/lit/ - Literature

What in God's holy name makes you think this is literature related?

>>2036018

Well /lit/ is all artsy and cool.

Or so I heard.

bump?

Come on you obscure guy, I know you know.

Georges Braque.

>>2036026
You wanna ask us about music and sculpture, too? Those are totally related to literature, right? Or you could ask /mu/! They like music! That's an art, right? Ooh! Ooh! You could ask /v/! Videogame companies couldn't exist without Artists! Or hell, ask /b/ because you obviously don't care about what a board is meant for.

You'll have better luck in /hr/, and even better luck outside of 4chan. This isn't really a very artist-heavy place. The art that the site's users DO know about is primarily Japanese or commercial. You're asking in the wrong place, dude.

Art history major here.

Look into: William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Henre de Touluse Lautrec, Jacques Louis David, Picasso, Caravaggio, Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentilleschi. I could go on, but I don't know what you're into. If you're really interested in reading about the history of art (or painting) in general, find a cheap survey text on Amazon and have at it.

>>2036178
Also, to make this /lit/ related: Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

OP, whilst I am interested in the same thing as you, I think it would have been better if you had asked for something on the history of art so that this thread at least partially belongs on this board.

So, are there any good books on the history of art in general? Anythign with a conversational tone (I'm hoping for another W. G. Sebld here)?

OP, check out artrenewal.org
They have a lot of paintings in decent resolutions and a huge master list of artist's and biographies about their lives.
Im not really into surrealist's or impressionists, so Im not sure I could recommend you anything, but theres a good chance that site will springboard you.

Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Gustav Klim, Wassily Kandinsky, Umberto Boccioni, Ilian Repin.

I quite liked Goya

>>2036304

Oh, so it's a painting about Titans sounds cool . . .oh. . .oh dear.

>>2036184
>>2036335

Fun fact: if you're talking about "Saturn/Cronos Devouring his Son," there is no evidence that the figure is Cronos. Goya never wrote anything about the painting, let alone title it.

just get an art history textbook

>>2036184
same advice goes for you

I'm an art history student. Art Renewal is good, but I also like http://www.wga.hu/ because it contains more esoteric paintings.

The best of the old masters are Rembrandt, Velazquez, Raphael, Holbein the Younger, and Titian, though I could go on and on. I like Vermeer and El Greco very much as well.

Hey, OP. If you think Van Gogh is cheesy sugary then you are truly, truly, truly misguided. Dali, on the other hand....

Read The Story of Art by Gombrich
or Art Through the Ages if you want a primer on art history.

Enough with the "fine art" painters. Just check out Beksinski. He's the main shit.

Yeah, OP, Van Gogh is totally cheesy.

It's not like he devoted his entire well-being to his art or anything, regardless of what critics said.

>mfw nobody mentions Francis Bacon

francis bacon

>>2036515
>bacon
one of my favorite.

also, Gustave Corbet was amazing. Shame Realism turned to Romanticism

Alphonse Mucha
Henri de Toulouse LauTrec

Toulouse Lautrec, OP. I think you'll like him.