Traditional Art

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From dabblers to masters, obscure to popular and ancient to futuristic, this is an inclusive community dedicated to showcasing all types of art by all kinds of artists, as long as they're made in a traditional medium

'Traditional' here means 'Physical', as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

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"Carbon Based Lifeform" [OC] (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Julien_catanese to c/traditional_art

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Hand carved/hand printed linocut [edit : that i made] 70x100cm, gold & black version. Scifi inspired work

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I assume each square represents something specific about humans but I can't figure out most of them. Can someone list them?

[–] Julien_catanese 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Humans are ultimately quite absent from that work, the theme is more exobiology :) Sometimes there are direct links, sometimes not at all, it is a mixture of one third, two thirds of figurative elements and abstract elements without there necessarily being a link between the different parts. I am looking above all for graphic coherence and a homogeneous, egnigmatic whole before a real meaning. it is above all a purely graphic work. a framework is still present: exobiology and cosmology. there is a topographical map, cosmological elements, figurative relief, an element which is related to bacterial life, a carbon atom, a molecule relating to "chnops" main elements of organic chemistry, a bit of dna ...all of this refers to the appearance of life elsewhere in space, all mixed with elements with occult/scifi connotations