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No. 103414
Not just "pretty" and "beautiful" art, but art that gets in touch with our emotions, be the most dark, depressing and eerie feelings of emptiness and solitude, but also, art that makes us feel incredibly happy, lightweight, and full of sunshine.
Any medium (drawings, paintings, sculptures, exhibitions, animations, photography, etc) is welcomed and encouraged. You can post anything as long as it was something that made you deeply feel/think. If the art is just pretty and well done but has no personal emotional attachment or doesn't provoke any thought, you may post it in another thread.
Optional: Include an explanation in your post.
No. 103415
File: 1597074896784.png (142.29 KB, 286x394, rolandososa_quietud.png)
No. 103416
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No. 103420
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>>103418Love it. Reminds me of Wyeth
No. 103427
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No. 103443
File: 1597091304372.jpg (113.68 KB, 870x1257, francisco-de-goya-y-lucientes-…)
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File: 1597091418438.jpeg (2.39 MB, 2500x2087, kurt peiser.Jpeg)
No. 103446
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gotta have my faggoty angels
No. 103447
File: 1597091904791.jpg (76.6 KB, 736x846, 23a8bdda4c47a06e7163bb6fc51c61…)
No. 103459
File: 1597096687573.jpg (2.42 MB, 1470x1736, Francisco_de_Goya,_Saturno_dev…)
Anything by Goya really makes me thonk. Any other farmer who is a fan of Goya here?
No. 103463
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No. 103464
File: 1597097732546.jpg (299.33 KB, 1377x1126, Fish-Still-LIfe-William-Merrit…)
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No. 103502
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No. 103503
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No. 103505
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No. 103506
File: 1597117423533.jpg (43.97 KB, 700x520, jon-brosio-wolves-700.jpg)
No. 103542
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No. 103553
File: 1597155743273.jpg (Spoiler Image,47.25 KB, 604x425, presents-opening-children.jpg)
this fucked me up as a teen
No. 103555
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No. 103556
File: 1597156180479.jpg (142.36 KB, 717x900, calm below.jpg)
I saw this piece on le reddit a while ago and it moved me so much I had to just sit there for a bit and chill out to some music. The funniest thing is that it's the stupidest concept, but it is the true definition of "calm" for me.
No. 103576
File: 1597163468170.jpg (2.1 MB, 1521x2000, Berthold_Woltze_-_Der_lästige…)
Great thread OP.
>tfw annoying scrotes
No. 103577
File: 1597163748696.jpg (431.03 KB, 951x1256, gtfoscrote.jpg)
>>103576And when you truly had enough
No. 103692
File: 1597209389140.jpg (85.04 KB, 675x680, D4zUaGjXoAAZCxh.jpg)
This AI picture that went viral a few months ago combining many random objects into ambiguous shapes. Really freaks me the fuck out honestly lmao, like I get this panicked feeling in my chest and throat and like I wanna run far away from it. It also makes me feel legitimately nauseated - especially that brown thing in the foreground, looks like a mutant monkey or part of someone's hair, that makes me feel sick to my stomach. I hated searching this up just to post it on here tbh lol, but it's a great example of art making me feel something very strongly.
No. 103740
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No. 103741
File: 1597237594045.jpg (254.14 KB, 714x1010, 235666944e8ce54092897ce37a816a…)
By Remedios Varo Uranga. I feel like the shadow of myself so it hits me
No. 103750
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No. 103751
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No. 103752
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No. 103753
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No. 103754
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No. 103755
File: 1597241851068.jpg (256.44 KB, 1080x1350, 117544153_283291982964230_7656…)
by James Lipnickas
No. 103789
File: 1597259921769.jpg (4.02 MB, 3000x3822, The_Scream.jpg)
A basic choice but to me its the embodiment of the overwelming feeling of the surroundings or nature thats super strong and rarely happen. It reminds me personally of being alone on my 19th birthday in Tokyo watching the fireworks and for some reason got super overwelmed but with a lot of force, also when i got drugged with acid by some guy a year before, it reminds me of these undescribable extremely overwelming moments that barerly happen and i cant explain but will always remember the force for feelings i had no control over anymore
No. 103792
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No. 103801
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No. 103850
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sun project hits different
No. 103875
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Every single time I come across this comic I cry uncontrollably and I don't fucking understand why it hits me so hard
No. 103893
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>>103875Thanks anon, this is a very interesting piece of art, it legit made me cry.
No. 103932
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No. 103988
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No. 104028
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No. 104029
File: 1597385237300.jpg (37.62 KB, 500x614, Night-in-St-Cloud-Edvard-Munch…)
>>103789I love Munch's paintings
No. 104030
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>>104029This one is another favourite
No. 104430
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Homeless by Thomas Benjamin Kennington
No. 104493
File: 1597514176856.jpg (144.66 KB, 1024x683, Rinat Voligamsi.jpg)
No. 104540
File: 1597533838560.jpg (119.46 KB, 857x1200, 00006.jpg)
any anons here ever cried seeing a painting in real life? i did once, cried in front of bougoureau's birth of venus. not sure why tbh, but i loved the painting even before seeing it so when i stood in front of the real thing i just kinda teared up.
No. 104543
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No. 104551
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No. 104552
File: 1597547332488.jpg (382.42 KB, 1280x1498, Meisje_met_de_parel.jpg)
No. 104553
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No. 104735
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No. 104743
File: 1597677794278.jpeg (34.7 KB, 465x659, images (3).jpeg)
>>104742Today the baby bird that lived on my backyard died and I feel like shit.
No. 104862
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No. 105439
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>>104029Me too, anon!
I love his work,sometimes I relate to his paintings so much and sometimes they just make feel… Honestly, I don't even know how to explain.
No. 105633
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adolescence, salvador dali
No. 105778
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No. 105969
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No. 105972
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No. 106072
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I really feel something when I look at this but I don't know what it is. I don't know the artist sadly. Also this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoV0VGPiVs makes me feel like I'm floating through space
No. 106173
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No. 106624
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No. 106626
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I don't know who the artist is but I love all of their works, I like that they chose a relatively cheerful and shy character like Tsukasa too
No. 106628
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No. 106629
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No. 106631
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No. 106632
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No. 107033
File: 1599359688463.jpg (300.09 KB, 950x672, sick_girl.jpg)
Wow… she is LITERALLY me!"
Any art of women lying in bed looking depressed out of their mind, though likely due to illness. I was also depressed and very sick, I wouldnt wish that existence on anyone.
No. 112214
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inb4 "tattoos make you look like a degenerate" anon comes swooping in, but I really want a tattoo that features Mary crying tears or blood in a surrealist style
No. 112219
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No. 112220
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No. 112221
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No. 112236
File: 1603103263118.jpg (239.32 KB, 600x445, Judith-Caravaggio.jpg)
pretty much everything by caravaggio
No. 112237
File: 1603103372361.jpg (288.57 KB, 1280x854, 69b1474e055bc3a8921f5eae17a422…)
this is so cute it makes me wanna cry
No. 112238
File: 1603103502940.jpg (48.52 KB, 550x378, p78xwvx6hc1tk4ghuo8_640.jpg)
>in 1950, american artist james hampton (1909-1964) rented a carriage house in washington, dc. over the next fourteen years, hampton, who at the time worked as a janitor, constructed a massive, glimmering sculptural work out of recycled and found materials, such as old furniture, aluminum foil, and discarded light bulbs collected on the job. hampton’s work was posthumously titled throne to the third heaven based on an inscription by hampton. throne to the third heaven expresses the grand religious vision of the artist whose landlord had no idea his garage had been transformed into a studio housing a mystical masterwork: an astounding vision of deliverance, freedom, and cosmic glory.
>from 1945 to his death, hampton also compiled the divinely-inspired book of the 7 dispensations by st. james, an 108-page text written in a language of symbols and codes that some scholars call “hamptonese.” though scholars have identified patterns in hampton’s writing and correlations to hebrew and christian scriptures, they have yet to ‘decode’ the book’s language or meaning. so far, studies indicate the st. james text could be deciphered–its content bears an organization and theme that resist the possibility of merely voicing incoherent, indecipherable gibberish.
>hampton was described as soft-spoken, humble, and reclusive. he did not exhibit his work or regularly share it with others; his few friends were unaware of its existence until the iridescent monument was discovered by the landlord once hampton had died. despite the mystery that persists enshrouding james hampton, his work, his writing, and his vision, the two silver words at the top of his central throne ring clearly and powerfully decades later to all who read it:
>FEAR NOT.
No. 112255
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No. 112344
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Already posted him somewhere, but I love Tomer Hanuka's works. His figures and colors are so pleasing to me
No. 112347
File: 1603154812246.jpg (433.08 KB, 750x999, lotus-webres.jpg)
James Jean's old work makes me feel like I'm dreaming
No. 112353
File: 1603155535943.jpeg (145.2 KB, 1388x1932, Red Haze.jpeg)
I lost the artist but there was this Russian surrealist landscape painter on Deviantart I really liked. Their stuff always gave me the feeling like it was the end of the world
No. 112354
File: 1603156651565.jpg (82.41 KB, 833x1024, 8-833x1024.jpg)
>>112353I had recurring dreams from age 5 that were just like Beksinski's art, particularly this one. The first time I saw this I started to cry and it took me awhile to figure out why.
No. 112546
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Carlos Morago's work makes me depressed but also optimistic. Like I'm recovering at a psych ward and counting the days until I get out.
No. 113111
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The Knife Angel sculpture by Alfie Bradley.
It's 27 feet tall, and made from over 100,000 knives that have been seized from people. Seeing it face to face must be an experience.
No. 113112
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>>113111From other angles
No. 113114
File: 1603787956982.jpg (341.72 KB, 1200x1600, knife-angel-launch.jpg)
>>113112It goes on tour around Britain often (good luck to those transporting it) and it's always interesting how different places decide to display it, and where.
On a lighter note, the artist also did a sculpture called 'Spoon Gorilla' which is lovely!
No. 113123
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angels of anarchy by Eileen Agar is one of my favourite sculptures ever tbh
No. 117994
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No. 117996
File: 1607675778534.png (Spoiler Image,3.76 MB, 1408x1854, spiritual nude, 1921 Austin Os…)
No. 125267
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No. 125273
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No. 125274
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No. 125301
File: 1612287877575.jpg (993.92 KB, 1000x1000, nightmares_1000.jpg)
i'm obsessed with Patty Carroll's "Anonymous Women" series. you can find more pics on her website, highly recommend checking it out.
No. 149608
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>>149602I hate those because they remind me of the art by the one woman who claimed to be an MK Ultra child abuse survivor with over 10 alters
No. 149609
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No. 149612
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No. 149615
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I recently discovered Aleksandra Waliszewska. Body horror and assault are recurring themes in her work, but it's portrayed in a bleak and deeply unsettling way. Some of her pieces are very visceral depictions of women being betrayed by their own bodies, and others are deceptively humorous, sinister cats. Her work makes me feel like I'm witnessing an exhausted, traumatized woman having a mental breakdown, and it scares me that I can understand how she got to that point.
No. 149617
File: 1624501238685.png (Spoiler Image,271.52 KB, 540x675, imagen_2021-06-23_212036.png)
>>149615whoa. this is very powerful
No. 149621
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No. 149651
File: 1624518362403.jpg (Spoiler Image,200.9 KB, 1280x907, brlnd1.jpg)
Spoilered bc slight nudity/body horror but 'been obsessed with Berlinde de Bruyckere's faceless sculptures for years.
They're made of anatomical wax, but they set off an incredibly visceral sresponse when you see them irl. There's a real vulnerability to them somehow.
No. 149670
File: 1624526356562.jpg (Spoiler Image,63.38 KB, 730x923, 8403928403242.jpg)
>>149651Damn this looks like some Silent Hill shit (and I like it).
No. 149744
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No. 149745
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No. 149779
File: 1624589172541.jpg (1.24 MB, 1280x1539, tumblr_ppwwf7ChLA1ubhshuo1_128…)
i love vewn's art so fucking much. it makes me feel a weird simultaneous mixture of calm, comfortable, and deeply sad.
No. 150137
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No. 150138
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No. 150139
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No. 150176
>>150138>>150139Yesss I love these, the more you stare the weirder it gets
>>150160Crows are super duper smart! try searching videos on youtube about it
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No. 150184
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>>150182>>150183artist is nicola samori
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No. 150503
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No. 150621
>>150553Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky.
The story of the Princess Tarakanova, in Russian Княжна Тараканова, has two origins from which the painter Konstantin Flavitsky (1830 – 1866) could have drawn his inspiration. The first tells of an illegitimate daughter of empress Elizabeth the Great, who spent her days in a monastery, under a watchful eye of guards. Her last days would be spent there as well.
The second story entails far more interesting details. During the reign of Empress Catherine II, a beautiful young lady living in Italy but with her sights set on the Russian throne presents herself to the Roman society as a Russian Princess. Catherine II ordered Count Orlov to travel to Italy and bring the impostor back. The Count pretended to fall in love with the “Princess” and enticed her to board the ship bound for St. Petersburg. There she was shackled and taken to the Petropavlovskaya fortress. According to legend, Catherine ordered her imprisoned in a cell that was known to flood each time the waters in the Neva River rose….
Historians have their own reasons to doubt the documentary claims of this painting. According to official records, Tarakanova died two years before the historic flood of September 21, 1777 when the waters in the Neva River rose 310 cm above normal levels.
No. 150650
File: 1625120584109.jpg (523.03 KB, 768x566, r_m1974_64.jpg)
Late 17th/early 18th century paintings put me in a certain mind. Especially this piece. Any time I see paintings like this where the sky is such a deep, summery blue, it just makes me feel like living back then was all a dream. Where summer lasted 100 years and everything was hazy and beautiful. And you could roam the world and discover ruins of empires, untouched. I wish I lived back then.
No. 150666
>>150650These pastoral artworks where comissioned by aristocrats who had an idealized cottagecore view of peasant life.
It's a fantasy of a world that never existed. But it's beautiful, I agree.
No. 150770
File: 1625199045127.jpg (94.85 KB, 1024x1420, horns_by_reykat_d8zp3wy-fullvi…)
Something feels so correct about this image. She is unabashedly female, her eyes and expression is that of a jaded, yet fiercely angry woman. The anger comes from a depth of empathy that has almost completely torn out what little hope she has left in the world. The horns and lion like appearance is that of violent judgement that stems from understanding human nature, and all it's darkened rusted edges.
No. 150772
File: 1625199647129.jpg (227.62 KB, 1024x1148, inside_outside_by_miles_johnst…)
An image of what it's like to want to fade away. A almost weak and tired blanket of dissociation. You feel unreal, as though you could melt into the scenery, being swallowed up by the cosmos. Mind is has gone to static, the channels no longer functioning, the TV knob corroding into flakes metal and paint. You are nothing, you were always told you were nothing.
No. 150774
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>>150770Raykat's art is always amazing. I wish I knew how to do the same soft hair texture and crisp, shiny metal parts the way she does. Picrel is one of my favourite pieces from her.
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>>150666NTA, but I was reading The Saragossa Manuscript and Hester Stanhope biography a while ago, and it made me think how different the world was back then. You could travel the world undocumented, without borders, without tourists everywhere and see some desolate places untouched by civilization for centuries. Yeah, you usually had to be a soldier, sailor, merchant or an aristocrat to be able to travel so much, and being a woman made things even more difficult, but still. I can see why the belief in occult and impending end of the world were so prevalent back then when people didn't have answers to questions that seem so obvious now. Globalization killed a lot of the mystery the world held back then.
I wouldn't want to live back then, but I can understand the nostalgia for things we haven't experienced.
Pic semi related.
No. 150830
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saw this yesterday irl and made me think of all the badass old women farmers will become
No. 153677
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I’m a little obsessed with this art(ifact): it’s part of a carved green chlorite bracelet with a hole drilled in the middle, 40,000 years old and found in Siberia. What’s crazy is that it probably wasn’t made by Homo sapiens, it was made by Denisovans, which are a little like Neanderthals. The idea of a separate human species having not just the technology to make something like this but the culture to appreciate it wigs me out in a good way. Like there’s just so much we don’t know about the world and human prehistory and that’s exciting.
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>>153677>>153690Fascinating, isn't it? I just learned that this ingraved shell is thought to be the first found example of abstract art.
The zig-zag was likely made by a homo erectus individual, between 430,000 and 540,000 years ago.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141203-mussel-shell-oldest-artI've also read that the neanderthal could do cave art. So they were more advanced than we previously thought.
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The terven queen.
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No. 154467
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Inge Löök's Aunties make me feel optimistic and excited about being an old lady and living my best life, giving no fucks and being comfy as possible.
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No. 155830
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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit - John Singer Sargent
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Jakub Rozalski
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No. 155980
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>>155915Rozalski is not a very good artist, he's lazy and incapable of creating something fully original and use references creatively, his work is a mix of photobashing, tracing and overpaint; all this while he's full of himself and in his "step by step" tutorials he conveniently skips every "reference" he just copy-pastes in his work. Before he started heavily inspiring himself off Simon Stalenhag's works, everything he did was extremely forgettable as he doesn't have clever ideas of his own. I always felt kinda off about his art too and discovering that I think explained it, he really is heavily overhyped in the art world. To be clear- theres nothing wrong with either of techniques listed above but given he cannot do anything without resorting to them and the fact he omits these in his "tutorials" just feels a bit off. I don't think i'd have so much problem with it if he was just honest
(and less of a diva, worked on a project involving him once and he was insufferable).
https://www.reddit.com/r/conceptart/comments/853k2g/the_truth_behind_the_art_of_jakub_rozalski/Reddit thread about it is a little bit too dramatic given not too huge severity of the "crime" but just to give you more of an idea what's Rozalski's process is.
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Not a joke post, it definitely does make me “feel something”
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No. 170907
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a slightly different kind of work:
Mike Kelley - More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin, 1987.
I think a lot of people are pretty skeptical about contemporary art but I really do believe that often it can bring some quite profound emotional experience.
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The Morning Visitor" Dino Buzzati, 1963
No. 171056
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As an artist, this makes me come alive. It's fascinating to look at how early humans' brains and eyes were able to see something and recreate it. These were people that were still living in caves and fighting off predators… but they could make art. They had a creative soul. That just blows my mind. You can tell the artist really liked the profile view of the lion so much that they kept reproducing it, adding more and more detail and really emphasizing that profile shape. As soon as I saw the images on the far right I totally understood it because I also like drawing lions from a profile view. To be able to see this and understand the artist's mind from it, to have that transcend thousands of years, is a miracle to me.
No. 171060
>>171056Beautifully put, anon, and totally agree. We all have to eat and find shelter and reproduce and all that, but to know that we as humans all also have this incredibly deep urge to capture and portray and interpret is just…amazing. Like a cavewoman couldn't understand my phone (though she could get the idea of talking to people, ofc), but there's no distance between her loving to draw bears or hands and my loving to draw bears and hands. Maybe I've got better materials, but man, didn't I also love to draw with chalk outdoors as a kid? When we're moving the implement across paper/asphalt/stone, we're doing the same thing for the same reason. Love that.
Also, it's insane how fucking GOOD so much cave art is. The fucking quality of line these fuckers were getting with like, burned hunks of charcoal. Jesus.
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No. 171087
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>>171056Some what related but a lot more darker for me is the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, its over 4000 years old and yet its the same then as it is now
a message that humans have always been this way and might always be