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Started by Telarus, February 01, 2011, 04:05:27 AM

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Found these, didn't want to spag up the Pics thread.

















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Don Coyote

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:12:29 AM

I think its bad taste.

Sorry!

You aren't supposed to eat them.


I think it's cool. This is similar to still life and portraits of arms and armor and personages wearing and bearing them.

Also, I find some fire arms to be aesthetically pleasing, but that is personal taste.

Telarus

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:12:29 AM

I think its bad taste.

Sorry!

I got that "WHA... I Don't Even?" sense too.

Then I realized I like the unnerving juxtapositions, but I don't consider these pieces glorifying the objects or promoting war.

In other words, I like it because it's very well done art that makes me feel uncomfortable about it (in a way that makes me think).
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I like a couple, and I think a couple are kinda dumb looking. I was not particularly struck by them either positively or negatively.

The Johnny

Quote from: Canis latrans eques on February 01, 2011, 04:17:23 AM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:12:29 AM

I think its bad taste.

Sorry!

You aren't supposed to eat them.


I think it's cool. This is similar to still life and portraits of arms and armor and personages wearing and bearing them.

Also, I find some fire arms to be aesthetically pleasing, but that is personal taste.

EHAUEHEAU the joys of foreing language: making puns without realizing it.
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The Johnny


But what i meant by bad taste is that i think it implicitly promotes guns as something good with the logic of "pretty=good".
<<My image in some places, is of a monster of some kind who wants to pull a string and manipulate people. Nothing could be further from the truth. People are manipulated; I just want them to be manipulated more effectively.>>

-B.F. Skinner

Don Coyote

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:29:55 AM

But what i meant by bad taste is that i think it implicitly promotes guns as something good with the logic of "pretty=good".

I figured.

I don't personally view guns as inherently being good or bad, but at the same I don't think that something that is inherently warlike should be depicted as bad or wrong. And I enjoy how well made TOOLS of any kind look.

Phox

Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 01, 2011, 04:29:55 AM

But what i meant by bad taste is that i think it implicitly promotes guns as something good with the logic of "pretty=good".

Yeah, we get your meaning. Coyote's just being an ass.  :lol:

To say that a piece of art is in bad taste means exactly what you meant. That it is somehow offensive to your sensibilities. In this case, promoting firearms.

However, I disagree with you, because I don't see that message, but I can fully understand that it could be taken that way.

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Cramulus

great juxtaposition


Still life paintings are always so serene
the guns add a rather distinct tone to them which clashes with your expectations

delicious

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