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Which painting is most realistic?

Started by hamstertamer, June 26, 2013, 04:31:37 AM

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#30
June 26, 2013, 01:30:53 PM
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.

The title of the thread has a grammar mistake, but the poll question actually asks for "more realistic."
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#31
June 26, 2013, 01:40:50 PM
Quote from: hamstertamer;665825The title of the thread has a grammar mistake, but the poll question actually asks for "more realistic."

Congratulations. You have figured out the true purpose of this poll. It has nothing to do with the paintings, its all about the grammar contridictions of the thread title and the actual poll.

You get a cookie. :rotfl:
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#32
June 26, 2013, 02:22:05 PM
Quote from: hamstertamer;665825The title of the thread has a grammar mistake, but the poll question actually asks for "more realistic."

Oh my stars and garter belts! Why... why that must mean the OP was just sincerely curious about which picture was more realistic, and wasn't cruelly playing on the ambiguous, multiplexed definition of the word realistic to win an argument on the innertubesnet? I am... verklempt! I am such a cynical bastard!

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#33
June 26, 2013, 04:12:09 PM
Quote from: Kaiu Keiichi;665796Both are mediated,and therefore realistic according to their creators definitions.

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#34
June 26, 2013, 04:33:02 PM
Everything is shit.
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

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#35
June 26, 2013, 04:47:17 PM
She's wearing just a bikini while flying high in the atmosphere? Totally unrealistic!

JeremyR

#36
June 26, 2013, 11:54:03 PM
Quote from: Mistwell;665882She's wearing just a bikini while flying high in the atmosphere? Totally unrealistic!

I would say she's fairly close to the ground. It looks like she's closer to the ground than that tower in the background is.

Koltar

#37
June 27, 2013, 12:11:33 AM
What if she named the dragon 'Flower' ?

What if that woman had a time machine, used it for fun and dating, met Picasso and posed for him - so she is is the model in BOTH paintings!!

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#38
June 27, 2013, 01:14:00 AM
Quote from: Koltar;665966What if she named the dragon 'Flower' ?

What if that woman had a time machine, used it for fun and dating, met Picasso and posed for him - so she is is the model in BOTH paintings!!

- Ed C.

Well since the model in Woman with flower is Marie-Therese Walter who Picasso met in 1927 and whom he live with until c. 1935 having 2 kids and we know basically everything about her biography ... its unlikely, though not impossible.

Anyway didn't we already decide Flower is a wyvern :)
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#39
June 27, 2013, 01:25:26 AM
Woman with a flower is one of Picasso's best known works, of course.

However we should give credit where its due and the artist of the Wyvern pic Martha Nael is really good. This is a digital picture by the way and so probably isn't as real as the Picasso as you couldn't hang the original on your wall.

However, unlike Pablo Martha is still available to hire to illustrate your next RPG project. Here is her CV - http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/o/2010/362/7/4/7416c17006c4fdc640b124704fc9dec1.pdf
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#40
June 28, 2013, 01:39:49 AM
Neither of them are "realistic".  They are both different kinds of emulation.  In each case, the artist (or viewer) may have felt one was somehow more "realistic" than the other because one of the two paintings came closing to matching his own personal ideas of what "matters" when considering "realism"; which is why "realism" is a chimera and trying to argue for "Realism" being a design goal in RPGs is retarded.

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#41
June 28, 2013, 12:32:00 PM
We could have just had a thread to define various realism related terms.

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#42
June 28, 2013, 12:37:20 PM
Where's the brilliant reveal?

I'm disappointed now.

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#43
June 28, 2013, 01:22:10 PM
Quote from: One Horse Town;666441Where's the brilliant reveal?

I'm disappointed now.






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