Off Topic This is the time I like to call the 'gentlemen' hour

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Alright then, post some of your favourite paintings. Could do with a bit of culture in this thread. I'll start with this one:

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Aivazovsky
 
skalpel said:
Alright then, post some of your favourite paintings. Could do with a bit of culture in this thread. I'll start with this one:

Aivazovsky
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Well, as ink is 'painted' to canvas, I might consider photographs paintings and this, art:

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But in all seriousness, I love this one, saw it in the Sydney art gallery on display. Alfred Neuville, 1880

'The Defense of Rourke's Drift'

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I can only appreciate the aesthetics of art, the pretention that surrounds it and flinging of bovine faecal matter at it in to show off one's pseudo-intellect pisses me off to no end.
 
Calaye said:
I can only appreciate the aesthetics of art, the pretention that surrounds it and flinging of bovine faecal matter at it in to show off one's pseudo-intellect pisses me off to no end.
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You're suggesting that art can only be interpreted aesthetically and any deeper meaning is nonsensical pretention?
 
Calaye said:
I can only appreciate the aesthetics of art, the pretention that surrounds it and flinging of bovine faecal matter at it in to show off one's pseudo-intellect pisses me off to no end.
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This is basically what I meant, but my roots have come out by me saying "A heven't got a ****ing clue me like!"
 
Don't know a lot about art, but I just generally think modernist art is cool to look at

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Rauschenberg
 
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