8 Giorgio de Chirico paintings + 3 Marcel Duchamp paintings (Updated 2008/01/08)
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Created by Lord Darcy
Uploaded: 6th Jan 2008 at 5:17 AM
Updated: 16th Jan 2011 at 5:42 AM
Updated: 16th Jan 2011 at 5:42 AM
2008-01-08: Somehow older package files with slightly pixelated textures got mixed up in the initial upload. I reuploaded fixed files. Just overwrite old files. File names were not changed. No need to reapply recolors in the game. Sorry for the confusion.
Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was an influential pre-Surrealist Greek-Italian painter. He is best known for the paintings he produced between 1909 and 1919, his metaphysical period, which are memorable for the haunted, brooding moods evoked by their images. (from Wikipedia)
De Chirico is one of my favourite painters. His works are hauntingly beautiful, blurring the line between reality and fantasy. But I've never seen Sim version of his work anywhere.
So I made 8 de Chirico paintings for my MoSMA (The Museum of Sim Modern Art) community lot. Plus I made 3 Marcel Duchamp paintings as a bonus. (I wish some talented mesher would make his "Fountain" sculpture. It'll be equally useful in museums and in men's restrooms...)
They are all Maxis recolors. NL and GLS required.
I did my best to keep ratios of paintings as close to the original as possible. Stretched/squashed-looking recolors are especially annoying in well-known paintings, as we are already familiar with the original ratio. Sometimes entirely wrong mesh was chosen in the first place. Other times the creator didn't bother to flip the texture, resulting in mirror-image. More often than not, the creator didn't realize that the texture must be deliberately squashed in order to look right in game.
Bonus: 3 paintings by Marcel Duchamp - see the attached thumbnail at the bottom of the post
Bride (left) / Nude Descending a Staircase (No.2) (right) - Recolors of base game "The Lady On Red" painting.
Chocolate Grinder No.2 (center) - Recolor of NL "Grilled Cheese" poster.
Additional Credits:
Numenor for CEP | Olga's Gallery - tons of HQ scans for famous art
justmoi for idea about naming convention of recolor files
Everyone who contributed to the development of SimPE
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Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 – November 20, 1978) was an influential pre-Surrealist Greek-Italian painter. He is best known for the paintings he produced between 1909 and 1919, his metaphysical period, which are memorable for the haunted, brooding moods evoked by their images. (from Wikipedia)
De Chirico is one of my favourite painters. His works are hauntingly beautiful, blurring the line between reality and fantasy. But I've never seen Sim version of his work anywhere.
So I made 8 de Chirico paintings for my MoSMA (The Museum of Sim Modern Art) community lot. Plus I made 3 Marcel Duchamp paintings as a bonus. (I wish some talented mesher would make his "Fountain" sculpture. It'll be equally useful in museums and in men's restrooms...)
They are all Maxis recolors. NL and GLS required.
I did my best to keep ratios of paintings as close to the original as possible. Stretched/squashed-looking recolors are especially annoying in well-known paintings, as we are already familiar with the original ratio. Sometimes entirely wrong mesh was chosen in the first place. Other times the creator didn't bother to flip the texture, resulting in mirror-image. More often than not, the creator didn't realize that the texture must be deliberately squashed in order to look right in game.
Love Song (left) / Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (right) - Recolors of NL "Grilled Cheese" poster.
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street is my favourite de Chirico painting.
Le Rêve transformé - Recolor of NL "Cantankerous Splatters" painting.
The Soothsayer's Recompense (left) / Piazza (Souvenir d'Italie) (right) - Recolors of GLS "Abstrusionism" painting.
Nostalgia of the Infinite (left) / The Awakening of Ariadne (center) / The Great Tower (right) - Recolors of GLS "The Muse" painting.
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street is my favourite de Chirico painting.
Le Rêve transformé - Recolor of NL "Cantankerous Splatters" painting.
The Soothsayer's Recompense (left) / Piazza (Souvenir d'Italie) (right) - Recolors of GLS "Abstrusionism" painting.
Nostalgia of the Infinite (left) / The Awakening of Ariadne (center) / The Great Tower (right) - Recolors of GLS "The Muse" painting.
Bonus: 3 paintings by Marcel Duchamp - see the attached thumbnail at the bottom of the post
Bride (left) / Nude Descending a Staircase (No.2) (right) - Recolors of base game "The Lady On Red" painting.
Chocolate Grinder No.2 (center) - Recolor of NL "Grilled Cheese" poster.
Additional Credits:
Numenor for CEP | Olga's Gallery - tons of HQ scans for famous art
justmoi for idea about naming convention of recolor files
Everyone who contributed to the development of SimPE
This is a Maxis Recolour which means that it is a recolour of an item that already exists in your game. Please check the Pack requirements to see which game pack it recolours.
This custom content if it is not clothing, may require a seperate download to work properly. This is available at Colour Enable Package (CEP) by Numenor.
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LdDarcy_Painting_DeChirico_Duchamp-Fixed.zip
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#de Chirico, #Giorgio de Chirico, #Chirico, #Duchamp, #Marcel Duchamp, #surreal, #surrealism, #surrealist, #dada, #dadaism, #dadaist, #modern, #grilled cheese, #cheese, #cantankerous, #splatters, #abstrusionism, #abstract, #muse, #lady on red, #vertical, #painting, #modern pain
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I have my own section at MATY now. Visit DarcyLand for some more goodies that are not available in MTS2.
Check this MATY thread for AL compatibility of my hacks. All my mods are now confirmed to be compatible with AL, or updated to AL.
Recently I'm getting a lot of PMs asking how to update various custom objects like fridges or computers up to FreeTime.
I wrote a tutorial for updating custom fridges and computers to FreeTime. For other types of objects, go read this MATY thread where a lot of information is gathered. A similar thread for AL is here.
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Basically, you can do whatever you want with my creations, as long as they stay free. You can upload them to other free sites, include them in lots or Sims, modify them if you want.
Please make a link back to my original MTS2 threads, in case I update my past creations. If you're reuploading my mods to other sites, please keep them up to date. Check my MTS2 journal for updates of past creations..
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