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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

In my usual Wikipedia rabbit hole journey, I came across some lovely paintings the other day. I ended up going through the page of Johannes Vermeer, admiring a bunch of his works. Consider my surprise when I scrolled by a familiar painting, The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Although the artist's name didn't ring a bell at first, that painting is famous enough that it stopped me in my tracks. Go figure, he's got all these detailed slice-of-life paintings that give a strong sense of what life was like for an average, middle class, Dutch person in the mid-1600s, and yet the only work of his I'd seen before was that one.

I guess it's kinda like how some musicians can put out multiple albums, yet be forever known as a "one hit wonder" because only one of their songs "made it big."

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I might be a little more informed because I'm Dutch, but Vermeer is fairly well-known, and e.g. The Milkmaid and View of Delft are, I believe, other fairly famous paintings of his (albeit less famous than The Girl with the Pearl Earring).

Vermeer might have been a pupil of Carel Fabritius, who was a pupil of Rembrandt. The interesting thing about Fabritius is that many of his paintings got destroyed in an explosion (that also killed Fabritius), and only about a dozen remain. Which I think is also mind-blowing: this potential important link between two famous painters might very well himself have produced such wonders, but we'll never know.

(If you're ever in the area, I would highly recommend a visit to the Mauritshuis in The Hague. And if you like reading, The Goldfinch (referencing the Fabritius painting) by Donna Tartt is the novel that got me into all this in the first place.)

[–] iglou@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Vermeer is definitely famous worldwide. This person just didn't know him.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, my schools didn't teach art history. I only learned of French impressionalists in school, and that's just because I took French class. Even art classes didn't touch the classics, so I'm learning through my own studies now as an adult. This is what a typical American education system gives us. :(

[–] iglou@programming.dev 5 points 9 hours ago

Any age is a good time to learn anything! Most people stop caring after school and you don't, and that's fantastic.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I know it's kinda off topic, but what I find even weirder are bands that are "one hit wonders" in one country, but have like 10 hits and a long career in another country.

They'll have a whole wikipedia article of awards they've won you've never heard of, and tours they went on, and you're like "they wrote more than one song!?"

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 11 hours ago

And then there's Toto, who actually have a million hits, but each of them feels like it must be some band's one-hit wonder, until you find out that it's another Toto song.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 17 hours ago

And this is why I love Todd in the Shadows's One Hit Wonderland.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

a-ha and their eleven studio albums have entered the chat

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 hours ago

remembering the concert from their farewell tour where I spent 1,5 hours to hear both of their songs.

[–] mastertigurius@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I recommend visiting the Munch museum in Oslo. Lots of interesting things to see.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My dumb ass with "why is the munich museum in oslo" I need more sleep...

"We should take Munich, and push it somewhere else!"

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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I felt this way about seeing the mona lisa. It's like 50cm wide, and behind glass, and not that interesting... but there were probably 200 people crowded in front of it all looking at it through their phones.

It's almost like performance art or something.

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people take pictures of the mona Lisa. Professional photos of it exist online.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The point is to show to others that you stood in front of something famous, the painting itself is of no value to these people

[–] Nycto@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I also like to take pictures of art from alternate angles, which works better for sculpture than paintings.

[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not always. Most photos I take are really just intended for future me. A few of them have famous things I care about.

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly - I've got a really shitty memory. I'd take a photo so that in 5 years time I'll get a reminder from my photos app - hey, on this day 5 years ago you were in The Louvre.

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[–] owsei@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you see the painting in the other side of the room the Mona Lisa was in? We I went there it was a gigantic and beautiful buffet with dozens and dozens on people. The whole time in the room I was looking the opposite way to her lol

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

That would be The Wedding Feast at Cana. Another pretty impressive one is The Intervention of the Sabine Women, most well known for having a dude posing with his cheeks out

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 1 points 11 hours ago

The Louvre has two paintings with that name it seems, but I'm guessing it must be this one (this is the other one).

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can't imagine any of those photos are coming out well either, so I don't understand the point. I can see a selfie or a picture of your family in front of it, but I'm never going to look at a phone pic of a framed painting behind glass at a distance.

[–] modus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can look at it right after you watch the video of those New Year's fireworks from 2019.

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[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 2 points 18 hours ago

I can't imagine doing it for something like the Mona Lisa, but I take plenty of other paintings to get the painting and plaque in one shot, so after I can look up the names of painters I liked and hadn't heard of.

Munch's The Scream actually does kind of merit taking a picture, though. At least for the Munch Museum in Oslo, he made a ton of different versions on cardboard or paper bases that can't hold up to extended exposure to light, so the ones on display get rotated every half hour or so. There's also another version of it a short distance away in the National Museum, so it could be fun to compare all the different versions you can catch.

[–] AlJones@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

first time ive ever seen a line spanning multiple floors was at the mona lisa.

[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

His museum is a short walk from the central station if ever in Oslo.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for the link. I really like the sunset picture

[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

These are sick, thanks for sharing!

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

Reason why people love Scream: mood

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Maybe they're not worth looking at? Nobody ever tells You to listen to another song by Spin Doctors.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now I want to know which of Two Princes or Little Miss Can't Be Wrong you haven't heard yet. The two-hit-wonder disrespect here is staggering, I say. Staggering!

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

This is fucking brutal disrespect of Jimmy Olsen's Blues and I won't have it!

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] valar@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

Caaan't be wroOOong

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I can see why The Scream jumped out as unique with its surreal image, but in his 205 works he's got a few that are decent paintings. Just not as eye catching. And I'm no expert, so maybe someone with knowledge of use of color or flow or whatever could say what level he was.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Klimpt has a similar problem.

vs. everything else...

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Same as described above and in comments.

Tons of people taking selfies, pictures, anything.

Thing is, you really can’t capture anything great about The Kiss if you’re not in person. It’s all about the way the light reflects in the gilding.

(Source: was in Vienna and saw it in person last year. In case you’re wondering, I don’t think I took a single photo but looked at it for like 20 minutes from every angle I could.)

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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still can't believe "The Scream" is mostly just crayon on cardboard.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Wait for 30 minutes at the museum and you can see the charcoal version as well!

[–] flux@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Marketing manipulation. We have been conditioned to precieve value in some things over others. It eleminates the idea that you as an individual have to engage and investigate to find your own value of a piece of art. I'm not saying that the popular pieces of an artist aren't incredibly good. Just understand that an artist probably has dozens of other work you might want to engage with and appreciate.

I've seen this soon many times at art museums. Sure Starry night and Mona Lisa are great but the artists' other masterpieces are literally 10 steps away and people seem to casually ignore. The power of the totebag fridge magnets.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's called the "Shot Gun Approach" ... I learned it a long time ago with basic photography. I was so worried about being able to take great photos that I asked a professional photographer about it and he just said take lots of photos, as many as you can ... the 'Shotgun Approach'.

You just snap a ton of stuff, stuff you think is good, stuff you think is important, stuff you want, stuff you think you should do, this stuff, that stuff, any stuff ... just get the biggest memory card you can get or film or whatever and just take as many photos as you can of everything.

When you get back, about 98% of all your photos will be shit ... but you will have about a dozen great shots where people will comment on how great a photographer you are.

You basically blast the entire activity with everything you got ... like a shot gun blast ... a true shot gun blast throws out a lot lead pellets in a general direction. Not all of them will hit their mark but several will.

It's better than the Sniper Approach ... where you base all your energy, will and hopes into one single shot .. you take all your energy and time into that one shot and if you miss, which is highly likely, you will lose everything and you will be forgotten.

So whatever you are doing in life ... just give it your all ... most of it will be forgettable but a small part of it will be celebrated because people will think you were a genius for doing it. The more you do, the more likely you will be successful in something.

Counterpoint: sometimes the best still shot requires a particular moment captured with a particular, consciously arranged setup.

This interview of a veteran NBA photographer breaks it down of how he only has a single shot per shot because of how he necessarily relies on strobes set up to not distract the players or interfere with the broadcast. As a result, he scouts/studies each player and team so that he knows when the right moment is to actually capture the shot, because he can't exactly ask players to do it again.

If you read interviews of Pulitzer photography winners, they'll often say a lot of the same things: being prepared and being lucky and having that convergence of having incredibly high skill/expertise/understanding of the setting, while being able to capture in every opportunity presented.

You should capture a lot of photos and examine them to understand how to make them better, and increase your skill level and understand your subject so that you can still optimize for the very best shot possible.

[–] Tagger@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Why was he so productive in 1788?

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