/lit/ - Literature

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I'm a big fan of Thomas Cole, his Course of Empire paintings strikes some sort of chord with me I can't quite place.

It's a popular choice, everybody says it, but I've got to give it to Mona Lisa.

Too many to choose from

(The Highland Wedding, David Allan, 1780)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

>>13734212
bruh you're all retarded art begins at Hieronymus Bosch and ends with Pieter Bruegel the Elder-- it kind of has a revival with Boecklin but then it dies really hard again.

Hopper

Odilon redon (pic related), most of the symbolist stuff, franis bacon, arnold bocklin

>>13734775
Based.
The guy was a genius.

Klimt

Dore

Dore

>>13734807
Damn, this one should be way more famous than Nighthawks, I think it says so much more. I never really understood why Nighthawks was so famous to be honest

>>13734810
This.

More of Munch

Monet

>>13734212
Pieter Bruegel

BULLSHIT THREAD

Whoever this guy is

>>13734895
Philistines not welcome.

Turner

>>13734885
Edvard Munch | The Sin (Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes)

"The Sin was initially believed to be an image of Munch's ex-fiancée, Tulla Larsen, thus evoking their often tumultuous relationship. However, the emerald-eyed temptress of this dramatic lithograph has been identified instead as a professional model who posed regularly for the artist in his Berlin studio. Like many of Munch's images of women, she follows the popular fin-de-siècle trope of the femme fatale with her long tresses, blank stare, and full breasts enticing the male gaze, yet also connoting the potential for danger. The image makes reference to the Symbolist painter Franz von Stuck's celebrated 1893 painting The Sin, which depicts a figure in the same position and state of undress as in the Munch, but with dark hair and a large serpent wrapped around her torso. An undisputed master of the print medium, Munch made no fewer than 800 prints during his prolific career. His subjects were limited, however, to a smaller number of powerful images that he continually reworked in etching, lithography, and woodcut. His keen interest in technical experimentation, coupled with his use of simplified forms and expressionistic color, position him as an important progenitor of modernism."

Margritte

BULL SHIT
T H R E A D

F U C K
O F F


TALK BOOKS

You're all fucking retarded. Art died when photography was invented.

>>13734775
Yes

MODS???????

>>13734957

Andrew Wyeth

>>13734962
Gay faggot 105iq 15 year old at the museum take on the subject

>>13734885
I always loved German expressionism. Fritz Lang did all his own posters for his films

>>13734212
Rembrandt
What Shakespeare was to theatre and Dostoevsky was to the novel, Rembrandt was to painting.

Willem van Aelst, great use of colour and I really like still lifes.

>>13734212
Rembrandt. Or El Greco. Or Maybe Delacroix.

>>13735543

>>13734993
Tell me, what's the point of art when everything the artists draw can be made much more accurately, beautifully for much lower the cost? Even for "artistic additions", photoshop is there for you for tenth of the cost and hundredth of the time required.

>all this fucking fedora kitsch

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>>13735583

>not knowing how apotropaics work

No wonder y’all are depressed

>>13734212
A tie between Bruegel the Elder and Caspar David Friedrich

Gustave Moreau, along with Franz von Stuck.

van gogh
not even close

Fra Angelico

>>13735557
I've been seeing so many utterly retarded posts and I can't tell if they're bait or if retards have actually invaded /lit/. Do you have any idea how photoshop works?

>all this generic 19th century horseshit

You guys are plebs

Too many to choose from, but I like Hugo Simberg quite a lot.

James Rosenquist

Painting 1946 - Francis Bacon

>>13734987
based

Ginger, Bacon, Dore, and Blake.

what do i need to understand painting and plastic arts in general?
I like Malevich but I really couldn't explain why beyond "i think figures pretty haha"

>>13734212
Fritz Baumgarten

>>13734212
Klimt, for his morbid eroticism, icon-styled portraits and underrated landscapes

No words can do him justice though.

Other faves: Bosch, El Greco, Van Gogh

>>13734212
Maxfield Parrish

For me it's El Greco

>>13734212
Inga Moore

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Alfred Bestall

>>13734212
Russian Lacquer

>>13734212
Elsa Beskow

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Courbet

>>13734212
Renoir

Waterhouse

>>13736108
>on /lit/
>expecting patricians

>>13735557
The artist does not simply mirror what is seen,but gives the unseen a mirror. They say the obvious with new words,and tell the old stories with new ideas. It's how new things spring up from old thought.

Munch and Vermeer are my favorites

>>13736774
absolutely

Hey OP, do you have the Munch In His Own Words book?

>>13736120
>when u hug ur digitalis and it hug ur digits back
:3

>>13734775
Yea he was pretty good. Wouldn't call him my favourite though

Manuscripts are awesome

Thomas Kinkade

>>13736762
Derain, Gauguin and de Vlaminck might interest you.

>>13736721
Read the German Idealists, Tolstoy, Doystoyevsky, and Wagner.

>>13737448
>Jung nibbas when they see a Western Mandala

For me, it's Jawlensky.

>>13735041
>Dostoevsky
you mean dickens or austen, right?

>>13734962
> wojak_giant_brain.jpg

>>13735554
why would someone produce something so crushing and nasty

>>13734807
Truly based

I always come back to Kandinsky's journals when I need a refresher in non-representational art

>>13737572
no
"His temperament was that of a Prophet — a God-possessed man, brother to Dostoevski, and teeming with the future, a future he bore within him as the Hebrew prophets bore within them the coming of the Messiah, and as he bore within himself the past." (Malraux)
"Balzac paints like David; Dostoevsky like Rembrandt, and his portraits are so powerful and perfect that even if they lacked the depths of thought that lie behind them, and around them, I believe that Dostoevsky would still be the greatest of all novelists." (Gide)

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>>13737409
im hearing firetruck sirens
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>>13737459
vomit inducing
>>13736762
Klimts landscapes were the only good paintings he did
>>13735041
based

>>13736753
cute

not my favourite, but I never see Felix Valloton mentioned

>>13736721
there are books about the history of art. You can also make quick Wiki searches and read a bit about it now and then. Eventually your perception is subjective.

Malevich wanted to evoke pure feeling through basic shapes and colors. I don't like it, it's visually uninteresting, but when you want to evoke subjective emotion, you paint for yourself.

The idea is interesting, but it doesn't work for me.

>>13734212
Chirico

>/lit/

william blake was /ourguy/

>>13738165
baste

>>13734212
Blake

vilhelm hammershoi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhQmS8KJeUo

>>13734793
Based

Bump

I've come to love Bo Bartlett lately.

>>13734869
I can't for the life of me understand why Nighthawks is his most famous work. I think many people miss out on the rest of his amazing work because of this.

>>13734212
Caspar David Friedrich

really anything early netherlandish

For me, it's Edward Burne-Jones.

>>13739457
I like it.

>>13735007
source on that paiting? i can't find it with reverse search

>>13738707
this picture is so emotional

>>13739709
Art Nouveau was pretty based, this was made more than a century ago

>>13739647

Why, Balthus of course!

>>13739891
Shoutout to his bro Pierre

whoever did this

>>13734713
Gay and fagpilled

>>13739736
Got to see some Mucha works in Prague a whiles back. Odddly beautiful and comforting to me and I don't know why.

>>13740059
visually organic, the warm colors, the reaction to the industrial take over. To me, Art Nouveau is a celebration. You are lucky, I wish I could see some great works in museum, but I'm living in small cities and not going out much.

>>13734212
Fleur Cowles

>>13740202
stop posting this sentimental crap

>>13740214
>sentimental crap
It's not sentimental crap, you stupid piece of shit. Go to hell, you god-forsaken bastard. Slit your throat.

>>13734212
Holly Hobbie

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John Bauer

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Kay Nielsen

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>>13740255
pedophile

>>13740264
>pedophile
I'm not a pedophile, fucking idiot.

michelangelo
turner

>>13734212
Jill Barklem

>>13734212
Molly Brett

>>13734212
I have too many favorites, it's ridiculous. I don't want to list between 50 painters. Come on.

But there's this painting I want to share because we're on 4chan.
I wish someone made a movie or a video game with this kind of atmosphere, art direction, colors, and themes.
They just look so majestic, so powerful, and it looks sad, bleak and tragic at the same time.

>>13734212
Beatrix Potter

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Tasha Tudor

>>13739993
based retard

>>13740219
kitsch

>>13740588
Tanaka Suguru is not kitsch at all.

Tenniel, John; artist of "Punch" and other weeklies.

I.
WILL.
NEVER.
GROW.
UP.

>>13740600
He certainly is. You don't think this stinks of kitsch? He's a regular Thomas Kinkade

>>13740622
That's not one of his best. I think the kitsch label is overused anyways. Are you the person who criticized my selection of pictures as "sentimental garbage"? I prefer artwork that tips to the extremes of being either heartfelt or horrifying. I do not see what's wrong with this because many European artists fit my tastes.

Gerda Muller
>>13740656
>I prefer
I tend to prefer*

>>13740656
I wasn't the one who said that; I don't really heavily dislike that selection and I don't really think they're too sentimental, but I think most people here are probably turned away by the picture-book style and see them as much 'lighter' than the other work being posted here, but I think they have appealing charm to them and certainly a good sense of color

>>13740688
I genuinely believe only depraved people would be turned off by such wholesome artwork.
Also, do you think this work is kitsch too? He's one of my favorite "dark artists", but he's digital and it doesn't constitute a painting, I guess.

>>13740698
I don't know, you may be right about kitsch being an overused term, but this kind of art to me just has this quality of looking 'sclocky' or something, for lack of a better term, in a sort of reddit, cartoony way. That isn;t to say that I don't see the talent behind the artwork, but it just isn't a style I really enjoy

>>13740747
Wait, are you referring to the picture book art style or the horror stuff I share?

>>13740753
The horror stuff; the picture book style is ok to me, I think a lot of it has a charm to it, but the horror stuff (in that particular style) doesn't do it for me

>>13740775
Interesting. Is it okay if you share some artists whose works fill you with a sense of terror or the uncanny? Thank you.

>hundreds of posts
>still no Goya

What did Munch mean by this? The shadow reminds me of No Longer Human, thanks to the Aoi Bungaku anime adaptation.

>>13740818
For comparison.

>>13740812
Francis bacon's one I'm into right now

>>13740812
Odilon Redon too

>>13740851
>>13740857
Thanks. It seems to me you're more into paintings that are more suggestive with their depressive themes rather than overly direct, which you consider garish. There is no problem with that. It's much like prose in many ways where the writer "shows but doesn't tell", but in this medium, it's more in the sense of leaving some depressing/macabre visuals without going overboard.

I admire Dali for sheer force of vision and personality, Caravaggio for technical mastery and aesthetic sensibility, and Backhuysen for his sense of scale, but I never truly understood what people meant when they say they were "moved" by a painting until I encountered El Greco in person. His work is pure spirit.

>>13739736
Good taste. Art Nouveau and Art Deco are god-tier movements.

>>13740851
>>13740857
Thanks. It seems you're more into paintings that are suggestive with their depressive themes rather than overly direct, which you consider garish. There is no problem with that. It's much like prose in many ways where the writer is encouraged to "shows but not tell", but in this particular medium, it's more about leaving some subtle cues without going overboard.

>>13739736
I find most art nouveau a bit kitschy, but I guess pic related counts as art nouveau and I like it.

>>13740895
Yeah that's a good way to put it, thanks for discussing this stuff man

>>13737572
>even including dostoyevsky in the same sentence with austen
you can't seriously be this much of a retarded faggot

>>13739736
Mucha is a saccharine shitter and it is frankly embarassing that he is the most known Czech export in visual arts.
>>13740894
Art Deco is fedora tier and the only saving grace of Art Noveau is spawning Kokoschka,

>>13739104
Sauce pls

>>13741039
Art Deco is the style of modern architecture that is to this day the most pleasing to walk into. It has charm that later movements simply do not. Everything after that went from Leave it to Beaver to Ikea.

>>13741039
shit taste

but why don't you like it ?

>>13740009
Who did this? I see two names, but cannot read either.

>>13741048
testuya mishima

For me, it's the metaphysical and surrealists.
Remedios Varo

Art Nouveau is, ironically, arthoe tier taste. It had always been a feminine thing, for belle-époque society tarts anyway.

>>13741142
based

>>13741142
De Chirico

Renoir

Okuń

>>13741142

I'm related to Alfred Stevens.

laurencin

>>13741119
Thx anon

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>>13734858

based

>>13734807
What the fuck, why have I never seen this before?

>>13734809
>>13734836
eh

>>13734886
Monet is a little *too* dreamy, I prefer Renoir. But good taste.

>>13734897
There were some good if not sublime artists who specialized in the American Civil War but we've got nothing now.

>>13741196
This is p epic.

>>13741451
superior

much love this selfportrait

>>13736185
I really like Bacon

Yoshitaka Amano

>>13734212
Lately I've been interested in russian painters. The ones I enjoy most are Repin, Kramskoi and Serov. This portrait by Repin depicts a russian author who wrote a few fantastic short stories: Vsevolod Garshin.

the chad whistler

>>13741650
Check out Harry Clarke's illustrations to Eve of St Agnes

beksinski because i'm edgy as fuck

>>13741621
sucks

also kramskoi

>>13739647
>>13739760
astonishing.

>>13734212
Kadinsky or Klee.

>>13734212
Nolde or Pollock.

>>13741867
that ones pretty good

this thread is proof that there's a lot of posters on /lit/ who think that the only difference between god art and bad art is whether it looks pretty.

>>13742817
>this thread is proof that there's a lot of posters on /lit/ who think that the only difference between god art and bad art is whether it looks pretty.
art should look good to be called art

>>13740325
Ahh, yes. I too am a fan of the Bathory album cover you posted.

>>13741142
Hey Tom, nice to see you still post here.

>>13741142
>Remedios
Go home Aureliano, she hasn't even hit puberty yet leave her alone.

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>>13738707 (turbo based [best poster in the thread])
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>>13740816
>>13741142 (another turbo based post)
>>13741157
all based posters. for me, its de chirico and arnold boecklin

>>13734212
An anonymous ikon painter of the 11th century.

>>13742950
Execution and content are far more important
An art work that is superficially ugly in form can still be a masterpiece if the "ugliness" is fitting and is not done vulgarly.
A superficially "pretty" art work can still be executed poorly and have trite, kitsch, or vulgar content.

>>13743016
i certainly agree with that; art changed from being valued for its execution to material that is painted. I just thought that you would bring up those retarded post-modern paintings

Modigliani. I like his aesthetics.

Ilya Repin.

>>13742979
Colonel Aureliano "If her age's on the clock, she's ready for the cock" Buendia

>>13734212
Aivazovsky, he is most know for his seascapes which are admittedly incredible, but my favorite of his, and one of my favorite paintings ever is pic related.

>>13742950
I bet you're one of the plebs who reads for plot

this is one of my favorites at my local art gallery. She was painted by Robert Henri, whose father shot and killed a man and took his family to frontier America to escape the law. I'll post the other one.

>>13743957
And here is the Francis Bacon.

>>13734713
imagine being this person

>>13734713
embarrassing. It's not that the mona lisa is bad, but c'mon, it was a small genre portrait. There have been so many incredible paintings since.

Turner is the correct answer

>>13743802
Repin is based but that painting is pure, unadulterated shit

>>13743960
the Velazquez is far better
Bacon was a sort of one-trick pony

>>13744002
Maybe so. I've always thought it interesting though that such a charged painting by such a famous painter found its way to my tiny cities' art center.

>>13743979
explain

Philip Guston is a painter I like. His written works are also of note.

>>13734212

>>13734962
Good bait

Tiepolo

>>13742817
He thinks that it has to be edgy and new for the sake of new to be art. The 20th century was a huge fuck up.

>>13734212
Am I reddit if I love Gustave Courbet

For a single painting it is this. I've stared at it for an hour straight and it is incredible.

Favorite painter is still Dali though.

>>13735876
>ctrl f
>Moreau
So there is one patrician on this board after all.

>>13742817
How dare people care about beauty in art. Really we should be sending those Phillistines to some re-education camp.

>>13734713
Mona Lisa was a masterful painter indeed, nothing to be embarrassed about.

>>13744841
Indeed, though I'm rather partial to Simonetta Vespucci myself.

>>13743837
Great choice, my favourite of his is "The Caucasus". Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a higher resolution version of this painting.

>>13739891
>yfw balthus is literally the cunny vocaroo guy

>>13741157
anon, that's not a (De Chirico) painting...

>>13743541
"postmodern painting" (postmodern as a descriptor for fine art never really caught on, as a style, movement, or period - going instead from modern to contemporary) (but to the extent it was used) is actually often figurative, whether it be neo-expressionist or even hyperrealistic, often pastiching older (classical) styles, and eclectically mixing them (neo-historicism); even lowbrow "pop surrealism" would probably apply.

>>13734858
How did he engrave with a paintbrush?

>>13740818
For some reason I see The Scream in the shadow.

>>13744341
dumbass, this is me:
>>13743016

>>13734212
Racey Helps

>>13734212
More Fritz Baumgarten

>>13734775
He's a shitty bourgeoise imitator.

Why, Deviantart fetish art, of course. Also i cant post the pic but just imagine Gigachad posting this.

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>>13736025
Great taste all around. Mine used to be Turner, but after seeing Cole's "Progress of Man" series, I can't stop thinking about it.

My favorite living painter is probably Samantha Keely Smith. Not big on abstract compositions, but her work makes me full-mast.

>>13746866

>>13744967
that is beautiful, i had not seen that one but i saved it. Thanks for posting it. Reminds me a bit of Lermontov's stuff about the Caucasus.

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>>13746878
Damn, thanks for sharing these. They're like a combination of war and landscape paintings that have been abstracted. really nice

>>13738729
based and blakepilled

>>13739993
JMW turner

>>13746121
Ekelhaft!

>>13738707
She's about to get raped.