Questions tagged [art]
Pertaining to the area of human accomplishments in which intangible creative elements are applied to produce the final product. Can pertain to the production, interpretation or appreciation of works created to evoke specific emotional responses, such as in painting or music.
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Is this hand-in-shirt gesture Masonic?
I've got casual acquaintances linking to things on Twitter about how this gesture of sticking your hand in your shirt in your formal portrait is actually Masonic.
Without worrying about how much the ...
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Is there a depiction of Lucifer in the Vatican Necropolis?
A YouTube video, Lucifer's Temple Chambers Beneath the Vatican (What's There Revealed) claims that there is a depiction representing Lucifer, the Light-Bringer, in the Vatican Necropolis, under Saint ...
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Was Picasso chased out of town after unveiling Guernica?
In multiple interviews, Lana Wachowski has told this story:
Picasso, when he revealed Guernica, was actually chased to the train station by an angry mob.
—The Wachowskis | DePaul VAS
But we knew, we ...
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Was the golden ratio deliberately used for aesthetics in ancient or Renaissance times?
It's a famous claim that the golden ratio was both known to and deliberately used by artists and/or architects, for example in the Parthenon. I doubt this, and suspect that any observations about the ...
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Has Francesca Marie Smith written any episodes of Hey Arnold?
Migrate to movies se if need be please.
It says in this reddit post here
TIL Francesca Marie Smith, the voice of Helga from Hey Arnold, actually started writing episodes of Hey Arnold when she was ...
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Did China destroy a Guanyin statue in Hebei province?
From Mongolia live:
It was not the Taliban who exploded the stone carvings, but the Chinese Communist Party
A 57.9-meter-tall cliff stone-carved vertical Guanyin statue in Pingshan County, ...
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Is this photo showing a woman standing in the nude before teenagers real?
There's a photo going around Twitter and the right-wing blogosphere of a woman standing in the nude at an art exhibition attended by a bunch of teenagers.
I do not want to embed this photo, as it ...
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Does Lee Hadwin have "artistic ability" only when asleep?
The artist Lee Hadwin claims that he paints only when he is asleep and has no artistic talent when he is awake.
A dailymail article about his gallery opening:
An artist who has no artistic ability ...
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Do spoilers increase enjoyment of a story?
There are studies such as this where people report that spoilers increase enjoyment for narrative works.
According to research by UC San Diego psychology professor Nicholas Christenfeld, spoilers ...
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Was the Banksy painting 'Girl with balloon' shredded after its auction?
The newspapers and internet are full of the incident of the shredding of Banksy's painting 'Girl with balloon'.
But (Quoting from BoredPanda):
People Were Amazed By Banksy’s Painting Shredding, But ...
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Restoration of Jesus fresco a fake?
The story goes:
A devout Spanish woman is being roundly criticized after taking it
upon herself to restore a church fresco of Jesus, a ham-fisted attempt
that left the piece looking like a ...
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Is the Mona Lisa in the Louvre the Real one [closed]
Is the Mona Lisa hanging in Paris/Louvre the real one? There are "other versions" and copies that are well known. It was stolen in 1911 after all, as well as vandalized a couple of times. There have ...
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Is Sesame Street at risk of losing funding with Trump's new budget proposal?
Trump's latest budget proposal includes cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. There have been claims that this would endanger funding to Sesame Street. However, Sesame Street moved off of ...
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Does Melania Trump's security cost double the National Endowment for the Arts' budget?
This viral post was found at The Resistance with 16,000 shares in less 12 hours. It's from @chapmanchapman who seems to be commenting on Trump cutting the National Endowment for the Arts.
The est. ...
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Did Persian rug makers traditionally include deliberate imperfections?
Did Persian rug makers traditionally deliberately include imperfections, often called Persian flaws? If so, did they do so because only Allah was perfect? Example claim:
Traditional, hand-made ...
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