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My favorite Rousseau

>>741108289
She's cute. Do you have nudes?
Is the lion going to fuck her? Love best porn but never saw sex with a lion. After he cums, does it turn into a gore thread when he eats her?

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But Caravaggio is the G.O.A.T.

>>741108289
>art thread
>>>

nice.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0n0Et8aI3s

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>>741108289
anyone know the name of this artist? had more of his work but lost it somehow

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Favorite piece I've seen in person.

>>741108521
Sex with a goat? Excellent! Do post!

Art is for homosexuals and bitches

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>>741108731
went to his exhibition
was nice

>>741108913
Donald? Is that you?

>>741108964
sure sounds like donald

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>>741109138
that's dope

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>>741109239
In that vein...

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>>741109304
classic

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Go go Goya!

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My first drawing with a drawing pad

>>741109654
it's cool

>>741109654
It's...magnificent!

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S'more random shit

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Mark Tobey

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Morris Graves

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Kater

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Piet Mondrian

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Chris Sukut

>>741110026
I dig this one

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>>741110169
Another Graves, very different

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Bradley Walker

art threads are the only thing that don't suck on /b/ these days

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Not a painting, but Yayoi Kusama's infinity rooms are pretty awesome. They travel to lots of museums, worth going inside of.

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Modern art came about because a lot of people had aspirations and expectations of and for themselves without the talent or learned ability to fulfill that ambition. Look at pic related. Look at Hades' hand on the thighs of Persephone. How can a starving no-name painting with his own poo compete?

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Kandinsky

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>2017
>not posting the most influential painter the world has ever seen
Jacques-Louis David is the name, and it's about time you uncultured plebeians stepped up your game.

And your abstract, cubist, surreal, and minimalist images are not art. Fuck off.

>>741110543
Is this OP? Rousseau (first painting) embodies those aspirations. Zero formal training, and ironically got famous off of his jungle paintings despite never having seen the animals he was painting. They were based off of an illustrated children's book he had.

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>>741110543
No, they just used different less literal forms.

>>741110733
Your Art History 101 professor sucked. Sorry, bro.

>>741109416
I remember Dark Castle

>>741110871
The thumb nail looks like cartoon porn

>>741108521
A master of light and shadow. Conversion on the road to Damascus is, in my opinion, his most impressive work.

>>741110786
Not OP. Rousseau's work took actual talent which he possessed inherently. Although that talent was honed during his lifetime.

>>741110871
Because they lack talent.

>>741110543
https://youtu.be/1Nj6G_KK2Ps

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Another Chris Sukut

>>741110497
I imagine that would look very different, in immersive 3D

>>741110786

Not OP

>>741111127
I'm a sucker for chiaroscuro, so Caravaggio's extreme contrast gets me every time.

>>741108711
Jacek Yerka, Polish Surrealist

http://www.yerkaland.com/

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>>741111131
Snobs are just people with limited imaginations.

Anselm Kiefer

>>741110733

He was good but really wasn't that influential or novel.

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>>741110679
My drumkit

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>>741111342
Not similar otherwise, but Christopher Wool played with extreme contrasts as well

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So fucking dope.

>>741111402
...but an eye for talent.

>>741111501
(Painted by myself)

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>>741111501
Awesome.

>>741111562
Nice.

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>>741110885
>implying a modern day Art History 101 Professor would understand the sheer splendor and power that's within each of David's works.
>implying a modern day Art History 101 Professor would understand the subtle but potent meaning conveyed through even the simplest of David's paint strokes.
>implying a modern day Art History 101 Professor would understand that the only reason he is teaching today, is because of the opulent works of Jacques-Louis David
>implying a modern day Art History 101 Professor would be able to understand all of this, and convey that same knowledge to the rest of his students.

I bet you like Picasso, faggot.

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>>741110124
a better representation of his work

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>>741111802
I like the tree, but had a print of this one hanging over the stairs for a long time.

>>741110220
That is barely illustration, it is not art.

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>>741108289
that's the first level of pang 3

>>741111778
Good Christ you sound angry. I feel like your effort would be better spent actually looking at, and reflecting on, these works.

A good rule of thumb: anyone who thinks they can tell another person what art they should or shouldn't enjoy doesn't understand art.

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Here's a real classic.

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands), c. 7,300 BCE.

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>>741112142
Now that's some OG shit.

This is my favorite piece i actually have hanging in my house.

>>741110733
that last dying gasp of heroic realism. completely out of touch with where intellectual thought and philosophy were headed. superb execution but this was the end of purely visual, aesthetically enjoyable but not particularly thought provoking.

Well, thanks for sharing boys! Lots of works I'd never seen before, always a treat.

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>>741112332
It's pretty far, but there's definitely some similarities between that style and Futurism.

Gino Severini

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Henry Fuseli bringing the spooky in the 18th century.

>>741110543
I'll try to explain this for you if I can. There was a time when art was primarily used to tell a story. Most especially a story from the Bible or from Greek or Roman mythology. Consider that literacy was relegated to only the rich or serious academic, the common man could not read. Art was a way to communicate, in a visual manner, an important story. In this way, the visual arts helped educate mankind.

As literacy improved with the invention of the printing press and the rise of the middle class, it became no longer relevant to tell stories through the static visual. Photography removed the need to document history or portraits. Art was then free to become a more intellectual process. Many people look at a work by Picasso and think that they could do the same thing. Picasso was actually quite good at replicating realism, in fact it was how he was trained. Most (I say most) modern artists can do the same. In the art world it's called having good draftsman skills. What great artists do, is depict some other form of thought - in cubism, to define in narrowly, the thought is to display all three dimensions on a single plane.

Whether classical or modern, all great art conveys a universal truth, something that everyone from any culture can understand. In modern art, however, you must understand the thought behind the image. Not to difficult but you have to learn how to read it.

>>741112835
I see a lot of butts here

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>>741111967
>implying I haven't already spent my effort reflecting on the gratuitous works of Jacques-Louis David.
Jacques-Louis David, being, the most influential painter to have ever lived on the face of this small world.
He is what inspired the starving masses of the French Third Estate to revolt against their incompetent king, King Louis XIV of the Bourbon Dynasty.
Each of his works embody such ground-breaking sentiments at the time such as democracy, individuality, liberalism, and republicanism. Each of his works stirred the masses, infatuated the masses, and encouraged the masses to usurp their wretched "king", topple the Ancien Regime, and restore a new order centered a round the people.
An order of individuality, democracy, and natural rights, as seen as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, written during the French Revolution, 1789-1799.
Thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte and his conquer of Europe, these ideals where spread throughout the land and heard around the World.
Which is exactly why you are able to talk to me to day, and more so, to insult my thorough reflection into his work.
All thanks to a brilliant man named Jacques-Louis David.

But keep gorging yourself on that surreal, cubist, Picasso cock, I don't mind, faggot.

>>741113225
I don't disagree with anything you just typed. But my point remains. A lot of modern artists lack any talent whatsoever. And what they're trying to say or express isn't worth their effort. That "expression" is often a cover for their lack of talent.

>>741108289
this picture is up at my work. i have no clue what it is about... looks like a lion eating a black girl.

>>741113452
You're confusing good draftsmanship with great art. If you were an artist yourself, you would know that, with solid training for 5 or 6 years, almost anyone can become at least competent in replicating an image. But it is the meaning or the work that is the important thing.

I will not defend a Keith Harrng, for example. But I will fight you to the death about Jasper Johns.

>>741111900
Haha I love shit like this

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László Moholy-Nagy

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Klimpt fans may find this interesting...

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I've got the originals if anyone wants them

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My favorite

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The colors in this take me to another world

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My favorite painter

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The Age of Reptiles, by Rudolph Zallinger. Yes, all I could find is pics of a small portion of the 110 foot long mural, or this pathetic little thumbnail (you suck, Yale Peabody!). I guess some paintings you just have to go and see, in meatspace.

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>>741108289

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Does this count as art?

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Another where you have to see the original to get the whole effect, because this is just a tiny portion of a huge painting, by George Seurat. The contrast between the almost abstract dots when you focus on a small part, and the image as a whole that resolves when you stand back, is remarkable.

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Manet

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>>741114963
Dude everybody has seen this painting and pointillism is lame as hell bruh

>>741111886
It actually is art, it's very imaginative and creative because people only draw pictures of portraits/fruit/sleeping/scenery like the days of the renistupid

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>>741115068
Everybody's been to Chicago? Because it's very different, IRL

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>>741114963
Georges Seurat turned out to be a little crazy. He wrote letters to various newspapers pretending to be someone else claiming that Pissaro stole his idea of pointillism.

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Ito is the best modern Japanese artist

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>Who's ready for my bloody phallus

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Paul Klee

>>741115133
no, it is not. it is okay that you enjoy it, and, like, you know, guns and spaceships and shit, but it is not art

not even fucking close.

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>>741115056
Fun Fact: This painting is known to be the first art piece to portray a company's logo; Bass Brewery.

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>>741115590
It is art you fucker, it's just art you don't like, learn the difference. Nobody is forcing you to look at it.

>>741115590
Too bad Da vinci this isn't the 1400's

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This is an unequivocal masterpiece.

>>741111459
>influential

quality is not a popularity contest anon
most of the finest artists, musicians, poets, thinkers, that produced the most unique or refined work in the history of the species, influenced only their imaginations in their lifetime.

You want influential, look for mediocrity.

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>>741115947
It's pretty fucking excellent

>>741108289
Makes me think of Don Juan/Carlos Castaneda

>>741115960
That makes no sense, mediocrity is lost to sublimation through time but novelty is what affects generations. Bach is probably the most influential musician of all time and his music as ANYTHING but mediocre, get on my level you damned plebian

>>741115590
Post an example of art and define for me what constitutes art.

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>>741108289
Everyone knows the best art can be found painted on the side of vans.

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This is a Sheela Na Gig, a sculpture of an old woman spreading her vag, which is more than a thousand years old. For some reason, they appear on Norman churches all over Britain and onto the Continent.

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>>741109654

>>741116173
I agree.

>>741116399
Looks like that pic of the gay spreading his ass, probably an early meme

>>741116226
Ah, but you have made my point for me.
Bach is more influential.
But Bach never composed anything like Daphnis et Chloe.

>>741116537
That's exactly what I was thinking, goatse1000ce

>>741116399
Someone clearly imprinted their dick/balls on it as the nose and mouth of the thing.

>>741110220
Lovecraft?

>>741115847
>>741115846

When you have studied art history and theory for four years, then feel free to dispute me. Please read the work of Maurice Denis, his theories contributed to the rise of Cubism, and abstract art.

Not trying to piss you guys off, just educate a little. Again, like it all you want, cover your fucking house in it, tattoo it on your body, I'm not going to point and laugh, but it is not art.