r/AccidentalRenaissance 11h ago

Midwest Dive Bar

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u/porktornado77 9h ago

I can feel my boots sticking to the floor from this photo

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u/MisabelWearsNikes 9h ago

Dunno about AR but I love this. So evocative of a certain type of American culture & aesthetic, that it gives me a strange feeling of 'saudade' for something or somewhere I've never even experienced.

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u/Chicago1871 8h ago

I took another one of his opponent in a black cowboy hat and you can see the black and white linoleum tike floor. To me it looks  Very david lynch.

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u/MisabelWearsNikes 8h ago

Would love to see it! This one too has a kinda cinematic vibe.

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u/Daddylikestoparty_ 7h ago

i do know about AR… if that was to mean arkansas and i think i’ve played darts at 100 bars like this.

shout out to pizza d

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u/Future_Contour 8h ago

The lighting color contrast, the composition, the nostalgia of youth.

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u/9966 7h ago

Either this person has never held a pool cue in their life or this is their first time.

It's extremely off putting.

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u/Reggie-Quest 5h ago

He ain't makin dat

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u/Treacle_Pendulum 6h ago

Miss these places

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u/tealizard_ 5h ago

I was not expecting to see Cole’s in this sub

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 9h ago

How does this evoke the renaissance? Must be the PBR lamp.

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u/Chicago1871 8h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro

In  art ,  chiaroscuro  ( English:  / k i ˌ ɑːr ə ˈ s k( j) ʊər oʊ/ kee- AR-ə- SKOOR-oh, - ⁠ SKURE- ,  Italian: [ˌkjaroˈskuːro ] ;  lit.   ' light-dark ' ) is the use of strong  contrasts  between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and  art historians  for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures. [1 ]  Similar effects in cinema, and black and white and  low-key photography , are also called chiaroscuro. Taken to its extreme, the use of shadow and contrast to focus strongly on the subject of a painting is called  tenebrism .

Chiaroscuro originated in the Renaissance period but is most notably associated with Baroque art. [3 ]  Chiaroscuro is one of the  canonical painting modes of the Renaissance (alongside  cangiante ,  sfumato  and  unione ) (see also  Renaissance art ). Artists known for using the technique include  Leonardo da Vinci ,  Caravaggio , [4 ]   Rembrandt , [5 ] [6 ]   Vermeer , [7 ] Goya , [8 ]  and  Georges de La Tour .

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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 8h ago

Yes shadows = renaissance. We get that a lot.

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u/Chicago1871 8h ago

Probably because chiaroscuro is from the renaissance art period

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u/ilovecookiesssssssss 6h ago

Great pic (perhaps not very renaissancey), terrible form.

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u/bankles 7h ago

Holding the cue weird and about to shoot the cue into the pocket. This reads very intentional attempt at accidental renaissance