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Title: Fine Visual Arts
Post by: Zzzptm on October 27, 2019, 05:00:59 PM

Thread for cool paintings, sculpture, photography stuff like that...

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Just saw this photograph and found it stunning:

(https://i.imgur.com/g94dJsO.jpg)

Kronotsky volcano by Igor Shpilenok.

This is another of Shpilenok's photos from Kronotsky Nature Preserve:

(http://siberiantimes.com/PICTURES/OTHERS/Kronotsky-Reserve/inside_bear.jpg)

Title: Re: Fine Visual Arts
Post by: Axefiend on October 28, 2019, 11:42:43 AM

^^^ Awesome pic Z!

Title: Re: Fine Visual Arts
Post by: Zzzptm on October 28, 2019, 01:46:29 PM

Speaking of Russians, I'm a huge fan of late 19th-Century Russian Romanticism. Viktor Vasnetsov's "Samolet" (Flying Carpet) was the painting that started me down that path:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Vasnetsov_samolet.jpg)