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Looks marked 'Adult' to me. I don't know what you are talking about.

Here you go. Thanks for the inspiration.

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Couldn't have said it better.

There's a lot of critique to be said about the current times and the weakened bond between generations and genders, which seems to deteriorate as if perpetrated by conscious effort. And I love art that illustrates this struggle in modern times, without elaborating on the conclusion, which is a hard black pill.

No. This - https://files.catbox.moe/iehc9w.png

Allow me, he's a faggot you see. He's talking about how other faggots physically paint and methods to create the art, and it's fake sophistication.

Since Ive always had a decent impression of you, sure, when Im home from work later

@Cantaloupe since you were interested.

Well, Im not sure what exactly you would like expanded so Ill just write. To begin, my comment wasnt even that harsh. Its a nice enough painting. No one should feel bad for liking it. That said its incredibly ham fisted w the metaphor. I mean, it's Man v Nature end of story. There isn't any real mystery. Which is its problem. It's DOA.

Why I seem down on illustration. I enjoy certain pieces of illustration. But, visual is the wrong medium if you want to tell a story of any complexity. You'll have better luck using poetry or math. A picture may be worth a thousand words, unfortunately all of them are said at once. If you want a story, a single wordless img is the wrong choice. Pictures are vague and open to interpretation. That interpretation often depending on specific knowledge. You end up w weak ham fisted things like this painting. Or the Sistine Chapel which needs knowledge of the Bible to read.

I understand Voat has a hard on for realism in their art. I understand why. And here I have another problem. Voat, like the rest of the world doesn't really know what abstract art is. This painting is an abstraction. Every painting you've ever seen is an abstraction. I dont know if readers will know Magritte. Magritte made a painting called The Treachery of Images. It's a painting of a pipe on a flat beige BG and the words This Is Not A Pipe under it. Because it isnt a pipe. It's an abstraction. Further the Brenner painting is romanticized beyond any reality. It's a painting of Ideals. That specie of tree may exist but you will never find one that looks like that. Because it's idealized. It's a perfect version of those trees. So it's honestly not reality.

And lastly OP did in fact not talk about the painting. He spoke of the story it told him( by beating him over the head w canned ham). I'm sure his take is what the artist intended. But if I wanted I could insert many fanciful interpretations. There was no mention of how the painter handled the subjects or the composition or anything that a painter would think about. He likes it because it tells what he wants to hear.


I could go on for literally hours about the subject of art. But people don't want to talk about art. They think they know already. I used to post art videos to EasyLikeSundayMorning(before I killed it) Nobody talked about them then either.


I have no idea if I even touched whatever you wanted.

BTW all that classical music Voat loves? Abstract. Entirely and utterly abstract.

Heres some stuff I deleted from the above(or, I guess I didnt delete it, since its down there):


I could talk for hours about art. Not the artists or history. The actual act of doing it or the pieces made. We could talk about how Mozart and Beethoven are supremely abstract and why musicians aren't expected to reproduce the sonic world. We could talk about the amazing fact that people walk around their entire lives looking at stuff and see absolutely none of it. They don't even know HOW to see. People view seeing as a passive activity. It isn't.

Realism in painting isn't the heights of Art. Its actually relatively easy. There are easily a hundred thousand tweens alive right now who could do this painting. Realism is tedious. It isn't that difficult and it's tedious. Once you have the major structures all in place it's just chasing down smaller and smaller details. I doubt the sanity of photo realistic painters