/lit/ - Literature

>>9538877

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>>9538877
This upsets me desu.

>>9538882
Nice painting, inspired William Carlos Williams years ago

>>9538877
This sort of disgusting kitsch only makes me want to write about how much I hate the tasteless masses, OP included.

>>9538984
>kitsch
That hurts.

>>9538877
HAHAHAHA What a shit painting or whatever the fuck that is....a fucking sheep HAHAHAHAHA

Are you Welsh per chance, OP?

>>9538984
this desu

>>9538984
big man you are

>>9538984
This, smart individuals like us can only enjoy ironic gimmicky art.

>>9538984
>>9539204
>being this pleb

>>9538984
>kitsch
despite whatever you were told, kitsch isn't a catch-all term to describe anything you don't like

>>9538940
to write what?

>>9538984
I agree desu, but I would like to see what you think is good. Probably some jewish bs unfortunately.

>>9539224
Don't reproduce.

>>9539261
Not him, but I'll share a few that I like (photos, but not all paintings)

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>>9539281
Amazing bait.

What did he mean by this?

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>>9539301
OP asked for art that inspires me. When I see these they take within them and inspire me.

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>>9539392
>when ur girl sleepin top you n you nut but don't wanna wake er up

I wrote/recorded this a few months ago, didn't know what to do with it after the first minute

be inspired or something

https://soundcloud.com/moshyells/swerve-invocation-of-the-muse

I'm inspired by life and the world around me. Flowers, faces of women, the sky. I sometimes take walks (constitutionals) and take in the nature of things around me. I jot down notes and observations in my phone. People prob think i'm texting someone lol. No. Life is a dance, and I'm dancing to the music. Ahh. Ahh. The twitter of the birds in the trees, the faces I read like a book. My social media is life itself. Yes, as joyce ended his great masterpiece. Yes I say to life, my first love. Inhale deeply the fragrance of the smell of sweet odors. O! Ah, well, I digress.

>>9539490
This is gay but I agree

>>9539304
He like him some swiss roll

>>9538877
This is disgustingly kitsch. You may as well be inspired by a greeting card.

For those who don't know what kitsch is, it's essentially art derived from a decision to depict a sentiment. Not a desire to express a sentiment.

Here the decision to depict a sentiment led to the choice of conventionally sad subject matter, but of the least offensive kind, since the only point is to say "sad, grief" without any baggage whatsoever.

This is what "sad, grief" looks like when it's not swaddled in middle class, house-wifely cotton. The artist dwelt on a subject for a while, had a real feeling for it, then decided to paint it, or maybe started painting and later realised the historical incident what he was painting reminded him of. It's not necessarily a great painting, but it is not kitsch.

I'm not sure your artist has ever seen a sheep in person.

Yeah, the painting in the OP is kitsch.

Fine art is more like this.

>>9539475
I like this anon, the textures at the end are really cool. What programs did you use?

>>9539626
Non-kitsch art doesn't need to be funny.

Most modern art is comedy that doesn't get any laughs, but which still lets the artist act like a wiseguy. Which explains why Jews are so happy with the current situation.

>>9539616
>not necessarily a great painting

One of the better of all time, imo. The look of utter destruction in the living parties eyes is phenomenal, not to mention the way he painted the deceased's eyes you can feel the lifelessness. Difficult things captured here very well and their attention to detail is amazing.

>>9539616
>middle class
I wonder how many things that are 'accused' of being middle class are actually more popular among working class people.

>>9539765
Middle class and working class bleed together culturally. Upper middle class often mixes as well when it rises up from middle class. The bastions of true "upper crust" culture and dying fast as everything is absorbed into the popular monoculture.

>>9538877
I like landscapes, cityscapes, digital art, etc.

>>9539880
Photography is artwork and you can't convince me otherwise.

>>9539884
Its quite comfy.

>>9539888
An overview of millions and millions of people.

>>9539898
Some scifi flavor

>>9539907
This one is outstanding in every way.

>>9539914
And back to comfy we go. Rural setting this time.

>>9539918
I like old ships.

>>9539924
This one brings vikings to mind.

>>9539931
Shades of Ghibli here.

>>9539933
City of stars

>>9539940
Don't worry, all he wants is one or two crew members to snack on.

>>9539943
This is 10/10 comfy until you question how he drinks the beer.

>>9539951
Japan is always comfy and photogenic.

these are awful for the love of god

>>9539958
Winter makes for the best setting every time.

>>9539962
Post your own then. I'm posting quality inspiro if you ask me.

>>9539964
The smallness of humanity against the vastness of space.

>>9539971
>tfw no wacky marauder gang to listen to tunes with and raid with

>>9539976
Westerns are nice too.

>>9539985
Mesoamerican cities on mountaintops are pretty inspirational if you ask me.

>>9539995
Back to vikings for a second, and a reminder that anyone who doesn't consider photography to be an art form is a pleb.

>>9540002
That's about as long as my attention span can last posting pictures I've seen before. Go back to whatever it is you guys were posting or arguing about before.

>>9538882
Nice painting, inspired Andrei Tarkovsky years ago

fucking wallpapers...

>>9540160
Ironically, the wallpapers are the best creative fuel ITT. >>9540162 this is nice too.

>>9539873
>the upper class is cultured

>>9540202
If you think that's bad, imagine what the princes of centuries ago were like. Spoiled prettyboys chasing skirts and pissing out windows so it rains on the heads of the commonfolk.

>>9538882
What's with the Dutch and great painting?

They're completely forgettable non-contributors in any other artform.

none of you people know fucking anything about fine art or photography, do you?

Most of mine are black and white, so, sorry

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>>9540475
>implying people have to be """knowledgeable""" on the subject of pretty pictures to post pics that inspire creativity.

Most tasteful art is boring desu

>>9538882
Cover of the NYRB edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts

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>>9540719
This one makes me think of murder mysteries and hauntings.

>>9538882
I liked Berrymans poem, Hunters in the Snow
And Tobias Wolff's short story Hunters in the Snow.

>>9540697
>pretty pictures
>Most tasteful art is boring
This shit isn't even reddit tier, maybe it's tumblr tier.
In any case, fuck off and die.

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>>9538884
>did I leave the stove on?

>>9540821
kek

>>9540777
Anon is right though. Perhaps it was poorly phrased, but visual art is an incredibly surface level medium. Art movements of the past are often viewed as bland and boring as the medium develops. Realistic portraits of Europeans and biblical scenes don't go far in the sense of provoking thought.

>>9540475
what are some examples of fine art and photography? what comes to mind is lots of sad or melancholy stuff.

>>9540851
I started writing a longer reply but, you know what, fuck this. Fuck this. It's not my job to educate idiots and I don't understand why I'm even visiting this place where they reside. Here's just one thing I have to say: art is shallow to you because you look at it in a shallow way. I would warmly recommend you to read something like Gombrich's Story of Art before you casually trivialize several thousand years of artists' work.
(And since when is the purpose of all art to provoke your thinking? Go read philosophy instead if that's what you need.)

Goodbye, anon, and I hope I'll never return

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>>9540851
Just stop talking, pretender. You know nothing.

>>9539215
You reek of the petty bourgeoisie.

>>9540980
>proceeds to write book about a delinquent who stalks around a park at night and throws fruit at people's faces

>>9539616
This is the most pretentious post 2017.

>>9540534
fuckin ayrabs amirite?
10/10 would hang on my wall

>>9541206
I'm trying to figure out that piece of art on the wall behind him.

>>9539700
that painting is what I come back to when considering the difference between Terror and Horror as genres

>>9538877
Best painting coming through.

>>9541255
background and composition looks like leonardo ..

>>9539220
Fuck off. It has no aesthetic or artistic value. It's a bland salad of a tame ideas tossed with dry powdered shit.

>>9541463
so's your face idiot

>>9541463
Wouldn't want to have dinner with this guy lmao

>>9541463

mmmmmmhmm salad.........crunch....cronch

From an antique book on anatomy. They were so full of interesting and unique illustrations that really spoke about the morals and beliefs of their era, which made them look like some forgotten tomes of forbidden knowledge.

>>9539304
Hmmm, really makes me think...

>>9541463
look at this virgin lmao he doesn't even like the painting of the sad sheep hahahahaha I bet you kiss girls faggot

>>9541708

could we please do something about all these faggot girl kissers on this board they are ruining everything

>>9540777
It doesn't take a genius to be moved by beauty. Fuck off to the universities where you can hate yourself in peace.

>>9539765
No, working class people are more into wolf t-shirts and prints of movie posters. Cheese is the norm at that level, but it tends to be "hard" cheese, gushy and violent.

Pic related is a piece of working class hard cheese. Is it kitsch? The emotions are so goofy and unrestrained that it's actually hard to tell. It's probably too absent-mindedly painted and absent-mindedly displayed to have anything as complex as insincerity come into the mix. The painter and its buyers think it is cool.

The crying sheep painting contains the maximum amount of sadness and the minimum amount of reality. The hard cheese is carefully softened and de-odorised: no, we can't have anything so crude and blue collar as actual humans suffering, we need to be more clean and less obvious. "I graduated high school, I know all about them metaphers."
This is why it is middle class: it is restraining itself from its own tastelessness and cheesy instincts, but not doing a very good job.

As industrial jobs decline and white collar jobs increase, suppression of instincts and hard cheese is becoming more common. You might be right, but only because the lower end of white collar is becoming the new working class.

>>9539873
Yep.

>>9541022
That's a relief. It it wasn't, you might have to formulate a response to it!

>>9540724
Beksinski?

>>9541362
that fucking cat ruins an otherwise great painting. i've never seen a cat with that expression on it's face ever.

>>9542002
i don't get the girl
why does she wear a cloth on her head?

>>9541860
>how many
>No

>>9542086
You sure dodged a bullet there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI0mkt6Z3I0

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>>9541463
>everything has to be edgy and avant-garde
>muh ideas

>>9541362
Looks like they're reacting to some guy who just came up and silently started painting in front of them in a restaurant. The guy thinks he's weird and wants him to fuck off, the girl on the left isn't sure if he's actually painting them or not, the girl on the right thinks he is and is trying to do an interesting pose.

>>9539640
Thanks anon-- we programmed most of it with Fruity Loops and finished it off on Logic Pro X at a local studio.

>>9540534
Love this one

>>9538984
This. If that image resonates with you on some profound level you really should just be flayed alive

>>9540622
This one is good

>>9540374
>dutch
>non-contributors in music
lol pleb

This thread reminds me of /pol/'s terrible attempts at "classical art" threads

>>9538877
This one is especially bad

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>>9541362
Congrats on not having shit taste

>>9544877
name them

>>9544948
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Flemish_School
educate yourself m8

ohhhh so this is why all OC posted on /lit/ is horrible :)

>>9538877
I like calming paintings.

>>9545431

God help you if you spill your beer.

>>9539951
How would a carbonated drink act in microgravity?

>>9541362
Came here to post that. I fucking love Bloch.

I really want to see someone have a go at doing a literate big robot story

Hard sf and space opera and fantasy have been redefined, mecha should be next

I hope this can inspire you.

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>>9538951
Pale Fire explains all this

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>>9546300
sup /b/

>>9539005
teahh nothing like sculture of underage tits

>>9546275

I don't know I have a hard time reading military sf because at the back of my mind is the niggling thought that if we had that kind of technology, war would probably be nothing like the war we have now. In 1900 ships battered each other with guns. By 2000 cannon-armed ships were completely obsolete and had been replaced by missile frigates and carriers. Who knows what naval vessels will look like in 2100, or if they'll be even in use at all.

Maybe in 2500 wars will be fought by psychically converting the enemy populace with some sort of mind ray. Whatever happens it seems pretty unlikely that infantry will be trotting around with small arms like in Starship Troopers or the Forever War.

>>9546304
is that a girl or a boy?(we never gonna know)

>>9546327
Yeah, it's Cupid the girl. Goddamn this thread is terrible. We used to have good art threads here.

>>9546348
ugh

>>9546275
>I really want to see someone have a go at doing a literate big robot story
Evangelion.

>>9544931
>Pieter Bruegel
>shit taste
Nice bait.

>>9546360
>evangelion
>smug anime face.jpg

>>9546360
Evangelion is where anime died
Its been schoolgirl fan service and navel gazing neets and card capturing ever since

>>9546429
Someone hasn't seen Madoka

>Ctrl+F
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>10 entries found

I hate when /lit/ learns a new word.

i really hope they dont ban me for this and take it as art and not porno

>>9541463
>It has no aesthetic or artistic value

Prove it, cockfag

>>9538965
Underrated

>>9539306
Is that a photo or a painting?

>>9550238
it's a photo with an instagram filter. Are you retarded? Do you see brushstrokes?

>>9538922

When I was a kid I stayed at a French couple's chateau for a few nights with my family. There was this painting of a raven hanging in the hall outside my room and it scared the living shit out of me.

Imagine this creaky dark castle with fucking terrifying bird paintings on the wall. . .

>>9539971
You're not posting quality inspo, you're passing plebbit/imgur tier garbage

>>9540202
You're a retard, please kill yourself.

>>9541851
Please kill yourself. 99% of the shit in this thread is total garbage. I truly believe we are currently being flooded with r/books children or /pol/, either way, again, kill yourself.

>>9550254
no u

Posting some

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>>9540374
They defined the musical landscape of Europe for almost the entire Renaissance. Josquin, Obrecht, Ockeghem, Dufay, Binchois, Gombert, Pierre de la Rue, Willaert, Isaac, De Rore, Lassus... the list goes on and on.

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>>9550638
They had some decent church polyphonics and chorals in early Renaissance, that's hardly defining the musical landscape.
>listing the French and Flemings as Dutch
Contain your national pride, Geert.

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>>9550667
And that will be it. Couldn't post some of my favorites because of file size limitation.

>>9550656
Not even Dutch. Although the fact that you are attempting to argue that the Franco-Flemish school was not the dominant force in the music of the Renaissance is evidence enough that you don't have the first clue about it.
>>listing the French and Flemings as Dutch
>listing the Burgundians as French
Do you tell people that they can't call Beethoven German or Mozart Austrian as well?

>>9550659
https://youtube.com/watch?v=opip4euyGBc

A nice painting

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Neat. My 6 year old niece could have drawn these.

>>9550830
And my 3 year old retarded down syndrome nephew could have written Finnegans Wake.

This piece of art drives me to work harder than a nigger on a cotton farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5-_4VbzF_A

>>9550835
Incorrect, although I don't know what Finnegans wake is.

>>9539204
lol'd hard, oh my word

>>9550888
Blake is the greates christian artists of all time, I appreatiate pic you posted but it should be more refined, smth is kitchy about it

>>9550848
>to work harder than a nigger
That's not saying anything really.

Can't seem to find any of these in higher res.

>>9550923
>comparing the efforts of a modern-day nigger to those of a cotton slave during the 1800s

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Quality posts.

>>9550914
Anyone remmember the dude that put feces on this book?
Weird days.

>>9550945
>WE WUZ
There's a reason they had to be constantly whipped.

>>9550986

>Error: Max limit of 150 image replies has been reached.
heh

>>9550248
I find the symbolism that includes them much more spooky than the actual animal. They're pretty lovable cheeky cunts a lot of the time irl. Very smart as well.

>>9551004
>ctrl+f "kitsch"
>150 results

I'm not even kidding, this thread is so over the top I thought it was bait - especially the OP
Is this really what the average person finds inspiring?

>>9550830
doubt it

>>9552931
>THE AVERAGE PERSON IS SO UNRELATABLE TO ME
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Want a hug?
Pay me first

>>9552931
>shit taste le plebeians xDDD
You might want to try /mu/, my patrician teenage friend.

>>9552931
This board consists of
1) retards who use terms modern and contemporary interchangeably
2) have an attitude towards analysing visual art not unlike the attitude r/books has towards analysing literature
3) people who don't read to begin with

id also say some /ic/ vermin, but even tho this thread is swarmed with gaudy garbage minimum of it is glorified capeshit so i dunno

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shit taste

>>9553195
Godd post, patrician friend!

>>9553195

autism + boredom = amazing post

>>9553195
shit reading comprehension

new thread pls

>>9550848
>Hardy harr, Cletus! Dat wuz a gud 'un, by Gar!
>Heh, I knew it were, Beauford. Thats why I gone an' said it. Did ye hear the part were I done said a "nigger on a cotton farm?"
>I heard it, Cletus! *laughs spastically* I just'er can't hep' laughin at dem derr blacks!"
>That's ther point Beau! *spits chew into can* Now put on yer hood boy; we're off to a klan meetin'!

>>9553195
this shit pisses me off. you really should get banned for this

>>9553851

>wahh i want anon to always be orderly and mature or get BANNED

fuck off back to plebbit you little narc.

>>9553870
>Ruining a whole thread
yeah, it's pretty comparable to off-topic discussion and spamming. you're not funny, your just irritating

>>9553892

i wasn't the one who made the post. and the post didn't ruin the whole thread you triggered idiot.

hide thread or go to plebbit. you take this shit way too serious.

>>9553794
>offended
You're welcome to join us, we could use more members.

>>9553892
The thread was already ruined by that faggot posting wallpapers