Davey Boy 2.0 Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Just so no-one thinks i'm putting on airs i'll go with: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 not sure if I can pick a favorite but I've always had a soft spot for the paintings of Mark Rothko. . Barra violeta, 1957 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 "Emo Beavers" of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Not Bob Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Torn between Persistance of Memory by Salvador Dali and Christine's World by Andrew Wyeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Guernica I'm not big into visual arts but I saw this in person and all the planning sketches and learned the history behind it and it's truly stunning. Good enough for an art newbie like me. The Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. How could anybody think for a moment that I could be in agreement with reaction and death? ... In the panel on which I am working, which I shall call Guernica, and in all my recent works of art, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death. Link to more info on the mural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 kandinsky is my favourite. it's hard to choose one work! i'll go with #7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 in 2000 niffermouse and i went to england for 2 weeks, and in the national gallery i finally "got" impressionist painting looking at "cedars in wheat field" by van gogh. i couldn't find an image of it on line... a close second is it's one of jennifer's, 24 ' x 30" and it hangs in our living room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backbacon Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas: The Blue Boy The one I have hanging on my wall has the eyes poked out! Some strange intruder must have did it because when I returned from home after the weekend none of my college roomates had any idea how it happened! I will never solve that mystery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmelbatoast Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 This one's a little twisted but I have always found it facinating. Rene Magritte - The Rape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afro poppa Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 mine is also a magritte its called the false mirror..i have a poster of it in my room...i saw it at the MOMA in New York City and it instantly struck a chord with me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nibbler Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 The John Lennard on my wall is my fave, but this one is pretty nice too: WINTER SUNLIGHT Great thread by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Not Bob Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Say, isn't that the cover to Brain Salad Surgery by ELP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Too many too choose just one... but damn do I miss Ottawa. The National Art Gallery has an amazing collection. I could stare at a work by Alex Colville for hours. The internet does not do a good job of conveying how 'alive' his works are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 kudos to everyone who hasn't said and will continue not to say Voice of Fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 you can see the masking tape bleeds on VoF. was tres disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 I've actually seen this in person: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Me too Jaimoe, while in Paris in '97 I checked out one of his museums/galleries there, the hostel I stayed was named after him, apparently he painted there. As well, while in Amsterdam, I bought a print of "Skeleton with Burning Cigarette", the Guitarist print was a bit above my price range though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 I saw that Picasso painting in Chicago. Man, I turned a corner in the museum and wham, there it was. I was caught totally off-guard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edger Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 (edited) One of my favourite as well Jaimoe... (although for some reason I couldn't seem to find a copy that I could cut and paste...) (I will never claim to be technically inclined that's for sure)...The print was one of my first gifts that I ever gave to Todd. It's in our living room. I got it from one of those university poster fairs... Edited April 30, 2007 by Guest can't spell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr8FuL Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 The Creation of a Cult by Dahli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 This one's a little twisted but I have always found it facinating. Rene Magritte - The Rape I think Magritte is an endlessly fascinating artist. I just went to an exhibit of his work that was showing here in Seoul last month and loved it! Except for all of the people who were pontificating about what they thought Magritee was trying to symbolise or represent. If you know anything about Magritte, you know that he hated the idea of symbollism, and thus wasn't trying to "represent" anything in particular with his paintings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allison Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Yay! A thread about Art!! Except I'm to scared to post a picture in case it turns out to be homeless person cocksucking-not that that isn't art-somewhere (technique???) I'm a visual art junkie so I couldn't possibly pick one favorite painting.Depends on mood,what I'm working on,etc. I like this guys stuff right now-he's my favorite of the last week.Grant Barnhart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\/\/illy Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Favourite is impossible to say. I enjoy different pieces of art on different days and in different moods. Here's one that I have framed on my wall though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\/\/illy Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Here's one in my bathroom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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