Also guitarists who are notorious for talking about doing things "naturally" like, not using a little hair band on their guitar to stop strings from ringing when they play on a high gain amp...but then....they're using a fucking electric guitar and an insanely complex amp.
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Any hatred of industrialization in design is now far too late. Design is a discipline born in a world of commercialization and entirely about selling people products, beliefs, and propaganda. The entire discipline has zero moral ground when talking about industrial capitalism.
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Especially modern Design's root in Futurism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism Which was the foundation of fascism and a major inspiration of industrialization, the brutality of the machine, and methods of fascis propaganda.
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A hatred of industrialization seems to also call up the idea that "old masters" hand painted everything and never used efficiencies like optics, when we know they used lenses, projections, grids, and did small studies of objects then "shopped" them into their paintings.pic.twitter.com/6qYGrnqnex
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Paintings like this involved many many layers of oil paint, with each layer needing weeks to months to dry before the next layer. Flowers don't last that long, and many of these flowers don't bloom at the same time. Some of these paintings could also take 6 months, 2 seasons.
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You would start a painting in Fall and have to keep going until the end of Winter, and you can't get those flowers. There's also a finite number of flowers and only a few angles you need, so the old masters did the following:pic.twitter.com/V4SZRyb5kP
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1. When the flowers are in bloom do small paintings of them from the same light direction. 2. When they'd get a commission they'd reuse these flowers as reference and basically copy them. 3. These were kept secret, with assistants being yelled at for not locking "the cabinet".
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Replying to @amyhoy
I read....books. Start with this one: https://www.amazon.com/Caravaggio-Sacred-Profane-Andrew-Graham-Dixon-ebook/dp/B005M5N1TU/ … And this one: https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Earth-Art-Invention-Color/dp/0226036286/ … Then enjoy the rabbit hole.
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i read art books too, just not that era! thanks for the recs
if you’re ever interested in art fraud and forgeries, hmu cuz i’ve got a whole library1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
I've read most of the forgery books out there, but hit me with your favorites.
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