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...and your point is?

Almost all illustrators, and artist use reference material. Hell, there are books published that comprised entirely posed photographic reference for artists. And these have been in print for years.

The Fairburn system

The one that I used while at college.

Here's a flickr page with full views and other details of this amazing sculpture found in Sherborne Abbey's Church of St. Mary Magdalene.

Vibert was a French academic painter who enjoyed great sucess during his lifetime. Unlike many of his peers who were working on large-scale canvases depicting heroic Christians and tragic mythology, he turned to more homey subjects, comedy and satire as well as tongue-in-cheek depictions of Christian clergy and their frivolous past-times. Not only did he enjoy taking a break from work to go out to plays, but he also wrote several comedies, many of which were successfully produced at Paris theaters such as the Vaudeville. In 1892 an important technical book was published by Vibert called La Science de la Peinture.

No, it is a huge painting. http://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/the-sun-1916
Here you can see panorama of the room it hangs in and the rest of the images in the series. http://www.uio.no/om/kultur/kunst/aulaen/

de Kooning is typically my least favorite of the abstract expressionists of the 50s and 60s but for some reason I really like this piece.

Like most abstract expressionism I would have to see it in person to really feel it.

If you like de Kooning I think it is interesting to aslo check-out his wife Elaine de Kooning. Her style of portraiture is my absolute favorite, so raw yet diluted.

Allegorical English School painting (c. 1610) of Queen Elizabeth I at Old Age with allegory of Death and Father Time.
(Location of original painting: Corsham Court, EAN-Number: 4050356835081)
www.corsham-court.co.uk/Pictures/Commentary.html says: "This portrait of Elizabeth I illustrates the difficulties she encountered during her troubled reign. For example, conflict between Protestants and Catholics was rife and the re-drafting of the Book of Common Prayer (held in her left hand) was a sensitive issue of the time."
 
Sorry for the bad quality. The original scan was quite small. I vectorized and enlarged it.
 
In the back cover illustration to Lewis Carroll's <em>The Hunting of the Snark</em> (1876), Henry Holiday may have alluded to this painting after rearranging it a bit.

From Wikiart:

"Optimistic about the Russian Revolution, Malevich thought that the newfound freedom wound open the door to a new society, where materialism allowed for spiritual freedom. In his efforts, he studied aerial photography, and this painting is an effort make the the top square seem as if it is floating above the canvas. The stark canvas on White on White it is not devoid of emotion or deep artistic sentiment. Malevich’s brushstrokes are evident, and the soft outlines of the imprecise square make the white austerity of the painting seem more human. When it was created, it was one of the most radical paintings of its day, without reference to any outside reality."

We have this one, or this one. I think there's a lot more, but the sources are not from official galleries.

http://www.wikiart.org/en/man-ray/larmes-tears

Someone pointed to me how close was this to a baroque-kind of virgin Mary statue, "La dolorosa", also with glass tears:

http://api.ning.com/files/HWouTb9Y28bCeFpf1lcV8Ay161zND5KNHiXUmlbbZTYtdKF4F*RdA9k6ccmtFwQPo5nf-bdFCnxVLxZA*nvIZvOErVKsEw8A/CSC_8989.JPG?width=608&amp;height=480

According to wikiart.org it is 455 x 780 cm, so it is huge!

On a side note: the paintings from Munch and a couple of other people are for some reason not visible in Germany due to copy right issues? Wait, what? The painting is from 1911 for crying out loud... Even the Hola plugin for chrome could not correct it.

“‘kitsch’ is not art — we're all agreed about that.” - M.C. Escher

“lf l am not mistaken, the words "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.” - M.C. Escher

Have you looked into Larry Shiner’s book The Invention of Art? When there is an understood distinction between art (ars/skill/science) and the post Kantian idea of Art we can better discuss kitsch - an ars that is not Art.

Here is the text:

https://books.google.com/books?id=PmyFwEnLf6wC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=larry+shiner+the+invention+of+art&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=J3JAVabBH4GYNr78gKAO&amp;ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false

I think I found it.

I don't see /r/musem dying. The downvotes perhaps are caused by a technicality, because it would have been better to have https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/The_Tomb_of_the_Diver_-_Paestum_-_Italy.JPG as URL, as that is the direct link to the image.

Also the info in wikimedia is a bit sparse.

Whatsoever, I like the image.

See also: https://www.academia.edu/6244437/Essay_Burial_in_Ancient_Society_The_Tomb_of_the_Diver

That this painting has been spoofed many times was my first thought when I saw it here. See also <em>Some works of art influenced by Nighthawks, Edward Hopper</em> posted by Ion Indolean on academia.edu

"I'm a transgender artist. The piece is titled "Self-Portrait" because both figures are me. The figure on the left is me before my transition and the figure on the right is me about 5 months into my transition."

Artist's Behance.

There seems to be virtually nothing I could find (apart from some pages in Russian) about this Russian illustrator which is a real shame because his artwork is one of the most interesting I have seen. Vasilyev's work seems to use mythology as a primary subject and his work also seems to be synonymous with symbolism.

This painting struck me because it was just interesting to see the crucifixion painted from a different perspective and perhaps the only other example I have seen of this subject from a different perspective is Dali's <em>Ascension of Christ, 1958</em>. We can't be sure if he had seen Dali's work before creating this artwork but I guess he only knows!

Below is all there is on the guy on his Wikipedia page to get some background on him:

>Konstantín Alexeyevich Vasilyev was born in September 3, 1942, in Maykop, died October 29, 1976 in a railway accident near Kazan [his family did not believe the official version of his death]) was a Russian illustrator, who left more than 400 paintings and drawings. His range of works included portraits, landscapes, realistic compositions, Russian epics, Slavic and Teutonic mythology, and battle paintings. He was buried in the village of Vasilyevo, where he lived since 1949.

>The minor planet 3930 Vasilev, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1982 is named after him.

If there are any Russian painting enthusiasts out here or if anyone knows more about Vasilyev, it would be great to hear about him so please do share your comments if you can!

You can also see his oeuvre in the wikiart page below. Some intense and monumental work here:

http://www.wikiart.org/en/konstantin-vasilyev/mode/all-paintings

Happy Friday!

As the second page describes, Ian Burn's Xerox Book compiles a series of one hundred pages, each a copy of the one that came before it, starting with a completely blank sheet of paper. Slowly, the blank page fills as copy after copy after copy amplifies the slight imperfections that arise from Xeroxing an image. Eventually the page is filled with dots, smudges, lines, and other bits of visual noise.

See an alternate description and another image of the book here.

This piece is similar to Alvin Lucier's 1969 piece I Am Sitting In A Room which comprises a similar series of copies, but made instead with recording equipment.

And the even larger Google Art Project image. :) Surikov is one of my favourites. Each and every character on his canvases tells a story.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

Fishermen at Sea exhibited in 1796 was the first oil painting exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy

I can't find the episode ID but on Netflix Raiders of the Lost Art is about art that was stolen, unappreciated, lost, etc. The Turner episode is Season 2, episode 11.

Inaccurate. Where's the bell-ringing, gun-firing, and warning the British that they won't take away our guns? Wood could have used a history lesson.

In all seriousness, the painting is wonderful, but the light has me a bit confused.

I fixed the url above so it actually takes you to that page. Here's the link to those lectures from that page: http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/jorge_luis_borges_1967-8_norton_lectures_on_poetry_and_everything_else_literary.html

Romanian Post-Impressionism and Expressionism painter, born in 1906 (Craiova), died in 1997 (Bucharest). 90 of his paintings and other objects related to his work could be found in the Timisoara's Art Museum. More info on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneliu_Baba and http://www.wikiart.org/en/corneliu-baba

1937? That's blowing my mind.

Of course he knew Mondrian:

http://www.wikiart.org/en/ben-nicholson/june-1937-painting-1937

> After his first visit to Piet Mondrian’s Paris studio in 1934, Nicholson wrote: ‘[T]he thing I remembered most was the feeling of light ... The feeling in his studio must have been not unlike the feeling in one of those hermit’s caves where lions used to go to have thorns taken out of their paws.’ Shortly afterwards Nicholson started to paint rectilinear arrangements in primary colours and tones of blue, grey and white.

Posted on mobile so if tree are any issues please comment below. Also, here is the Wikiart page for the piece, if your interested in reading into its and/or Pierre's background.

>This caricature, which was published in the comic journal La Caricature, depicted the French King Louis Phillippe as Gargantua, the namesake from a book written by Rabelais, which was considered obscene, crude, and vulgar. Similarly to Daumier’s works, Gargantua delved into a social commentary, searching into the meaning of words and how or when they were considered obscene, as well as the many social institutions and their effectiveness and reasoning. Because of this drawing portraying the king in an unfavorable light, Daumier was imprisoned for six months at Saint Pelagic. After his release and return to society, the journal that published Daumier’s works, La Caricature, soon after discontinued circulation.^1

You're definitely talking about Adolphe Monticelli then. He was friends with Cezanne. I didn't know Van Gogh was influenced by him specifically. I mean I can see the resemblance, but does Van Gogh have a quote about him? I'd love to read it.

So, I looked, and as far as I can tell you're right. I can't find a painting that truly looks like this from that early.

I did find this which I think demonstrates about the same level of abstraction. Still, you're right, this is ahead of it's time, and you could absolutely make an argument that it's at least somewhat important.

Still, I personally can't accept a pleasant palette as a reason I should enjoy a painting that I went out of my way to look at.

Look, I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a lot about art, but I'm trying to learn, and this is the kind of piece that seems to want to be challenging, but I could just go anywhere with it. This could mean anything to me if I tried hard enough.

My other problem is, what the hell does this do that a throwaway Rothko doesn't?

I've always been interested in investigating the artists' previous creative work before turning towards Abstractionism. The Young Mother shows nothing but great artistic skill with a hint of influence from Picasso.

This is Paul Gaugin’s most famous painting, and he considered it his masterpiece, and the culmination of his thoughts. In Tahiti, as he was painting his masterpiece, Gaugin declared that he would commit suicide upon its completion. Although this was something he had previously attempted, this was not the case, as the artist died of syphilis in 1903. The painting was meant to be read from right to left, with the three main figures in the painting representing the three questions of the title. The figures are arranged from the beginning stages of life, from young figures with a child, to the middle aged figure in the middle, to the elder figure on the left of the painting. The idol in the background, situated behind the elder figure, represents the “Beyond.”

Source - http://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin/where-do-we-come-from-what-are-we-where-are-we-going-1897#close

He had been doing similar paintings since at least 65. Depends on whether or not you see them as sarcastic.

Yeah, this certainly isn't characteristic of the majority of his work. It's my favorite painting of his, though. Definitely possesses his intimate use of perspective.

I could find two others (1, 2) but I don't particularly favor them.

Della Valle, Angel 1852-1903

Malón is the name given to the raids of Mapuche bands into Spanish, Chilean and Argentine territory from the 17th to the 19th centuries, as well as to attacks to rival Mapuche factions.

EDIT: for a higher resolution there is the googleartproject

Moore was an English painter, known for his depictions of langorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world. His style belongs halfway between the aestheticism of Whistler and the Victorian classicism of Alma-Tadema. Starting with large narrative works loosely based on pre-raphaelite ideals, he later developed a very specific kind of style which ignored any type of narrative content and instead focused on purely pictoral and aesthetic goals achieved through means of abstraction inspired by Japanese prints and ancient Roman art. He used the human form as a means to achieving a visual effect, rather than telling a story. "A Musician" is a typical representative of his style and presents an idealised, classical (yet not archeologically correct) scene that more closely conveys a mood rather than any kind of action. A much higher quality image of this painting is available on Google Art Project.

durutticolumn, thank you for your comment. You (and the other commentators) give me some ideas how to improve my presentations. Perhaps the boxes really spoil the Snarkhunting experience.

However, I'll be slow. After 6 years of Snarkhunting I am a bit tired. In 2026 the Snark celebrates its 150th birthday. By then I'll be retired and hope that until that year I'll be ready to provide better material.

As for now, https://www.academia.edu/12408574/Snark_Archive provides a link to a 256 MiB archive file containing my present academia.edu articles. (You don't need to register with academia.edu.) Be warned: The articles are amateurish. I am an electronics engineer, not an arts researcher. But perhaps you still can enjoy the articles. (Sorry for many boxes.)

Oh you mean the german translation. I think it's correct here: http://pinterest.com/pin/99431104243617149/

"Junger Student im Profil"

But it looks like a translation that would be added next to the picture when it is displayed in a german museum. Here it would make more sense to have an translation to english. I can't help you there however, because I don't know how the word profile is used in english.

The pale pincher on the left is used on the cover of Theodore Zeldin's The Intimate History of Humanity - an amazing book.

https://www.amazon.com/Tims-Vermeer-Martin-Mull/dp/B00K31E8NQ

This is one of the greatest documentaries, if not movies I’ve ever seen. A non painter invents a device to recreate a Vermeer using only materials and technology Vermeer would have had access to. Y’all have to see it!!!

If you like his work, I recommend this book of his work. It’s really well-made, so nice I’ve gifted it a couple times to people.

Oh man, interesting to see that comment appear again.

Yeah, I wrote that because one of the few things people seem to agree about when it comes to hipsters is that they're "fake" in that they self-consciously develop ridiculous style. Mannerism seems similar to me.

That said, I don't necessarily agree that that's what hipsters do. I also think "Hipster" as a term has lost a lot of descriptive power since I first wrote that comment. In part because of unsupported overuse (I sympathize with u/Cicjsjkgl's comment in that respect), and in part because it was never really a rigorous category of people and it's fallen apart even more since. For me this comment from metafilter in 2012 was the final significant word on hipsters that I needed to hear.

So now I think calling Mannerists hipsters only makes sense if you're referring to the popular but (IMHO) flawed conception of what a hipster is. So I wouldn't use the same phrasing today.

But still, yeah, Mannerism, WTF was that all about? If they were around five years ago people would totally have been called them the hipsters of the art world.

This print is a cover art of Lawrence Smith's "Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989" https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Japanese-Prints-1912-1989-Lawrence/dp/B0026HQES2

Great book.

Backstory:

>In 1950, when Jack Kerouac released his first novel, The Town and the City, he was less than impressed by the book cover produced by his publisher, Harcourt Brace...So, in 1952, when he began shopping his second novel, the great beat classic On the Road, Kerouac went ahead and designed his own cover. He sent it to a potential publisher A.A. Wyn, with a little note typed at the very top:

>Dear Mr. Wyn:

>I submit this as my idea of an appealing commercial cover expressive of the book. The cover for “The Town and the City” was as dull as the title and the photo backflap. Wilbur Pippin’s photo of me is the perfect On the Road one … it will look like the face of the figure below.

>J.K.

>Wyn turned down the novel, and it wouldn’t get published until 1957

Actually I've been meaning to for around a week now. It's available for free here if you're willing to set up an account (only takes a few moments).

More on boxes: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/29568429/in/album/410701 is an example of using colored boxes in order to indicate correlating patterns in another side-by-side image comparison. The pattern in the orange frame on the lower left side clearly is an allusion to a rather unobtrusive pattern on the right side. This shows that Holiday did not "copy" patterns just because of they would contribute to the impressiveness of his illustrations. Holiday is not a plagiarist.

If you take each pattern in the two pattern assemblies (one on the left side, the other one on the right side) as a graph (with the boxed patterns being nodes in that graph), there also is a topological resemblance between the graphs. This is one out of many cases where Henry Holiday did that.

http://www.wikiart.org/en/maurice-utrillo/the-debray-farm?utm_source=returned&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=referral

http://www.wikiart.org/en/maurice-utrillo/hector-berlioz-s-house?utm_source=returned&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=referral

>so you agree it is sentimental?

In that it evokes pity? You have a point there. However, sentimental is usually meant to refer to nostalgia and sweetness.

Here are its most common synonyms:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/sentimental?s=t

Is there a better word to use that does not connote maudlin tendencies? Because this painting is anything but maudlin.

>In what way do you use ‘sophistication’?

In that it is nuanced, multi-varied and open to multiple interpretations, something that kitsch, which usually appeals just to common sentiment, does not. This painting can be viewed and appreciated in a host of different ways. You have implied that kitsch does not offer this, that if one looks at it without emotional rapport or with irony it becomes camp. I can see how someone could have a campy appreciation of this painting but it offers so much more than that, and having only that interpretation would reveal said viewer's lack of sophistication.

>mere was a word given a negative connotation by Hegel. In late Middle English it meant pure. To use mere in the modern connotation is to vastly underestimate mimesis

citation? this etymological dict. does not agree with your assertion:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mere

>Original sense of "nothing less than, absolute" (mid-15c., now only in vestiges such as mere folly) existed for centuries alongside opposite sense of "nothing more than" (1580s, as in a mere dream).

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>What purpose does it serve to hold on to the negative connotation?

There can be a positive appreciation of kitsch. I am saying I am not convinced by your arguments for it.

Yes! I was hoping someone would notice the similarity between the two, that's why I posted them together. I would have to say Hiroshige's work definitely had a significant influence on this one by Whistler. It's hard to deny the East's influence on Whistler when you see his <em>The White Symphony: The Three Girls</em>.

There's also a lil book called "Edouard Manet, España y la pintura" that shows all the correspondence related to his travel to Spain. Idk If there's a translation.

de Lempicka is definitely one of my favorite artists. Ellis Avery wrote a novel about the artist and one of her muses. It's basically fan fiction but I really enjoyed it! It started me on a binge of artist biographies.

here's the book

This one, though I'm surprised it's so difficult to find, since you can get Une Semaine De Bonte really cheap on Amazon.

I have this monograph, which has some very good background text on him within it. As well as having stunning photos of his work.

If anyone's interested in Aesthetics, Lessing wrote an amazing book centered around this sculpture about the respective limits of poetry and painting (or more accurately, art without a "body", including music, and art with a "body", including sculpture and architecture).

http://www.amazon.com/Laocoon-Limits-Painting-Hopkins-Paperbacks/dp/0801831393

Get it from yo' library and your mind will be blown.