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Understanding Art for Geeks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

HeadMounted found a great little flickr collection of art for geeks where helpful designers have provided you with useful hints to help you better comprehend the confusing art world. Or not. Some of them are very clever.

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  1. Lame by eharvill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    need I say more?

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  2. That's not art for geeks, that's just lame by DaleGlass · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Pasting a lame bit of PHP over a perfectly nice picture by Escher (whose pictures are about as geeky as they get) isn't very clever, IMO.

    Art that appeals to me: Escher, Da Vinci (Mona Lisa excluded), Boris Vallejo (not all of it), works by Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland, but Sylvie and Bruno is another good but much less well known one), Dali, xkcd, pbf, Jin Wicked (check out her painting of Stallman)

    Art that doesn't appeal to me: Piet Mondrian (except the Piet programming language, that is funny), Warhol, Mona Lisa (I agree with another poster that Da Vinci made much more interesting things), cubism, most very abstract things that don't look like anything in particular.