Quote from: One Horse Town;665729Very well, i'll let you wow us with your intellect and super-duper site profiling later.

He's setting us up for the stunning denouement, where he proves convincingly that Realism "does not meant what you think it means!". Yawn. I didn't bother to look at that ridiculous thread, and I shouldn't have bothered to look at this one.

From Wikipedia:

Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

    Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict things accurately, from either a visual, social or emotional perspective
    Realism (international relations), the view that world politics are driven by competitive self-interest
    Realism (theatre), 19th century theatre movement focused on bringing fidelity of real life to texts and performances
    Literary realism, a literary movement stressing the depiction of contemporary life and society as it exists or existed
    Philosophical realism, belief that reality exists independently of observers
    Scientific realism, the doctrine that certain objects or theories in science are real
    Depressive realism, a theory that individuals suffering from clinical depression have a more accurate view of reality
    Ethnographic realism, a writing style that narrates the author's anthropological observations as if they were first-hand
    Legal realism, a jurisprudence emphasizing the substantive results of the law
    Tactical realism, a genre of combat simulations in computer gaming
    Magic realism, a literary genre
    Realism theory, the belief that cognitive biases are not "errors", but rather methods of dealing with the "real world"
    Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, art movement

Quote from: flyingmice;665735He's setting us up for the stunning denouement, where he proves convincingly that Realism "does not meant what you think it means!". Yawn. I didn't bother to look at that ridiculous thread, and I shouldn't have bothered to look at this one.

Very wise.

Quote from: flyingmice;665735He's setting us up for the stunning denouement, where he proves convincingly that Realism "does not meant what you think it means!". Yawn. I didn't bother to look at that ridiculous thread, and I shouldn't have bothered to look at this one.

From Wikipedia:

Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

    Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict things accurately, from either a visual, social or emotional perspective
    Realism (international relations), the view that world politics are driven by competitive self-interest
    Realism (theatre), 19th century theatre movement focused on bringing fidelity of real life to texts and performances
    Literary realism, a literary movement stressing the depiction of contemporary life and society as it exists or existed
    Philosophical realism, belief that reality exists independently of observers
    Scientific realism, the doctrine that certain objects or theories in science are real
    Depressive realism, a theory that individuals suffering from clinical depression have a more accurate view of reality
    Ethnographic realism, a writing style that narrates the author's anthropological observations as if they were first-hand
    Legal realism, a jurisprudence emphasizing the substantive results of the law
    Tactical realism, a genre of combat simulations in computer gaming
    Magic realism, a literary genre
    Realism theory, the belief that cognitive biases are not "errors", but rather methods of dealing with the "real world"
    Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, art movement

Oh I thought he was going to tell me that Sutherland was a better artist than Picasso
Oh and the other stuff.

Woman holding flower is more realistic in its premise (dragons, so far as we know, don't exist outside of our imaginations; women and flowers certainly do).
Woman riding dragon is more realistic in its execution (the woman looks like a woman, the dragon looks like a dragon, the landscape looks like a landscape, the whole assembly doesn't look like a weird fever dream).

Everyone wins!

Serious though: all this demonstrates is that you can get interesting results by giving a realistic premise an unrealistic execution, or an unrealistic premise a realistic execution (or, indeed, a realistic premise a realistic execution or an unrealistic premise an unrealistic execution). This is news how?

After managing to sit through Aesthetics in graduate school without killing myself, I started to see humor in such pedestrian stupidity.

Today I need to be shocked, so there goes my vote.

They both look like realistic paintings.

Obviously the one with gory critical hit tables and ammunition tracking.

Ha, I'm the only one that voted "woman holding a flower"?

...realistic =/= figurative...

Oh well, it will probably be fun to see how this thread develops.

Both paintings exist in our reality thus both are equally realistic.

Quote from: The Ent;665773Ha, I'm the only one that voted "woman holding a flower"?

...realistic =/= figurative...

Oh well, it will probably be fun to see how this thread develops.

You're not the only one. I feel it's the most realistic as well.

Let's settle this the good old fashioned grammar nazi way. Neither can be MOST realistic, as this is a comparison between two things, not among three or more, so one can only be MORE realistic than the other.

Both are mediated,and therefore realistic according to their creators definitions.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Quote from: flyingmice;665795Let's settle this the good old fashioned grammar nazi way. Neither can be MOST realistic, as this is a comparison between two things, not among three or more, so one can only be MORE realistic than the other.

Correct.