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so, at last, here’s my year movie: a seal cancan!

because of my condition’s worsening, i couldn’t finish animating more than a third of it, so this video is the combination of all the storyboard, rough & clean animation i did on this project. please enjoy it!

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The Five Senses, 19th century, by Hans Makart (1840-1884)

Touch, Seeing, Sound, Smell, and Taste.

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Johannes Moreelse, Democritus, 1630.

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Perseus and Andromeda, 1891, by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896).

This painting depicts the Greek myth of Andromeda. Andromeda was the daughter of the King and Queen of Ethiopia. Her mother made the bold claim that her daughter was more beautiful than any sea nymph. Once hearing this, the sea nymphs called on their father Poseidon to take control of a sea monster, and attack the Ethiopian kingdom. Seeing no alternative, the King and Queen chained their daughter to a rock, sacrificing her.

Heroically, Perseus was flying his famed winged horse Pegasus nearby, and came to save Andromeda by slaying the beast. Perseus and Andromeda then fell in love.

Leighton portrays the moment in which Perseus, seen flying above, shooting arrows at the beast. Andromeda stands helpless and contorted under threat.

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Dark Fantasy by Bjorn Hurri

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Tenebrism

Tenebrism is a technique characterized by the extreme contrasting of light and dark, hence the other term used to describe it: dramatic illumination. Tenebrism comes from the Italian term ‘tenebroso’, meaning “dark.” It is similar to the technique chiaroscuro, however it is much more exaggerated. While chiaroscuro provides dimension to a subject, the goal of tenebrism is to dramatize the atmosphere of the scene. With this, shadows and darkness tend to govern large amounts of the image. Subject matter, such as figures, gain importance as they are highlighted.

Above: Judith Slaying Holofernes,1614-20, also by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656), and The Death of the Virgin, c. 1606, by Caravaggio (1571-1610).

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Footage of the ‘Degenerate Art Exhibition,’ in Munich 1937

This footage shows the 1937 Munich exhibition, which was created solely to publicly shame any art that had fallen under the “degenerate art” category. When Adolf Hitler came into power he launched an essentially immediate assault on Modernist art. During this exhibition, the artworks were accompanied by Nazi slogans ridiculing them. One of the most famous quotes included Hitler’s description of Modernist works as “filth for filth’s sake.” Artists that were a threat were exiled, forbidden from creating work, or sent to camps; left to die.

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Daisy suggest: lay on meditating hooman and relax them with face massages

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From The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562.

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Interpretations of Cupid and Psyche

Cupid and Psyche in the Nuptial Bower, 1792, by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808) l Amor and Psyche, c. 1800’s, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1725-1805) l Cupid and Psyche, 1798, François Gérard (1770-1837)

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How are penguins not extinct?

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Daisy suggests: protekt hooman from demons

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Daisy suggest: claime entire bed as properties

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Time lapse of hundreds of sunsets. Photo credit goes to Matt Molloy. 

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Hans Haacke, Condensation Cube, 1965.  

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Not to pile on here, but this doesn’t look exactly promising.

It means every art blog would have to go through every post one by one and appeal individual flagged posts as not to lose content. Seems unlikely.

How the algorithm is designed to flag abstract art as obscene is beyond my understanding.