catowl? owlcat?
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://storage.canalblog.com/68/96/119589/36314457.jpg
^ Theodore Gericault ca. 1818. This feels quite modern to me in the whole weird intense blankness of their doll-like faces. That one chunky arm makes me think of Fernand Leger too, and the tubular kind of way that he painted body parts (cubism I guess?).
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
also the lad on the right appears to be holding a gat
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
on the left i meant. ow my head.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/AlexGraffito.svg/450px-AlexGraffito.svg.png
world's first MSPaint art
― .\ /. (dayo), Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda cavilling at "it's just the internet, eh, don't get so wound up" tbh - you should know by now that this board will seriousify any attempt at silliness, and the other way round
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
"lighten up" is just such a disappointing comeback for so many reasons
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
how about "get a grip"?
― jed_, Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
there has been a misidentification of the cohort that "gets" what is being discussed on this thread
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 December 2010 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Robert Lazzarini's sculpture of the anamorphic skull
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/124783383_1049751f2d.jpghttp://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/124783486_3f4bcb29a1.jpg
― (+) (+ +), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
<3
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
my brain hates teh way that looks
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
he's been mentioned already, but: piranesi's carceri - cf. escher, ico:
http://im-possible.info/images/art/classic/piranesi/carceri-xiv.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Piranesi9c.jpg
― e.g. delegates at a set age (ledge), Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
(of course piranesi was an admitted influence on ico)
― e.g. delegates at a set age (ledge), Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I forgot Gleyre from the Crary list.
http://artmight.com/albums/2010-09-11/1001-Orientalist-Art-Paintings/Charles-Gleyre/Charles-Gleyre-Egyptian-Temple.jpg
Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, Egyptian Temple, 1840, Oil on canvas, 14.17 x 19.29 inches [36 x 49 cm],Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DtsajQefh2s/Rlme93QcrlI/AAAAAAAAEq8/e7G_WRFE4ag/s1600-h/Gleyre_Danse_Bacchantes.jpgLa danse des bacchantes, 1849, Huile sur toile - 147 x 243 cm, Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
And yo check this:
"Despite the sensuality of such works as La Danse des Bacchantes (above, from 1849), Gleyre was reportedly celibate his entire life. For him, the flesh painted on the canvas in mythological scenes always remained a myth, an unfelt abstraction. Gleyre earned a reputation for perfectionism that many of his students took away from his atelier. The way that Gleyre returned again and again to the same works can be seen, for example, in Monet’s obsessive series of water lilies, haystacks, cathedrals, etc., etc. Gleyre and Monet differ widely in style, but their commitment to depicting a personal vision is exactly the same."
Also: "Renoir loved Gleyre specifically for the free hand he gave to his students—allowing the young Impressionists to paint outdoors while he preferred working in the studio from memory."
From here
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Grrrr.
http://www.latribunedelart.com/IMG/jpg/Gleyre_Danse_Bacchantes.jpgMarc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, La danse des bacchantes, 1849, Huile sur toile - 147 x 243 cm, Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Again, like with the realistic portraits, I don't see what's the "avant-garde anachronism" in that one? Looks pretty much of its time to me.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/06/10/FriedrichCDmonkbythesea%2Cjpg.jpgCaspar David Friedrich, Monk by the sea, 1809/10, oil on canvas
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Tuomas I'm with you on that in regards to several of the things that have been posted ITT without explanation.
― ENBB, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonder what Crary would make of Bouguereau (since we already know what Berger made of him):
http://www.sexualfables.com/images/Bouguereau-The-Nymphaeum.jpg
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
So much gorgeouness in this thread! Couldn't give a whole fig tree what the concept is, keep em coming.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i included those specific felix vallotton examples (the woodcuts now behind pagebreak) with latter-half 20th c. graphic novels & comics in mind.i found it uncanny that by inherent stringencies in their production that they should take on that weird, relaxed 'fluid realist' style of inking beyond the 1950's mode of production in comix draughtmanship. something about seeing their monochrome rendered on a monitor makes them look totally natural being seen for the first time on like, a computer. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rC2EkOOmAX8/RsdrkfQBuII/AAAAAAAAAns/Q4GpmTdz3DY/s320/vallotton_le_violon.jpghttp://giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/images/vef_edgar.gif
― boss margins, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
that last friedrich is wonderful
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
does matthias grunewald fit this thread?http://commandopera.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Temptation-of-St-Anthony-Matthias-Grunewald.jpg
― arby's, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, that's rather less sober than the grunewald i can remember
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
disappointed that he ended up illustrating mid 20th c english children's books ;_;
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSt-MlNExO1rWIP5p-gZ_qoMvzXCTOdk4stxZUqpGAhMBubpd9KhQ
for so many reasons, not least the friedrich & the font, this is my most treasured paperback.
― boss margins, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah, lol, most of the grunewald i've seen weren't all beastly orgies of violence, but the isenheim alter, for example, has always struck me as very surreal and out of scale and just strange to look at, and there are some drawings of his which i'm struggling to find that i think fit this thread quite well, too.
― arby's, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Pieter_Bruegel_I-Fall_of_rebel_Angels_IMG_1444.JPG
― for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
big version
― for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
not saying it ~prefigures~ but i instantanteously thought of kandinsky
i've had breughel in mind today w/ all the snow
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
flying puffer fish is a bit outré
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
If you think that's whoa, you need to see his payphone:
http://www.dcist.com/attachments/dcist_charles/2007_0216_payphone.jpg
way more impressive in person, btw
― ball (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
That Breughel looks like a Bosch painting giving an Archimbolo a good kicking.
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Arcimboldo rather.
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
omg those sculptures are making me nauseated
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
so nauseous that you said nauseated by mistake
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
it's true tho
what is the effect irl?
i made no mistake, sir.
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://darcyarts.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/crazyjanesmall.jpg
^ this Richard Dadd from 1885 looks a lot more modern than that yeah?
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
was he the psychotic dude
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking bastard dns servers not resolving so i cannae see it
/smashes router w/ whisky bottle
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
now i c
it's very '~edgy~ observer magazine fashion editor reads up on henry darger'
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, he was the guy who took his dad apart with a potato peeler or something. The style of that picture there ('Crazy Jane') looks like it belongs on the cover of some 80s paperback, but the subject has basically invented Adam Ant 100 years beforehand.
― Krampus Interruptus (NickB), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Thursday, December 2, 2010 7:06 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
*shakes head*
― max, Friday, 3 December 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
the crakhs are showing, first DJP now max
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Friday, 3 December 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm actually in my second ever art history class right now (hooray for working at a university) and I love this thread.
I realize how little i know about the history of art but i love when something jumps out for me and feels very different and more appealing to my modern sensibilities and biases, instead of feeling like yet another portrait or religious work. Not that there's anything wrong with those, and I love hearing the weird secrets and references and history surrounding them. But on a strictly visual and composition basis they don't excite me as much.
Friedrich's Monk By The Sea really felt different for me, as did his Abbey in the Oakwood which is also pretty \m/:http://towerweb.net/alt-lib/art/friedrich/oakwoodabbey2.jpg
I also really love Degas' At the Races in the Countryside:http://www.topofart.com/images/artists/Hilaire_Germain_Edgar_Degas/paintings/degas022.jpg
― joygoat, Friday, 3 December 2010 06:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Incidentally, that painting inspired Grant Morrison to create the superhero called Crazy Jane in Doom Patrol in 1989.
― Tuomas, Friday, 3 December 2010 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
― max, Friday, 3 December 2010 03:16 (6 hours ago)
imo u gotta use nauseous in that instance cuz (although ~literally~ correct) nauseated usually nows means something else
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link