Is this art?
Tl;dr being more open to considering niche, experimental, and/or avant-garde art as, well, art is more strongly correlated with political views than other “traditional” metrics like college education.
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Today in Cannot Unsee: dead butterflies, dead butterflies everywhere!
AIrt.
Was there ever an art movement more well-suited to being automatically generated than Cubism?
(Though as an Art Purist you could probably argue the output images from this are more, like, abstract-expressionism-with-Cubist-color-palettes but… whatever.)
Pixel imperfect.
Really interesting look at the logistics of making 2D sprite art in old Japanese videogames.
Lee!
Trying to get better at commissions (i.e. requesting them), so… here is Lee, by the amazing Dross.
I love the colors (I always have trouble coloring Lee) and goopy twisty elephant-trunk tentacles and Lee’s big dumb toothy smile and also I really need to start, like. Posting this story somewhere…
Cascading oil sheets.
Holy heck this isn’t an image. It’s an painting done entirely in CSS. And there’s more.
(These are, incidentally, designed to be viewed in Chrome. Looking at them in something else, e.g. whatever Internet Explorer is called nowadays, is interesting in the sense that it shows some of the “seams”. It’s incredible work either way.)
Big Pigment.
Apparently it’s surprisingly difficult to make a bright red pigment that’s not toxic in some way. Which means, naturally, that there’s big, big money in trying…
