a) Woman with a flower



b) Woman riding a dragon

I think that's a wyvern, not a dragon.

But that one could actually happen in this universe, someday. If we colonize a world with lower gravity, and if we can genetically engineer Iguanas so they are giant and have wings...

Quote from: JeremyR;665704I think that's a wyvern, not a dragon.

But that one could actually happen in this universe, someday. If we colonize a world with lower gravity, and if we can genetically engineer Iguanas so they are giant and have wings...

I believe that the painting is called Dragon Warrior.

Quote from: hamstertamer;665707I believe that the painting is called Dragon Warrior.

Just cos the artist doesn't know a dragon from a wyvern doesn;t make it more realistic

The first is a drawing of a real subject done in a stylised technique.

The second is a drawing of an imaginary creature done in a realistic technique.

(Caveat: Of course the Girl with Flower could be just as imaginary as the Dragon/wyvern)

Of course in another sense both are real as both exist in the physical universe as real objects.
Then again from my perspective as an observer through a computer interface both are just light being emitted from a collection of pixels on a screen controlled by a microprocessor so either have any reality beyond the fact of my observation of them.
Then again from a Solipsistic perspective I am on the only real thing in the universe, which is primarily composed just of me and everything else is just my imagination run rampant.

Quote from: jibbajibba;665710Just cos the artist doesn't know a dragon from a wyvern doesn;t make it more realistic

The first is a drawing of a real subject done in a stylised technique.

But how do you know it's a painting of a real subject? You can just as easily say that it's a stylized portrait of an Elder Thing from At the Mountains of Madness.

Quote from: jibbajibba;665710Just cos the artist doesn't know a dragon from a wyvern doesn;t make it more realistic

The first is a drawing of a real subject done in a stylised technique.

The second is a drawing of an imaginary creature done in a realistic technique.

(Caveat: Of course the Girl with Flower could be just as imaginary as the Dragon/wyvern)

Of course in another sense both are real as both exist in the physical universe as real objects.
Then again from my perspective as an observer through a computer interface both are just light being emitted from a collection of pixels on a screen controlled by a microprocessor so either have any reality beyond the fact of my observation of them.
Then again from a Solipsistic perspective I am on the only real thing in the universe, which is primarily composed just of me and everything else is just my imagination run rampant.

Considering the people posting on this forum I should have put a third option for the poll.  

3. I am the only thing real in this universe.

Quote from: JeremyR;665711But how do you know it's a painting of a real subject? You can just as easily say that it's a stylized portrait of an Elder Thing from At the Mountains of Madness.

As per the whole of my post  ....
(Caveat: Of course the Girl with Flower could be just as imaginary as the Dragon/wyvern)

As to your point .... unlikely that Piccasso was familar with the Mythos and as that picture was painted in 1932 it is I suspect unlikely Picasso had read At the Mountains of Madness which Lovecraft wrote in 1931 but wasn;t published until 1936 ....
Of course it is possible that Lovercraft, a great letter writter as we know, might have send a copy to the increasingly well known artist but chances are small.....

The dragon, I guess? Not sure as to the point of the question.

Word games...

If you actually have a point relevant to RPGs make it, otherwise this doesn't belong here.

Quote from: One Horse Town;665723If you actually have a point relevant to RPGs make it, otherwise this doesn't belong here.

The poll has barely been up for two hours now.  If I attempted to explain the point then the poll would become pointless.

Quote from: hamstertamer;665728The poll has barely been up for two hours now.  If I attempted to explain the point then the poll would become pointless.

Very well, i'll let you wow us with your intellect and super-duper site profiling later.

It's all realistic with enough LSD.:cheerleader:

Quote from: Opaopajr;665731It's all realistic with enough LSD.:cheerleader:

Or the opposite.

Quote from: vytzka;665732Or the opposite.

It's magical that way. One of the few things on Earth that is!