/lit/ - Literature

Feininger Rules!

this is kinda a more obscure Van Gogh but it's fucking awesome

Frank Auerbach

>>2685330

>>2685336

>>2685325
Funny, I just read about him in Pirsig. Meant to look him up.
Anyways, I'll be contributing some of my favourite symbolist artists, starting with Jan Toorop.

"Red on my wall, Basquiat when I paint"
-Rick Ross

>>2685322
>Don't even even start with that "Modern art sucks, it like has no meaning!!"

Hey, OP
Modern art is fucking great.

Franz von Stuck - Sin.
Basically Eve.

Alfred Kubin. Very morbid drawings. Love it.

Frantisek Kupka.

this was cool to see in person

>>2685366
This is creepy and charming at the same time.

Klimt- Wasserschlangen
Mucha
Barbara Kruger

>>2685395
And, this picture of Lilith. I was even going to buy a big print of it, but after almost two years we finally decided that the print shop was, basically, not going to get it. So. Yea. No Lilith.

>>2685397
that would be awesome. I hate how prints of obscure pieces are hard to find/expensive

required

>>2685412
It was a shop that just printed pictures. The people there were nice, but then they forgot, then there was a fire, then somebody died, then aliens attacked... Bah. There are internet sites that do prints, if you're looking. But I'm not sure. The store would buy prints online, and then transfer it onto wood, so I'm assuming you can buy them too.

>>2685445

I prefer it in this colour.

My personal favourite:

>>2685459

I've been using various Grimshaws as desktop wallpapers recently. Love the guy.

Awesome stuff, saved a lot of it. Thanks for contributing to this thread.
Other literati, don't be afraid to share

This thread lacks some Beksinski.

Francis Bacon
Rothko
Warhol
Pollock

>>2685500
dat bacon

>nicola samori

This is one of my favorite pieces at the moment. If I had the room and money I would get some of this guys work. - Henrique Oliveira

Someone posted a Desmond Morris painting the other day on this board while talking about evolutionary psychology. Ty for introducing me to this great painter, Anon.

>>2685533
Cool. This is what I've got on my wall.

>>2685474

I like you.

>>2685554
dat color

>>2685554
Hey, I've got larger version of that image, if you're interested. Like the other guy, I use Grimshaw as my wallpaper sometimes.

>>2685551
Lol, Look at that bloke at the bottom, just right of center, with the bunch of flowers hanging out of his arse.

Zdzislaw Beksinski

>imageboard
>images fail to load

I find Botero extremely moving.

Gotta love Egon Schiele.

all these low res pic.

you might as well not post anything at all.

>>2685586
there's a board for that btw

thanks for trying

>>2685587


make sense, please

>>2685606
>>>>>>/hr/

>>2685609
Piss off

>>2685615
You're not the real flutterby.

OMG MODERN ART I'M SO SOPHISTICATED XD!!1

You and your art are pretentious. Get over it.

>>2685626
Fuck you

>>2685629
That feel when no one even posted anything similar to that dated "visual art of ideas."

>>2685428
>v_holding_pc_gaming.jpg

Fucking picture.
Gets me everytime.

Anyway, screw modern art, I'll post what I want.

>>2685629
>not trying to be anything in particular
>pretentious

Pick one.
Then learn the definition of the words you use.

I love his almost geometric treatment of anatomy

pretty but unnerving

>>2685583
You might want to take a look at Manfred Deix.

Double the fun by speaking german.
Triple it by being austrian.

>art after the 19th century

No thanks.

>>2685646
tumblr core

>>2685649
By the way, I know that this is from the 20th century. You don't have to tell me.

>>2685428

outstanding facial expressions and level of detail. I had already stumbled with that image about half a year ago, lost it. Can you give the complete sauce?

>>2685650
It looks like Gollum is butthumping Sam.

>>2685655

>Complains about low res.
>859x480

lel.

>>2685651
>it's popular therefor it's shit

fuck off

Awesome thread. This one is James Ensor

>>2685661
couldnt give a fuck nigger

If anybody else is into "street" or illustration, check out Alex Pardee (pic related)

>>2685662
I like this. Who made it?

>>2685673
Deuce 7

>>2685680
Allison Torneros

>>2685675
http://www.oliviabliss.co.uk/

Shepard Fairey

>>2685648

hey! It's butthead's family. There was a Feininger exhibit at the Musee Des beaux arts in Montreal when I was there, but I cheaped out and just looked at their collection. sad face.

Hughie O'Donaghue

>>2685701

one-trick pony?

>>2685712
Pretty much. He's more of a graphic designer that started in street art graffiti stencils (pic related). But does have some unique pictures. He tends to favor drawing in illustrator/photoshop now though.

You know that red and blue Obama picture with the "Hope" caption that was all over the internet? That was him too.

>that feel when my coworker had gone to a garage sale before work today
>and he bought a hand-illustrated bible for one dollar
>one dollar

>>2685729
>You know that red and blue Obama picture with the "Hope" caption that was all over the internet? That was him too.

Has there ever been a more appropriate moment for a good old fashioned DUHHHH

>>2685732
Wow, I totally forgot the best part of my story.
It was a hand-illustrated bible that was illustrated by Salvador Dali.

>>2685712
>>2685729
He went through a phase of printing huge images, and pasting them to various walls all around the world in the early hours of mornings.

In his defense, he is one on a small handful of modern artists to achieve fame with a distinctive style.

>>2685744
That's a pretty sweet find.

>>2685749
Yeah, it's worth a shit load of money and he got it for a dollar.
He owns an antique shop and knows a guy who restores old book covers, so he's most likely going to make a fortune off of it.

>>2685739
Don't be such a cock. The person asking about him obviously didn't know who he was, so why would they associate him with that image?

Don't make me clip those pretty lil wings of yours.

>>2685756
the person asking was the one who said 'one trick pony?' suggesting he had some idea of who he was, most likely if he knows anything he knows the fucking most exposed work he's ever done if he doesn't then im sure see it in a google search

cunt

>>2685764

That was me who asked one-trick pony. I didn't know he was the same guy who did the Obamahope thing, but I wasn't the one who asked. Still, at least it's a good trick.

ITT: a bunch of fucking pseuds with their heads up their asses.

attached is some real art that speaks to the mind, body, *and* soul.

>>2685764
How do you know what they were suggesting? If you removed the collection of dildos from your ass you would realise that the average person doesn't know the name of any street artist other than Banksy.

You can respond if you want, you horrible little Cocksniff. But i'm wasting no more time on you.

Good day, cunt.

>>2685780
>not doing a jigsaw of this while in hospital
>being a faggot
Pick two.

>>2685784
oh you got maaaad

i can always tell when people are like 'im not posting anymore, ive risen above this shit, you can't make me post'.

good one

:P

This thread started off nice and civil when the britfags were on, now five hours later and the americunts turn it into a warzone.

>>2685796
im british and im the one who turned it into shit.
shove that up your smug british cunt

>>2685797
>>>/p/

>>2685802
I'm Columbian.

>>2685802
>im british and im the one who turned it into shit. shove that up your smug british cunt

>Claims to be British
>Uses British as an insult

Butthurt amerifag detected.

>>2685818
you're whatever i say you are. reality corresponds to my whim

>>2685820
>>Claims to be British
>Uses British as an insult

yes because i don't place any importance of nationality like a racist cunt

Kinda disappointed that most of this thread consists of paintings

best part. this is what i think of every time somebody makes an unrustled jimmies reference

>>2685640
>>2685646
Yuck. Don't care for Pollock either. Here, use this name instead ƷЖƸ
>>2685655
>>2685662
Decent abstracts.
>>2685661
He's trolling. Trying to get everyone to hate me. :\
And I'm not British. (Scotts Welsh/Slavic)

g2bed fake butterfly
nobody's buying it

>>2686170
Real one reporting.

>>2686177
Yeah, I think we posted right at the same time.

>>2686177
NO. He's not the real butterfly, he's a very naughty boy.

I prefer sculpture.

>>2686191
Please adopt a different name man.

>>2686202
You adopt a different name. I was here first.

>>2686227

Fuck off already

Alright I've got a tripcode now

>>2686230
I just cracked buttflies tripcode
#penisbutt

Come on guys let me have my name back. I'm getting really upset. you are all a bunch of horridheads.

that's enough you jerks

>>2686237
Why not just post as anon?

>>2686230
Finally. That's what you should have done all along

>>2686230
Shit. This isn't me, you guys. One of those other assholes got here first.

>>2686253
Goddamn it. Stop it. Please, stop doing this.
Just let me keep my name.

>>2686253

seriously suck a dick already

C'mon, fellas, what's the big idea?

>>2686273
The Big idea is Big society.

bamp

le golden shower

>le
Die, please. Seriously.

>>2686262
>>2686273
who gives a fuck about butterfag

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

I like it. Rollin' / Hatin'

I've always liked David.

> all of it

Architecture is art, too.

>>2689734

>>2689740
I agree
German Gothic architecture has this morbid air to it. fascinating..

>>2689740
>>2689751
Finally. Up until now there has been no architecture and one sculpture..thing.

is it ironic that I am bumping Lil Wayne while viewing a fine art thread?

>>2689761
High/low brow is so 18th century dude.

>>2689776

I feel my day slipping away...

I leave you with one contemporary. Bbl

How about something that actually touches on the human condition rather than avoids it?

>>2689762
>sculpture

>>2689796
>trying to universalizes the white western heteronormative existence as the "human condition"

>>2689796
Wow that picture made me feel like shit :(

>>2689806
Its one painting dude. Get over yourself.

Great example you posted.

>>2689840
warhammer?

>>2689849

>>2689851

>>2689852

Moebius!

>>2689806
It portrays an indentured servant worked to death as he was picking up stones from the field that he was then to till etc. Weeping over his dead body is his wife who's left with nothing and is probably going to die in work house somewhere.
If you can't translate this to everywhere else in the world and every time period, then okay. But you're wrong and you know it.

>>2689751

I find it interesting that you think it morbid; what I get from German Gothic is this high, aspirational mode— it's numinous. I think part of it is that I always envision the churches painted in their medieval glory.

> bumping with the Norman Rockwell piece that demonstrates that he was not only actually a great artist when let loose, but a sly wit

>>2690239
I have no real formal or hobby based learning of the interpretation of paintings, could you explain the wit here? I've always really like Rockwell, his paintings are clever but I don't really know much about art all in all.

I'm too lazy to use the incredibly daunting Google, but my favorite is John Dyer Baizley. My second favorite is Frank Frazzetta.
>inb4 metalfag
>inb4 fantasy-pleb

Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind III: Those Who Stay, 1911.

>futurism ftw

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>/lit/ - paintings

>>2690655
/ic/ never does this though

just like classical music threads on /mu/ always die

>>2690677
That's because /ic/ doesn't like art, they like poor attempts at photorealism and Loomis

>>2690689
That's not true. They also enjoy shitting on each others work. They take great pride in who can criticize the best.

epic bread
is.this/archived?

>>2690702

http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/

All threads are archived.

"Luchke! Don't make me deSTROY you... Hey, what are you doing to my helmet? Get offa me!"

I don't trust that little white guy running for the door there. Somebody tell security.

>>2691260

what is this? no thanks google image search, btw

>>2691282
I believe they're from the Vatican

>>2691282
SUCCESS

Its Ernest Barrias' Nature Unveiling Herself to Science
And I was steered wrong its in France, not Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_Unveiling_Herself_Before_Science

>>2685668
I seen that at the Getty. It was pretty cool

>>2685554
Oh wow that is gorgeous.

More social realism.
Title approximately equal to "the highest justice, the highest injustice. The infanticide".

The Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough is the best breakthrough.

>>2691274
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

ONLY THE DEEPEST

I've always loved this painting.

GET ON MY LEVEL

>>2692980
Fuck this shit.

That's something that belongs in that big shitty art museum in Chicago.

I specifically remember this long 2x4 painted two different colors, and this huge square canvas that was entirely black, and all sorts of other abstract crap like that.

Fuck's sake anyone can paint a canvas solid black, why's that need to be in a museum?

2deep4me I guess

>>2692989
You really need to see Rothko irl. I'm still skeptical, I admit, but apparently, they glow. It's the cloud like edges (I had an art teacher who creamed her pants over him). But I agree about the black canvas thing.

>>2692989
did you think to paint a canvas black? No. because you don't think it's art. You're only limiting yourself. So quite whining.

>>2692993
I like to think that art is something that takes some degree of skill to create.

Everything else in this thread was created by master painters who perfected their art over the course of a lifetime.

But literally anyone capable of holding a brush can paint a canvas solid black.

>>2692989
i've heard that rothkos are usually lit completely incorrectly. they should be in a darker room to let the colors emerge but no, they're blasted with light ruining the intended effect.

>>2692985
done

>>2692993
>did you think to paint a canvas black? No. because you don't think it's art. You're only limiting yourself. So quite whining.
Art is anything anybody puts in an art museum, and in order to get your work put in an art museum you need to be upper-middle class. That response is nothing but the pettiest of class intimidation.

>>2693001
>related to
>>2693002

>>2692981
i want to fuck sappho so bad

>>2692999
that's just exclusionary. Art can't be constrained to some arbitrary skill set defined by you. Art is just pure expression of the human mind.

>>2693002
>ONLY THE DEERPEST

>>2693004
no, that other guy and you are the ones resorting to class hegemony by limiting the field of expression. This much should be clear.

>>2693011
>that's just exclusionary. Art can't be constrained to some arbitrary skill set defined by you. Art is just pure expression of the human mind.
If the definition of art includes everything and excludes nothing, than art is without any definition at all.

>>2693011
So if i shit on a plate, and say it is a representation of reality TV and how it is served to us. That is considered art?

>>2693015
>no, that other guy and you are the ones resorting to class hegemony by limiting the field of expression. This much should be clear.
Your only field of expression is "anything museums call art". Your definition is the most conservative and supportive of the cultural hegemony imaginable.

>>2691322
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw

8===D

>>2693025
Yes. but simply defining it as art is not making a judgment on whether we like or dislike it. That's where you and >>2693024 are confused

>>2693029
what? no lol. I have no idea why you're even assuming a thing like this.

"it scares me when things don't conform to arbitrary standards, so could everyone stop doing things differently, please?" - a bunch of posters itt, 2012

>>2693040
>what? no lol. I have no idea why you're even assuming a thing like this.
Because it's exactly what you fucking said, you dribbling idiot.

>>2693011
>that's just exclusionary. Art can't be constrained to some arbitrary skill set defined by you. Art is just pure expression of the human mind.

So what about literature then?

If art isn't something that takes skill to create then everything anyone has ever printed is art.

How about that /lit/, Twilight and Eragon have as much artistic merit as any other book.

>>2693043
>"it scares me when things don't conform to arbitrary standards, so could everyone stop doing things differently, please?" - a bunch of posters itt, 2012
"it scares me when people discuss art as anything other than what a bunch of middle-upper class (mostly white) people decide to put in museums, could you stop challenging the hegemony please?" - a pseudo-progressive itt, 2012

>>2693047
I did not.

>>2693049
yes. the distinction is created between what you adore and what you do not like. it's not one of defining the parameters of art. I don't think anyone is in a position to do that.

>>2693053
nigger seriously what?

my adoration is least pretentious or bourgeois. the one thing i adore about art is the simple fact that it's universal. i couldn't give a fuck if it were representative or not and I don't disregard it when it's not

>>2693043
But standards prevent anybody from creating shit and calling it art.

I'm sure you have heard of the emperors new clothes. - The emperor is scared to say that he can't see the clothes because he is told that anyone who cant see them is stupid.
Now, I'm sure you have seen a bunch of middle class sheep staring at a blank canvas with a slash in it (or something similar) saying how wonderful it is because they have heard of the artist in their sunday newspaper.

We need standards to prevent this. Sure anyone can do anything and claim "its a metaphor for the working class and how they are getting fucked by the system". But we need to filter out the shit otherwise charlatans like Mr Brainwash come along and trick people into paying $40,000 for a giclee print with an acrylic thumbprint.

This version of Edvard Munch's Madonna. I tweaked the colors to my liking, sorry bout that I didnt feel like finding an un-altered photo.

>>2693054
>>2693058
>I LOVE ART, I'M NOT SUPPORTING THE HEGEMONY, I HATE THE BOURGEOIS, ART IS UNIVERSAL, ANYTHING ANYBODY CAN THINK TO DO, AND I SUPPORT ALL FORMS OF EXPRESSION.
>Except for when those troublesome plebeians dare to express themselves concerning what middle-upper class institutions call art, that's just going too far!

>>2693063
You call it shit art. Easy. It's still art, of course it is. But it's shit. Done.

>>2693063

i don't really get where this pervasive fear of being tricked/duped/defrauded comes from

>>2693066

yeah but saying "this isn't art" has never been and will never be an act of challenging the hegemony

responding/rebutting without cheapshit efforts to invalidate? sure. creating art that presents a different narrative? hell yeah

but just saying "that's not art" is perforce a reactionary act

>>2693066
>Except for when those troublesome plebeians dare to express themselves concerning what middle-upper class institutions call art,

except I never said this nor did i imply it.

and yes I'm in favour of all forms of expression but it doesn't mean I personally like them all equally.
learn the fucking difference.

>>2693070
>i don't really get where this pervasive fear of being tricked/duped/defrauded comes from
It's more a desire to tear down the institutions that support the worthless upper class slugs who often get paid public money to stick their shit up on museum walls. People only want that money to go to artists who they feel have the talent and create works worthy of being there.

>>2693079
>People only want that money to go to artists who they feel have the talent and create works worthy of being there.

You do this too. It's just you have a different idea of 'worth' like everyone does.

>>2693075
>but just saying "that's not art" is perforce a reactionary act
You talk like fucking self-help book, you slimey little turd. What the fuck kind of response to art is anything but "reactionary"?

>>2693078
>except I never said this nor did i imply it.
Your responses speak for themselves. You can never pay the working class enough lip service and disdain them and their kitsch taste with enough vehemence simultaneously.

>>2693085
>You do this too. It's just you have a different idea of 'worth' like everyone does.
I simply have a definition more sophisticated than "anything wealthy people put in museums".

>>2693088
>You can never pay the working class enough lip service and disdain them and their kitsch taste with enough vehemence simultaneously.

WHERE THE FUCK HAVE I SAID THIS
WHERE THE FUCK HAVE I IMPLIED THIS
WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING THIS FROM
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

>>2693091
>"anything wealthy people put in museums".


That's not my definition. WHY DO YOU THINK YOU ARE OBJECTING TO ANYTHING I SAY?!

>>2693079

i can dig this goal but there has to be a means of getting there without so regressive a method as branding works as "not art"

/lit/ has been overwhelmingly shitty these past few days, oscillating between the banally flagrant (ayn rand, reddit, sasha gray, satan) to the flagrantly banal (favourite publisher/bookbinding, moronic art dumps, fucking game of thrones).

What happened to the days where a verbal pugilist could have some fun in this neck of the woods.

>>2693068
>>2693070
Watch the doc "Exit through the gift shop".

Mr Brainwash (aptly named) rented a factory, and spent weeks spray painting advertisments for his "exhibition" before he even had any art, the media picked up on his graffiti and started publishing articles about this new mysterious artist. Brainwash then hires a team of people to work round the clock to print random images that have been lightly photoshoped.

When the exhibition opens he now has a long line of people waiting to come in thanks to the media, and sells his pictures for thousands, some of which he hasn't even seen himself.

This is not art, there is no meaning to the works. Its just an exercise in marketing. But thousands of people stand open mouthed gawping at one of these prints, discussing the meaning behind it and opening their wallets because a newspaper told them it was trendy. And if you believe it is, you are just as gullible as the poor fucks who paid thousands for one on his prints.

>>2693106
>This is not art

says who

>>2693106

why does the lack of meaning scare you though? supposing you bought a painting that the artist had a very specific meaning in mind for, and you got a different meaning from it -- does that invalidate your experience with the painting?

can you ever be 100% sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that a given work of art isn't a hoax on some level?

>>2693093
>did you think to paint a canvas black? No. because you don't think it's art. You're only limiting yourself. So quite whining.
The common working class notion of art is something that requires certain skill that not everybody has. Abstract art is mostly despised as being an empty circlejerk, all the while you can't rush fast enough to defend the notion that ANYTHING put in a museum and called art is not only art, but art that is beyond criticism for being placed there.

Please, you explain to me for once how your position is anything but the most bourgeois horseshit imaginable.

>>2693126
>why does the lack of meaning scare you though?

Its not just the lack of meaning. I would be very pissed off if I had read an article about a new artist, went to the exhibition, bought a piece to impress my rich friends, only to discover the artist hasn't even sen the piece himself. So you think it's acceptable for an artist to have works of art that they don't even know exist? That somebody else made on a computer for him and sold?

>>2693133

that "notion of art" isn't organic it's something that's been inculcated by the hegemon for centuries

>>2693122
>says who
NOT AN UPPER CLASS WHITE MALE AND NOT A FAMOUS CELEBRITY WHO HAS HAD HIS ART APPROVED BY THE CULTURAL HEGEMONY, THEREFORE THE OPINION IS CLEARLY WITHOUT WORTH.

>>2693136
>that "notion of art" isn't organic it's something that's been inculcated by the hegemon for centuries
OH YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. YOU LOVE THE POOR SO MUCH YOU'RE CONVINCED THEY'RE UNABLE TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES SO THAT SHOULD BE THE DOMAIN OF INTELLECTUALS LIKE YOURSELF. IF THE POOR DISAGREE WITH YOU, IT'S CLEARLY BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN BLINDED BY THE HEGEMONY THAT YOU ARE CLEVER ENOUGH TO HAVE PIERCED THROUGH WITH BLINDING LIGHT!

>>2693135

>So you think it's acceptable for an artist to have works of art that they don't even know exist? That somebody else made on a computer for him and sold?

nah that's not cool, deliberately spoofing an art installation is a dickish thing to do

but any work of art that comes from an honest desire to create is cool by me ultimately

>>2693133
Well I don't believe anything is beyond criticism. I do not defend all art. I say it's useless trying to decipher what is art and what isn't. the distinction to be made is whether you like it or not. I do not like everything in museums. In fact many of the works I have are from friends who I think don't make nearly as much money as they should from their paintings. I am often equally engrosses by deviant art pictures as I am from my favourite 'famous' artists.

>>2693142

calm down here a smidgen, friend

what i'm saying is that to a major extent cultural institutions uphold that conception of "skilled" art being the only valid art and "abstract" art being somehow fake, and that maybe it could be worthwhile to work on changing that -- like in the educational system and so forth

totally not trying to patronize anybody here, honest

>>2693138
>I'm not part of the cultural elite therefore my opinion is worth more

Your's is just the reverse of what you oppose.

>>2693148
>Well I don't believe anything is beyond criticism. I do not defend all art. I say it's useless trying to decipher what is art and what isn't. the distinction to be made is whether you like it or not. I do not like everything in museums. In fact many of the works I have are from friends who I think don't make nearly as much money as they should from their paintings. I am often equally engrosses by deviant art pictures as I am from my favourite 'famous' artists.
When most people say that something is "not art", they're simply colloquially saying that it's "bad art", and you know damn well what they mean. To launch into a damn near century old cliche about art being any form of human expression is to deliberately misunderstand and obfuscate the point that they think it's just plain old shitty art.

>>2693150
>what i'm saying is that to a major extent cultural institutions uphold that conception of "skilled" art being the only valid art and "abstract" art being somehow fake, and that maybe it could be worthwhile to work on changing that -- like in the educational system and so forth
In other words, you're just another bourgeois blank slatist who's convinced the working class would only agree with you if only you could completely reconstruct their environment to suit your particular notion about what good art is.

>>2693153
>saying "says who" on an anonymous image board
Yeah, nah, get raped to death yuppie scum.

>>2693159

this "hmm perhaps it is you who is the real classist" shtick is getting super old, dude

you were wrong in the continental philosophy thread and you're wrong here

>>2693167
>LOL BANAL
I'll stop my "shtick" when you refute it.

>>2693171

no thanks posting with someone who doesn't actually read the posts they reply to is kind of lame

Does anyone knows who made this one? Saw it last night, fucking loved it, the hill, the rain, the headlight of the cars, it's beautiful.

>>2693178
He seems to be Russian or something.

http://www.adsmarket.com.ua/articles/fun/4357/

>>2693187
I tell a lie. His name is Hsin-Yao Tseng.

http://hsinyaotseng.mosaicglobe.com/

>>2693187

Thank you.

>>2693178
that is great. it must be san francisco.

Gangbang by Pascal Möhlmann

for anyone unaware, Rothko paintings are actually near impossible to recreate accurately. The amount of effort that goes into creating the incredibly precise texture of the paint is mind-blowing. It's not just a layer of orange on the canvas.

>>2693266
>for anyone unaware, Rothko paintings are actually near impossible to recreate accurately.
Find me any oil painting that isn't near impossible to recreate accurately. The point is not whether or not it is hard to recreate his exact mixtures and brushstrokes, the point is that his paintings are aesthetically and intellectually bankrupt.

>>2693270
Have you ever actually seen one?

No, his paintings are the visual equivalent of ambient music. Calming, spiritual.

>>2693270
I don't mean to recreate compositionally, as in a painting that looks identical to a particular one of his pieces, for example a forgery. I mean to replicate his techniques, to paint 'in the style' of Rothko as it were, is virtually impossible.

>>2693274
>No, his paintings are the visual equivalent of ambient music. Calming, spiritual.
So is my wallpaper. The difference that my wallpaper doen't have a lot of irrelevant verbiage spun about its relationship to Nietzsche that makes a lot of retards suddenly take it seriously.

>>2685642
he watched alot of porn on a dsl connection

>>2693276
Rothko is the artistic equivalent of a downs syndrome kid bashing saucepans together and passing it off as music.

>>2693300
So wrong. Pollock is that. deKooning is that. Barnett Newman was that. Rothko was a subtle genius. Stand in front of his artwork in person, six inches away from it -- then you'll know.

>>2685780
What's next, Thomas Kinkaide?

pffffffft

Hey OP.
What makes art "good"

Wow this thread was great and turned into a shitstorm on modern abstract art. Read "Art" by Yasmina Reza and then comment. People are missing the point entirely.

>P.S. the Christopher Hampton English translation is excellent.

>>2693764

I was blown away by that play. Especially how it ends. I've never read anything that, when I put it down, made me wish I had written it so much that I was mad with envy of Reza. There are a lot of performances of it online (on youtube, some good, some not-so-good). Oh, and I wrote a kickass paper on it.

>>2693699

Ah, suprematism. I love his early circle and square pieces best though.

>>2693773
You sir are a cut above the rest! I Didn't expect anyone to respond so quickly! I read it in a poetry and drama class. It is one of those plays that stick with you and It left a mark on me for sure.

>>2693258
>Frankenthaler

Thanks for posting anon, I love her paintings too.

My interest in the arts is pretty much limited to stories, I like films and books etc. Painting and sculpture has never interested me, they don't draw me in with exciting tales and they'll never move me the way music can.

iamge limit reached

It was a good thread.

Hey, can anybody recommend some good books about art? Art history, critique or anything non-fiction related to art. Pleez

This is actually relevant

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