Art appreciation hour.

trying to remember the name of the artist who drew animals like cats, slowly deteriorated by disease and age, as evidenced in his artwork....

crap.

i think my hour is almost up.
 
the thomas kinkade only adds confirmation to the previous iggy.
 
Bit chocolate boxy?

find the light source. it's mass produced hallmark passed off as "fine art." he was more a business man than an artist, geared towards filling the homes of the walmart saturated masses. i love it when hearing critiques of his work. some of the cattiest comments i've ever heard have been of his work.
 
Rembrandt's The Night Watch. I remember the first time I saw it in the 'dam, I was amazed not by the light, but by how fucking HUGE it was.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt.jpg/922px-The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt.jpg

So in class we had an entire discussion about the shadow of the hand on the guy's dick. That apparently has some sort of battle significance that's used in a bunch of paintings, and when our teacher said that some dumbass called bullshit and we had an entire discussion about it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OVk5UbAucEo/TutoTTxO7lI/AAAAAAAAFLE/gq-TL0993pk/s400/NW+5.jpg

So just know that that's a thing. I don't remember what it was it symbolized but I remember that it was a thing. I'm sure google knows.

Also, more fun facts: Rembrant didn't name his paintings, he just painted what he was commissioned to paint; the painting was named after it had hung over a fireplace for years, by the buyer. It's not set at night, you just shouldn't hang a priceless painting over a goddamn coal fire like a fucking redneck. Once they cleaned it, it was reviled that the militia in the painting was meeting during the day.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/26/article-1173262-04AB99F1000005DC-660_634x390.jpg
 
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Lately I have been naming paintings for a sort of relative who is a fairly successful artist, and they are selling!
 
So in class we had an entire discussion about the shadow of the hand on the guy's dick. That apparently has some sort of battle significance that's used in a bunch of paintings, and when our teacher said that some dumbass called bullshit and we had an entire discussion about it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OVk5UbAucEo/TutoTTxO7lI/AAAAAAAAFLE/gq-TL0993pk/s400/NW+5.jpg

So just know that that's a thing. I don't remember what it was it symbolized but I remember that it was a thing. I'm sure google knows.

Also, more fun facts: Rembrant didn't name his paintings, he just painted what he was commissioned to paint; the painting was named after it had hung over a fireplace for years, by the buyer. It's not set at night, you just shouldn't hang a priceless painting over a goddamn coal fire like a fucking redneck. Once they cleaned it, it was reviled that the militia in the painting was meeting during the day.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/26/article-1173262-04AB99F1000005DC-660_634x390.jpg

Doubly enlightening: thank you. I love this thread. Obviously it can't compete for sheer pleasure with a flame war on Obamacare or a discussion about whether the latest 18 year old model seeking an ugly old Daddy is a man or a bot - but it's pleasant enough in its way. A cobbled backwater in the mean big lights city of Lit.
 
Quoting your post I see that you've put the code within the [URL] code. You don't want the [URL] tags in there. Don't use the picture of the world, use the picture of the mountain [IMG]http://cdn.ricochet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/chauvetlionsbrno1.jpg
 
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