Favourite piece of art you've seen

The favourite I actually seen was The Last Supper by Da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

The day I went to see it I was the only person there, it just seemed so strange to be standing looking at one of the world's most famous pieces of art on my own in such a quiet place.

It's very faded but you are still touched with a little awe with it.

For sheer shock at the quality, it's also hard to see past the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Amazing. Man was a genius.

Also impressed by the Venus de Milo in the Louvre, but not so much by the Mona Lisa. Ok yeah it's famous and was surrounded but it's so small. Perhaps if you had the chance to stand in front of it yourself and study it, you could appreciate it more.

Michaelangelos David in Florence. Magnificent.
Any of Lowery's paintings. Beautiful.

I really like the caracvecchio in Dublin but would love to see others by him in time.

I remember seeing The Mona Lisa in the Louvre, and almost exploding with laughter at this teeny tiny picture that had dozens almost clamouring over each other to photograph. It did nothingfor me.

But in the same room, The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese was stunning.
https://www.artbible.info/art/large/707.html

jimgoose wrote: »

I'd be hard-pressed to name a favourite per sé, but a print of Farquharson's "The Shortening Winters Day" hangs in my living-room and pleases me every day:

Have you got Constable’s ‘The Hay Wain’ in the hall, J?

The Princess Bride wrote: »

I remember seeing The Mona Lisa in the Louvre, and almost exploding with laughter at this teeny tiny picture that had dozens almost clamouring over each other to photograph. It did nothingfor me.

Yeah it really is a "Is that it?" moment when you see it.



I have a handful of Andrew Bones artwork around the place and a few more in bubblewrap that get rotated around avery month or every six weeks or so.

https://www.parkwestgallery.com/browse-artwork/gallery/andrew-bone

I don't know if they'd be considered the greatest artwork in the world, but I like them.

Scarlet42 wrote: »

The Three Graces by Antonio Canova - seen it in Edinburgh about 20 years ago .. absolutely stunning

https://vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/06/26/13/15/24/6a77ee04-0f81-49af-9198-f02ac7b211bd/Graces_front_back_2560.jpg

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-three-graces

They all have lovely bottoms.

Muahahaha wrote: »

...Thats a fine piece, I love the sunrise in the distance and how wooly the sheep are in the snow. Any tips for buying replica prints, what site did you use? Have been meaning to buy a good replica for above the fireplace but not sure where to start.

Thank you, I like it. The print I have is in a 22'' x 18'' frame and cost 30 Euro at a bric-a-brac stall in the local shopping centre about ten years ago, so I'm afraid I won't be your man in Sotheby's. :pac:

This is it:

Trevi Fountain

Ipso wrote: »

Any link to the Grapes of Wrath?

A quick Google would suggest it is.

If you Google roman charity grapes of wrath together you will get a few links

i’ve been to galleries and museums all over the world but it’s amazing how pieces stay with you and you come to love some old familiar ones.

in our national gallery - I’ve always loved
The Wounded Poacher

And the dark and sinister About to write a letter by our homegrown Yeats.

I went a few years ago to the Musee D’Orsay in Paris and got to see one of Van Goughs spectacular ( and HUGE) starry sky paintings - and it was like I’d been given haluciogenic drugs - it made your eyes keep trying to focus and refocus and so it looked as though the stars were spinning in the oainting - absolutely incredible. Apparently there’s some fancy science explination of you google it and his technique.

I also love The Eve of Saint Agnes in the Hugh Lane - also by Harry Clarke. A wicked piece of genius he had made for Mr Bowlands Biscuits who wanted a religious piece for the stairwell of his grand home on Merrion Square. Clarke came up with fantastical underwater scene around the borders and a nighttime sequence of goblins and fleeing lovers and nightwatchmen in a crepy castle - based loosely on his interpretation of the legend of the Eve of St Agnes where if you see your lover before midnight you are destined to marry them - unbelievable and pure solid genius. Well worth a Google !

The Wounded Poacher

JustAThought wrote: »

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Rows Grower wrote: »

Every time I get the chance to visit the Chester Beatty museum it just leaves me awestruck that such a mind blowing constantly changing exhibition of art is only a few hours drive away from my front door, it's ours and it's free.

I used to work about aninutes walk away from itnand would have my lunch on its roofgarden and look down at the snake & the potter down through the collection - netsukes? Carved Jade pieces - incredible. What a man. They gave him an Irish Passport and citizenship in thanks. How times have changed.

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/jack-donovan-11-c-aaa4b62b0a

Always drawn to this. Jack Donovan

I like Las Meninas (Spanish for 'The Ladies-in-waiting'), a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez:

The Prado in Google Earth: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22600614

Beksinki - just love his stuff...

I think your fav art pieces reveal so much about us.


Mine change though.

Right now i like illustration.

Harry Clarke Madeline.




Dali.




Chiara Bautista.

I thought "piece of art you've seen" meant it should be one we've actually seen.

I nominate two: someone above cited "Las Meninas" - such a famous picture, seen on calendars and postcards and chocolate boxes. But I had never liked it much or taken any notice of the hype.

It's only when you see it in the flesh, in Madrid, that you realise how BIG it is - ten feet high by nine feet wide - and how very peculiar: the figures (what everyone looks at) are clustered in the lower third of it: the rest of the painting - square metres - are of dim shadowy ceiling and walls and a carefully painted image of the back of his own canvas.

It seems to be saying something but I don't know what: mesmerising.

https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/543317142527496041/

The other was this Vermeer in New York: it doesn't look like much from a print. But see it in reality, and the pearly light, the expert, confident painting, seems to glow like a moment trapped from the dawn. Exquisite.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437881

LeYouth wrote: »

Ah... you're a rare specimen (which is great!).

Ha thank you!