• palordrolap
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    1410 months ago

    Picture this: The Magritte painting depicted here with the apple replaced with a poop emoji, and the whole painting with the caption Mashitte.

    Now that I’ve typed this out, I’m not sure I like the idea, but it would still be art.

  • Mister Neon
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    1310 months ago

    This comic makes me sad. Magritte is great, but I don’t know where, “The Son of Man” is located. Every time I search the only thing I find is “Private Collection”.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      1110 months ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I THINK that might mean that it’s located in a private collection.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      910 months ago

      Well it’s not in my private collection, so now you have one less place to look.

    • @[email protected]
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      Wait, the picture painting of a guy with apple in face really exists?

      Here, print it out. Originals are only for making money anyway.

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        10 months ago

        I highly encourage you to seek out the original paintings and other artistic mediums in museums when you have a chance. It’s not about prestige, authenticity, or clout. It’s about gazing upon relics that have somehow survived the test of time and gleaming a bit of the creator’s intentions and skill. It’s a human connection that can stretch the breadth of millennia.

        Also I used to fix printers so now I have undying hatred of them. I buy quite a few art books though.

        Edit: One thing photos, digital image files, and other means of reproduction of most paintings never seem to get right is the texture. Remember a painting is not flat, it’s still a 3rd dimensional object. Painting techniques can layer paints giving them texture, it’s a visual quality that is hard to appreciate when not in person.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Or Pictures at an Exhibition (wikipaedia link) by Modest Mussorgsky?

        (Especially the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version) (Youtube link)

        In the UK at least, “Picture” is totally fine shorthand, even today, to refer to a flat 2D thing that might be put on a wall in a gallery, whether it be a painting, drawing, photograph etc. More formally it would tend towards being a figurative (rather than abstract) work.

    • @Jerb322
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      610 months ago

      The whole thing is drawn, how can you tell it’s not a picture?

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        Because it’s a representation of an actual painting, but if we’re going to be overly semantic then I give up. You win

          • @[email protected]
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            10 months ago

            It’s light traveling from your phone to your eyeballs.

            Then it’s neuronal signals to your brain.

            OMG it’s abstraction all the way down, isn’t it!? :-P

            • @[email protected]
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              210 months ago

              Those neurons are cells and they need the mitochondria which uses protein to make energy… so everything is just energy in some form or other

              • @[email protected]
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                210 months ago

                And energy in turn derives from the sub-atomic level, which itself sits on top of the quantum, although some people say that it is all oscillations of n-branes… therefore do any words ever have any meaning, really, ever?:-P

        • @BlackPenguins
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          310 months ago

          It happened! Someone said someone else won on the Internet.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      310 months ago

      I’m not sure I like the picture you’re trying to paint with this comment.

  • @[email protected]
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    710 months ago

    Great, this finally explains why there’s a difference between “a” and “the”.

    The question is incorrect. He should’ve asked “can I take the picture”. And would’ve obviously received a no.

    I don’t go to parties.

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        I don’t see any other pictures in picture. Although, given the context of an art gallery, this would probably make sense.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        1410 months ago

        Even if there is only one picture, it is still a picture, so the question is still grammatically correct. It’s just deliberately ambiguous. I am taking this stand.

        Knocks over a statue and walks away with the stand