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/hr/ art?

Pic: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Nymphs and Satyr (1873).
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John William Waterhouse - Hylas and the Nymphs (1896).
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Johann Zoffany 'La Tribuna degli Uffizi' (1772-78).
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Donatello - St. John the Divine, displayed in the Duomo, Florence.
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Johannes Vermeer - Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
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Albert Bierstadt (= Beer Town) - Sunlight and shadow
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Phidias showing the fieze of the Parthenon
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J. M. W. Turner - Fighting Temeraire
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this thread is made of win
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>>271010
Pre-internet 4chan?
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This isn't "art". This is "paintings", Which can also be art, but most here fails to be.
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Post some caravaggio
>> Anonymous
>>271074May i draw your attention to point 4:

Any definition of art has to square with the following uncontroversial facts: (i) entities (artifacts or performances) intentionally endowed by their makers with a significant degree of aesthetic interest, often surpassing that of most everyday objects, exist in virtually every known human culture; (ii) such entities, and traditions devoted to them, might exist in other possible worlds; (iii) such entities sometimes have non-aesthetic — ceremonial or religious or propagandistic — functions, and sometimes do not; (iv) traditionally, artworks are intentionally endowed by their makers with properties, usually perceptual, having a significant degree of aesthetic interest, often surpassing that of most everyday objects;

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/

I'd be interested to hear your (seemingly non-inclusive) definition of art
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The School of Athens (Raphael)
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>>271131
fukken win
thanks
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Bouguereau ftw. You cant find enough of his shit.
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anon demands more pale chubby women in a blurry haze
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>>271293
OK.
Bouguereau - 1834.
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Bouguereau - Biblis.
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The Youth of Bacchus 1884, combined from 3 photos.
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Hammershøi 1898 Interior with young man reading.
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Another Hammershøi
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take a look at artrenewal.org

(good art, shitty site.)
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how about some art nouveau?
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>>271014
more Bierstadt please. I saw his actual stuff this summer, so stunning.

here is some Mucha
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>>271410

this we like... got anything in lanscape format?
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I'll be the stepped-on comic nerd of the thread.

Here is some awesome Art Adams
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>>271428
I'll look, I think most of the stuff is vertical
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The incredible linework of Franklin Booth.
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Bouguereau is kitsch.
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anyone have some dante's inferno stuffs?
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...passes it to Rene Magritte, he go's for the low-apple-header... GOOOOOALLL!!
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>>271525
I have this file of Gustave Doré engravings:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0TWNSAAH

They are not very big, though.
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>> Anonymous
shit sucks
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>>271615
Go fap to your shitty animu
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Request for Klimt's "The Kiss" in high res.
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DELIVERY!
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Whats the name of this piece its amazing...I love japanese art
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1185917117702.jpg
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>>271474
He is technically unsurpassed. If you knew anything about the process of painting with oils and took a moment to learn about the artist, you would realize that. Also, he had much better access to naked girls than you do.
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>>271671
He's universally considered to be kitsch. It's bad art. You don't need to be a Bouguereau scholar or an artist to realize this. The only people who think he's good are those with absolutely no taste and enjoy being bullshitted.
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>>271682
you are a gigantic faggot
just thought you should know
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>>271682
http://www.artrenewal.org
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>>271693
I thought the Devil's hands were free, so that they could hold the greatest sinners ever (Pope and some other dude)?
I could be wrong, it's been a while since I've read it.
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Satan's three heads hold the three betrayers; Brutus, Cassius, and Judas.

...I think.
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>>271123

That might be correct but is still very incomplete since there are many variations of definitions. People often mistake "art" by "handcraft". Doing something well and with an intent isn't necessarily art because if that is the case, then a computer is also an artist. "art" is simply turning a message/idea/feeling into a work. May that be a painting, music, video, text, food, literaly anything can be art as long as there is a message in it. Simply portraing reality or an stablished story/idea (as most of the paintings here are doing) aren't necessarily works of art because there were no behind/deep meaning into it. Those are simply representations of a second-hand idea. And that is why I'm such a big fan of simbolism, surrealism and abstract works (forgive me here for any english mistakes because I'm not a native english speaker) because they weren't only focused on correctly representing reality but also going beyond that and trying to put an idea into a piece of paper.
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Bouguereau was technically competent but stylistically stagnant.
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To the person who posted the megaupload of Gustave Doré, does that contain all of the images you have of his?


The one you posted is stunning.
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>>271738
you are not a gigantic faggot
just thought you should know
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>>271758
Yes. Bible illustrations, Don Quixote, Dante's Divine Comedy, The Raven, Paradise Lost, and others.
It is not a total collection, though.
Pic: a French medieval painting of Saint George and the Dragon.
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David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps"
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>>271738
oh wow - someone took art history 101 and remember something the professor said
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>>271534

name?
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>>271720
Interesting. What if the intended message/idea/feeling was, in fact, the stories, or reality?
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Degas: La Classe de Danse 1874