SRL Archive - Discussions & Debates

If any of y'all like artwork, what is your favorite? Why?

I love the high renaissance personally. My favorite is School of Athens by Raphael

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sanzio_01.jpg

Not a massive fan of art but I like pictures.

Photos of Jupiter taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Great_Red_Spot_From_Voyager_1.jpg


Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Saturn_during_Equinox.jpg


Infrared photo of Saturn.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Saturn_polar_vortex.jpg


These all look so fake but they are actually real. It is really what the planets look like.

From: Yakman
Not a massive fan of art but I like pictures.

Photos of Jupiter taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/790106-0203_Voyager_58M_to_31M_reduced.gif

I just saw this video in lecture yesterday!


I don't know if it's my favorite piece of art, but Einige Kreise from Wassily Kandinsky is pretty cool. Bauhaus ftw :)

I'm not so hot on art history but Ilya Repin is definitely my favorite artist that I have seen, I love the facial expressions of people in his art. It really speaks to me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Repin_Cossacks.jpg

Generic, but c'mon everyone loves Escher!

From: blackelvis
I'm not so hot on art history but Ilya Repin is definitely my favorite artist that I have seen, I love the facial expressions of people in his art. It really speaks to me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Repin_Cossacks.jpg

Dude that painting is amazing.

Same as yohojo; I'm not into art, but I love photographies!
Warning: Big pic.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Oregon_State_Beavers_Tilt-Shift_Miniature_Greg_Keene.jpg
It looks like the football-team is miniature, but it's a real picture.
The method is called tilt-shift photography.

From: Tim0suprem0
Dude that painting is amazing.

totally agree ! wow what a gifted person was that. Truly amazing painting.

From: Zyt3x
Same as yohojo; I'm not into art, but I love photographies!
Warning: Big pic.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Oregon_State_Beavers_Tilt-Shift_Miniature_Greg_Keene.jpg
It looks like the football-team is miniature, but it's a real picture.
The method is called tilt-shift photography.

This is truly hawt.

From: Torrent of Flame
This is truly hawt.

I know! They made the sport look like some kid's toys :redface:
Funny toys though.. One of the players are flying :)

EDIT:

Cuhrazay. Except for UO > OSU. :3

those remind of those eye-spy books.

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1632/dscf1777j.jpg
http://www.artcyclopedia.org/art/gustav-klimt-fulfillment.jpg
http://kaleidoskopein.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/gustav-klimt-the-tree-of-life-1909.jpg

Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red.

Haters Gon Hate

^ I love you.

i like this one

keep the art thread alive!

you dutch people might be familiar with this one!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring.jpg

^ i believe that is in san fransisco

I don't usually look at art, but a quick google led me to this. Colourful sculpture. Spirits I presume.

stele of naram-sin
its bad ass

From: x[Warrior]x3500
^ i believe that is in san fransisco

well actually the original is in paris and there's like twenty to thirty reproductions around the world, hence its familiarity. you're right though thats the one at the palace of the legion of honor in sf.

Deafeat of the Spanish Armada

http://goo.gl/oiM8

^ NSFW, but I think it is amazing. Not necessarily "art," though.

Hard to tell. Each period in time has its brilliant minds. Though I recently did a documentary about PreRaphaelitic painters and was struck by Ophelia by John Everett Millais:

From: WT-Fakawi
Hard to tell. Each period in time has its brilliant minds. Though I recently did a documentary about PreRaphaelitic painters and was struck by Ophelia by John Everett Millais:

At an early stage in the painting's creation, Millais painted a water vole—which an assistant had fished out of the Hogsmill—paddling next to Ophelia. In December 1851, he showed the unfinished painting to Holman Hunt's relatives. He recorded in his diary, "Hunt's uncle and aunt came, both of whom understood most gratifyingly every object except my water rat. The male relation, when invited to guess at it, eagerly pronounced it to be a hare. Perceiving by our smiles that he had made a mistake, a rabbit was then hazarded. After which I have a faint recollection of a dog or a cat being mentioned." Millais painted the water vole out of the final picture, although a rough sketch of it still exists in an upper corner of the canvas hidden by its frame.

Thought that was kind of funny as I was reading about it :p