Favourite Famous Piece of Artwork

[o_0]

So, I guess no one on PPT like art, but I do, so I'm making this poll.

What are your favourite pieces of art (that are famous)?

Mine are The Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch), Saturn Devours His Children (Goya), Las Meninas (Velazquez), and Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (Dali).

[theonlysaneone]

I like Water Lilies by Monet, mainly because I've seen the real thing. (It's the bridge one). If it's called something other than Water Lilies, don't blame me, I'm tired.

[Hyperion]

I don't have a favorite piece that's well-known, but there was a modern architectural piece that showed life moving along fast-paced in a history textbook of my high school that I really liked.

[Christopher]

The Garden of Earthly Delights

- You win

Generic Famous

The Scream - Edvard Munch (Everyone loves this).

The Starry Night - Van Gogh (Everyone loves this too).

Where do we come from? What are we doing? Where are we going? - Paul Gauguin (Meaningfulness as suggested by its title. Contains a lot of weird like Tahitia and theosophical elements).

The Kiss - Gustav Klimt (It's just shiny. Pretty much it, that and that it has been appropriated by anime. I prefer it when he hits upon Art Nouveau elements really).

Famous

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymous Bosch (Well, it's hell. The way the style seems to have been appropriated by Monty Python might add to my liking for it, but overall it is very good and contains those intricate little details).

The Archangel Saint Michael - Maestro di Castelsardo (Again, just an aesthetically pleasing piece).

Still Life in Front of an Open Window - Juan Gris (A solid attempt at reconcilling 3D space with Cubism, the open window creates a background plane that is actually recognisable. The colour work is also fantastic, and Gris is my favourite Cubist artist).

Three Musicians - Pablo Picasso (Picasso made two of them, I'm refering to the one with the creepy smiles rather than the nose flute one).

The Bend in the Road - Andre Derrain (Probably the masterwork of Fauvism, Derrain being my favourite fauvist. Screw Matisse. It has all of Derrains typically elements of vibrant colour and enclosed space, and while appearing very nice at first he sort of stabs the harmony in the way the titular bend in the road contrasts with the vertical tree).

Highways and Byways - Paul Klee (This painting blows you away. Orange and Blue has always been a good colour contrast, and the perspective in this just adds to the effect).

The Night - Max Beckmann (Nice subject matter. Also has some weird ambiguities, the guy getting strangled has an extra joint on his toe for example. Also contains meanings that are amusing to speculate).

Not as famous

Alexander's Mosaic from the House of Faun - Unknown (It's made of 1.5 million tesseri! And it's Classical, thus winning).

Disks of Newton - Frantisek Kupka (Personal favourite artist, the colour in this one is fantastic. There's another one of his that just blows me away but I cannot remember it's name.

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[stinkyllama]

*Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening --Salvador Dali
*The Persistence of Memory --Salvador Dali
*Metamorphosis of Narcissus --Salvador Dali
*The Starry Night --Van Gogh
*Irises --Van Gogh
*Las Meninas --Diego Velazquez
*Las Meninas --Picasso
*Guernica --Picasso
*The Scream --Edvard Munch

[shapu]

I'm a fan of The Gates of Hell by Rodin (link).

And, like every guy my age, I like Nighthawks by Hopper.

[Ellaie]

I'm a fan of The Vitruvian Man by DaVinci and St. Jerome in his Study by Durer.

[Skynetmain]

I'm not much of an art person. I do like many works, but none more than those of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean woodblock artists. My favorite are is all Ukiyo-E works since they are so beautiful and perfect. Sorry. No specific works come to mind because I like them all. After the woodblock art comes Thai and Indian sculpture. Ancient Greek and Egyptian scuplture are the highest rated Western art on my list.

[Dragonfire]

Most of my favorites I don't remember their names, but I like Monet's Water Lilies and Van Gogh's Starry Night.

[Wind]

At the cost of being repetitive, I think Monet's Water Lilies are my favourites. I can't recall how my favourite one is called precisely, I think it's the bridge one. Then I like Van Gogh's Cherry Tree and Starry Night.

[____amanda]

I've always been a fan of Van Gogh's "Starry Night", it's what made me motivated to do a book report on him in art.

[SpiraLethe]

Various works by William Bouguereau, Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and classical Asian landscapes. I'm also quite in love with Art Nouveau in its many forms: from vintage advertisements (eg: Alphonse Mucha) to architecture (eg: Antoni Gaudi).

On my walls, I have prints of Dali, O'Keefe, Van Gogh, Klimt, an old Japanese painting and random vintage ads.

[May]

I'm a big fan of Kandinsky's work. One of my favorite is Contrasting Sounds

[Igg]

Chris, it's like you've just gone through a book of 'paintings to see before you die' or something.

*isn't a Klimt fan and doesn't like impressionism*

I do like The Scream though

One of my favourite paintings is a pre-Raphaelite painting called 'The Shadow of Death' by William Holman Hunt.

Good call on Rodin, shapu.

[Christopher]

Chris, it's like you've just gone through a book of 'paintings to see before you die' or something.

Is that a criticism, because that's really what the topic is, though the ones I chose all have technical, meaningful, or Aesthetic merit. :O

I don't expect anyone at all to know who Kupka is though. He's a personal favourite not really famous artist. Unless your Czech. Then you'd probably know right off. Anything bar his verticals and diagonals I like.