What's your favourite work of art?

AskMyChocolate

Doesn't matter' whether it be a piece of music, a painting, a poem, a film, a sculpture or whatever. What has really grabbed you?

I still find "Starry Night" by Van Gogh extraordinary. My brother is taking me to Amsterdam for a treat and it is what I'm most looking forward to. If they have it out on loan I'll be seriously disappointed.

Adam

Anna Molly

On an art front it definitely has to be Goya's-'The Sleep Of Reason Produces Nightmares'
His etches are just amazing.

mink_man

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Fizman

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

My brother is taking me to Amsterdam for a treat and it is what I'm most looking forward to. If they have it out on loan I'll be seriously disappointed.

And the award for the most innocent post in AH's ever goes to...........

:pac:

My name is URL

The Jon Burgerman drawing sealed up in my attic.. bought it for 25 euro at a car boot sale two years ago

OutlawPete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvkNAyQN-jg

orcanius.

Wrong area of the internet. Nobody on boards.ie, particularly in the "After Hours" section has any knowledge of culture. You'll only find mainstream/consumerist "culture" on here...

ElaElaElano

Watched 'Schindler's List' for the first time a few months ago (disgraceful, I know) and it has to be the most stunning film ever. Just breathtaking.

Music wise, Needle in the Hay (or anything really) by Elliott Smith, timeless, never gets old and perfect in every sense of the word, poetic, beautiful, the lot. Got a bit of an obsession with him actually.

I'm a bit of a philistine when it comes to art to be perfectly honest, but there's a painting I saw once and am in love with- don't know who painted it but it's basically a big room, with a woman's head made out like steps, and curtains. Hard to describe.

Saila

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

My brother is taking me to Amsterdam for a treat and it is what I'm most looking forward to. If they have it out on loan I'll be seriously disappointed.

Its ok you pay them by the hour in amsterdam, if she's out there will be another one along soon.

Posy

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

I still find "Starry Night" by Van Gogh extraordinary. My brother is taking me to Amsterdam for a treat and it is what I'm most looking forward to. If they have it out on loan I'll be seriously disappointed.

One of my favourites is 'The Persistance of Memory' by Dali, but there's too much amazing art in the world for me to pick just one specific thing! I'm also a big Van Gogh fan. (I thought 'Starry Night' was in the MOMA in New York though.. I could be mistaken. )
I went to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and they had a whole Van Gogh exhibit. I was in heaven!

jd007

http://desertpeace.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/scream.jpg

kieran26

jd007 wrote: »

http://desertpeace.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/scream.jpg

+1 on that one love it too

OutlawPete

If I can be greedy and also choose a piece of music.

I adore Claude Debussey's Clair De Lune which is used to great effect in Frankie and Johnny here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXoia1sqXfQ

Karl Hungus

http://www.avenuedstereo.com/modern/goya_saturn.jpg

AskMyChocolate

Fizman wrote: »

And the award for the most innocent post in AH's ever goes to...........

:pac:

Aah c'mon. Tell us. Otherwise I'll never get to sleep and then Santy won't come.

Banksy's whole collection really.

kfallon

The big sheeeeite I had this morn.....

Einhard

OutlawPete wrote: »

If I can be greedy and also choose a piece of music.

I adore Claude Debussey's Clair De Lune which is used to great effect in Frankie and Johnny here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXoia1sqXfQ

That's a lovely piece alright. Sounds timeless, as if it could have been composed yesterday or 300 years ago. And since Michelle Pfeiffer could probably be described as a work of art, you're being very greedy!!

If I had only one choice, it'd have to be Ennio Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe" from The Mission. Sends a shiver down my spine every time I listen to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

sceptre

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

I still find "Starry Night" by Van Gogh extraordinary. My brother is taking me to Amsterdam for a treat and it is what I'm most looking forward to. If they have it out on loan I'll be seriously disappointed.

This is going to seriously piss you off but Posy's suspicions are correct - it's not in Amsterdam but rather MoMA in New York. It's been there since 1941, though it's been lent to a few galleries from time to time - it was in Amsterdam last year, I doubt they've re-lent it to the Van GOgh museum again so soon.

But you can get to see my favourite Van Gogh - Wheatfield with Crows. That's in the Van Gogh museum.

JayEnnis

All in order from Impressionism onwards, never like the classics.

Thank god for leaving cert art, really opened my eyes.

Le bar des Folies-Bergère- Edouard Manet
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Le mont ste victorie- Paul Cezanne
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Wheatfield with crows- Vincent Van Gogh.
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Premonitions of civil war- Salvador Dali.
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Pablo Picasso- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
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Storminateacup

My favourite work of art?

The post-beer poo I took sunday morning.
I swear to God I think it was in my bowels since the previous sunday morning.
An absolute masterpiece.

Kersh

http://fenix77.f.e.pic.centerblog.net/h790mh56.jpg

http://gandt.blogs.brynmawr.edu/files/2009/01/hr_giger_birthmachine.jpg

2 of my favourites.

SoupyNorman

http://blog.chosun.com/web_file/blog/342/7342/1/michelangelo54.jpg

Wibbs

Most of Michelangelo. http://www.romaviva.com/vaticano-castel-santangelo/michelangelo-pieta.jpg

Turner IMHO is the best impressionist that never was one. Also IMHO he blew Monet out of the water in his painting of light. He went damn near abstract at times. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/turner-norham-castle.jpg Just do a google pic search and you'll see what I mean.

Picasso changed so so many things, probably more than any other artist. He excelled in every direction his creativity took him. My fave of his http://gogeometry.com/wonder_world/picasso_guernica_40.jpg

Krieg

http://www.bestpriceart.com/vault/cgfa_ducreux1.jpg

MistyCheese

My favourite work of art is Dalí's Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening.

Picture & Explanation

WindSock

I can't think of a favourite. I loved the Pieta too, and was blown away by the Vatican, I also like Guernica, I'd love to go to see it. Gaudi's Iglesia was pretty cool aswell. The Van Gogh Wheatfield is prob my fav of his also. I'm sure there are heaps more that I can't think of at the moment. The Caravaggio in Dublin too.

Strange Loop

I love Van Gogh as well, OP.

You're in for a treat as there's a collection of impressionists from the Rijksmuseum there at the moment. (try and go early, though, to avoid the crowds. amsterdam's full of tourists, atm)

My favourite is this one...

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/zoom.jsp?page=2659&lang=en

Besides him I love all the french impressionists and I've a penchnat for Rothko.

My favourite statue would be Bernini's 'The ecstasy of St. Teresa' and my favourite poems would be this one.

Cheap Thrills!

That David by Michealangelo is rather handsome...:P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)

Art....huhuuhhuhuuhuh

snickerpuss

orcanius. wrote: »

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pickarooney

JayEnnis wrote: »

Le mont ste victorie- Paul Cezanne
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That's the view from my balcony. (The mountain, not the painting)

I don't know if I could pick a favourite work of art, but this would be on the shortlist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ

hidinginthebush

I think Patrick Ireland's (aka Brian O'Dotherty's) portrait on Marcel Duchamp is the best piece of art I've ever seen or heard about. He basically hooked up a heart monitor to Duchamp and recorded the signal, then just put it on repeat. The fact that he essentially captured his heartbeat and has it repeated is the most exact replication of a life you can provide. Plus the simplicity is just beautiful.

I also love stuff by Dali and Bernini (sculptor).

elbee

Yep, Starry Night is in MOMA in New York, and I was in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in April and nothing was mentioned about a loan.

My favourite is probably either Almond Blossoms by Van Gogh or Hiroshige's Great Bridge, Sudden Shower at Atake. Which Van Gogh did a version of.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is pretty cool, I don't imagine you'll be disappointed even with the absence of Starry Night - but the queues can be unreal so get there as early as you can - or skip the queue by buying your ticket in the Diamond Museum across the road.

biko

It's a toss-up between the Skagen painters and Monet.

For local art, check out Wilhelm Balcerzak.

In terms of music, lately it's been Beethoven's Tempest Sonata 3rd movement.. Everyone should give it a shot.
The Count of Monte Cristo is the best book I've read.. 1100 pages of the greatest revenge plot ever written.
Hubble's Deep Field gets my best painting/picture award.. Can't imagine a renaissance painting getting anywhere close to the same reaction from me.
That's followed closely by Hentai Babes Vol. 6. All works of art.

Brendog

Painting...."Virgin on the Rocks"
I think its a master piece of art. It looks 3-D. The way the dress the virgin mother is wearing is creased and the way the water and rocks are painted is amazing.


Sculpture...."The Pieta"
Once again, a master piece. I think this is what all sculptors should dream of making. Not only are the figures of Jesus and his mother life size but it includes the detail of every visible body part even through the cloth wrapped around his body. It almost looks like an actual plaster cast of jesus and his mothers bodies. To think that someone could have had this vision in their minds for so long, and in such detail, is astonishing. Its no wonder people used to come to this sculpture and prey. It was also recorded to bring many who set their eyes upon it to tears. I could look at it for hours.

anniehoo

Only like some of Picassos stuff but this has been my favourite for years now. One minute she looks sad and contemplative, then she looks secretly happy and a bit smug. I love it and have a massive print of it in my sitting room.

billymitchell

I like pretty a lot of Kandinskys stuff, find it hard to pick one in particular
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kandinsky-_comp-8-580x401.jpg

Living near imma, I also have seen some Irish art over the last while that I kind of liked e.g. Robert Ballaghs "Marchers"

clarke1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZX8Y49xMY

skip to about 5.30 mins if you just want to get straight into it or but other than that, genuinely listen to the whole 10 mins. this has to be my favourite. it's soo... smooth? the melodies are brilliant. sometimes i just lie down and listen to this over and over:)

the_dark_side

this painting by Canadian painter, F. H. Varley


Van Gogh 'Red Vineyard at Arles'



two 'rain' paintings by Michael Flohr


Van Gogh's drawings

sbsquarepants

Probably not the best sculpture in the world, or even my favourite for that matter, i find it hard to pin down a favourite, but his always makes me smile.
It's not too clear from the photo, but keep in mind that it's 10 foot tall and made of stainless steel!

martineatworld

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNfek_KLm9Q&feature=related
Comptine D'un Autre Ete: L'apres midi. by Yann Tiersen. Or that song from Amelie! Excuse my lack of proper spelling.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9995/4630346554fcb3c088a1o.jpg

Pass this on way to work every day, really hits home how grafitti can be a powerful piece of opinionated art.

Sergeant

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg

The Master

Poussin - Les Bergers d'Arcadie (Et in Arcadia ego)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolas_Poussin_052.jpg

I have a personal connection to this painting and it's my favourite for that reason

--Kaiser--

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up
Turner

http://www.barking-moonbat.com/images/uploads/Turner_1838_the-fighting-temeraire-tugged-to-her-last-berth-to-be-broken.jpg

And just about everything Dali painted, here's a particular favourite
Christ of St. John of the Cross
http://dali.urvas.lt/forviewing/pic20.jpg

Doyler92

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TheIrishGrover

I've bought a few pieces of comic art by Bruce Timm which I love. However this is probably my favourite painting. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks

http://www.art-reproductions.net/images/Artists/Edward-Hopper/Nighthawks.jpg

Archeron

Beethovens Fur Elise is a tune that always grabs me.

Starry night is one of favorite paintings as well OP. I can sit and stare at it for hours!!

Azureus

http://www.kerlin.ie/artists/Brian-Maguire.aspx#

Brianb Maguires work is brillaint imo. Especially Have you Got Insurance?

Ghost Ship by Alice Maher is another firm favourite!

smokesletsgo

james nares work
seen his work in the Sebastian Guinness Gallery
he paints by suspending himself above the painting on a homemade sliding contraption which enables him to drag a loaded brush in its sweeping calligraphic path across the canvas.

have to see in the flesh its amazing to fully appreciate
http://www.jamesnares.com/Site/PAINTING.html