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Classic paintings thread
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What about paintings inspired by classical works?
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>>687535641
Works for me
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>>687535940
aight

These two pieces are by Nicola Samori
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>>687536033
What are they based on?
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>>687536329
Samori's subjects are typically from Baroque/Renaissance era paintings. Classically trained painter born in Italy. Pretty sure all of these are from the current decade. I think he's an absolutely amazing painter, so much depth in his work. He also methodically distorts most, if not all, of his work in different ways.
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>>687536694
I'm really liking his style. I'm just getting into classical paintings and such, where would you suggest learning more about paintings, artists etc
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Going to your local museum. Where do you live? If you're anywhere near Dallas, TX you should head over to the Kimbell Art Museum. They have a painting Michelangelo did when he was a teenager; it's the first work of art of his featured in an American museum.
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Battle of Lepanto
1603
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
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Best thread today
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>>687537276
I wish I lived in a bigger city. I'm in Edmonton AB and there's little museums here, and most are modern based
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>>687537276

One of my favorites, "The School of Athens" by Raphael. I really loved how he included Michelangelo as Heraclitus and Da Vinci as Plato in this piece.
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The classic painting "Its too big"
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>>687537691
I love this one, always been one of my favorites
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>>687537584
Take an art appreciation course at your local community college. You'll cover all types of art, but it will also cover most of the Renaissance and the techniques that were developed/rediscovered in that time period.
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>>687538068
>>687537584

And depending on what your community college has to offer, they may have more period specific classes that focuses primarily on classical works.
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How about a woodcut?
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>>687538135
Thanks for the advice, I'll look into taking classic art courses as an elective since I'm already a full-time student
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>>687534725

that's Neoclassical, actually
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>>687538218
That's great! You have any more? And do you have info on this in particular?
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>>687538461
I know haha, I know the general periods just said classical to generalize for those who may not know the difference
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>>687538479
Knight, Death and the Devil by Albrecht Dürer

This one is by the same artist its called Melancholia
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>>687538135
titian's entombment of christ. Such a beautiful painting; it's on display at the Kimbell Art Museum and it looks so much better in person. It's a "guest of honor" though so no photography since it's not in the permanent collection. The frame they have it displayed in is also pretty ornate, and there's an inscription on the bottom with the title of the work and the date.
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>>687538999
I don't have any knowledge of woodcuts. Why are they made so dark?
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>>687539167
Damn would love to see this one in person. Just out of curiosity how does one determine the quality of a frame?
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>>687538479
also Grien.
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>>687539167

Van Eyck's Arnolfini. His signature is on the painting as this work functioned as a legal document, proving their marriage.
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>>687539695

Here's the mirror in the back. In its reflection you can see the husband, wife, and the artist.
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>>687539695
Honestly that's really cool, I did not know that. How did they manage to accept a painting as a document?
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>>687539398
They cut into wood, cover with ink, and stamp on paper
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>>687540075
Oh damn that's really cool then
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>>687540014
Because very few, if any, artists now and especially back then could paint from memory with that astonishing level of detail. They had to be standing there like that together for him to paint them like this. His signature also basically says he was a witness to their wedding.
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>>687540980
Damn and that level of detail is amazing. I'm gonna read up more on this, thanks
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>>687541337
Here's another cool one, Merode Altarpiece depicting the Virgin Mary and Joseph. The people in the first panel are probably the ones that commissioned the painting. It was controversial when it was painted in the late 1420s because it makes it seem like the virgin Mary and Joseph lived under the same roof before they were married, but they're actually two separate scenes. I believe this style of painting was called panel painting if I'm not mistaken.
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>>687542038
Are the two separate scenes the middle and right panel?
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>>687542038
Another cool thing, God is in the middle panel. Back in ye olden days when one of art's primary functions was religious symbolism, you weren't allowed to paint images of God. The only way you were allowed to signify God was in the work of art was with rays of light, or a hand coming from the sky. Don't remember exactly if the rays of light had to be cast on a cross though.

>>687542363
Yes, all the panels are actually separate scenes. There's a lot of religious symbolism in this piece, like the rays of light and the scroll and book in front of Mary, giving the impression that they represent the old and new testament.
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>>687542867
Here's a sculpture Michelangelo did of Mary holding Christ's body. Mary's hand is almost as large as Christ's back, and the lower portion of her body is much wider too. Christ's body has many adult features, but his face appears very young. I think Michelangelo did this to show it's more than Mary holding Christ; it's a mother holding her dead child.
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>>687542867
Thanks for all the info. How'd you get to know so much about these paintings?
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>>687539543
divine comedy?
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>>687543451
My own investigating and taking an art appreciation course. I needed a fine arts credit and figured why not art appreciation. We only spent a small amount of time on renaissance stuff though, kind of disappointing.
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Last Judgement by Michelangelo. Originally they were all naked, and Michelangelo did this to strip them all of their rank, making them all equal. The pope was pissed that Michelangelo painted a bunch of naked dudes though, and after his death they covered up the nudity.
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>>687543801
Definitely going to start researching a lot of this stuff shortly. Is there a certain website you'd recommend to start on? And should I work my way by period or just jump all over the place?
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>>687544033
There's actually a great book on this, I think it's also called last supper or secret supper or something like that. Although the book is fiction, it reveals a lot of detail about the painting
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>>687544033

I always thought this one was pretty funny because of the self portrait. Michelangelo considered himself a sculptor above all else and didn't enjoy painting. He fucking hated painting the Sistine chapel and thought it would ruin him. 25 years later, new pope wanted him to paint the Last Judgement. Michelangelo painted himself in the Last Judgement as this pitiful looking sack of skin.
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>>687539886
When your skill is stunning several centuries later
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>>687544413
How was it identified as being himself? Did he say he drew himself in?
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>>687544166
I'd suggest learning about some of the principles of design and visual elements first and how they developed historically. Things like line and shape, size and proportion, perspective points and such. They'll help you understand and interpret the form and content of the classical works. You'll be able to think more critically about the works instead of just how pretty they look.
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I did a whole quiz on /ic/ of thumbs of classic paintings, people had to guess title/artist
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anyone want to try and guess a few? i have 50+ lol
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Because he's painted himself in his pictures before, and it has a pretty uncanny resemblance to him. He also painted himself in the last painting he did before his death, I'll have to find it.
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>>687544033
The Master of Ceremonies, Biagio da Cesena, flipped his shit when he saw it.
So, Michelangelo painted him in as Minos and gave him some donkey ears. And a snake to cover his nudity.

He complained to the pope, who told him his jurisdiction did't extend to Hell, and so the likeness remained.
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>>687545779
Thanks a lot. People like you honestly inspire me to learn so much about art
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>tfw manlet
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las meninas, ezpz shit
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>>687534725
My fav
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I think Degas did this beauty
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>>687546094
This is my favorite honestly. Just love how ironic the picture is
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>>687545779
Was just about to point this out too, Cesena's portrait Michelangelo painted.
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>>687538390
YouTube, my friend, has a lot to offer when it comes to artists and art history. There are very many art documentaries, and videos from various exhibits. Could be of use to someone who doesn't have local access.
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>>687546692
Thanks I'll look into it
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>>687537584
lol no shit, the aga has fuck all coming in.
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>>687546336
Here's something cool my art professor showed us. This is a self portrait of Rembrandt, painted around 1669 I think, few months before his death. Nearly all of his other self portraits, he's facing the right. Pretty sure this was the only one where he's facing left, and being painted shortly before his death months later, it's almost as if he's looking back and reflecting upon his life.
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>>687547834
Keep learning anon. And try not to stay here forever, like the rest of us. Or at least keep posting things that aren't traps or women shitting on their own faces.
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>>687547834
I visited the Rembrandt house in Amsterdam, really awesome place to go if you're near there
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For some reason, this piece really caught my eye when I first saw it in person. Portrait of Jacob Obrecht, painted in 1496 I think. It's not a very large painting, but the wooden frame and golden inscription and solid blue background really caught my eye. I guess the simple wooden frame, smaller size, and the content of the painting just made it feel like it was still stuck in the 15th century.
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>>687548362

Been here since 2008 m8. I'm here for fucking ever.
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>>687549376
and I guess it sort of gave me that King's Field kind of vibe.
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Here's Donatello's statue of David. Unlike Michelangelo's, Donatello's depiction is after he defeated Goliath and this one isn't nearly as tall as Michelangelo's (17 fucking feet). Both great in their own right, though I think Michelangelo's David was much better if we have to compare, due to his sense of scale and proportions.

Also I'm running out of things to talk about
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>>687549376
I've never seen this before. Striking.
>>687549496
I get that. I got here in 2007. It's only getting worse. I think...? I mean... it was never good. Yet it somehow manages to get worse! Impressive, really. Anyway, thanks for adding to this thread. Check my post out, not so classic per se but the details are insane! >>687544828
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>>687550608
Despite what people spout about this place never being good, there never used to be this amount of porn threads on /b/, especially trap threads. Multiple YLYL threads, all full of bananas. Just completely asinine "debate" threads. This place has definitely gotten worse.

And I saw that, the detail is incredible! His use of light and shadow adds so much depth to the painting. I'm so envious of people who can bring the canvas to life, whereas I'm lucky to fill a piece of notebook paper full of stick figures. Actually thinking about taking a drawing class next semester, it'd break up the monotony of the math and science classes I'll also be taking.
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>>687550338
Actually Michelangelo's David has bigger hands than normal because he intended for people to look at it from bottom upwards. If you look at him at eye level, the disproportion can be noticed
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>>687551239
Might as well talk about this one, the Mona Lisa. Originally intended to be a portrait for presumably Lisa del Giocondo, Leonardo Da Vinci fell in love with his piece and never let go of it. It was "finished" around 1506, but Da Vinci continually worked on it for years and years after. He carried it around with him as he traveled.

>>687552177
Yes, that's what I'm saying; Michelangelo had a good sense of scale and proportions, as he was able to change these intentionally for intended effect, like in his sculpture of Mary holding Jesus.
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>>687552613
You've heard how it is sometimes said that da Vinci hid his own face in the painting right?
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>>687551239
RIGHT?! dude. If I had a buck for every YLYL banana and trap I saw here I'd have enough to take my college education over again. Damn shame really.
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>>687553064
I've heard some rumors but never researched it. Got something to contribute?
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>>687553064
Yeah, I've heard lots of things about the Mona Lisa. People have even tried diagnosing some of the illnesses she may have based on the portrait.
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.

Like I said before in the Last Judgement post, Michelangelo didn't enjoy painting as much as he did sculpting. He really didn't want to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. My art professor told me the pope would have banished him if he had refused. Took 4 years and he hated all 4 of them. It was dangerously high up, he was in an uncomfortable position all hours of the day (he didn't paint laying down, he was standing on scaffolding with his back arched and his neck bent upwards) and he almost went blind from all the paint dripping into his eyes.
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>>687553384
Sorry no I'm just getting into this stuff myself
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>>687554307
Lots of iconic imagery though. It was very stressful for him, and he thought the painting wouldn't be as good as the pope wanted and it would ruin him. Here's a poem he wrote about painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel:

I've already grown a goiter from this torture,
hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy
(or anywhere else where the stagnant water's poison).
My stomach's squashed under my chin, my beard's
pointing at heaven, my brain's crushed in a casket,
my breast twists like a harpy's. My brush,
above me all the time, dribbles paint
so my face makes a fine floor for droppings!

My haunches are grinding into my guts,
my poor ass strains to work as a counterweight,
every gesture I make is blind and aimless.
My skin hangs loose below me, my spine's
all knotted from folding over itself.
I'm bent taut as a Syrian bow.

Because I'm stuck like this, my thoughts
are crazy, perfidious tripe:
anyone shoots badly through a crooked blowpipe.

My painting is dead.
Defend it for me, Giovanni, protect my honor.
I am not in the right place—I am not a painter.

He actually ended up leaving the project once, when the pope asked him impatiently when it would be done and he responded equally impatiently and was struck by the pope with his cane. Took a written apology and 500 crowns to get him back.
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>>687555654
There's honestly so much savagery in these artists. Like if they dislike someone, they'll draw them as the devil and whatnot. Total animals
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GOOD THREAD GUYS, THANKS FOR THE CHANGE OF PACE.
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>>687537584
the AGO and ROM in Ontario are worth seeing tbh
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum a few weeks ago and the chinese and aboriginal sections are the best
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i like this
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>>687555862
Michelangelo also wasn't the easiest person to get along with. He was very critical of himself, and took criticism very harshly. His rival was Da Vinci, though I think it was Michelangelo that carried most of the contempt in that rivalry. There was a story that Da Vinci was discussing some part of Dante and saw Michelangelo passing and said "Michelangelo can explain it to you". Michelangelo took this very personally for some reason and had an outburst, reminding Da Vinci of his abandoned bronze horse project.
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>>687534725
I fucking love the Mr.Dore and the wood engraving technique.
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>>687556566
How could they have a rivalry though when da Vinci was primarily an inventor and painter while Michelangelo was a sculptor
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>>687556566
>>687555862

And you also have to understand that he is a sculptor at heart while Da Vinci was a painter, and a leisurely one at that. Da Vinci was notoriously slow at painting. He was usually treated exceptionally better than Michelangelo was at times. Michelangelo had his nose broken and subsequently crooked for the rest of his life by a fellow scholar, has had several of his projects cancelled by people other than him, and getting marble from quarries was very dangerous work. He's written several times about this and about some of the close encounters of death he's had. Sculpting is also a lot of hard physical work compared to painting.
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>>687557040
What were the close death encounters related to? Like was it fights or something else?
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>>687556907
Because they were both artists, and I think it was primarily Michelangelo fueling the rivalry. Florence actually held a competition between Da Vinci and Michelangelo to determine once and for all who was the better artist. They both had to paint something spectacular, but if I'm not mistaken the project was abandoned by both parties before ever nearing completion. Da Vinci tried using encaustic to make his look shinier than Michelangelo's, but the colors ended up running together and melting and such, and Michelangelo I'm not sure if even painted anything; he started very late because he knew how slow Da Vinci was at painting.
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Surprised no one has posted this yet, I think it's my favorite classic.
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>>687557437
That's honestly hilarious. Interesting what would have happened had they actually gone through with it
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Saturn Devouring His Son
Francisco Goya

The Titan Chronos (aka Saturn) eats his children for fear that they'll eventually overthrow him
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>>687534725
Has anyone stopped to think about how holding three swords by the blades in a single hand actually works?
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>>687554307
Truly stunning if you ever see it in person
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>>687557713
If anyone's curious about the backstory, Ivan the Terrible got in an argument with his son or just had a fit of impotent rage and struck said son in the head with a cane, which mortally wounded him. The painting is Ilya Repin's imagining of the aftermath.
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>>687557221
Mostly related to moving stone around in the mountains. Rocks falling killed several of his helpers. Land had to be cleared in order to get the marble back to the city, which was also dangerous. It's amazing he was able to carve such lifelike figures out of such a stubborn material.

>>687556907
Also most of Da Vinci's inventions were never built in his time. He had studied just about everything there was, and most of his notes weren't made public until after his death. Things like mathematics, physics, anatomy and physiology, architecture, etc. I think it was only after his time he was recognized as an inventor on top of all his other accomplishments.
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>>687557713
That's awesome
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take my sword but keep my spear

hahhh
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>>687558345
Didn't da Vinci write his notes in code so no one could read it?
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I also enjoyed William Blake.
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Get a load of these guys
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>>687558665
Not really. The media makes him out to be this omnipresent god-like figure with an IQ of 900 when this simply isn't true. The notes he intended for people he would write traditionally left to right. Notes he presumably didn't want people to read were written right to left. He also wrote some notes in a special shorthanded version of Italian, but I'm pretty sure that's all understood now. He may have also done this because some of the scientific things he wrote about disagreed with the Roma Catholic church, and that was a big no-no back then.
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>>687559391
he thought ejaculate fluid came from the brain
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>>687559391
Well he was insanely smart for the period he was in. He analyzed and looked at ways to improve nearly every single aspect of society
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>>687546011
When I went to the Sistine Chapel the guide explained that the snake was actually biting his dick. Apparently Michelangelo really hated this guy.
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>>687559920
Yes, I'm not denying that. He was a very smart man, extremely gifted in many fields. He wrote about heart disease and may have invented the world's first analog computer.
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>>687560344
So then the media's image of him is somewhat correct. Also you were right I looked up the coded notes, and yeah all he did was write backwards
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>>687550338
Im glad I actually got to see Michelangelos when I was in Florence, but I didnt see this one. Which museum is it in? Mikes David is looking a bit worn down now, probably a shadow of what it once was even with all the repairs. I highly recommend everyone go see it as soon as possible if you can. The weight of the marble is literally destroying it as time goes on.
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>>687554307
I dont remember where it is, but there is a man mooning you somewhere on the ceiling. Its painted with a certain perspective so it looks like his ass is facing you wherever you are in the room. It was a final fuck you to the pope.
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>>687560767
Yeah somewhat, but greatly exaggerated.

Alright lads, time for me to head off. It's been great fun, and I hope I've taught and inspired you all to learn more about these beautiful works of art and the time period(s) they were created in, as there's much more here than I could possibly talk about. Good luck to you all.
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>>687561285
You literally inspired the fuck out of me, I'm gonna start reading up on stuff tonight
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>>687557968
This made me very happy.
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>>687534725
Bump
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Boats!
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Damn /b/ yall sophisticated af
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3fne25pGzA Thread Theme
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>>687557938
Well executed anons.
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>>687557842
Look at his expression! Fear, madness, sadness and loss, desperation and confusion. And look at the red around his fingers, the way he's digging into his child like it's meat. Like he's gone mad. But of all the things you get from the painting all about eating ,there is no hunger. Brilliant.
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>>687559057
one of the greatest philosophers!
get out of my light hahah
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>>687540980

I thought Van Eyck's signature was meant as graffiti, like "Jan Van Eyck was here, niggas"
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>>687559057
What is this? And why do I love it?
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>>687539591
noice
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>>687534725
>>687535686
>>687535641
>>687536033
>>687536694
>>687537276
>>687538158
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>>687539543
>classical painting thread
>posts the lowest possible res versions
kill yourself faggot
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>>687564307
it's Diogenes.
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>>687539886
FUCKING
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>>687564516
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>>687563667
Look, it's a troll. So unique! So original. Where's my phone? I better take a picture to prove this happened.
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>>687564609
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>>687564973
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>>687565023
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>>687564609
wow.
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>>687565647
I love how everyone looks like kids trying to act some Shakespearean drama, and Socrates is just like "Listen here, faggots..."
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>>687565665
yep, that was my phone background for a long time before i found this bad boy.

not a painting though
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>>687543662

yes
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>>687539695
Also one of my favs.

For little niggas looking to peep some classics:
http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
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Socrates Death
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>>687563667
True art is never appreciated.
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>>687547834
Who is the guy to the left in this picture?
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>>687545593
las meninas by diego velasquez
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>>687566044
This guy again.

Have some Caravaggio.
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>>687565818
been a long fucking time since i took english and was forced to read all the greek philopshy shit, but it has something to do with all of socrates' followers being incrediably sad about his sentence while he was a man about it and faced his death with bravery.

or so goes the story. probably 90% of the shit we read from greek fat asses is all made up or at least exaggerated.
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>>687566419
Socrates could escape but he didn't, he chose death because he believed in laws of his polis(greek city)
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>>687566419
That's the story we have, yes. I was just having a laugh about the exaggeration of sadness that David put in these guys. It might have caused a good effect at the time, but to me, today it looks comical.
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>>687564609
who painted this?
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>>687550338
Low test faggot
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More Caravaggio.
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>>687566872
J. C. Dahl. How about learning some reverse image search, anon?
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>>687566872
>protip
if you click the blue arrow at the end of the post, then click google search, you will find the sauce to almost all the images you see.
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>>687534725
>classic paintings
>oath of the horatii
>neoclassical
you fucking philistine
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Goya
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how has this not been posted yet?
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>>687559057
>you still reading comics like a little kid?
>fuck off, Janet
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>ITT: first year art appreciation
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>>687567410
>adding a name at the end makes it so much funnier!
kill yourself tumblr faggot
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>>687567015
Caravaggio is the old timey version of a gore-loving edgelord.
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Not classic but Hieronymus Bosch was the shit.
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>>687559057
hes just waiting for them to leave so he can jack off
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>>687567078
>>687567117
I'm a newfag
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>>687567677
>adding faggot to the end makes this so much more /b/
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My faith in /b/ has risen.
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>>687537849
it's neon pink
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>>687565647
He checked em and failed.
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>>687566963
ikr
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>>687567835
kill yourself
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>>687539591
Woah, this isn't the g/fur thread !
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>>687565860
Laocoon?
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>>687537849
soss?
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Accidental Renaissance sometimes happens.
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>>687567644
i enjoy fancy shit because its appeasing to my eyes. i have better shit to do with my time than being a pretentious fuck.

Some of us actually spent time in stem classes because we want to apply the knowledge we learn faggot.
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>>687535686
looks underage, reported
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>>687567395
Eugene Delacroix is my shit. Romantic period pimp.
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>>687535686
>>687538712
Fapped
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>>687568210
Nice
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>>687567959
he got ya there.
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>>687564973
One of if not the best romantic piece of all time.
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>>687567795
Bosch was insane. So dark, so talented, so German.
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The gleadhill masterpiece, all of my regret
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>>687568446
fuck you
>>687567959
fuck you
>>687567835
and fuck you!
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>>687557606
Seurat's Sunday is definitely my favorite piece of all time. The impressionist movement hit its peak with this work of art. Best exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute.
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>>687568162
nah
that sculpture has wings and is a little ottermode twink
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>>687568455
I have a cut out version of him somewhere where he's staring out into a empty blackness. I'll try to find it but I always preferred that one.
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>>687568210
i wish the final frame was bigger
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>>687568795
Sounds more simplistic and daunting
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>>687568632
>breaks through their shield
a weapon to surpass the metal gear
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>>687566354
>>687567015
>>687567738
Homie definitely liked a good beheading.
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>>687564973
Overrated as fuck. I've never understood what people like about this painting.
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>>687537314
So crazy to try to imagine what drives a person to draw a painting like this, it could very well be that is a form to record a historical fact at a time where understanding of physical records was totally different to what it is now
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Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images
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>>687569100

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/12/lost-caravaggio-causes-rift-in-art-world
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>>687568978
no luck finding it. trying to google it but dam now i really want to see it again.

I always thought it was a good commentry of absurdism.

>>687569319
the insignificance of man?
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>>687569474
>the insignificance of man?
I don't get that at all from the painting. The man is the largest and most prominent feature of the painting. If the landscape had been larger and more impressive, then that would have been much more apparent, but instead it looks like it completely fails at what it aims to do. It appears that it was too ambitious for the artist.
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not enough Goya
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>>687569798
Another overrated painting.
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>>687569404
If my french skills are correct... Then that means "this is not a pipe." N'est-ce pas?
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>>687569749
well that's what i've always gotten from it. there are other anaylyis saying, that it talks about man's domain over the world which goes along with why its used a lot for sci-fi stuff.
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>>687568853
Oh, I've got that covered, bro.
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>>687569863
Hah. I love this painting. Creates a strong feeling of loneliness and depression, especially when you notice that it was deliberately painted to look like there is no exit from the diner to the street.
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>>687569914
impressive. how many minutes did it take you to learn that ?
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>>687569914
Correct. But

>french skills

This is a well-known fucking painting. Why are you translating something that is obvious
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>>687540075
No, they actually cut into copper plates with a sharp edge. They also use acid in order to create a texture that can't be achieved with a blade
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Constable. Not sure if it's classical but I have fished here, which is kinda cool.

Dedham Lock and Mill
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>>687569914
Correct. So here we are. It is a jpeg, of a photograph, of a painting of a pipe, that says it is not. It gets more accurate as an mage all the time. It is not a pipe and never will be.
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>>687569653
I'd cut off my own ear to own a real Van Gogh
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>>687570367
Because i need to show off. And for practice.
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>>687570588
Love Paul Simon's take on Magritte's story.

Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War https://g.co/kgs/WVZGs7
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>>687570257
There are too many people present for that theme to be effectively related. I don't see any humanity at all there. As someone who's been pretty severely depressed before, I feel that Christ in the Desert portrays depression more effectively than any other painting I've seen.
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>>687570588


>light particles produced by a monitor as a result of colored pixels in a representation of a digital image of a photograph of a painting of a pipe
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>>687570777
Nobody's impressed by your beginner level of French knowledge.
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>>687570888
You've never heard of the phrase "being alone in a crowded room"? I think it is a fantastic representation of that.
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>>687570992
No shit. I'm not quite sure what i tried to acocmplish.
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>>687570888
and no one is looking at each other, or the viewer. they just want to be left alone
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>>687570888
Cannot unsee. Also checked'em
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>>687571052
Maybe, but my experiences with depression have all been very solitary, so that may be why the fasting of Christ is more powerful to me than a lonely diner at night.
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>>687571276
We already knew this
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>>687569863
Consider the following; We used to refer to this and similar as modern classics. This painting pre-dates the end of World War II. Art-wise, it's getting ancient. And it is nothing like most of the classics in this thread. Over-rated is an over-statement.
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>>687566354
Fucking murdering a guy and her expression is just "eeeew! could you not bleed on on the bed?"
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>>687557968
Well done. Well done.
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>>687571236
The man behind the bar and the man beside the woman appear to be making eye contact.
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>>687571429
The proportions on Hades look peculiar. He looks surprisingly humble and human here, which makes that godly head with a massive beard look ridiculous. I like it.
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>>687571737
Doesn't look like it to me.
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>>687571429
If this is rape, put me the fuck in jail fam
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>>687571991
It definitely does.
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>>687571800
Checketh'd
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>>687571800
nice
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>>687572122
>eye contact

That requires them to be looking at each other in the eyes, man.
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>>687571800
Good Lord, anon. You must have kept this one for centuries, waiting for the day there would be a thread about art where you would be able to post it...
I truly respect you, my man.
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>>687543396
A lot of artists talent has always blown me away. They manage to make some hard stone look like soft flesh, that requires a lot of talent, and I would know, I have tryied a bit of sculpting in the past, and it looked like shit lol.
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>>687572098
K
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>>687572242
That's what it looks like to me.
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Who Surrealism here?
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>>687571429
Tfw a statue gets more ass than me.
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>>687572305
>wasting the FBI's time because of an anonymous post on /b/ that only has a vague implication of a nonspecific crime
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What, no Klimt?
This trippy shit is like some pervert's acid nightmare and I fucking love it
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>>687571991
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>>687557713
Ivan the terrible and his son dying?
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>>687573135
Serious question.
Was Japan on drugs when they painted this?
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>>687573135
I'm not gonna lie, that Japanese one totally has that anime style STREAMS OF LIGHT FOR A BACKGROUND thing going on
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This is one of my favourites
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>>687570888
Jesus died at like 34, whys he lookin like my great grandpa when the cafeteria closes
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>>687537276

Yo, I'm in Dallas. Never been to the museum. Is it a good experience? What do I wear to not look like a huge faggot? I don't get out much but the museum sounds like a good start. Plus I enjoy art.
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One day i wish to have a print of this one.
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>>687573939
I imagine fasting for 40 days in the Levantine desert will make you look pretty rough
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>>687574516
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And angel of light in France. Since I had a revelation about it and about him
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>>687574516
>>687574823

Right in muh feels...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6GDil0rGls
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Behold, niggers.
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>>687557842
That's a still from Attack on Titan. I know Attack on Titan when I see it.
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Transfiguration by Raphael
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>>687534725
The single best painter who ever lived is objectively Salvador Dali
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>>687575934
i thought it was naruto
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>>687570110
I think the other anon is right though, the landscape would have to be much bigger than the man to convey that effect. Man can transform all of that enviroment into what he wants but in the end the enviroment will win over men and he knows it.
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>>687563667
Man I'm really surprised that I have not seen-
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>>687567395
tits will always make you fight harder.
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>>687569469
this picture is a representation of how evil bitches are.
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>>687571429
The king want some pussy but his game was weak bitch trying to tell him hell naw but no meant yes back then.
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>>687557842
One of my favorite paintings.

Apparently Goya had an unfinished draft of this which was even more unsettling.
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>>687577016
>>687577203
>>687577296


>those filenames KEK
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>>687579061
that bitch of been hung in the town square for this.
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>>687579061
It boggles my mind that someone could fuck up that bad. It doesn't take a professional artist to be able to spot the basic directions of lines. I wouldn't expect perfection from an amateur, but did she even bother looking at the direction of the mouth before starting this?
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>>687579061
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>>687580576
Thanks, based god
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