Feel free to express all love of art here.
This is one of my all time favorites. It reminds me of my first year in college.
![Image](http://www.essentialart.com/mh/Renoir_prints_The_Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party.jpg)
My point is that you don't make comparisons like this, they're ahistorical and meaningless. First, to say that Caravaggio "pumped out a bunch of religious paintings" implies that he had the same choices available to him as a later painter did; worse, it implies that he felt less true passion for religious scenes than Velazquez did for his genre paintings. Just because YOU hate contemporary organized religion you can't assume that someone doing religious paintings centuries ago was somehow selling out, that's just idiotic! For the record, Caravaggio potrayed both Biblical and Greek Mythological scenes (check out his portayal of Bacchus, VERY similar to one Velazquez did after going to Italy), and his steps towards making the subjects of both kinds of painting real people with real emotions were what paved the way for non-religious artists like Vermeer and Velazquez.I need look no further than my computer screen to see that Caravaggio didn't possess the same mastery of proportion, of composition, of colour, of creating believable scenes with congruent human expressions, with palpable emotion [as Velazquez]...
Bravo! A proper trip to Spain has long been on my list. I spent ONE DAY in Barcelona about 25 years ago but that barely counts, even if I did see both the Picasso Museum and the Sagrada familia and eat some Paella in that brief time. I'd love to spend about a month in Spain and Portugal.Mike Boom wrote:was in New York till 1981 apparently, when it was moved back to Spain on the centenary of Picasso's birth
Funny, someone once said the same thing to me. Well, it was Edward Munch, but otherwise, it was the same thing.miss buenos aires wrote:I've had a soft spot for Renoir ever since one of my friends in high school told me I looked like someone in one of his paintings...
Oh, was it this one?bobster wrote:Funny, someone once said the same thing to me. Well, it was Edward Munch, but otherwise, it was the same thing.miss buenos aires wrote:I've had a soft spot for Renoir ever since one of my friends in high school told me I looked like someone in one of his paintings...
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The software uses this average expression as the standard for comparisons.
The New Scientist says that software capable of recognising emotions just by looking at photographs could lead to PCs that adjust their response depending on the user's mood.