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Sol Niger
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Defending Western-Faustian culture from the barbaric hordes.

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Painters – Francisco de Goya, Caspar David Friedrich, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt van Rijn, J. M. W. Turner, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí


The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Writers – Oswald Spengler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Baudelaire, Comte de Lautreamont, H. P. Lovecraft, Yukio Mishima, Francis Parker Yockey and Julius Evola


Composers – Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius and Dmitri Shostakovich


Conductors (recording era) – Wilhelm Furtwängler, Sergiu Celibidache, Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Eugen Jochum, Günter Wand, Otmar Suitner, Klaus Tennstedt, Yevgeny Mravinsky and Takashi Asahina


Contemporary (music) – Burzum, Klaus Schulze, Nico, Captain Beefheart, Faust, Can, Popol Vuh, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Emperor


Musicians (recording era) – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, Alfred Brendel, Pablo Casals, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andrés Segovia, Jascha Heifetz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Christa Ludwig


Orchestras (recording era) – Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra


Politicians – Richard I the Lionheart, Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Cesare Borgia, Oliver Cromwell, Frederick II the Great, Napoleon I Bonaparte, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Oswald Mosley, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera


Athletes – Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ferenc Puskás, Michel Platini, Marco van Basten, Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernández, George Best and Gerd Müller


National Teams and Clubs (sports) – Spain National Football Team, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid C.F., German National Football Team, FC Bayern Munich, Netherlands National Football Team, AFC Ajax, Juventus F.C., A.C. Milan and Manchester United F.C.


Directors (cinema) – Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Yasujirō Ozu, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Pierre Melville and Sam Peckinpah


Cinematographers – Vittorio Storaro, Néstor Almendros, Raoul Coutard, William Lubtchansky, Sven Nykvist, Sacha Vierny, Vilmos Zsigmond, Gordon Willis, Robby Müller and Michael Ballhaus


Actors (cinema) – Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Anne Wiazemsky, Setsuko Hara, Vincent Price, Oliver Reed, Lee Marvin and Alain Delon

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The-executioner

The Executioner

A brilliantly humorous film concerning a man's hapless rise from undertaker to executioner; capturing the many little disappointments one must endure if one chooses to conform to societal mores while existing on this earthball.

Style

  • Auteur-driven
  • Melancholy
  • Serene & subtle
  • Wildly romantic
  • Deliriously surreal
  • Nouvelle vague
  • Canonical classics
  • Shh!—silent cinema
  • Of-the-past
  • High Art
  • Vanguard cinema
  • Other-worldly
  • Neorealist
  • Avant-garde

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Kenji

20Jan12

I put some Chinese paintings on the Gallery of Favourite Paintings thread recently, but a google/yahoo search for Chinese Song or classic paintings pictures should come up with quite a lot

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Kenji

19Jan12

My main interests in Asian art have been old Song dynasty Chinese paintings (way head of Europe at the time) and for Japanese art, see my list Kenji's Japanese Art Gallery

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    Sol Niger

    19Jan12

    I'm particularly interested in the Chinese paintings. I'm planning a visit to China in April.

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David Grillo

19Jan12

I'm curious to know how you felt about Von Trier's use of Tristan and Isolde in Melancholia I had someone tell me it transcends the piece.

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    Sol Niger

    19Jan12

    I've yet to see Melancholia.

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    David Grillo

    20Jan12

    it's worth watching he uses it throughout and at times to great effect I couldn't imagine seeing the film without it.

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    Sol Niger

    20Jan12

    I've been meaning to but have not had the chance.

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Skunk

14Jan12

Goethe ! =)

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