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