/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.829394]

/lit/ fine art thread. Post your favourite work of art. Related to your taste in literature.

[Anonymous No.829406]

Eckphrastic works, fuck yeah!

<--- Walking Man of Rodin

Poem by Carl Sandburg based on the sculpture:

The Walking Man of Rodin


Legs hold a torso away from the earth.
And a regular high poem of legs is here.
Powers of bone and cord raise a belly and lungs
Out of ooze and over the loam where eyes look and ears hear
And arms have a chance to hammer and shoot and run motors.
You make us
Proud of our legs, old man.

And you left off the head here,
The skull found always crumbling neighbor of the ankles.

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[Anonymous No.829412]

>>829406

Very, very good.

[None !zRVZEkVY1s No.829410]

I don't know about favorite, but one of many

[Anonymous No.829415]

<--- Brugels, Fall of Icarus

Poem about the painting by Auden (formatting is off, but one of my favorites by Auden):

Musee des Beaux Arts

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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[Anonymous No.829418]

What if my favorite work of art is New Media art and not considered Fine Art?

(it's Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik)

[Anonymous No.829427]

>>829418

post it anyway, OP here btw, and I'm more than welcome to see what you've got to post.

[Anonymous No.829435]

>>829427
You kind of have to see it IRL. Each telivision is flashing different imagery at several frames per second.

[Anonymous No.829438]

>>829435
>telivision
fucking typos, on /lit/ of all places....

[Anonymous No.829447]

>>829438

lol.
anyway, more fine art.

[Anonymous No.829448]

I like classics but ones that make you take a step back and reassess the situation.

[Anonymous No.829456]

Odilon Redon.

[else !L6xabslN96 No.829457]

Simply because this is the only Rembrandt painting I've seen in real life and i still cried.

Can't imagine what seeing "The Night Watch" would do to me.

[else !L6xabslN96 No.829464]

>>829457
God it's even amazing in .jpg form....

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>>829506

more schiele

[Anonymous No.829523]

idk

[Stagolee !0Pey/QLK3E No.829529]

BECAUSE AWESOME

[Anonymous No.829536]

>>829523
is that supposed to be the Devil?

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[Anonymous No.829542]

Looks like Loki to me.

[Anonymous No.829548]

>>829523
>arthur rackham

[Anonymous No.829553]

Guess my 2 favorite works of literature, and my religion.

[Anonymous No.829555]

>>829523

Norse mythology, or Celtic mythology.

[Anonymous No.829572]

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[Anonymous No.829592]

>>829574

for some reason this reminded me of Goya. Someone post some fucking Goya up in this bitch

[Anonymous No.829595]

>>829574
the despair and fright in this painting is nearly palpable. I love it.

[Anonymous No.829598]

>>829595

it freaks me out.

[Anonymous No.829608]

>>829595

He accidentally caused his daughter-in-law to miscarry and then when his son tried to chew him out, he gave him a fatal blow to the head.

He's not having a good day.

[Anonymous No.829617]

Mr Dalí.

Ever since I discovered him. And even more after I went to his Museum in Figueres.

[Anonymous No.829619]

Epic thread

[Anonymous No.829632]

Magritte up in this bitch.

[Anonymous No.829636]

>>829574
I can't make out the title of the painting. What's it called and who made it?

[Anonymous No.829638]

>>829632
I was just gonna post this!

[Anonymous No.829646]

Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book.

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>>829646
you mean finnegans wake?

[Anonymous No.829659]

>>829636

Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, by Ilya Repin.

Here's something more /lit/ related.

[Anonymous No.829674]

>>829632

Magritte is the worst kind of surrealism in it's technique, in my personal opinion His work is horrid. The idea's are usually ghastlingly obvious at that, give or take a few of his works which I overlook.

[Kamina !.atOvr4mzk No.829676]

this is my favorite Painting, "The Wanderer" by Caspar David Friedrich.

[Anonymous No.829713]

>>829523
Arthur Rackham's illustrations to Wagner's
THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG

link to all Illustrations - http://www.artpassions.net/rackham/wagner_ring.html

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>>829674

>The idea's are usually ghastlingly obvious at that

I think you're confusing surrealism with symbolism. Most surrealist paintings are pretty shallow.

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>>829718

Ha, yes, true.

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>>829574
You can feel the despair creeping inside you.

Amazing.

[Anonymous No.829807]

We really need an /art/ board now that I think about it.

[Anonymous No.829810]

So is the Son of Man basically saying no matter how gentlemanly you dress your self up, you still contain that original sin (the apple)?

The painting's title kind of gives itself away.

[Anonymous No.829816]

>>829810

No, it's saying "This is a painting so I can have an apple floating here in front of this guy's face, also his left arm bends the other way."

[Anonymous No.829820]

>>829676
Well shit, beaten to it. That's my favorite as well. I'll post my second favorite instead.

Relate it to my /lit/ tastes? Oh christ that's just asking me to go weeaboo on you all isn't it. Fine, I have a few volumes of manga on my shelf.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.829832]

Donatello's Mary Magdalen.

[Anonymous No.829840]

I can't find a decent image of this painting...

[Anonymous No.829878]

>>829574
Holy shit... That's amazing.

There's something to seeing the picture in real life, but McCahon's painting stopped me in my tracks and I just stood there for about 30 minutes. Manly Tears.

I'm still looking for more books in which to cry Manly Tears, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is one.

I might be simple, but at least I try.

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[Mr. Noc !RXm61rnmYY No.829889]

Jasper Johns.
Map.

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>>829676

I've always had a difficult time taking this painting seriously. It seems so cheesy to me.

[Anonymous No.829939]

I can't think of any favourite visual or written artist without thinking of others, so I'm going to post two related pieces by artists who are among my favourites.

The painting is The Disquieting Muses by Giorgio de Chirico, and this is a link to a poem of the same name by Sylvia Plath: http://wings.buffalo.edu/english/faculty/conte/syllabi/377/Plath_Disquieting_Muses.htm I can't post it because it's too long.

[Anonymous No.829943]

Fuck yeah! Art thread!

Bruegel

[Anonymous No.829951]

More Schiele

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[Anonymous No.829981]

Picasso...I like some cubism.

[Anonymous No.830027]

Ensor

[Anonymous No.830036]

Huysmans talks about it in "À Rebours"

[Anonymous No.830050]

>>830036
this one too

[Anonymous No.830054]

>>830027
I really like this. i wonder what galleries that have his stuff?

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>>830054
I don't remember the name of the painting, sorry

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[Anonymous No.830094]

>>830070

It's by James Ensor.

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>>830117

I try not to post the most provocative ones, since this board is sfw

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[Anonymous No.830140]

My favorite work of art is Girl with Parasol by Monet.

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[Anonymous No.830158]

As a Belgian it's good to see some ensor and magritte up in this bitch.

[Anonymous No.830175]

>>830158

>Praising Belgian painters ITT

>Omitting Spilliart

that's bad, son.

[Anonymous No.830181]

>>830175
I didn't see he was posted :(

[Anonymous No.830277]

WE NEED /art/, don't tell me to go to d/ic/k, they are one of the most horrible boards here.

[Anonymous No.830279]

Goddamn science fiction. None of that modern cyberpunk tech-centric stuff, I mean classy stuff like the Space Odyssey series.

[Anonymous No.830286]

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>>830123
>art

yeah, no.