The savior of mankind. We are not worthy.
That cod piece. What the literal fuck was going on with 80s kids movies?
The totally unnecessary tiddies in neverending story come to mind.
*$80 for a $10 2-person meal (if you made it yourself probably)
H. R. Giger’s contributions to Alien were so extensive that many speak of the film as a cinematic realization of the artist’s oeuvre. His designs have transformed the aesthetics of the science fiction and horror genres, as illustrated by Star Trek, Predator, and The Matrix. In his work on Alien, Giger employed the same style, themes, and motifs as his biomechanical art. A nightmarish double of Donna Haraway’s cyborg, and a casebook study of Noël Carroll’s category jamming, Giger’s Alien breaks down the binary divisions between body and machine, human and non-human, male and female, death and birth, beauty and terror. His exploration of the impact of technology on organic bodies leads many viewers to think of Giger’s biomechanics as futuristic, but retrofuturistic would be the more appropriate term, as illustrated by his designs for the derelict spacecraft and extraterrestrial pilot in Alien, as well as his earlier designs for Jodorowsky’s unrealized Dune. In the sequels and prequels of the Alien franchise, however, the artist’s creations are stripped of their key stylistic traits and molded to fit more traditional ways of thinking about technology, life-forms, sexual reproduction, and more.
Giger's most distinctive stylistic innovation was that of a representation of human bodies and machines in cold, interconnected relationships, which he described as "biomechanical". His main influences were painters Dado, Ernst Fuchs, and Salvador Dalí. He was introduced to Dali by painter Robert Venosa. Giger was also influenced by Polish sculptor Stanislaw Szukalski, and by painters Austin Osman Spare and Mati Klarwein, and was a personal friend of Timothy Leary. He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich from 1962 to 1965, and made his first paintings as art therapy.
Right, it's probably quite large to many people.
The site was in French, and while the title was "Raboteurs de parquet," I took the liberty of giving the translation my best effort since Parquet is a word in both French and English. In English it means a design on a floor made with wood. It can also mean a small space. And it seemed like in French it was kinda both of those things (even though they're not making a design, so I probably misunderstood something along the way). I think the title is more of a pun than I was able to convey. Of course, I could've just left it as Parquet, but I wanted it to be accessible to everyone and not require knowledge of such an obscure word.
Anyway, all that is to say: You have every right to be jealous of the size of the apartment with how bad things are for everyone right now - and back in 1875 this "small" apartment was probably much cheaper than it would be today. But no offense was intended, and the artist - while being bourgeois elite, only meant to show the lives of the working class - a common trait among impressionists, expressionists and generally art of the industrial revolution.
This work, though one of Manet's most successful, may in fact be a critique of art at the time.
Manet made no attempt to hide the fact that the artist was painted in the studio, surrounded by props. The guitar is strung for (and emphasized with the fretboard layout) to be for a right-handed player, even though the musician is holding it as if he were left-handed. He also appears to be unfamiliar with the configuration of the strings, as emphasized by his awkward stance and odd finger-placement being a focus of the backlighting. Also, this singer is of no importance, cleverly hidden by the fact that Paris was experiencing a popularity of Spanish culture of the time.
In 1860 new works were being created that were shunned by the traditional art community which valued dull colors, recognizable subjects, and painting indoors among other things. Here, Manet is disguising his distaste of these traditions in such a way that those that valued the old ways enjoyed the work, and those that opposed it were keenly aware of the statement it was making.
It would be 3 years later that the Salon of the Rejected was put on at the behest of Napoleon, where the works of artists like Monet were finally seen by a public ready for something new. This work is uncommonly expressive and an achievement of one of the forebearers of Impressionism.
The Masked Dancer is most likely performing a "legong" dance from Indonesia. This Balinese dance is an offering to dieties.
One of these dances tells the story of how the God, Siwa, turned his wife into a corpse-eating witch. The God pretends to be sick and to test his wife's faithfulness, sends her to Earth to bring milk back to him. While on Earth she meets a handsome cowboy (Siwa in disguise) who says he will trade the milk for sex.
She eventually gives in and two daughters are born. Naturally this angers Siwa, who turns her into the witch - a Durga - who is forced to dig graves. The daughters are sent to Earth and become gods of dancing.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to find information on this particular painting because it shares a name with a Fox TV show.
Weird, Lemmy. Weird.
Yes, but only because it gives you a link to where that was run. Click the link to the right with filename:lineNumber, and it will open the sources tab to that line. Set a breakpoint and rerun to pause there, then step through the code's execution.
Of course, if you're using minified or processed code, this will be more difficult, in that case figure out how to do it in VS Code.
I want to know more.
Oh fuck. Hang on to your pooper.
"A woman holds part of her elaborate garment over a silver censer to capture the perfumed smoke of smoldering ambergris. A waxy substance extracted from whales, ambergris was used in some religious rituals and was also said to have aphrodisiac qualities. Sargent began this painting in Tangier, with a model posed on the patio of a rented house, but he completed it in his Paris studio. The finished painting presents a fantasy for Western eyes, combining details of costume and setting adapted from different regions across North Africa."
https://www.clarkart.edu/ArtPiece/Detail/Fumee-d-ambre-gris-(Smoke-of-Ambergris)-(2)