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Postby Tesseracts » Sat Nov 28, 2015 7:12 pm

There's a lot of great art out there, I'm always finding new stuff. I decided to make a thread where I can post great art I find. If anyone else finds any great art you are welcome to post it also.

This illustration is by Paul Lehr, I have yet to find out what it is an illustration of. Something involving dragons and orbs I suppose.
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Re: Great art thread

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Re: Great art thread

Postby mancityfooty » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:43 am

My wife turned me on to Maxfield Parrish. When we went to Colorado it was a recurring theme that the horizon looked like a painting. We have a copy of this:
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This from a woman who spent the entirety of her college career taking art classes. Ceramics, jewelry, printmaking, photography, etc.

Myself? Like every other teenage angsty girl, I like Gustav Klimt.
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There's another painter I absofuckinglutely love. It's just a barnyard with most of the painting being dominated by a huge expanse of sky. I can't find the author. The last time I looked him up, even the copies were going for upwards of $300.

SInce I brought this up with my wife here, she brought out some art she did. So now, I have new favorites.
From 1987
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Also, about 1987
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Re: Great art thread

Postby Matthew Notch » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:55 am

It's a mainstream choice, but I really like Christina's World:

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The subject of the painting was a woman with polio, and Andrew Wyeth was inspired to paint this after watching her crawling through a field from his window. The house in the background inspired the Gillespie house in Silent Hill, apparently.
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Re: Great art thread

Postby Tesseracts » Mon Dec 14, 2015 5:50 am

This is one of my favorite underrated paintings. It's by Walter Everett.

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This is a magazine illustration. When he painted this, he knew it would be reproduced too small to see the details, and it would be printed in black and white. Back then, illustration wasn't taken seriously at all, so he couldn't expect this painting to be seen in a gallery or anything. He painted all of these glorious colors purely for himself. Nobody else would see it. Fortunately, we are seeing it now, so someone must have gotten a color photo at some point.

The colors in this painting are incredible.

Most of Walter Everetts paintings were destroyed because he suddenly burned them all and quit illustration forever. Nobody knows why. I'm telling you this because I hope to dispel the stereotype of the sane artist.
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Re: Great art thread

Postby Tesseracts » Thu Dec 17, 2015 8:35 pm

Christ in the Wilderness by Ivan Kramskoy.

I often don't like Jesus paintings. They're cheesy and lacking substance. A lot of art created for moral reasons seems to be created without any genuine interest from the artist. There's a danger in doing something because you're supposed to not because you genuinely want to.

This painting isn't like that at all. It's a deep and thoughtful portrait of a man struggling. He's not made to look pretty or idealized, but beauty still comes through the pain you see on his face and the desolation of the landscape.

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We here in the West acknowledge the greatness of Russian writers like Tolstoy and Russian composers like Stravinsky. Yet Russian painting is practically unknown by everyone other than realist art circles. When I go to The Met they might have two Russian paintings on display in the entire museum, if I'm lucky. This isn't right because I fully believe Russian art is among the greatest ever produced.
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Postby Tesseracts » Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:50 pm

Yezidi girl carries an assault rifle to protect her family against ISIS, photographer unknown.

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Re: Great art thread

Postby Matthew Notch » Fri Dec 18, 2015 9:06 am

I saw that picture in a gallery on Imgur. Is it the same one with the albino babies, and the suicide victim on the bus, and the mother and daughter with acid scars? A beautiful album but God was it harrowing.

Also that painting of Jesus is beautiful. I'll admit I never would have thought of Russian art as being, I don't know, a thing I guess. I'm a little biased because I'm religious, but there are still certain verses in the Bible that get me choked up, and I think if ever a day were to come when I go completely irreligious, they would still do so because of the imagery involved or the power of the narrative. This painting really adds an extra dimension to the accompanying account, and whether you take any lesson from it or simply think of it as a story, it's compelling stuff to picture.
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Re: Great art thread

Postby Marcuse » Wed Dec 23, 2015 9:48 am

Unfortunately I don't have the details of the artist for this piece, but I like it so much I'm going to share it and just say that whoever painted this is awesome. It's like, Iron Man mashed up with Warrior Within era Prince of Persia and I think it looks great.

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Re: Great art thread

Postby Tesseracts » Thu Dec 24, 2015 9:30 pm

Bruno Andreas Liljefors, one of the first and best wildlife artists.

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Re: Great art thread

Postby Tesseracts » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:09 pm

Well this is pretty much the most beautiful meme I've ever seen.
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Re: Great art thread

Postby Tesseracts » Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:59 am

One of my favorite photos ever. An angry anti-Vietnam protester in 1967, shouting "dirty fascists!"

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Postby Tesseracts » Fri Jan 01, 2016 7:16 pm

De-colorized Fury Road looks awesome.

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Re: Great art thread

Postby skooma » Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:48 am

Flack's photorealism may be too well known (I'm hoping not), but I still remember how excited I got when I first saw it.

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ETA: There were Maxfield Parish posters everywhere when I was young - I mean I put them there.
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Postby Tesseracts » Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:46 am

I've never heard of Flack. I've mostly just heard of conventional realists. I usually don't like photorealism, but this is actually really nice. The colors are great.
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