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Of course, some ground rules are necessary if I don't want this to devolve into a discussion of what makes up art. I am referring exclusively to paintings, in any medium. I'm not quite sure what other qualifiers to include, but I am sure someone will think up some. My favorite picture by far is 'Der Schrei' or 'The Scream' by Edvard Munsch. I also love M.C. Escher's 'Relativity'. Please try to include a thumbnail of the art in your post, if you can. Oh, and I realise my tastes are hardly obscure - that's why I created this thread.:)
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/3403/munschsh3.th.jpg (http://img485.imageshack.us/my.php?image=munschsh3.jpg)
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/9754/relativitygl7.th.jpg (http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=relativitygl7.jpg)

Of course, some ground rules are necessary if I don't want this to devolve into a discussion of what makes up art. I am referring exclusively to paintings, in any medium. I'm not quite sure what other qualifiers to include, but I am sure someone will think up some. My favorite picture by far is 'Der Schrei' or 'The Scream' by Edvard Munsch. I also love M.C. Escher's 'Relativity'. Please try to include a thumbnail of the art in your post, if you can. Oh, and I realise my tastes are hardly obscure - that's why I created this thread.:)
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/3403/munschsh3.th.jpg (http://img485.imageshack.us/my.php?image=munschsh3.jpg)
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/9754/relativitygl7.th.jpg (http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=relativitygl7.jpg)

Heh. "Crazy stairs." I guessed it. :D

Heh. "Crazy stairs." I guessed it. :D

Yup! pretty predictable, I know.

The Dissolution of the Persistence of Memory and the Persistance of Memory, both by Salvador Dali.

Yup! pretty predictable, I know.

I don't really know why I thought of it immediately after seeing the thread title, but it just called out to me. ;)

As for favorite artists, I'm not sure I have one. However, slate.com had a neat piece on Edward Hopper this week, which I enjoyed.

http://www.slate.com/id/2165773/

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g267/TobyTyler/300px-Nighthawks.jpg

NightHawks by Edward Hopper

The Dissolution of the Persistence of Memory and the Persistance of Memory, both by Salvador Dali.
I love those pictures, too. I just started reading about Dali's theory on 'the angelus'. I never would have believed it was true, but I can't find anything that says it's a hoax.

http://www.johnsadowski.com/uploaded_images/nauka_chodzenia-787334.jpg

this painting is all about me!

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Beautiful.

http://www.johnsadowski.com/uploaded_images/nauka_chodzenia-787334.jpg

this painting is all about me!

What is that?

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus
http://www.meisterwerke-online.de/sandro-botticelli/original0334/geburt-der-venus.jpg

And........... I'm having a complete blackout on the other one I was just about to post. The fuck?! Maybe this means that I should go to bed, it's almost 5:30am anyway.

Anyway, I generally like Kees van Dongen's paintings a lot, like this one:
http://fugitive.blogspirit.com/images/medium_femme_chapeau.jpg

http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/tapies.earthcross.jpg

Cross and Earth by Antoni Tapies. I have little interest in boring, flat, figurative paintings of the Renaissance.

Wait, I thought that this thread was about pie. Still life of cherry, maybe?

http://static.flickr.com/25/62707240_a628e40758_m.jpg

http://www.georgerodrigue.com/


http://www.stevetobin.com/images/waterglass/03.jpg

http://www.stevetobin.com/

*pics*

Interesting... it's very surreal - I like it!

http://www.jigboxx.com/jps/su/su05077.jpg

Suffice to say, I don't know much about art...

http://www.jigboxx.com/jps/su/su05077.jpg

Suffice to say, I don't know much about art...
Yeah, me either... I want to remedy that, though.

My favourite has to be Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David; in fact, all his paintings of Napoleon were quite good.

Yeah, me either... I want to remedy that, though.

Yeah, one of the holes I never filled, I wanted to take a class on it in college just never got around to it. A playwrighting class I had took place after an art class and I would grill the teacher about the slides. Didn't do the job, though.

http://www.sherrysdesigns.com/images/TFBraveryMisplacedEdBeardJr25067sz11x14.jpg

I have decided that this counts. I have a print of it in my bedroom.

it's called "Bravery Misplaced"

*hey if the poker dogs count, this counts too!

http://www.sherrysdesigns.com/images/TFBraveryMisplacedEdBeardJr25067sz11x14.jpg

I have decided that this counts. I have a print of it in my bedroom.

it's called "Bravery Misplaced"

*hey if the poker dogs count, this counts too!

Certainly it counts! :)

Certainly it counts! :)

for like 3 years I had it in my living room and people would ask "why do you have that disgusting dragon on your wall?" and I would explain that I liked the painting and that I could only afford the print, and that it really spoke to me and stuff.

Anyway, when I had it reframed I got the name of the painting matted under the print, and my friend said "why is it called Bravery misplaced?" and I said "I think it's obvious" she stared at it for an hour and then said........"is that a knight down there?" :eek:


she had never seen him :p no wonder she was so confused.

I've long been partial to Picasso's "Guernica" though lately I've taken a liking to "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon." Here's the first.

http://www.lenoci.org/megafono/imgs/Guernica.jpg

Hard to say, but i am quite partial to both Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" and Picasso's mural "Guernica".

for like 3 years I had it in my living room and people would ask "why do you have that disgusting dragon on your wall?" and I would explain that I liked the painting and that I could only afford the print, and that it really spoke to me and stuff.

Anyway, when I had it reframed I got the name of the painting matted under the print, and my friend said "why is it called Bravery misplaced?" and I said "I think it's obvious" she stared at it for an hour and then said........"is that a knight down there?" :eek:


she had never seen him :p no wonder she was so confused.
It doesn't really seem to me as if the knight is in any danger, though- does it?

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g267/TobyTyler/300px-Nighthawks.jpg

NightHawks by Edward Hopper

I love that picture. It amazes me how the painter can make the man on the left seem so far away from the others - he's the one that always draws my eye back.

for like 3 years I had it in my living room and people would ask "why do you have that disgusting dragon on your wall?"

they have no taste

Destiny by John William Waterhouse (http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/images/content/waterhouse/hi/53.jpg)

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b0/GENTILESCHI_Judith.jpg/492px-GENTILESCHI_Judith.jpg)

It doesn't really seem to me as if the knight is in any danger, though- does it?

well, half of the appeal is the back story I think......I mean this knight, sure of himself, goes up to slay the dragon on his little horse with his little sword and gets up there and realizes "holy crap! it's a freaking dragon!" it's hilarious to me.....then the other half is my own back story that I have decided is best portrayed in the painting.

well, half of the appeal is the back story I think......I mean this knight, sure of himself, goes up to slay the dragon on his little horse with his little sword and gets up there and realizes "holy crap! it's a freaking dragon!" it's hilarious to me.....then the other half is my own back story that I have decided is best portrayed in the painting.

Yeah. Well, off to bed for me. Hopefully this thread doesn't die yet- There's been a lot of really interesting responses.

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1608/rothkono71960fw1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

No. 7 by Mark Rothko


It’s not what I regard the best painting, I don’t think I could ever choose, but Rothko’s paintings stop me dead.

Fantastic.

I have oddly eclectic tastes, and it's hard to choose a single work, but here are some of my faves:

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/fathom-five/pollock.fathom-five.jpg

http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Images/LRG/36334.jpg


for like 3 years I had it in my living room and people would ask "why do you have that disgusting dragon on your wall?"
they have no taste

I agree. I like it.

Why all the paintings?

I like...

Michelangelo's Pietà (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Chapel_of_the_Pieta%2C_St_Peters_Basilica.jpg)

Vuchetich's The Motherland Calls! (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Mutter_Heimat.jpg)

Rodin's Fallen Caryatid Carrying her Stone (http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/N/N05/N05955_9.jpg)

...among others. :)

Why all the paintings?

Probably because the OP specifically limited the question to paintings...

Of course, some ground rules are necessary if I don't want this to devolve into a discussion of what makes up art. I am referring exclusively to paintings, in any medium. I'm not quite sure what other qualifiers to include, but I am sure someone will think up some.

I prefer all the Italian depictions of Greek Mythology.

I have oddly eclectic tastes, and it's hard to choose a single work, but here are some of my faves
Jack the Dripper, I always liked his work.

I like various styles and artists, but I think my favorite is still:

http://photos.oes.org/albums/userpics/10002/normal_Starry_Night-Vincent_VanGogh(1152x864).jpg
Starry Night by Vincent VanGogh

Probably because the OP specifically limited the question to paintings...

Pfft...then the thread title should say "paintings" and not "piece of artwork".

I stand by my previous post! :p

I've long been partial to Picasso's "Guernica" though lately I've taken a liking to "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon." Here's the first.

http://www.lenoci.org/megafono/imgs/Guernica.jpg

Ditto Guernica...Particularly the original (the sepia of the UN one just doesn't do it as well for me. Loses too much of the newspaper quality)
Here is the full image

http://www.espacioblog.com/myfiles/emopinion/guernica-picasso.jpg

I like El Greco for that period. I own a book of his complete works, and, though there isn't much variety exactly, I really enjoy his technique in color use.

One of my favorites, found at wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dormition_El_Greco.jpg

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0107/images/assignment/5_enlarge.jpg

http://www.mythicjourneys.org/images/palaeolithic-handprint.jpg

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/belize/jpegs/uayazba1.jpeg

Paleolithic cave paintings of human hands. The statement "I am" echoing across the millennia. Simple, primitive, yet profound and even deeply disturbing.

http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur-ram.jpg
"Ram caught in a Thicket"
From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BCE
Gold, silver, lapislazuli, copper, shell, red limestone, and bitumen.
Height 42.6 cm.

I don't know much about art, but I know what I hate.

Bad art makes me sick. Good art makes me jealous.

Sculpture and architecture I can come at ... but the thread isn't about those.

Another, the Doge of Venice, by Giovanni Bellini
http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bellini/giovanni/1500-09/165portr.jpg

Gotta love the hat!

I just love that you can't really tell if it is a photo or a painting. Pretty impressive.

Another, the Doge of Venice, by Giovanni Bellini
http://www.wga.hu/art/b/bellini/giovanni/1500-09/165portr.jpg

Gotta love the hat!

I don't know much about art, but I know what I hate.

Bad art makes me sick. Good art makes me jealous.

Sculpture and architecture I can come at ... but the thread isn't about those.Oh, it's about pictures only?

Then I'll take this.

http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/philosophy/heikes/302/time/rembrant/aristotle-homer.jpg

Rembrant's Aristotle with the bust of Homer

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/i/2007/100/6/4/Twin1_by_Shenshen.jpg

Ok, ok, it's be me... but it's currently my favourite.

My favourite NOT by me is :

http://blocek.net/obrazky/klimt-kiss.jpg

The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt.

Of course, some ground rules are necessary if I don't want this to devolve into a discussion of what makes up art. I am referring exclusively to paintings, in any medium. I'm not quite sure what other qualifiers to include, but I am sure someone will think up some. My favorite picture by far is 'Der Schrei' or 'The Scream' by Edvard Munsch. I also love M.C. Escher's 'Relativity'. Please try to include a thumbnail of the art in your post, if you can. Oh, and I realise my tastes are hardly obscure - that's why I created this thread.:)
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/3403/munschsh3.th.jpg (http://img485.imageshack.us/my.php?image=munschsh3.jpg)
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/9754/relativitygl7.th.jpg (http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=relativitygl7.jpg)

my favorite piece of art is the female form.

my daughter has a tatoo of a van gogh?it is this weird kinda moon thing..i have seen the painting and it is interesting...or is it a sun?

some one posted it...love this place..starry night,she has the moon tat'd on her shoulder by my best friend.

anything by Dali is a genius masterpiece but this is one of the photos from a series that happens to be ... close to a favorite:
http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/dokumente/10241944_7775299/bd4f243a/Dali%20Atomicus_gr.jpg

Its like saying, "Whats your favorite Beatles song?" Its hard to say, and I probably couldn't give you an exact or straight answer.

my favorite piece of art is the female form.

my daughter has a tatoo of a van gogh?it is this weird kinda moon thing..i have seen the painting and it is interesting...or is it a sun?

some one posted it...love this place..starry night,she has the moon tat'd on her shoulder by my best friend.

You're not worried that an example of your favourite form of art ... has a tattoo on it ? :confused:

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/1608/rothkono71960fw1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

No. 7 by Mark Rothko


It’s not what I regard the best painting, I don’t think I could ever choose, but Rothko’s paintings stop me dead.

Fantastic.

Man, not that. In my Art Appreciation class my teacher goaded on and on about minimalists paintings of that sort. Her favorite was, as I think it was called, "Blue on Canvas". It was a solid color of blue. On canvas. Alright, I can deal with what the one you presented, not my cup of tea, but whatevert. However a painting that is just a solid color of blue across the whole canvas(I'm talking solid here, similar to what you do when you paint your house) is just to much for me.

I like the space invaders. Here is one example: http://www.space-invaders.com/ljubljana.html

I love this:

http://www.moma.org/collection/printable_view.php?object_id=37347

Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine :)

I am a classical musician, and this is the only painting I've seen that I could almost hear. It looks like I feel when I sit at the piano with no time limit and not a soul in hearing distance :)

http://static.flickr.com/25/62707240_a628e40758_m.jpg

http://www.georgerodrigue.com/


http://www.stevetobin.com/images/waterglass/03.jpg

http://www.stevetobin.com/

ooh, like the Steve Tobin stuff! *goes off to educate self*

ooh, like the Steve Tobin stuff! *goes off to educate self*

Neat, but it looks more like sculpture than paint. :)

My favourite NOT by me is :

http://blocek.net/obrazky/klimt-kiss.jpg

The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt.

yeah one of my favorites too.

http://www.u-blog.net/dugolemalabarbie/img/olympia-manet.jpg

olympia by manet, i don't know why, but when i saw this painting 'live' it was very beautiful.

and there are so many other interesting paintings i can't remember :(
*wishes he knew more about art or maybe that he was an artist himself, that would be quite cool*

is this thread only about paintings?

Of course, some ground rules are necessary if I don't want this to devolve into a discussion of what makes up art. I am referring exclusively to paintings, in any medium.

http://www.stevetobin.com/images/waterglass/03.jpg

http://www.stevetobin.com/:rolleyes: :p

Munch's The Scream is among the few paintings I like because I love this decadentristic view of a frightening, pressing world.And the coloring is great.

http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Images/LRG/36334.jpg


I have a print of Blue Poles in front of me as I type.
I eventually managed to visit it at its home at the National Gallery in Canberra.
It's enormous and alive. You don't just view it, you watch it. I was mesmerised.

I love surrealism and symbolism so...

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/Magritte_song_of_love.jpg
Song of Love - Magritte

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/avernusbig.jpg
Avernus Transvisioned as Böcklins Isle - Gleeson

There was a deep cave with a vast mouth, yawning and jagged,
guarded by a black lake and the gloom of a forest,
over which no birds at all could safely hold a course upon their wings
such was the vapour gushing into the high vaults from the black maw.

...the descent into Avernus is easy:
every night and every day black Pluto's door lies open;
but to retrace the path and ascend to the upper airs,
that is the undertaking, that is the difficulty.
(Virgil, "The Aeneid"; translation my own)

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/isle_of_the_dead.jpg
Isle of the Dead -Böcklin

I went to the Gilbert & George exhibit at the Tate Modern a fortnight ago. While interesting it was not really my thing.

However they do have a decent gallery of modern art which was pretty awesome.

http://www.bmw.ukf.net/3pagodas/images/cholera_camp.jpg

the cholera Camp by Ronald Searle

http://join2day.com/abc/H/hogarth/hogarth39.JPG

http://www.bmw.ukf.net/3pagodas/images/cholera_camp.jpg

the cholera Camp by Ronald Searle

http://join2day.com/abc/H/hogarth/hogarth39.JPG
That's great.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/Yessongs_Pathways.jpg

If you know where this comes from you are either as old as me or have similarly appalling taste in music.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/Yessongs_Pathways.jpg

If you know where this comes from you are either as old as me or have similarly appalling taste in music.

Yes. LOL

I have a print of Blue Poles in front of me as I type.
I eventually managed to visit it at its home at the National Gallery in Canberra.
It's enormous and alive. You don't just view it, you watch it. I was mesmerised.

Sweet. Yet another reason to vizit Oz. :D

http://www.bmw.ukf.net/3pagodas/images/cholera_camp.jpg

the cholera Camp by Ronald Searle

Whoa! :eek: (Wanders off to learn more about that one...)

I wonder why limit it to paintings?

Anyway - I can't find any trace of my actual favourite on these intrawebs, but I have found another from the same 'series', if you will.

I'm particularly fond of the art of a Georgian artist called Radish Tordia - there's just something about the way he captures light and colour.

http://exhib.internet-academy.org.ge/fine_arts/tordia/images/kali-da-chiti.jpg

(This one is "Melancholy")

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_164360_159671t_.jpg

(This one is "Woman with Bird")

The actual piece I like, I have in an old-ish book of Georgian art, and is called simply "Girl". It is very close to 'Melancholy', except with less of the colour. A paler, but much lighter-looking, piece.

I love surrealism and symbolism so...

Song of Love - Magritte
Avernus Transvisioned as Böcklins Isle - Gleeson
(Virgil, "The Aeneid"; translation my own)
Isle of the Dead -Böcklin
Beautiful.
Pfft...then the thread title should say "paintings" and not "piece of artwork".

I stand by my previous post! :p
You're right, it should. I shouldn't have limited it to strictly paintings-feel free to post your favorite art of any kind.

Paleolithic cave paintings of human hands. The statement "I am" echoing across the millennia. Simple, primitive, yet profound and even deeply disturbing.
I am in awe... I see what you mean.

Difficult. Very difficult.

I'd say:
for pre-impressionism painting, anything by the Caravaggio, most of Bruegel, the Raft of the Medusa (?) by Gericault, and most of J.L.David .
for impressionist painting, "Le dejuner sur l'herbe".
for post-impressionism painting, anything by Escher (more drawing than painting, though).

for sculpture, "Amore e Psiche" (Eros and Psyche) by Canova is near perfection.

for architecture, the Duomo of Milan. Best building ever, says Mark Twain, and so do I.

I'm a big fan of Van Gogh's the Starry Night, but since it's already been mentioned, I'll bring in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_and_Ariadne)

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g136/regnans/avernusbig.jpg
Avernus Transvisioned as Böcklins Isle - Gleeson



http://exhib.internet-academy.org.ge/fine_arts/tordia/images/kali-da-chiti.jpg

(This one is "Melancholy")


I was not previously acquainted with either of these pieces, but I really, really like both of them. Beautiful.

As for my own favorite painting...I'm having a heck of a time deciding. I think it might be something like a 100-way tie. I have absurdly eclectic tastes, too, so I can't even really give an example of the sort of paintings I like... :p

Hoo, boy. Um I suppose my favourites are, in no particular order:

Licht, by Helmut Schöber
http://www.christa-tamara-kaul.de/art-helmut-schober-licht2001.jpg
In RL, this is about 6 feet across and absolutely dominates the room it's in. There is texture there, as well - its like sand.

I really like the stuff by Chris Foss, too - he did illustrations for a lot of classic science fiction - most notably Asimov's books.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Anabasis/chrisfossVenicelatowers.jpg

Got a print of that on my wall.
EDIT: Also got a print of H.R. Giger's Hommage a Bocklin, which is pretty freaky.

I was not previously acquainted with either of these pieces, but I really, really like both of them. Beautiful.

As for my own favorite painting...I'm having a heck of a time deciding. I think it might be something like a 100-way tie. I have absurdly eclectic tastes, too, so I can't even really give an example of the sort of paintings I like... :p

I know, hey? they are incredibly beautiful.

Mark Rothko


It’s not what I regard the best painting, I don’t think I could ever choose, but Rothko’s paintings stop me dead.

Fantastic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/arts/design/16auction.html?em&ex=1179460800&en=4aeb9f83725ccd5b&ei=5087%0A

I love that picture. It amazes me how the painter can make the man on the left seem so far away from the others - he's the one that always draws my eye back.

It's great right lol, I love all of his paintings, I'm even a Norman Rockwell fan :)

Well if you think about it, all the people in the painting are lonley and disconected. The couple are stiff, and uninvolved, the bartender seems distant as he merely serves the people without emphasis, and the single man is sitting alone staring into the counter.

This is what I love about Hopper, he really brought out the vast lonliness people can feel even in social places.

Notice how there are no visible exists in the painting as if trapped in their isolation, and the only real light on the street comes from the Diner that pours out into the street in an eery haze, and aside from the people the bar and the machines behind the tender the diner is rather empty.

My favourite is Fairy Feller's Master Stroke by Richard Dadd. It was painted by a man who truly kne, or at least thought he knew, what fairis actually were. He'd been there, at least in his head.
http://www.pemcom.demon.co.uk/queen/queen2/ffms.jpg

yeah one of my favorites too.

http://www.u-blog.net/dugolemalabarbie/img/olympia-manet.jpg

olympia by manet, i don't know why, but when i saw this painting 'live' it was very beautiful.

and there are so many other interesting paintings i can't remember :(
*wishes he knew more about art or maybe that he was an artist himself, that would be quite cool*

is this thread only about paintings?

Yes that's quite good. Here I *think* is my all time favorite
http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/france18/boucher/BOF003_L.jpg



But this is a close second
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/nappy.jpg

Man, not that. In my Art Appreciation class my teacher goaded on and on about minimalists paintings of that sort. Her favorite was, as I think it was called, “Blue on Canvas”. It was a solid color of blue. On canvas. Alright, I can deal with what the one you presented, not my cup of tea, but whatevert. However a painting that is just a solid color of blue across the whole canvas(I’m talking solid here, similar to what you do when you paint your house) is just to much for me.

I don’t want to berate you for not liking a piece or genre of art that is, after all, subjective, but I really must make the case for minimalist painting such as Rothko’s.

TD sums it up nicely:

In RL, this is about 6 feet across and absolutely dominates the room it’s in.

When your standing in a gallery, staring at these vast paintings, it’s hard not to be in awe of them. They just sucker-punch you. Last year I saw an exhibition of minimalist art at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, and one of the first rooms had Rothko’s No. 7 hanging on a pristine white wall. The enormity of the picture, and it’s intense colour, hits you full on, totally absorbing you.

Rothko said it himself:

“I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however . . . is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn’t something you command.”

What is your favorite piece of artwork?

http://warchild13.com/images/images/Frazetta-Conan-tm.jpg

http://warchild13.com/images/images/Frazetta-Conan-tm.jpg

That is too D&D to be art. :p

I was not previously acquainted with either of these pieces, but I really, really like both of them. Beautiful.


The heartbreaking thing is - Tordia is so little known that his work is trading (at last look) for a ballpark four or five thousand dollars a piece. I believe the piece I like most (that one I mentioned: "Girl") sold only about a year ago for about three and a half thousand pounds sterling. If I wasn't a pauper, I could have owned it. :(

My favourite has to be Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David; in fact, all his paintings of Napoleon were quite good.

mine too. but my fav isnt by david. i had my sister make a copy of this one that hangs in the smithsonian. when i built my house i had to make sure that there would be a spot for it.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/explorers_history/Napoleon_Bonapartes_portrait.jpg

well ok, the original is by david but my copy is by my sister and much nicer.

My favorite is Matisse's "Interior with Dog", which I have a print of in my room all framed up real good.

http://www.artsjournal.com/man/HMInteriorwithDog2.jpg

I love many of his interiors, like "Interior, Flowers and Parakeets."

http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/1/8/Henri-Matisse-Flowers-and-Parakeets-181866.jpg

The heartbreaking thing is - Tordia is so little known that his work is trading (at last look) for a ballpark four or five thousand dollars a piece. I believe the piece I like most (that one I mentioned: "Girl") sold only about a year ago for about three and a half thousand pounds sterling. If I wasn't a pauper, I could have owned it. :(

That's terrible! :(

...but of course, I can't not mention Caravaggio's groundbreaking masterpiece, He Had Twelve Jello Shots Where's The Student Medical Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelangelo_Caravaggio_052.jpg).

I like dis ah one:

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Lightning-Poster-C10290387.jpeg

The heartbreaking thing is - Tordia is so little known that his work is trading (at last look) for a ballpark four or five thousand dollars a piece. I believe the piece I like most (that one I mentioned: "Girl") sold only about a year ago for about three and a half thousand pounds sterling. If I wasn't a pauper, I could have owned it. :(

it just doesnt seem to be the right attitude to be upset that you could possibly afford a work by your favorite artist.

...but of course, I can't not mention Caravaggio's groundbreaking masterpiece, He Had Twelve Jello Shots Where's The Student Medical Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michelangelo_Caravaggio_052.jpg).

Teehee, lightweight jesus.

Off the top of my head, probably Gustav Klimt's The Kiss.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/klimt/kiss/klimt.kiss.jpg

I saw it in Vienna & it was truly stunning.

Hoo, boy. Um I suppose my favourites are, in no particular order:

Licht, by Helmut Schöber
http://www.christa-tamara-kaul.de/art-helmut-schober-licht2001.jpg
In RL, this is about 6 feet across and absolutely dominates the room it's in. There is texture there, as well - its like sand. Ooh, this is really nice! It really does look like light hitting the canvas. I can actually see what you mean about the size and the effect.

Off the top of my head, I guess I'd go for Guernica by Picasso.
1940's Nazi-occupied Paris, France:
Nazi soldier, looking at the painting, to Picasso, "Did you do this?"
Picass, "No. You did."

http://http://www.poster.net/van-gogh-vincent/van-gogh-vincent-starry-night-7900683.jpg

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gough

http://www.elrelojdesol.com/museo-del-prado/images/VELAZQUEZ---LA-RENDICION-DE-BREDA-O-LAS-LANZAS.jpg

http://www.elrelojdesol.com/museo-del-prado/images/EL-GRECO---EL-CABALLERO-DE-LA-MANO-EN-EL-PECHO.jpg

http://www.penwith.co.uk/artofeurope/bosch_garden_earthly_delights.jpg

http://www.reproarte.com/files/images/G/goya_y_lucientes_francisco_j/0169-0061_saturn.jpg

"Las Lanzas o la Rendición de Breda", de Velázquez, most paintings of El Greco, Francisco de Goya, (specially the perturbed ones) and the trilogy of heaven, purgatory and hell of Hyeronymus Bosch, (El Bosco, we call him)

Most Rembrandts, too. With modern art, I go with Salvador Dalí. Surrealism is the only postmodern tendency I can apprecciate.

With statues, I'm pretty classic, I stay with Rodin and the greeks.

"La Pedrera" de Gaudí, is perhaps the architectonic piece of work that has attracted me the most, alongside with Calatrava's bridges and the Guggenheim museum of Bilbao.

I won't dwell in music and literature, that are my favourite arts.

it just doesnt seem to be the right attitude to be upset that you could possibly afford a work by your favorite artist.

Ah, he has such a delightful touch, I'm sure he will be recognised one day... probably long after he's dead. That's usually the way.

The strange thing is (or maybe it's right...) I'm not interested in the resale value, or how much he might fetch at auction now, or in the future. I just really like his work, and owning an original would be a dream come true.