This depresses me...

[ed miliband]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/24/picasso-manet-matisse-auction

I watched a documentary on the Russian 'nouveau riche' and their addiction to fine art. Representatives would be sent to auctions like this with the purpose of buying (or at least attempting to) everything, and the art would then end up being locked in large, heavily guarded safes. It's depressing to know that this art - which should be available for everyone to enjoy - will end up on some millionaires wall, or locked away in darkness.

:crying:

[Spawn of Stalin]

Fine art sucks anyway, especially Monet, that guy was a total douchebag

[Spawn of Stalin]

Fucking Monet what a prick

[khad]

Politically, the French impressionists were completely bourgeois. In their artwork they worked to efface any trace of the suppression of the commune. For them, the Third Republic was "life back to normal, as it should be."

I only find the Impressionist art movement interesting in their impact on the labor structure of art production. Other than that, they're pretty overrated, imo.

[The Red Next Door]

Liberate the motherfuckin pieces of Art!

[Q]

Liberate the motherfuckin pieces of Art!

By fire.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Do people really judge pieces of artwork by the character of the artist who created them? :blink:

I like a lot of older Christianity-inspired artwork from hundreds of years ago. Like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/GENTILESCHI_Judith.jpg

That's a baller painting...classic chiaroscuro style.

[#FF0000]

I'm not big on art but I think I like Symbolist stuff.

Especially motherfuckin' Isle of the Dead holy fuck

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Isola_dei_Morti_IV_(Bocklin).jpg

[mollymae]

The painting that Explosive Situation posted reminded me of this one:

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/manfredi.jpg

[Lacrimi de Chiciură]

Burning old paintings of haystacks is probably the most irrelevant thing anybody could ever do.

[ed miliband]

What about Pissarro?

[Blackscare]

For my money, I'll take Dada.

Max Ernst:
http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/artistic/wallpapers/max-ernst-ocell-de-foc.jpg

[ed miliband]

Also, the early socialist realists owed a lot to the impressionists:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Pozdneev-Atreading-aka53bw.jpg

[Invincible Summer]

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~thurston/fish/images/pipe.jpg

[9]

Also, the early socialist realists owed a lot to the impressionists

nothing says "the revolution is dead" like socialist realism.

[Joesky]

http://swittersb.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/john_william_waterhouse_-_hylas_and_the_nymphs_1896.jpg

[Os Cangaceiros]

http://lizziesiddal.com/portal/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/ophelia.jpg

[mollymae]

http://thedailyprofaner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/saturn.gif

[Os Cangaceiros]

^A lot of people seem to like that painting, for some reason.

[mollymae]

^A lot of people seem to like that painting, for some reason.

The one I posted? I can't help but like it, it's so ugly that it's cool.

[Os Cangaceiros]

http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/144.jpg

[mollymae]

http://www.marcelduchamp.net/images/picture_of_day/pod_081308.jpg

I want to get a tattoo like this.

[Tyrlop]

in the end it doesn't matter if its the original or a copy that is preserved, I'm 100% sure that everyone can see the what is needed to be seen. And art is not that special, if you take a look you will find it many places. There is also a very interesting documentary I saw about art and stockbrockers&cash

[bcbm]

http://www.casa-in-italia.com/artpx/moma/images/Carra_MOMA_Funeral_anarchist_Galli.JPG

[Foldered]

I want to get a tattoo like this.
You should.

[Os Cangaceiros]

http://www.casa-in-italia.com/artpx/moma/images/Carra_MOMA_Funeral_anarchist_Galli.JPG

Speaking of art movements with seriously reactionary baggage! :lol:

[Tyrlop]

http://www.essential-architecture.com/STYLE/M11-Roses_for_Stalin_by_Vladimirskij.jpg

[mollymae]

^ lol

[black magick hustla]

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/1346/yuonnewplanet1921pm7.jpg

[Os Cangaceiros]

http://jaygiroux.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2_61_07.jpg

[it_ain't_me]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Hortus_Deliciarum_-_Hell.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281825-1905%29_-_Dante_And_Virgil_In_Hell_%281850%29.jpg http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bosch/7triptyc/7fragmen.jpg http://www.vincesear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/hell-detail.JPG

the best art is paintings of hell.

for centuries it was the only excuse people had to acceptably air the contents of their dirty, twisted minds.

these are interesting too: http://www.foreigners-in-china.com/paintings-of-hell.html

[AK]

By fire.
Sounds like America in Vietnam.

[Ravachol]

Speaking of art movements with seriously reactionary baggage! :lol:

Pfff, I actually love futurist art and architecture. Send me to the gulag for it! :p

It's full of reactionary themes though :(

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~gnorton/futurist%20art.jpg

http://www.idesignproject.com/images/rationalism-espressionism-purism/sant%20elia%20futurism.jpg

[The Red Next Door]

http://thedailyprofaner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/saturn.gif

How Guro Ero this painting is

[The Red Next Door]

by fire.

what!!!

[mollymae]

http://madamepickwickartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bellmer3.jpg

[9]

haha what

[Pavlov's House Party]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/a/ae/20061015223230!Ilia_Efimovich_Repin_(1844-1930)_-_Volga_Boatmen_(1870-1873).jpg