Hi /his/, I've always felt like there weren't enough art threads here, so I thought I would share some art from Michael Tole with you guys. Feel free to share your thoughts and other similar artwork.

Starting out we have "The Triumph of Venus and Galatea Over Moby Dick". I couldn't find a proper description for this one.

This one is "The Most Dangerous Game -- Nymphs and Satyrs Edition". I was not able to find a high res version of this one.

Description by the artist:

"The Most Dangerous Game: Nymphs and Satyrs Edition, is a conflation of the short story by Richard Connell and the mythological trope of nymphs and satyrs. In, The Most Dangerous Game, two men hunt each other for sport on a tropical island, creating the most epic, most toxically masculine sport hunt possible. In the classical nymph and satyr trope, lusty satyrs chase nubile nymphs through the woods in a game that varies from playful to predatory depending on the artist. In this revision, it is the nymphs that do the chasing, and they have made common cause with the hunters’ quarry to fully turn the tables on the hunter/satyrs.

Formally speaking, the painting is an experiment in creating emphasis using color intensity rather than value. The central focal point is distinguished from its surroundings by setting off hot, high intensity colors from a halo of cool pastels."

"Cleopatra, Having Reconsidered Suicide, Employs Asymmetrical Tactics"

Description:

"This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatra thinks better of suicide, and at the last minute redirects her servants to pass the basket of fruit with the asp on to the triumphant Octavian who sweeps in with his entourage. In this scene, Octavian reaches for an apple, triggering the asp to strike. This, like most of my recent work, reimagines historical, mythological, and literary motifs to destabilize the inherent power structures within those narratives. The style adopted is Rococo, which coincided with the rise of Colonialism. The style therefore relates to the historical narrative of this piece which shows the conquest and colonization of a colonial ruler."

>>17866914 (OP)
This is deracinated cringe slop. We have weekly Aryan Art threads on /pol/ which go through a broad range of our authentic racial artistic traditions:
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/510893867/

>>17866993
Michael Tole is a white dude. At least he passes as one.

>>17867000
It doesn't make him a good artist, this crap is do disjointed and racially incongruous that it could have been generated by AI

"Hannah Belle Leading Her Forces at the Battle of Trebbia"

Description:


"My two paintings, illustrating the military triumphs of Hannah Belle Barca, are explorations of our stylistic gender biases. In these works, I am transitioning the historical figure Hannibal Barca (the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants and spent years rampaging through Roman territory) from male to female. By transitioning the general’s gender (and that of much of her army), I am reflecting the ascendancy of historical fiction that reimagine the past to reflect recent evolutions in gender and racial realities such as Bridgerton, and also the proliferation of women superheroes like Wonder Woman. In addition to transitioning the gender of the general and her army, I am also transitioning the aesthetic conventions of these scenes to one that is intentionally decorative and feminine, with pastel colors, and curlicue compositions. Battle scenes in Western art history are usually “serious” (synonymous with masculinity for most of our culture’s history since the Renaissance) and signified as such by muted color and dramatic, high contrast lighting (think of the muted color palette of the movie Dunkirk, the black and white cinematography of Shindler’s List or Goya’s Disasters of War series). By contrast, the colors and compositions for the Hannah Belle paintings are a cross between a Fragonard and a riot at a Coachella concert. The work dares the viewer to dismiss its content because of the bias against the aesthetics of femininity as constructed by pop culture divas like Taylor Swift, Megan the Stallion, and similar artists."

>>17867016
"Hannah Belle’s Army Harrassed By Alpine Tribesmen"

>>17867014
Share some art you like then and tell us about it.

>>17867018
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>>17866914 (OP)
AIDS.

What do you think of his art? It looks way too crowded for me.

>>17867109
I think it's pretty fucking ugly. I mean I do like femdom but this is just not it, the ladies all look gaunt and too skinny. Cleopatra looks fine, but her proportions seem all fucked up. I mainly thought /his/'s reaction would be interesting.

>>17867137
Yeah it is fucking ugly slop

>>17867145
Funnily enough it kinda reminds me of Clint Saunders' artwork, the hamfisted political messaging and the overly busy photos. I will say that Tole's work does usually gives your eyes somewhere to rest though, so it is better in that regard.

https://youtu.be/toJkQXqYc90&t=3860

"A Coalition of Willing Goddesses Topples Mars, Commonly Known as A Death of Sardanapalus"

Description:

"A Death of Sardanapalus is a revisionist history in which I reimagine the fall of the last Assyrian king, famously portrayed by Delacroix. In my reimagining, far from being passive victims, Sardanapalus’s concubines are about to perform a coup de gras, without him suspecting a thing."

>>17867082
Elaborate on that sentiment.

I like the color palette and the movement. Feels powerful. I also like that it's an attempt to make powerful art from a modern feminist perspective, it's like a rationalization of OnlyFans. Is that the girl from the famous amateur porno at bottom middle? That belt... Anyway, someone had to try, which makes the alienness of the final product seem conclusive.

>>17867953
meant to link
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>>17867953
>it's like a rationalization of OnlyFans.
Elaborate.

>>17866914 (OP)
What is this, a crossover episode?

>>17868554
Kinda.

>>17866914 (OP)
Those all look terrible and lack subtextual symbolic coherence

>>17867580
>Elaborate on that sentiment.
Nah, I don't want to spend another moment of my life thinking about this utter garbage. Enjoy Hell.

>>17868452
>someone had to try
People have been calling for an art that's relevant to our profoundly unheroic and materialistic world. The phone, a glaring absence, is deadly poison to artistic conceit because of its main role as a frame to other things. When not the center of attention, it's a reminder of all the most unheroic pains and distractions, barging into the milieu of art without having any relationship to art. Phone as a prime symbol is out. Likewise the car, at least in American car culture, is a frame to somewhere you'd rather be other than here. The mathematical reality of car interaction on the road means they can't even look cool -- it would be visually tiring. While the artiste could've shown cell phones in a positive light or portrayed cars as amazing Pakistani trucks, he did the more logical and versatile thing which was to depict the bodies of modern people, their pride and joy. The most holy thing left in this utterly debased and solved period of history is the human divine. Specifically the porn stars, whores, and trannies who sacrifice everything for body love, everything to feel the touch of some greater humanity than one alone. The great majority of artists today are like that, and so our Artiste has painted in reflection of the titans of our time. I would specifically draw attention to his K-pop Octavian here >>17866924 which reflects an understanding that Korean men are the current eugenic project and extreme patriarchal society par excellence. This century's ultimate golem, it's Prussian colossus will be Korean, our Artiste understands that. The North has lived ascetically for decades to create supermen, and no one will be held responsible for the suffering part. Least of all the rest of the world, who love Juche villains and will watch their progress toward world war with greatest anticipation. Such sensual truths of modern world are at the fore.
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>>17868452
>>17869938
>it's like a rationalization of OnlyFans
>which makes the alienness of the final product seem conclusive.
Because they're all about contemporary art and porno, it's a "rationalization" or attempt to make unexciting modern art into something worthy of the name. And because the images are glorious but ultimately alien, a sincere good-faith attempt has been made and revealed the absurdity of its original task. The conclusion can only be a stronger argument against great art about modern days. For example, K-pop Octavian is about to be killed by the asp. He's the victim and the villain, a uniquely feminist archetype which accepts the narrative centering of men. Everything in the painting is exquisitely set up to support Cleopatra's triumph: the hot race-updated guy, the deception complete, the villain fooled by his dick into a submissive situation. Yet the power of the reversal depends on the power of the man. When she kills him, her joy will be proportional to his power. The attempt to translate female power into epic masculine narrative moments was a conclusive, interesting, and highly educational failure. It's important art.

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>>17869946
Wow that was actually interesting and thought provoking. Thank you anon.

>>17869953
Elaborate.

Just kidding. Much more interested in what you think of the paintings. For myself I'm rethinking the word failure. It's wrong to call early pioneering efforts failure.

>>17869996
I already gave my thoughts
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>>17867177
Maybe I could say more but I feel all that needed to be said has been said.

Someone posted that first pic on /lit/ years ago and it mad a lot of people mad. I was hoping to do the same thing here, but if it doesn't have to do with religion and whose ancestors raped and enslaved whose, it doesn't get attention on /his/.

Also I genuinely do with there were more art threads that actually went into art critique and not just autofellatio about how great white people art is. That's not to dump on white people art but I just hate the surface level analysis.

>>17870006
/lit/ is so, so, so, so . . . . so retarded. That pic isn't disrespectful to Moby Dick because it has nothing to do with the story, even on a micro surface level. It's just using a character and setting to do some other concept. This site is really hard to use between bot threads and the people who love them.

>>17870012
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/1850671
This is the thread. Less people got mad at it than I remember.

God that thread was 4 years ago. It feels so recent. Why does time keep going by faster and faster?