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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title>For sale: oil paintings inspired by games</title><link>http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/25/for-sale-oil-paintings-inspired-by-games/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/25/for-sale-oil-paintings-inspired-by-games/</guid><comments>http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/25/for-sale-oil-paintings-inspired-by-games/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag">Culture</a></p><center><a href="http://jeremiahpalecek.blogspot.com/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/05/artgamingcqh.jpg" alt="" /></a></center>Jeremiah Palacek is a painter living in Prague in the Czech Republic. Over the last year he's created 154 paintings, many of which are inspired by, as he calls it "imagery from digital mediums" (read: games). You can see three examples of his work in the image above: from left to right you have an 8 foot by 4 foot monster inspired by <em>Counter-Strike</em> complete with abstract blood spatters, a straight up <em>Duck Hunt</em> imitation and last but not least, a sweeping (at least for those days) digital landscape from <em>Road Rash</em>. Who says <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/23/curator-kojima-games-are-not-art/">games aren't art?</a><br /><br />[Via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/24/oil_paintings_inspir.html">BoingBoing</a>]<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </p><p><a href=http://jeremiahpalecek.blogspot.com/>Read</a> | <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/25/for-sale-oil-paintings-inspired-by-games/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/622003/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/25/for-sale-oil-paintings-inspired-by-games/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>Art</category><category>BoingBoing</category><category>Counter-Strike</category><category>Duck Hunt</category><category>DuckHunt</category><category>Games</category><category>Gaming</category><category>Oil painting</category><category>OilPainting</category><category>Road Rash</category><category>RoadRash</category><category>Video game art</category><category>VideoGameArt</category><dc:creator>Conrad Quilty-Harper</dc:creator><dc:date>2006-05-25T18:25:00+00:00</dc:date></item></channel></rss>