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Favourite piece of art you've seen

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Do you have to be good at art or drawing to be an artist? Because I sometimes think up good concept ideas for a painting but obviously can't paint it.
    Nope. :)

    You can get computer programs to do it now :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


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    Dali

    Artemisia Gentileschi

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    Junji Ito
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    waldemar von kozak

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭LeYouth


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    Dali

    Artemisia Gentileschi

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    Junji Ito
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    What does that last one represent. Never seen that before.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    A bit of a hero of mine is also Michael Turner. He did alot of motorsport and aviation art. Heres one of the fearsome original Spa Francorchamps circuit in 1970 thru the La Carriere kink (my favourite of his)...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Do you have to be good at art or drawing to be an artist? Because I sometimes think up good concept ideas for a painting but obviously can't paint it.

    Some abstract art out there would make you wonder how difficult it is. Like the Irish artist Sean Scully, he just paints stripes and patchwork which looks easy yet his pieces sell for tens of thousands. Then again if it was that easy everyone would be doing it.

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    But I still look at his work and think it doesnt look all that hard to recreate once you can find out the shades of colours he is using. Its certainly nowhere near as skillful as other art posted on this thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

    The Children's Hospital. It is an installation piece.



    I have often thought all children's toys should be based around this ethos.

    Video games dolls etc ...they could nurture children teach them ..help them. :) Imagine video games that taught you a language as you played them or something.

    Just like the children's hospital.

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    In fact .....i don't think any other piece of art has affected me so much in my entire life.

    Little girls should be taught philosophy by barbie dolls.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


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    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    buried wrote: »
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    I like it ..do you know who its by?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,841 ✭✭✭buried


    I like it ..do you know who its by?

    Sorry, I never gave a description! Its from a graphic novel book about the Jack the Ripper murders called "From Hell" by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.

    Highly recommended. Great Read. Great Art. :)

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    buried wrote: »
    Sorry, I never gave a description! Its from a graphic novel book about the Jack the Ripper murders called "From Hell" by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.

    Highly recommended. Great Read. Great Art. :)
    Wow I will look it up even if i don't read all of it ...it looks interesting to take a look at ! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭two wheels good


    OP, I wondered if that that was your own copy of The Scream completed during lockdown.
    But I see there are different versions link. $120m for the pastel version.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,536 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


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    The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer.

    Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

    I think it's just stunning.


  • Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭Hiitsme


    The Veiled Christ marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino in the Cappella Sansevero, Naples (1753). Saw it last year while visiting Naples. An absolutely beautiful piece of art.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Hiitsme wrote: »
    The Veiled Christ marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino in the Cappella Sansevero, Naples (1753). Saw it last year while visiting Naples. An absolutely beautiful piece of art.

    I saw that in Naples last year and was really looking forward to getting up close but was a bit disappointed, I felt that the veil over the body appeared to be too thick and potentially masked the sculptors skill but that's just me.
    There was another piece in the same chapel that had a figure partially wrapped in a fish net, that had me scratching my head wondering how that could be possible with marble.

    Did you get to see Carravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy in the Pio Monte della Misericordia nearby? That knocked my socks off.


  • Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭Hiitsme


    Seamai wrote: »
    I saw that in Naples last year and was really looking forward to getting up close but was a bit disappointed, I felt that the veil over the body appeared to be too thick and potentially masked the sculptors skill but that's just me.
    There was another piece in the same chapel that had a figure partially wrapped in a fish net, that had me scratching my head wondering how that could be possible with marble.

    Did you get to see Carravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy in the Pio Monte della Misericordia nearby? That knocked my socks off.

    Yes, I saw Carravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy ... truly magnificent. Carravaggio is my favourite artist of all time and was the reason for my trip to Naples. I loved the city with its many treasures, museums and art and had planned to return at Easter this year, however, Covid dashed my plans! I look forward to returning next year to see the other Carravaggio masterpieces I missed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Hiitsme wrote: »
    Yes, I saw Carravaggio's Seven Works of Mercy ... truly magnificent. Carravaggio is my favourite artist of all time and was the reason for my trip to Naples. I loved the city with its many treasures, museums and art and had planned to return at Easter this year, however, Covid dashed my plans! I look forward to returning next year to see the other Carravaggio masterpieces I missed.

    Naples is a fantastic city, I felt safer than I would in Barcelona. Many bypass it because of it's reputation but going outside ones comfort zone can be very rewarding, great food too. Got to see his Martyrdom of St. Ursula in the Palazzo Zevalos-Stigliano, didn't make it out to Capodimonte but like you will definitely go back next year.
    Saw his Beheading of John the Baptist in Valletta just before the lockdown.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭upupup


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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    by Mark Rothko

    pfffft




    Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915, oil on linen, 79.5 x 79.5 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

    Too precious to sell


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    treasury-building-sculpture

    I'm not sure if it counts, but I used to love the Woman climbing the Treasury Building, now NAMA headquarters. I think it may be gone now.

    Originally commissioned by Johnny Ronan, the sculptor's vision was of a man crawlling up, but Ronan was horrified when he seen the scaled down model. The artist here is Rowan Gillispie

    https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/statue-got-sex-change-as-ex-billionaire-ronan-didnt-want-naked-man-on-treasury-building-28940311.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    I love this. The anthropomorphism, kitsch style, and capturing of the various emotions one feels when playing poker.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭Barna77


    I love this. The anthropomorphism, kitsch style, and capturing of the various emotions one feels when playing poker.
    We had that at home when I was a kid :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Yester


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    I think that's just a picture of ice-cream.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Hibernicis


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    by Mark Rothko
    Yester wrote: »
    I think that's just a picture of ice-cream.


    Close, but not quite right. From the bottom:
    • The green green grass of home
    • Kerry’s awesome Purple Mountain
    • Blue skies smiling at me; Nothing but blue skies do I see (Irving Berlin)

    I love modern art, no matter how simple. The power of art is in it’s capacity to be interpreted by it’s audience, offering to each observer their own interpretation; beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all that.

    This is probably the best ever thread on Boards. Compliments to the OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    I love this. The anthropomorphism, kitsch style, and capturing of the various emotions one feels when playing poker.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Do album covers count? If so i've always appreciated Iron Maiden for their creative album covers.

    A Matter of Life and Death is probably my favorite album cover by them.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini, this was on my list of must sees on my one and only trip to the Louvre and I forgot about it, then I just happened to walk past it tucked away in a corner upstairs on the way out. Other countries would build a museum around a painting like this but that's just the way the Louvre is, too many classics to give them all their own gallery. I would have been raging if I'd missed it...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭SmallTeapot


    Thargor wrote: »
    Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome by Giovanni Paolo Panini, this was on my list of must sees on my one and only trip to the Louvre and I forgot about it, then I just happened to walk past it tucked away in a corner upstairs on the way out. Other countries would build a museum around a painting like this but that's just the way the Louvre is, too many classics to give them all their own gallery. I would have been raging if I'd missed it...

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    Wow, that's stunning!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    yeah that is a great piece of work, I love the idea of loads of paintings inside a painting, its great to zoom in and see all the detail in each one. The depth of field in it is excellent too. .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Piet Mondrian, Woods Near Oele is without doubt my favourite painting.

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    Do you have any particular reason? Just curious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Another art restoration disaster coming out of Spain to follow on from Monkey Christ back in 2012. This time there was two attempts to restore it with the second attempt getting even worse than the first
    Conservation experts in Spain have called for a tightening of the laws covering restoration work after a copy of a famous painting by the baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo became the latest in a long line of artworks to suffer a damaging and disfiguring repair.

    A private art collector in Valencia was reportedly charged €1,200 by a furniture restorer to have the picture of the Immaculate Conception cleaned. However, the job did not go as planned and the face of the Virgin Mary was left unrecognisable despite two attempts to restore it to its original state.

    The case has inevitably resulted in comparisons with the infamous “Monkey Christ” incident eight years ago, when a devout parishioner’s attempt to restore a painting of the scourged Christ on the wall of a church on the outskirts of the north-eastern Spanish town of Borja made headlines around the world.
    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/22/experts-call-for-regulation-after-latest-botched-art-restoration-in-spain


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭Scarlet42


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Another art restoration disaster coming out of Spain to follow on from Monkey Christ back in 2012. This time there was two attempts to restore it with the second attempt getting even worse than the first


    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jun/22/experts-call-for-regulation-after-latest-botched-art-restoration-in-spain


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    isn't in unbelievable .. the original looks so beautiful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    I just wonder the thought process of the 'restorer' while he was doing it. I presume he took a photograph of it before beginning and at the end of attempt no.1 he realised oh sh1t I've ballsed this up. But then he goes for another shot and it gets even worse!


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Dryptosaurus was a 7.5m long tyrannosauroid

    So first two bad depictions of it and it's big cousin t-rex

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    Edward Drinker Cope drew this dopey looking tail dragger standing on a rock back in 1869





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    In 1947 tyrannosauroids were still dragging their tails curtsey of Rudolph F. Zallinger




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    Back in 1896 Charles R. Knight painted this. 25 ft long apex predators in action.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25 Purple_Bear


    I was mesmerised by Jan van Eyck's Madonna with Canon van der Paele. It's held in the permanent collection of the Groeningemuseum in Bruges. The details, like the lose threads in the carpet and the details of Van der Paele's face, are astonishing. It's worth visiting Bruges just to stand in front of this painting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭Shoelaces


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    The Scream by Edward Munch in Norways national gallery in Oslo. Its pretty small in real life but theres something about it that is really dark. Then the history and influence behind it- Munch suffered a lifetime of depression and anxiety after both his mother and sister died from TB when he was a kid and then another sister was put in a mental asylum for the insane.

    The painting captures a person living a kind of hell on earth inside their head, its like the subject matter is literally on the cusp of losing their mind. After a couple of minutes of staring at it up close it actually feels pretty unsettling.

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    Rembrandts Nightwatch in Amsterdam. Its the sheer scale of this when seen that amazes, you just feel small standing there looking at it. Then the detail in it, the use of light and darkness and the depth of field is pretty special

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    One of the Easter Island statues in the British Museum in London. It dominates the room it is in, when you come around the corner and see it for the first time theres a real wow moment. Then theres questions of how a completely isolated island community in the south Pacific came up with this 1,000 years ago and then went on to make another 60 of them. They weigh between 10 and 15 tonnes each and are made out of volcanic ash. Theres an absolute serious level of work gone into each one and they were making them for over 600 years.

    Plus the gold plated inscription below it gives you that bonus airbrushing of British colonialist history -"Donated by Captain Powell of HMS Topaze to Queen Victoria in 1869". Eh no lads, you pillaged their islands and stole it.

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    My favourite of all is Michelangelos Statue of David in Florence. I was absolutely flabbergasted seeing this, its just breathtaking. Its 17 feet tall and then on a plinth of another 12 feet so it towers right above you. I find it incredibile to think that Michelangelo began this with a single block of marble weighing 5 tonnes and chipped away at it for three years to carve it. He had a 3D map in his head of what he wanted to create from it. Heres an idea of the sheer scale of it

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    Its impressive from a distance but then you get up close to it and it gets even better. The amount of detail in it is just astounding, every muscle, every vein in his body is carved intricately.

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    So whats your favourite piece of art that you've seen. Something that when you saw it in the flesh you were left dumbfounded.

    This is a beautiful post, was feeling low and it gave me a spark. Thank you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Interesting point on the Easter Island statues is that, they faced inland not out to sea. Ruthger Bregman in his book Mankind puts forward the theory that they built them, not as part of any religious belief, but simply, it was a community purpose and action, since they had an abundance of food and plenty time on their hands.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Lirange


    Not by anyone famous. But I love this oil painting of a flamenco dancer.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 530 ✭✭✭Stan27


    Not big into art but i was in an art museum in melbourne and come of the pictures painted were unreal.
    Serious talent.


  • Registered Users Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ngunners


    The terracotta soldiers in Xi’an are a sight to behold.


  • Registered Users Posts: 218 ✭✭Faze11


    The hens night by Ted Jones. There's a matching one called the stags night. Great artist. Love loads of his paintings. Bonus that he is Irish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    The children's hospital art installation by the kabakovs.


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    The Plains of Heaven by John Martin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭SmallTeapot


    The Plains of Heaven by John Martin

    Wow... that is beautiful :)


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    This thread is almost a work of art in itself. Truly awe-inspiring to see one beautiful piece of art after another.

    And the fact that this is in After Hours is like a rose growing through a gap in the concrete.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25 Purple_Bear


    murpho999 wrote: »
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    The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer.

    Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

    I think it's just stunning.

    I've never been that impressed by Vermeer. His figures have no substance, it's quite obvious that he used a camera obscura.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25 Purple_Bear


    Jan van Eyck's Portrait of a Man in London's National Gallery is another masterwork. Many consider it to be a self-portrait, which I agree with. It's very small, not life-sized like one might imagine it is.


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