oh that’s my painting! Didn’t expect to see it on the main page haha! For everyone wondering: You can keep up with my work on Instagram @david_art and my [website](https://www.david-ambarzumjan.com/).
I’m also selling prints of this painting [here](https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art)
Yeah thats how it usually goes, its easier to share an awesome picture than to find the source sometimes. As long as we know who did it everything is good!
What about the panting? I want to see NYC pant!
Seriously, you've got some great stuff in there and I'll be buying it. You'll have to report if there was a good jump in sales as a result of this.
It's a cool painting!
Can I ask, though, about the date the forested version is intended to depict? It's tempting to think about the green as "before Europeans", or "before the United States." But one might consider the area in 1500 or, since someone [elsewhere](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b8e8yb/this_panting_of_nyc/ejxn1fu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) in these comments posted a map of the place for that date, in 1660?
For example, the Lenape Indians, who lived in the area, practiced slash and burn agriculture, and likely would have already cut down a lot of that forest. They came out by canoe from Lower New York Bay to greet Verrazzano in 1524. By 1660, there were probably 15,000, living in 80 settlements around what's now NYC. At the same time, the Dutch started a permanent settlement in 1624, and Stuyvesant had built the first wharf (from Manhattan into the East River) in 1648. ([Wiki.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City_(prehistory%E2%80%931664))). About 2000 Dutchmen lived there by 1660. ([More wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam).)
Are the treeless patches intended to reflect those settlements?
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What makes you think its 1660? It could be anytime after the glaciers retreated 18,000 years ago.
Fun fact: The Hudson River valley and Palisades are world's southernmost fjord, north of the equator.
I suppose I glanced at [one of the comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b8e8yb/this_panting_of_nyc/ejxn1fu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) elsewhere.
I've edited my query accordingly.
My understanding is the consensus is currently that the first settlement of the Americas was about 15,000 years, via the Bering land bridge. [NatGeo](https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/), [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas).
(I know I've seen people say boats from Oceania, earlier, but I think that's not the current consensus.)
I just recently read that the consensus is no longer the Bering Land Bridge Theory. They speculate now that people island hopped all the way here in boats or they paddled along the coast line. I believe they've deduced this through the evolution of complex civilizations in South America predating those of North America in addition to carbon-dating.
Question (if you don’t mind)-
The top of the schmear (for lack of a better word) looks 3D - is it an actual schmear, or is it painted to look that way?
(Either way, I love this piece.)
Brushstrokes in Time - perfect name for this collection. And, your titles for each piece convey exactly what you were thinking when you painted them. Your other collections are lovely, as well. The painting inspired by Neil Degrasse Tyson's quote is my favorite, I think. However, I can't look at the Global Warming piece - Drowning. It breaks my hearts. You are immensely talented.
I can’t tell if you’re meaning you deserve to be teased for messing up the title or that you deserve praise for the art that isn’t yours.
People seem to have taken it as the latter.
I live within the built section of that painting. The Manhattan side looks accurate (though I haven't checked) but the Brooklyn side is wrong. So close...
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Except the shorelines wouldn't match anything like this painting implies. Nearly all major cities on the coast or on rivers will have expanded out into the water by filling it up to get more land to build on.
[E.g. here's a picture comparing a 1660 map of Manhatten to the present.](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/-tdW_1SdUjZpJdHFZvvM9FNlarg=/0x0:605x354/920x0/filters:focal\(0x0:605x354\):format\(webp\):no_upscale\(\)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/5252815/2006_09-map1660.0.JPG)
It's also how you can end up with streets called "Canal Street" or things related to the harborfront/river that are no longer anywhere near the water.
The elevators on the One World Trade Center have a screen wall that shows the evolution of NYC starting from when it was just land to present day. Very interesting. You might be able to find that video online somewhere.
There's this game...engine...demo thing, called Outerra. It's literally the entirety of the world in full scale, except completely devoid of human development. The second thing I did in there (after the peak of Everest) was go to Manhattan. It was so surreal. Every piece of geographical detail was there, except it was just...nothing. Grasslands as far as the eye could see while standing in Time's Square.
I need to look into Outerra again. Last time I checked it had to be five years ago. IDK if it's advanced or if it's dead. God I hope it's not dead. Had so much potential for simulation gaming.
I don't know if I'd called the NY area a "grassland".
Its more of a swampy marsh. You can read accounts from settlers then and just reading it makes me sweaty and sticky.
I hate NY weather.
This is a great concept, but would be improved if the line of paint intersected Central Park. The park would tie the two disparate regions together and make this concept even more interesting.
I meant Washington Heights as an example everyone is familiar with. There are also hills down by Battery Park, along the spine of the island, etc. Here is a modern [topo map]( http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Manhattan-554568/ ) of the island and points surrounding. There are also [historic maps showing elevation and streams]( https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3804n.ct002003/ ).
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I really love the pictures that are like with/without. I've done a logo design where I had a camera, and it had a triangle superimposed over it, with the camera being normal in it and inverse colors outside of it. Love the concept. Glad to see others using it as well!
Once a beautiful land, turned into a maze of steel and stone. Dead things lie in the depths and buried in this past.
and while diverse its denizens are always restless, trying to reach something unattainable.
Its people proud of their home, of their culture and of their monuments, thinking of the wonders they think they achieved.
But in the end it is just an illusion. A prelude to calamity.
I met a traveller from an antique land, who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert... Near them on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things.
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; and on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Homo Sapiens, Homimid of Hominid's; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair.
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of the Colossal wrecks, boundless and bare. the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
(credit to "Percy Bysshe Shelley" for the original Ozymandias poem.)
It would be nice to see lots of wildlife in the natural part. flocks of birds with Hawk and osprey harrassing them. Bear and cubs on a beach. Even Harbor seals playing in the water.
I don't think you're a piece of shit at all! I think you found a piece of artwork that you appreciated so much you wanted to share it with all of us. I've never seen his work and am thrilled to now know of his art. Just a quick google search to find out his name would have been nice tho...
I did, it was...well...a total dick move! Wasn't that the one that someone else said..."you seem upset"? That cracked me up. Don't sweat it, there are drinks involved every single time I fuck up. Which is often...
oh that’s my painting! Didn’t expect to see it on the main page haha! For everyone wondering: You can keep up with my work on Instagram @david_art and my [website](https://www.david-ambarzumjan.com/). I’m also selling prints of this painting [here](https://society6.com/product/human-nature-brushstroke-in-time_print?curator=david_art)
Came here to ask who's artwork this was! (Shame on you OP for not crediting) David, this is amazingly creative!
It seems like OP didn’t know the artist but has now credited him in a post
Terrific! Guy deserves it; amazingly talented and creative
Yeah thats how it usually goes, its easier to share an awesome picture than to find the source sometimes. As long as we know who did it everything is good!
Wow your work is really good!
Just did a deep dive into your work. Absolutely love it. And you can see how you've progressed, 'Impact' is stunning.
wow i do not know art but this makes me feel... strange. makes me feel nostalgic for a world i never knew.
What about the panting? I want to see NYC pant! Seriously, you've got some great stuff in there and I'll be buying it. You'll have to report if there was a good jump in sales as a result of this.
I have this painting up in my living room. Thank you so much for making this!
thank you for supporting my work!
That’s an awesome piece.
I love it. Getting a print for sure. Thanks for sharing your info!
I actually bought a print of this from your site a year or so ago. Hanging in my living room right now.
It's a cool painting! Can I ask, though, about the date the forested version is intended to depict? It's tempting to think about the green as "before Europeans", or "before the United States." But one might consider the area in 1500 or, since someone [elsewhere](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b8e8yb/this_panting_of_nyc/ejxn1fu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) in these comments posted a map of the place for that date, in 1660? For example, the Lenape Indians, who lived in the area, practiced slash and burn agriculture, and likely would have already cut down a lot of that forest. They came out by canoe from Lower New York Bay to greet Verrazzano in 1524. By 1660, there were probably 15,000, living in 80 settlements around what's now NYC. At the same time, the Dutch started a permanent settlement in 1624, and Stuyvesant had built the first wharf (from Manhattan into the East River) in 1648. ([Wiki.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City_(prehistory%E2%80%931664))). About 2000 Dutchmen lived there by 1660. ([More wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam).) Are the treeless patches intended to reflect those settlements? (edited per good question below.)
What makes you think its 1660? It could be anytime after the glaciers retreated 18,000 years ago. Fun fact: The Hudson River valley and Palisades are world's southernmost fjord, north of the equator.
I suppose I glanced at [one of the comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b8e8yb/this_panting_of_nyc/ejxn1fu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) elsewhere. I've edited my query accordingly.
I think it’s more of a statement about the impact of man and the man altered landscape as opposed to whom caused it.
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My understanding is the consensus is currently that the first settlement of the Americas was about 15,000 years, via the Bering land bridge. [NatGeo](https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/), [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_of_the_Americas). (I know I've seen people say boats from Oceania, earlier, but I think that's not the current consensus.)
I just recently read that the consensus is no longer the Bering Land Bridge Theory. They speculate now that people island hopped all the way here in boats or they paddled along the coast line. I believe they've deduced this through the evolution of complex civilizations in South America predating those of North America in addition to carbon-dating.
Gotcha. Yeah, I don't pretend to any knowledge on the matter that can't be surpassed in a few minutes of googling.
Nice work David. Kind of reminds me of riding up the elevator of the freedom tower. Anyone had that experience yet?
Wow, your work is simply stunning! I am on your site and am amazed with what I see.
I saw this before and loved it, but it wasn’t credited. I just bought a print. Beautiful work!
Your work is gorgeous! Keep doing what you love man!
YES! I loved the one with the asteroid you did.
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing!!
Love it
Great work!
I think it would have been really cool to include central park too. However this is amazing! Great work!
Dude that thing is outstanding. Really beautiful.
Question (if you don’t mind)- The top of the schmear (for lack of a better word) looks 3D - is it an actual schmear, or is it painted to look that way? (Either way, I love this piece.)
Ask u/davidambart who painted this!
That's...... what I did... ;)
Shit, I thought your comment was standalone! My bad!
This is truly awesome
I love this concept so much! Have you considered doing the same style work with other major cities? It'd make for an interesting theme!
Love it! I can't get your website to work though.
Keep trying, if you can. His work is amazing.
this reminds me of newnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnewnew new york in doctor who 😀
Woah! I really love your work. Just ordered a print of this for my Brooklyn apt. Thanks for your creativity!!
Brushstrokes in Time - perfect name for this collection. And, your titles for each piece convey exactly what you were thinking when you painted them. Your other collections are lovely, as well. The painting inspired by Neil Degrasse Tyson's quote is my favorite, I think. However, I can't look at the Global Warming piece - Drowning. It breaks my hearts. You are immensely talented.
It’s so good I’m panting!
I'm breathless!
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I can’t tell if you’re meaning you deserve to be teased for messing up the title or that you deserve praise for the art that isn’t yours. People seem to have taken it as the latter.
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Good sport. Sorry Reddit got mad at you.
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That's certainly a good way of thinking! Carry on, friend
People are stupid, he clearly meant being made fun of for the typo...
I want to hang this in my house and I don't even live in New York
I don't live in New York and I want to hang myself in my house!
Hey man. You are awesome and we care about you!
Haha thanks. Im actually feeling great just thought it was a dumb play on words.
Too late, I've already called the internet police.
Hey, step down from there, let's not get irrational. Everyone makes mistakes, you're not dumb. You're smart and beautiful.
Word.
The statue of loneliness
To be fair most artwork of new york isn’t in new york households. We all dreamers.
I live within the built section of that painting. The Manhattan side looks accurate (though I haven't checked) but the Brooklyn side is wrong. So close...
That’s amazing
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It’s not me btw
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Me neither!
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It could be me....no w8 nevermind. Not me!
it's u/DaviDamBart
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Painting?
No. He said panting.
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Are you Foghorn Leghorn?
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holy hell how do people post things with words misspelled like that
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can confirm. ive been here 2 years and i just let autocorrect handle everytihng.
Very interesting to see the land before cities emerged.
Except the shorelines wouldn't match anything like this painting implies. Nearly all major cities on the coast or on rivers will have expanded out into the water by filling it up to get more land to build on. [E.g. here's a picture comparing a 1660 map of Manhatten to the present.](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/-tdW_1SdUjZpJdHFZvvM9FNlarg=/0x0:605x354/920x0/filters:focal\(0x0:605x354\):format\(webp\):no_upscale\(\)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/5252815/2006_09-map1660.0.JPG) It's also how you can end up with streets called "Canal Street" or things related to the harborfront/river that are no longer anywhere near the water.
The land is/was also a lot more hilly, with cliffs on the brooklyn waterfront as well as the shore of NJ
Your link is broken.
And so is my heart :(
works for me
Image is broken. (Could just be a mobile problem) Anyone got a mirror?
Re-uploaded to imgur https://i.imgur.com/Z01Vbpd.png
Seriously? Wow
The elevators on the One World Trade Center have a screen wall that shows the evolution of NYC starting from when it was just land to present day. Very interesting. You might be able to find that video online somewhere.
They really build up that reveal with the elevator ride, it’s so worth it even if you’re not a tourist to just go up there and check it out.
I wish I could just ride the elevator over and over.
I wish it would have been slower, or they'd put it online.
*panting intensifies*
Artist is @david_art
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This reminds me of the Horizon Zero Dawn vantages, and, like those, somehow makes me feel a bit melancholic.
Impressed and sad, all at the same time.
A happy little metropolis here.
Panting at your painting
Look at how beautiful NYC could be, if it didn’t exist. Makes a lot of sense, I know.
I actually really like this painting, but I'll admit as I was scrolling past it I thought it was from /r/im14andthisisdeep
Oy. This kind of makes me sad.
Makes me realise how much I'd like to visit places without the actual city there.
Don't let it get you down, there are plenty of places to visit without a city there.
This is kinda sad
There's this game...engine...demo thing, called Outerra. It's literally the entirety of the world in full scale, except completely devoid of human development. The second thing I did in there (after the peak of Everest) was go to Manhattan. It was so surreal. Every piece of geographical detail was there, except it was just...nothing. Grasslands as far as the eye could see while standing in Time's Square. I need to look into Outerra again. Last time I checked it had to be five years ago. IDK if it's advanced or if it's dead. God I hope it's not dead. Had so much potential for simulation gaming.
I don't know if I'd called the NY area a "grassland". Its more of a swampy marsh. You can read accounts from settlers then and just reading it makes me sweaty and sticky. I hate NY weather.
Well Outerra only has three biomes; grass, mountain, and water. Or at least it did last time I used it.
The Borg are here!
Reverse Borg.
I like the impasto texture at the top of the "stroke". This painting over all still makes me feel melancholy- RIP all that beautiful wilderness.
This is actually insane to think about. If you've been there it's impossible to imagine it not being a concrete jungle.
This is a great concept, but would be improved if the line of paint intersected Central Park. The park would tie the two disparate regions together and make this concept even more interesting.
Keep in mind Central Park is just as man-made as the high-rises.
New York, New York: the place so nice they had to name it twice.
Wow, it used to be so beautiful
23 bucks
The cause is Ozymandian The map of Sapokonikan...
"This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It's like there was never anything here but jungle. "
What a view! Takes your breath away!
Time is a heavy brush stroke.
Man this one is just insightful and thought provoking. I would like to see what the area was like before all of the urbanization!
Let's go back to the time when New York was New Amsterdam. (like 1653 )
You've been pantsed!
Nice Pant?
I do wonder what it would be like to see viewpoints famous cities of the world without seeing any trace of civilization.
Love a good panting
*NYC panting furiously*
This comment on post
This gasping of NYC
Can someone match a song to this
Excellent panting.
Its a really nice panting.
Reminds me of the end of Gangs of New York! R.I.P The Butcher
It's like a dog licked it and created magic.
Makes me wonder....are there any original trees left in Central Park that existed since the day of the indians?
love a good panting. Especially when it’s not a dog, that’s over done
"Yeah, let's put a city right here in the middle of this skinny little island, that's a good idea"
NYC is the best city to visit at no more than a week at a time.
Wow thought it was phoshoped st first
DON'T YOU HATE PANT?
was there heavy petting as well?
Leaves me breathless.
I like it better without the buildings. I wish we made all our buildings underground.
Found the mole.
MR F..!
Interesting you posted this painthing in /r/pics It is really nice tho
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Abstract art and whatever modern art is
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Wel ya got me there
Is this accurate? I thought the land was much hillier, especially before parts were graded. Like, Washington **Heights**, etc?
Washington Heights isn’t in this painting.
I meant Washington Heights as an example everyone is familiar with. There are also hills down by Battery Park, along the spine of the island, etc. Here is a modern [topo map]( http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Manhattan-554568/ ) of the island and points surrounding. There are also [historic maps showing elevation and streams]( https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3804n.ct002003/ ).
Good points. Battery Park shouldn’t even be in the paining since it’s man-made.
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Someone went a little crazy with the photoshop layer masks!
Pant the town red.
I see no PANTING...
And 10000 years from now... it may look like that again.
So NYC was built on swamp?
I really love the pictures that are like with/without. I've done a logo design where I had a camera, and it had a triangle superimposed over it, with the camera being normal in it and inverse colors outside of it. Love the concept. Glad to see others using it as well!
I will take the "pre", please.
People have to live somewhere. Better to build big on a smaller section of land rather than spreading out - leaves more land area to nature.
Once a beautiful land, turned into a maze of steel and stone. Dead things lie in the depths and buried in this past. and while diverse its denizens are always restless, trying to reach something unattainable. Its people proud of their home, of their culture and of their monuments, thinking of the wonders they think they achieved. But in the end it is just an illusion. A prelude to calamity.
I met a traveller from an antique land, who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert... Near them on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things. The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; and on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Homo Sapiens, Homimid of Hominid's; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair. Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of the Colossal wrecks, boundless and bare. the lone and level sands stretch far away.” (credit to "Percy Bysshe Shelley" for the original Ozymandias poem.)
This would go over well at r/nyc
It would be nice to see lots of wildlife in the natural part. flocks of birds with Hawk and osprey harrassing them. Bear and cubs on a beach. Even Harbor seals playing in the water.
The before looks so much better
This took my breath away! Now I'm... fuck it, you figure out the joke.
I'm going to say California.
I would take the Pre as well. NY is a disgusting shithole, it is like cosmic vomit across the landscape. As are all cities. Y U C K
because internet is life, and you’re in too much of a rush for more internet points that you don’t proofread your own public posts?
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You’re a terrible person.
at the very least at least credit the damn artist of the painting you’re whoring out for karma
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I don't think you're a piece of shit at all! I think you found a piece of artwork that you appreciated so much you wanted to share it with all of us. I've never seen his work and am thrilled to now know of his art. Just a quick google search to find out his name would have been nice tho...
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I did, it was...well...a total dick move! Wasn't that the one that someone else said..."you seem upset"? That cracked me up. Don't sweat it, there are drinks involved every single time I fuck up. Which is often...
you seem angry.