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Post by Twitchmonkey on Jul 20, 2007 23:34:14 GMT -5
Sounds great. Personally, I much prefer making art to looking at it, but you can't help but marvel at the work of the great masters and I'm sure Italy is beautiful in general.
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Post by thepretender on Jul 21, 2007 0:18:38 GMT -5
Well...thank god for people like you who make it so folks like me have something to marvel at... not having a creative cell in my body just makes me appreciate it in others soooo very much.
What I love about that Christ is that he is so buff and that they had to put a gold loin cloth on him for whatever reason. ;-) It just makes me appreciate Michelangelo a lot for his originality...
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Jul 21, 2007 0:33:54 GMT -5
Everything done by them has to be a shining example of a perfect physique. Not that I mind, I'm currently working on getting a "David" physique myself. Like I said, I'm working on it.
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Post by twinkle on Jul 21, 2007 18:30:56 GMT -5
thank you Signore Bernini; thank you St. Teresa of Avila
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Jul 21, 2007 19:14:39 GMT -5
Bernini has to be my favorite sculptor. His work just has more life and motion to it. Of course, others like Michelangelo were very great, but there is just something about Bernini's work that is superior.
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Post by twinkle on Jul 22, 2007 20:59:36 GMT -5
Bernini has to be my favorite sculptor. His work just has more life and motion to it. Of course, others like Michelangelo were very great, but there is just something about Bernini's work that is superior. while Michelangelo may have been centuries ahead of his time, anticipating "modern" ideas about sculpture w/his "submerged/emerging slaves" series, i can't think of anything he did that comes close to what Bernini accomplished in this one piece, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa. the variety of surfaces he coaxes from one material (marble!), the delicate transformation of stone into linen surrounding the saint's face, the facial expressions and body postures of the angel and Teresa, are all the work of a virtuoso equal to if not surpassing Michelangelo. Bernini recreates for the viewer the same feeling as what he depicts the saint experiencing. Michelangelo made monuments; beautiful and powerful, awe-inspiring, imposing in their grandeur. here, Bernini has sculpted a human being caught in mid-breath, present and transported at the same time; we believe that if we wait but a moment, she will breathe again.
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Post by thepretender on Jul 22, 2007 23:40:06 GMT -5
I could look at this stuff for forever just hoping to find one poster that blends my love of music with someone who was able to capture the musician in an art form... www.americanposterinstitute.com/gallery/showmembers.php?cat=500&page=1You are so right about Bernini Twinkle... 'mid breath' a moment worth capturing but not too often appreciated... "The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." - Henry Miller, In Perspective
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Jul 27, 2007 4:43:24 GMT -5
img175.imageshack.us/img175/7383/untitlertfk6.jpgWell, it's not art exactly, but I had to post it anyway. I've always wanted to try to create my vision for what the most beautiful woman according to my tastes would look like. I don't think I exactly succeeded, but I think she's still very pretty, and I'm pretty pleased with that. It's a merging of three different celebrity faces. If you can't tell, I used one face for the eyes, hair , and head, another for the nose, and another for the mouth (and you know you can, but thank you for trying to boost my ego). Other edits include enhanced eyes, skin lightening, and a lot of skin smoothing to get the parts to blend. I'm curious to see who everyone thinks she resembles. I'm thinking she has a sort of Jessica Biel thing going for her. Of course, you may also attempt to guess who she's made up of, but while one is fairly easy, the other two I can hardly recognize, and I made it. Edit: She also really resembles one of the celebrities she's made up of, but what can you do? Eyes are a very identifying trait. I also painted this, featuring her as Mary Magdalene. I'm not too happy with it though, my Chris Cornell looks too much like Jesus.
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Sept 5, 2007 17:59:22 GMT -5
I composited this in Photoshop: Using this model I made in Zbrush: Neither is perfect, the flame effects need work and the skull has some anatomical issues, but I'm just trying to breathe new life into this thread.
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Post by thepretender on Sept 5, 2007 22:21:05 GMT -5
Wow...that is cool... What is Zbrush... it isn't a real sculpture???
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Post by thepretender on Sept 5, 2007 22:26:16 GMT -5
I know this guy from the Robert McCammon website www.pbase.com/inmymindIf you click on animals you will see the coolest black and white photos of horses but I do love all of his stuff.
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Post by thepretender on Sept 5, 2007 22:39:34 GMT -5
This guy I know from Ron Kelly... www.alexmcvey.com/Ron Kelly wrote some souther horror books and they are all out of print. :-( BUT he is going to be re-print some of them and Alex McVey is gonna do the artwork for the cover of The Undertaker's Moon which was Moon of the Werewolf (I am so excited!!) Ron Kelly is such a nice guy...like McCammon there is more to the horror than just horror. But in Moon of the Werewolf the werewolves are from Ireland and they run the mortuary... cool stuff!!!
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Sept 5, 2007 22:41:37 GMT -5
Wow...that is cool... What is Zbrush... it isn't a real sculpture??? No, but I suppose it's supposed to make you think it is. It's a 3D model. A collection of points in space (vertices) connected by edges that make up polygons. Some of the work of the people that really know what they're doing is truly indistinguishable from a real sculpture: Pretty cool, though I have to admit, photography has never really done it for me much. I would never challenge it's artistry, but it's just not for me.
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Post by twinkle on Sept 6, 2007 9:35:12 GMT -5
Twitchmonkey: amazing amazing amazing! thank you for posting your work.
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Sept 6, 2007 21:33:12 GMT -5
Thanks twink. To clarify, the last one wasn't my work, just the first. I wouldn't want to have that confused. I also just made this guy: I'm not that proud of him, he lacks character, but the material I used is creepy cool.
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