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Such a quirky, yet inoffensive art style for my corporate shitpost

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That art style is called “Alegria” or “Corporate Memphis” and it always makes me feel kind of nauseated, even without the cannibalism.

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    • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its the comic sans of art movements. It works really well for what it was designed for (eye-catching, inoffensive, and simple) but its both overused and misused in enough places that people have soured on it over the years.

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve got a visceral reaction to it now and see it as threatening and as a sign to run far as fuck from whatever I’m being sold.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This wiki page is one of my favourites.

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      • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        LOL Right? The contempt is just barely contained by the Wikipedia voice and tone.

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    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for the interesting read.

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  • Hegar@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In case anyone missed the reference, this is based on a work found painted on the walls of Fransisco Goya's dining room after he died. You'll often hear it called "Saturn Devouring His Son", but the work was never titled or displayed publicly. There's really no good reason to believe that the devouring is Chronos/Saturn, that the devouree is even a child, or that either body is male.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Untitled Dining Room is the name of my first album

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    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, I knew what it was normally called but never heard of the context. Did this person depict lots of mythological figures?

      Apologies if this is common knowledge, I am incapable of remembering certain things.

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      • Hegar@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Did this person depict lots of mythological figures?

        Nope! It's been a few decades since my art history lectures but my memory is (and wikipedia agrees) that he did a lot of portraits and battle scenes. IIRC his battle paintings inspired Picasso's. His late work is especially dark - madness and horror type stuff. Sinister distorted figures. They're often called The Black Paintings.

        if this is common knowledge

        Quite the opposite. This painting was used in a slide in my greek mythology class during the lecture about the titans and chronos. Then in an art history class I learned the context, which I feel is much less known.

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    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree, the fact that the painting was never titled or displayed publicly adds a lot to the work. It was just in his dining room, alongside other similar paintings, if I recall. That context makes the already unnerving work hit harder. Thanks for sharing this tidbit

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Untitled (Dining Room)

      Little things to inspire appetite 🥰

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m a big fan of Goya’s drowning dog painting, another of his Black Paintings that nobody knew about before he died

      The Dog (Goya)

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    • byroon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s really no good reason to believe that the devourer is Chronos/Saturn, that the devouree is even a child, or that either body is male.

      There is a good reason to think it’s a child - it looks like one. Just not necessarily the child of the devourer

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  • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In a similar vein, there’s a game done in this art style about going on a rampage through a tech startup office.

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    • Hegar@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There's a great Mac game from 1997 called Harry the Handsome Executive, where you zoom around on an office chair and weild a staple gun. The first level is you looking for a window so you can experience natural light again.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m still pretty impressed Aggro Crab went straight from a game like that to Another Crab’s Treasure, or Crab Souls as some have been labeling it.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And it’s pretty fun! You won’t get endless replayability like from other rogue likes, but it’s fun for 5-10 hours.

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    • Nom@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Going Under

      Donno if weird coincidence but there’s a free game on Itch about an employee going on a rampage in a corporate office named Rising Up. You can just watch it on the official itch channel on YT. Also Piped link. Reaffirmed my love for video games 🤣

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What normies think a parent killing a child process is.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t tell them about the zombies.

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    • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this where "bit his head off" saying originated?

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love it. It’s the perfect illustration of a metaphor for enshittification.

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  • RustyShackleford@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Alphabet, finally devouring Google Search. 🙄

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  • yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Titans are back

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  • subtext@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is genuinely good art, I would buy this if it were on canvas

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    • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I also want this as a canvas print. If you find one, let me know where.

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      • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s tons of online places that’ll print your picture on canvas.

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  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    New elden ring boss droped Sarah the devouerer of souls (HR)

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Submit the svg to undraw

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  • Nom@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “I can fix Chronos-chan”

                        @biganimetiddy.jpg Discord mod
    
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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Her arms need to be bendier.

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  • WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this part of Hades 2?

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