What's your favourite work of art?

AskMyChocolate · 03-08-2010 02:04AM #1

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 · 03-08-2010 02:06AM

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Anna Molly · 03-08-2010 02:09AM

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

mink_man · 03-08-2010 02:09AM

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Fizman · 03-08-2010 02:12AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:12AM

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

OutlawPete · 03-08-2010 02:12AM

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

orcanius. · 03-08-2010 02:13AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:16AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:17AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:18AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:20AM

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

kieran26 · 03-08-2010 02:24AM

jd007 wrote: »

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

+1 on that one love it too

OutlawPete · 03-08-2010 02:25AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:26AM

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

AskMyChocolate · 03-08-2010 02:36AM

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.

03-08-2010 02:40AM

Banksy's whole collection really.

kfallon · 03-08-2010 02:42AM

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

Einhard · 03-08-2010 02:50AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:52AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:56AM

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 · 03-08-2010 02:57AM

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 · 03-08-2010 03:19AM

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 · 03-08-2010 03:25AM

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

Wibbs · 03-08-2010 09:44AM

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 · 03-08-2010 10:15AM

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

MistyCheese · 03-08-2010 10:16AM

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 · 03-08-2010 10:17AM

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 · 03-08-2010 10:52AM

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! · 03-08-2010 11:01AM

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

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

Art....huhuuhhuhuuhuh

snickerpuss · 03-08-2010 11:04AM

orcanius. wrote: »

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...

Ahem, Art & Architecture this way <

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