What are your favourite works of Art?

[Catzsy]

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

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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

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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

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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.

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;

[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.

Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers

[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:

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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;

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Also if you're into graphic design there's a really good website, Behance Network. 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

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I also really like Barbara Kruger's work

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[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.