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| 'Like a beautiful painting': image of New Year's mayhem in Manchester goes viral | 'Like a beautiful painting': image of New Year's mayhem in Manchester goes viral |
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| A photograph of a Manchester street strewn with revellers is being lauded online for artfully capturing a uniquely British New Year’s Eve celebration. | A photograph of a Manchester street strewn with revellers is being lauded online for artfully capturing a uniquely British New Year’s Eve celebration. |
| The striking image, shot by freelance news photographer Joel Goodman, first appeared in a picture gallery on the Manchester Evening News website, and was brought to Twitter’s attention by BBC producer Roland Hughes. | The striking image, shot by freelance news photographer Joel Goodman, first appeared in a picture gallery on the Manchester Evening News website, and was brought to Twitter’s attention by BBC producer Roland Hughes. |
| So much going on this pic of New Year in Manchester by the Evening News. Like a beautiful painting. pic.twitter.com/szKKRM4U4i | So much going on this pic of New Year in Manchester by the Evening News. Like a beautiful painting. pic.twitter.com/szKKRM4U4i |
| Related: Accidental Renaissance: the photos that look like Italian paintings | |
| The image, likened in its composition to a Renaissance masterpiece, depicts police wrestling a man in the foreground, crowds watching near a Greggs bakery in the back, and a gentleman in blue, reclining on the bitumen, reaching for a nearby beer. | The image, likened in its composition to a Renaissance masterpiece, depicts police wrestling a man in the foreground, crowds watching near a Greggs bakery in the back, and a gentleman in blue, reclining on the bitumen, reaching for a nearby beer. |
| Hughes’ post was retweeted more 25,000 times, his suggestion the photo looked “like a beautiful painting” inspiring some on Twitter to turn it into one. | Hughes’ post was retweeted more 25,000 times, his suggestion the photo looked “like a beautiful painting” inspiring some on Twitter to turn it into one. |
| @hughesroland @ajlanghorn I had a go at turning it into a watercolour with Waterlogue pic.twitter.com/MmbiZ0SsD3 | @hughesroland @ajlanghorn I had a go at turning it into a watercolour with Waterlogue pic.twitter.com/MmbiZ0SsD3 |
| @hughesroland @paul_tomkins pic.twitter.com/UIA91KB8ZJ | @hughesroland @paul_tomkins pic.twitter.com/UIA91KB8ZJ |
| Its aesthetic appeal was no surprise, one Twitter user pointed out: the photograph hewed to the Fibonacci Spiral used by greats such as Leonardo Da Vinci to achieve balance and mirror the beauty of nature. | Its aesthetic appeal was no surprise, one Twitter user pointed out: the photograph hewed to the Fibonacci Spiral used by greats such as Leonardo Da Vinci to achieve balance and mirror the beauty of nature. |
| Thanks to @GroenMNG for proving the golden ratio can be applied to this pic: pic.twitter.com/Fa1EYSV6ih | Thanks to @GroenMNG for proving the golden ratio can be applied to this pic: pic.twitter.com/Fa1EYSV6ih |
| Others took the prone man as their muse, riffing on his outstretched form and sage expression, which they compared to God himself in Michelangelo’s 1511 masterpiece, the Creation of Adam. | Others took the prone man as their muse, riffing on his outstretched form and sage expression, which they compared to God himself in Michelangelo’s 1511 masterpiece, the Creation of Adam. |
| @hughesroland pic.twitter.com/B80KQGVP0t | @hughesroland pic.twitter.com/B80KQGVP0t |
| Another placed him at the banks of the river Seine in George Seurat’s 1884 work, Bathers at Asieneres. | Another placed him at the banks of the river Seine in George Seurat’s 1884 work, Bathers at Asieneres. |
| And there's more - good work @johnbeck_ pic.twitter.com/N6me1jnn2E | And there's more - good work @johnbeck_ pic.twitter.com/N6me1jnn2E |
| Others saw in his hopeful reach as a shining symbol of liberty. | Others saw in his hopeful reach as a shining symbol of liberty. |
| @NOTLR @hughesroland pic.twitter.com/kubBYDWuFV | @NOTLR @hughesroland pic.twitter.com/kubBYDWuFV |
| Quoted by the Manchester Evening News, Goodman he said the appeal of the image might lie in its unusual subject matter. | Quoted by the Manchester Evening News, Goodman he said the appeal of the image might lie in its unusual subject matter. |
| “There are plenty of photographs published that show people having a great time. It’s much safer and easier photographing happy, willing people posing than photographing angry, drunk people candid. | “There are plenty of photographs published that show people having a great time. It’s much safer and easier photographing happy, willing people posing than photographing angry, drunk people candid. |
| “That’s not a criticism of the former, but it’s one reason why the latter might stand out.” | “That’s not a criticism of the former, but it’s one reason why the latter might stand out.” |
| He said he was “flattered” that his photograph had been compared to Renaissance art, but said he was merely “in the right place at the right time”. | He said he was “flattered” that his photograph had been compared to Renaissance art, but said he was merely “in the right place at the right time”. |
| Or as American photographic pioneer Ansell Adams put it: “Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.” | Or as American photographic pioneer Ansell Adams put it: “Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.” |