Pertaining to the area of human accomplishments in which intangible creative elements are applied to produce the final product. Can pertain to the production, interpretation or appreciation of works created to evoke specific emotional responses, such as in painting or music.
Questions tagged [art]
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Does camera flash destroy art?
This is a question which is highly discussed on the Internet but I've been researching for a long time and I've never found any scientific proof backing this up.
It's known (or at least spoken of) that intense light creates an effect called…
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Does Melania Trump's security cost double the National Endowment for the Arts' budget?
This viral post was found at The Resistance with 16,000 shares in less 12 hours. It's from @chapmanchapman who seems to be commenting on Trump cutting the National Endowment for the Arts.
The est. security cost for Melania living 200mi away from…
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Is the depiction of nudity or sex harmful to minors?
In other words, are the censorship & ratings of movies and other forms of art based on something more than nothing? ;) Or, in a broader sense, I am questioning the very widespread belief that kids should not be allowed to watch anything…
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Is this photo showing a woman standing in the nude before teenagers real?
There's a photo going around Twitter and the right-wing blogosphere of a woman standing in the nude at an art exhibition attended by a bunch of teenagers.
I do not want to embed this photo, as it includes nudity..
Here is where I saw it:
Kane:…
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Was the golden ratio deliberately used for aesthetics in ancient or Renaissance times?
It's a famous claim that the golden ratio was both known to and deliberately used by artists and/or architects, for example in the Parthenon. I doubt this, and suspect that any observations about the golden ratio existing in art or architecture were…
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Is there a depiction of Lucifer in the Vatican Necropolis?
A YouTube video, Lucifer's Temple Chambers Beneath the Vatican (What's There Revealed) claims that there is a depiction representing Lucifer, the Light-Bringer, in the Vatican Necropolis, under Saint Peter's Basilica.
Does this depiction exist?…
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Restoration of Jesus fresco a fake?
The story goes:
A devout Spanish woman is being roundly criticized after taking it
upon herself to restore a church fresco of Jesus, a ham-fisted attempt
that left the piece looking like a child’s daubing.
Here is the end result:
It cracks me…
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Did CIA fund abstract artists to take attention from Social Realism?
(Source: cracked.com)
In the 50s and 60s, the CIA secretly funded abstract artists such as Jackson Pollock, in part to draw attention away from Social Realism, a style which focused on societal issues and societal ills.
There are two parts to the…
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Is Mr. Brainwash a hoax?
I just finished watching Banksy's documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, about Thierry Guetta (a.k.a. "Mr. Brainwash"), an eccentric filmmaker who followed the street art scene until eventually starting his own art career. Banksy and Shepard…
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Was the Banksy painting 'Girl with balloon' shredded after its auction?
The newspapers and internet are full of the incident of the shredding of Banksy's painting 'Girl with balloon'.
But (Quoting from BoredPanda):
People Were Amazed By Banksy’s Painting Shredding, But One Artist Noticed That Something Doesn’t Add…
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Did Persian rug makers traditionally include deliberate imperfections?
Did Persian rug makers traditionally deliberately include imperfections, often called Persian flaws? If so, did they do so because only Allah was perfect? Example claim:
Traditional, hand-made Persian rugs have intentional flaws because the
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Were the pyramids at Puma Punku built by humans?
According to the TV show Ancient Aliens (clip here), humans could not have designed or built the pyramids at Puma Punku.
The specific claims in the video are that:
The blocks used in construction were too large and heavy to be moved from…
user6327
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Does Denver International Airport display murals of conquering stormtroopers and dead children?
Some people experience unease going through the airport, and it seems best to provide something soothing and uncontroversial to look at while walking to the aircraft .... like advertising.
Certainly I wouldn't expect to see:
A dead child in a casket…
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Was Picasso chased out of town after unveiling Guernica?
In multiple interviews, Lana Wachowski has told this story:
Picasso, when he revealed Guernica, was actually chased to the train station by an angry mob.
—The Wachowskis | DePaul VAS
But we knew, we knew just as the way Picasso was hunted and…
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Is this gesture Masonic?
So I've got casual acquiantances linking to things on Twitter about how this gesture of sticking your hand in your shirt in your formal portrait is actually Masonic.
Without worrying about how much the Masons did or did not influence history by…
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