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Post by stickem on May 8, 2012 3:24:53 GMT
Hi all! I just found this site for a place called The Walters Museum. Never been there in person, but as of now I plan to go... If you never ever want to be satisfied with any of the swords you own ever again, then look at this stuff... and feast your eyes on the most beautiful sword fittings I have ever seen... 25 pages of 'em. It's like tsuba Nirvana on page 15... I know, I know, quit flappin' your gums and just tell us where to go :roll: 'nuff said Here: art.thewalters.org/browse/category/japanese-military-armor/
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Post by Jussi Ekholm on May 8, 2012 18:05:47 GMT
Thanks for posting that link to Walters museum, it's golden. So much awesome stuff in there and some very rare designs too. Guess that's where I will be spending rest of the day.
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Post by deejay on May 8, 2012 21:35:24 GMT
Thanks-karma incoming for ya-just bookmarked it under "porn"
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Post by stickem on May 9, 2012 0:00:50 GMT
DJ ~ My pleasure. And I do mean pleasure This is exactly what I meant by "only go there if you never want to look at your own sword again the same way and be satisfied with it." This is not unlike porn, where all of a sudden you are measuring your significant other vs. a professional artist :lol:
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Post by stickem on May 9, 2012 0:07:56 GMT
Jussi ~
You're welcome. I think the part about rare designs really sticks out to me too. After seeing ArtsFeng or even Fred Lohman's tsubas for sale, I got this idea in my head that the modern reproduction tsubas followed only certain themes and patterns... but the stuff at the Walters Museum in many cases is unlike anything I have seen before elsewhere.
These pieces belong in an art museum, and d@mned I might be able to paint a tsuba a little bit, but those guys making this stuff were real artists with real skills. In my opinion, some of the stuff there is every bit as impressive as the VanGogh paintings I've seen in person, or the Shakespeare I read and finally got the jokes. The only difference is those guys made art in a more mainstream medium like painting canvass or writing poems.
But art is art, and man it sure is...
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Post by wolf_shade on May 10, 2012 15:02:19 GMT
What's the term for a person incapable of recognizing fine art? Apparently that's me.
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Post by johnwalter on May 12, 2012 14:32:16 GMT
Awesome!Thank you!
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Post by lamebmx on May 12, 2012 14:59:45 GMT
dude, they have a crazy level of zoom to see each fitting better!
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Post by John Greybeard on May 12, 2012 15:21:57 GMT
Holy Freakin' Shamolys!!! This stuff is incredible!!! For me read the above statement as
"If you never ever want to be satisfied with any of your own work, ever again, then look at this stuff"
Seriously, that does it, I quit...
OK, maybe not - but I'll certainly return to my bench with an enhanced sense of humility and a renewed inspiration. What a treasure trove!!!
Stickem, here's another two for broadening my horizons again! Thanks, Bro!!!
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Post by deejay on May 12, 2012 16:43:35 GMT
I cannot tell you how much time I have spent gazing at the stuff-Im sure my wife can though .By the way John-I love your art buddy-
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Post by stickem on May 12, 2012 16:59:29 GMT
Thanks for the love, Greybeard. I feel where you are coming from. I am trying my hand at some customization project for the first time and seeing the Walters' stuff makes me feel pretty small, like a dwarf, in my efforts: forum.sword-buyers-guide.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=11025&p=139955#p139955However, going to use the stuff as inspiration and not competition. Hope you do the same, brother!
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Post by stickem on May 13, 2012 1:51:57 GMT
Right! I forgot to remind everyone of that feature, so thanks for doing so, LameBMX.
I wonder if due to all the zoom lenses on cameras and such whether we can actually see a closer up view of these works on our computers than the artists could actually see when they made them hundreds of years ago?
Crazy to imagine we might actually be able to see their art now, at home, better than they did back then at the bench :ugeek:
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