Remarkable paintings
February 6, 2003 4:11 AM Subscribe
These are quite remarkable (imho) paintings. Click on the thumbnails to see how they would look on your living room wall. Very different from what they depict when viewed at a distance.
This post was deleted for the following reason: I've seen these in person, they're a trip. I also saw them here already.
My apologies. I searched the link before I posted but the thread didn't appear.
I don't know how I missed this when you posted it, I log onto metafilter every day.
Still, the paintings are pretty wonderful, I think. I'd love one.
posted by essexjan at 4:39 AM on February 6, 2003
I don't know how I missed this when you posted it, I log onto metafilter every day.
Still, the paintings are pretty wonderful, I think. I'd love one.
posted by essexjan at 4:39 AM on February 6, 2003
So why is this art, while my pixelized blow up of a porn star's nipple isn't? ;)
For some reason my office seems to have a problem with a 60*80 pixel image blown up to 1280*1024.
posted by twine42 at 4:41 AM on February 6, 2003
For some reason my office seems to have a problem with a 60*80 pixel image blown up to 1280*1024.
posted by twine42 at 4:41 AM on February 6, 2003
imh: SFW unless you have an overly PC management, over dominant IT department or feminist colleagues... Erm... yeah, okay... NSFW.
Where is the art/porn boundary?
posted by twine42 at 5:19 AM on February 6, 2003
Where is the art/porn boundary?
posted by twine42 at 5:19 AM on February 6, 2003
Where is the art/porn boundary?
Somewhere in the neighborhood of FilePile.
posted by Wulfgar! at 5:55 AM on February 6, 2003
Somewhere in the neighborhood of FilePile.
posted by Wulfgar! at 5:55 AM on February 6, 2003
One of these would look great in small bathrooms for some reason...
posted by freakystyley at 6:24 AM on February 6, 2003
posted by freakystyley at 6:24 AM on February 6, 2003
I'm sorry, but even up close these look like super-low resolution porn. It doesn't take much imagination to see what it is.
posted by MrAnonymous at 6:39 AM on February 6, 2003
posted by MrAnonymous at 6:39 AM on February 6, 2003
These were on display in San Francisco several months ago (at a bar, no less; the Latin American Club, for those in the area). They're far more impressive in person than they seem on the web. They really don't look like anything unless you're standing pretty far away from them.
posted by akmonday at 6:48 AM on February 6, 2003
posted by akmonday at 6:48 AM on February 6, 2003
or feminist colleagues...
Umm, boo to you from my office full of feminists who appreciate good porn.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 6:50 AM on February 6, 2003
Umm, boo to you from my office full of feminists who appreciate good porn.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 6:50 AM on February 6, 2003
I love them, and I am a feminist who isn't overly fond of porn. I just like interesting depictions of nudity in art. I wish I was rich and the ones I like the best weren't already sold.
posted by jennyb at 7:02 AM on February 6, 2003
posted by jennyb at 7:02 AM on February 6, 2003
sorry guys... I work in an office that deals with porn, so I'm even more desensitsed to it than I was before I started here. The female form is the female form. A couple rutting is an invasion of privacy, but it's nothing erotic. I'd rather have that picture of the lass in the bra from yesterday to penetration picture... I guess i just associate people who don't like porn being people who don't like to see the female figure naked, and those (in my experience) tend to be highly religious or femanists.
I'll review my opinions. A little. ;)
posted by twine42 at 7:08 AM on February 6, 2003
I'll review my opinions. A little. ;)
posted by twine42 at 7:08 AM on February 6, 2003
...and the second rule.
Personally I don't like the paintings. big whoop, they are low res pr0n thumbnails painted by number with oils. plus at any size i immediately see the hardcore porn in the image. Not to sound like an art snob (i'm definately not), but I think I prefer other work:
1, 2, 3, 4.
posted by tomplus2 at 7:57 AM on February 6, 2003
Personally I don't like the paintings. big whoop, they are low res pr0n thumbnails painted by number with oils. plus at any size i immediately see the hardcore porn in the image. Not to sound like an art snob (i'm definately not), but I think I prefer other work:
1, 2, 3, 4.
posted by tomplus2 at 7:57 AM on February 6, 2003
tomplus2 snubs pr0n and goes straight for the Monet shot.
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:35 AM on February 6, 2003
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:35 AM on February 6, 2003
haha, thats a good one, kafkaeque.
hall, no harm done, fp is closed to new members anyway.
posted by tomplus2 at 9:00 AM on February 6, 2003
hall, no harm done, fp is closed to new members anyway.
posted by tomplus2 at 9:00 AM on February 6, 2003
Why keep it a secret if new members can't sign up? I'll keep my membership to the No Homers Club, tyvm.
posted by archimago at 9:06 AM on February 6, 2003
posted by archimago at 9:06 AM on February 6, 2003
Where is the art/porn boundary?
In the altruistic mind.
posted by LowDog at 9:08 AM on February 6, 2003
In the altruistic mind.
posted by LowDog at 9:08 AM on February 6, 2003
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