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Eduard von Grutzner painted a lot of monks enjoying beer and spirits.
The English Bed - by Guillermo Lorca García Huidobro (2020)
Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch
Relatable
I want to be them
Have you been to Burning Man?
I still haven't found Waldo
I love el bosco, but the evolution of this painting was probably Bruegel in 'the triumph of death'. If you include the other panels of the triptych, it is less salutary.
This is the one I'd recommend.
How about The Romans in Their Decadence? (Thomas Couture)
With the soundtrack of Caravan of Fools, by John Prine.
The Feast of the Gods- Giovanni Bellini & Titian, oil on canvas (1514)
It's not exactly hedonism, but is kind of adjacent.
The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
I know it's probably meant to be semi-serious but I can't stop giggling at their faces
That's intentional. Jean-Honoré Fragonard had a goofy style.
Self portrait
Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson with a Dog
To me nothing says hedonism like the Belle Epoque.
Degas has fantastic depictions of urban leisure: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-ballet-scene-from-meyerbeers-opera-robert-le-diable-30908
This is one of my favorite paintings of the time, though you might want to pass due to the "implication". Show me the "Manet": https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-bar-at-the-folies-bergere-207293
If you want more merry colors and simpler times then probably going back to Jan Steen might be a good idea: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/merrymaking-in-a-tavern-209153 He liked painting people having a grand time: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-interior-of-an-inn-the-broken-eggs-115662
If you like alcohol as a motive, but also seeing hedonism pushed to the metal, here's some moral teaching in fantastic colors: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-last-day-in-the-old-home-200702
If you don't like sermons but enjoy light: https://www.wikiart.org/en/peder-severin-kroyer/hip-hip-hurrah-1888
For maximum debauchery, Gin Lane's your lane: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/gin-lane-1
In case you need something more Mediterranean, Triumf of Bacchus has some of that vivid face depiction Velazquez provides: https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/los-borrachos-o-el-triunfo-de-baco/4a23d5e2-9fd4-496b-806b-0f8ba913b3d8
As a piece of resistance, James Bartolacci does clubbing art: https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/James-Bartolacci_JB1006_1664490656.jpg
If there's nothing you fancy, please let me know.
Excellent recommendations, but I have to say those artUK links are absolutely infuriating on mobile, you can't actually zoom in on the (quite small) painting for some reason.
Sorry about that I'm cursed with excellent taste and unparalleled laziness.
Still a very generous post, no faulting you there
This is some great art in here! I'm really enjoying the different approaches to the subject. Maybe I need to sift around some galleries after all?
Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe comes to mind:
I'd searxh for Bacchus or dionysius paintings
