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[Dyle]

Thanks for the bump, it's a nice Monday morning surprise. I've been trying to decide what my next thread topic should be, right now I'm debating between a survey of the street art influences in a whole variety of games or viewing Kentucky Route Zero through American Realists like Edward Hopper, although I might wait until episode five is released for that one.

OP is a fan of The Drowned Man I see

Awesome post

You bet, it was a post here on gaf back in April 2014 that introduced me to Punchdrunk and immersive theatre. I wish we could go back, but you know what they say, we can never go home anymore...

 

[Monocle]

Fascinating and informative OP. Glad this popped back up. I missed it initially.

 

[Peroroncino]

You should think about making YT videos OP, I'd love to watch stuff like this.

 

[Monocle]

You should think about making YT videos OP, I'd love to watch stuff like this.

Yeah if he were to do a Nerdwriter sort of thing, I'm sure people would support it on Patreon.

 

[wild wild rice]

Nice OP!

Gaudi's architecture is wonderful. I made sure to see all the major stuff while I was in Barcelona and it was amazing.

 

[Demicore]

What a great OP, OP! Wonderful job! This should be in a media outlet and you should get paid for it.

 

[Adaren]

Great post!

The lack of any interest in the organic world of vines and flowers is definitely the main missing aspect of Art Nouveau, which doesn't quite fit in Bayonetta.

I don't pretend to have any knowledge of art history, but this got me thinking about instances of nature imagery in Bayonetta.

- Pulley's Butterfly

- Bayonetta's stained glass butterfly wings (and Madama Butterfly's as well, of course).
- Bayonetta has a curling rose embroidery on her abdomen in the first game. It's easy to miss, since it was almost invisible with the 360's color curve!
- Rose petals also scatter when Bayonetta is hit, and a rose flashes on her person to represent the impact.
- Bayonetta's cat earrings.

Balder might represent a "perversion" of nature, with the dead peacock around his neck.

 

[deriks]

That is a fine work, OP.

 

[Hastati]

I have only read the OP in chunks but will finish reading later, awesome work.
Mucha specifically seems to have inspired a number of Japanese developers, like the logos for FF games are Mucha-esque.

 

[Mdk7]

Stunning thread, what a great read! Congrats OP.

 

[Vital Tundra]

Can't read right now but can't wait to read when I got the time to really soak it in.

 

[Subaru]

Amazing ;-)

 

[sixteen-bit]

I wonder if Jansson Stegner's paintings influenced Bayonetta's proportions