35 Times People Took A Photograph And Realized It’s “Accidental Renaissance” (New Pics)
We take plenty of photos but for most of us, it's pretty difficult to get good at it. No matter how hard we're trying. Others, however, can produce a spectacular image even when they're not.
The subreddit r/AccidentalRenaissance is the biggest online "gallery" for these works — it showcases photographs that inadvertently resemble well-composed Renaissance-style art.
"We recognize there are many related art movements between the 14th and 19th centuries, including Baroque, Neo-classicism, Romantic, Dutch Golden Age, etc. All of these styles are appreciated and welcomed within this subreddit!" the moderators of r/AccidentalRenaissance write.
Following up on our earlier publications (part 1, part2), we put together a new list of the best masterpieces the subreddit has to offer. Enjoy.
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Stuck My Arm In The Coop To Sneak A Pic Of The Hens Settling Down At Dusk One Night- “Magic Hour”
National Park In Italy
To further explain Accidental Renaissance, the people who look after the subreddit provide these descriptions:
- Composition: triangular/pyramidal figures, dynamic, asymmetrical, foreshortening, and, of course, the use of the Fibonacci sequence or Golden Ratio;
- Lighting: Featuring use of sfumato (blurring/softening of outlines) and/or chiaroscuro (strong contrasts between light and dark);
- Subject: Landscapes, people, scenes that feature one or both of the above.
Billie Holiday Performing "Strange Fruit" In NYC's First Ever Integrated Club, 1939
Strange fruit is about the racial hate and the lynching of African Americans. Read the lyrics and look at that "lovely vintage picture" again. https://genius.com/Billie-holiday-strange-fruit-lyrics
This Candid Of My Hubby During The Texas Blackout
A representative of the mod team, u/Openminded_skeptic, told Bored Panda that "the most popular subjects appear to be scenes with crowds of people doing things like protesting, marching for a cause, or otherwise expressing themselves; highly saturated, photos of people, livestock, or interesting architecture featuring chiaroscuro and many times sun or light rays highlighting a portion of the photo; and photos featuring politicians or world leaders seem to be fairly popular."
The Winner Of The Miami Street Photography Festival Award By Paul Kessel
Bedtime For Jeff The Goose
As of today, the community has 816K members, or as they call themselves, universalis personae. u/Openminded_skeptic describes them "as passionate and invested in the subreddit and the subject of Renaissance-esque photography, sometimes to the point of getting into spirited debates in the comment section on whether a particular photo is or is not either accidental or Renaissance!"
u/Openminded_skeptic attributes the popularity of the subreddit to the universal appeal of the period. "Renaissance-era art was really about humanity's rebirth, culturally, economically, politically, and artistically," they said. "I think that's something that never goes out of style."
Vermeer Vibes
Girl With Goose
Indeed. Art, architecture, and science were closely linked during the Renaissance, and often these fields even fused together.
For example, artists like da Vinci incorporated scientific principles, such as anatomy into their work, so they could recreate the human body with extraordinary precision. Architects such as Filippo Brunelleschi immersed themselves in mathematics to accurately engineer and design immense buildings with expansive domes. And scientific discoveries by Galileo, Descartes, and other forward-thinking pioneers led to major shifts in thinking.
Renaissance art was characterized by realism and naturalism — artists strived to depict people and objects in a true-to-life way, and these pictures achieve that too.
Window To An Open Meadow
The Player
I'm a sports fan. I don't agree that this is okay behavior by an opposing team's fans. You don't have to cheer, but you don't have to harass and harangue. We call it "courtesy". Her gender is irrelevant. Theirs is irrelevant. THey're being rotten. End.
Load More Replies...It's what opposing fans do, and yeah, they would have done it to a male player too.
Stay strong girl! I know what you’re going through. They are just bloody jerks.
Apparently she isn't going through anything. She didn't think anything about those fans of the opposing team. The noise inspired her to play well and her team won. Her mother said the boys did nothing wrong.
Load More Replies...Someone said "gender is irrelevant," but it's not. While this is awful behavior whatever the genders are, it DOES make it worse that it's guys heckling a girl. It's an added layer of awfulness because of its context in a society that often allows men to disrespect women in a myriad of ways with little or no consequence (patronizing language, assuming women are less competent, sexist jokes and ways of referring to women, the pay gap, etc.).
https://mississippiscoreboard.com/so-what-was-going-through-the-mind-of-the-girl-in-the-picture-she-shares-that-and-more-by-billy-watkins/
The article is informative but doesn't make any of this better. A teenager is okay having to be "tough" because "she can take it." The parents support the heckling because basically "boys will be boys." What kind of philosophy is that?
Load More Replies...It doesn't! It's just fodder for everyone's' outrage.
Load More Replies...Guarantee she's a better player than all of them. She's on court and they're not.
No male basketball player has ever had something like that happen to them from opposing fans! I'm triggered by this sexism and now need to spend some time with my non-binary therapy turkey.
Don't get triggered by a single photo. Read what the girl says about it. She gives an entirely different take on the events.
Load More Replies...I may be smiling, but in my head I've punched you five times (ALL of you a-holes)!
This is just nauseating. Parents, teach your sons to be better. Not like these dickless sods.
they are heckling her trying to get her to lose her focus. they'd do the same exact thing if she were male. that's kind of what's been happening in sports since like forever. they are treating her just like anyone else. it's called the "home team advantage" for a reason. you're immediate perception of this photo just perpetuates the problem.
Load More Replies...Because they are harassing her, and their tiny, tiny, empathy-deficient brains think it's funny.
Load More Replies...EVERYBODY, GET YOUR PANTIUES UNBUNCHED AND GROW THE F**K UP! iT'S A FUXKING GAME, FANS CHEER AND JEER... GET THE F**K OVER IT AND WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN SAD LIVES!
Look at her. The way she stands with confidence despite others telling her she can't do it. What a queen
Yeah, they’re jeering but she looks like she could knock them out with one punch if she wanted to
How can everyone assume it is the opposing team giving her crap? It may be the boys team from the same school cheering her on !! I have seen this a lot in High School games where the girls play a game first and then the boys team plays and the girls cheer on the boys....Jeez. Not EVERYTHING you see is BAD !!!!!
The match would be stopped and the unruly fans ejected from the venue if I were officiating.
The match would be stopped and the unruly fans would be ejected from the venue if I were officiating.
I hope she made the winning basket to wipe the smirks off their faces. OR she is playing against the home team; no matter what- no excuse for that behavior.
I hope that expression on her face says she is no more paying attention to the d**kheads and all of her attention is in the game! Go away you d**ks! How would you like it if the girls did this to you while you were playing? That would be horrifying to you!
From an interview with the woman in the picture: https://mississippiscoreboard.com/so-what-was-going-through-the-mind-of-the-girl-in-the-picture-she-shares-that-and-more-by-billy-watkins/
One jackass is wearing a shirt from his own special club: 'National Association of Stupid A$$h@les'
The girl is a talented athlete and thought nothing of the other team's enthusiastic fans. She was focused on the game. Her mother said the boys did nothing wrong. Those involved saw the photo as a great image. https://mississippiscoreboard.com/so-what-was-going-through-the-mind-of-the-girl-in-the-picture-she-shares-that-and-more-by-billy-watkins/
This has a very strong "American Girl in Italy" vibe. ninalee-al...6aa7ff.jpg
Her own dang words: Olivia doesn’t understand why so much was made of the boys yelling at her. “All I thought when I saw the picture was, ‘Oh, wow, that’s cool. Mr. Bob sure took a good one.’ That’s all that came to mind and I really haven ’t thought much else about it. It’s basketball. It’s sports. Fans are going to yell at you.” Me: Give women credit for having the ability to be competitive and block the BS out. She doesn’t need or want pity. The teams are rivals and if a man was the one with the ball, it wouldn’t be a cool pic. Turned out this pic is about a girl and her balls, so it’s just a great pic of competition!! Take your wadded panties else where.
"The world's greatest spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds"
So, whose face the balloon got smashed into finally ? She was spoilt for choice here.
Preps won this game, thanks to this young lady's outstanding performance in those final seconds. Bet those boys went home crying to their mommies.
Although a pacifist, I would particularly like to slap the two biebers in the NASA shirt and the red shirt, and then I would continue in any given random order. Yes, they are probably fans of the other team, but would they be treating the player the same way if it were a muscular 2-meter guy? I think not. They are just bullies and there is no other way to put it.
Marches In France
Three Friends
This Polaroid My Dad Took In Amsterdam Back In The 1980s
Tea Time
Aide Of A Padre
French Farmers Use Fire To Try To Save Their Vineyards During Cold Nights
Rainbow Soldier
All I can think is the list of superheroes killed by their capes in the Incredibles,
The Dress Of Novice Monks In Thailand
Earthly Pleasures
Looks Familiar
A Priest In A Church Of Paris, France
I would love to walk into this picture with a bed and just sleep for hours.
Winter Water Main Break At Night
Despite the efforts of his PR team, it has been revealed that God does not inhabit heaven.
Friend Left A Knot On The Lead Rope By Accident And Left Us This Amazing Piece
Looks like a Renaissance picture where they're all reaching for enlightenment or whatever those paintings mean.
The More You Look, The Better It Gets
A Man Outside Of The Courthouse Learns That Derek Chauvin Was Found Guilty On All Three Counts
South Of France - Analog 35mm Film // No Edit
Pandemic Dad
A Bad Hair Day That Turned Out Like An Oil Painting
I don't know why, but I really like his nose! It's got so much personality for some reason (kinda weird I know, but it just seems to add to this photo!)
Rome, Nuns On A Break
A Young Monk
Brother Mark takes a vow of Contemplative Silence. Or maybe he broke a prop lightsaber and is trying to work out how to let George know.
Stephen Fry Being Vaccinated At The Poets' Corner Of Westminster Abbey
Orthodox Jews In The Time Of Covid
This is a funeral, all those not wearing masks were anti-body positive people, etc. Contrary to popular myth, it is a high vaccinated community, that follows scientific advice of their own medical orgs like JOWMA, and only came out average in terms of number of cases or deaths.
My Step Mother Trying To Cool Off And Sadie, Who Is Terrified Of My 6 Month Old Twins
The Jollification
Covid Reaches The Us, 2020
Note: this post originally had 105 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.
Loved it! Wonderful photography. Even the comic ones had a touch of realism art to them. Thank you.
Yes because they were part of a competition. When Bored Panda copies and pastes stuff from Reddit, they're not particularly bothered about the details.
Load More Replies...I don;t know whether or not this will work here, but I took this photo with my I phone 6 last year while walking my dog in the woods near my home. Woodland-s...bf-png.jpg
this classic image of Manchester drunks should be on this list: https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/i-dont-know-much-about-art-but-i-know-what-i-like
I think it's been on an earlier one of these compilations?
Load More Replies...Loved it! Wonderful photography. Even the comic ones had a touch of realism art to them. Thank you.
Yes because they were part of a competition. When Bored Panda copies and pastes stuff from Reddit, they're not particularly bothered about the details.
Load More Replies...I don;t know whether or not this will work here, but I took this photo with my I phone 6 last year while walking my dog in the woods near my home. Woodland-s...bf-png.jpg
this classic image of Manchester drunks should be on this list: https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/i-dont-know-much-about-art-but-i-know-what-i-like
I think it's been on an earlier one of these compilations?
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