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Heron TSG

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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2012, 12:05:39 am »

Oh goodness, favorite art?

Anton Dvořák's New World Symphony is great, but the 4th movement in particular is the greatest piece of music I've ever played.

Gustav Holst is pretty rockin', too. Mars was emblematic of war and tanks and explosions before tanks were even a thing. First Suite in E Flat for Military Band is downright majestic, despite its humble title. Jupiter is catchy as fuck. How many orchestral pieces have you heard that are catchy? Not a whole lot, I'd wager.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2012, 03:18:48 am »

Art thread !

One of my favorite painters is Maurice Denis :

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The nabis in general are very interesting. They're in a period I quite like in the history of arts.


And I'll throw in some of the few american painters I know,
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2012, 10:53:22 am »

Oh goodness, favorite art?

Anton Dvořák's New World Symphony is great, but the 4th movement in particular is the greatest piece of music I've ever played.

Gustav Holst is pretty rockin', too. Mars was emblematic of war and tanks and explosions before tanks were even a thing. First Suite in E Flat for Military Band is downright majestic, despite its humble title. Jupiter is catchy as fuck. How many orchestral pieces have you heard that are catchy? Not a whole lot, I'd wager.

Gosh darnit Seal God, visual art!.. Although I'm actually ok with music being put in here, since it is art, but we do have a music thread. Ach, who cares, my favorite composer. More Sibelius.

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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2012, 10:56:51 am »

Valve makes games that i consider to be art.
(Especially HL series and portal series, tough TF2 is pretty artsy too.)
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2012, 11:35:31 am »

Hmmm...let's see.

I'm fond of Japanese woodblock printing, particularly ukiyo-e style scenes, one of my favorites being "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2012, 12:45:22 pm »

on illustration, i like kay nielson
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and john bauer
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2012, 01:13:25 pm »

Anton Dvořák's New World Symphony is great, but the 4th movement in particular is the greatest piece of music I've ever played.
They used that movement in the game Asura's Wrath, which I always said it needed to be used in a video game. They only loop the first section though, of course.

Also amazing pieces by Dvorak, Slavonic Dance in Em and the 3rd movement from his 7th Symphony.

My favorite composer would be, pretty unoriginally, Bach. Particularly his lute and violin partitas.

I'm fond of Japanese woodblock printing, particularly ukiyo-e style scenes, one of my favorites being "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Hokusai.
Hokusai was brilliant. My favorite work of his is probably Lake Kawaguchi from the same series.

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I also really like Hiroshige, particularly Seba-juku from his stations of the Kisokaido and the Plum Garden in Kameido which was so good Van Gogh ripped it off.

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As for Western artists, I like Goya and Picasso, but my favorite paintings have to be the early proto-surrealist stuff from De Chirico.

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I particularly love how you can see only the faintest shadows of people in The Red Tower.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2012, 01:22:23 pm »

Anton Dvořák's New World Symphony is great, but the 4th movement in particular is the greatest piece of music I've ever played.
They used that movement in the game Asura's Wrath, which I always said it needed to be used in a video game. They only loop the first section though, of course.

Also amazing pieces by Dvorak, Slavonic Dance in Em and the 3rd movement from his 7th Symphony.
The 4th movement is also used as a basis for Rhapsody of Fire's "The Wizard's Last Rhymes" and Blind Guardian's "The Gates of Moria", which are both pretty rad. I forgot he wrote Slavonic Dance, that's another of the best pieces I played in high school.

Hmm, time to go find more Dvořák...

As for visual art, I am a fan of Van Gogh's 'Starry Night', but don't really like his other pieces. I then googled for the term 'art', and this was what came up first. Whoever made it, I like it.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2012, 01:46:00 pm »

you might enjoy some impressionists and post-impresionists then. try monet, renoir, seurat, cezanne, and give van gogh another chance. you might also like the happy expressionism of the blau reiter group. try franz marc and look for kandinsky early figurative works

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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2012, 01:49:24 pm »

That's Dada, iirc. Which is based around the idea of fucking around with your audience. Until people actually mistook it for actual art.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #25 on: December 14, 2012, 01:52:07 pm »

Dada artists were the original trolls. Not to say there weren't some interesting ideas there, even if only by accident.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #26 on: December 14, 2012, 02:02:39 pm »

dadaists have nothing on malevich
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #27 on: December 14, 2012, 02:03:24 pm »

Dada was kind of reaction to the insanity of World War I. It was sort of a "We work all our lives to build something, strive for beauty and order....and then we fight wars where we line young men up and march them directly into a line of machine guns. FUCK IT. If that's 'noble and gallant war', then a urinal is art."

In a world where everything was increasingly organized and mechanistic and industrial (and simultaneously going insane), then insanity and chaos and randomness were the only options for rebellion. Dada was one giant, glorious middle finger to the "civilized" world that was in the process of committing one of the biggest mass slaughters in history.

I think the outrage and cynicism underlying Dada can be summed up beautifully in a quote from Apocalypse Now, of all places:
"We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2012, 02:20:32 pm »

"fuck" Isn't all that creative tough.
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Re: Which art is the best?
« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2012, 02:24:03 pm »

Not sure on which art is the best, but to me, the worst is most modern art.

'This is a urinal. It represents how humanity is... based around men?'
by the way, this is the kind of things casual gamers say about dwarf fortress. also, guess what was acquired by the museum of modern art a few weeks ago
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