The paintings of Jean-Léon Gérôme are pure cinema — yet made several decades before the first motion picture. These images have directly influenced movies

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 days ago

Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 16 days ago

Thank you so much for posting in this community.

I’ve never heard of any of these artists, and their work is just stunning.

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 days ago

Thank you.

KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 15 days ago

Same. Amazing, thank you.

protist@mander.xyz · edit-2 16 days ago

Pygmalion and Galatea is my favorite:

cybervseas@lemmy.world · 16 days ago

There’s a lovely short interactive fiction about Galatea the statue: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=urxrv27t7qtu52lb

Eq0@literature.cafe · 15 days ago

Is the first painting real? Like, did these two massive statues in the nothingness exist two sentries ago?

stelelor@lemmy.ca · 15 days ago

Eq0@literature.cafe · 15 days ago

Wow… 🤯 poorly presented, unfortunately, but wow

Pencilnoob@lemmy.world · 15 days ago

Thanks for posting these, I love learning about new paintings.

That one clearly inspired shots in the Lion King

kat_angstrom@lemmy.world · 15 days ago

I love me some Gerome

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 days ago

Will now mostly be posting on [email protected]

Come join the comm ❤️