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Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

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But namedropping famous painters/paintings won't make you cool, only lesser-known painters will. Monsu Desderio, for instanth.

>famous/popular paintings that make you look smart

I don't know how a painting can make one look smart. Do you carry a picture of this painting in your wallet? Wear it on a shirt? Having a basic knowledge of major works in the canon of art history most popular in your location and being able to allude to paintings or characters in paintings makes you look smart, especially when the painting has a literary subject that lets you double up your smarts.

>>2369061

alright share some basics

Obsure painting thread.

It's not even a painting!

There are no colours used! Oh boy!

>>2369096
I found that funny

>>2369101
>>2369096
I love these.

Don't you dare...

>>2369101
>no colours used!
How unusual!

>>2369101
What are you talking about, that picture uses all of the colors

>>2369104
I'm quite fond of them too.
But being dismissive is an important part of enjoying art.

>>2369116
Ah! Dali. What memories...

>>2369112

Ten internets (or one of my favourite paintings) to you sir/madame!

>>2369121
The Photograth with Dail jumping with the cats :3

>>2369130
>>2369130
It's called Dali Atomicus.

What does /lit/ think of Dali? Was he a douche? Was he a genius? Was he a misunderstood pervert? All the above?

A fine tattoo this would make.

Composition VIII by Wassily Kandinsky

>>2369140

Is that question rhetorical?

yes, all of the above. Is it true he pushed a young girl down a flight of stairs when he was a wee lad?

>>2369145

>>2369147
Nice. What think ye of Moholy-Nagy?

>>2369151
Probably about as true as him wanting to bugger his father on his death bed.

>>2369140

Thank you!
And as much as I love his art anyone who has fashists leanings is probably a bit of a douce, still the man had swag.

>>2369140
all of the above and then some

this kind of thread does much better on /hr/
>>>/hr/1459424

cool tyhread

>>2369159
I seriously question whether Dali really had fascist leanings. There was the flimsy accusation from that idiot Breton about the Hitlerian wet nurse. His backing of Franco seemed to come more out of monarchist leanings and a general feeling of ostracism from society.

>>2369038
Is there a name for that 'style' of painting, OP?

I always liked it, battle scenes and the like, not much of an artfag though.

>>23691

>>> His backing of Franco

How is backing a fascist dictator not fascist? I realize Breton was a little harsh on people who didn't tow his party line (Bataille, Artaud come to mind), but I never realized Dali ever came out in support of Franco, in which case I am ever more convinced of his doucheyness.

>>2369187
Neoclassical?

>>2369192
His public backing of Franco is usually what pisses people off about him, especially considering that Franco banned Lorca's work and may have even had him killed. That's probably why Bunuel stopped having much to do with him too. I get the impression that he became very disillusioned and very preyed upon for much of the rest of his life. It's quite sad.

As far as fascist because of Breton's accusations, Breton was the one refusing to criticise Hitler, whining about politicisation of Surrealism. Dali was using surrealism to undermine this idea of Hitler being invincible or strong or whatever. He's rather clear in his letters to Breton about this.

I'm not really a fan of totalitarianism what ever form it takes. For personal reasons.
>>2369187
It's Neo-Classical. It was one of the major art movements of the 19th century. Wikipedia is your friend if you are interested in learning a little more about it.

>>2369187

I don't believe so, not much of an art buff myself either, revolutionary art, post medieval art i suppose

>>2369198

You can see it in architecture aswell as in painting.

>>2369038
This picture was the answer to a jeopardy question a few days ago. probably not coincidental.

Loomis.

Hyperrealism shit, but gentlemen can appreciate a fine ass.

>>2369038
go you one better. that horse is improbable. he was more than likely on a mule during that campaign. horses would be useless in mountain terrain like that pictured.

This is one of my favorites, along with Wanderer over a Sea of Clouds, which some other anon posted already, damn and bless you.

>>2369224
that artist got laid that day

I guess I should only post sourced stuff?

>>2369232
Amazing, fine detail.

Francis Bacon
No Relation. I dont think.

Not sure if filename is correct on this. Looks similar to Bourgeroo whomever.

JWW, I've got about a dozen from this brilliant bastard, prepare yourselves.

So if you haven't noticed, JWW is basically the moeshit fanartist of the classicists. Only good.

Neoprimitivist.

>>2369264
lol

Would I be alone in thinking this one is badass?

>>2369264
What kind of dinosaur is Dino supposed to be? Some kind of weird pink diplodocus maybe...?

>>2369273
Nope.

>>2369264

or post-modernism. It's almost impossible to tell the difference.

>>2369276

A pink one?

This one, hnng.

Thus concludes my JWW collection.

Huzzah

>>2369278

I like to think that death was telling him to paint willies.

Filename for title.

>>2369375

You I like.

>>2369375
I fucking love that series. Best paintings ever.

My favorite mod Japanese graphic pop art poster

>>2369375
These have always been my favorite Coles

>>2369292
His model wouldn't show her boobs.

>>2369250
Bigger one for you.

Damn...this thread is so much fun.

the poke

>>2369964
"Why can't I hold all these swords?"

>Implying OP's image isn't pathetic propoganda
>Implying Napoleon didn't cross the alps on a donkey

This is why you'll forever be a pseudo-intellectual, OP. I bet you love Romanticism because 'OMG feelings' too, don't you?

>>2369964

Why so much David in this thread? He was a pseudo-intellectual himself who admired whoever wore the most gold so long as it wasn't a Bourbon.

>>2369964
This painting makes no sense to me but I like it. What on earth is going on?

>>2370328
>can't spell propaganda
>thinks it matters when the man's dead and historically accounted for
>can't appreciate the art in itself
>is a philistine

Philosophy is propoganda

>>2370340
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_the_Horatii

Staring at this one for a long time makes me uncomfortable.

I like this one because it's so damned Renaissancy. And because Cesare Borgia was a boss, of course.

>>2369964
Lol, it looks like they just fiercely threw those swords at that guy and he's all like "what the shit"

DFW Arisen, Anon.

surprising lack of van gogh

http://freerice.com/#/famous-paintings/437

http://freerice.com/#/famous-paintings/

>>2370461
>dreadful = terrible

What is this shit, they ain't getting no more rice.

thanks for the jeremy lipking ones. looks like child abuse. very hot.

>>2370461
everytime i visit that i get redirected to english vocabulary. what the shit

>>2370467
>mist means
>fog
Jesus.

>>2370467
>>2370481
seriously what is this shit? and how do i get to the famous paintings

>>2370487
You must reach lv. 50, then you can have all the famous paintings you want.

>>2370481
>famish = starve
>mfw

>>2370488
and how does answers correlate with rice charity? i cant see the connection. why would it matter how many answer i get right from them to donate? nope nothing here makes sense at all.

>>2370490
They should have worded it:
>Which one of the following words is closer to x:
Which would make more sense.
As a foreigner to English I gave up at level 13.

>>2370498
I'll get to the end for us.

>>2370497
Every answer you get the page refreshes. Every time the page refreshes you get new ads. I'm not sure about the ads refreshing thing, but I'm sure people keep an eye on the ads all the time. Not only that, the information, statistics &or data they get from your answers could be greatly valuable.

gnu means?

over-emotionalism
tactic
hodgepodge
wildebeest

Argh....

>>2370503
how are the answers valuable? and why does it relate to rice?

are people actually looking a ads while doing this monotonous task? because im not.

nope sorry i just cant see how this makes them any money at all. how do they have money to pay for rice? seriously wtf is going on

>>2370504
>wildebeest means:
>ninny
>thanks
>fiddle
>gnu
Heh heh.
>>2370506
Yes, it makes sense and it is without a doubt a profitable business. It doesn't matter if you get the answer right or not. It's all about the ads.

>>2370510
ingratiating means:
hard to believe
majestic
servile
assuming

Servile I guess, no?

>>2370510
i had no idea there were ads on the site. i havent clicked a single one. . i didnt say theyre not making money, i just dont see how. why would advertisers pay them money its clear we,re not even looking at the ads and are just intent on getting the questions right

>>2370511
I have no idea. I would go with either hard to believe or servile.
What word level is that?

>>2370512
Yes, my bad. There aren't any ads on the website. It doesn't really matter. Maybe it's only symbolical.

>>2370514
About 40 I guess. I'm on 47, I've had to use Google a few times now.

>>2370514
so how do they make money to pay for rice?

>>2370516
Freerice is a WFP [http://www.wfp.org/] service.
What's the main income of World Food Programme? Donations?

>>2369821
>double res

Greatly appreciated.

Level 51, losing the will to live.

>>2370519
so what does english language quiz have to do with making money for rice?

You can select paintings in the catagories section

I only like DFW because it makes me appear smarter. I lugged "Infinite Jest" around for 2 years after I finished it just so I could whip it out at coffee shops and on the subway.

The funny thing is, his books aren't even half as intelligent as they appear to be, but most people are too undiscerning or dumb to know.

>>2370523
I don't know. It's more of a symbolical nature, as in to raise public awareness.
In practice, suppose the users play their quiz (the English dictionary isn't the only quiz) and register a number totallying 1 billion rice grains by the end of the year. How much does 1 billion rice grains cost? 5% of their [WFP] annual budget? Then that's what they are going to use the money for. It could be seen as a website asking the public "Should we use our budget to buy rice?"
Except I have no idea.

>>2370527
Do you really feel the need to insult half of a world to express your opinion? Go outside and take a walk.

Oh shit, freerice. I used to use that shit to study geography.

>>2370527
Wrong thread, bro?

>>2370531
Judging by the word quiz, that was a mistake.

>>2370532
Yes, you are on the wrong thread.
>>>/a/
is that way.
>>2370531
Did you pass?

>>2370527
Mad inferior, is mad.

For sure it was the wrong thread.

>>2370535
Keep raging, bro. I was just pointing out how you posted in a wrong thread. :)

>>2370535

Pass what? I wasn't taking a geography class, just studying for my own benefit. This is /lit/ I'm on after all. Should say a few things about me.

>>2370537
If DFW is so smart how come he killed himself?
Bang! Dodge that, mate.

>>2370539
>>2370450

Call me a pleb, but I hate Van Gogh's stylized shit.

>>2370550
Maybe you can't see in 3D, mang.

>>2370543
The majority of people who committed suicide or have suicidal tendencies were/are smarter than than the average person. You're still living and browsing 4chan, congrats.

>>2370550

If you understand the background to them they are better.
On the Threshold of Eternity was completed just before van Gogh shot himself. Blue is an important colour for him. I just think its very reflective on the uncertantly he must have faced.
I secretly dislike Monet.

>>2370543

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

>>2370543
DFW wasn't so much as smart as he was a niche-filler. With the number of college graduates on the rise, there was a need for some new, white voice to which the American youth could somehow relate. Franzen and Tom Robbins and writers like those speak to middle-aged people who take themselves semi-seriously; people who want to learn more about world problems but don't want to do anything about them.

DFW wrote for a younger, more desperate crowd. A white, college-educated-or-getting-there crowd that is desperate to assert itself on society through intellect. People who knew that reading Palahniuk would make them look mindless, and people who can't relate to a writer like, say, Faulkner.

I imagine DFW came to know his readership and became largely disenchanted with his work. "Pale King," in my eyes, can be read about how fruitless he found his pursuits to be.

>>2370564

That is a fantastic analogy

>>2370576

Nope that's just DFW's pretentious, stilted, overly intelleectual prose at work. Look at him there, trying to impress people with his gigantic vocabulary and long convoluted sentences.He's such a fake.

/sarcasm

Back the fuck up peasants! It's King Motherfucking Arthur!

>>2370578

Also, it's not as though there's just one type of person who reads DFW, and who does so for the sole reason of trying to appear smart to others. Not that these people don't exist, but you could posit the same for a lot of established authors. Is it so difficult to concieve that there are people who actually do read DFW for enjoyment, who like the intimacy of his stories, and the sense of humour and candour he brings to them? Those who can only understand the motive of reading DFW as gaining status/intellecutal currency are likely betraying that the main reason they read is just that. They're as much social pawns, caught up in the game of impressing others and appearing a certain way as the hipsters they decry.

Art Nouveau, anyone?

by Karen Green

>>2370621

I actually like it.

How about a slice of Americana?

>>2370461
fuck you. i got to the end and there's no paintings.

>>2370621
Fucking bloody brilliant, mate. How come I never thought of it!

>>2370717
it makes no sense.

>>2370726
What? The picture or my post?
Because both make sense to me.

>>2370620
Makes a nigga wanna get his green drink on

>>2370730
the king card with the words interspersed? explain it.

>>2370731
fuck off you're not black.

>>2370733
Did you even look at the text? It is talking about tax code and social security numbers. It is basically saying that the IRS is basically a different kind of king.

>>2370738
Yeah I got that but the text is unreadable. it's just individual words. I thought they were trying to do something more.

>>2370733
It's a Illinois Department of Revenue thing.

>>2370742
Hope this helps.

>>2370749
So it's only equating monarchy and taxation? Pretty lame point. it's the conclusions youngsters arrive at when they think they have it all figured out.

to look smart with surrealist fans maybe

leonora carrington - the giantess

>some female friends talking about optical illussions
>mention the "skewed skull in the painting with those two nobles" and try to remember who made it
>I comment "de Selve and de Dinteville? That's Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' "
>"de who?"
>"Georges de Selve and Jean de Dinteville, the two diplomats on the painting"

>>2370620
Man I can't look at Mucha's works without remembering he died after a brutal interrogation by the Gestapo. Bit of a downer.

>>2372555
Shit, that's interesting, didn't know that.

>>2369050
dammit I was going to say this.

George Grosz Republican Automatons