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[Heron TSG]

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.

[Ancre]

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,
Russell :

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And Kent :

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[Svarte Troner]

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.

Mat Brinkman (Pretty creepy stuff):

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[miauw62]

Valve makes games that i consider to be art.
(Especially HL series and portal series, tough TF2 is pretty artsy too.)

[RedKing]

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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As a Taoist, I'm particularly fond of Hokusai's use of negative space to make the wave into half of a yin-yang, with all the implied religious connotations.

Also,

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Growing up, I had an "Illustrated Bible" chock full of Gustav Dore engravings, which I marvelled over. Later, I got a copy of Dante's Inferno, also illustrated by Dore. He's like Hieronymus Bosch, with all the intricate details and sense of the grotesque, but with a greater attention to realism, and obviously a black-and-white medium as opposed to Bosch's use of color.

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Another engraver with a thing for details. I think I just like engraver/block printers.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

on illustration, i like kay nielson

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and john bauer

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[fqllve]

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.

[Heron TSG]

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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[Askot Bokbondeler]

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

[Darvi]

That's Dada, iirc. Which is based around the idea of fucking around with your audience. Until people actually mistook it for actual art.

[freeformschooler]

Dada artists were the original trolls. Not to say there weren't some interesting ideas there, even if only by accident.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

dadaists have nothing on malevich

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[RedKing]

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!"

[miauw62]

"fuck" Isn't all that creative tough.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

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