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09 Apr 2017, 5:15 pm

Thank you very much, Misslizard, Kraichgauer, and techstepgenr8tion!

Here's a photo of the painting below, the unframed version. It's called "Serenity Storm."

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09 Apr 2017, 5:35 pm

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Thank you very much, Misslizard, Kraichgauer, and techstepgenr8tion!

Here's a photo of the painting below, the unframed version. It's called "Serenity Storm."

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09 Apr 2017, 5:42 pm

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Thank you very much, Misslizard, Kraichgauer, and techstepgenr8tion!

Here's a photo of the painting below, the unframed version. It's called "Serenity Storm."

Love the colors and the name.

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09 Apr 2017, 5:51 pm

Really beautiful and gaunt at the same time. Are those cirrocumulus in the background?

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09 Apr 2017, 5:55 pm

A tune in particular that holds that kind of energy for me:

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09 Apr 2017, 8:37 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:

Really beautiful and gaunt at the same time. Are those cirrocumulus in the background?

Cirrocumulus ... wow, what a serendipitous way of looking at it, cirrocumulus clouds certainly fit the theme.
And your song "Paradigm" is fascinating too.
Always cool to see how others interpret art.

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09 Apr 2017, 8:39 pm

Thanks again, Misslizard,

The first two colors (yellow and indigo) were randomly chosen by rolling dice.
The other colors evolved, some planned, others random.

As for the name of the painting, I wanted to call it "Storm,"
and my sister wanted to call it "Serenity" ... so we both named it.

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09 Apr 2017, 8:50 pm

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Philistine here and proud of it.

People can study and create all the art the wan't but it better be able to stand on it's own financially without subtitles and grants at John Q. Taxpayer's expense.

Don't your knuckles ever get sore from dragging them? :twisted:

I installed rollers so they don't drag.

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It's possible that if a certain nefarious character was given a grant and allowed to attend art school millions of lives might have been saved.I did say might,no one will ever know for certain.But it's certainly a possibility,all that rage could have been channeled onto canvas instead of using people for a canvas.

Food for thought.
http://www.performingartsconvention.org/advocacy/id=28

You're talking about the Fuhrer I guess.
Whatever, but I don't go along with giving people everything they want just so they won't act up.

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09 Apr 2017, 9:21 pm

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Philistine here and proud of it.

People can study and create all the art the wan't but it better be able to stand on it's own financially without subtitles and grants at John Q. Taxpayer's expense.

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Were it not for the Princes who were the patrons of artists like DaVinci and others, which was public funding, there would have been no Renaissance.

And humanity would not have survived past the late medieval period without the Renaissance?

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If we subsidize business grants and the military, why not the arts?

I'd be stingy for the same reason about subsidizing business but of the two I'd rather see it go to business.
The military is fully funded by the government, not subsidized.

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Admittedly though, not all art is financed by the government, as plenty is created by starving artists who finally get a break in the free market.

If your art is good enough then it'll sell. If it's totally awesome it'll $ell very well and will not need grants or subsidies. If it's not selling then there is something off that is making it unappealing to perspective buyers.
If any product can't stand on its own then something is wrong that throwing tax dollars at it won't fix.

Remember, I am not only a self-proclaimed philistine but (in your words) also a bully, a troll, and a neckbeard so it won't get much better than this.

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09 Apr 2017, 9:25 pm

Now THIS is fine art!

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09 Apr 2017, 9:31 pm

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Now THIS is fine art!

No it isn't!
This is ...
(I'm a cat person.)

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09 Apr 2017, 9:33 pm

^ Absolutely correct. Nothing involving dogs is art, whereas nearly everything involving cats is art.

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09 Apr 2017, 9:38 pm

Lightweights.

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09 Apr 2017, 9:39 pm

DOGS RULE!

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09 Apr 2017, 9:40 pm

I'm going to win a modern art exhibit one of these days by putting a jar of urine inside a jar of urine. If someone decides to one-up me by putting jar of urine inside a jar of urine inside a jar of urine I'm going Russian doll on their arse!!

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09 Apr 2017, 9:50 pm

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DOGS RULE!

Dogs are pushovers ...

(You may want to cover your eyes when it gets to the scene with the hairless cat ...)

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