What are your favourite works of Art?

ROT · 25-06-2011, 05:13 PM

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VelvetClover · 25-06-2011, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by Catz

It can be a painting, sculpture, computer art. Anything really.
These are mine:
Millais- 'Ophelia'

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

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

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** · 25-06-2011, 05:55 PM

I really love akiane. It's amazing to think someone so young could have that much talent.
http://www.akiane.com/

I have loads but i rly like guernica =]

**-:Undertaker:-** · 25-06-2011, 05:58 PM

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

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Aidenn · 25-06-2011, 08:26 PM

francis bacon three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion

The Raft of Medussa - Théodore Géricault
Contains Mild Exposure

Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch
Contains Mild Exposure

They are just a select few.

Mathew · 25-06-2011, 09:07 PM

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...