New art history thread
Guess I shoulda opened with an edgy opinion about modernism
POST ART YOU FAGGOTS
>>431702
here op let me kickstart your thread with some hot fervor/circlejerking:
>modern
>art
you can thank me later.
>>432056
You take that back you rascal
Can anyone recommend any good books on modern art?
I've been going on gallery dates quite often lately and i'm starting to get tired of having to look up individual artists separately, would be nice to have an overview of the most important movements and artists.
>>432078
>good books on modern art?
the painted word tom wolfe
>>432078
Ways of seeing by john Berger might be a good place to start. It's more of an overview of changing thoughts and overarching ideas but I think it touches on a lot of relevant artists. The BBC made a pretty good series out of it you can watch on youtube too. The shock of the new by Robert Hughes is a another good one to check out
What is art? Is it just the result of the creative process?
anyone here take some art/art hist classes at their CC?
Wish my school offered more in dept oil painting classes that has a history of oil painting course as pre-requisite. Anyways I am looking for some good sources on the history of oil painting, particularly interested in the medium (oil paints) themselves and how they were developed through history and how that effected who was able to become a painter and what paintings actually got commissioned.
You know who's fucking awesome? Caravaggio, that's fucking who.
>>432449
I'd say yeah, but that art requires beauty and beauty is more-or-less understandable as a poignant quality. Most of what's passed off as art has none of that and is just a business venture.
>>432558
Baroque paintings are amazing, except for those that features tiny manlets or baby heads with wings.
>>432636
>except
>>432648
>mfw people actually like these abominations
>>432618
Your opinion is shitty in multiple ways.
>>432740
Please, go on.
>>432758
Kid looks like he's waiting for his legs to be amputated as well
>>432741
The idea that "most of what passes as art" is "just a business venture" is absurd in a variety of ways, and reeks of smug adolescence. You're insinuating intent in such a vast body of work in a completely reductive and uninformed way, and then secondarily implying that that intent is somehow meaningful to the artistic outcome. You also set up "beauty" as a requirement for art, but then offer essentially no description of what that is, other than declaring that most art lacks it, which is entirely pointless. You suppose that a distinction can be made between "art" and "non-art" in a seemingly rigid way, but using nebulous and entirely subjective guidelines. besides the fact that you failed to really define it, I also take issue with "beauty" as a requirement for art as arbitrary and needlessly limiting, given the scope of traditional conceptions of beauty. deciding that "beautiful" creative endeavours are art but all others are something else is pointless.
>>432671
These poor things look like they're just begging to die.
>>432758
>why are you painting me, dude
>this is demeaning
>can I at least have some clothes
>I want to die
>>432806
>tfw heaven looks boring as fuck while hell looks like an amusement park
>>432834
This is why I need feminism
>that little cute cupid cock
This one always gets to me. Look how sickly and defenseless the miser is. That fucker naked and death has its disgusting arrow pointed right at his junk. That little faggot is taking his money and the other faggot right above him already has the coals ready for when he gets to hell.
>tfw an ugly DYEL manlet comes up to you on your bed and plays the best fiddle you've ever heard in your life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFRL6zsxTyQ
>>432878
>"H-hey, it's me, Death here."
>"Y-yeah, just wondering if your soul is ready to be taken."
>"Five more minutes? O-oh ok... Tell me when you're done..."
Ever wanted to just live inside a horse? I want to curl up inside the womb of a horse and just feel safe and happy forever.
"It's a living."
-Death
>>432901
Death gets all the chubby girls
>>432896
I want to take them to pound town.
Print of the equestrian armor of Charles V.
>>432909
Probably because of heart disease.
>>432913
That horse's eye is disturbingly human
>>432913
Jesus that eye.
>tfw this winged fuck interrupts your yearly allotted reading hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrpCEiug8Ks
>>432783
>The idea that "most of what passes as art" is "just a business venture" is absurd in a variety of ways,
You never address this point. Art is rife with fucking money laundering because of how easy it is to assign a staggering and arbitrary financial value to any-fucking-thing if you try have the connecitons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-attractive-refuge-for-money-launderers.html?_r=0
>You're insinuating intent in such a vast body of work [...], and then secondarily implying that that intent is somehow meaningful to the artistic outcome.
Not exactly, but I'll not split hairs here because you're mostly right.
>You also set up "beauty" as a requirement for art, but then offer essentially no description of what that is, other than declaring that most art lacks it, which is entirely pointless.
I did offer a description; I said that beauty can be understood as a quality of poignancy. "Beauty" as a concept is so abstract that using context to describe it is almost a necessity in informal discussion.
>You suppose that a distinction can be made between "art" and "non-art" in a seemingly rigid way, but using nebulous and entirely subjective guidelines.
In much the same way as obscenity, namely "I know it when I see it"; of course there's no objective metric.
>I also take issue with "beauty" as a requirement for art as arbitrary and needlessly limiting,
I disagree entirely.
>given the scope of traditional conceptions of beauty.
And now I disagree even more; beauty can be found virtually anywhere except in spaces that actively reject it. Like modern art. The "traditional" conception of beauty is virtually universalist when you consider the nature of some of the events that have been made into beautiful works of art.
>deciding that "beautiful" creative endeavours are art but all others are something else is pointless.
I didn't say that beautiful creative endeavors are art, I said that art by definition has to be beautiful.
Horse is sick of your shit.
>tfw it's time for the weekly knocked-up-sluts club meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSjQXU8Wpr0
>tfw people think that Christian art is dead
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>tfw this kid isn't even his
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e2iI1VMsP0
>>432942
I love these old giant paintings that are just filled with tiny things to look at.
>tfw old geezer dies with my baby in his arms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WbD3tMHuow
>>432960
more like misery sonatas amirite? biber sucked dick.
Some beautiful water nymphs.
>tfw shit kid runs around without telling me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSRKmM5Vfo
>tfw pretending to give a shit about the downfall of my fellow man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vr-qxq-KnA
>>432969
At least three of them have the same face. This is literally anime.
>>432976
One in the center with Hylas is best looking, I think desu lad.
>my back hurts
>my arms hurt
>why did I tell them that I was a prophet?
>why am I still here?
>I wish I was home having donuts with my parents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu53eukZtEg
St. Francis of Assisi.
>tfw forgiving the sins of my fellow men because they gave me this sick crown of thorns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunkdAgWj98
>don't fucking help me, I'm not a DYEL like you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWx6ZiE6CA
>maybe the crown wasn't worth it after all
>they even made my mum cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xMSJOhVOcM
>tfw had to move the rock in front of the sepulchre myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRNmLbdNVh8
>sorry guys, gotta go before they crucify me again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixErcCYqxJs
>tfw covering everyone in my ghost jizz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxYcMz0r9ew
>>432928
>you never address this point
It's largely not worth addressing. the fact that shady business dealing exist in the art world does not by any means indict the the vast majority of art, as you seemed to be implying. Some Italian restaurants are mob fronts, and yet that does not invalidate an entire cuisine. Furthermore, I would deny that it would matter even if it was all for financial gain. That puts too much importance on the artists intent and vision, sweeping aside any agency on the viewers part, and simultaneously reinforcing the lame idea that art is an endeavour free from any want for material wealth or reward.
>I know when I see it
it's absolutely fine to have personal opinions about art. what you like and don't like, or even what is and isn't art. However, it is entirely a different thing to prescribe those opinions to art as a whole and forward them as meaningful in any way. this is the equivalent of entering an argument and going "well, that's just my opinion." if you have no interest in defending your point of view, don't forward it in such a way. I'm not saying it requires an objective metric, but at the very least some sort of logical argument. It's entirely useless to declare openly that art is definable and then refuse to define it. (beyond the obvious "beauty," but that's another story)
>"Beauty" as a concept is so abstract...
precisely my point. saying it's related to "poignancy" is equally vague and unhelpful. It seems to be generally used as a catch all for "things I like" or "traditional modes of representation." Invoking it as something simultaneously evident and obscure is absurd.
The "universality of beauty" is also an interesting point. You seem to imply that it relies on the method of representation in your reference to the unimportance of subject matter. I'd be interested for you to clarify this idea.
>art by definition has to be beautiful.
I'd like to take this one step further and ask "why?"
>tfw ma gets to be queen of the heavens while the dad that spent most of his life raising me gets next to nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2vZPX9oTr0
>>433054
Men are always expendable.
>>433057
>tfw you're right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_JNZzkvs0s
>>433054
He is a Saint and considered the patron of the Universal Church, and is also the patron Saint of expectant mothers, because had he not been Mary's husband, she would have been stoned to death, killing Christ in the womb. He is well venerated, and his name is often mentioned in Mass.
>let's go over there child, where the fire is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLjqm5t69qw
>>432519
Oil paints came into use around the 14/15th century. Jan van Eyck is one painter who constantly receives the accolade of "first oil painter" but I'd say if you dig around you might find a few others. Before oils the standard was tempera(egg) paint which has great colour and can be long lasting if preserved. It is not as tough as oils though, and the slow thick nature of oil paint allows for some tricks that aren't so easy(or even possible) in tempera.
The medium can be traced across multiple schools around Europe over a few centuries, might be an idea to have a look at some of those to trace how it develops. Oils are like the HD 1080p master race of their day and things quickly become about spectacle and outdoing everything else in terms of realism and effects. It's also interesting to trace some of the materials themselves. Some colours are more popular than others due to price/ ease of access at different times. On top of that a lot of these lads kept their recipes secret, you don't want the competition figuring out how you get those amazing blues etc... so we often have no idea how they were achieving certain effects materially.
A good resource for this stuff is http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
They have a restoration department that often puts out nice reports on paintings from different periods and goes over what they can find chemically to give clues as to how they did it. it can be pretty interesting.
another good resources for at history that gives an interesting overview is
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
More about history and movements but can be helpful in giving context and finding interesting stuff. In terms of books Grab anything really, there's not really one book that is prescribed as "definitive" for art history. Anything published by Routledge tends to be of decent quality though
>tfw no aristocrat russian gf
>>432928
>art by definition has to be beautiful.
What about Catholic art in the middle ages? They did art to teach, not to be beautiful, and they cared little about modern artistic conceptions
>>432928
As someone who has actually taken time to read aesthetic thought rather than spew poorly opinions out of ass, this post is cringe as fuck. Filled with outdated, already-argued-against opinions desu senpai.
>>432449
Art is about opinions mostly.
The arguments are endless, nobody is right or wrong, etc.
For me art is about telling a story. Either through the skill of the artist, or through what is depicted. You can be shocked, delighted, inspired or moved.
There is no limit to what art can be, so long as it's trying to be sincere in some way.
A child's wild colorings can be art as much as a veteran sculpturer's newest installation.
But, when either of them stop caring about their work and just churn out the same thing over and over it stops being art for me. There's no new story being told, and we as viewers learn nothing from the experience.
Because that's what a story, and what art should be: a new experience.
>>433958
>Because that's what a story, and what art should be: a new experience.
Ayy, im not sure if you know it or not, but your definition fits with that of a famous philosopher, John Dewey. He argues that art is "an" experience, as opposed to just experience. I haven't read him in a few years now, but if i recall, for him, once a thing in the world becomes routine, or tedious (such as when a single thing is churned out over and over) then it ceases to be an experience and blends into the everyday.
This is also a common argument for inclusion of artworks into museums, as it creates another separation of the everyday vs. an experience.
posting some durer becoz idk
codpieces used to be a thing
i dont even remember what this one is about
nor this
dashing out the vintage
>inb4 MODS
Since it's lacking boring as fuck neo classical art, this thread is far superior to the last one by default.
Some good stuff being posted in this thread. Gonna post a few examples of work by whatever painters come to mind, might think of a few that don't get posted all that much.
First up is Belgian painter and professional smug prick Luc Tuymans. His stuff is often concerned with images themselves and the way the come to stand for things in our mind. or something llike that. He certainly has a way of handling the paint, At times the resemble the under paintings traditionally hidden beneath refined layers but with a weird inner glow.
>all this figurative art
Next is Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud's grandson. No surprise what kinda thing he liked to paint.
>>434946
russians artists are some goofy kids
>>434962
>let me do some Star Wars fanart real quick
>>434946
were getting there anon.
Piet Mondrian, founder of neoplasticism or so he said. Supposedly he had asecret drawing room in his house where he would draw flowers without telling anyone, afraid he'd lose street cred with the cool kids
>mfw
>>435019
oooh didn't know this one, it looks great
Would you know the medium ?
another lesser known Mondrian
>>435083
Given the date I'd say it's oil on canvas. It is a nice one all right.
We always tend to think of the red blue yellow compositions with Mondrian but he did have a larger body of work all right. It's neat to see his interest recur across a wide variety of subject matter
>>434620
That's something funny I've noticed when people get all grumpy and conservative about modern art, they always try to back up their opinions with the most boring, stale, derivative crap.
Like "these coloured squares aren't art. check out this fucking soulless painting of a conquistador."
Here's another lad that doesn't care for the third dimension all that much, Paul Klee. This one is one of my favorites, Just look at that tonal control, goddamn.
>>435123
People who say those things don't know the joy of coloured squares
Edvard Munch. You all know the scream so I wont waste your time. Here are some other things he did
Can somebody explain Futurism to me?
Fun fact, Munch was fucking insane. He treated his paintings as if they were family members and refused to part with them. He even use to take them out for picnics or days at the beach.
>>435173
I'm no expert but I do like some of the sculpture in the style. The emphasis on form and movement is fantastic. It's coming from the same place as cubism as far as its breakdown of space but it has a whole load of social and political baggage centered around modernism attached to it that I'm not qualified to speak on. It does look pretty cool though. It's like expressionism without the angst.
>>435173
>violence is the only way to progress !
>Speed, light, steel, fuck yeah !
>Warfare is fucking awesome !
>*World War I ensues*
>Woops, we might have goofed up
It was a very important movement for the modern era, but today's sensibilities make it seem pretty shitty
Kathe Kollwitz.
>>435173
this might help you too
>>432976
Beautiful women were probably hard to come by
Which is better? Renaissance or Medieval?
>>435141
>>435137
>>435131
color study you say!?
>>434957
That entire family was mentally ill.
No surprise that they were all Jews
At what point did you realize that Salvador Dali was the last great painter?
>>435432
dali turned into some kind of meta hack characterture of himself and started doing tv commercials half way through his life anon. Its kind of depressing really
>>435502
He had a commercial presence? He did movies and television, so what? Even his late paintings are worth more than Warhol's entire opus put together. He would spit on these buffoons who call themselves painters today.
>>435526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3xvcn-gDNM
>>435555
Good shit
Today we call this celebrity endorsement
Vincent Xeus, desu lads.
>>435912
Actually Lou Ros, but the above mentioned artist is still also really good.
>>435912
>>435921
Art history thread, not promo-random-dudes thread
>>435950
Go fuck yourself and your ignorance and that mockery of art. This part now is the undoing of history, the history of undoing. Take this guy, and yes I am promoting good artists, Nicola Samori. You can pretend that art isn't moving forward, and yes, you can moralize and fetishize Art Hisory, but reinvention is the word and you see history in it. Post modern or whatever you have it.
>>436047
Fuck you: the addendum, Holbein not as a Northern Master, but an early Modern.
>>434957
High test
>>436047
>>436069
whats that? post holbein? kay
they knew all about spooky skeletons back in the day
>mfw all my holbein stuff is too large for this board
ugh file size is killing me
>>432449
Art today its a mental process itself,that requires the participation of the viewer and therefore of the society and the signs in it,the physical product (the one that you call artpiece) its just one of the signs that are visible for the viewer,and the work take form and "meaning" in relation with another signs in the intelectual spectre of the viewer.
The question its not what is or not art rather "when" is something art?
>>436585
>>436585
>>433958
Interesting. Would you accept the position that mathematics can be considered art?
As per
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
>>436585
>tfw cultural monopoly by museums
>thing is only art when the artworld deems it
>>436677
>thing is only art when the artworld deems it
Dont be reductory
Art its not just something that you see and say "how beauty",its something that challenge the values that construct that beauty.
And not all the art is in the museums
>>436677
FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YA' TELL ME
>>436722
Please, I'm not saying that it's essential for something to be in a museum to be art, but you'd have to be ignorant of the last 100 years of art history to not accept that the art-world and its branches have a monopoly on things being considered art.
anyone got more depictions of the devil
this is a drawing of the devil visiting tartini in a dream, his inspiration for the devils trill sonata
>>436745
What happen its just a consequence of the capitalism and his asimilation,like how a bunch of the clasics of today like VanGogh,Monet,Manet,Courbet,the Dada,the Fauvism,all at first rejected for the Academia,but today big Masters.
Then you have the Land art saying "fuck museums" but end asimilated by the institutions too.
The institution hate this non-materalistic forms of art (Land art,performance,ephemeral art),because theres is nothing to see,nothing to put values on(monetary value too),and that why people hate contemporany art too.
>>436774
best i can do
>>435282
And then the first world war came, and many futurists were like "what a jolly good time we will have destyroying the old world to create the new!"
And then they all died in a trench somewhere and Futurism lost many of its prominent members.
The end.
>>433734
>Muh Hubris
Anyone have any suggestions on art that makes a good fb cover photo? they have such annoying dimensions...
>>439674
would you like it to match your couch also?
>>432798
topkek
>>439900
me on the right
>>439854
That painting has never failed to unnerve the hell out of me.
>>439900
The motif of darker men and lighter women intrigues me, I see it in alot of art from the Minoans to the Romans.
>>441420
It has nothing to do with meme fetishes. Men are darker than women for biological regions and a paler woman indicates fertility. In most cultures, lighter skin on a woman is a sign of beauty. The reason the motif exists in Roman paintings is because their men are swarthy and like to fuck beautiful fair skin females.
>>441420
Same as it's usually been in the west; the ideal man is tanned and athletic and the idea woman is pale and soft
>>435432
He wasn't a good painter at all and he even recognized that himself that he had a lot of trouble painting. He was a good at drawing though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WixEvXAkrZo
