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Here's a creative use for tilt-shift. make paintings more realistic!

http://www.fludit.com/inspiration/impre ... aylon.html

Talk about a flea on the back of a legend.

if Van Gogh wanted to blur out the background, he would have painted it that way.

Another case of 'artist' ripped off by a photographer.
Now who owns the copyright to that?!

Anyway, just another use of tilt-shift, but impressive? Come on.

not really just another techno toy

aside from the fact that it's van gogh's work. I like that she's thinking outside the box and doing something different. it doesn't appear like she's out to sell the work or anything so this is a different case from that street car painting.

What she has done is just TECHNO CRAP, and to steel from a more resent post.

The End!

LOL man you people are hard to please

I've got to be honest. That link makes me sad.
Even prints of the original works feel cheap.
But this just made me sad.
Chances are it was just done in PS too. Taking masterpieces like that and quite frankly ruining them is depressing.

I appreciate the link. The "work" contained leaves much to be desired in my books though.

Appropriation and re-interpretation has been an established element of art for quite a long time now. Whether or not it has been well done is a valid question, however, but not whether it is done at all.

I think the effect is interesting. More so how some of them really get an amazing feel of 3 dimensions

as long as the person is not profiting off these in any way... I don't see the problem

Gimmicky imho.

being a first at something has always been extremely controversial in any field

I don't like this particular attempt

It was.

it surely was photoshop. Can't say I like it.

I hardly call this original as fake tilt shift was all the rage on flickr a couple of years ago where it was applied to all sorts of different images. Personally I didn't like it then and I don't like it here. As pointed out above using a masterpiece as basis for your own work is common practice and derivative hardly original, what next maybe adding both the Orton effect and cross processing actions to the "Last supper" now that would be really original

I always thought those chiaroscuro paintings by Rembrandt were too dark. Perhaps some HDR to bring out more detail in the shadows?

LOL, and some photoshop can reshape Mona Lisa's smile and face to make her look more like Heidi Montage. And make her a blonde too.

I didn't say original, wasn't she the first one to use it the way she used it on a Van Gogh picture? Imagine if she'd used the effect using paint on the original painting worth millions?

I made an instructional blog to help people correct old painting


http://blog.metrix-x.com/2011/01/last-supper-redux.html

you forgot to add a texture of old cracked paint to it

No No I was restoring to new not trying to make it look older

I really don't see the point of this 'work' and re-imagining Van Gogh is a bit much imo

I thought it was funny - it didn't offend me

agreed...it's just TECHNO CRAP. Gimmick, whatever. No one would consider it her work per se. So, doesn't offend me as i don't consider it "art", just techno gimmicky.