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I met him, back in the 1980s, when I was still doing paintings, myself[0]. I was surprised at how short he was. BTW: He was a bodybuilder, and was the model for many of his paintings. His wife also featured in many. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886
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Facepook is just another textbook example of bureaucracy breaking loose. Companies that give them money (for ads) declare that “content” (i. e. everything that exists in this world) can be “SFW” and “NSFW”, and they only want the former. Ergo, women don't have breasts. End of story. All the excuses and exceptions corporate human robots invent afterwards are just irrelevant icing on the cake. It would be fine to just…
Is the misspelling of FB an intentional Russian joke? I haven’t heard that one before, but I can probably not unhear it the next time I hear a Russian speaker say that word.
I was delighted to see this name pop up in my HN feed of all places. I've the joy of being married to a fantasy illustrator, and through her I've been able to attend a number of fantasy art conventions and shows. As I've seen a number of comments as well as the article asking about such, I can say Boris is doing quite well! He's a regular fixture at Illuxcon ( https://imaginativerealism.com/ ), a fantasy/sci-fi art s…
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But not Darrel K. Sweet[0] (one of the more published artists). His people looked like bobbleheads. He wasn't really so good at getting the human form right. But he was painfully detailed, and probably pretty reliable, so he got a lot of work. My fave for the human form, was Frank Frazetta[1]. He actually had a fairly classical bent to his work, and was probably an inspiration for Vallejo. Vallejo's people are perfec…
I always felt Vallejo's figures pumped up for their figures vs Frazetta's worked for theirs.
I met him, back in the 1980s, when I was still doing paintings, myself[0]. I was surprised at how short he was. BTW: He was a bodybuilder, and was the model for many of his paintings. His wife also featured in many. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886
I like the high contrast in "Dragon Rider".
The pictures started as 8X10s, taken with a Hasselblad, but the guy that did it (for free, so I didn't complain) was a portrait photographer.
Also, many of the subtle color differences did not come through (like thalo blue vs. thalo green, in Sentinels).
Nowadays, a digital camera could do a lot better.
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If this counts as NSFW, then browse with images enabled. The National Gallery (of the UK) has this page one click from the homepage, "Our most famous paintings" https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/must-sees
This does in fact count as NSFW in every workplace I've ever been in. Perhaps stop trying to argue with the poster who was merely trying to give people a friendly warning just so they know they might get in trouble if someone sees them looking at this art at work. Whether the standards of workplaces should allow artistic nudity is completely beside the point. Neither you, nor I, nor Dalewyn control such things. All w…
No. You could quit and be free.
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This does in fact count as NSFW in every workplace I've ever been in. Perhaps stop trying to argue with the poster who was merely trying to give people a friendly warning just so they know they might get in trouble if someone sees them looking at this art at work. Whether the standards of workplaces should allow artistic nudity is completely beside the point. Neither you, nor I, nor Dalewyn control such things. All w…
> All we can do is work around them. No. You could quit and be free.
Though some might argue it's also Not Safe For Wife too, YMMV.
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I'm not making any commentary on the art thereof. This is a forum hosted by venture capitalist investors and frequented primarily by IT professionals ("hackers"), unwittingly opening some NSFW material probably won't fly well in that kind of environment.
I can actually imagine “venture capitalist investors” participating in some oiled spanking ritual, Vallejo style, because someone opened an “NSFW” link, and “corporate culture” dictates that kind of punishment must be performed. Normal people, not so much.
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Art can evoke a wide range of reactions, and that's often what makes it so powerful and meaningful
Appreciating it requires a certain state of mind. A state of mind of a 13 year old boy, in one way or another, looking at Boris Valleyo painting.