terrisus
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What Do You Consider the Pinnacle of Art?
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Well, hey, as many jokes got by you as got by Swansea's keeper :þ
Puddington
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Journey for PS3. For those that played, I had the same companion for the entire game my very first time through it.
And every subsequent playthrough has been an absolute joy after that first one. Nothing has provided an experience like that game.
I was angrily bawling so hard at the end that I couldn't even enjoy the heaven epilogue that first time.
Necromanti
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This and Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa are probably my favorite sculptures that I've seen in person.
terrisus
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Seeing as how the Pieta and Ecstasy of St. Teresa have already been mentioned, I'm gonna give a shoutout to my man Caravaggio. His works are beautiful and mesmerizing.
Doctoglethorpe
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Not my point.
Tesseract
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Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man will always be on my mind as the supreme form of art
it's flawed, he got the proportions wrong
True Savior
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A good porn scene.
AntiFacebook
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I don't care for art. Too impractical for my taste.
UltraGunner
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Hyperrealism
http://agonistica.com/works-of-art-you-wont-believe-arent-photographs/
To me, this is the pinnacle of art.
It takes unbelievable talent on the side of the artist, combined with artistry on a whole different level.
And as a Connaisseur, watching these pieces of art totally blows the mind.
One example:
No, that's not a photograph.
http://agonistica.com/works-of-art-you-wont-believe-arent-photographs/
To me, this is the pinnacle of art.
It takes unbelievable talent on the side of the artist, combined with artistry on a whole different level.
And as a Connaisseur, watching these pieces of art totally blows the mind.
One example:
No, that's not a photograph.
Always-honest
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I was coming into this thread to say that i couldn't choose between all the amazing stuff out there. But Ode to Joy should be the Anthem of the human race. No, of earth.
Well.., it's an exact copy of a photograph. It takes a lot of time but involves zero creativity. It's amazing that some people have the patience to do this. But the photo, a really nice photo, allready exsists.
I don't think it's really amazing from an artistic point of view. But i do look at it in awe.
SecretMoblin
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nah it's most definitely Katy Perry's PRISM.
OrlanisWorks
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Something something Da Vinci.
I´d disagree, because I do not see it as a copy. A copy would, in my opinion, have to be on the same medium, so in this case another photograph.
What the artist here has to do, he has to translate an image. And this not only needs a lot of time and patience, but huge talent AND creativity. His creativity relates to his techniques used, how he translates an image onto canvas.
Oh, and while hyperrealism might have started out with exact replicas of photographs, but by now there are a lot of things out there like f.i. the "The Curious Case of the Levitating Tattooed Man".
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Specifically though... that's way too hard a call.
Women
Specifically though... that's way too hard a call.
Chase Lebowski
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Boobs and The good, the Bad and the Ugly.
You and me, we can be friends!
We can be friends too!
I will add :
(But it's all subjective, I'm just sharing because this stuff is gorgeous and it might make you want to do some googling)
And yawn at 'female body' posts.
If I had to pick it'd probably be either Kubla Khan, The Waste Land or the Four Quartets. Literally - not figuratively ! - sublime
In literature
'The Dead' by James Joyce
'The Tempest' by Billy Shakes
William Blakes illuminated books including the arcane ones
Marcus Aurelius's meditations
Mallarme's poetry
Coleridge - especially the Aeolian Harp, Kubla Khan and the Mariner (Kubla Khan probably the pinnacle if I had to pick anything)
Becketts trilogy - especially The Unnameable
The Waste Land and the Four Quartets by Eliot
In visual art
the large glass by Marcel Duchamp
Obviously all the Renaissance masters, pre raphaelites
kandinsky's compositions, improvisations and impressions
David downton's fashion illustrations - that line all the way from Japanese masters - you can include Aubrey Beardsley in that too
Odilon Redon
In film
Probably anything by Robert Bresson.
2001 is pretty sublime too
In games
Flower and Journey
The world and art of Dark Souls (the game ain't bad either)
Fez
Probably Ico and SOTC (in backlog and not played yet though)
There's probably more - mostly indie ones. AAA console games tend to be creatively redundant and have the emotional maturity of a frustrated 13 year old
Adam_Roman
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I've always loved this painting by Goya.
Razorback
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I agree with this.
As a film it's a culmination of the best there is to offer in all of the arts. And I can't think of more important subjects than humanity's inevitable confrontation with A.I. and the role of intelligence in the universe.
Having said that, It could be better. I think the ultimate work of art will be some kind of V.R. experience.
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