/Western Art/ Thread

Posting my own personal collection of classic Western art, many Sup Forums favourites plus some lesser-known great works. The works are correctly attributed and titled, and wherever possible I have used the best hi-res images available. I've also colour-corrected badly photographed works to let their true beauty shine.

Supplementary materials:

Jordan Peterson - The Neccessity Of Artists In Society
youtu.be/0yHy9JdF5aY

Miles Mathis - The Art Of The Last Man (A Criticism Of Modern Art)
youtu.be/7jmLzuZimmo [Audio]
mileswmathis.com/lastman.html [Text]

Kenneth Clark's Civilisation: The Hero As Artist
youtu.be/h5fjKgI1ljM

Roger Scruton - Why Beauty Matters
youtu.be/bHw4MMEnmpc

A History Of Ideas: The Renaissance
youtu.be/fI1OeMmwYjU

Other posters welcome of course! Let's start with Leighton.

Frank Dicksee - The Mother

Jacques Louis David - The Death Of Socrates

Jules Joseph Lefebvre - The Grasshopper

Claudio Coello - St. Michael The Archangel

Henry Ossawa Tanner - The Raising Of Lazarus

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John Everett Millais - Joan Of Arc

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Spring [Detail]

Raphael - The Alba Madonna

Edwin Blashfield - Head Of A Girl

Edwin Long - The Babylonian Marriage Market

John William Waterhouse - Saint Eulalia

William Holman Hunt - The Awakening Conscience

John Everett Millais - Study For Ophelia

Emil Scheibe - Hitler At The Front

Do you guys ever buy any art like this? You know there are still artists doing these kind of artworks out there,
If you guys want classical art styles to be continued you also have to create an market for those styles.

Frederic Leighton - Maenad

The perspective seems way off in this painting

Some true art coming through.

Good point there Sven - I hope threads like this will inspire a new generation of artists continuing this tradition, and patronage of new artists is a very important part of that - see the video in the OP about the Renaissance. I am an artist myself but I would like to have enough money to support other artists one day.

And here's Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Prosperine

Elizabeth Thompson - 28th Regiment At Quatre Bras [Detail]

Andrew Wyeth - Day Dream

That's cool, it just seems sometimes that people on here hates on modern art just to be contrarian and don't really care about art outside of the Sup Forums facade.

Perspective may be a bit unconventional but to me the joy of this piece is about the soldiers' individual characters and how energized they seem.

Edwin Blashfield - The Angel With The Flaming Sword

Konstantin Makovsky - A Boyar Wedding Feast

A lot of great art was made by being contrarian and thrashing against the conventions and established notions of preceding styles. I'm a big fan of Schiele although he's not really Sup Forums material...

Modernism, post-modernism and 'contemporary art' so often hated on by Sup Forums is just another movement that needs to be actively challenged and overturned by new, great art. But I don't believe simply emulating and slavishly trying to recreate the aesthetic of classical art provides that challenge.

Arnold Friberg - The Prayer At Valley Forge [Detail]

Arnold Friberg - The Prayer At Valley Forge

Enrico Pazzi - Statue Of Dante Alighieri

Henryk Siemiradzki - A Christian Dirce

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Edward McCartan - Diana

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Nikolai Fechin - Portrait??

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John William Waterhouse - Pandora [Detail]

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Richard Westall - The Sword Of Damocles

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Henryk Siemiradzki - Phryne On The Poseidon's Celebration In Eleusis

Waxed with no razor burn? Oh yeah it is a painting after all.

stunning

A bit to loli for me.

Baby looks pissed. Probably because his tiny dick is out there for all to see.


Is this the same Blashfield who did the collar at the Library of Congress?

This is disturbing.

I don't know who St. Eulalia was, but if you're raped and dead (or left for it) in the snowy streets, your feet aren't going to be like that. Just sayin'.

This is awful.

This is talent.

This is just weird.

Yeah she looks fuck all happy to be there.

Guess it's an acquired taste. Then again I'm a fan of calligraphy and Japanese cats.

Friedrich Von Amerling - The Drowsy One

>how can modern art boyz even compare?

Very nuanced opinion for pol, I personally enjoy a great range of art that probably would be considered blasphemous by pol.
The common opinion around here seems to be that beauty is something that god gives to us that we can only momentarily capture.
I don't really agree, I think beauty can be found wherever humans are engaged both as a living culture but also conceptually.

Take for instance the city of Norilsk, on the surface it seems like a hideous soulless soviet husk, more like a motherboard then
a human city. But then you see pictures of old babushkas taking difficult walks through hostile snow storms, surrounded by these towering
dimly lit concrete behemoths, and suddenly you see a sort of new beauty in there. The most inhuman architecture
have been reframed, recontextualized to become tales of human suffering, desire and sometimes even joy. Now that doesn't mean that
these things are desirable in our life, but it does show that beauty isn't as simple as ornamentation and divine symbolism.

Thank you much OP, please continue.

Gustave Doré - Dante And Virgil In The Ninth Circle Of Hell

well done. Even if sheboon.

veerrry good. too bad catholics are ridiculous now.

Great art defies era, ideology and 'academic' validation - but I would say that healthy, thriving civilizations create art that reflects that vitality, and civilisations in crisis create art reflective of their struggle and decline. There can be great beauty found in that, I agree.

Thank you for looking bro

Solomon Joseph Solomon - Ajax And Cassandra

Arno Breker - Berufung

Arno Breker - Berufung [Detail]

Absolutely lurking, very good thread OP

Edwin Blashfield - Study For A Mural

Same Blashfield, yes

Jean-André Rixens - The Death Of Cleopatra

Thanks m8 I'm glad you're enjoying

Frank Dicksee - Paolo And Francesca [Detail]

Ilya Repin - Self Portrait

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Phryne Revealed Before The Areopagus (Seems a perennial Sup Forums favourite, I think we can see why.)

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Siesta

Andrew Wyeth - The Intruder

Good dump OP

John Singer Sargent - Study Of Rosina Ferrara

>When Charles Sprague Pearce showed his cabinet picture of Rosina for the Salon in 1882, Mr. Pearce described her as "the tawney skinned, panther eyed, elf-like Rosina, wildest and lithest of all the savage creatures on the savage isle of Capri."

Cheers, got many more to come

John William Waterhouse - Circe Offering The Cup To Ulysses

William Bouguereau - The First Mourning

Paul Gaugin - Nevermore [Detail]

Let's see if we can get away with a piece of post-impressionism while the alt-right kiddies are asleep

>Sup Forumss faces when seeing a gril IRL

Frederic Leighton - The Garden Of The Hesperides

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Pygmalion And Galatea

>Sup Forums constructing a custom Realdoll waifu

Edwin Austin Abbey - King Lear, Act I, Scene I

John William Godward - Drusilla I

John William Godward - Drusilla II

Ilya Repin - Volga Boatmen

John William Waterhouse - Study For Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

Mikhail Nesterov - The Soul Of The People

Paul Delaroche - Napoléon Bonaparte Abdicated In Fontainebleau [Detail]

>tfw deposed and sent into exile

Andrew Wyeth - Pennsylvania Landscape

Franciszek Żmurko - At Padishah's Order

Isaac Levitan - Quiet Abode

Ilya Repin - Portrait of O. A. Makarova

Thanks for the support Russkybro, you guys gave us some kickass art in your time.

Vasily Vereshchagin - Defeated, Requiem

William Bouguereau - The Scourging At The Pillar

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry - Diana Reposing

Henryk Siemiradzki - A Dangerous Lesson

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Finding Of Moses

Solomon Joseph Solomon - Eve

Frank Cadogan Cowper - Vanity

William Bouguereau - The Virgin Of Consolation

Frank Cadogan Cowper - The Patient Griselda

I actually prefer the study to the final oils... but both pretty magical

John William Waterhouse - Saint Cecilia

Frederic Leighton - Clytemnestra

Nikolai Fechin - Portrait Of A Man

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Death Of The Firstborn

Andrew Wyeth - Helga On Her Knees

post-impressionist trash.

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl - The Souls Of Archeron

wew lad

Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Bacchante

John William Waterhouse - Study For Flora

Ludwig Knaus - The Christening