinny brows were all the rage during medieval times in Europe, when women favored a pale, eggheaded look and plucked their hairlines to achieve it. The fashion continued through the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, whose bare brow and tweezed hairline enhanced the domed forehead and pallid complexion she painted with toxic white lead-based ceruse. During the 1600s, people rubbed walnut oil onto their children's eyebrows to inhibit hair growth."
Ne'er a fringe nor a raised eyebrow...
Thankfully the style didn't make a return lol
bubblesmcgrath
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chilango
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I was specifically thinking of the Kavanaghs. But as you've asked, I don't much like the others either.
bubblesmcgrath
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I was specifically thinking of the Kavanaghs. But as you've asked, I don't much like the others either.
We can't all like the same art
Here's a Picasso to cheer you up..
Miss Caphat
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I can't say I really like anything you've posted either. It's not that I don't like it, they just seem more like illustrations and not artwork I would typically look at and go "wow!"
bubblesmcgrath
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Well he's a figurative artist...
Not an abstract artist.
Different styles ..
Different tastes
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Well he's a figurative artist...
Not an abstract artist.
Different styles ..
Different tastes
I like plenty of figurative artists, very much so.
but yeah, I agree, which is why it's kind of ridiculous to start threads like this?
bubblesmcgrath
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I like plenty of figurative artists, very much so.
but yeah, I agree, which is why it's kind of ridiculous to start threads like this?
Not really though..
By your own admission you effectively think Kavanagh, Gorky, Warren are not worth a "wow" (roughly translated as 'shit')
Yet they're raved about
So I'd say the thread is fine..
bubblesmcgrath
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Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Not really though..
By your own admission you effectively think Kavanagh, Gorky, Warren are not worth a "wow" (roughly translated as 'shit')
Yet they're raved about
So I'd say the thread is fine..
except that I would never say that (something was shit). I find the whole idea of doing so really very pretentious.
bubblesmcgrath
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Miss Caphat
I want it that way
well, why "it's shit" rather than "I don't like it"? there's a big difference
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Yes ..... one of his recurring themes is the cold hardness of consumerism and the bleakness of modern society.
He has other art that is quite warm and soft...
True I suppose... I did have a look at his website btw bubbles, I don't think any of them felt particularly warm.
bubblesmcgrath
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Because sometimes a piece of art really is shit...whether I like it or not is irrelevant.
I like my homage to Rothko but I know it's shit...
bubblesmcgrath
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Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Because sometimes a piece of art really is shit...whether I like it or not is irrelevant.
I like my homage to Rothko but I know it's shit...
well, that may be true (that your painting is shit), mostly because you copied someone else's work (or tried to copy it)
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Because sometimes a piece of art really is shit...whether I like it or not is irrelevant.
I like my homage to Rothko but I know it's shit...
Yes, but most of the artists on this thread aren't shit.
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