Topic: Art and Cars Pantheon - Solved by Allemano, almost alone, and metalshapes

[Ray B.]

This is amazing (I mean it goes well over my understanding), and if you're right (and you most probably are) I've been fooled.

Now about the car illustrations others have posted in this topic: I haven't included any of those artists because I was focusing on the pop art/hyper-realist painters who worked in a totally different direction. These may be interested in car culture, but not especially in cars (except Williams). To them a Porsche is as valuable a subject as a Campbell soup can. Also they're not interested in having a recognizable style.

It would be interesting to make another Art and Cars Pantheon with car illustrators. Anyone interested? I don't know them well enough myself.

[ImpishGrin]

That Karmann-Ghia is not a painting. I's a photo treated with an effect called HDR (High Dynamic Range). Basically speaking you strengthen the range of... I don't know the appropriate word here - lighting? light intensity? luminance?... between dark and light areas of the photo. Lately t's become very popular (too popular acually for my taste )because of the widespread use of digital cameras and processing applications like Photoshop.

The effect imo is interesting, but has to be used with feeling and subtleness.