Art for days

Can we get an art thread going???

Preferably prior to 1800s but no limits

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bizzump

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this is my friday night...

Is art the best way to gleam information from the past???
how people illustrate their thoughts and life from the past always blows my mind

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Thoughts on propaganda as art???

Combination of a subjective message and colorful illustration seems to lead to some interesting shit

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B-but we wuz Muslims.

Herakles and Buddha

well...

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That's just the start of the tradition of Penis measurement day at school.

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bump

>prior to 1800s

I hope you mean prior to the 300s.

Mughals are fun.

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Otto Dix

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Might dump some Mucha.

>The Obecní Dům (Municipal House) is a municipal centre for social and official gatherings. Designed by architects Antonín Balšánek and Osvald Polívka, it is a temple to Czech Art Nouveau and venerates both eastern and western art.

>Several prominent Czech artists of the day were enlisted to decorate the interiors. Mucha was commissioned to decorate the circular salon of the Lord Mayor's Hall.

>Mucha's designs celebrate the heroic past of the Czech people and the unity of the Slav nations. The Slavic Concord on the circular ceiling is supported by eight pendentives on which civic virtues are personified by figures from Czech history. Three wall panels portray representatives of Slavic youth who swear their allegiance to the mother nation.

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muh native savage beauty

From Assyrian Cyprus.

c. 550-500 BC

Column of Marcus Aurelius, built 180 - 193 A.D.

From Kushan Afghanistan

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Buddhist Tarim

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Central Java

Iona, 800 AD

Kamakura Japan

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Palenque, c. 700 AD

Ethiopia, 1412 AD

Zengid Mosul

Neo-Assyrian relief

Minoan, 17th century BC

Yoruba, c. 1300

Karnataka, c. 500 AD

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France, c. 1380 AD

Pictland

Discobolos. Remake of original from 450 BCE, credited to Greek sculptor Myron.

More Minoan

Chinese painting of a Tartar (possibly Mongol or Jurchen) huntsman

Ming dynasty painting of the Forbidden City

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Mayan Codex vessel, c. 700 AD

11th century China

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these threads are kind of empty when it's not 19th century shitters vs the "modern" arts

why the quotation marks?

i-it's not real modernism!!!!

found the shitter

>WE WUZ