Single Favorite piece of art?

EricJ

Active member
ok, so I just ran across an image of my favorite painting ever, so I thought I\'d ask, what is your single favorate piece of artwork, anything in the world

Mine is this image, by Umberto Boccioni, part of the italian Futurist movement in the 1910\'s, titled \"Dynamism of a Soccer Player\". The goal of the movement was to render in movement, this piece is of course a Soccer Player (football for you Europeans).


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ok, what\'s your favorite! what inspires you? Only your top 1 now :)

-Eric
 

Shawn R. L.

New member
There are too many favorites to choose only one. But this one jumped right to mind when the question was posed. It\'s by Fredric Church and called: Rainy Season in the Tropics.



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ipaintminis

Active member
@shawn- thats beautiful!

my turn!
well ive been really into the sculpture with my Western Humanities class

this is Nike, winged victory, from the Hellenistic time period of the greeks. its my all time favorite sculpt. if only i could paint it ;)
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Naukhel

Active member
My favourite piece of art is actually a short story written by Elizabeth Gilbert, which touched and moved me as no other writing has ever done.
It\'s in her collection of short stories: Pilgrims.
It\'s called \'The Many Things That Denny Brown Did Not Know (Age Fifteen)\'.
 

Infidel Castro

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Fighting over herrings

This is mine...


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He\'s the Belgian dude and our family-name is the same (Ensor). This was done in 1891 methinks.
 
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Sturmhalo

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Always liked Witkin\'s work. Wanted to find a different picture to show as my favourite, but couldn\'t track it down on the net. This one will do though.
 

Brokenblade

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Anything By Escher, his stuff is perfect, he\'s a bit of a role model in artwork for me as i\'ll soon be going to uni for an art and design course, here\'s a couple of my favorites


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cdukino

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People might expect me to pick a true piece of art, in the sence of art history kind, the one up in museums, for I have a diploma somewhere to teach the stuff. I like a lot of art but not one in particular.
There is however an artist, who might not be in museums but I adore..
She\'s called Susan Beddon Boulet.

My favorite painting she made (though I\'m hard pressed to choose between the first and second I\'m showing):

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And some more of her work:

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Oh and Sturmhalo, that one with the 2 heads is plain freaky (well a lot of his work is ;) )
 
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Sturmhalo

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Originally posted by cdukino

Oh and Sturmhalo, that one with the 2 heads is plain freaky (well a lot of his work is ;) )

That ain\'t two heads mate! One head split and opened!

lol
 

Astonia

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It\'s hard to choose one favourite piece of art, but my favourite artist is swedish painter John Bauer (1882-1918), who created a very special atmosphere in his paintings, and he has illustrated the works of lots and lots of storytellers in Sweden.

Here\'s a few pictures:

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Legacy Account

Active member
That stuff looks remarkably like Arthur Rackham\'s Anja ;)

Favourite piece of art? Impossible to choose. My favourite artist at the moment is a guy called Banksy.

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and my personal favourite...

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marineboy

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Favorite piece of art?

All of the pictures in the Major Arcana in The Tarot of the Witches:


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This is 0, The Fool.

All of the images are stark in design, bright in color and completely wonderful.

:)
 

No Such Agency

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I really like Art Deco era painter Tamara de Lempicka. I\'ve actually seen Girl with a Green Dress in person (and I have the poster on my wall), it\'s definitely one of my favorite paintings.

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In general I find Art Deco very appealing, in spite of its occasional sterility and tendency to be associated with the glorification of capitalism. I\'d love to incorporate more of its themes and styles into my mini painting if I could figure out the right way to do so.
 

blackfly

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i can\'t get an absolute favorite, but a couple offerings:

becca reminded me of Apollo and Daphne, by Bernini. I\'d always liked it from art history texts, but two summers ago I went to the Villa Borghese in Rome, walked into a gallery, and there it was. . . It literally floored me. The size, the detail, the dynamism. . .not to mention all those little leaves. . .in stone!.

It really overwhelmed me in a way a picture never could.

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My favorite artist on a whole has got to be Jean Giraud (Moebius), french surrealist and pioneer of the new-sci-fi in the 70s, collaborator with always controvertial Alexandro Jodorowski, and creater of Metal Hurlant (later to be anglicized as \'Heavy Metal\'). The man can draw anything with an elegance and grace that astounds me. He did the conceptual film design on Willow, Tron, Dune (before H.R. Giger was brought in on the second go round), Fantastic Planet . . .
One of the better images I foud around the web:


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and for pure joy and skill, I have to mention comics artist Stan Sakai. Pick up any issue of Usagi Yojimbo, and be enthralled and amazed.
 

MarkusTay

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Boulevard of Broken dreams

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As a child I somehow felt this is what Heaven might be like...

And if I had that billion£ from the other thread, I\'d probably buy the original.
 
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donga666

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EricJ: We have something in common:


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Another Umberto Boccioni, Saw the original in The Met NY, great stuff.

Apart from that, I started a Masters Degree in Fine Art and I hate most art. Not \'I know nothing about art, but I know what I like\" More \" I know lots about art and I know what I hate\".
 
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