/lit/ - Literature

Mrs. Dalloway

>>7100806
Great taste.

>>7100799

what are they doing to the poor birdo?

>Steppenwolf
>Wheatfield with Crows by Van Gogh, but Im a plastical art pleb

Crime and Punishment

how do I make myself more knowledgeable in the plastic arts?

>>7100817
look at the internet

Glosa by Juan Jose Saer (the title in inglish is the sixty-five years of washington)

>>7100799

The Trail - Kafka

Blood Meridian
Can't really pick a painting but this one always comes to mind

>>7100799
>your favorite book
>your favorite painting

wow its like im back in high school

>>7100833
>A thread which I don't like the look of
>Better post in it

>>7100833

Did you also shitpost in high-school?

Kangaroo by D.H. Lawrence

Robinson Crusoe by William Defoe

Painting >NONE
Book >How the steel was tempered

Has anyone read this book?

>>7100925
I ve been in 4chan for 2 years , just learned greentexting cant start from the center of a line

Moby Dick

Painting related it is amazing to view in real life
Favorite book is probably the count of Monte Cristo

>>7100973
You are very based

>>7100799
The Trial
Men Walking Amongst Rivers and Mountains
It's an ancientish chinese painting.

>>7101044
Link it, you wanker.

The Iliad - Homer
The ninth wave - Aivazovsky

>>7101093
Close seconds are
Odysey - Homer
Faust in his study - Rembrandt

>>7101093
based

Gravity's Rainbow

The Great Gatsby

I love this painting more than my limited articulation will give me the liberty to explain.

The Name of the ROse

The Crying of Lot 49

runner up painting tho

Moby Dick

>>7101156

le whoops

>>7101124
Why? its a painting that often comes up often on this board, on this website even, and i'd like to understand the reasons, even if they are just rough articulations

>>7101197
because its good

>>7101197
Look at that facial expression. It's one of immense pain, shock, and regret. Of a father who's just realised he's accidentally murdered his own son. The first time I saw it it moved me to tears. It's certainly one of the most powerful paintings I know of.

>>7101098
All the beautiful pictures and portraits Rembrandt made and your favourite is one of his fucking sketches.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

2666

>The Stranger

>>7101381
I just finished The Stranger yesterday and drank a cafe au lait this morning to commemorate the occasion. Great book. What Sartre/Camus should I read next?

>>7101392
The Myth of Sisyphus if you want a deeper understanding of Camus' philosophy and if you want to know what The Stranger was all about.

The Plague if you want more fiction.

War and Peace

Pic related.

2666

As for books, not sure. Probably Anna K.

At the moment it's The Trial

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or the Odyssey

The Master and Margarita.
Favourite artist is Roerich but I couldn't pick a specific favourite

>>7100799
national gallery, yusssss so good

>>7100817
The Story of Art, by Gombrich.
Also, they're called the visual arts now

Mine are Mason & Dixon and pic related (though I prefer the woodcut tbh)

Paradise Lost

New Sun

>>7102041
thats flipped for some reason, but yeah.

>>7100817
wikiart.org

>>7100799
If all little girls looked like the one in the middle, I'd understand why pedophiles like them.

brothers karamazov

vicious circle by jacek malczewski

Brothers Kazamarov

Don't have a favorite book, read metamorphosis recently, liked it.

>>7102072
>>7102082
lol
Also, I misspellt Karamazov

The Odyssey

Is it weird that I don't enjoy art? I've been to art museums and I know a little about its history, but I just don't get anything out of it.

Pale Fire

>>7102093
You are probably autistic.

I mostly read poetry. Lolita I guess

Currently it's Infinite Jest.

>>7102093
post your favourite frog picture by anonymous

>>7102131
Either this or the one I just posted

The Savage Detectives

>>7100799
Don Quixote/The Death of Marat

>>7100823
Fuck I love Wheat Field with Crows. I never liked it in pictures but in person it blew me away.

King Lear

Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner

>>7102111
do you have any favourite poetry book?

Gravity's Rainbow or One Hundred Years of Solitude I guess

I'm a massive Magrittefag but I'll pick this one because it's a more interesting choice and it really does it for me.

Descartes meditations on first philosphy

>tfw /lit/ is sort of patrician

In Search of Lost Time

The Stranger

Paradise Lost

>>7100799
>>7100826
>>7101141
these are pretty nice, good taste

>>7102195
le fleurs du mal is definitly one of my favorites

IJ/Donkey Hottie

All Quite on the Western Front

The Confusions of Young Törless at the moment.

Nicola Samori's pic related at the moment.

Don't have a #1, but a favorite
>The Eternal Husband - Dostoyevsky
>pic related

I really only know Jean Leon Gerome (apart from the obvious ''greats''), but I absolutely love just about everything he painted. Anyone know any other painters like him?

>>7100826
wow aren't you fucking edgy

>>7101772
me about a year ago, weird lad

Pale Fire

>Ulysses
>anything by Yves Tanguy

I admit to being an utter pleb in regards to the visual arts, though.

heart of darkness

Moby dick
Among the sierra nevada mountains

Amerika

The Fisherman and the Siren, Knut Ekwall

>choosing 2666 and not going with an Arcimboldo

tsk tsk

>>7102965
>I admit to being an utter pleb in regards to the visual arts, though.
don't worry. you're in good comapny itt

>>7102965
>naming Ulysses as your favorite book

Heh, you're a pleb in regards to literature as well

>>7100816
mariela?

>>7101131
my gott, what is going on here?

>>7100826
woah... what if it was "the trail"

that's cool anon

>>7101197

Look at the hands, you tasteless pleb.

awesome you managed to turn off topic shitposting art threads into slightly more on topic thinky veiled art threads

white buildings hart crane

This one from William Turner is one of my favourites.

>The House of the Sleeping Beauties, Yasunari Kawabata.

>>7103071
Which one?

>>7103011

Well, if you're such a connoisseur, could you tell me what you think of Tanguy?

>>7103017

>many people agree that it's great so it must not be

And you sound like a pleb in the most general sense.

Pistis Sophia

Big Sur

>>7102041
That paradise (pic related) is indeed lost.

>>7102093
You don't need to enjoy modern art in order to enjoy art. That's just something that society tells you to do these days.
>wtf is so special with a shit in a can
>it's modern art you just don't get it

I personally believe there is art out there for everyone and you don't have to enjoy or understand every era.

Favourite painting is hard but it's one I quite like

>To the lighthouse

>>7103238
This is probably my favorite painting too.

The World as Will and Representation

>Dune
I think I have dormant wanderlust

>>7100799
Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

>>7101353
>picasso
>2666
pleb. makes sense i guess

>>7101197
dat light/dark contrast + stark red

i want to get into art, but have no knowledge on where to start. are there any books with a wide selection of artists in a wide period of time that i would buy?

>>7102043
i love how you can see her face and not his

i can self-insert here like porn :]

>>7101124
>I love this painting more than my limited articulation will give me the liberty to explain.
Needs to be more wordy. You don't look enough like a fedora-wearing pseudo-intellectual.

>>7103962
Also interested in this, what should be the 'start with the Greeks' of painting?

>>7103497
he didn't mention modern art at all, stop projecting your insecurities

>>7103962
>>7103993
story of art by EH Gombrich isn't a bad start, google into it and see if it sounds like what you're looking for

>>7103962
>>7103993
Gombrich, Story of Art

>>7104003
Lol

Great minds eh

>>7104003
>>7104009

Saved, thanks for the suggestion guys.

>>7104003
>>7104009
thanks for the reply. im gonna order it.

The Old Man and the Sea

The Divine Comedy

>>7103910
hory shit that's amazing

>>7103910
>having a fancy ass boat covered in gold for the express purpose of taking you across a fucking creek

lol

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Unconsoled
the israelites passing through the wilderness preceded by the pillar of light

Or
One Hundred Years of Solitude
and this

How The Mind Works

Notes from Underground.
When I was in Amsterdam there was another one they had up at the Rembrandt house, painted by an apprentice I think.
It was a Biblical scene, of a man's encounter with a woman at a well. I don't think it was from John -- old Testament more likely. It was the layout that got me.

There was another at the Van Gogh museum, one of his contemporaries. The painting was centered on the backside of a building -- no windows -- that dominated the horizon. On one side you could see into a lighted street (it was at night) where couples were out, and on the other was more decrepit housing. I don't know the title of this one either.

Borges - Ficciones

>>7100968
I don't really jive with moby (probably sacrilege but idgaf) but I love this damn painting.

>>7104159
>How The Mind Works
Which one?

>>7104194
The one on my night stand.
Pinker. There's another?

>>7104213
It's a very general title. Four or five would pop up in any search.

>>7100799
Portrait of the Artist

Death of Sardanapulus - Eugene Delacroix
the only version i have is too large to upload

>>7101145
fucking shit painting, everything about it is fucking shit

>>7104220
>would
Wha? There is but the one.

1. The Trial - Kafka
2. Untitled - Cy Twombly. Or pretty much anything by Cy Twombly.

>all these modernist paintings
lmao

>Journey to the End of the Night

>The Wreck of Hope

>>7104270
>implying you know anything about art
It's the people who know nothing about art who think "but I could do that!"

>Christ in the Desert
>The Brothers Karamazov

too late for christ though

>>7104286
haha ur paintings got a dong in it

>>7100799

Typee/The Trial

>>7104307
Yeah, don't know why I like them so much (the paintings, not dongs).

>thus spake zarathustra
>inb4 PLEB

show me a better portrait

>>7104436
The most common of denominators here

The Big Sleep

>>7103956
Retard

>>7102352
I'm sure you don't understand it

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner

>Moby Dick/The Seven Storey Mountain/Absalom, Absalom!

>>7104480
Enlighten me then

Journey to the End of the Night

>>7103906
top kek

>>7104504
Caravaggio is truly second to none.