(First in a series)
I don't really do that many sweeping survey posts about art even though art's my job because whenever I say something like "Oh yeah, Franz Hals fuck him" someone in the comments always leaves some long thoughtful comment about their relationship to Franz Hals and it makes me forget that like that leaves 2,999 other regular blog readers having no idea what we're talking about.But then Jez Gordon was like "Who's Egon Schiele?" and was like ok that's weird because clearly the artistic lineage there is:
Jez Gordon ---(influenced by)----> Late Frank Miller ----(influenced by) ----> Mid-era Bill Sienkiewicz ---(influenced by)----> Egon Schiele
...and so if one of the best emerging illustrators in the DIY D&D scene doesn't know his roots, then what about everybody else?
Plus it'll be fun. I like looking at pictures and I like thinking about pictures.
So I'm guessing/hoping this'll be a series of posts. I'm gonna just lay out here how I am thinking I'll organize the entries. I may not do them in order.
(EDIT: I did most of the ones I planned on doing, links below)
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| Ancient Art:Blasphemous Things You Find In A Cave |
3000 years of China Being Way Ahead of Everyone
Finnish Sculpture Paints That Culture As A Frozen Sinkhole Of Goggle-Eyed Madmen
Egypt: Not Always Boring
Meso-America: Let's Stack Things!
Greece And Rome: zzzzzzzzz
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| Medieval European Art:Beyond Things With Weird Necks |
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| Indian & (separate entry) Middle-Eastern Art of the Middle Ages: Imposing a Sense of Bejewelled And Labyrinthine Order On Every Fucking Thing |
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| The Northern Renaissance & The International Style:Way Better Than That Other Renaissance They TaughtYou About In School |
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| Painting & Printmaking in China and Japan:Mountains, Mist, Nightmarish Tentacle-PornPrecursor Things |
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| Post-Renaissance But Pre-Modern Europe:Guys Holding Swords They Probably Won't Use |
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| Wood, Water, and Wire:The Art That Freaked Colonialists Out |
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| Decadent Art of the Call of Cthulhu Era: Please Nobody Tell Wundergeek Europe Exists |
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| Symbolism, Surrealism and Other Products of Drug Abuse |
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| Every Good Early Illustrator I Can Think Of: A.K.A. The Post That Other DIY D&D People Have Probably Already Done Better Than Me But I Should Probably Do Anyway |
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| Fine Art After WW2: Actually, You Do Like Modern Art, It's Just They Don't Want You To Know That |
23 comments:
I hope this is going to be an actual course.
I got way more out of my one art history class than I thought I would. Way fun class.
Thanks Zak. Have an apple.
This looks amazing. Please do this.
You sir, are mistaken!
It is not: "2,999 other regular blog readers having no idea what we're talking about".
It is: "2,999 other regular blog readers having experienced something new that enriched their lives"...
Mmmm. Lee Bontecou. Yessss.
Yes, this is relevant to my interests. People who know a lot about an interesting subject should teach me it.
One more vote for Operation Please Actually Do This
Please please please do this!
Don't let it inhibit you. Looking up references you don't understand is what the internet is second best at doing. I'm sure I'm not the only one who looked up your four artist string and went "oh yeah that guy" and understood your point.
Do not "zzzzz" the Greeks and Romans:
http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked
and
http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/M14.2.html
(Browse the gallery, I especially like the archaic vases)
Double zzzzz.
Love Jesus' MILF and her one-two punch entourage of Oompa-Loompas and Blue Meanies.
;_;
But you can't agree on everything.
Like Klimt a lot, too. ;)
More non-european art (sorry, it is in French but he pics are beautiful !) :
Asian : http://www.guimet.fr/fr/
African, Asian and more : http://www.quaibranly.fr/
Hooray for the Book of Kells
Thanks for dungeon map (kells) which I will use next weekend!
Fuck yes: please do this.
And damn, thanks for pointing out the Schiele -> Sienkiewicz connection.
post-renaissance but pre-modern europe is just early modern i think
or enlightenment maybe?
it basically shades over from the renaissance into the enlightenment
i guess there's kind of a weird gap between the end of the sixteenth century and the enlightenment proper where everyone was too busy with the thirty years war to get anything done
the ficcaci etching (i looked it up) seems like it's eighteenth century, so deffo enlightment
yeah
i hope you're glad i fixed your terminology for you
anyway have an arcimboldo http://www.thehiddenhorsehead.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Arcimboldo_FishFace.jpg
Yeah don't be a pedant.
Words are meant to make things explicable, and once they are, youre done.
They also liked goats ... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Pan_goat_MAN_Napoli_Inv27709_n01.jpg/1138px-Pan_goat_MAN_Napoli_Inv27709_n01.jpg
I was really pleased with the scene in "The Grand Bhuaddapesht Hotel" when the nazi looks at the painting and goes wtf is THIS? then destroys it. at the time I took it for a fantasy artifact, a fictional Egon Schiele created for the movie. later I went and read about it, several ... recognizable journalists referred to it not as a fiction, but as a Egon Schiele reproduction. then I thought that I could be mistaken. however, who has a better relationship with the work of Wes Anderson? some type-type journalists or me? so, I asked a super model/researcher/former art history student to look into it. first she established that what was shown in the film, while in the style of Egon Schiele, corresponded to no known Egon Schiele. Then she turned up an obscure and hidden interview with wes anderson where he explains the commissioning of an Egon Schiele artifact... he hired his stalker to do it.
did I just tell you a boring anecdote? perhaps.
These old art posts were so great. I leaned a lot.
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