Favorite pieces of art

[terry78]

I went back to the Art Institute of Chicago the other evening, partly because I hadn't been for a while, but mostly because it's free for the entire month of January. I didn't get a chance to take in all the stuff I wanted, but I did have a chance to see Nighthawks, which I missed the first time around.

I actually have a copy of this in my living room, and I always liked it because it has a sense of isolation and at the same time a kindred spirit. I also liked how there is no actual door to the Phillies place and no activity outside, it's just....there.

 

[Ponyboy]

I adore hand drawn art... so I'd strangle a cat for something like this:

Also I've always liked Matisse...

 

[Angry Monkey]

My ultimate favorite piece of art has always and will always be:

 

[Speedball]

Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange.
This image is what made me want to become a photographer.

 

[CBGB]

I've always liked Gustave Dore.

 

[imaperson2]

My favorite artist would probably get me banned. Joel Peter Witkin-in some of his pieces, he uses real corpses that have abandoned at the morgue.

 

[Speedball]

My favorite artist would probably get me banned. Joel Peter Witkin-in some of his pieces, he uses real corpses that have abandoned at the morgue.

Well... Alexander Gardner supposedly dragged around a corpse to make his famous "Final Resting place of the Rebel Sharpshooter" image at Gettysburg. The same body appears in multiple images in different locations.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Anything from this book.

 

[Angry Monkey]

My favorite artist would probably get me banned. Joel Peter Witkin-in some of his pieces, he uses real corpses that have abandoned at the morgue.

Oh my! His work is interesting!

I like it

 

[Marvolo]

I've always liked Gustave Dore.

I enjoy his work, too.

 

[DarkReflections]

I went back to the Art Institute of Chicago the other evening, partly because I hadn't been for a while, but mostly because it's free for the entire month of January. I didn't get a chance to take in all the stuff I wanted, but I did have a chance to see Nighthawks, which I missed the first time around.

I actually have a copy of this in my living room, and I always liked it because it has a sense of isolation and at the same time a kindred spirit. I also liked how there is no actual door to the Phillies place and no activity outside, it's just....there.

I have Gottfried Helnwein's Boulevard of Broken Dreams reinterpretation of it in my living room. I wish I could get the original Nighthawks painting though.

 

[imaperson2]

Well... Alexander Gardner supposedly dragged around a corpse to make his famous "Final Resting place of the Rebel Sharpshooter" image at Gettysburg. The same body appears in multiple images in different locations.

Yup, I'm aware of that...but Witkin's stuff is far more...demented? It's beautiful stuff but the guy was slicing and dicing corpses to make his compositions.

Oh my! His work is interesting!

I like it

Nice, I'm glad you do. In other news, I'll post something by my second favorite artist of right now: William Schaff t:

He did around 400 drawings for this series about Holocaust memory.

 

[O'Haire]

 

[Ponyboy]

hahaha O'Haire wins

 

[Silvermoth]

I once went to an art exhibiton on Queen Victoria and Albert's favourite works of art. I was transfixed by this painting of Dante's Inferno.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

I was gonna post about some old flames until I read the title of the thread again.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Andrew Loomis is pretty much a god with a pencil.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I am a fan of Modigliani's work, I got into his stuff cause there was this very jolly, middle aged European woman at my art school who used to call me 'Modigliani' all the time, as she said I looked like his paintings, lol. I had saw his paintings in passing, but gave them a more thorough look since i was getting called that name every other day. His sculptures are in the same elongated style, and are also very cool.
I can't post images though, and I don't know if I should post a link to one of his sites, as his nudes, as well as being very good, can be quite sexy, so I don't want to get banned, lol.

 

[luke1234]

All of Picasso's Blue Period

 

[Eggyman]

The Starry Night by Van Goth

 

[luke1234]

Van Goth, hahah

 

[Eggyman]

He also invented the studded boot.

 

[luke1234]

haha i was just picturing Van Gogh as a goth person.

 

[Crockett]

A few of my favorites from Lichtenstein, Miro and Van Gogh.

The Starry Night.

Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird

Hopeless

 

[DarkReflections]

On a Lee Shore by Winslow Homer

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich