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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.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I knew you could write and perform with accents, but paint?
/s

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh. Maybe that Robert guy from before just never did anything notable.

Jean has a pretty detailed Wikipedia page that comes right up in search.

So maybe the Internet isn't broken, but Robert Engel did something to really piss off every wikipedia editor. Heh.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Regarding your Robert Engel from previously, there's a whole load of artists historically, who have virtually no information about them. If they weren't famous whilst alive, who would bother to write down a biography at the time? Afterwards, you're left with researching records from census, school, sales, newspapers, possible living relatives etc.

A lot of museums and galleries with permanent collections have 3 to 50 times as much stuff in stores as is on display. You're not allowed to get rid of anything, but any year, you might receive another truck-load of badly labelled and badly maintained artworks from some rich bloke's private collection, or someone's tax write-off. You'd have to choose which ones get processed or researched first (after the existing backlog). Sometimes the information just isn't there though - that's why you get all those works that just get labelled "Unknown Man with a blue hat, likely Dutch School, circa 1650s".

I think the information and documentation of such things is actually getting better, compared to pre-internet, certainly - but yeah, some people will have no information, and some will have information, but it's still in a paper folder, waiting for someone to type it up :)

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

there's a whole load of artists historically, who have virtually no information about them. If they weren't famous whilst alive, who would bother to write down a biography at the time? Afterwards, you're left with researching records from census, school, sales, newspapers, possible living relatives etc.

That makes sense. Today I learned. Thanks!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess she's white chocolate?

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A word for word translation of the french title would be "the beautiful chocolate maker/seller". Not calling her a chocolate. (Also, I'm assuming that's hot chocolate that she's carrying)

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If she's made of chocolate and she drinks hot chocolate, is she a cannibal or a vampire?

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Cannibal. To be a vampire requires her to be a mutated/magical type of chocolate, doesn't it? There's more to being a vampire than drinking blood.