What Is Your Favorite Piece Of Art?

[phail]

definitely LEONARDO: one of his notebooks

 

[Mr. Lucky]

 

[phail]

I look at these two sculptures and am completely humbled, there before me is genius and talent beyond my imagination.

But, while Michaelangelo’s is technically far superior, it is the Bernini that grips my soul. The Bernini just leaves me in awe as to the emotion and intensity it conveys.

This is clearly a personal matter because of my psychological make-up and is not meant to debate which is “better”.

i agree, "better" is irrelevant, the beauty of art is how individual pieces speak to each of us in a unique profound way, on many different levels. its very personal.

there is so much great art out there, and I have seen only a small fraction of it, my goal of posting this thread, is to have myself (and others if they wish) exposed to new things, I wouldnt otherwise know about.

 

[phail]

Paintings
Of course most of the previously mentioned masters Monet, Van Gogh, Michaelangelo, Da Vinci etc.

Dali’s The Persistence of Memory and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory. When viewed side by side I see the reason for constitutional law, but that would take too long to explain and is a little out there.

I lesser known artist was the Dutch painter Pieter Claesz from the 1600’s
regarding the futility of worldly efforts

Great art transcends the medium so,

Literature
Anything by Hemingway, once I was over 40 it clicked.
In my 20’s it was tedious.

These days, the Old Man and Sea could be a chapter in my biography.

Love the Russians especially Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago.

I would suggest this list.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/
It is much better than the Oprah book club.


Music
Claude Debussy - La Mer
Freddy Mercury of Queen was a genius songwriter.

Theater and Acting
James Dean’s performance in Giant


Food
A meal prepared by the late Alain Chapel or when he was in his prime Jacques Pepin. A medium where the art could only be experienced by a few and are gone forever.


Bring back Sister Wendy

thanks for expanding the definition Michael, wonderful suggestions.
did not know about Claesz, but now know to explore the work.
i might add the art of printing, begun by Gutenberg, in 1450-55.

 

[onthebottom]

OTB,
is that at the musee d'orsay?

It is, the museum is a piece of art in itself, it's a converted rail station.....

Here's another from the collection:

 

[onthebottom]

Another that I like:

 

[gibsomstreet]

What is this thread without...

 

[Berlin]

Ma dick.

 

[onthebottom]

or:

OTB

 

[Aardvark154]

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin's Sun-lit Pines

 

[Dewalt]

bit fall

I stumbled across this piece in downtown Vienna a few years ago and it was so quiet and engaging I just sat and watched it for a half hour with the sun shining behind it, in a park. It is easily one of the best works I have ever seen.

Here is the clip to the guy's project in St. Louis.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AICq53U3dl8

Way better than any of the modernist crap that is out there..

 

[Prim0]

Frank Frazetta has always been a fav...

 

[herames]

www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/fantasy/images/FrankFrazetta-The-Death-Dealer-I-1973.jpg

i'm guessing that is the same artist for Conan cover art

i love love love Bret Blevins art

 

[phail]

Ironically the NAZIS both hated and loved him. e.g. considered him decadent, yet confiscated and sold paintings by him.

i think they loved him more. thats why they stole his works (among others) for THEMSELVES. those works are finally now being returned to the rightful owning jewish familes who had their belongings pilfered.

 

[Aardvark154]

i think they loved him more. thats why they stole his works (among others) for THEMSELVES. those works are finally now being returned to the rightful owning jewish familes who had their belongings pilfered.

True.

 

[ballbust]

http://www.blogwars.com/modules.php...=13208&title=Now+Money+Is+Fucking&new_topic=0

 

[phail]

http://www.blogwars.com/modules.php...=13208&title=Now+Money+Is+Fucking&new_topic=0

not sure wtf that is but i guess its creative

 

[phail]

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin's Sun-lit Pines

v. interesting aardvark. not familiar with shishkin. thanks.

 

[Aardvark154]

v. interesting aardvark. not familiar with shishkin. thanks.

My favorite museum in Saint-Petersburg is the Russian Museum, not the Hermitage. Principaly for the simple reason that you see so many great artworks with which you are unfamiliar, rather than yet another Rembrandt in shades of brown.

For that reason among others I made sure to visit New York in Autumn 2005 to see the Russia! exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/russia/index.html

Shiskin was a member of the Peredvizhniki movement (The Wanderers or The Itinerants). Two of my other favorate members of the movement are Valentin Alexandrovich Serov and Ilya Yefimovich Repin.

 

[Rockload6]

Thanks a lot Prim0, I am now in love with Frank Frazetta. I love the darkness in his work.