/lit/ - Literature

>>4556024
>inb4 implying nihilism is bad

>>4556024
Hunter Thompson buying cocaine

>>4556028
2deep2me

>>4556032

That's a shit-ton of cocaine.

Not /lit/ related, but will create a lot of nihilists

>>4556042
lol

>>4556045
Especially decades back

>>4556042

This evoked more feels

>>4556119

True art is unpretentious. It doesnt intent in capturing the human condition, it just happens to.

>>4556119
they like each other so much, but the relationship strains them both, because the sad tree needs to be eaten by the happy dino, so that he may live on. Sad tree doesn't know how to say no, it doesn't want to be alone. I'm so sad for that

>>4556042
:^)

I had a stroke and now I can't smile any more.

>>4556078

Kind of related.

>>4556844
every time. is it so hard to understand hypocrites =/= hippocrates

>>4556069
welp

>>4556844
Fuck off Hippocrates, you're a shit and everyone knows it

>>4556032
Ahaha goddamn I laughed out loud in public and now I feel self conscious.
If anybody is interested I just wrote a review of fear and loathing. I write one every week for my school newspaper.

Critique would be appreciated.
I will start another thread.

>>4557042
page 2

>>4556042
Michaelangelo is so boring. Almost everything he made features people just casually standing or sitting comfortably because he couldn't draw, paint or sculpt without having a model in front of him on hours on end, and said models couldn't do action poses.

At least the picture on the right features a story of sort and colors. Michaelangelo's David is just standing there, like a layabout. Had Michaelangelo been a more creative, dynamic, inventive artists, we'd see him as he was attempting to slay Goliath.
Pic related, by Bernini, a superior sculptor.

>>4556829
Lel

>>4557042
>>4557044

Aside from the terms ""all this results in an arduous read", "the story itself is a straightforward affair" (show don't tell) and informal phrases such as "*on some sort of* extreme debauched bender" etc. this is really good.

>>4557051
lol you're retarded

>>4556184
Exactly! David's just a hunky naked dude. Nothing feelsy about that.

>>4557123
No, u. Pic related, what is considered by most his grandest masterpiece, and almost everyone in it are just sitting or lying around, being lazy.

>>4557051
I think Michelangelo is a little more in the Greek tradition, rooted in idolatry, in that his statues are for being contemplated at length rather than giving a striking impression. The latter is more the province of colour and painting; so it seems to me.

>>4556984
What the fuck is wrong with the pictures.

>>4557134
Yes, but Michelangelo's sculpting might have been excused had my critique of him not extended to his painting as well, an art form he himself deemed "inferior".
Notice though I've never called Michelangelo a bad artist. Just a boring one.

>>4556137
>ascribing agency or intent to a piece of stone

BWAHAHAHHAHAHAH bet you believe in Old Men in the Sky too, Granpa

>>4557143
It's a matter of temperament, I think. I could stare at the Pieta for hours... Well, if I had a chair, I could. One man's boredom is another man's contemplation.

>>4557118
thanks.
I've never been taught journalistic writing so i have mostly taught myself by imitating the styles of others in a hope to get a feel for the specific type of writing. So sometimes I get confused over which expressions suit the occasion best.
Thanks for your input though

I seem to be getting a little notice from the local city newspaper. Should I consider working to publish there, or should I first work on honing my skills?

>>4557051

>liking bernini
>liking michaelangelo

you must choose both

>>4557051

>look at sculpture
>where's the storyline

it's like you're retarded or something.

>>4557240
No, he's just a discerning patrician.

>talk about sculptors
>no based polykleitos

>>4557271
a completely irrelevant hack

>>4557280
Are you high?

>>4557292
yes, i am infinitely higher on an intellectual plane than either you or polykleitos.

>>4557306
I can see that. Sorry for bothering you and enjoy the flight.

>>4557318
well yea, now it's obvious that i'm better than you (and that motherfucker polykleitos). would you have preferred 'plain' instead of 'plane'?

just accept it, i'm le patrician as fuck and the only person/demigod on earth who can make objective judgments on art. lego fuck yourself, plebman.

>>4557356
I would've preferred to meet you earlier in life. You sound like a sexy little bookworm who nonetheless takes great care of his body..

>>4556829
Whoa, that's a LOT of butthurt.

>>4556844

>>4557393
>takes great care of his body

thanks :=)

>I would've preferred to meet you

yea, no thanks ace. i'd rather have a socratic dialogue with an unpainted wall.

>>4557418
Reminds me of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM-Y1ch4b5c

>>4557412
That image is fucking stupid, and so are you. Please stop tripfagging and/or kill yourself.

Thanks in advance.

>>4557421
Think about it, all the things I could do for you if you would let me be around;)

>>4557442
This is getting pretty gay guys, please take this to /hm/ where it belongs.

>>4557444
Who says that I'm a guy?

>>4557449
It's gay as fuck regardless of gender.

>>4557439
Have you told your doctor about your anger issues? Post-traumatic stress disorders are serious shit, don't expect it to heal itself.

>>4557450
yea right, you're just jealous that no one is hitting on you, pleb.

>>4556119
this is a fantastic portrait of modern loneliness souls experience even when they appear to be socially active and fulfilled emotionally.

the picture is built with the principles of dadaic primitivism and the chosen style highlights the simple, primal, almost childlike needs and feels that go unfulfilled in modern society

the fact that the artist chose a tree and a dinosaur as the vessels of his vision showcases beautifully how differently two humans can experience life, making them yearn for friendship but ultimately incompatible for a meaningful relationship

the personalities of these two characters can be identified from the choice of colours. the dinosaur is red, which symbolizes excitement, passion and love. here is an individual that lives life to the fullest. his smile tells us he loves life and is an extremely positive person. meanwhile the tree is green, which symbolizes envy. from his sadness and color we can deduce he is jealous of the dinosaur's happiness and wishes to be him and feel like him. he wants the dinosaur's company but his proximity makes him even sadder and incites his envy further.

the violet heart between them symbolizes the complex relationship between these two individuals. at a glance, this seems to be a scene from a friendship of two persons who are polar opposites of each other, but once we focus our attention we can see several undercurrents of unsaid feelings, thoughts and complex meaning in this image that at first appeared so deceptively simple.

>>4557463
wow, thats funny and has never done before.

>>4557051

You do realise that even in a still body there is much movement, and Michaelangelo was one of the few who could capture that?

>>4556137

>unpretentious

Right, so if I live in a society where everyone in my class strata are slaves, or oppressed, or whatever, and I make a piece of art under the PRETENSE of opposing that scheme of living, it's not real art, because it's pretentious.

Or maybe you just toss around that word and imagine it means "stuck-up."

>>4557816

Jesus Christ! It was a joke, anon. Who the hell uses the term "true art" unironically in a board filled with philosophags?

>>4557691
Sure was a lot of still movement in his works he felt the need to capture.

>>4557085
top lel.