What are your favourite works of Art?

[Catzsy]

It can be a painting, sculpture, computer art. Anything really.
These are mine:
Millais- 'Ophelia'
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/51/image44a.jpg[/URL
Love the Pre-Raphealites.
His subject is ophelia from Hamlet who is driven insane by Hamlet's neglect and the death of her father and drowns in a stream.
Hieronymus Bosch -The Haywain

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9470/image45x.jpg (http://img12.imageshack.us/i/image45x.jpg/)
Such a great depiction of hell. The third of a trilogy. The first shows the Garden of Eden. The second shows how greed (metaphorically represented by a wagon of hay) can lead one to hell which is the subject of this picture.
Salvidor Dali - The Persistence of Memory
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4755/image46.jpg[/URL
A great surrealist. Clocks and watches made appearances in a lot of his paintings and seemed to represent the passing of time maybe to remind people of their own mortality. The ants on the orange watch on the bottom left hand corner were symbols of death that he used a lot as well.

[Ajthedragon]

Never had an interest in it myself. :P

I just think. "Oh wow, Art... hehe that guy has a willy." ;)

[lPinoy]

although i'm not majorly interested in art, and i havent a clue about much really, i preferably love art like surrealism, abstract and whatever these are;

http://www.writedesignonline.com/history-culture/Matisse-pastoral.gif
http://www.bluetravelguide.com/photosBTG/00/00/06/76/ME0000067687_3.JPG

[Volumise]

Everything she does is amazing especially at her age.

http://www.artakiane.com/

[Erotica]

Leonardo da Vinci - the Virgin of the Rocks, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

[wiktoria]

Everything she does is amazing especially at her age.

http://www.artakiane.com/

Wow, thats brilliant.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_127.jpg/467px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_127.jpg Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers :D

[LoveToStack]

Not really a huge fan of the works of the old masters, Da Vinci etc. It just never appealed to me although I can appreciate the skill involved.
Don't mind some of Van Gogh's stuff, mostly the early works before he was completely crazy, esp his natural landscapes. I like Pissaro's natural landscapes too, especially Red Roofs.

With more modern stuff, I'd say Peter Howson's 'Patriots' is my favourite because it's the first painting I properly studied. Taught me to appreciate art properly and I still enjoy it:

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/1/4998.jpg

In response to 'Ophelia' I love that painting as well. The whole story of the pre raphelite brotherhood is quite interesing actually if you're into that stuff. The way they changed how people perceived art and how people approached their subject matter.

Modern art is a load of ** if you ask me. I can appreciate something if someone has put a lot of effort into it and the end product looks good, but if you just splash paint on canvas and talk about how it represents male chauvinism then that's **.
One example of modern art, sculpture really, that I do like is the work of Peter Chang. He does bracelets mainly, made of plastic which he builds up in individually molded layers. Some of the stuff is crazy;
http://vickywilliams.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/5622.jpg

Also if you're into graphic design there's a really good website, Behance Network (http://www.behance.net/). I know that this thread was started with Fine Art in mind but seems like loads of people are into graphics nowerdays.

[Keri?!]

I really like Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon because of the way he captures the so called 'prostitutes' in a variety of ways, making them seem incredibly unattractive, using the african masks that he was inspired by on his trips around the world and I think it's really interesting how the body shapes are angular and disjointed. I think Picasso has to be one of my favourite artists :)
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jconte/Images/Picasso_Demoiselles.jpg

I also really like Barbara Kruger's work
http://www.fussandfeathers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/barbara-kruger-untitled-your-body-is-a-battleground-1989.jpg

[AlexOC]

the one with the flowers that look like vaginas


tehehe

[Black_Apalachi]

I quite like John Constable's The Hay Wain but that's probably only because it's been hanging in our house all my life. Other than that I don't have much of an opinion on art. I just hate most abstract stuff and most of what Picasso did. Oh and by the way, I've seen the Mona Lisa in person and it is the most over-rated thing in the history of the world.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/John_Constable_The_Hay_Wain.jpg

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://www.victorianamagazine.com/victorianstyle/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/queenvictoria.jpg
Empress Victoria + Family

http://www.clevelandpeople.com/images/british/queen-elizabeth-1.jpg
Queen Elizabeth I (painted around the time of the victory over Spain i'm sure)

I love all older-style art really but the historical ones are the best by far, for example Queen Elizabeth I with her hand on the globe symbolises the start of the British Empire and English dominence across the world. I like art with history/meaning in it which automatically excludes modern 'art'.

[wixard]

ANDY WARHOL

http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/8/853/RVSY000Z/andy-warhol-beethoven-pink-book.jpg
beethoven

http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/12/1221/4FZN000Z/andy-warhol-cow-yellow-on-blue-background.jpg
cowwwwwwwwww (i love cows)

http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/8/883/EPJJ000Z/andy-warhol-mao-1972.jpg
my fav dictator!!!

[GommeInc]

I love all older-style art really but the historical ones are the best by far, for example Queen Elizabeth I with her hand on the globe symbolises the start of the British Empire and English dominence across the world. I like art with history/meaning in it which automatically excludes modern 'art'.
Indeed, there's always some sort of symbolism or meaning in aload of old portraits. You do not really get it in modern art :/

I'll have a look for my favourite sculpture/artist. He wrapped landscapes and items, creating new works of art.

[Adamm]

photography is my favourite works of art, the more personal, the more artistic.

[FlyingJesus]

I do a fair amount of painting myself but haven't really come across many artists that I like that much - I'm probably too into myself for it I guess. Only artist I really like is Wassily Kandinsky, whom one of my art teachers in college likened me to without knowing that I love him so that was pretty fab :P

A couple of my favourites from him:
http://www.russianavantgard.com/Artists/kandinsky/kandinsky_white_oval.jpg
"White Oval"

http://www.glyphs.com/art/kandinsky/comp8640.jpg
"Composition VIII"

Not very creative with the names but I just love how he puts so much geometrical work in, all looks fantastic to me regardless of meaning, and for me art is about aesthetics rather than what nice stories you can write about your work afterwards

[rnix]

Banksy because they are everywhere in bristol :L
http://www.banksy.co.uk/

[FlyingJesus]

Just realised that 2nd one won't let me hotlink and can't edit now, whoops.
Here it is from a site that'll hopefully like me more
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-07/kandinsky-composition-viii.jpg

Can't stand Banksy, boring hipster art

[rnix]

Banksy has some good stuff. But some awful trash.
But i don't really look at much other art than his.

[Catzsy]

@ LoveToStack - love that Peter Chang bracelet

@ Keri - I love Barbara Kruger too. A great contemporary visual artist.

@ Undertaker - who is the artist on these. Not really my thing but the colours and detail is
remarkable.

@ Wizard. Warhol is without doubt a master in his style of painting.

@ FJ - I have to say I haven't come across Wassily Kandinsky, before. He seems to be a great
abstract artist. I am going to research him further.

[FlyingJesus]

Pretty incredible guy really, he had sound-colour synaesthesia so when he was using certain colours he "heard" them and was literally trying to paint music. He does have a fair amount of more formed paintings of actual scenes and people etc. (mostly in his early work), which you might enjoy more having seen your personal favourites, but I'm an abstract man through and through :P

[ROT]

banksy napalm

[VelvetClover]

It can be a painting, sculpture, computer art. Anything really.
These are mine:
Millais- 'Ophelia'
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/51/image44a.jpg[/URL
Love the Pre-Raphealites.
His subject is ophelia from Hamlet who is driven insane by Hamlet's neglect and the death of her father and drowns in a stream.
Hieronymus Bosch -The Haywain

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9470/image45x.jpg (http://img12.imageshack.us/i/image45x.jpg/)
Such a great depiction of hell. The third of a trilogy. The first shows the Garden of Eden. The second shows how greed (metaphorically represented by a wagon of hay) can lead one to hell which is the subject of this picture.
Salvidor Dali - The Persistence of Memory
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4755/image46.jpg[/URL
A great surrealist. Clocks and watches made appearances in a lot of his paintings and seemed to represent the passing of time maybe to remind people of their own mortality. The ants on the orange watch on the bottom left hand corner were symbols of death that he used a lot as well.

Persistence of Memory is one of my favourite paintings too. I also like Swans Reflecting Elephants - amazing picture. I also like Frida Kahlo - What the Water Gave Me. I like surrealism :)

[Red]

I really love akiane. It's amazing to think someone so young could have that much talent.
http://www.akiane.com/
http://s4.hubimg.com/u/1847099_f520.jpg
http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1847022_f520.jpg

I have loads but i rly like guernica =]
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/picasso/picasso_guernica1937.jpg

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter_Family_of_Queen_Victoria. jpg/748px-Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter_Family_of_Queen_Victoria. jpg
Family of Queen Victoria, by Franz Xacer Winterhalter (1846)

I've always loved this portrait, old art not modern 'art' is skillful and stands the test of time. (just noticed i've posted in this already, looks a bumped thread) ah well :P.

[Aidenn]

francis bacon three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion
http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/N/N06/N06171_9.jpg

The Raft of Medussa - Théodore Géricault
Contains Mild Exposure
http://www.thehussy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/raft_of_the_medusa.jpg

Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch
Contains Mild Exposure
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/6/6d/20100330034629%21The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by _Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg

They are just a select few.

[Mathew]

I don't suppose I have any particular favourite, although we do have a print of Van Gogh's Sunflowers which rotates with another at the top of our stairs so I do suppose that is one.

We have visited both the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum (featuring Kiefer and Rembradnt's work) in Amsterdam which are truly brilliant experiences. Also had a look around the Lowry Museum many many years ago in Liverpool on a school trip, although you can't really take it in and enjoy yourself when you have a bunch of whining preteens who don't appreciate such art... :P

[Sharon]

Anything by FlyingJesus.

[Spuds]

More into street art as it's something I feel I have an impact on, albeit most likely at a local point.

Eyesaw has some nice stuff.


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5024/5630648858_9107ddd94d_z.jpg


http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/5482992026_8615bf21c1_z.jpg

[Manhattan]

All of Rembrandts Portraiture work.
http://www.lib-art.com/imgpainting/0/5/15950-portrait-of-an-old-man-in-red-rembrandt-harmenszoon-van-rijn.jpg

[GirlNextDoor15]

I love Akiane and Michael Angelo.
But, these are my favs

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Qian_Xuan_-_Early_Autumn.jpg/800px-Qian_Xuan_-_Early_Autumn.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Ma_Lin_001.jpg/454px-Ma_Lin_001.jpg

http://www.chinesepaintings.com/chinese-painting/ink/P10153.jpg

http://www.chinesepaintings.com/chinese-painting/ink/P0701491.jpg

http://www.chinesepaintings.com/chinese-painting/ink/P09072.jpg

[Fez]

Auguste Rodin - The Thinker

http://mattobriencomedy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/the_thinker_auguste_rodin.jpg

[Misawa]

Wow, thats brilliant.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_127.jpg/467px-Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_127.jpg Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers :D

That's a van Gogh? Looks like hell.

EDIT: Just Googled van Gogh's work. I'm surprised by how terribly average they are. That stuff would never fill space in a gallery if painted today.

[Skittle]

The Monah Lisa i dont no much art work because i dont pay attention in my Art classes

[Neversoft]

THE FLIPPIN' SCREAM!

http://theempoweredparalegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/the-scream.jpg

and of course the icing on the cake...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41775000/jpg/_41775366_queen416.jpg

Oh my God Rosie your original name is back when did this happen!!!!!

[Catzsy]

THE FLIPPIN' SCREAM!

http://theempoweredparalegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/the-scream.jpg

and of course the icing on the cake...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41775000/jpg/_41775366_queen416.jpg

Oh my God Rosie your original name is back when did this happen!!!!!


I like the scream and a couple of weeks ago. :)

[Manhattan]

That's a van Gogh? Looks like hell.

EDIT: Just Googled van Gogh's work. I'm surprised by how terribly average they are. That stuff would never fill space in a gallery if painted today.

I believe this was the key to his success. Vincent Van Gogh laboured so hard and was persistent in his art, he never reached the point where he felt he was ever good enough. Possibly this is what people liked about his paintings, the simplicity and how homely they feel when they are viewed. It's odd since it's somewhere inbetween real likeness and how a child would interpret his surroundings.

I'm reading through his letters to his brother, and no doubt they're very touching. It's clear that Vincent was mentally ill, possibly due to alcholism, however, there's a feeling that he was constantly struggling to better himself.

He said alot of heartfelt stuff in his letters too, for example "Look for light and freedom and do not ponder too deeply over the evil in life. "

[Teabags]

Really like anything by Erwin Wurm. He's more of a sculptor than a painter, but love the surrealist edge.

e.g. http://www.artlet-blog.com/?p=788

[Misawa]

I believe this was the key to his success. Vincent Van Gogh laboured so hard and was persistent in his art, he never reached the point where he felt he was ever good enough. Possibly this is what people liked about his paintings, the simplicity and how homely they feel when they are viewed. It's odd since it's somewhere inbetween real likeness and how a child would interpret his surroundings.

I'm reading through his letters to his brother, and no doubt they're very touching. It's clear that Vincent was mentally ill, possibly due to alcholism, however, there's a feeling that he was constantly struggling to better himself.

He said alot of heartfelt stuff in his letters too, for example "Look for light and freedom and do not ponder too deeply over the evil in life. "

Fair enough. I know absolutely nothing about van Gogh, nor paintings, but I was surprised at how average his work appears.

[Hollie.]

I personally just like pencil drawings. :)