/lit/ - Literature

>>7299794
Pictures like OP's will only inspire you to write mediocre fantasy fiction, not an epic like Paradise lost.

>>7299837
Seems that you don't feel the "wide oppression" atmosphere. Don't you? That's what make me feel.

>>7299804
Loving them columns

>>7299769

this is why you are bad writers

It's actually inspiring me to paint...

>>7299769
>video game thread on /lit/
>better than video game board
>art thread on /lit/
>better than the art board
Why does /lit/ have such supreme taste?

Awh that bond makes me wanna write about teddy bears and snuggly things :3

>>7300038

the people/dwarves look too cartoonily constructed. Eyes are too big, mostly. Looks like the picture equivalent of a Grieg piano piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci9DbTn6b9E

I'd keep at it though, but do more anatomy studies after you finish this piece

>>7300042
Where is this from?

>>7300191
Morgan Yon

>>7300200
Thanks. Google image search was trying to tell me it was the video game Myst.

For those interested, the entirety of the Joy of Painting is being streamed at http://www.twitch tv/bobross

Anyone know a good way to begin studying art? Is there an equivalent of a Norton anthology, or do I have to start with the Parthenon and work my way forward?

>>7300269
as far as i can tell there is no easy way that is cheap. I am doing it the internet way, wikipedia+brain mostly, going on art forums and finding interpretations

is there anything more comfy than rural japan?

>>7299769
That's at the Louvre, right?

>>7300302
Watch the two Little Forest films. SoL in rural Japan and food.

>>7300024
i lost

>>7300096
There are certainly difficulties with respect to character's knees and shoes which I saw. Every square you see is just about 1" squared, so a blunt pencil tends to make everything larger than it ought to be. I appreciate the criticism however, you may be right, perhaps the dwarves eyes should look smaller and more wrinkled.

Go back to >>>/ic/ you pretentious cunts

>>7300414
You can see the original anatomy of H.J. Ford here.

>>7300443
>/lit/ calling anyone pretentious
stop that

I fucking hate art

>>7300029
fucking Gérôme man

this one is my favorite though

>>7300480
u just rnt deep enuf

>>7299769
Martin is amazing
fun fact: his work for gideon mantell and thomas hawkins early descriptions of dinosaurs are amongst the first illustrations of that kind, and the mythical, religious symbolism and thematic technique he employed to envision a believable prehistoric world in terms of the biblical creation narrative lend his work a unique quality among the early pictorial representations of the deep past which tended toward a style closer to natural histories

>>7301570
Source is Moonassi.com

In 1819, at the age of 72, Goya moved into a two-story house outside Madrid that was called Quinta del Sordo (Deaf Man's Villa). Although the house had been named after the previous owner, who was deaf, Goya too was nearly deaf at the time as a result of an illness he had suffered when he was 46. The paintings originally were painted as murals on the walls of the house, later being "hacked off the walls and attached to canvas." Currently they are held in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Using oil paints and working directly on the walls of his dining and sitting rooms, Goya created works with dark, disturbing themes. The paintings were not commissioned and were not meant to leave his home. It is likely that the artist never intended the works for public exhibition: "...these paintings are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art."

Goya did not give titles to the paintings, or if he did, he never revealed them. Most names used for them are designations employed by art historians

>>7300302
I went to a little hotspring hotel in the mountains when i went to japan. Cool wind over you, a view of the earth and sky. Clouds and sitting in water boiled within the earth.

The most comfy I have ever been.

>>7299870

Where is this from?

>>7300292
That's really cool. Where's it from?

>>7299769
Why was Dis called a city when it has no civic structure?

>>7300512

wow. I am a layman and have no experience in appreciating art but this one is so gorgeous.

>>7301577
>>7301579
>>7301583

This shit was on every single wall of the guys house. You can find a diagram online.

The dude was always a dark painter, but he just totally submerged himself in the bleakness near the end of his life.

Some of the most unsettling art of all time.

>>7301614
Pretty sure it's a dude proving that a statue of Phryne can't be obscene because Phryne is beautiful, and beauty is a virtue.
Phryne means toad, btw. Named that because she was an ugly fucking baby.

>>7301590
my doodle book

>>7300269
if have draw before read: Charles Bargue - Drawing Course
if you suck then read: Betty Edwards - The New Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain
>>>/ic/

>>7301715
~Bon Iver starts playing~

some of the greatest pictures I have seen in a while are in this thread

>>7301720
Three days after the slashing, the young artist and poet Maximilian Voloshin published a short essay entitled "On the Significance of the Catastrophe that Befell Repin's Painting," which argued that its gory representation of violence had shocked and tormented viewers for two decades before pushing Balashev over the edge. A month later, Voloshin elaborated on his argument in a public lecture and debate at the Moscow Polytechnic Museum, sponsored by members of the Futurist artistic group called The Jack of Diamonds. Among the members of the audience in the packed stadium was Repin himself.

Of course, Voloshin's lecture was an avant-garde provocation--as most events sponsored by Futurists were organized to be. Voloshin argued here that "in the figure of Balashev we are not dealing with a criminal, but with a victim of Repin's painting," and that "the evil brought about by Repin's painting in the course of thirty years has been great indeed." He concluded that the painting was a dangerous work of art that caters to the mass taste for sensationalism and cheap thrills, and that it "has no place in the National Gallery," belonging instead in some sort of wax museum. "There, it would decieve no one, for eveyone who goes to such a place knows what he is after." At the very least, Voloshin recommended that the Tetrykov Gallery move it to a separate room marked with a sign that read "Entrance for Adults Only."

>>7301786

I'm new to this thread and am completely blown by all these images that I've never seen before.

I have absolutely no background in appreciating art but for some reason a lot of these images are extremely captivating.

I wish I could articulate what exactly I like in each picture but I repeatedly fail.

>>7301728
>>7300365
>>7300030

These for example blow my mind. But I cannot express exactly why. when I notice the smaller portions of each picture and notice the finer details I like them even more but can't really articulate exactly what.

I feel it's the texture or the elaborateness or the way the colors/lines/figures are expressed.

Will I be able to appreciate the finer details of art without being an artist myself? Or will I (as a layman) keep stumbling from one captivating art piece to the next in awe without ever giving a concrete form to my impression?

the only good art posted itt was goya and the rest is boring landscapes.

shit thread

>>7301720
;_;

>>7302525
Boring landscapes are the best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levitan

>>7302521
Art is what you make it, you don't have to look much into it.

>>7301642
is not a statue, that's Phryne being judged, and she wasn't ugly, the courtesans and prostitutes were called phryne (toad)

>>7300059

where/who is this from? reverse google search yields only images from pinterest with some text over this image. what's the original source/artist?

I really really really love this image and feel extremely captivated by it. Have been staring at it for some time now.

>>7302525
goya's black paintings are entry level "i know nothing about art" edgy taste

>>7302566
Is it just me or does he look uncannily like a real life human in this? The details,shapes and shadows of the muscles on the torso and limbs seems very accurate.

>>7302577
This seems very... colorful. Was it the artists intention to make such a morbid scene look so bright and colorful?

>>7302506
That's beautiful. My favorite from the thread so far.

>>7302592
The details on the trees in the foreground are crazy right?

>>7302577
Lol, not him, but fuck off.

Goya's a hugely important artist. That is, if you knew anything about him.

It's like idiots saying Leonardo is overrated because they read something stupid about the Mona Lisa and wanted to be contrarian.

aka, reddit opinions

>>7302600
>>7302592
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Church_Heart_of_the_Andes.jpg

>>7302614
Nice. I love that his signature is carved into a tree.

>>7302599
This painting is pretty comfy

>>7302624
Eagle eye.

I feel like I should make an intro guide to Art History reading material, would anyone want this?

Maybe people will stop posting aesthetically uninteresting shit like Ilya Repin and Bouguereau

>>7302590
Not even being deep, it's a bunch of guys about to get shot, with all the light in the scene being placed on them in the night. That's just what light will do. Otherwise, basically it just makes the clear focal point.

>>7302653

I like a bunch of older art, but here's something more modern.

>>7302619
If only Dante's heaven wasn't so shitty.

>>7302628
>Kandinsky
Nice.

>>7302590
It's very unrealistic and almost caricaturesque but it's still morbid and violent, i love it

>>7302624
i don't see it

>>7302675

>>7302688
>a novel by Cormac Mccarthy

>>7302688
>>7302724
Love these. Good taste, keep posting.

>>7300215

i love this. i love how comfortable and uncomfortable it is at the same time, the environment is so well realised and so appealing and yet the distress on the woman's face and the way her blankets are dragging through the water is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

this is the scariest / most odd image of Christ I've seen

>>7300475

>barlowe

GOAT
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this image scares me

>>7302779
this one is spooky too, but that one is spookier

>>7302619

2 MANY ANGEL

>>7302675

Rembrandt's is the low budget amazingly-scripted 1970s BBC1 version of Belshazzar's Feast while John Martin's is the gigantic, epic, big budget, modern Hollywood version that kind of misses the point

>>7302850
correct analogy

>>7302799

i feel like this one's inspired by that

>>7302720
yuck

>>7302870
Does anyone have this in a higher resolution?
(The one I replied to, not the one I posted)

>>7302773
She's going down the river to die.

>>7302946
>>7302935
>>7302923
>>7302917
>>7302914
>>7302909
http://mauricesapiro.com/

>>7302953
anime can fuck off

Piggy's back huh

>>7302779
>>7302802

>>7303002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk

>>7299837
This just makes me regret not taking care of my hands, carpal tunnel has left me unable to draw.

>>7300303
wtf is this

>>7303020
just released from the mental health unit apperently

>>7303110
Makes sense tbh, coming to bring a sword and all that.

>>7301729
kek

>>7301729
>>7304021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcyIpul8OE

>>7303894
Ignoring her previous posts, at least she doesn't regurgitate same classical art pieces whenever such thread pops up here.

There is more art and more what you can personally prefer than the popular classical or the edgy contrarian scribble

>>7304299

Turner wasn't one for subtlety.

>>7302555
based stanley

>>7304295
>When the police stop you but you high af.

>non of these paintings will EVER sell more then minimalist "muh avantgrande" paintings

I really feel for these artists

he romanticized the idea of suicide tbh

is anyone here capable of appreciating art produced within the last 50 years?

>>7303888
One of Piranesi's fantastical architectural sketches.

This is a really good thread, thanks to everyone that's posted so far

>>7300269
Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History

>>7305457

>>7300302
Shut up, weeb

>not posting Gustav Dore

>>7305529
What's this art-style called?

>>7305561
Line art.

Muh Anor Londo.

Does anyone have/know of the painting with the naked, white, muscular man wielding a sledge hammer fighting dark, naked, muscular men who's heads are bricks while they steal white women (also naked and muscular) with large factories and cogs in the background?

>>7305595
that is like an ecstatic religious experience in architecture

>>7305564
Thanks.

>all these boring and safe bourgeois aesthetic's.

For a literature board, you people sure as boring.

>>7305621

>>7305511
running on hot air, kek

>>7305621
>>7305624
What's that? Paintings for ants?

>>7305561
hatching?

>>7299837
>implying a picture can only inspire a single type of idea

>>7302566
this one always scared me.

>>7302799

First I lol'd, but then it just kept staring at me and it became unsettling.

>>7302581
He isn't as muscular or as thin as in many others, so that does contribute to it. His arms look great. The feet, however, are what takes one out the most. Another nice thing about it is the lighting radiating out from his torso, like a spotlight is directed onto him.

>>7306646
wow this is a good one, thanks

>>7302628
tfw i have synesthesia too