Museum fantasy

[neurolurker]

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A GIMP assemblage. Perhaps Winged Victory has absconded with one of Venus De Milo's arms.

[Issabella]

I like ir a lot, neurolurker.

[sallyanne]

cool

[neurolurker]

Issabella & Sallyanne, thank you.

[PixLab]

but why "Artist and date unknown"?

[neurolurker]

Patrice, thank you for asking. Strictly speaking, I'm fond of visual symmetry and I needed something placed close to the bottom of the overall image to balance the white-spaced "title" that I had put at the top of the image.

Originally I wanted the title text to appear as something handwritten on the parchment area itself (the whole thing was supposed to look like some kind of treasure that had been wrapped in the surrounding paper) but I couldn't get the text to look like I wanted, so the handwriting ended up looking like a printed exhibit identification card. And that actually gave the piece it's Museum Fantasy designation.

The words "artist and date unknown" was just imitating something I've often seen used for artifacts in museums.

I used online translators to make images of the Greek text, which I cannot read myself. My hat is off to you!

Ben

[PixLab]

Patrice, thank you for asking. Strictly speaking, I'm fond of visual symmetry and I needed something placed close to the bottom of the overall image to balance the white-spaced "title" that I had put at the top of the image.

Symmetry does it very well

........./......so the handwriting ended up looking like a printed exhibit identification card. And that actually gave the piece it's Museum Fantasy designation.
The words "artist and date unknown" was just imitating something I've often seen used for artifacts in museums.

That was one of my thoughts, the museum theme, where we can often see artist unknown, date unknown,

I used online translators to make images of the Greek text, which I cannot read myself. My hat is off to you!
Ben

Oh no, no hat off please , I don't speak Greek nor can read Greek, but out of curiosity I did use my phone with the Google translate App, where it uses the camera and reads an image and the writing on the image is translated (Where I live we got a lot of mall specialized with food product from Korea, Japan, China, etc, and there is no English on the packaging... Yes lot of people are with their phone scanning the product in those malls )

I hope you will do more "museum fantasy" I like the theme

[Skinnyhouse]

This looks like it could have been an Album cover from the Seventies.
Like it a lot!

[gasMask]

I like the palette and texture in this "Museum fantasy".

[neurolurker]

Patrice, Skinnyhouse and gasMask: Thank you for your comments and please pardon my late reply. I was without reliable computing for more than a month since the days you posted. Even now that it's "repaired" -- more like a stroke victim in rehabilitation -- I don't trust it to keep working from one hour to the next.

Patrice: I had no idea about that use of a translation app. One of the best things about Gimp Chat is how much I've learned about a world much bigger than the one I inhabit.

Skinnyhouse: Yes, 60's and 70's album covers formed a big part of my art education, along with paperback book and magazine covers. A few years ago I made an imaginary album cover for an imaginary Al Stewart album based on the title of the song "The Dark and the Rolling Sea." I hadn't thought about that for years until your comment. I guess the album cover inspiration impulse is still more active in me than I realized.

gasMask: Thank you for noticing. I actually spent more time trying to work out the colors and textures than anything else in the image. Trying to put in the faux paper creases actually crashed GIMP several times. All of the bits and pieces of the image -- the figure, from an AI text prompt "the place where all the angels cry", the stars and lighting elements of its background, the paper colors and patterns, the shadows, are from sources other than my own hands but none of them are used exactly as I found them. All were transformed in some way and assembled in GIMP.