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The Art History Thread

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
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    the last panel always got mad respect points from me for the goya black paintings ref

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    @Personface yo what was that artist you really like

    the one with the super realistic paintings of hell and obsidian cats and such

    I tried GISing some terms but came up blank

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Zdzislaw Beksinski?

  • PersonfacePersonface HAIL GAY SATANRegistered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Zdzislaw Beksinski?

    Definitely could have been him, or I could have been talking about Wayne Barlowe.

  • PersonfacePersonface HAIL GAY SATANRegistered User regular
  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Beksinski is my favorite artist, it's deinitely not him.

    ah, Barlowe's the one.

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    can his style be considered a sort of fantastical realism as well, or is there a more specific definition for what he painted?

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Beksinski painted nightmares; Barlowe painted hell

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  • PersonfacePersonface HAIL GAY SATANRegistered User regular
    He talks about emulating Orientalism and historical painting but in histories that never existed. He also has a thing, especially notable in Expedition, for natural history and those grand old images of dinosaurs and such you used to find in books as a kid.

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    I love Barlowe's imagination more than his actual art. Beksinski is just on a whole 'nother plane from Barlowe in my opinion, mechanically speaking

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Ugh art history.

    Fuck.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    that pretty much sounds like fantastical realism to me in all but the name proper. oh well, it doesn't really matter how he calls it, it's still great.

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  • PersonfacePersonface HAIL GAY SATANRegistered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    I love Barlowe's imagination more than his actual art. Beksinski is just on a whole 'nother plane from Barlowe in my opinion, mechanically speaking

    Yeah I can agree with this.
    But then again Beksinski is on a whole other plane by comparison to almost any contemporary artist, even if only in terms of practical technique.

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    I really loved the world he fleshed out in Expedition. I think the kid in all of us can connect to that

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    my favorite Beksinski is probably this one

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    I wish I could find a place that does good reproductions and order it

    Indie Winter on
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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Tonkka wrote: »
    Ugh art history.

    Fuck.

    more like fart history, right?

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Yep.

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  • IsoldaeIsoldae Hats Off To JigglypuffRegistered User regular
    Well no.

    Not like fart history.

    Fart history is rad.

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Jonathan Safran Foer and his wife are going to write a super earnest novel about the history of farts and everyone on the entire eastern seaboard is going to buy ten copies

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • TonkkaTonkka Some one in the club tonight Has stolen my ideas.Registered User regular
    Makes sense.

    I farted once.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Beksinski is my favorite artist, it's deinitely not him.

    ah, Barlowe's the one.

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    can his style be considered a sort of fantastical realism as well, or is there a more specific definition for what he painted?

    the symbols over their heads make me think this is some kind of MMORPG

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    nnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdddd

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    can I help it that those games are so bad they remind me of nightmarish hellscapes

  • PersonfacePersonface HAIL GAY SATANRegistered User regular
    Well I mean the Glyph visual language is derived from the Goetic seals in stuff like King Solomon's Key and that is effectively a supernatural friends list sooo

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Personface wrote: »
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    There isn't a single bit of this image that doesn't creep me the fuck out. Aaaagh.

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Art doesn't have to look like a metal album cover!

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    Born in Bad Lauterburg in 1880, Walter Schnackenberg found his vocation as a draughtsman and painter while still very young. At 19 he went to Munich, where he at first attended Heinrich Knirr's painting school before going on directly, like so many of his contemporaries, to study at the Franz von Stuck Academy. Drawing is Schnackenberg's strong point. His lively imagination made him particularly good at caricature. He drew for the celebrated magazines 'Jugend' and 'Simplizissimus'. His themes were theatre and the comic muse. Travelling extensively, Schnackenberg often went to Paris, where he was especially interested in the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. As a print-maker, Schnackenberg devoted himself mainly to poster art and his most mature work is in this genre. He was also well-known as a designer of stage scenery and costumes. With his evident preference for frivolous ladies, he was highly fashionable in his day. Schnackenberg does not have the acutely critical approach of a Grosz or a Hubbuch. Instead, his works resemble those of Jeanne Mammen, who devoted herself to portraying pert Berlin girls. During the late phase of his career, Schnackenberg introduced surreal elements into his work. People with bestial, mask-like faces were intended to symbolize the unsatisfied lusts and addictions of the petty bourgeois. Schnackenberg spent his last years in Rosenheim and died there in 1961.

    Of course, it's totally fine when it does look like a metal cover. Ivan Albright is one of my favourite artists.

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    "Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Art doesn't have to look like a metal album cover!

    that's kind of belitteling and hurtful

    I don't like these things because they're EXTREME AND DARK AND FULL OF PAIN but because they invoke some pretty powerful emotions in me

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Man, I'm just joking, Indie. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, and if you felt I was implying with serious and genuine (not joking) intent that the previously posted works aren't great and powerful art, I apologize.

    Serious talk: I think that a lot of the previously posted works do convey or address issues of darkness, pain, decay, fear and/or alien/Otherness, and in that respect they have elements in common with certain genres of music, including industrial metal and death metal, whether or not you hold that music to be equally meaningful and artistic or not.

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    "Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
  • BerkBerk THE BUDGIE SMUGGLER Registered User regular
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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
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    PiptheFair wrote: »
    but I can put a wrench in a frame and call it abstract art
    every damn time someone talks about modern art they bring up this argument

    the dumbest argument in the world

    modern art is now post-modern art and minimalism has been around for a century but also thanks for the insight good post!

    I'm sorry for being rude, I should not have been so snippy

    I was still upset from earlier today, when I heard someone completely dismiss a really great museum because she saw one piece of art there that she didn't like

    they are legitimately a crazy person

    Yeah, that's way crazier than coming in here and barfing about entire artistic movements while mixing up abstract and readymade...

  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    one of my favorite painters is John Singer Sargent

    I need more shit on my walls and I need to track down prints of some of this stuff cause yeaaaahhhh

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    Madame X

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    Venetian Interior

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    El Jaleo

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    I love sargent and whistler, I think they're underrated as artists because they were American and all; when I first saw this portrait in person I was stunned

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    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    I love Sargent as well!

    Gee I hope this automatically resizes:

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    "Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    Aww jeahhh, I love Sargent. Madame X is my favorite painting, and the story behind it is interesting too. Neat anecdote; my dressmaker also makes costume dresses, so she has picture catalogs of period dresses. Some of them are pictures of actual dresses or vintage fashion plates. Some of them are from paintings :o Portrait of Madame X was in the picture catalog, she could have made it . . .

  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    Joseph Ducreux owns. I'm pretty sure anyone on the internet knows this painting:

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    I enjoy the landscape paintings of Anselm Kiefer. No pics, cause I'm on my phone.

    Fuck off and die.
  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    I should post some Vigeland. I visited a museum dedicated to him a few months ago and shit did not disappoint.

    Fuck off and die.
  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
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  • sacreandprofanesacreandprofane Registered User regular
    edited June 2012
    Art doesn't have to look like a metal album cover!

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    @ Lost Salient: I really like this. Thanks for sharing. :)

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Wiet wrote: »
    Joseph Ducreux owns. I'm pretty sure anyone on the internet knows this painting:

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    I didn't know that's a self-portrait

    hahaha what a badass

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
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    holyyyy

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