I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl
it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?
the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.
This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10
The people were not kidding when they said that the dungeon menshi tulpas that make you improve your life existed
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Orpheus by John Macallan Swan (1896)
Career goal: village witch
Bothering the beast
“The Angels of Evangelion are truly some of the best creature designs of all time. It’s very important for me to create something very unique as well, but I went into it with this knowledge that there’s a minimalist spectacle that we haven’t seen photographically in film.” - Jordan Peele in this interview.
He is right, they are some of the best creature designs of all time and it’s delightful to hear a major filmmaker take the right kind of inspiration from that.
It’s a little silly though that other articles immediately tried to extrapolate “which” angel inspired the entity in Nope, and seem to have settled on just this one. Now, maybe this is the one that sticks out in Peele’s mind, maybe it’s one of his favorites, who knows, but I feel like non-creative people in journalism don’t actually know what “inspiration” means or how it works and assume it’s always going to be some hidden 1:1 reference to a specific thing, rather than something that just aesthetically follows from and builds on a generalization of the source material.
Ramiel has more in common with Jean Jacket if I had to narrow it down, but none of them have enough in common with Jean Jacket to be “the” inspiration!
Yknow how people say they picture senshi and it helps them cook? I think I’m doing something wrong (DO NOT DO THIS)