What is your favorite work of art?

Serenity1971
Serenity's Island, Arizona USA

Posted: May 27, 2008, 11:36 PM CST

muppetkiller wrote:

Wonderful. My English teacher would have skinned my ass!

I can no longer write and I'm scared to death. This is a good essay? Where?

My skin would have been stripped, for the above essay. It's how I used to write.

I guess it's a good thing that it's not an essay then.

It's what's called a formal or stylistic analysis. A formal analysis is a description of a piece of artwork.

I know very well how to write an essay and have had straight A's in my English and creative writing classes.

There are many different forms for writing different things, and considering this is in reference to Art and not English maybe you should have thought about what you were saying first.

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lorax111
richmond, Virginia USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 6:44 AM CST

Serenity1971 wrote:

I actually wrote this for one of my papers for college in my art history class. Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of the 19th century. Though Van Gogh was not recognized until long after his death in 1890, one of his most famous paintings is “The Starry Night”. “The Starry Night” is a 28 ¾ x 36 ½” oil on canvas painting, painted in 1889. Van Gogh was in an asylum in Saint-Remy, and had apparently painted this from his imagination. The painting now makes its home at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

A night sky over a little town, with what seems to be a large cypress at the bottom forefront. The night sky seems to be filled with a type of celestial activity, which includes a crescent moon in the top right corner, and several stars and/or planets. The vibrant saturations of blues and yellows make the painting extremely powerful and passionate to the trained as well as the untrained eye. The lines and circular shapes he uses put you in an almost hypnotic state as you gaze at it. The cypress tree looks like flames coming up, but the colors are too dark for flames and don’t correlate with the rest of the painting. During that particular time period cypress trees either represented eternal life or they would mean death.

In keeping with the celestial tone of the painting, my interpretation is that life will continue after death and the cypress means eternal life. I believe that Van Gogh may have had an out of body experience, where he viewed that the asylum was the place where he would eventually die, but continue his life in a different realm of being, and the dominance of the sky seems to conclude this thought. Even after seeing this painting 1000 times whether it’s for hours, minutes or seconds, it’s a painting that always has a different or deeper meaning to it each time you look at it.

Van Gogh was a preacher and I think many of his paintings reflected a religious view of the afterlife.

Dennis

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lorax111
richmond, Virginia USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 7:04 AM CST

My favorite piece is "The garden of earthly delights" by Bosch, Second would be Dali's " The Temptation of St.Anthony".

And why? simply the wonder of the meaning, Dali is easy but beautifull ,Bosch is difficult and expancive.

Dennis

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ooby_dooby
Ashland, Virginia USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 8:40 AM CST

One of the benefits of growing up in New York City was the ability to go to some of the greatest art venues in the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was my playground and I would go there often as a kid. I literally lived 1/2 mile from the front entrance. It was there that I saw the King Tut exhibit when it came to NY for a tour. Photographs simply can't capture the beauty of that famous gold mask. I found it hard to believe it was made with no modern tools so many 1,000's of years ago. I also was fortunate to see Picasso' "Guernica" in the flesh at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) and the "Pieta" by Michael Angelo at the NY worlds fair in 1964.

Among my favorite paintings are 2 by Winslow Homer "The Gulf Stream" and "Breezing up".

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RobbieM
Hertford, Hertfordshire, England UK

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 9:02 AM CST

I'm not too keen on Dali, especially his phase where he drew dogs basically screwing each other (you can see the exhibition on London's South Bank near the London Eye if you visit).

The lobster telephones look, erm interesting but the melting clocks are ok! And strangely they are available for sale still as well (in the same exhibition).

Myself i have prints by Peter Smith, Doug Hyde, Govinder Nasran, McKensie Thorpe and Hutch and sculptures by Adam Barsby and Helen Rhodes.

Best i dont say more before my cultures slip shows.

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Galactic_bodhi
Portland, Oregon USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 10:29 AM CST

I would say Monet's Lily Pads. His later artwork passed through PDX a few years ago, and I was impressed. Go figure, an impressionist painter impressing people.

The quality of the art was not great. It was basically just blobs of color. What's impressive is Claude could paint at all at that point in his life, considering he was almost completely blind by that time. He painted what he saw, and that wasn't much. But the colors and the light were so vibrant, irregardless of form.

Good thread!

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Conrad73
Lonesome Town Zurich , Zrich Switzerland

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 12:17 PM CST

I just enjoy!
Got a little Bronze by Bruno Bruni,like some of his stuff.
Bought that Bronze on impulse,was a bit expensive.Got a PIC of it in my Profile.
Can't really cite any preferences in Artists.
It's really the Sense Of Life of the Artist that shows in an artistic Creation that does it,not the Name or Popularity.
That goes for all the Arts!!

Still fascinated by Picasso's "GUERNICA".

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Rickster
New York, New York USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 12:25 PM CST

I love art. My favorite is fantasy art. I also enjoy digital art that may require some form of mathematical formula to create. I then transfer it to a canvas as I interpret it.

I have one posted on my profile. “Artic Crystal Mayhem” I’m also very sensitive to any artwork that may be related to the wrath of Mother Nature.

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Zeelander
Louisville, Kentucky USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 12:31 PM CST

I am glad you asked.... There is a local woman here in Kentucky who does wonderful horse sculptures using recycles bailing wire. Her work has been featured on HGTV and numerous art magazines...... If I knew how to add a picture, I would....

Zee

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KHD100
Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 12:48 PM CST

The one in my profile.

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KHD100
Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 1:01 PM CST

Rickster wrote:

I love art. My favorite is fantasy art. I also enjoy digital art that may require some form of mathematical formula to create. I then transfer it to a canvas as I interpret it.

I have one posted on my profile. “Artic Crystal Mayhem” I’m also very sensitive to any artwork that may be related to the wrath of Mother Nature.

You have some great art work ....

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solitare
Munchen, Bayern Germany

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 1:25 PM CST

Simply for the sheer vitality and colourful excitement, I have always been fascinated with Leroy Neiman's paintings and drawings since I fist saw in work of Jazz paintings back in the early 60's. It was he who designed the Playboy Bunny...%D Now it's hard to find any of his work under one million dollars...%(

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TartanK
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland UK

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 4:26 PM CST

Christ of St John of The Cross by Salvador Dali

Breathtaking every time I see it.

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shipoker55
St. Petersburg, Florida USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 4:51 PM CST

Angelina Jolie

well.....her lips anyway!! ohhhhh those lips

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Claayer
Wild Wild South West, Cornwall, England UK

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 5:10 PM CST

Ohh Michaelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine chapel in the Vatican City

I like some of Henri Paul Gauguin

Venus de Milo..

Rodin's 'The Thinker' and 'The Kiss'.. I love those

ahh I dunno... lots of stuff.

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Claayer
Wild Wild South West, Cornwall, England UK

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 5:11 PM CST

shipoker55 wrote:

Angelina Jolie well.....her lips anyway!! ohhhhh those lips

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roseofsharon
Buggered if I know where...?!!, Hampshire, England UK

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 5:11 PM CST

I love most art though I prefer post-modern, contemporary and some impressionism. Off the beaten track and rather avant garde suits my taste most, though Dali doesn't really do it for me.

I am a big fan of Cezanne but if I was to choose a more classical piece, it would definitely be "The Conversion of Saint Paul" by Caravaggio, housed in the Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. I have seen it for myself and it was rather haunting, enigmatic..... awesome!! It definitely has a "presence". What a privilege....

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jlb684
Athens, Attica Greece

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 5:13 PM CST

The statue of Hermes and the child by Praxetelis. Beautiful, beautiful sculpting. I am in love with that face!

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Shadow_lover
West Palm, Florida USA

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 5:15 PM CST

Rigoletto

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Claayer
Wild Wild South West, Cornwall, England UK

Posted: Jul 6, 2008, 5:16 PM CST

jlb684 wrote:

The statue of Hermes and the child by Praxetelis. Beautiful, beautiful sculpting. I am in love with that face!

Jeffrey HI!

You are looking fine and well in your new pic!

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