/lit/ - Literature

Another one by Kramskoi. Someone once told me this was the cover of their Anna Karenina.

The ninth wave - Aivazovsky

Based Repin.

Based Repin pt. 2.

Appropriate captcha: select all pictures of boats.

OP you should probably make this /lit/ related so it doesn't get deleted.

>>7120070
>OP you should probably make this /lit/ related so it doesn't get deleted.
here

Thomas Francis Dicksee- Ophelia

>>7120006

Dante and Vergil
can't get more /lit/ than that
and there is gayness and /lit/ is pretty gay tbh

>>7120070
These threads were huge then, and people seemed to dig them.

But yeah, I wouldn't want this to get deleted, so here's an interesting tidbit:
I discovered Kramskoi by reading The Brothers Karamazov. At one point, one of the characters talks about a painting of his, so I decided to look it up. Pic related.

Didn't like it very much, but I looked up his other stuff and enjoyed it immensely. You gotta understand, or at least appreciate other forms of art in order to become a great writer.

B

>>7120081
I love Dante being all "hold me bro". Such a great painting

Alexandre Cabanel- The Birth of Venus

>>7120094
This was made by that guy who only paints young semi-nude chicks lying around. Sure must be nice being able to jerk off to your work.

>>7120125
Ah, this anon has posted another great Repin.

Here is my fav Manet.

Good thread op

>>7120006
>pics of Jeebus
>great art
Fucking Christposters I swear.

>>7120169
>can't relate to the spiritual fatigue in Jesus' eyes
>can't see the quiet strength in his hands, gripped in prayer, in the hope for something better in the face of monumental suffering
>doesn't get the aesthetic feels from the dawn sky, a reminder that despite whatever inner turmoil we are contending with, the world is still beautiful
>can't interface with this painting on any real, emotional level other than memes

nice fedora, you get that on sale

>>7120169
And I'm not even a Christfag, that's how much I love it. I could stare at it forever.

I'm looking for something very, very similar to this. It is also a painting of a large room filled with other classical works. At first I thought this was it, but now I see it's not. Still great, though.

>>7120169
nice bait

I have a few folder that I based on /lit/ meme paintings: Kramskoi, Repin, Blake, Jean-Léon Gérôme plus a few others.

>>7120216
Finally found it! It was "Erzherzog Leopold Wilhelm in seiner Galerie in Brüssel" by David Teniers the Younger.

This is the one that gets Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin all worked up

>>7120215
Or you could paint a similar portrait of Marcus Aurelius, someone like that. Choosing Jesus is just pandering or bad taste.

>>7120224
This is more like it.

>>7120231
most of them are too large though, and posting smaller versions makes me sad

>>7120238
>jesus
>pandering
>bad taste
>like the world revolves around gay meme boards

You're a fucking pleb. Never post here again.

>>7120247
haha it's a fine art thread but you posted a shitty painting of the 9/11 attacks, dashing our expectations in a lurid and wickedly nihilistic fashion!

Faggot.

>>7120255
>implying nobody ever rejected organized religion before 4chan
There have always been superior alternatives to mainline Christianity. It has never been okay to be a Christian.

>>7120265
>reddit show
Are you sure you belong here ?

>>7120247
Stockhausen pls go

>>7120261
It is more like a cliched art thread, all the same old paintings everyone has already seen from book and album covers. I'd rather see something new and tacky than wallowing in stale 19th century.

>>7120272
>mocks normies
>mocks SJWs
>portrays a NEET ubermensch leaching off his family and rejecting the American public school system to educate his grandson
That doesn't sound like Reddit, unless by "Reddit" you actually mean, "Popular."

>>7120265
>cartoon reaction image
>fighting the good fight in an art thread

lmao >>>reddit

>>7120280
at least post good art then faggot

>>7120253
Great, man, keep 'em coming!

Mucha is known for his posters but his Slav Epic is, well, pretty epic. Also has a nice cameo by Nina Tucker at the bottom.

>>7120283
dude never try to justify watching cartoons as a grown man ever the fuck again

>b-b-but it makes fun of these here subcultures on the i-i-internet!

>>7120297
>claims to enjoy art
>doesn't smoke dank and watch cartoons
seriously nigger?

>>7120314
>not smoking dank and watching patrician cartoons like Ghost in the Shell and Bebop

once upon time there was a fookin pleb

>>7120308
God tier

>>7120012
Yeah it is, I used to have that copy but traded it for the married couple's translation

Even basic shit is welcome. Classics are called that for a reason.

>>7120006
>About a year ago, there had been a couple of great art threads here. They were pretty popular and a simple but effective way of introducing people to great art.

I'm pretty new to /lit/ and I was around for a few of these threads. There was a central asia theme, does anyone have some of those?

>>7120332
orientalism?

very acedemic

This was on the cover of my copy of Germinal. Phenomenal book, btw.

Here's some more Kramskoi.
That beard was hobo as fuck.

>>7120350

Weird.

Know the artist?

>>7120418
Seems like the same guy.

>>7120433
Gregory Crewdson a photographer, not a painter.

people seem to especially like this one, as well as his painting of newton

>>7120035
I remember one of my lecturers bringing this up and pointing out that that steamship in the background offered some sort of subtle social commentary. I can't remember exactly what he said it symbolised; does anyone have an idea?

I've been searching for this one for ages! Been through all of Malevich's paintings and raged because I was conviced it was his. Advanced google search (color selection) found it for me.

I get goosebumps from this one.

>>7120486
I hate Blake

>>7120492
The men appear to be unsupervised and form the focus of the picture, with the barge relegated to a minor role at the rear of the frame. Further in the distance is a tiny steam-powered boat, perhaps a suggestion that the back-breaking labor of the barge haulers is no longer necessary in the industrial age. Also worthy of note is the inverted Russian flag flying from the main mast of the barge, adding to the sense that something is not quite right."

Apparently it was compared to Courbet's Stone Breakers.

one of more than a hundred illustration to the divine comedy that were left unfinished upon his death

>>7120492
Similar to this famous Turner, noble battleship, sails down, ignominiously towed by modern steam barge.

I remember we compared della Francesca's Flagellation with Caravaggio's in class. I wish I could remember what the professor told us, though.

I'll always regret not going to the Caravaggio exhibition that was in my hometown. I'll probably never get that chance again.

Gonna drop a comfy Lowry.

>>7120520
>Further in the distance is a tiny steam-powered boat, perhaps a suggestion that the back-breaking labor of the barge haulers is no longer necessary in the industrial age

Yup. That's what it was. Thanks.

>>7120619
Did it happen when you were younger and didn't appreciate art?

I went to Europe in my late teens, and I never forgive my younger faggot self who passed up so many great museums.

>>7120679
Yeah, while I was still in high school. I said to myself I'm not gonna let something like that happen again.

Just got back from a Rodin exhibition and felt nostalgic for my lost art folder.

Oh well, at least we live in the age of internet.

>>7120224
love the file name

>>7120393
Didn't get it

>>7120502
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing

>>7120679
I went to those museums as a teenager. I was high af though so i dont remember anything that i saw. Teenagers are a waste of life tbh

>>7120265
>>7120238

wtf dude? I've been an atheist my entire life and I would never be as much of a shithead as you. It's an absolutely brilliant painting and I respect it highly.

white jesus bothers me

that is all

>>7121315
>being a casual atheist
Disgusting. Have some backbone.

>>7121320

honestly he could pass for middle eastern in that painting

in paintings, he's depicted as a mythological figure just like any other. the way the artist chooses to depict him is at their discretion.

>>7121325

You can be an atheist and still hold respect for religious mythology, be it Christianity or anything else.

I'm assuming you're a teenager or not even past your early 20s. When you grow up, you'll grow tired of constantly trying to find something new to hate on.

>>7121342
I don't have to look far in the deep south mate. It's pretty easy to find things about Christianity to hate here.

>>7120966
Yeah, I didn't understand it, it caught my eye because it is so different than Gerome's other stuff.
It seem to be an insult directed at Muslims. I would say that it is implying that through Allah's eyes, killing a pig (presumably to eat) is worse than killing hundreds of people. A black-winged angel has to lift one side of the scale to force it into fitting God's logic. But then, from the Quran,

>The weighing on that day is the true (weighing). As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful. And as for those whose scale is light: those are they who lose their souls because they disbelieved Our revelations.

flips everything around. Maybe Gerome thought it was the opposite. I don't know.

>>7121392
That's how it seems to me, like an illustration of how silly Allah's morality is.

Forgot his name but just search the image in google. His life was pretty depressing and committed suicide at the age of 33.

something in his eyes makes this picture so eerie

>>7120169
Its like lord of the rings fanart

>>7120319
>ghost in the shell
>unending fan service
>goat

yeah...

>>7120520
B-BUT MUH JOBS!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/robots-are-going-to-steal-the-jobs-of-chefs-salespeople-and-models-researchers-say-as-they-unveil-full-list-of-likely-robot-professions-10499771.html

>>7120717
dat sky

>>7120314
This Caucasoid gets it , Ghost in the shell is the reason I haven't killed myself and why I got into pseudo intellectualism in the first place.

>>7121310
>>7120389
>>7120167
requesting more manet, pls&thx

>>7121733
Good point.

>>7120340
this seems like the kind of obnoxious thing a humaities professor would keep in his house

>>7120393
mudslimes btfo

>>7120429
I love art deco

>>7120476
get the fuck out
>>7120527
this should be on the cover of The Man Who Disappeared

>>7121733
less is more faggot

even >>7120436 is more erotic than your kitsch bullshit

>>7121422
Wow. Amazing

Found this while looking for DooM hell skyboxes.

painted by a guy on reddit

found on /r9k/. real strange stuff (1/3)

>>7121779
Why are you so buttheart?
I can say the same thing when a woman shows a boob compared to a painting that has all the women completely covered in clothing.

2/3

I like art with strong Byzantine influences

>>7120070
...the cruel fifth procurator of Judea, the knight Pontius Pilate.

There, thread's /lit/ related now.

>>7121789
>>7121791
normie get out, and take your tumblr meme with you

>>7121807
my mom tbh

>>7121791
>>7121789
fuckin' A. if someone told me /r9k/ could actually make art, i'd laugh at them. then this got made.

>>7121804
Oh, I thought that the pictures originated on /r9k/. I'm not a normie.

>>7121819
it is /r9k/. the other guy is a faggot and thinks everything he doesn't like comes from tumblr, reddit or 9gag.

old imperial dreams

>>7120758
>>7120859

gorgeous

>>7121819
This tumblr meme was created by feminist insurgents to make /r9k/ more relateable and inviting to "fembots" when the existence of fembots is a myth since women fundamentally cannot be robots.

>>7121827
It doesn't seem like the art is propagandizing towards that end (making /r9k/ open to fembots).

If anything, the women in the pictures are alienated. They're as far away as the constellations. They're kinda pretty and they have blank plastic smiles, like advertisements. The "Dads" are the only ones in the pictures who express any emotions.

>>7121837
You didn't dispute anything I said, this is feminist propaganda to pin /r9k/ memes onto a robot female identity and it's disgusting. Females cannot be robots and do not know suffering.

I know it's cliche, but my brain was lighting up like fireworks when I saw this at the Louvre

>>7121840
>Females cannot be robots and do not know suffering

Isn't that kind of expressed in the image, though? The women seem untouchable, incapable of suffering. It's not like they're in solidarity with the men in the picture. The men are the victims, and the women are the perpetrators. It honestly seems like a poetic rendering of the board's whole victimhood complex.

>>7121807

money laundering

>>7121786
very good
don't know why you needed that caveat though
actually I do you cunt

>>7121824
And the new imperial dreams >>7120224

>>7121844
You spoke with a split tongue there, on one hand you're saying it's about the females and then you say the female robot embodies /r9k/ as a whole. I'm making a distinction. Whether you empathize with this normie tumblr feminist artsy propaganda or not is on your soul.

Whatever this meme is trying to project, it's not of /r9k/ average users.

>>7121851
>le imperial

fuck off

>>7121851
You can tell that the spirit's gone rotten. The freshness of youth and possibility—storming the castle!—has given way to idiotic, puerile revenge fantasy.

In fact, now that I look closer at it, the later image seems almost to be a parody

>>7121861
do tell

>>7121857
>you say the female robot embodies /r9k/ as a whole.

No, I'm saying that the situation where a beautiful woman victimizes a hapless man is the predominant situation that robots angst about on /r9k/. Isn't that so? These pictures are just really eloquent elaborations of >tfwnogf, which I think most people on /r9k/ would support.

>>7121857
I think the other guy's right, fella

You're really not getting his point

>>7121867
Well the guy gunning down Arabs looks like he has buck teeth, for one thing.

It's a scene that's so shameless in its love of brutal violence for its own sake that it looks like a prop from Idiocracy or some other early 2000s liberal movie.

>>7121869
No, good sir.These images are trying to synthesize a female manchild image using /r9k/ memes, when all females are normies, especially attractive females. I think I understand where you're coming from, but it is naive.

>>7121870
You're not getting mine is all I have to say.

>>7121827
take off your tinfoil hat, you manchild.
>whaaah feminists are staging a global conspiracy to steal muh memes!

>>7121876
Oh, I think I understand. Yeah, in some images, the girl is clearly a neet who's living with her Dad, which you would say is not as bad or nearly as common as the opposite—or in either case it doesn't make you eligible for robot-ship due to the inherent benefits you get from being a woman or whatever.

But how are these pics supposed to make being a robot palatable to girls? And who would want that?

>>7121873
Soldiers are soldiers, what more do you want from them?

>>7121887
I want whatever vitality and liveliness you get in the first picture. Just look at how they rush across that massive stage! With the American flag pointing towards the future.

I know in reality it's different, but I'm talking about the dream

>>7121873
Does the fact that the figure portrayed is British change your opinion at all?

>>7121902
meant for
>>7121893

>>7121885
>But how are these pics supposed to make being a robot palatable to girls?
It features a female. That is what gives it away.
> And who would want that?
Females who want to use robot memes essentially. They like the narcissism involved in self pity for it's aesthetic characteristics but not it's substance or truth. Or it could be a robot that got a "neet" idea for mspaint art while he was high.

>>7121905
afraid she'll open her mouth and it'll look like an old graveyard

>>7121909
FUCK

fuck it
I lose
this discussion is null anyway, I liked those images anyway

>>7121911
What? I was just joking.

>>7121906
So the board of nogf can never make a piece of art featuring a woman?

Or if they could, what would the art be like? Not trying any rhetorical tricks, actually want to know. Are there really supposed to be no women at all?

>>7121891
>>7121891
If you try to serve you're labeled a buck teeth idiocracy walmart employee, if you go to college for non STEM you're labeled a buck teeth idiocracy walmart employee.If you try to get a blue collar job instead you're labeled a buck teeth idiocracy walmart employee. If you fart too loud as an American you're labeled a buck teeth idiocracy walmart employee. American just hate themselves tbh fam.

Grandiose visions of crossing deluges and fighting on the battlements of castles are replaced with kids jerking off to the zombie apocalypse and adults actually preparing for it. Meanwhile nonwhites simply see themselves as a separate entity altogether who's job it is to usurp the glory and jeer at the vitality as oppressive, it's just vultures and cancer now with a few death heaves. A "new America" as Rihanna put it.

>>7121918
Only realistic memes about females should be encouraged, anything else is infiltration.

>>7121936
So what would that look like?

>>7121931
Inescapable

>>7121912
oh I know

But it's two in the morning and I just realized I am debating the artistic veracity of a goddamn /r9k/ .jpg

>>7121912
wait, no I wasn't

>people actually like all these "shittier photograph" paintings
I cant believe it!!!!!!!

>>7121931
>>7121891
The best part about this is that it's a British soldier.

>>7121945
>Britain
>literally an incubator for Muslim extremists
That's the real idiocracy

>>7121945
It's a parody though, right?

>>7121971
It's probably modeled after a real person and his slaying of several ragheads(muslims).

>>7121971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Budd

And as always: I am correct.

getting close to that time of year again

>oh fuck what have I done

>Reading Napoleon by Frank Mclynn
>Those accounts of the French army during the retreat from Moscow
>To far from the fire and you freeze to death
>To close and you get burnt/die of gangrene or left for serfs who will torture you to death for destroying their entire town.

>>7121964
is that the painting where the artist used a brown color made of old mummy dust?

>prudent disgust at anons poor taste in art
>praise beautiful me, I shall restore glory thread
>image limit reached

friends please

>>7122155
I'll make another one.

>>7120006
One of my favorites, and I'm not even Christian.

>>7120039
That fucking expression.

>>7122246
You can really imagine his pain and solitude. No other depiction of Christ made me feel this way. They are always so grandiose or bathed in religious symbolism, which is fine, but it always seems so detached from reality and I am left unable to connect with the painting. They say he was God and man at the same time, but this human dimension is often completely left out or at least diminished, which is a shame, since it is closest to us.

>>7121849
I think he's just saying it's some guy recently, not some famous guy we ought to know about

or maybe he's a fag

>>7123040

the former

>>7120061
BIG
GALLIC
DICKS

>>7121412
>an illustration of how silly Allah's morality is
Allah is not the Christian or Jewish God. Allah is an unknowable, ineffable force, the source of both all good and all evil. Allah has no morality, no more than the laws of evolution or gravity can have morals.

>>7122246
>>7122271
can you be any more pretentious?

>>7123469
You need more Jesus in your life, anon

>>7120006
>2015
>posting pictures of Jesus
This is getting old.

>>7123395
Okay, an illustration of how silly Allah's prescribed morality for mankind is. Happy, Mohammad?

>>7120006
you know he's thinking about eating that rock in the foreground

>>7121785
Sandia Mountains ABQ, NM

>>7125571
that is actually quite literally what He is thinking about, Satan is tempting him during his fast in the wilderness and is daring Jesus to turn the rocks into bread