A Work of Art that Changed the World

[ubercat]

Thread paging Burun. Burun to the thread please.

[Sowley]

[ubercat]

Trang Bang.



Sun Tzu's Art of War.



I might also consider Ohio by Neil Young.

The Pyramid of Khufu.





The Tesla Coil.



The Obelisk

[timpickens]

I would roadie for a band called Tank Man

[scntfc]

this is purportedly hitler's favorite painting (painted the year he was born).

maybe the entire nazi era was "dress (and act) like your favorite painting day"?

edited for linkable pic: franz von stuck's 'wild chase'.

[sawtooth]

whatever shitty landscape painting that got hitler rejected from art school

[sawtooth]

this is purportedly hitler's favorite painting (painted the year he was born).

maybe the entire nazi era was "dress (and act) like your favorite painting day"?

how about richard wagner for pumping adolf and his pals up with retarded bravado and masturbatory racial narcissism? that inspired lunatic nietzche didn't help things either.

[ubercat]

whatever shitty landscape painting that got hitler rejected from art school

Nice.

[etch]

Has anyone seen Rape of Europa? Fascinating story; turns out that when Hitler was turned down at art school there were two slots open. He was up for one but two (later to become prominent) modern artists got the slots and he was rejected.

Because of this he grew to hate the art he didn't understand: Modernist artists like Kandinsky and Chagall (Jewish art) to name just a few and especially Cubism (Picasso/Braque) and Picasso's Blue Period which he considered disrespectful.

As soon as he assumes power he starts raiding the museums across Europe, stealing all of the art from jewish families and taking all of the modern art and other art deemed non-Aryan and warehoused the pieces.

[ERawk]

this is purportedly hitler's favorite painting (painted the year he was born).

maybe the entire nazi era was "dress (and act) like your favorite painting day"?

how about richard wagner for pumping adolf and his pals up with retarded bravado and masturbatory racial narcissism? that inspired lunatic nietzche didn't help things either.

You know that Nietzsche and Wagner were dead before Hitler even had a chance to become chancellor, right? Wagner was dead a few years before Hitler was even conceived. Also, antisemitism in Germany was more of a general malaise within the nation than just specifically being Wagner's fault. Wagner in his day was preaching to a choir that eventually became big enough to cause the travesties of the third reich, despite the formation of the Weimar Republic post Kaiser/WWI.

Oh yeah, Nietzsche wrote Contra Wagner a few years before he died denouncing anything he ever supported in Wagner in his earlier writings.

[jurgis rudkus]

A kind of Performance Art, certainly very influential:

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Many of the very earliest works of art that we know about changed the whole knowledge of artmaking— historically most people had thought that aesthetic objects (as opposed to tools for getting food) came after civilization had started and there was division of labor and all that. People basically thought art was a luxury until we found out how goddamn old some of this stuff is; it's now more apparent that art has been a fundamental communication form since the very first human-related species, not some fluff that people got around to later.

Also:

[Robert G]

Pretty certain this did:



Also, if you've ever seen Bill Moyers in Florence, you may recognize these doors:

[dontfeartheringo]

the whole world?

Or "Our" world?

Just curious.

'Nevermind,' whatever your feelings about it, changed a lot about Our world.

Plato's 'Republic.' Also, Plato's 'Poetics' and the dialogues with Crito.

'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'

'Birth of a Nation.'

'Das Kapital' and 'The Communist Manifesto.'

whatever the fuck sparky is writing.

[kazoozak]

This one.

[tommydski]

The Canterbury Tales had a massive effect on the English language.

[sack of smashed assholes]

The Jungle

[Jodi S.]

YES.

[noise&light]

Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps

Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending A Staircase


Something by Alfred Hitchcock maybe?

[numberthirty]