What's your favorite piece of art, /r9k/?
most of /r9k/ can agree it's this post
Starry Night Over the Rhone
>>24972654
shitposting is a art
Either "The Triumph of Death" or any of Goya's "Black Paintings", specifically either "The Dog" or "Venus Murdering His Son"
Hokusai, Monet, Matejko
i really, really like this image.
BLOX: i really, really like this image.
I like Edward Hopper a lot
I had been rather taken by this painter recently.
>>24972799
>ywn live in edward hopper's america
>ywn live in norman rockwell's america
I don't care if it's fucking art for a magic card, it's beautiful and you know it
zdzislaw beksinski - AA78
>>24972668
here. also like this a lot
>>24972863
>tfw you will never experience the horrors that made zdzislaw the breath-taking artist he is
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>>24972830
I have such a hard on for Rebecca Guay's art.
Also for Elvish Piper as a card.
>>24972600
If by "art" you mean traditional stuff, then pic related
If you mean an image of any kind, then it's this: https://u.pomf.io/ozboau.jpg
>>24972994
fucking die you retarded pony-fucking faggot. go back to /mlp/ horsefucker
black square desu
>>24972991
I actually thought I was the only one. Shit's so good
I rike it
Spooky ghosts
>>24972600
wew, beauty
>>24972830
Immediately knew the artist, even if I haven't played Magic in a decade. One of my favorite Magic artists.
>>24972863
Literally the image I was going to post.
i'm not really an art buff, but i've always liked this.
jacques-louis david - the death of marat
>>24973054
I also like this one, dunno why redheads were always so disproportionately represented in art.
>>24973017
Boy, you must feel pretty stupid right about now
>>24972600
8/10
>>24972668
7.6/10
>>24972796
fucking die druggie/10
>>24972799
7.4/10
>>24972818
me/10
>>24972830
3.5/10
>>24972863
6/10
>>24972869
>>24973054
6/10
>>24972927
7/10
>>24972976
1.5/10
>>24972994
5/10
>>24973025
0/10
>>24973031
6.25/10
>>24973057
8/10
>>24973070
5.25/10
>>24973112
2/10
>tfw did quiz bowl in high school and now I know a bunch of useless shit about paintings
th-thanks
would you like fries with that art history degree
this is kinda artsy too right
>>24973179
>mfw 0/10
top pleb
>>24973247
The filename pretty much reflects the amount of artistic merit.
Probably my favorite painter.
>>24973247
anything is art if it has meaning to you
doesn't mean it's good, or bad
Here's some unique content
>>24972600
anything by kittlesen
>>24973308
Reminder that Rembrandt was trans-gendered.
Guy was 23 when he made this.
I'd usually pick
>>24972869
>>24973054
But pic related is good too
>>24973294
does art really need to have meaning?
I just think of art as of something that someone created using their creative skills for others to appreciate
>>24973349
proofs or it didn't happen
>>24973386
meaning can be as simple as "i like how this looks" or "i appreciate the effort required to make this"
i like seeing those classical art in history books where you see them naked. Gave me such a boner in class
bonus points if you can see their bare feet and soles
francis bacon makes some cool stuff
>>24973290
that's a really comforting painting
>>24973386
The definition art changes over time. It never really has a set definition. Some would say it's anything that inspires something within you. Others would say it's anything that requires skill to make. The meaning of art is superfluous in the long run.
>>24973290
Isn't this the pic from one edition of The Hobbit?
>>24973424
>vintage /ss/
noice
>>24973372
the amount of detail in baroque and renaissance sculptures is mind blowing
Grabbed this one from /pol/
>>24973247
1.25/10
>>24973290
1/10
>>24973308
6.66/10
>>24973331
7/10 (I'm actually surprised)
>>24973372
6.2/10
>>24973376
5.25/10
>>24973386
1/10
>>24973424
4.25/10
>>24973425
5.5/10
>>24973489
7/10
>>24973502
0/10 and I am Polish
>>24973294
>>24973386
>>24973397
>>24973434
Stop with those degenerate definitions of art. The true definition exists and is distinctly measurable.
>>24973479
Never mind, this one
>>24973425
I know that feel, desu
Oh and fuck you original comments
>>24972668
my nigger
that's actually my computer wallpaper
I wish I could step into this painting and live in its world.
>>24973489
what would happen if it would chip during the sculpting processes
i mean assuming they where both marble, I would think it would be fairly brittle when chipping at certain angles
>>24973511
this is art to me and you can't sway my mind
>>24973511
I bet I would have gotten a better score if I did not say what I said
>>24973372
Picasso did this when he was 12.
>>24973511
>The true definition exists and is distinctly measurable.
>>24973565
forgot my pic baka
>>24973511
>distinctly measurable
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
>>24973511
The definition of art is an expression of emotion
Most modern video games are only after money, so they are not art.
But some devs would do it for free
>>24973579
is this a man's ass or a woman's
please respond
>>24973511
You have to be 18 or over to post on this board.
>>24973612
never seen this one before, this is pretty tight
I really, really, really like this image hahahaha it just cracks me up!
>>24973615
Pretty sure it's a man senpai.
>>24973613
>Most modern video games are only after money, so they are not art.
They're expressing the emotion known as greed :^)
>>24973530
5.25/10
>>24973539
3.75/10
>>24973612
6.4/10
>>24973554
Believe it or not, that picture is actually pretty artistic. Its meaning is cryptic -- captures the notion of 'semi-humanness' in several senses: an 'almost human', a natural-but-cultivated product such as bananas, but more importantly, the composition is nice: triangular, but jagged around the edges, planimetric, but with a mess of lines in the background, the colours being bright on the first plane and murky on the second, and there are nice small catches such as the ends of bananas being the colour inverse of the leaves in the background. And so on. 7.5/10 as a photo.
It just makes me feel kinda comfy
it's not some grand, deep painting
just very minimalistic, clean
I like it senpai
if art doesn't give me a boner what's the point?
>>24973613
>Most modern video games are only after money, so they are not art.
What you see is made by artists working hours upon hours.
Whether someone does it for money or not is irrelevant, artists of old didn't do it for free either.
![artwork_images_424121842_541671_alphonse-mucha[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/z50TIMM.jpg "artwork_images_424121842_541671_alphonse-mucha[1].jpg")
Idk what this style is called but I like it.
I know its /tumblrCore/ or whatever, but its neat.
>>24973511
>>24973179
>only 6.66 for fucking Night Watch
>only 5.25 for fucking Death of Socrates
>only 5 for Witches on a Cliff
>a full 8 for some somewhat realistic neoclassical hoo-hah
>a full 7.4 for some not particularly novel, uninspired Hopper postcard-worthy piece
>a full 7 for a little farm sketch
If you're going to say artistic merit is objectively assessable, then at least get your assessments right.
>>24973613
>most modern video games are only after money so they are not art
You do realize most of the classical paintings/sculpts of yesteryear were done on commission, right?
this just speaks to me on so many levels
>>24973179
>>24973511
>>24973669
Are you like a freshman art major something?
I should have saved the artist names
>>24972799
>>24973025
>>24973331
I like you folks :^3
>>24973741
That's Ivan Aivazovsky, you can tell by the lighting of the waves.
Basic bitch impressionist fag coming through
![Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/7nD290r.jpg "Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_002[1].jpg")
>nobodies posted this yes
disappointed in you guys tbqh
>>24973741
oh my god the waves are like see through that fucking cool as shit
>>24973685
This was painted because somebody felt certain feelings and decided to express them. If he made money or not, he would have painted it, because he did it out of feeling.
He had 2 questions:
1.How do I feel?
2.How can I put this on a canvas
But vidya devs have more questions
1.How can I make this game flow smoothly?
2.How can I finish this by the deadline?
3.How can this turn a profit?
4.How can I add new gameplay features?
5.How can I insert DLC?
6.How do I feel?
7.How can I achieve a small part of this feeling, because I cant achieve all of it with this massive team required to make any changes.
The only games I would consider true art are ones made by very small teams to be released as freeware.
>>24973682
antonio corradini - veiled truth
>>24973756
thanks lad
I love romantic era paintings
"Abbey in the Oakwood" by Caspar David Freidrich
>>24973794
One of my most awkward faps.
>>24972600
Not religious but this picture of Jesus always gives me feels.
Wizard kakashi is all u need.
>>24973792
>But vidya devs have more questions
You do realize that people who ask these questions aren't the artists, but corporate rats?
Fucking mona lisa IIRC was done for some merchant, are you saying mona lisa isn't art?
>>24973794
this is freaking amazing!
>>24973794
damn how the fuck can you sculpt something like this and not stop every 15 minutes to jack off
>>24972799
anon u my nig
Grimshaw is amazing
>>24973821
he looks so stressed out
>>24973877
it's the part when he was being tempted in the desert
>>24973686
Art Nouveau
My Fav. desuwa
>>24973877
>why these fools gotta sin so much
>>24973703
>>only 6.66 for fucking Night Watch
Actually it was supposed to be 6.(6) but I forgot to notate the recurring fraction.
Execution is decent and there way in which faces come out each in a pose of their own is unsettling in its disorganized way, hence the relatively high rating. But composition-wise, e.g. in terms of interaction of light and areas of shadow, I think Caravaggio for one name I remember was more interesting.
>>only 5.25 for fucking Death of Socrates
The .25 is for combining the triangular sequence of human forms with the depth of the mathematically shaped corridor to the left; really the only interesting thing in it. Cleanness of colours as of the wall isn't a merit; it is necessary. Hence the 5.
This and William Blake's The Ancient of Days
>>24973909
>The .25 is for combining the triangular sequence of human forms with the depth of the mathematically shaped corridor to the left
You sound autistic.
>>24972600
I dunno but Christina's World ranks. I like Pre-Raphaelites, but a lot of people like to hate them. Outside of paintings, I don't really have a "piece" of art I like, though I like Roman architecture and Tenochtitlan was pretty nice too.
h8 on me
>>24973686
Art Nouveau, I like it desu
>>24973933
>you will never see beautifully pale traditional women dressed like that again
the worst time to be alive
>tfw never became an artist
>>24973909
What is your opinion of the golden ratio with respect to art?
>>24972600
Guido Reni's paintings of St Sebastian are amazing. They're the only paintings of St Sebastian that capture his beauty along with the violence whilst still maintaining the feeling of divinity.
>>24973970
pollock gets too much unfounded hate by normies
>>24973821
>>24973877
I'm not christian at all, but many aspects about Christ's story just seem so powerful to me. The 40 days and nights of self imposed isolation in the desert (which is the subject of the painting), the temptation by Satan to utilize his powers, and then ultimately the act of allowing himself to be crucified for the greater good, even though he has quite literally all the power in the world to make things work out otherwise. Visceral, really.
I recommend Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ. Great film.
>>24973989
This. I like mo and pomo art to fuck with normies and stemfags who only want to see the same nude chick and scenery 100,000 times.
>>24973866
That is some amazing mood coloration.
Nice painting familia
>>24973970
>why give a fuck about aesthetics and meanind when you can just splash random colours all over the canvas
>>24974017
Might as well take a leap of faith if you feel this way. What's stopping you, nothing stopped Jesus from doing this for you.
>>24973989
I can't get into pollock at all desu.
>>24974071
It's just POO POO PEE PEE
It's not different from what we have been doing
>>24973981
I saw an impressionist Pepe in a local exhibit like this once. Very nice.
>tfw your favorite piece is more than 2mb and too lazy to copy and reduce file size
>>24973908
>guys just calm down this is kinda stressful
>no please don't kill that man
>could you stop stealing I have to deal with all this man
i feel bad for jesus
>>24973970
h8 me on
>>24974071
it's the artistic equivalent of shitposting
then people tried to degrade his brand with shitty knockoffs
>>24974017
I've heard Christians hated this, as they found it blasphemous. Wasn't it about a romance or so?
>>24974069
just because he's a well written interesting character doesn't make him any less fictional
Someone else already posted Edward Hopper (fucking based anon) so instead I'll post this.
The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky
I wish I could post the gigantic version on Wikipedia, it's super cool
Every episode is my favourite episode.
>>24974069
I respect the gospels as a story of a divine man who truly believed in selflessness and the salvation of mankind, but I don't accept its contents as factual. I appreciate scripture the same way I appreciate all art, in the sense that it is a creation for humans, by humans.
I was a Christian when I was younger, however.
>>24973970
U a shit.
>>24973989
>unfounded
>Shit on a canvas
>Haha this is art now!
>Everything is ugly for decades
>>24974017
this is what irritates me about your typical snobby atheist
always obsessed with the "it's not real!" aspect
who cares if it's not real, man? it's an incredibly inspiring story and a model way to live
>>24974060
>>24974071
>>24974080
>>24974102
Personal meaning of why he choose to splash/drip/throw these paints on a canvas means a hell of a lot more than some picture of pretty trees and chick who've been dead for 500 years who are only getting painted to show how cool and patriotic the artist is.
Goya is ok, I guess...
>>24974143
even the shitty one where jet goes on an adventure with the little girl and her dad is trapped in hyperspace or something?
>>24974109
They disliked it because it humanized Jesus in ways that had never really been tried in mainstream media before.
>>24974155
>Personal meaning of why he choose to splash/drip/throw these paints on a canvas
Elaborate?
> some picture of pretty trees and chick who've been dead for 500 years who are only getting painted to show how cool and patriotic the artist is.
nice strawman
>>24973909
>Actually it was supposed to be 6.(6) but I forgot to notate the recurring fraction.
Sassy, isn't he.
Your rationale for the ratings appears to be exclusively aesthetic/geometric. Would you then give one of Bougereau's little loli paintings high grades while shunning something which has technical imprecision but dares express something? What is your supposed objective metric?
Also, why give such high ratings to a standard van Gogh?
>>24974152
>it's an incredibly inspiring story and a model way to live
but christianity as a whole is not
>who cares if it's not real, man
said no christian ever
>>24973671
4.25/10
>>24973682
1.75/10
>>24973686
4.3/10
>>24973737
6/10
>>24973741
5.4/10
>>24973745
2/10
>>24973767
3/10
>>24973771
6/10
>>24973792
3/10
>>24973794
6.5/10 except I'm not sure if I'm rating the sculpture or the photo
>>24973809
6.3/10
>>24973821
2.5/10
>>24973825
2/10
>>24973858
4/10
>>24973866
left half 6.9/10
right half 3/10
>>24973902
4/10
>>24973933
6.5/10
>>24973970
8/10 (no not to be contrarian, it's just engaging as fuck)
>>24973988
3.5/10
>>24974092
5.5/10
>>24974101
2/10
>>24974134
4.4/10
>>24974171
7.25/10
>>24973739
No. I don't actually like art.
>>24973951
I do, but I am not. An autistic person would never abuse terms the way art criticism requires.
That said, enough rating -- it disrupts the thread past the novelty value.
>>24972600
>tfw 3 months after losing my virginity and realizing how much she was starting to irritate me
>>24974228
>pepe raping wojak
>6/10
kek
>>24974223
isn't christianity by definition following the teachings of jesus?
old testament is hella gay
>>24974143
>Muh Anime is a high art form!
this is why no one takes weeaboos seriously
>>24972600
>>24972796
>>24973031
>>24973057
>>24973308
>>24973331
>>24973372
>>24973425
>>24973530
>>24973741
>>24973745
>>24973792
>>24973794
>>24973821
>>24973902
>>24974101
>>24974171
I really enjoy all of these, not sure what it is but they're very drawing, enticing maybe? I'm not very good with words, but I really feel a connection with these images. Thanks Anons.
>>24974228
>all those low ratings
you are a serious pleb
and I'm posting more Hopper
This isn't my favorite. My favorite is this painting of a busy town square, it's very Walso-esque and in the middle somewhere there are two dogs fucking. I don't remember what city it's supposed to be in and I lost it and haven't seen it since.
probably not what you meant but this image is my favorite.
>>24974303
Waldo*
"Aristotle with a bust of Homer" Rembrandt. It's subtlety powerful with Aristotle looking at Homer and thinking, "what has this world come to" and the imagery of two incredibly intelligent men across centuries looking back at one another is striking.
>>24973970
Malevich did abstract better and beat him by 30 years.
>>24974266
Well, it is pretty. The choice to use the same colour for blood, tongue, and smile; the choice to combine various sizes of units, from whole monochromatic colours, through patches of grey, to many small discrete spots of single colour again. The way the complex contours of the excrement are contrasted with the straight line of the rope. The way the two figures and the two legs of Wojak form pleasant angles in all three dimensions. It is just a good drawing.
>>24973290
One of my asshole professors as a freshman in art school was shitting on Thomas Kincaid and I told her even though it's somewhat formulaic its still beautiful and skilled, she says "talk to me in 4 years" then we go on to study "piss Christ" and Rothko what a cunt
>>24974277
i don't watch anime cartoons etc but I saw a documentary that delved into the creation of the Ghost In The Shell movie and it was fascinating, I think anime deserves a place as art, sure the shitty Naruto-esque flicks aren't great but some of the imagery is amazing.
>>24974191
What the artist was feeling and aimed to convey to the audience is the most important, and is more genuine than making art for the aesthetic value of a stale tv water colour painting show piece.
Look at the image closely.
Why did he choose white instead of black at this point?
Why did he put the yellow on top of the black here but bellow the red here?
Why did he swivel and pour at the point, why did he drip paint at this point, and what was he feeling when he chose between them.
This is where the true value of the piece comes from. it's a conversation with the artist, not just a depiction of what the artist sees or imagines.
I like this image too.
people really liked this one the last time I posted it
sometimes I look at this and think it is kind of corny
other times I get sucked into it, I would love to be some old captain, someone autistically obsessed with everything to do with ships who bores his fat wife who he rarely sees, someone who once dreamed of success, eschewing a steady job hauling iron ore or something for long distance voyages, but never really made it, just getting hired out by the same companies because of his experience and reliability, yet someone who for years has traveled all over the world and had some interesting experiences during his attempts to make money on the side, acquiring a collection of mementos from far flung distant places
>>24972799
Nice, Was my wallpaper when I was still a wagekek
>>24974270
well, it also includes ridiculous rituals and believing in praying to and worshipping god.
viewing Jesus as an ancient philosopher and modeling ones life after his teachings is a good thing desu but doesn't really make one a real christian
>>24974350
I honestly dislike kincaid and posted it as b8, he's kitsch for motel rooms desu.
Not a fan of andres serrano either though.
I dare you to find a more powerful expression in a photograph than this
>>24974369
M A G R I T T E
rip Moebius :'(
>>24973847
right? i want to lick that stomach even though it's made out of cold heartless stone
>>24974412
Hey, is your mouth tiny and small?
Why don't you come on down to Little Bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj4-E5Hs3Kc
>>24974356
>it's a conversation with the artist
And in the case of Pollock looking only at the work it's like having a conversation with an unintelligible person.
For all I know he put black there because the can was closer and he didn't ant to get down from the step ladder.
>is more genuine than making art for the aesthetic value of a stale tv water colour painting show piece.
Stop straw manning.
>>24973847
probably stopped and fucked the model he used instead
>>24973615
>this Anon needs to know if they are now gay
Pic: Chiara Bautista
>>24974391
This. Middle America tier and the whole class was imagining your future painting jigsaw puzzles when you said it.
>>24974453
You're just not on Pollock's level then.
>>24974474
1/10 deviantart tier
i don't know shit about art history but I've got this on my wall
can i be artsy now?
>>24974277
I don't give a shit about my taste being considered "high art" because I am not a pretentious fuckwad. Go suck off Andy Warhol's corpse you cunt.
>>24973179
People like you piss me off. Who cares about your shitty responses to every post.
>>24974400
this picture made me feel more than anything else in the thread desu senpai
>>24974508
That's really awful
Pls be troll
>>24974502
>you just don't GET IT man!
I like abstract art, just not a big fan of pollock.
>>24974201
>Your rationale for the ratings appears to be exclusively aesthetic/geometric.
Well yes? Expression for expression's sake, shock/emotional/mood value, gets old soon. And no, the painting you gave is not very engaging compositionally. I would give it 4/10. Cf. OP's >>24972600, where the barn in the middle alternates between a smooth surface and a texture, where it is intentionally placed against the brightest par of the sky, where single hair on the woman's head correspond to the house's ladders and her belt/whatever with the road ruts, where there is a small sequence of structures on the right, where the mowed crops form a line parallel to the horizon, where the relative brightness and colour of the dress is contrasted with the darkness and paleness of the skin, how the horizon is broken by the tops of the poles, by how the single blades of grass are contrasted with the smoothness of the sky, how the figure is central in her own area of the painting, unlike every single manmade object... you could go on and on. The artist has clearly been aware of a lot of things in the composition. Hence my 8/10.
>>24974228
God you really are a fuck up.
Good luck out there, okay?
>>24973985
>>24974573
I'm curious desuwa.
not high art or anything but I find I can look at it for ages without getting bored.
>>24974502
god modern art fans will even defend this!
Yeah, everything is amazing and bigger than life no mater what it is our how little efford went into it...as long as it's made by a famous artist right?
>>24974502
>falling for CIA tricks
>>24974605
Sorry, forgot about that post.
I don't know really. I wouldn't single it out when I saw it, even if it were placed there deliberately. I just imagine that it works the way dissonances work in music; that some distances, just like some angles or some combinations of colours, just make the brain cringe, more or less hardly, as opposed to glide along the shapes in question again and again.
>>24974626
>modern art fans will defend a piece of art thats almost 100 years old
oh and also
>implying there wasn't actual meaning behind that one
>>24974657
Modern art doesn't mean contemporary art m8.
Duchamp is modern art.he's also shit :^)
>>24974614
Is it Taipei?
>>24974626
>>>>dada movement
I'm not a fan.
>>24974400
this is the person that calls you an ultraleft
i used to really like this one.
>>24974657
>modern art fans will defend a piece of art thats almost 100 years old
so what? it's still modern art
>implying there wasn't actual meaning behind that one
of course there was,
but there is meaning behind pic related too, yet most people would never consider this high art or shame people for "not getting it" if they say they don't like it as art.
>>24974400
this pic always cracks me up
>>24974573
I agree with much of what you said about OP pic but your praise seemed to be aimed at thoughtfulness on behalf of the artist with respect to intentional contrasts/qualities/parallels/positioning of objects on the canvas.
Which is fine, but now try to do that for
>>24973970
Another piece you gave an 8.
There is nothing interesting in the painting after the immediate shock of "loud and bright". The positioning of splotches wasn't carefully thought through or meant to compare/contrast other splotches - Pollock's whole bit was about adding in randomness in creation. That's just expression.
But I'm curious to hear how an 8 for the two pieces can be consistent.
>>24974779
Jesus fingerfucking christ.
>>24973612
Quality choice, m8.
My phone background, I believe it's an actual photograph of a forest in Russia.
filler text for robotochinkymoot
>>24974822
>your praise seemed to be aimed at thoughtfulness on behalf of the artist with respect to intentional contrasts/qualities/parallels/positioning of objects on the canvas
Well yes, it sounds so, but let me assure you, the hard neuroaesthetic result and the mood (remember to distinguish between emotion, shocking the viewer, and mood, eliciting some subtler impressions, perhaps memories) factored in too. If a painting were perfect on all three, it would be 10/10.
As for Pollock.
Well no, it's just not true that it isn't interesting. The man had just an astounding intuition how to create the *effect* of depth and composition using a 'random' (note the quotes) method. Now I think of it, he was a true master of abstraction. What OP's painting achieved consciously, he achieved by shapes merely reminiscent of witnessing a busy scene. It is like a second-level abstraction. He didn't merely make it so that you can see a screaming face here, or a leaning figure there, or city lights there (which you can) -- you get, so to say, pure building blocks of a painting. Distinctions of shade, planes, small dots highlighted before a black background, individual artists' choices whether to rather abstract something using a mass of points or a mass of lines, choosing to alter the mood by using more white or more black... it's as if he exemplified and explicitated most painting techniques in that one piece, which can be used to signify *something*, except he signified nothing. The very definition of abstraction.
Choice of color, composition, inclusion of tiny penises on weird looking kids
Who's the artist here?
>>24975081
In fact, you could divide that one painting into 50 squares and I would be proud to make any of those.
>>24975139
Is it hard to type posts with pollock's dick in your mouth?
>>24975104
Are you American? The penis thing made me wonder.
>>24975196
Jj,tbqhf
>>24975165
I am watching that painting as I type.
The red spot to the left and slightly to the bottom looks like a face.
Then I looked at the verz bottom right corner and thought on how that one yellow line reminds me of watercolour, as if going around a couple of blades of grass.
Then I looked back and noticed how the white lines above that red spot resemble those stereotypical representations of neurons or whatever or network nodes.
And then how that major yellow line resembles Lascaux animals.
And then I could look up and see how the spots at the very top border resemble dust caught in light.
Or I could move just slightly right and think how the white curves resemble Picasso at his non-angular.
It is really good.
>>24975229
ok thank you this explain a lot dude
Waits balanced on the scales
>>24975124
learn2google
"The artwork for the release was created by Mark Weaver, under art direction by Rob Sheridan."
i feel the loneliness every time
>>24975266
In fact,
>In a famous 1952 article in ARTnews, Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting", and wrote that "what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. The big moment came when it was decided to paint 'just to paint'. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation from value--political, aesthetic, moral." Many people assumed that he had modeled his "action painter" paradigm on Pollock.
What a shame for the man to have been praised on such irrelevant aspects as the way in which he painted. That must have felt bad. Sage.
a dream with clouds all around
>>24975332
i've seen this piece in person. so great, one of my favorites
>>24975081
Now I think that you're ascribing undeserved merits to his work and are having fun parodying art criticism.
"Depth" was achieved by having yellow above red sometimes, and red above yellow at other times. And most importantly, black (what the eye assumes is the natural background, even though here it is orangish) is above the yellow and red sometimes. This is a shortcut way to make the mind assume that this exists in a three dimensional space whereby the lines aren't just flowing left/right but are crossing past each other on a z axis.
And there are lots of little bits you can focus on which seem to be intruiging, but this is merely owed to quantity - the sheer number of drops, the size of the picture, and the scale relative to the size of the lines and paint drops. This last ratio is incredibly high in "action paintings" like Pollock's work with paint buckets where you can very quickly apply varying sizes of spots or lines. Whereas, what I would call better artists who make deliberate strokes with a brush would spend years trying to make this painting. Good on him (and the numerous others before him) for recognizing the benefits in choosing a different paint application method, but the piece only achieves intrigue because there are so many areas of possible, microscopic focus that your eye is naturally drawn towards some of them.
Caspar David Friedrich - Winterlandschaft mit Kirche
>>24975626
that's gorgeous, anon. Very cosy even though i fucking hate that word.
Idk why but I really like the painting. The album is really good as well.
>>24975081
>>24975266
And finally, let me change the subject to say that e.g. >>24975550 is good too. The Beksinski-ish reddishness of the ship and the incongruous cyan, the anachronistic combination of, again, the ship and the clouds, which remind me of... can't pinpoint it... some sort of Renaissance formula??, the liberties the author seems to have consciously taken with respect to their shape here and there (the ridges at the bottom and to the right, the strands to the left, in fact them floating in and out being representational altogether, as in the top right corner, the rather ambiguous mood (how can this painting be interpreted to be light-hearted if the viewer is distracted by the texture of the clouds?)... Even it all being slightly off-centre I like.
>>24975196
Because those penises would be considered big in Europe?
>>24975820
Because europeans wouldn't think twice about penises being in some work of art
>>24975820
No, thinking nudity is weird mostly. Not here for le funny ethnic banter XD I genuinely wondered. Americans seem to place a different value on it, especially if it's in art.
>>24975266
The last sentence of my point applies again, as does Pareidolia.
>>24975585
Pollock's paintings are like cumulonimbus clouds - all the little wisps of cloud and differences in shading make a very "high resolution" object which you can interpret as shapes/animals/etc.
Spend a moment looking at any little pocket of the painting can come to life. But all the work is on the viewer, not the "artist". At least I don't consider that to be art.
>>24975585
No, I just can't agree.
Pic related is just by far compositionally prettier in the literal sense than most Kandinskys and Miros I have seen. You just need to pay attention to how the couple of parallel lines on the left, for instance, seem almost-but-not-perfectly radial. Or how seamlessly in one painting are combined three-dimensional and two-dimensional interpretations. Or how units of all lengths are present in equal measure. Or just how there just are no offensive places at all.
If you think this is easy, then show me a successful imitator, because I don't quite believe that there were none.
>>24975081
How's the inside of your colon smell?
Because you're pretty far up there.
>>24975945
Photo is just a study I did of Raphael's painting, I was just fishing for attention with the penis comment to see if anyone would open it and call me on it just being an amateur copy.
>>24976087
Dunno, I'm ultra casual with art, if it looks cool I like it. I didn't get the joke, sorry anon.
>>24975970
>Pareidolia
Except this is literally what art is about. Pattern recognition. Leading people to recognize an old (familiar) pattern in a new (unfamiliar) stimulus.
>Spend a moment looking at any little pocket of the painting can come to life.
I just don't buy the 'everyone could do it' argument. Search Google Images for >computer generated art. Those are just fractals which don't do much for me.
How do I into art and art history?
>>24976103
> if it looks cool, I like it.
Best way to judge it imo
>>24976150
Web Gallery of Art is a great resource
This
>It's just a shitty cat
She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, in a beautiful town where I would love to be.
>>24976145
>Except this is literally what art is about. Pattern recognition. Leading people to recognize an old (familiar) pattern in a new (unfamiliar) stimulus.
Right, but to recognize things that the artist intended to express. I think we have to be able to find common ground as viewers and find similarities in our interpretations. Given enough time, we might be able to derive hints of the artist's intention or thought process when analyzing the piece. I don't think art is about supplying people with thousands of opportunity to pick out amorphous Waldos in a clusterfuck of splatterings.
John Martin was cool
>>24976019
I guess I'm not saying that Pollock has no artistic merit. He clearly knows how to balance (no offensive places).
But I would not put him into the upper ranges of ratings merely for being able to focus on a color, blur out the rest, and skim over the painting to see where he needs to put a hint more of it.
I would instead reward, say, American Gothic for how it humorously criticizes american midwestern life through subtle features, such as the obvious power dynamic of the two as evidenced in how the woman stands behind the man and how, while the man stares at the viewer, the woman stares at the man. How the pitchfork's shape is repeated in the man's overalls and also in the house's window. How the woman's dress pattern is the exact same as the curtains in the window.
michelangelo's florence fortifications drawings
This along with the other more hard edge stuff that came from him during this time.
>>24976327
Well, I just don't think that he just found and abused a 'soft spot' of human brains: that the algorithm for generation of pareidolic opportunities is not trivial.
>>24976541
>I would instead reward, say, American Gothic for how it humorously criticizes american midwestern life through subtle features, such as the obvious power dynamic of the two as evidenced in how the woman stands behind the man and how, while the man stares at the viewer, the woman stares at the man. How the pitchfork's shape is repeated in the man's overalls and also in the house's window. How the woman's dress pattern is the exact same as the curtains in the window.
Definitely. Thanks for pointing out things I didn't notice about it, and I hope I have shown ITT that I enjoy finding such (intra-painting, and painting-social context too) correspondences myself.
>>24973290
>>24973866
comfy/10
>>24972668
this is nice too
>>24972600
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak - Albert Bierstadt
>>24976557
The man just could not stop drawing dicks
>>24973244
this picture is ....what the fuck? Does king bey know who she's with there? I guess this was around the time when rpat worked with death grippu?
Satan's last supper.
>>24974626
it looks fucking awesome and the fact that it's a urinal is just hilarious
>>24972600
Die Ode an die Freude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WF0PVi2FA
franz kline
>>24974443
>american "humour"
>funny
The garden of death
>>24973877
>Jesus, I'm really going to need that report by 3pm
>>24974237
>Adolf Hitler plots his next move
>>24973489
Though obvious for its classical renome, Pieta is my favourite piece of sculpting ever.
>>24972600
This painting is beautiful and serene.
>tfw mtg art
i don't care and it's still great and it is still just dreadful
>>24979398
>what'sthemeaningofthisshit?!.gif
idk why. this just really stuck out to me when i visited the art gallery more than anything.
>art thread
>no dogs playing poker
>christ you people don't know art
>>24979440
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TFW no art scene nerds on r9k :^(
>>24973866
same painting, comfier colors
>>24979383
Sculpting is my favourite.
I wish I could do that to a block of marble.
The angel of darkness
