/lit/ - Literature

>>15738028
double statue of Mephistopheles and Margarita from Faust

bump, you uncultured incels

>>15738028
There is an amazing passage in A Rebours where the main character describes this painting, Salome Dancing before Herod
He describes the biblical mysticism of the imagery in a fascinating way
The painting itself took seven years to make

>>15738645
I've always loved Gustave Moreau. Good taste, anon

Henry Scott Tuke

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>>15738645
This looks great but what's with the oddly small and out of proportion panther on the bottom right corner?

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>>15738645
Post the passage anon

>>15738676
He smol

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>>15738813
It’s a fairly long musing on this painting and it’s companion piece (The Apparition) but here’s a bit of it:

“The character of Salome, a figure with a haunting fascination for artists and poets, had been an obsession with him for years. Time and again he had opened the old Bible of Pierre Variquet, translated by the Doctors of Theology of the University of Louvain, and read the Gospel of St Matthew which recounts in brief, naive phrases the beheading of the Precursor; time and again he had mused over these lines:
‘But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
‘Whereupon, he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
‘And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, ‘‘Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.’’
‘And here the king was sorry: nevertheless, for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
‘And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
‘And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.’
But neither St Matthew, nor St Mark, nor St Luke, nor any of the other sacred writers had enlarged on the maddening charm and potent[…]”

>>15738960
Cont.

... “depravity of the dancer. She had always remained a dim and distant figure, lost in a mysterious ecstasy far off in the mists of time, beyond the reach of punctilious, pedestrian minds, and accessible only to brains shaken and sharpened and rendered almost clairvoyant by neurosis; she had always repelled the artistic advances of fleshly painters, such as Reubens who travestied her as a Flemish butcher’s wife; she had always passed the comprehension of the writing fraternity, who never succeeded in rendering the disquieting delirium of the dancer, the subtle grandeur of the murderess.
In Gustave Moreau’s work, which in conception went far beyond the data supplied by the New Testament, Des Esseintes saw realized at “long last the weird and superhuman Salome of his dreams. Here she was no longer just the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and lechery from an old man by the lascivious movements of her loins; who saps the morale and breaks the will of a king with the heaving of her breasts, the twitching of her belly, the quivering of her thighs. She had become, as it were, the symbolic incarnation of undying Lust, the Goddess of immortal Hysteria, the accursed Beauty exalted above all other beauties by the catalepsy that hardens her flesh and steels her muscles, the monstrous Beast, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning, like the Helen of ancient myth, everything that approaches her, everything that sees her, everything that she touches.
Viewed in this light, she belonged to the theogonies of the Far East; she no longer had her origin in biblical tradition; she could not even be likened to the living image of Babylon, the royal harlot of Revelations, bedecked like herself with precious stones and purple robes, with paint and perfume, for the whore of Babylon was not thrust by a fateful power, by an irresistible force, into the alluring iniquities of debauch.”

From chapter 5 of the Robert Baldick translation

>>15738960
The Apparition for those interested

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>>15738762
What book are these referencing?

Pic related is based on a really disturbing poem called the Song of Hate (seething incel being necrophilic):

>As you shall sleep forgotten under the waxy soil and the cross of God shall stand upright infixed above your spoils

>As both your cheeks shall melt in rot over your shaky teeth and in the foetid vacuum of your orbs maggots shall swarm and breed

>For you that slumber, which to most is peace shall be renewed torment and a remorse shall come, steadfast and cold to fret upon your brain.

>A remorse, the sharpest and most cruel, shall come over your burial in spite of God, and in spite of his cross to gnaw upon your bones.

>I shall be that remorse. I, seeking you in the dark of the night Lamia who shuns the morn, shall come and howl as would howl a she-wolf;

>I shall with mine own nails dig up the earth by your virtue made dung and split asunder the foul planks which hold your infamous carrion.

>Ah, how in your heart still vermillion shall I quench the hate of old Ah, with what joy shall I protrude my claw into your shameless womb!

>On your putrescent belly, nestled up I shall forever dwell A specter of vengeance and sin, a monstrosity from hell;

>And at your ear, which was so fair, shall I whisper insatiable sayings which shall set your brain on fire like glowing hot iron

>When you shall ask: why do you sting me, and drench me with your poison? I shall respond: don't you remember your hair, which looked so awesome?

>Don't you recall the plentiful blond mane falling upon your chest and eyes of blackest tint, and bottomless sparkled by yellow flames?

>And the audacities of your bosom, the opulence of the hip? Don't you recall how beautiful you were provocative, and pale?

>But are you not then that who her naked breasts exposed to public eyes and, foaming Licisca, made her own bed into a true traffic hub?

>Are you not the one who drunks and soldiers welcomed in her embrace lowered herself to unspeakable kisses yet laughed upon my face?

>And as I loved you, and fell upon my knees in front of you, and, you see when you looked at me I only wanted to die under your feet

>Why deny - to me, who loved you so - a gentle glance, when for you I would have made myself a slave, I would have made myself depraved?

>Why did you say no, when crawling at your feet I implored your mercy while your pimps out in the street awaited for the next batch of Brits?

>You laughed? Now listen! Up from the cave grave this sinful corpse of yours your naked flesh so much I adored I am nailing to the pillory

>And the pillory are those verses, whereas I condemn you to eternal blame, and punishments so harsh that you shall long for those dispensed in hell.

>Here shall you ever die a new death, oh accursed slowly being pierced with pins and with your shame, my vengeance between your eyes I seal.

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>>15738792
How are these /lit/ related? Not angry, just curious

Posting some songs based on books and poems:

Erlkonig (the poem is the lyrics, plz post more like this!)
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS91p-vmSf0
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOf34XZBkYE

Wuthering Heights
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-4lXLM34g

Faust:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PZS_L6mH1M
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66TYd9nAMI

I've jerked off to The Birth of Venus painting multiple times desu

>>15739644
this isn't art its shit

>>15738028
rembrandt's self portrait with two circles is mentioned a few times in the collector by john fowles
it is displayed at kenwood house in london

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The artist of this one, >>15738774, Pierre Klossowski, is also known as a writer. I could've picked a better image, since many of his drawings are scenes from his novels, but I figured we were going for a bit of a boys-in-homoerotic-state-of-undress theme here.

>>15738028
Damn I wish I had hips like that
At least I got a phat ass

>>15738676
I think it adds a layer of mystique. Like are these people giants? Are they so powerful they were able to domesticate a panther into a house cat?

>>15739751
It is okish, but René Gruau was definitely better at this kind of thing.

>>15738986
Tasteless Faggot by LeQueer

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>>15739632
>not the bouguereau one

>>15741666
>not Cabanel's

This painting, to me, is the visual definition of despair.

>>15742149
it looks more like regret to me

>>15738676
>panthers are never young

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>>15742281
looks like all of them to me, grief, horror, despair, regret, madness, it's all captured on that painting and that's why it makes such an impression on everyone who sees it (even people usually not interested in art)

Art truly peaked with Illya Repin

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>>15738688
We get the point

Mishima also loved pic related

/divinecomedycore

>>15738676
>kitty

>>15739363
whos the poet? cant find it online

>Symphony in Yellow No. 5
One of the greatest stories ever told, inspired by true events from a script of unknown origin.
Artist unknown

>>15740114
truly breathtaking work. You can almost feel the pain and sorrow the artist must've felt while making this

>>15742149
you cant just drop that and not tell us the painting or artist

>>15742377
well if it isnt my favourite painting

Illustration from Doré's Quixote

>>15743023
>>Symphony in Yellow No. 5
lol is that a Whistler title?

Don Juan Challenging the Commander's Tomb (C. Sousy Ricketts)

The Philosopher by Fragonard

Ciseri's Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees

>>15738028

this painting was inspired by a proverb

what about nontraditional artwork?

>>15740036
try eating less fatty then your hips will protrude

>>15743217
Dore's work is great.
Paradise lost, quixote, divine comedy, so it's /lit/ beyond all doubt

>>15738676
Panthers and similar are smaller than people think. They're still frightening since like all cats they're ridiculously strong for their size.

>>15743022
From what I can find it's Lorenzo Stecchetti
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=195444

>>15738513
>Art truly peaked with Illya Repin
>art peaked with realist paintings of russian peasants admired by soulless photoshop artists obsessed with anatomical proportion
nah i'll pass dimitri

>>15742327
>Art truly peaked with Illya Repin
>art peaked with realist paintings of russian peasants admired by soulless photoshop artists obsessed with anatomical proportion
nah i'll pass dimitri

Know that the world hated me first.

>>15738513
>you uncultured incels
>posts some derivative neoclassic shit
imagine thinking being cultured is finding anything more than a couple hundred years old and thinking its automatically great

only the moreau and gustave dore posters are based

most other posters have been cringe

Bruegel the Elder's Great Tower of Babel

>>15745029
intricate but ugly

>>15744982
Neoclassicism is supposed to be derivative you sperg, that is the whole point

>>15745045
the painting style is derivative, not the subject matter, you can depict the classics and be interesting

/lit/ is below midwitism and it's revealed in its art tastes

>>15745038
Here's the lesser Tower of Babel painting done by Bruegel also

>>15745058
The neoclassical STYLE is supposed to be derivative, the point is imitation of antiquity, not originality
You might as well criticise a horse for having hooves

>>15745072
it's academic boring and unstylised how about that, dumb babyfaces and all

>>15745087
If you want non-academic fun it sounds like YOU are the midwit

>>15745097
get back to the salon, art has been moving on for a century or two

>>15745104
Not by neoclassical standards
Learning to appreciate non-contemporary ideas is a mark of distinction

>>15745104
The stuff you posted wasnt very great desu

>>15745155
>Gauguin isn't good
he completely revolutionised colour
>>15745147
>Learning to appreciate non-contemporary ideas is a mark of distinction
yes but there's nothing interesting about >>15738513
other than you think the action looks cool, what painterly qualities are you admiring? here's something old and interesting

>>15738044
this is so cool, where is it?

>>15743217
This is beautiful

>>15744466
sure, go ahead!

>>15745434
The Salar Jung museum in India

>>15742149
memeshit

Ingres was the best neoclassicist since he was a remarkable colorist and wasn't afraid to impose himself stylistically over what he worked with (a good litmus test is to show an average /ic/ midwit one of his odalisques and see if he starts sperging about how its back is anatomically unreal)

>>15744752
My hips just aren't built that way. I have no stomach fat. My hips only look nice from a side angle

>>15746372
Disagree, the intrusion of the artist is a defect with classical themes, David is far superior to him
Ingres' best works are the romantic or orientalist pieces, not the classicizing ones

OUTTA MY WAY NEOCLASSICIST SHITS

>>15745011
no one asked you faggot

>noooo you can't like the academic artists they are DERIVATIVE!!! read impressionist propaganda and you will know!
I bet you also believe in the renaissance propaganda on "the dark ages"

>I want simply drink, for fuck sake!

>>15738028
Not gonna lie id prolly fuck st sebastian in the ass.

>>15738028
>/lit/ art
What the FUCK does this mean at this point?

>>15747477
What is the story behind this

>>15747887
Temptation of St Anthony. The women are demonic

>>15747821
cute hehe

>>15744952
> mothersoilin Gaugin in an art thread
Please go away.