Posted on 03/30/2012 10:25:47 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg
From New York City to Beijing, a team of artists are shedding light on what the world would be like at the end of humanity.
In Silent World, artists Lucie and Simon have taken the world's most familiar and populous cities and removed all but one or two people to create the illusion of a lonely world.
In the thought-provoking work, places like the normally bustling Times Square and Tiananmen Square appear absent of their crowds.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
All about the pit, and saved as by a miracle from everlasting destruction, stretched the great Mother of Cities. Those who have only seen London veiled in her sombre robes of smoke can scarcely imagine the naked clearness and beauty of the silent wilderness of houses.
Old H.G. could “turn a phrase” when he wanted to...
Indeed!
All that infrastructure remains firmly intact, but the landscape is so devoid of... liberals.
How.. um.. awful(?)
I was expecting to see some destruction.
I am so disappointed about that and the lack of zombies.
Everyone is inside watching March Madness.
The pics of New York and Bejing looks like Pyongyang on a NORMAL day.
They make a T-shirt for people like you and me: ZOMPOC T-shirt ;-)
Look at Tiananmen Square, who do you see in the center portrait????
Art. Another word that the left’s ruined.
On Sayings...
“If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only
sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will
have the whole story.” (Dor del la Souchere, 1960, p. 13)
On The Parthenon...
“The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof;
colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens
who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. It is not
what the artist does that counts, but what he is. Cezanne would never
have interested me a bit if he had lived and thought like Jacques Emile
Blanche, even if the apple he painted had been ten times as beautiful.
What forces our interest is Cezanne’s anxiety - that’s Cezanne’s lesson;
the torments of Van Gogh - that is the actual drama of the man. The rest
is a sham.” (Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec Picasso, 1949)
On The Dictatorship of the Painter(s)...
“There ought to be an absolute dictatorship...a dictatorship of
painters...a dictatorship of one painter...to suppress all those who have
betrayed us, to suppress the cheaters, to suppress the tricks, to
suppress the mannerisms, to suppress charms, to suppress history, to
suppress a heap of other things. But common sense always gets away with
it. Above all, let’s have a revolution against that! The true dictator
will always be conquered by the dictatorship of common sense...and maybe
not!” (Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec Picasso, 1949)
On Guernica and Communism...
“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were
a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not
necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.”
(Interview with Jerome Seckler, 1945, Picasso Explains)
On Truth...
“What is truth? Truth cannot exist. ... Truth does not exist. ... Truth
is a lie.” (Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist, His Model, and Other Related
Works, 1965, p. 110)
On How Awful Art Is...
“Enough of Art. It’s Art that kills us. People no longer want to do
painting: they make art. People want Art. And they are given it. But
the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.”
(Parmelin, Picasso Plain, 1964, p. 30)
On Truth and Lies...
“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize
truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist
must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of
his lies.” (The Arts, Picasso Speaks, 1923)
On The Threat of Artists...
“[T]oday we haven’t the heart to expel the painters and poets from
society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger
in keeping them in our midst.” (Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec
Picasso, 1949)
On Academic Training...
“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so
well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”
(Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec Picasso, 1949)
On Planning...
“I see, for others, that is to say, in order to put on canvas the sudden
apparitions which come to me. I don’t know in advance what I am going to
put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colors I am going to
use. While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the
canvas. Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of
leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is
only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the effect of my work.”
(Zervos, Pablo Picasso, 1932, p. xv)
On The Virtue of Vagueness...
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a
vague idea.” (Kahnweiler, Juan Gris: sa vie, son oeuvre, ses ecrits,
1946, p. 83)
On Planning...
“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then
it becomes something quite else. It is remarkable how little the
‘willing’ of the artist intervenes.” (Kahnweiler, Gesprache mit Picasso,
1959, p. 85-98)
On Subjects...
“...even if the painting is green, well then! the ‘subject’ is the
green. There is always a subjet; it’s a joke to suppress the subject,
it’s impossible.” (Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist and His Model, and
other Recent Works, 1965, p. 43)
On Bad Habits...
“I paint the way someone bite his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad
habit because I don’t know nor can I do anything else.” (Gallego Morell,
de Renoir a Picasso, 1958, p. 3)
On Imitation...
“Imitators? All right! Disciples if your like. But disciples be
damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those
who create. And they don’t even turn around when you piss on their
heels...” (Georges-Michel, de Renoir a Picasso, 1954, p. 94-95)
On Imitation...
“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or
to actually imitate someone else? What’s wrong with that? On the
contrary, it’s a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like
someone else. But the thing is, you can’t! You would like to. You
try. But it turns out to be a botch...And at the very moment you make a
botch of it that you’re yourself.” (Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist and
His Model, and other Recent Works, 1965, p. 43)
On Beauty...
“’I have never in any museum seen a picture as beautiful as this one.’
[Picasso] said to me, pointing to a sheet of tin hanging on the door.
‘the man who painted this picture was not thinking of his glory.’”
(Sabartes, Picasso: portraits et souvenirs, 1946, p. 210-212)
On Bad Paintings...
“I like all painting. I always look at the paintings - good or bad - in
barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels...I’m like a drinker who
needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn’t matter which wine.”
(Guttuso, Journals, Quoted in Mario De Micheli, 1964)
On Objective Reality...
“The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing
more. And to paint seeking a new expression, divested of useless
realism, with a method linked only to my thought - without enslaving
myself with objective reality. Neither the good nor the true; neither
the useful or the useless.” (Del Pomar, Con las Buscadores del Camino,
1932, p. 126)
On Beauty, Art, and Research...
“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the
beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! Paintings are but
research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of
them are researches.” (Liberman, Picasso, Vogue, November 1, 1956)
On Blindness as a Virtue...
“[T]hey ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in
order that they can sing better.” (Teriade, En causant avec Picasso,
Intransigeant, June 15, 1932)
On Kiddie Art...
When visiting an exhibition of children’s drawings, Piscasso remarked:
“When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a
lifetime to learn to draw like them.” (Penrose, Picasso: His Life and
Work, 1958, p. 275)
On Imposters...
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their
business are mostly imposters.” (Zervos, Conversation avec Picasso, 1935)
On Symbolism and Communism...
“If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation
of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to
reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.”
(Interview with Jerome Seckler, Picasso Explains, 1945)
On Art as a Weapon...
“No, painting is not made to decorate apartments, it’s an offensive and
defensive weapon against the enemy.” (Tery, Picasso, n’est pas officer
dans l’Armee francaise, Les Lettres Francaises, March 24, 1945)
“Not a Single Zombie in any of the pics! So how can it be accurate?”
True, true. For a more accurate picture.....
http://total-wallpapers.com/free-fantasy-wallpapers/fantasy-angel-wallpaper-1455
It looks like the lone survivor is wearing a burka.
You mean the Omnipotent Obama Zombie that would be center-picture of the entire demise. That is what is missing.
Art. Another word ruined by the Left.
Here’s some wisdom from the on-again-off-again commie, Pablo Picasso....
On Sayings...
“If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only
sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will
have the whole story.” (Dor del la Souchere, 1960, p. 13)
On The Parthenon...
“The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof;
colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens
who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. It is not
what the artist does that counts, but what he is. Cezanne would never
have interested me a bit if he had lived and thought like Jacques Emile
Blanche, even if the apple he painted had been ten times as beautiful.
What forces our interest is Cezanne’s anxiety - that’s Cezanne’s lesson;
the torments of Van Gogh - that is the actual drama of the man. The rest
is a sham.” (Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec Picasso, 1949)
On The Dictatorship of the Painter(s)...
“There ought to be an absolute dictatorship...a dictatorship of
painters...a dictatorship of one painter...to suppress all those who have
betrayed us, to suppress the cheaters, to suppress the tricks, to
suppress the mannerisms, to suppress charms, to suppress history, to
suppress a heap of other things. But common sense always gets away with
it. Above all, let’s have a revolution against that! The true dictator
will always be conquered by the dictatorship of common sense...and maybe
not!” (Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec Picasso, 1949)
On Guernica and Communism...
“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were
a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not
necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.”
(Interview with Jerome Seckler, 1945, Picasso Explains)
On Truth...
“What is truth? Truth cannot exist. ... Truth does not exist. ... Truth
is a lie.” (Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist, His Model, and Other Related
Works, 1965, p. 110)
On How Awful Art Is...
“Enough of Art. It’s Art that kills us. People no longer want to do
painting: they make art. People want Art. And they are given it. But
the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.”
(Parmelin, Picasso Plain, 1964, p. 30)
On Truth and Lies...
“We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize
truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist
must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of
his lies.” (The Arts, Picasso Speaks, 1923)
On The Threat of Artists...
“[T]oday we haven’t the heart to expel the painters and poets from
society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger
in keeping them in our midst.” (Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec
Picasso, 1949)
On Academic Training...
“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so
well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”
(Cashiers de Art, Conversation Avec Picasso, 1949)
On Planning...
“I see, for others, that is to say, in order to put on canvas the sudden
apparitions which come to me. I don’t know in advance what I am going to
put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colors I am going to
use. While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the
canvas. Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of
leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is
only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the effect of my work.”
(Zervos, Pablo Picasso, 1932, p. xv)
On The Virtue of Vagueness...
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a
vague idea.” (Kahnweiler, Juan Gris: sa vie, son oeuvre, ses ecrits,
1946, p. 83)
On Planning...
“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then
it becomes something quite else. It is remarkable how little the
‘willing’ of the artist intervenes.” (Kahnweiler, Gesprache mit Picasso,
1959, p. 85-98)
On Subjects...
“...even if the painting is green, well then! the ‘subject’ is the
green. There is always a subjet; it’s a joke to suppress the subject,
it’s impossible.” (Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist and His Model, and
other Recent Works, 1965, p. 43)
On Bad Habits...
“I paint the way someone bite his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad
habit because I don’t know nor can I do anything else.” (Gallego Morell,
de Renoir a Picasso, 1958, p. 3)
On Imitation...
“Imitators? All right! Disciples if your like. But disciples be
damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those
who create. And they don’t even turn around when you piss on their
heels...” (Georges-Michel, de Renoir a Picasso, 1954, p. 94-95)
On Imitation...
“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or
to actually imitate someone else? What’s wrong with that? On the
contrary, it’s a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like
someone else. But the thing is, you can’t! You would like to. You
try. But it turns out to be a botch...And at the very moment you make a
botch of it that you’re yourself.” (Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist and
His Model, and other Recent Works, 1965, p. 43)
On Beauty...
“’I have never in any museum seen a picture as beautiful as this one.’
[Picasso] said to me, pointing to a sheet of tin hanging on the door.
‘the man who painted this picture was not thinking of his glory.’”
(Sabartes, Picasso: portraits et souvenirs, 1946, p. 210-212)
On Bad Paintings...
“I like all painting. I always look at the paintings - good or bad - in
barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels...I’m like a drinker who
needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn’t matter which wine.”
(Guttuso, Journals, Quoted in Mario De Micheli, 1964)
On Objective Reality...
“The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing
more. And to paint seeking a new expression, divested of useless
realism, with a method linked only to my thought - without enslaving
myself with objective reality. Neither the good nor the true; neither
the useful or the useless.” (Del Pomar, Con las Buscadores del Camino,
1932, p. 126)
On Beauty, Art, and Research...
“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the
beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! Paintings are but
research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of
them are researches.” (Liberman, Picasso, Vogue, November 1, 1956)
On Blindness as a Virtue...
“[T]hey ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in
order that they can sing better.” (Teriade, En causant avec Picasso,
Intransigeant, June 15, 1932)
On Kiddie Art...
When visiting an exhibition of children’s drawings, Piscasso remarked:
“When I was their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a
lifetime to learn to draw like them.” (Penrose, Picasso: His Life and
Work, 1958, p. 275)
On Imposters...
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their
business are mostly imposters.” (Zervos, Conversation avec Picasso, 1935)
On Symbolism and Communism...
“If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation
of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to
reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.”
(Interview with Jerome Seckler, Picasso Explains, 1945)
On Re-Education Camps and Art...
“If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.”
(Spender, Keeping a Great City Alive, Vogue, December 1946, p. 194, 224, 226)
On Art as a Weapon...
“No, painting is not made to decorate apartments, it’s an offensive and
defensive weapon against the enemy.” (Tery, Picasso, n’est pas officer
dans l’Armee francaise, Les Lettres Francaises, March 24, 1945)
Wait, that ain’t Barry Hussein I see there is it?
Hey, I thought part of the whole "apocalypse" thing was the RISING level of the oceans.
- Kate, Los Angeles
What's your FReepname, Kate from LA?
That’s how I remember NYC in the 80’s. Big, large, and empty at certain times of the day unless you wanted to be killed.
Much much much safer now, but I preferred it then. Now it’s a plastic Disney World.
I was once in Times Square on business when a hurricane coming up the coast emptied out the city. Looked pretty much just like that picture.
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