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Author Topic: The "Great" art thread! (NSFW!)  (Read 31217 times)

Svarte Troner

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The "Great" art thread! (NSFW!)
« on: December 13, 2012, 05:27:49 pm »
I don't think we have one of these. As with most of the threads I start willy-nilly, I don't expect this will get that far.. Basically, what style of art do you like the best? What's your favorite piece, anything you'd like to share, yadda yadda, etc. Basic forum rules apply, put pictures in spoilers, you know the drill.

Now I'm not some kind of art.... person, so I don't know any terms and whatnot, but:
I like German expressionism

Spoiler: Emil Nolde (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Käthe Kollwitz (click to show/hide)

I also think these old old photographs/daguerreotypes are pretty darn neat:
Spoiler: Nicéphore Niépce (click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: December 18, 2012, 01:16:31 am by Svarte Troner »
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Re: What art is the best?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2012, 05:31:07 pm »
Best art is the art you find on the side of a Van:

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Re: What art is the best?
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2012, 05:32:23 pm »
Phidias, duh.
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Re: What art is the best?
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2012, 05:40:45 pm »
Anything by Zdzislaw Beksinsky
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Or Henry Darger.  He drew/traced naked little girls with penises getting killed in horrible ways, which is why I'm not posting anything.  It's also kind of difficult to get high resolution images of his stuff. I found something high resolution and worksafe.
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« Last Edit: December 13, 2012, 06:02:03 pm by Sir Finkus »
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Re: What art is the best?
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2012, 05:45:40 pm »
Spoiler: nudity (click to show/hide)

egon schiele
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Re: What art is the best?
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2012, 06:49:53 pm »
You guys have... interesting tastes.

My experience with art is mainly limited to comics, but I know some with art styles I adore.

Take for example Dresden Codak, if I can take a few good examples. He's pretty damn good at his character design and layout. Also the pastel tones of he likes to use in his art style are something I've really fallen in love with. Though his artwork kind of varies a lot in quality, especially with the earlier stuff in comparison to the later stuff... I really wish he updated that comic more often.

Most comics tend to have simpler artwork since you have to churn out massive amounts of panels, but there are some which have great more complex artwork out there, just recently in the comic thread someone linked to Unsounded which is from time to time brilliant in terms of art. There's also Lackadaisy, and I could probably remember a few others.

That's just the kind of junk I like, you guys can go back to sharing your naked surrealist corpses now.
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Re: What art is the best?
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2012, 07:33:24 pm »
Quote from: Askot Bokbondeler on December 13, 2012, 05:45:40 pm
Spoiler: nudity (click to show/hide)

egon schiele

Hey, I knew I recognized that. He studied under this guy:
Spoiler: Nudity, HOLYSHITHUGE picture - Gustav Klimt (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Pretty sure gram's got this in her old house somewheres (click to show/hide)

Otto Dix:
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Spoiler: Some random guy on the internet drew this (click to show/hide)
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Re: What art is the best?
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2012, 08:50:42 pm »
klimts paintings are boring. his erotic drawings are way more interesting
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i love otto dix, but i'd pic these instead
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2012, 09:33:21 pm »
You guys have bizarre tastes and I feel hideously uncultured.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2012, 09:48:20 pm »
Quote from: IronyOwl on December 13, 2012, 09:33:21 pm
You guys have bizarre tastes and I feel hideously uncultured.
After reading this, I just feel kinda hideous.  :P
And I'm really not an art person, so that's probably why I don't really see much of a difference between all these guys.

They are different guys, right?
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I think the slaughter part is what made them angry.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2012, 11:34:05 pm »
Quote from: IronyOwl on December 13, 2012, 09:33:21 pm
You guys have bizarre tastes and I feel hideously uncultured.
What, you don't like looking drawings of corpses in varying states of decay?  You're the bizarre one.

In all seriousness, I know my taste in art is a little "strange", but I can't help myself.  I like the stuff I like because it evokes strange emotions in me.  I especially like Beksinski because of the scale of some of his paintings.  I've always been fascinated by absurdly vast or immense things, especially when there's a sense of the unreal or the fantastic.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2012, 11:40:29 pm »
Why don't these guys draw pictures of cats like regular people?
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Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 04, 2012, 01:16:15 pm
I think the slaughter part is what made them angry.
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Quote from: Sirus on October 08, 2013, 08:07:04 pm
Those hookers aren't getting out any time soon, no matter how many fancy gadgets they have :v

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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2012, 11:40:47 pm »
I.. um. I like Edgar Degas. Look.
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See, pretty dancers. Nice pretty dancers. Not rotting or anything like that. Nothing creepy. Just happy pretty dancers with happy pretty thoughts not hurting anybody or anything. Everything is happy, right? We can just take our medication and then think happy thoughts.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2012, 11:41:05 pm »
Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite art form.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2012, 11:45:13 pm »
Quote from: freeformschooler on December 13, 2012, 11:41:05 pm
Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite art form.
Hey, that one does include cats!
I approve.
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Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 04, 2012, 01:16:15 pm
I think the slaughter part is what made them angry.
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Quote from: Sirus on October 08, 2013, 08:07:04 pm
Those hookers aren't getting out any time soon, no matter how many fancy gadgets they have :v
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