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Hades Ares inspired by Ludovisi Ares
So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And Iโve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isnโt really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.
The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. Itโs very pretty and it is skillfully painted. Itโs a nice piece of art. Itโs also just a landscape. I donโt recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.
The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didnโt study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)
The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhartโs paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isnโt easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the โblueโ is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewerโs perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, youโre left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isnโt as absolute as you thought it was?
People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.
Reinhartโs art is utterly genius.
โBut anyone could have done that! It doesnโt take any special skill! I could have done that!โ
Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didnโt.
Give abstract art some respect. Itโs more important than you realize.
Give abstract art some
respect. Itโs more important
than you realize.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Except all of that is complete bullshit. โMaybe you could have. But you didnโt.โ How do you know? Maybe I did. Maybe I made a bunch of imperceptibly different shades of black and showed it to someone and they rightfully went โthatโs stupidโ and dismissed it. How would you know? Iโm a nobody.
The fact that you instantly know the name of the fraud that made this, and the SERIES it was made from, already tells you that this person is wealthy and has connections that I do not. If someone had shown this to you the first time and told you it was from a homeless person down the street trying to buy food, you wouldnโt give it a second thought, even if it was an identical piece! The fame, wealth, and connections of the fraudster who painted this are the real reason why itโs displayed anywhere at all.
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I didnโt use a single overlay layer for this Iโm so proud of myself OTL
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look at this! the textures! that smile! the softness! its a fucking chocolate ad! (piece by al parker from what i can find)
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Forever thankful that you are in my life.
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Your magnificent city, father - and you the brain of this city - and all of us in the city's light... And where are the people, father, whose hands built your city?
METROPOLIS (1927) | dir. Fritz Lang