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A 19 - Lazlo Moholy-Nagy
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy was one of the major visual artists of the Bauhaus movement, a genre of art that encompassed many forms of media, born out of the Bauhaus Academy’s desire to achieve a Gessamtkunstwerk or “Total artwork”, a unified body of art that was all encompassing across multiple mediums.
Lazlo saw the advent of photography and saw it stood to make representationalism in art a thing of the past. He sought to embrace the incorporation of the mechanical in the arts alongside encouraging other artists to do the same and on the whole he thought the whole art world became attached to regurgitating the same old formulae and the same old perspectives (in some cases literally Lazlo had a huge disregard for perspectivism which is why so much of his art is like this). In short he saw the camera as a way in which artists could detach themselves from traditional artistry and forge a new more universal canon.
Lazlo himself has three points of interest: Space, time and light so it is little wonder he found a home in Bauhaus who believed art should also take on principles of architecture and design with those three things being vital to architecture. It is also why he like photography and photograms (photograms are images taken by letting light hit objects on photosensitive paper in a controlled manner) so much.
While Lazlo preferred photography to painting he still wanted to try and bring the perspectives of these new emergent mediums to more traditional ones like paintings for example like this one titled A 19 which employs a system of overlaying shapes, translucency and shading to give the effect of both dynamism and the effect that this painting is more of a work born out of light than of colour. Also notice the white spot, solid white shapes like this are what most artists who take photograms try to achieve.
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Construction on Site Frank Ruttigkeit
Ah a complete change after only one day but I read an utterly fascinating article (Posted below) on the vast collection of art held by Chemnitz based mining company SDAG Wismut. Wismut (lit Bismuth) had, through out its time in operation, a variety of artists come in usually to paint works like this that captured the workers of East Germany hard at work, commissioned portraits of the company’s (collective’s?) higher-ups or running workshops for workers who wanted to dabble in the arts. The Wismut collection ranges from near impressionist pieces like this to the more archetypal examples of Soviet social realism
This depicts the miners busy making new construction for the mine’s operation though ostensibly in the business of mining bismuth (a metal that is virtually useless, it has some slight use as a catalysing agent and as a lead substitute) the company actually mined uranium which it sent to the Soviet Union for use in their nuclear arsenal.
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Regatta at Cowes - Raoul Dufy
Painted by the Fauvist Raoul Dufy this peace depicts a yacht race off Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England. Fauvism was basically a very short lived (the movement lasted two years with three exhibitions officially) but highly influential form of Post-Impressionist painting characterised by its use of very bold colours, less representational forms and for its use of wild and strident brush strokes which broken even with traditional Impressionism. A lot of these sorts of artistic tropes would later find themselves being used in movements such as expressionism and Cubism. Also of note is that many Fauvists were also collectors of African and Oceanic pieces.
Originally I was going to use the work of one of its founders, Andre Derain but I find his collaboration with Nazi German as a living propaganda piece to be objectionable. The other founder of the movement Henri Matisse will most likely pop up here in another painting most likely Le Bonheur de Vivre.
The Derain piece I wanted to use before my period of light research.
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seasonal penguin improves once again with a spooky background for 2023
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Now that we’re in the spooky season of October, time to again change the ol’ profile pic to that of the other Heisenberg to become big in recent pop culture; this smug and sinister bastard from Resident Evil: Village. And so shall be my “costume” here until November cometh.
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I’ll bite. I present the Schattenjager in disguise!
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Spooky month calls for spooky profile pic! (thx again @.tetrafish_21 for the idea)
Actually, should I redraw this with my own chicken? 
- yes
- no need
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Since it is the spook season I decided to take a bit of a break from art for a little bit and decided to get a themed profile picture. So I asked myself, what is the scariest monster I know? It turns out that after much deliberation I decided that Man is the worst monster I know so without further ado…
BEHOLD MAN!!!
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why does man have so many billion dollar assets yet he doesnt help the poor, is htere a lore reason for this? is he stuoid?
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Because vigilantism is an inherently reactionary concept that only treats the obvious symptoms of criminality without targeting its root causes. Batman’s only solutions to crime beyond violence are obscene donations of his own money to charities under his name or are only ever given outside of the Wayne Ent. NGO web as an immediate but not really long-term for of restitution or he has a personal investment in the individuals in question.
Now if you excuse me, my socialist leanings mean the government is going to lock me up in the Alsume now. Why won’t I just call the Justice League to help me?
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And because that concept has actually been explored in recent comics I think, and if I’ve interpreted the reactions properly, has only managed to make things worse. Batman/Bruce Wayne, regardless of what action he takes, is inherently a contributing factor to his city’s issues, because he’s the living embodiment of what is probably George Carlin’s most significant philosophical stance: if you think there’s a solution, you’re part of the problem.
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Uh So I changed my PFP again, I am trying not to make a habit of it I swear…
To be fair I didn’t expect Keith Giffen to pass away at age 70 of a stroke. It is especially a bummer because I absolutely love Justice League International/Europe, the Legion of Super Substitutes, Lobo and Ambush Bug and the modern Guardians of the Galaxy line up (which included Rocket Racoon, his principle Marvel creation). That is just a fraction of what he has worked one, what he has created and the impact he had on the industry in life.
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You can’t fight change… you can’t fight…gravity.
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I have the Hi Fi Rush mindrot and Google’s ads giving me a link to buy a Chai’s cosplays just increses it.
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New Look Who Dis?
Jokes aside I’m retiring the Akira look I’ve had for years, I want to thank the talented @v1deost for creating my previous “face” for my profile. I’ll still be using it for other more personal things (like my Steam deck wallpaper) but as of now it’s time for something new.
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That is a good question because I am still trying to figure it out. He looks like a younger Vincent Price and it would have to be real young since he doesn’t have his mustache at all.
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