Traditional Art

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From dabblers to masters, obscure to popular and ancient to futuristic, this is an inclusive community dedicated to showcasing all types of art by all kinds of artists, as long as they're made in a traditional medium

'Traditional' here means 'Physical', as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

What's allowed: Acrylic, Pastel, Encaustic, Gouache, Oil and Watercolor Paintings; Ink Illustrations; Manga Panels; Pencil and Charcoal sketches; Collages; Etchings; Lithographs; Wood Prints; Pottery; Ceramics; Metal, Wire and paper sculptures; Tapestry; weaving; Qulting; Wood carvings, Armor Crafting and more.

What's not allowed: Digital art (anything made with Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Blender, GIMP or other art programs) or AI art (anything made with Stable Diffusion, Midjourney or other models)

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The Morning Visitor by Dino Buzzati (1967) (blog.mirrorofzen.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (20 children)

I hate that I could tell what it was about without looking at the comments :/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (19 children)

I hate that anyone would need it to be made explicit. How does anyone with a prefrontal lobe miss that?

Edit, quoting myself downthread,

Perhaps what I've failed to articulate is that I'm irked that this very overt, brave, and thoughtful piece of art can be so clear and powerful a message, and yet my fellow humans are conditioned by (or perhaps utterly failed by) society to be so insensate that it does not immediately produce the intended understanding. I'm not frustrated with anyone in particular, I'm frustrated with the cruelly absurd world we live in.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It wouldn't be unreasonable if someone intepreted this as an panic attack, or some other mental condition.

Contrary to your stance, I WISH there would be 0 people on this earth who could at a glance know what this image depicts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Entirely valid on both accounts, we have nothing to disagree about

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