Random PICTURE of the day thread *KEEP IT WORK SAFE*

[Gasser64]

Anyone know the time period all these types of paintings are set in?

[CJ]

Art is subjective, not unlike automobiles. Picture someone buying $1 million McLaren and another person looking at it and saying it's just a fucking car with four wheels getting from a to B, here's a Mustang that does the same thing.



David

Or someone saying they could buy 2,000 fox bodies for the price of that McLaren.

[Unicorn Jeff]

[red89notch]

Isn't Fort Worth Fifi's home base?

[dee]

[JC316]

You like realism. There are other forms of art as well. Lol at getting angry about it.

Not angry about it, just saying that I don't get it.

Art is subjective, not unlike automobiles. Picture someone buying $1 million McLaren and another person looking at it and saying it's just a fucking car with four wheels getting from a to B, here's a Mustang that does the same thing.

David

True. I think the SN95 mustang is one of the better looking ones, but no one else does.

[Strychnine]

Isn't Fort Worth Fifi's home base?

Yeah, you're right. She's owned by the CAF. Restoration was in Midland, then housed in Addison for a few years, but Meacham is home now.

[helosailor]

I like them big sofa-sized paintings you get for $60 at the convention center sales.


And velvet Elvises (Elvii?)

[Strychnine]

I'll never understand art. It doesn't look like anything, no talent at all, that shit might as well be an ATF stain on my garage floor after a transmission swap, yet it's worth all the money.

This is talent, you can actually tell what the fuck he was trying to do. That Monet looks like someone got shitfaced drunk, dropped some acid and tried to paint a tree.

I'm not here to tell you what to like, but maybe the Monet shot I picked was not the best. To me, heavy/thick oil paintings are just fucking awesome. Up close they're a total shitshow, but when you step back you get some greatness. Here's another Monet



There's some stuff in the "early Monet" exhibit that's fucking incredible (the way that dude could paint water is mindblowing), but I couldn't get any pics - they were ready to beat some ass for photography.

There's one at the exhibit called "Towing of a Boat at Honfleur." Here's what it looks like on the internet, but seeing oil paintings like this in person is just something else. Sure, now we have 20MP cameras on our phones, but for someone to paint something like this is pretty intense.



Or another called "The Magpie." On a screen it looks like shit, but in person, to be able to see each brush stroke in the thick oil paint yet still be able to step back and see how he captured winter...




The colors in those pictures is not right... it's just not the same.
I do agree though, some art is just plain stupid. The fact that stuff like this is in a museum makes me question why I try so hard at other things in life.







Blah, here's some other pics from some more places I went today


Cavanaugh Flight Museum




Frontiers of Flight Museum




George W Bush Presidential Library




Sid Richardson Museum

[4EyedTurd]

Matt, right?

Thanks for reminding me how shallow of a human being I am, lol.

[JC316]

I'm not here to tell you what to like, but maybe the Monet shot I picked was not the best. To me, heavy/thick oil paintings are just fucking awesome. Up close they're a total shitshow, but when you step back you get some greatness. Here's another Monet


There's some stuff in the "early Monet" exhibit that's fucking incredible (the way that dude could paint water is mindblowing), but I couldn't get any pics - they were ready to beat some ass for photography.

There's one at the exhibit called "Towing of a Boat at Honfleur." Here's what it looks like on the internet, but seeing oil paintings like this in person is just something else. Sure, now we have 20MP cameras on our phones, but for someone to paint something like this is pretty intense.

Or another called "The Magpie." On a screen it looks like shit, but in person, to be able to see each brush stroke in the thick oil paint yet still be able to step back and see how he captured winter...



The colors in those pictures is not right... it's just not the same.
I do agree though, some art is just plain stupid. The fact that stuff like this is in a museum makes me question why I try so hard at other things in life.



Blah, here's some other pics from some more places I went today

Those are much better.

[homealone]

Now that's an ornament.

[phaux]

[black2002ls]

Now that's an ornament.

That is awesome!

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[sc281]

That'll definitely spice up someone's meal. An explosion of flavor.