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Liquid Sword wrote:

TB you mean I'm an Art God.

you're definitely a fag of some kind though.

fix

GoZ wrote:

Violet is as close to pink as we have....

True Believer wrote:

bayani wrote:

I'll agree with LS. I'm the most tired of the people who are tired of wolverine, and I think that these covers are pretty neat. especially since I can name the paintings that they are going for.

Alright, name each one. Go.


Anyway, I'd dig 'em more if they weren't solely Wolverine themed, but this is definitely something an art fag like myself can sink my teeth into.

That doesn't prove anything, for all you know I'm looking them up online before answering.

bayani wrote:

True Believer wrote:

bayani wrote:

I'll agree with LS. I'm the most tired of the people who are tired of wolverine, and I think that these covers are pretty neat. especially since I can name the paintings that they are going for.

Alright, name each one. Go.


Anyway, I'd dig 'em more if they weren't solely Wolverine themed, but this is definitely something an art fag like myself can sink my teeth into.

That doesn't prove anything, for all you know I'm looking them up online before answering.

I'd be impressed if you can even do that, actually.

I'm not saying I'd be impressed with you specifically, as though I think you're dumb. I just mean it would be impressive if anyone can name them all, even with the convenience of Google you'd have to know what to search for.

True Believer wrote:

bayani wrote:

True Believer wrote:

bayani wrote:

I'll agree with LS. I'm the most tired of the people who are tired of wolverine, and I think that these covers are pretty neat. especially since I can name the paintings that they are going for.

Alright, name each one. Go.


Anyway, I'd dig 'em more if they weren't solely Wolverine themed, but this is definitely something an art fag like myself can sink my teeth into.

That doesn't prove anything, for all you know I'm looking them up online before answering.

I'd be impressed if you can even do that, actually.

I'm not saying I'd be impressed with you specifically, as though I think you're dumb. I just mean it would be impressive if anyone can name them all, even with the convenience of Google you'd have to know what to search for.

Seconded.

I can get many of these...but some...no fuckin' clue. Good luck, Bayani! The clock's a-tickin!

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Damn, there should have been a "some" in the "I can name the paintings" It's been a while since art history.

No turning back now, here goes nothing.

Obviously Van Goh's self portrait. Easy, so it may not count against my inevitable failure

Picasso, but I never remember the names of individual pieces especially when they are parodies.


Salvador Dali, I think.

Pretty sure that's just a cave painting.


not sure

again not sure


The fucking Dog one, I never knew the artist

Worhol

Is this supposed to be like Orthodox Art? Unless this is someones specific style I would say they are copying the art of the contemporaries of. . . shit wassisname?
the guy who did the first frescoes of the . . .

Aaaaand I don't remember his name, which is sad because he did lots of stuff I liked. contemporary of Goya before he went crazy.

What is that 3 out of 7? I suck.

Hm.

bayani wrote:

Damn, there should have been a "some" in the "I can name the paintings" It's been a while since art history.

No turning back now, here goes nothing.

Obviously Van Goh's self portrait. Easy, so it may not count against my inevitable failure

Picasso, but I never remember the names of individual pieces especially when they are parodies.


Salvador Dali, I think.

Pretty sure that's just a cave painting.


not sure

again not sure


The fucking Dog one, I never knew the artist

Worhol

Is this supposed to be like Orthodox Art? Unless this is someones specific style I would say they are copying the art of the contemporaries of. . . shit wassisname?
the guy who did the first frescoes of the . . .

Aaaaand I don't remember his name, which is sad because he did lots of stuff I liked. contemporary of Goya before he went crazy.

What is that 3 out of 7? I suck.

Your wrong about the Dali. good call on the cave painting. The one with the umbrella is modeled after a woman's style.

The Runaway's painting is based off of Alphonse Mucca.

Maaaaannn... where's the Bob Ross-inspired painting?

Figga wrote:

Maaaaannn... where's the Bob Ross-inspired painting?

no trees here I'm afraid.

Liquid Sword wrote:

Figga wrote:

Maaaaannn... where's the Bob Ross-inspired painting?

no trees here I'm afraid.

*pic of Darth Vader screaming NOOOOOOOOO!*

Liquid Sword wrote:

Figga wrote:

Maaaaannn... where's the Bob Ross-inspired painting?

no trees here I'm afraid.

HAPPY FUCKING TREES!

Bob Ross is a douche.

Liquid Sword wrote:

Your wrong about the Dali. good call on the cave painting. The one with the umbrella is modeled after a woman's style.

The Runaway's painting is based off of Alphonse Mucca.

I went with Dali because of the Photo realism but I didn't recognize the pose. Damn.

What about the two I wrote "not sure"? I recognize the toon staring down the little girl but the other one I'm lost.

bayani wrote:

Liquid Sword wrote:

Your wrong about the Dali. good call on the cave painting. The one with the umbrella is modeled after a woman's style.

The Runaway's painting is based off of Alphonse Mucca.

I went with Dali because of the Photo realism but I didn't recognize the pose. Damn.

What about the two I wrote "not sure"? I recognize the toon staring down the little girl but the other one I'm lost.

Wait is it Ukiyo e like Utamaro? Or is it like the Demon Scrolls? Is it at least clasical Japanese? Or is it that lady who was hailed as the last Ukiyo e artist? Dante Help me out!

Liquid Sword wrote:

bayani wrote:

Damn, there should have been a "some" in the "I can name the paintings" It's been a while since art history.

No turning back now, here goes nothing.

Obviously Van Goh's self portrait. Easy, so it may not count against my inevitable failure

Picasso, but I never remember the names of individual pieces especially when they are parodies.


Salvador Dali, I think.

Pretty sure that's just a cave painting.


not sure

again not sure


The fucking Dog one, I never knew the artist

Worhol

Is this supposed to be like Orthodox Art? Unless this is someones specific style I would say they are copying the art of the contemporaries of. . . shit wassisname?
the guy who did the first frescoes of the . . .

Aaaaand I don't remember his name, which is sad because he did lots of stuff I liked. contemporary of Goya before he went crazy.

What is that 3 out of 7? I suck.

Your wrong about the Dali. good call on the cave painting. The one with the umbrella is modeled after a woman's style.

The Runaway's painting is based off of Alphonse Mucca.

Nice try on some of these...

The umbrella pic is inspired by Magritte not some "woman." Unless...Magritte..."maggie" ...dunno what you were thinking.


The poker pic is inspired by the various dog paintings including poker playing dogs by Coolidge.


This one I'm pretty sure is inspired by Gustav Klimt a contemporary of Mucha (NOT "Mucca") and Art Noveau painter:





So you were right about Runaways being inspired by Mucha.



The one Bayani attributes to Goya's contemporary, I would've said it actually was inspired by Francisco Goya.



The cave painting pic was inspired probably by the Lascaux (sp?) Cave Paintings. Same colors and brush strokes as some of the paintings.


I'm going to guess that this one is inspired by Hirschfeld's caricature art:





Lecture's over...class dismissed!

bayani wrote:

bayani wrote:

Liquid Sword wrote:

Your wrong about the Dali. good call on the cave painting. The one with the umbrella is modeled after a woman's style.

The Runaway's painting is based off of Alphonse Mucca.

I went with Dali because of the Photo realism but I didn't recognize the pose. Damn.

What about the two I wrote "not sure"? I recognize the toon staring down the little girl but the other one I'm lost.

Wait is it Ukiyo e like Utamaro? Or is it like the Demon Scrolls? Is it at least clasical Japanese? Or is it that lady who was hailed as the last Ukiyo e artist? Dante Help me out!

Dali is a surrealist. None of those paintings are surrealism. I''m sure that I didn't post all of the covers, and Dali is one of the ones I didn't post.

I know the rest of these because of research on the Wolverine covers not al of it is my own knowledge.

Let's see.

Umbrella painting is Rene Margritte

cartoon style is Edward Gorey

painting with the wolverines at the card table is C.M. Coolidge

Wolverine killing the samurai is Gustav Klimt

the Wolverine and Cyclops is Wyeth, though Goya was a good guess.



This is the Dali inspired painting. Notice the dripping sun. Dali was known for his dripping clocks and what not.



Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein, (who is a pop art douche)



Japanese Woodblock replica.



Edward Munch. This is prob one of my favorites as I really like Munch.

And I said Margritte was a woman because his first name is rene'

I knew his name not his face and assumed he was a she.

Liquid Sword wrote:

And I said Margritte was a woman because his first name is rene'

I knew his name not his face and assumed he was a she.

also cave painting is just inspired by a cave painting.

Liquid Sword wrote:

Japanese Woodblock replica.

I was always impressed at how realistic Dali's work was. Even though it was weird and defied the laws of everything, it almost looked like a photo of the weird shit happening. Thus I guessed Dali. That said my comp isn't showing me the Dali pic.

And that's not any Ukiyo e artist, that's Sharaku (i think that's how you spell it) Do i get another point?

This seems like a very intelligent way to bring in new readers.


Sunday Comics on Wednesday? DC's New 'Wednesday Comics'
By Matt Brady
posted: 19 March 2009 04:11 pm ET


At a time when many newspapers are cutting back on their comics sections, DC Comics is looking to remind readers of the fun and excitement a full Sunday-sized comics section can offer.

Except they’re going to do it on Wednesdays.

The publisher today officially announced Wednesday Comics, a new 12-part weekly series launching this summer that will be presented in a 14” x 20” broadsheet format and will have to be unfolded and opened to be read. The "Wednesday" part of the title refers to the fact new comic books go on sale at comic book stores nationwide every Wednesday.

“The concept is that we are trying to recapture the spirit, format, and sense of enjoyment that people had form reading the Sunday comics that arrive in newspapers every week,” DC Sr VP and Executive Editor Dan DiDio explained to Newsarama. “So, for this 12 week period, we’re creating 16 weekly strips that will be presented in newspaper format, which will feature some of our primary characters, as well as some of the premiere creators in the business.”

DiDio credits DC Art Director Mark Chiarello’s passion and persistence for the project seeing the light of day.

“Mark really championed and fought for this,” DiDio said. “He has a real sense for putting together some of the more commercial projects we do, as well as some of the most eclectic and critically successful things we’ve done as well. He was instrumental in pairing Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee on Batman: Hush, he put together the teams on all the Batman: Black and White projects, and created the concept of the Solo series, which allowed some of comics best creators to come to a comic and do, literally whatever they wanted to do. Mark has an incredibly keen eye for story and art, and from the start was very passionate about this format – and how the stories would play out, and the art would be almost larger than life for the reader.”

Characters coming up in the pages of Wednesday Comics include: Hawkman (already linked to creator Kyle Baker art for which can be seen here), Batman, Adam Strange, Metamorpho (linked to Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred), Catwoman, Demon, Deadman, Kamandi, Superman, Sgt. Rock, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Supergirl, Flash and the Metal Men . Each story will have its own full-page installment each week for the 12 issues. The stories may be standalone stories with each installment, or a 12-part serial – the choice was left up to the creators.

DiDio listed off names of some of the other creators joining Baker, Gaiman and Allred on Wednesday Comics: Brian Azzarello, Paul Pope, Walt Simonson, Dave Bullock, Dave Gibbons, Ryan Sook, John Arcudi, Lee Bermejo, Joe Kubert, Ben Caldwell, Kurt Busiek, Eddie Berganza, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Karl Kerschel. More will be announced at a later date, along with an official pairing of creators and characters.

“Mark had creators in mind that he wanted to work with, and he approached them and asked what they wanted to do and work on. We didn’t want to have any redundancies, so we shot for the widest breadth of storytelling we could, and I think we got it,” DiDio said.

Finally, DiDio stated that the stories in Wednesday Comics will not take place in current DC Comics’ continuity, but rather will be accessible by any and all readers. “All the creators are working to make sure that these stories are being created from the standpoint that the readers is someone who has never seen or read anything with the character before,” DiDio said, “And really capture both the essence of the character as well as the magic of comics.”

Check back with Newsarama tomorrow for an interivew with Mark Chiarello about the origins of Wednesday Comics.

Uhm . . . This could be good? I've never been a fan of the "serial drama comic strip" thing. I want my comic strips to be, setup--->punchline.

I much prefer action in a large 22-page full color format shot straight into my arm through a dirty syringe.

Mr.Wholesome wrote:

This seems like a very intelligent way to bring in new readers.


Sunday Comics on Wednesday? DC's New 'Wednesday Comics'
By Matt Brady
posted: 19 March 2009 04:11 pm ET


At a time when many newspapers are cutting back on their comics sections, DC Comics is looking to remind readers of the fun and excitement a full Sunday-sized comics section can offer.

Except they’re going to do it on Wednesdays.

The publisher today officially announced Wednesday Comics, a new 12-part weekly series launching this summer that will be presented in a 14” x 20” broadsheet format and will have to be unfolded and opened to be read. The "Wednesday" part of the title refers to the fact new comic books go on sale at comic book stores nationwide every Wednesday.

“The concept is that we are trying to recapture the spirit, format, and sense of enjoyment that people had form reading the Sunday comics that arrive in newspapers every week,” DC Sr VP and Executive Editor Dan DiDio explained to Newsarama. “So, for this 12 week period, we’re creating 16 weekly strips that will be presented in newspaper format, which will feature some of our primary characters, as well as some of the premiere creators in the business.”

DiDio credits DC Art Director Mark Chiarello’s passion and persistence for the project seeing the light of day.

“Mark really championed and fought for this,” DiDio said. “He has a real sense for putting together some of the more commercial projects we do, as well as some of the most eclectic and critically successful things we’ve done as well. He was instrumental in pairing Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee on Batman: Hush, he put together the teams on all the Batman: Black and White projects, and created the concept of the Solo series, which allowed some of comics best creators to come to a comic and do, literally whatever they wanted to do. Mark has an incredibly keen eye for story and art, and from the start was very passionate about this format – and how the stories would play out, and the art would be almost larger than life for the reader.”

Characters coming up in the pages of Wednesday Comics include: Hawkman (already linked to creator Kyle Baker art for which can be seen here), Batman, Adam Strange, Metamorpho (linked to Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred), Catwoman, Demon, Deadman, Kamandi, Superman, Sgt. Rock, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Teen Titans, Supergirl, Flash and the Metal Men . Each story will have its own full-page installment each week for the 12 issues. The stories may be standalone stories with each installment, or a 12-part serial – the choice was left up to the creators.

DiDio listed off names of some of the other creators joining Baker, Gaiman and Allred on Wednesday Comics: Brian Azzarello, Paul Pope, Walt Simonson, Dave Bullock, Dave Gibbons, Ryan Sook, John Arcudi, Lee Bermejo, Joe Kubert, Ben Caldwell, Kurt Busiek, Eddie Berganza, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Karl Kerschel. More will be announced at a later date, along with an official pairing of creators and characters.

“Mark had creators in mind that he wanted to work with, and he approached them and asked what they wanted to do and work on. We didn’t want to have any redundancies, so we shot for the widest breadth of storytelling we could, and I think we got it,” DiDio said.

Finally, DiDio stated that the stories in Wednesday Comics will not take place in current DC Comics’ continuity, but rather will be accessible by any and all readers. “All the creators are working to make sure that these stories are being created from the standpoint that the readers is someone who has never seen or read anything with the character before,” DiDio said, “And really capture both the essence of the character as well as the magic of comics.”

Check back with Newsarama tomorrow for an interivew with Mark Chiarello about the origins of Wednesday Comics.

This ...is brilliant!