The Forbidden Elysium
Made by the dilletante painter, Albert De Lirium, and generally considered his Magnum Opus, this work of art is an entire room in holo-paint (3D analog). It portrays a scenery of sorts, most often compaired to a garden or forest scene, but every perceived plant is foreign and somehow hard on the eyes to focus in on. Everything is painted in bright, vibrant colors, most yellow and shades of orange. To enter the artwork to get the full experience has an extreme effect on most visitors, as they start feeling dizzy or spaced out after a while. If not paced through the art piece, ones sense of place or time can get lost, and the experience has been described by most as directly narcotic or psychedelic.
Albert De Lirium was known for planning his creative sessions, buying modules or "rooms" to fill out with holo-paint, experimenting with pre-planned narcotic cocktails to enhance his experience and expression while working. In this case, his determined drug was the extremely rare recently discovered mineral, rratite, known to give a violent psychedelic effect when inhaled mistakenly by miners. He is said to have swallowed a piece the size of a raisin at the start of his painting session, and being found dead in the middle of his persumed finished masterwork, in the early morning hours.
Albert De Lirium was known for planning his creative sessions, buying modules or "rooms" to fill out with holo-paint, experimenting with pre-planned narcotic cocktails to enhance his experience and expression while working. In this case, his determined drug was the extremely rare recently discovered mineral, rratite, known to give a violent psychedelic effect when inhaled mistakenly by miners. He is said to have swallowed a piece the size of a raisin at the start of his painting session, and being found dead in the middle of his persumed finished masterwork, in the early morning hours.
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Publication Status
Despite the documented potential health dangers of experiencing The Forbidden Elysium, this work of art is periodically on display, in high end art museums on earth.
Historical Details
Legacy
The art piece is still to this day considered unique in both its motive and history. To many it stands as an example of the dangers of psychedelics, and to many others a proof of a mysterious world besides our own, only noticed in glimses by a lucky few. The Masterpiece itself has even gained a gathering of religious followers.
I made this world because my mind keeps rambling, and instead of stopping it, I'm riding the wave.
It started with a picture in my mind of a tiger man in a small spacecraft following a giant tiger in space, in the tone of old saturday morning cartoons and the Heavy Metal animated movie.
Then came the idea of his occational ally, a woman in space flying a small asteroid. The more I wrote on her, the more I got intrigued by the past, I deviced.
Right now the flow is focused on her background - namely all related to The Genesis Project.
I do all of the writing and almost all of the drawing myself at this point.
My hope for Star Tiger is a published story or a graphical novel, but my big dream is an animated show.
It started with a picture in my mind of a tiger man in a small spacecraft following a giant tiger in space, in the tone of old saturday morning cartoons and the Heavy Metal animated movie.
Then came the idea of his occational ally, a woman in space flying a small asteroid. The more I wrote on her, the more I got intrigued by the past, I deviced.
Right now the flow is focused on her background - namely all related to The Genesis Project.
I do all of the writing and almost all of the drawing myself at this point.
My hope for Star Tiger is a published story or a graphical novel, but my big dream is an animated show.
In response to the prompt Describe the most famous pieces of art in your world. What made them so famous?
