Post/Discuss the beautiful art and culture of the European people

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Its insane in the amount of detail that was put into these statues.

>Modern artists think this is shitty

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One featuring your mom OP

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>tfw

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Post YFW the best niggers can do is bang sticks together and call it music

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The level of dedication and skill required to produce something of this magnitude is truly mind boggling.

>Did a required intro to art thing a few years ago for my course
>learned about some nigger who makes """"" art""""" from elephant shit

Kill me

Some names would be nice.

is this really the place for this thread

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das raycists

Yes, white supremacy in all things

oops posted mini

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the backstory on this is neat

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weak reason but alright its nice to look at

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>neat

It's pretty heartbreaking desu

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das vry rude sir. das vry rude.

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ha i saw that on the front page of reddit too, hello fellow redditor!

POST THE GREATEST PIECE OF ART FROM YOUR COUNTRY RIGHT FUCKING NOW

Oh rehashing from Reddit today?

three of those are ilya repin, ivan kramskoy and ivan makarov
all i post here is russian painters of XIX century that you can google search for yourself

mfw I will never hold a woman that way

that image actually was on Cred Forums a few days ago with a ton of (you) and then it got on reddit so it's probably a full circle type of meme

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Here's Degas' take on the Oath of the Horatii

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k
youtube.com/watch?v=8RM1oTw6fPg

fucking degenerate french polluting everything again

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anyone can tell me which monarch is that boy at 35:58 ?
or at least the author of the painting?

youtube.com/watch?v=RlHVin56U2w

Not all the modern art is degenerate. Some of it is beautiful
I find Mondrian a bit repetitive

Isn't that Raskolnikov?

fuck off that's not art. It doesn't express anything (other than, perhaps, an ugly aesthetic).

WHY ARE NIGGER SO WORTHLESS

Asians at least are industrious and effective. Why are whites the only Real Race?

Niggers can't do anything aside from shaking their asses like a baboon with worms

I don't know if it expresses anything, I just think it looks good

read a book

no, its name translates as 'unexpected visitor' and its about an exiled revolutionary that came back home to his family

It looks retarded, like a stupid doodle

an easy explanation of this is that art of black people uses the words "European" and "(foreign culture's adjective here)" more than art depicting europeans.

(you)

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This

Fills me with pride just seeing it

No, it does. Say, someone, who has no idea of something that you normally see in art (horses eg) he only sees form, color, lines. This is the same, retard. It's universal art. It may not be the best, but, as Kierkegaard said it, perfecting an artform makes it dull, boring -- doing it contrarian makes an act of rebellion (paraphrased)

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Huh, I know that I saw it on /lit/ with Crime and Punishment.

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fuck that blog

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there's big blog on russian reddit-like collective blog telling stories behind the famous paintings and meaning of every fucking detail, truly gergeous
gound it
story.dirty.ru/repin-ne-zhdali-chto-na-samom-dele-izobrazheno-na-kartine-854768/

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Is that depicting the Boxer rebellion?

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Doesn't that depict something shameful, some xmas morning throat cuttings or some shite like that?

Everyone have their own opinion I guess. Delacroix was a great artist btw.

I have a copy of the book with the same cover.

wtg swissfag, posting shit copy

will look up to it

but it's shit

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yes, you will if you really want to my friend.

Dont lose hope, someday you will find a qt 3.14 just for you.

Pro tip: Lifting helps

great at making stupid doodles, I guess

Everyone needs something to grasp onto

Its not your culture if you dont practice it, retard

allright, now some paintings from modern time artists

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African art does not even exist

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All this time I never noticed there was a black guy.
>WE WUZ REVALUSHUNS AN SHIEEET

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>irony

HAKKAPELIITTA :DDDDD XDDD

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>great at making stupid doodles, I guess
Do you even know what you are talking about ? Delacroix is the guy who painted the painting which was posted by you. The paintings I've posted were made by Kandinsky.

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Long live Christ the King!!!

ancient anime

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Fuck i want to show Cred Forums my paintings so bad, but i dont have any photos now

Anyway, i really think that you should do something instead of criticizing and staying on your computer all day
If dont make art, you cant really have an opinion

One of my fav books growing up, where's the trump edit tho?

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>If dont make art, you cant really have an opinion
That's fucking retarded

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>If dont make art, you cant really have an opinion

wtf I hate brazilians now

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read the thread, that image was already posted.

>I think this looks good
kek

1. So, are we to say that art that has literally no meaning or identifiable forms is the same as art that has meaning in context and identifiable forms (which are only identifiable to, say, 99% of the population), which is usually known VERY WELL by art experts?

2. Kierkegaard is wrong. Nobody would deny that Michelangelo's sculptures are more interesting than some 5 year old's "rebellious" sculpture. While a rebellious context has something to add to art, the fact that any given art piece is created in rebellion to tradition or consensus is in itself insider's knowledge and can not be claimed to be a development from plainly expressing rebellion by artistic expression as a form.

Nothing more hauntingly beautiful than a European stone circle designed to manipulate the light of the moon.

This. This. This.

There's a blatant agenda behind contemporary art and its complete degeneration of tradition. Its another cultural 'enrichment' and removal from European identity.

also
>not posting marine art

No

Washington was surrounded so in the middle of Christmas night he sailed across the Delaware river
With the army and buttfucked the British in Boston.

If he didn't escape with the army the continental congress would of surrendered.

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i meant you cant have an opinion like "its just doodles"
conceptual art have different meaning than classical art, in my opinion

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Painted by Zyklon Ben himself.

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Those are incredibly beautiful.

Poitiers, 752

Cool guy

yeah, you can.

Someone had to carry General Washington's canteen and snacks.

This painting is awesome. Who painted this ?

Yep

I don't see any reason why it would be so, other than your fucking piece of shit pretentiousness of course

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You know in "Red Dragon" where Francis goes in a murderous spree to appease the red dragon paining? Everytime I see this statue I know exactly how he was feeling.

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vasily nesterenko

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>Pro tip: Lifting helps
Lifting doesn't help if you are socially retarded. Quite the opposite, it will only make you look scarier and less approachable

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Charge of the Light Brigade ?

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>i meant you cant have an opinion like "its just doodles"
Why not ? People can have the opinion they want.
>conceptual art have different meaning than classical art, in my opinion
I agree

Actually he was a Freeman apart of the New Hampshire militia

Reminder Dixie got btfo bahahahaha

no charge of the scots greys at waterloo

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>piece of shit pretentiousness of course
i never said it wasnt, but some of them are p cool

i dont think this kind of art is meant to be in a museum and everything, but some are interesting

having a opinion like "its all shit" is very ignorant

Tsar Ivan's eyes is what gets EVERY TIME. That expression captured is truly the work of a genius. It's better than live-action movies.

Thank you

Ethiopian art and architecture is breddy cozy.

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What is the story?

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So, the attempt to reach perfection is dull? Is he implying that we should revel in shit because of the meaning we want to attach to shit? That's an attempt to deconstruct our pursuit of perfection, that's the mentality of someone who hides behind pretexts so that he's not forced to face his incompetence.

Pretentious, untalented garbage, kill thine self.

>42 posts by this id
feels good

Here's the exterior. Carved entirely out of solid rock.

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a true masterpiece

I had to get the smaller version, but the big one looks really good commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alphonse_de_Neuville_-_The_defence_of_Rorke's_Drift_1879_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

no you monkey but that you can't just say that something is shit if you don't do it yourself

glorious

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Posting some Scottish art. My preffered painter, John Duncan. Most of these are scenes from celtic mythology

North Africa also has some pretty good art and culture. But overall, Arfica is a cultural shithole

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Leslie Jones confirmed for time-traveller.

Name?

Dammit ! I had a doubt. Thank you, still.

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no you fucking retard, it's not reveling in shit. modern art is necessary as a the next step to perfection, because otherwise you would have dull art, never knowing have you reached perfection

>this thread

what the fuck happened to modern art?

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i never said that you retard

i was saying that CONCEPTUAL art is easyer to like if you are an artist
and i agree that 99% of modern art is garbage, but 99% of art have always been garbage

think of how many paintings have been done, and the only good ones its like 100 or 200, ever

>If dont make art, you cant really have an opinion

Lmao what, I don't disagree with you in that not all modern art is trash, but that's like saying if you don't play music you don't get to have an opinion.

its dmitry belyukin, ive posted a lot of him already

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Everything went right

I want the new houses coming up to look like urbanized norwegian cottages again!

Not sterile cubes of white stucco.

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read the fucking thread

This convinces me that "modern" artists are simply devoid of talent. They have great expectations for themselves which they cannot fulfill or accomplish. They FEEL so much and want to EXPRESS that feeling.

I think this is supposed to be St Peters. I could be wrong but that bronze thing looks like St Peters. I've been there, it's fucking 8 stories high. If this is St Pete's wtf is that colored statue up on the 1st pediment at the right?

>i meant you cant have an opinion like "its just doodles"

GET FUCKED

>oh but I meant something else

Yeah. Does this have a backstory?

(((What could it be?)))

Too many edgy teens thought there were artists. Nevertheless, some of it is pretty good.

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Art, as any other, always has this so to say dialectic. Literature's realism had symbolism. Modernism, Postmodernism.

Classical art was perfected, neo-classicism was just Graeco-Roman sculptures on canvas, so the next thing was to incorporate light, that is, the knowledge that light is not one, but many colors. Kadinsky, dadaism and others took the next step and said "what we see is nothing but lines, color, shape, seen as we want it."

It isn't saying it's good -- it's saying that it is needed.

All nonrepresentational art is trash, no exceptions.

You're not helping, you only made it sound bad. He's just butthurt because Washington defeated German auxiliaries.

english is not my native language and sometimes is hard to comunicate
i make art averyday, do you think that i would change my opinion on it because a fucking Cred Forums argument?

>otherwise you would have dull art, never knowing have you reached perfection
"dull" is completely subjective. Anyway, I don't think trying to reach perfection is dull, because often people will get close enough that it is "close enough".

Modern art is shit, and represents a regression in human achievement.

youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc

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Dammit that was Lithuania. I only glanced at the flag.

I mean that if perfection is not the goal anymore, then only the message behind it is important, but since art is about letting everyone get their own message from the piece of art, and so art loses all meaning as it blends into everyone's personal view and loses all value of its own.

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what was that about modern artists

I wouldn't discount East Africa either. It's got plenty of outside influence (Persian, Turkish, Arab, English, Indian, French) to count a few, but the Swahili make it all work. Just imagine your morning breakfast of roast mackerel, fresh fruit, hot coffee and Turkish delight outside this place.

Goddamn, colonialism tastes good.

I did, this statement is still retarded

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They aren't devoid of talent, they are just far better at investment and marketing than they are at making artwork. Their talents lie in finance.

Even the doors are pretty legit, mane

>calls my argument "retarded"
>thinks that name calling is an actual argument
snowniggers, everyone

>SA-80
Implying it wouldn't malfunction...

Also, that took actual talent to create. The triangles or circles on a blank canvas take no talent.

Is that a merchant?

Catalan peasants revolt against the Spanish king

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The full title of the painting is Stańczyk w czasie balu na dworze królowej Bony wobec straconego Smoleńska (Stańczyk during a ball at the court of Queen Bona in the face of the loss of Smolensk).[8] a

The primary composition of the painting is in the contrast between the solemn jester (Stańczyk) – obviously the focus of the painting – and the lively ball going on in the background.[1] Stańczyk is shown sitting alone in a dark room, while a ball, hosted by the royal family, is in full swing in the neighbouring hall.[1] His appearance is unlike that one would expect in a jester – gloomy, deep in thought.[1] His seriousness is reinforced by his accessories: his marotte lies discarded on the floor, whereas a holy medallion of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa can be seen on his torso.[1] On the table lies a letter with the year 1514 and the name Smolensk, likely announcing that Poland has lost Smolensk (now in Russia) to the Grand Duchy of Muscovy, causing Stańczyk's sorrow and reflection on his fatherland's fate.[1] The letter seems to have been discarded by some official, and only the jester realizes its significance – while the rulers are partying, celebrating the recent victory at the battle of Orsha, disregarding the bad news about Smolensk.[1][2] Another symbol, a lute, symbol of glory, is being carried by a midget, stereotyped as a person of low stature and morale in Matejko's time; this suggests a decline of the Jagiellon dynasty's fortunes.[1] Through an open window, a comet is seen – a portent sign of ill fortune.[1][2]

its just money washing anyway

>get things you have in your garbage
>glue it together
>sell for 100k
>profit

"what we see is nothing but lines, color, shape, seen as we want it." does not follow from the pursuit of the aesthetic goal of realism. Your argument fucking sucks.

also, "muh dialectic" doesn't mean that modern art is just as good as everything before it, even better, in the same way that Glass can not be said to be a better composer than Beethoven--quite clearly, he is not.

So then you do still stand by that

>If dont make art, you cant really have an opinion

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>english is not my native language and sometimes is hard to comunicate
in european countries people tend to learn english, I'm not retarded so I can at least say what I want
>i make art averyday, do you think that i would change my opinion on it because a fucking Cred Forums argument?
I doodle too you special snowflake, I'm just calling your retardation out

mods are faggots

shit

welp

>a-at least we got rare flags

what the fuck happened in here

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Why do people get so pissy about Modern Art? If you don't like it then fine. The whole point of modern art is to distinguish it from photography and to experiment with different mediums. If people were restricted to realism there would be no point to art in the modern era.

>If people were restricted to realism there would be no point to art in the modern era.
It's like saying there's no point in calligraphy since we have computers.

>moving a thread with 164 pics and needs even more to keep itself active to a board with an image limit of 150

>photorealism is a bad aesthetic ideal because now we have photography
No, it's not. We can't take a photo of the greek gods, or of events the past or future.

Euroshits are still trying to appropriate our culture, I see. Nice.

There isn't unless it is done for a reason. That's what modern art explores. People who hate modern art would insist that the only caligraphy of worth is that which tries write things most clearly, which no one would think or care about because we have computers. Modern artists would push the bounds of what can be considered caligraphy and develope new thought.

t.the ruski poster with 50 odd posts from last thread

>there isn't
subjective artistic taste

>unless it'd done for a reason
as in, unless people will pay for it, and whether or not they will pay for it (and, how much) is a function of the subjective taste of rich people, mostly rich jews in the case of modern art.

Aesthetic relativism is cancer

That's all been done already. What you see in museums is only interesting because it is a product of its time. I don'5 believe anybody would appreciate it if some artist did their best to create a painting of Greek gods today. It wouldn't be special and it wouldn't be art in the philosophical sense unless it was in someway exceptional.

I don't visit Cred Forums, Sven.

>People who hate modern art would insist that the only caligraphy of worth is that which tries write things most clearly
No. I would argue that modern art, in a vain attempt to emanticipate itself from the forms of the world, deconstructs everything and turns into a colourful, but meaningless mush. That's what relativism pushed to its limit does: it deprives everything from meaning. It's like shitting on a page and expecting people to see words in the randomly sprayed shit. And then saying: "We wanted to push the bounds of what letters are, which is random lines and curves put together to form meaning. Just take any meaning you want from it, I don't even know what I've created".

Good lads.
>tfw my city has the original
>tfw that fucking frame
Sadly image limit reached.