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Artistic, musical, creative, and entertaining topics of art about all things geek.
The Vatican Doesn't Want You To Know About This Gay Romance
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born more than five centuries ago, 6 March 1475 to be exact. As a young man, he was a magnificent block of marble that was throughout his life broken down steadily by people around him. First the pope and the church, next by his thievious assistants and finally by his own flaming love for young men.
By Kamna Kirti4 years ago in Geeks
"Pass Over"
"Pass Over" "This One Can Be Passed Up" Robert Massimi. A show like "Pass Over" should be played off off Broadway and not at the August Wilson Theater on Broadway. One of the many problems with this play is that it goes nowhere; it never really challenges us and it surely doesn't move us one way or the other, it more or less floats in the rarified atmosphere. The shows premise is two young men from Chicago living in the hood waiting for their lives to change. The problem with its two characters is that Moses (Jon Michael Hill) and Kitch (Namir Small Wood) do nothing to help themselves. When you add bland direction by Danya Taymour into the mix, the play goes downhill fast. In "Pass Over" Taymour never has the audience feeling any empathy for the two characters, we only see two men who want to get off the block and into the promised land, however, they never discuss any plans nor dreams other than their top ten list as to what they would do if they could.
By Robert M Massimi. ( Broadway Bob).4 years ago in Geeks
Animation, Arts, and Characters
Whenever we think about animation the first few things that come to our mind are Mickey mouse, Tom and Jerry, spiderman, and many more. Do you know the animation movie that we enjoy now was not the same previously? The animation artist used to draw every scene with their hands. Creating animation is an art and the most important in this art is your character. If you are an animation creator, you have a world of your own, you are the owner and you are going to put life into your character and that world, this world is going to revolve as you want, it’s all your imagination and you are the creator. This feeling is great, isn’t it?
By dhroov nanda4 years ago in Geeks
The Joy of Painting-Masterpiece painting of Modern Period
Bob Ross's work is described - in contrast to famous artists - as "an art exploration service" - a cross between fine art and entertainment - things that are also sought after by regular fans of The Joy of Painting - unlike wealthy collectors. Big auction houses have never sold any of Bob Ross's paintings, and Bob Ross, Inc. is still the owner of many of his paintings in The Joy of Painting because he argues that his work has been turned into a financial tool. One episode serves as a visual reference to one of Ross's completed paintings of happiness, while a third is used in his book.
By Rashmi Dahal4 years ago in Geeks
The Sleeping Gypsy, by Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a largely self-taught French artist whose work was highly distinctive and very different from that of his contemporaries, particularly the Impressionists. There are elements in Rousseau’s work that are a foretaste of Dadaism and Surrealism, and he was greatly admired, late in his career, by artists such as Braque and Picasso.
By John Welford4 years ago in Geeks
Damien Hirst: British artist
Every so often an artist comes along who challenges the artistic establishment to such an extent that he (sometimes she) creates a total division between those who hate him and those who love him, poses the question “but is it Art?”, and indeed makes a large sector of the public wonder if it is being taken for a ride. Should we take this person seriously or regard him merely as a purveyor of artistic snake oil? One such to hit the headlines in recent years has been Damien Hirst.
By John Welford4 years ago in Geeks
Claude Lorrain and his classical landscapes
Claude Gelée (c. 1604/5 to 1682) acquired the name Lorrain from his birthplace in eastern France, although he spent virtually all his life after 1627 in Rome. He specialised in landscape painting, being fascinated by the scenery and ruins in the countryside surrounding Rome and also being inspired by the quality of light in that part of Italy. He developed a means of including the sun as the direct source of light in his paintings, thus sending foreground and middle-distance objects into sharp relief. His method of composition was to use sketchbooks on his many trips into the countryside and to build his studio paintings around these sketches, many of which were highly detailed.
By John Welford4 years ago in Geeks
18th century English wineglasses
Whereas earlier English wineglasses had paid great attention to the engraving of the bowls of the glasses, those of the third quarter of the 18th century saw a marked changed as makers lavished much more attention on the stems, developing new techniques and a wide range of designs that led to work of great beauty and delicacy.
By John Welford4 years ago in Geeks
The Bathers, Asnières, by George Seurat
Georges Seurat (1859-91) died at the age of only 32, but during his short life he was able to effect a revolution in art that moved painting forward from Impressionism into what was dubbed “Neo-Impressionism”. His painting “The Bathers, Asnières”, although the artist’s first major work, is widely regarded as the marker of that revolution.
By John Welford4 years ago in Geeks
