Fine Art Thread

[☉Kud]

So the amount of painting and ink works I've been making for college assignments got me thinking about making this thread, where we'll share shit about our favorite fine artworks as well as mediums and art movements and whatnot.

One of my most recent assignments from my Two Dimensional Design class were about hard-edge painting as well as color theory.

Study for Meschers by Ellsworth Kelly (1951)

I feel like Ellsworth Kelly as well as other hard-edge painters were executing these simple experiments on color, shape, and negative space. It reminds me of the phenomena of simultaneous contrast, which is when two or more colors change hue, value, and saturation once they're put together. It almost feels like science. For example, when the dull desaturated green on the artwork above goes on top of the bold blue, the green starts to appear more brighter and pastel.

Anyway, feel free to share more fine arts stuff around here.

 

[The Chibi One]

I feel like Dadaism gets a bad rap but I really like Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase (best known for influencing Crimson King in JoJo).

The way it utilises motion in a static medium is fascinating.

 

[☉Kud]

I feel like Dadaism gets a bad rap but I really like Duchamp's Nude Descending A Staircase (best known for influencing Crimson King in JoJo).

The way it utilises motion in a static medium is fascinating.

Marcel Duchamp is interesting, especially when it comes to his conceptual art series of readymades.

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp (1917)

Found object art and conceptual art as a whole is pretty controversial. Some dude executes an elaborate troll toward an art museum by displaying a urinal within it and now every contemporary artist wants to put an object in an art museum and call it art.

Comedian by Maurizio Cattelan (2019)

But then there's a piece of that nature that actually contains some genuine nuance put into it.

One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth (1965)

(Also I need to find more fine art inspirations and references from Jojo because I might've overlooked some of them.)

 

[The Chibi One]

I think many people's sneering of pieces such as the banana-taped-on-wall one is that art, in the general consciousness, contains the element of the 'artisan,' someone who moulds an initial source into something else altogether through their craftsmanship (pigments and canvas into an image, random notes into a riff, marble into a statue, etc.) My general attitude is that if your idea is really good, lack of craftsmanship is excused. Many people shit on Damien Hirst as a hack because his ideas... just aren't good. Completely devoid of anything to say. The fact that he outsources a series of crystal-emblazoned skulls to Indian sweatshop workers just adds insult to artistic injury. Personal dispositions toward art are of course a matter of taste (and there's no accounting for it), but I think most people can agree a certain technical skill is always appreciated in art.

Case in point, my favourite H. R. Giger painting:

People tended to dislike it because it looks cold and alien, but it is supposed to, and there is some serious skill required to airbrush this landscape by hand.

Your third image reminded me of Magrite's famous painting, The Treachery of Images:



Which is a fairly "simplistic" painting technically speaking, but the idea behind it is really good. Indeed, this isn't a pipe.

Spoiler

It's a representation of one.

Ultimately, with good ideas, it also comes to being first. People will shit on the banana-taping dude simply because Duchamp did it, and much better, decades ago. It just seems derivative, like the 10,000th artist reverbing and slowing down ten 80s songs and releasing it as a vaporwave album. Even so, that requires somewhat more effort than taping a banana on a wall.

For artistic references in JoJo, look up Vogue covers from the eighties onwards, as well as haute couture promotional shoots; almost every pose is bound to reference one or another.

 

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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Bella
i really like how this piece has more of a focus on movement. some parts are mostly still, like the coat of the owner while the legs of the dog are in perpetual movement

 

[HappySnorlax]

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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Bella
i really like how this piece has more of a focus on movement. some parts are mostly ,still like the coat of the owner while the legs of the dog are in perpetual movement

I honestly really like this painting!

 

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then you might like more futurist works, here's a video explaining the core ideas of futurism

 

[☉Kud]

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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Bella
i really like how this piece has more of a focus on movement. some parts are mostly still, like the coat of the owner while the legs of the dog are in perpetual movement

The technique to create motion with the oil paint looks fascinating. I wonder if the motion blur effect was done with certain kinds of brush strokes or if there was a way to make the oil paint a little more transparent to do so.

I think many people's sneering of pieces such as the banana-taped-on-wall one is that art, in the general consciousness, contains the element of the 'artisan,' someone who moulds an initial source into something else altogether through their craftsmanship (pigments and canvas into an image, random notes into a riff, marble into a statue, etc.) My general attitude is that if your idea is really good, lack of craftsmanship is excused. Many people shit on Damien Hirst as a hack because his ideas... just aren't good. Completely devoid of anything to say. The fact that he outsources a series of crystal-emblazoned skulls to Indian sweatshop workers just adds insult to artistic injury. Personal dispositions toward art are of course a matter of taste (and there's no accounting for it), but I think most people can agree a certain technical skill is always appreciated in art.

Case in point, my favourite H. R. Giger painting:

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People tended to dislike it because it looks cold and alien, but it is supposed to, and there is some serious skill required to airbrush this landscape by hand.

Your third image reminded me of Magrite's famous painting, The Treachery of Images:

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Which is a fairly "simplistic" painting technically speaking, but the idea behind it is really good. Indeed, this isn't a pipe.

Spoiler

It's a representation of one.

Ultimately, with good ideas, it also comes to being first. People will shit on the banana-taping dude simply because Duchamp did it, and much better, decades ago. It just seems derivative, like the 10,000th artist reverbing and slowing down ten 80s songs and releasing it as a vaporwave album. Even so, that requires somewhat more effort than taping a banana on a wall.

I like how you mentioned that the idea itself can also be a tool for creating art. It seems to be the driving force behind conceptual art, and that's probably why something like the Fountain is fondly remembered whilst Comedian was heavily disliked.

But I'd also argue that the reverse could be just as bad, that being a good idea being executed poorly.


Sand Column by Roman Signer (2008/2023)

Supposedly, this piece was to commentate on the fragility of societal structures, but it just feels so anti-climactic when the stack of buckets fall over.

I'm guessing this concludes that effective presentation of both the physical work and its idea create an actually good piece of conceptual art.

 

[The Chibi One]

Supposedly, this piece was supposed to commentate on the fragility of societal structures, but it just feels so anti-climactic when the stack of buckets fall over.

This is an issue with almost all performance art; it requires a lengthy explanation to prop it up and it feels hollow and, as you pointed out, anticlimactic in the end. Ultimately, the idea must match the execution for a work of art to feel 'complete.'

 

[sneaky dice]

Not very obscure but I really like the works of Zdzisław Beksiński.

 

[☉Kud]

Not very obscure but I really like the works of Zdzisław Beksiński.

Oh, I think I've heard of that artist from a YouTube video called "The Nightmare Artist". This dude's works look so alien and desolate. He could've been like H.R. Giger, creating concept art like this for a eldritch cosmic sci-fi horror.

 

[InternetGeist]

I enjoy the visual design of Soviet propaganda posters a lot and I just learned recently that there exists a specific term for this art movement.

From Wikipedia:

Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Abstract and austere, constructivist art aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space. The movement rejected decorative stylization in favour of the industrial assemblage of materials. Constructivists were in favour of art for propaganda and social purposes, and were associated with Soviet socialism, the Bolsheviks and the Russian avant-garde.

The combination of geometric shapes, harsh line edges, large bold text, and monotonic color has really contributed to this particular aesthetics: it embodies modernism and futurism through the use of industrial and urban elements, yet it also reflects a sense of nostalgia from a present perspective with its political symbolization being motivated by an ideology that only lives as a ghost in the relics of history.

Other than that, I love Renaissance art just for the pure visual pleasure it provides.

 

[Ross_Я]

I enjoy the visual design of Soviet propaganda posters a lot and I just learned recently that there exists a specific term for this art movement.

The third one is awesome! Here's the best resolution Yandex gave me:

The words, by the way, say: create, fantasize, try! Awesome poster.
As for the art, I think it would be alright to link my biggest art shares from the other threads, as those are huge and I can't reupload them all into one post either way.
Soviet space and sci-fi art: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/4277/page-6#post-97998
Series of works named Anubis by Joanna Karpowicz: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/5080/#post-98396
Small collection of scans of artworks from old "Техника Молодёжи" magazines: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/4277/page-5#post-97936

 

[InternetGeist]

The third one is awesome! Here's the best resolution Yandex gave me:
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The words, by the way, say: create, fantasize, try! Awesome poster.
As for the art, I think it would be alright to link my biggest art shares from the other threads, as those are huge and I can't reupload them all into one post either way.
Soviet space and sci-fi art: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/4277/page-6#post-97998
Series of works named Anubis by Joanna Karpowicz: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/5080/#post-98396
Small collection of scans of artworks from old "Техника Молодёжи" magazines: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/4277/page-5#post-97936

Awesome collection of sci-fic art! Thanks for linking them. The Soviet era has produced lots of great sci-fic films/novels as well.

 

[Ross_Я]

The Soviet era has produced lots of great sci-fic films/novels as well.

They surely did.
I specifically spent quite some time writing a rather expansive post about sci-fi movies I know in that very thread several pages after the artworks: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/4277/page-7#post-98185
Soviet movie industry is one of the very few cultural things that even Stalin didn't manage to kill, and one of the few things we could've been proud of... if not for the 90's, which actually killed our movies after all. And so it is yet another reason for me to live in the past, heh.

 

[D0loresH4ze]

 

[internet_userr1]

Not really much of an artist, but painting relaxes me a lot and it's very mind numbing. Here's a recent painting I did.

 

[dug]

Saxophone Heaven

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Saxophone Hell

 

[幽邃森林]

Not really much of an artist, but painting relaxes me a lot and it's very mind numbing. Here's a recent painting I did. View attachment 120100

That painting looks so cozy. It belongs in a room with a fireplace, bookshelf, and a la-Z-boy recliner.

 

[Some_porcupine]

Futurism

This page is about a 20th-century art movement. Not to be confused with futuristic aesthetics. Futurism (Italian: Futurismo) is a multidisciplinary art movement that originated in Italy during the early 20th century. It was one of the first European avant-garde movements. It influenced similar...

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"Thunderstruck" by Italo Ferro.

"Turbine Aereo" by Fulvio Raniero Mariani.

"Passione Aerea" by Tullio Crali.


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