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tigerlily · Guru

What is your favorite work of art? And why?

RichardInTN · I believe in I.D.I.C.

I don't have one single favorite piece of art or even a particular favorite artist. The closest I could come to answering that question is to limit it to favorite type of art... and that would be the female nude. I like statues, paintings, photography, pretty much anything "artful but not pornographic".

I like them all the way back to Greek & Roman sculpture, and all the way current to some of the art by Spencer Tunic (limited to his ones with females though).

HamsterFan · Owner of Halvdan

The Kiss by Klimt.

alice underground · Guru

I like Renaissance art and the Impressionists best. I cried when I saw Michelangelo's David. The best part about going to Europe was the art. The Cathedral de Notre Dame de Paris was amazing. The rose windows are so pretty, even on a rainy day. It is impossible to choose just one favorite piece since so many pieces of art move me and in very different ways.

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

I wish I had a picture to show you but it wouldn't do it justice anyway. My favorite work of art is the stained glass window in my friend's church.

It's heart hurting make you wanna cry beautiful. And then with the singing and praying. Done. Just done. I'm getting all weepy just thinking about it.

If I was cynical I would believe that beauty like that is what inspired religion because it makes you FEEL so much that whatever someone is telling you at the time you would be powerless to resist them. LOL!

But I'm not cynical. My church isn't anywhere near that beautiful and I still believe.

Papa Bear · Senior Member

"What is your favorite work of art? And why?"

Salma. If you don't know why, I can't explain it.

But if you mean paintings, probably the Belvedere. I have Escher's sense of humor.

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dqm either · Don't Quote Me

What is Salma?

RichardInTN · I believe in I.D.I.C.

dqm either wrote:
What is Salma?

Salma Hayak. The actress.

dqm either · Don't Quote Me

Yes thats what came up in google. I didn't know actresses were considered art but she is quite pretty.

Papa Bear · Senior Member

dqm either wrote:
Yes thats what came up in google. I didn't know actresses were considered art but she is quite pretty.

In my mind, she transcends "actress," actually is art. I mean....

images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmjIpHJDm7NWzADGME7SxnGYhbfbXb3K3wOXFm4LwaNY5_jKl1LaUL-lZvNw

I rest my case.

ETA: My avatar looks like she's about to take her. Oh well...

-- Edited by Papa Bear on Sunday 6th of January 2013 02:59:14 PM

winds55 · Guru

Salvador Dali's The Sacrament of the Last Supper. There is so much going on in that painting you see more the longer, or more often, you look at it.

It needs the right setting, however. It was moved for a temporary exhibit at the National Art museum last time I saw it, and the bad lighting and location made it seem like an ordinary painting. It was very disappointing, as that painting was the whole reason for our visit to the museum.

winds55 · Guru

actually, pb, your avatar looks like she's about to rearrange her face, not 'take her'.

Papa Bear · Senior Member

winds55 wrote:
actually, pb, your avatar looks like she's about to rearrange her face, not 'take her'.

I meant that.

"Take her" doesn't mean take her down (i.e. beat her up)?

Forty-two · Guru

My favorite artist that I can buy is Vangelis I have some of his original work.

http://www.chasengalleries.com/vangelis/index2.html

winds55 · Guru

Papa Bear wrote:
winds55 wrote:
actually, pb, your avatar looks like she's about to rearrange her face, not 'take her'.
I meant that.
"Take her" doesn't mean take her down (i.e. beat her up)?

without the 'down' "take her" is closer to sleeping with her than beating her up, at least around here. Of course, I'm surrounded by college-age horntoads and pontificating know-it-alls lately, so that may be skewing my perception.

Evil Stepmother · Guru

HamsterFan wrote:
The Kiss by Klimt.

That is so funny - the first day this topic came up, I looked for a picture of this painting to post. It is one of my favorites too.

tigerlily · Guru

Evil Stepmother wrote:
HamsterFan wrote:
The Kiss by Klimt.
That is so funny - the first day this topic came up, I looked for a picture of this painting to post. It is one of my favorites too.
This one? Its pretty

Forty-two · Guru

winds55 wrote:
Papa Bear wrote:
winds55 wrote:
actually, pb, your avatar looks like she's about to rearrange her face, not 'take her'.
I meant that.
"Take her" doesn't mean take her down (i.e. beat her up)?
without the 'down' "take her" is closer to sleeping with her than beating her up, at least around here. Of course, I'm surrounded by college-age horntoads and pontificating know-it-alls lately, so that may be skewing my perception.

Interesting, here" take" would mean beat her up. "Yeah, I could take Sally" means I could kick her ass.

Cactus · Senior Member

I don't think I could settle on one piece. There is lots of art I like. I like Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gustave Courbet, Rouault, Van Gogh, Picasso, Egon Schiele and others.

Work of art is pretty broad, so it could apply to music, dance, movies, etc but I am confining it for this discussion.

Cactus · Senior Member

I quite like Edvard Munch, including The Scream:

The Vampire:

Angst:

The Sick Child:

Cactus · Senior Member

I like Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, especially the Hell section

Cactus · Senior Member

Michelangelo's David:

detail from Pieta:

detail from Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo-detail-from-sistine-chapel-by-Savio-s-Vintage-Art-qpps_803766555042386.LG_.jpg

Cactus · Senior Member

In many early paintings of The Virgin/Madonna and Child the baby looks small, but kind of like an adult. In others-later ones- he looks like a baby, but sometimes on the large side. It's mostly due to the stylistic conventions of the time the paintings were done. I like most of them-they are not realistic or very pretty by our standards but I find them interesting, and kind of charming and amusing. And I think I prefer the early, rather grim looking ones to the later more sentimentalized ones.

I like stylized paintings like this as well as more naturalistic and realistic art.

Here's another one, with an even more middle-aged hairline:

-- Edited by Cactus on Wednesday 9th of January 2013 12:42:23 PM

Cactus · Senior Member

Your company takes field trips to art museums? That sounds kind of nice, as long as you're not too busy at the time. How and why did they decide to go to the Guggenheim in particular?

I am not all that fond of modern abstract art either-color field paintings and things like that.

I think I do like a lot of art which many might consider ugly-that includes art that depicts "ugly" things, and art that is itself considered bad.

-- Edited by Cactus on Wednesday 9th of January 2013 02:58:51 PM

Forty-two · Guru

DD and I were just discussing the absurdity of the Pieta, Mary looks like Jesus's sister not mother.

Cactus · Senior Member

She certainly looks young and beautiful. I like it. I also like stuff like this Madonna with Child by Cimabue, where the Christ child kind of looks like a miniature middle aged man:

Madonna with Child - Cimabue

Forty-two · Guru

Oh Cactus that is just awful...I am sorry but it is just dreadful!

But then again I hate abstract art...I want art to look like real pictures.

Forty-two · Guru

I love you man but that is even more awful than the other one, I would not hang that in my mud room.

Cactus · Senior Member

heh heh. Well I don't know that it's what I would choose to look at on my wall every day, but I find them quite interesting. It's the aesthetic convention of another time.

Forty-two · Guru

So are cave drawings.

I am teasing you wink

Cactus · Senior Member

And I like cave drawings too! biggrin

Forty-two · Guru

I once went on field trip to the Guegenheim (sp?) in NYC for a company field trip (I **** you not). I wanted to kill myself most modern and abstract art makes my eyes bleed.

tigerlily · Guru

I really liked the Pieta and Sistine Chapel pictures you posted Cactus

Aardvark · But my mom says I'm cool!

I love Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night. I'd like to have a framed print of it for the kitchen or dining room. I also like Diego Rivera's work since calla lilies are my favorite.

Almostheretx · Member

Manet's A Bar at the Folies Bergere The fact that it is full of life and those feet hanging ..

Cactus · Senior Member

Thanks tigerlily. I like what everyone has posted so far.

Hiroshige's Sudden Shower at Atake

Owl on a Maple Branch in the Full Moon:

Cactus · Senior Member

Manet's Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe

and Olympia:

Quite controversial in their time

Almostheretx · Member

cactus have you read Nana by Emile Zola..Manet did a portrait of her and the book was quite good. Represented a lot of the time during the impressionist period

Cactus · Senior Member

I haven't, but I will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!

Forty-two · Guru

Cactus wrote:
Your company takes field trips to art museums? That sounds kind of nice, as long as you're not too busy at the time. How and why did they decide to go to the Guggenheim in particular?
I am not all that fond of modern abstract art either-color field paintings and things like that.

I think I do like a lot of art which many might consider ugly-that includes art that depicts "ugly" things, and art that is itself considered bad.

-- Edited by Cactus on Wednesday 9th of January 2013 02:58:51 PM

I have no idea how and why they picked the Guggenheim.