Favorite ART: Paintings and Sculptures [Archive]

Cocoa

02-27-2009, 10:14 AM

So I noticed there is no art thread.... so I'm creating one!

Please post your favorite works of art. Feel free to tells us underneath it, what is special about it and why you love it or why you'd give and arm and a leg to own the original :)

Please also state the artist, and the name of the objet d'art :)

For example, I really like this one. :crowngrin:
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Girl with a Pearl Earring: most beautiful painting (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
May 20, 2006
Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring was voted the most beautiful painting of the Netherlands. The contest, organised by the daily newspaper Trouw, was held on a special website. About 8,000 people cast their vote.

View on Delft, also by Vermeer, won the second place and The Jewish Bride, by Rembrandt van Rijn, ranked third. The two paintings by Vermeer won almost half of the total amount of votes.

Among the paintings which made it to the top-ten were Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows, Victory Boogie Woogie by Mondriaan, and the Mesdag Panorama by H.M. Mesdag.

View of Delft- 2nd place
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The Jewish Bride- 3rd place
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thederelict

02-27-2009, 02:55 PM

Dulle Griet - Brueghel

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Titania and Bottom - Fuseli
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Musahi13

02-27-2009, 07:48 PM

New here but love art

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my favorite living artist Ashley wood boxart for "Bertie the Pipebomb"

darynthe

02-27-2009, 08:24 PM

You beat me to the punch. I was going to start a thread today about what does it mean art for the INTJ. I just really wanted to pick apart your brains guys.

graciela224

02-27-2009, 09:01 PM

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Girl in the Field by Winslow Homer

Cocoa

02-28-2009, 09:04 AM

You beat me to the punch. I was going to start a thread today about what does it mean art for the INTJ. I just really wanted to pick apart your brains guys.

Sounds like an evil experiment! just kidding :) I figured that a Thread called: Arts and Entertainment should have an ART sub-thread.

For me, I like artists, I have 2 great friends that are artists... I love art because it does stir up emotions (which I don't express but like to experience).

I am surprised however, by how few people have responded. Maybe art is not an INTJ thing? C'mon people don't shy away from art! Show others what paintings move you! :)

reb

02-28-2009, 09:13 AM

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Solaris

02-28-2009, 09:22 AM

I enjoy art, but especially a friend's ability to paint chrome in watercolor paint. I don't have a link though.

Otherwise, I also enjoy Ansel Adams' black and white photography. I love photography.

JTG1984

02-28-2009, 09:34 AM

I really enjoy El Greco's work, very dark. This is one of his more famous pieces and one of my favorites.
"The Burial of the Count of Orgaz"
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KSG

02-28-2009, 09:47 AM

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René Magritte - La condition humaine

Cocoa

02-28-2009, 09:51 AM

Alice in Wonderland Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
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René Magritte - La condition humaine

I love that.. erm... J'adore ca! :P

KSG

02-28-2009, 10:30 AM

I love that.. erm... J'adore ca! :P
Haha! :laugh:

Those illustrations are beautiful, by the way. :)

thederelict

02-28-2009, 02:03 PM

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Girl in the Field by Winslow Homer

I think this is Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth. He died recently.

Storm

02-28-2009, 03:12 PM

Dulle Griet - Brueghel

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I think that's been agmented slightly. :rolleyes:

One of my favorite:
Gray and Gold by John Roger Cox
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towith

02-28-2009, 04:03 PM

If there were ever two demonstrations of artistic perfection within the film world, it would have to be Masaki Kobayashi's Seppuku and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

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thederelict

02-28-2009, 04:08 PM

I think that's been agmented slightly. :rolleyes:

One of my favorite:
Gray and Gold by John Roger Cox
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Glad someone else noticed :).

Cocoa

02-28-2009, 05:32 PM

Glad someone else noticed :).

GOOD AUGMENTATION! LOL..... loved it nonetheless! :P

Maayan

02-28-2009, 06:59 PM

A poster of Picasso's Self Portrait 1907 from the The Museum of Modern Art in New York hangs next to the second-floor bathroom. I used to be ice cold terrified of walking past the damn thing:

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I sent the picture to my ENTP friend, who wrote back: "I jerked when that painting came into view. Does the original also have that cataract on the left eye? I think it is a general human reaction to be perturbed by white eyes --- my Psycholinguistics professor was blind from cataracts, and it took me a long while to be able to look at him without being deeply disturbed by his white-blotched pupils."

Over the summer, I had a screaming-in-my-sleep nightmare about several paintings featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada. One of them was Dali's Soft Construction with Boiled Beans:

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What? I like paintings that strike fear.

Cocoa

02-28-2009, 08:30 PM

mmmmm.... beans LOL
I actually was thinking of Dali too. I saw this one in a book on art and loved it.
Temptation of St. Anthony
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I also really like this take on "temptation of st. anthony" Not sure of the artist, website is called brooklynartproject
(gah, it wont display image so please click on it... it's cool)
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Subverted

03-01-2009, 12:03 AM

Most anything Magritte, specifically:
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And:
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I also have, for some reason, a mild obsession with this drawing/painting/work:

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zibber

03-01-2009, 01:22 AM

Wow.. my favorite work? In my four years of art history I've come across many wonderful things, but this one might stand out:

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Piero di Cosimo - Liberazione di Andromeda

(Small ass image, but my own scans are too huge.)

Masaki Kobayashi's Seppuku

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Have you seen Mishima's Patriotism? This reminds me of that very much.

Maayan

03-01-2009, 04:42 PM

I can't find a digital picture of my favorite piece of his, but I really like the woodblock artist Kawase Hasui (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.):

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Merle

03-01-2009, 05:12 PM

Three favourite paintings, that I could think of straight away:
1. the Wreck of Hope - Caspar David Friedrich
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2. Judith Slaying Holofernes - Artemesia Gentileschi
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3. Woman in Interior - Vilhelm Hammershoi
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And my favourite sculpture:

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa - Bernini
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towith

03-01-2009, 07:41 PM

Have you seen Mishima's Patriotism? This reminds me of that very much.

The subject matter is undoubtedly similar. They do however differ vastly in both the art direction and mood. Mishima's experience as a writer and Kobayashi's experience as a watercolourist clearly set them apart. In Seppuku there is a slow, patient, resolute atmosphere, with a perfectionist attention to form. Certainly worth watching.

Another contribution: Albrecht Dürer - Knight, Death, and the Devil Spoiler-wrapped due to size.

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Anumidium

03-01-2009, 09:15 PM

mmmmm.... beans LOL
I actually was thinking of Dali too. I saw this one in a book on art and loved it.
Temptation of St. Anthony
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I have that on my wall, actually. Next to Les Elephants:
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I also like Wayne Douglas Barlowe: (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
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I like my apocalyptic surrealism. Though I like Magritte too.

secretagentm

03-01-2009, 09:42 PM

Merle

03-02-2009, 10:38 AM

I like my apocalyptic surrealism.

As far as apocalyptic surrealism goes... I'm a big fan of Tanguy:

The Invisibles
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Cocoa

03-02-2009, 11:49 AM

Anumidium, I love them!

Maayan

03-02-2009, 05:11 PM

"Брат мой, враг мой." - Ербол Мельдибеков
"My brother, my enemy." - Erbol Meldibekov

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"Caustic" doesn't begin to describe the tone of this critique (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) written by a "Doctor Stomatolog" (a dentist):

"Each of these guys has something sticking out of his mouth. What's the conclusion? They're homosexuals. This shocked everyone at work: even patients, even staff. We've got a ton of stress factors at the clinic. We need something cheerful, joyful. And then two naked guys with guns in their mouths... but okay, they're still good-looking people. Europeans. And then one wants to become a nationalist. We joke amongst ourselves that now we're going to get exclusively Asians, and with these sorts of inclinations, at that. I, for one, wanted only one thing: to kill them both. And people who gaze at this picture refuse anaesthesia altogether. Anaesthesia certainly isn't needed here."

Anumidium

03-02-2009, 05:36 PM

It seems pretty obvious to me that it's meant to illustrate that words can be to emotions what bullets are to flesh. Perhaps in the context of familial dispute, if the above quote about the brothers is the title.

Interesting, but not "my cup of tea". Anything to do with mouths is a turn-off.. too physical.

ClydeB

03-02-2009, 06:13 PM

Always been a big fan of M.C. Escher and Claude Monet. Two entirely different styles. But I find them both endless fascinating to stare into.
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And right now Monet I most enjoy is The Artist's Garden at Giverny
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towith

03-02-2009, 06:17 PM

It seems interesting that they still have trigger-guards, yet no triggers. As if it were suggesting a wish to do harm or to give that impression, yet with no actual ability or desire to act. Again their hairstyles giving only the appearance of violent blood-splattering, without the actual presence of blood. They appear to be locked in a dance of machismo which draws the eye away from their naked vulnerable bodies. It is quite reminiscent of the competitive relationship I maintain with my brothers.

"At least they're good-looking Europeans... and here you want to become a Nationalist."

Is this humour?

Cocoa

03-02-2009, 08:15 PM

Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers, by Dali

(When searching for this, I kept finding only furniture pictures LOL)
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Abbey under oaktrees, Caspar David Friedrich
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thederelict

03-02-2009, 08:20 PM

None of the images on the internet really do this painting justice -- they all fuck up the colors. You have to go see it in person at the MET and just... It really catches you off-guard. I just love it so much and can't quite articulate the multitude of reasons why. I'm just drawn to it.

Klimt, Portrait of Mada Primavesi
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This is my favorite sculpture work (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

HAHA jk. Koons kind of scares me.

I like Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures. And Jenny Holzer's work.
I think Damien Hirst is really overrated, but I kind of like Lullaby Spring.

As for older stuff, I think byzantine icons are beautiful.

Klimt is awesome. Water Serpents is a personal favorite.

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Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers, by Dali

(When searching for this, I kept finding only furniture pictures LOL)
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Abbey under oaktrees, Caspar David Friedrich

;D

Nice touch with Caspar David Friedrich too :).

Cocoa

03-02-2009, 08:21 PM

Three Sisters, Edmund Charles Tarbell
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Maayan

03-03-2009, 10:53 AM

Is this humour?

Oh, get off your high horse.

Yes. He is engaging in derogatory humor. It's hilarious that a photograph of two naked guys with guns in their mouths is hanging in a homophobic dentist's office. That his rant was published in Esquire is a further show of irony.

Bobert

03-03-2009, 11:03 AM

I like a lot, but my prefernces changes from time to time - which is why I don't buy anything.

Dali used to be a fav.

I like Steve Hanks, William Adolphe Bouguereau (not the cherubs), some Vermeer (Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid is amazing because of the painting within the painting), John Waterhouse, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Claude Lorrain

darynthe

03-03-2009, 11:43 AM

I think this is Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth. He died recently.

One of my favorites. It is hung right by the door of the third floor of MOMA. I don't know why it draws me so much. Can look at it by hours. It is so beautiful.

gn0sis

03-03-2009, 02:24 PM

I love the digital art of MescalineBanana on deviantart.

ElstonGunn

03-03-2009, 05:13 PM

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I also like "Christina's World." A print of it used to be in my grandma's house when I was a kid. Then I read about its background and thought it was even more interesting. The real-life model for the girl in the picture was Wyeth's wife, but he based it on some neighbor he had when he was younger. She had some kind of muscular disease or something, but she refused to use a wheelchair or crutches, so she dragged herself everywhere she went. So in the picture, she's crawling back to the farmhouse in the distance, rather than just sitting around in the field, which is what I originally thought was going on there.

I saw a parody of it once called "My Squid Suit Brings Isolation." I thought that was funny in a silly or absurd way, or maybe because I took it as a satire of "high art." The best I could find was a small thumbnail version, but it was pretty much the same thing, except Christina was wearing a cheap squid costume.

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darynthe

03-04-2009, 07:44 AM

stankerbell

03-04-2009, 01:53 PM

i recently saw an exhibit at the seattle art museum by kara walker, she had these incredible silhouettes on the wall that would depict different scenes and it was one of those things where you would glance at it once and then start to see more and more details and nuances of what's happening the longer and more closely you looked at it. The image below isn't a great example but it's the first one i found.. :)

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Storm

03-06-2009, 07:27 PM

Three Sisters, Edmund Charles Tarbell
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Wow, I really like this painting. At first I thought it was a happy picture. But then I saw the baby and looked more closely at the expressions on the women's faces. It's not a happy painting.

Cocoa

03-06-2009, 07:35 PM

Wow, I really like this painting. At first I thought it was a happy picture. But then I saw the baby and looked more closely at the expressions on the women's faces. It's not a happy painting.

Yeah, I love it because the artist was in love with light and trying to portray it. But you are right, the women are not happy... it looks like they are consoling the one in the middle...

Doki

03-16-2009, 08:40 AM

pocohauntus

03-16-2009, 08:44 AM

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Trenchant1

03-16-2009, 08:46 AM

Post your favourite picture, be it a photograph, drawing, textiles, ASCII code.

My favourite is Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel:

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Er... that should be 'Your' in the title. I'm sure it's only a typo, but it's like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard to me, I'm afraid.

Doki

03-16-2009, 08:53 AM

Er... that should be 'Your' in the title. I'm sure it's only a typo, but it's like someone scraping their nails down a blackboard to me, I'm afraid.

Holy shit, my bad. Edited, I rarely if ever make grammatical mistakes.

Anyway..

BlackMita

03-16-2009, 09:25 AM

This magazine illustration by Edwin Georgi, atm.

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Cocoa

03-16-2009, 04:34 PM

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Leon Frederic, The Lake

I'm creeped out and mesmerized by it at the same time.
I think it plays on the idea of "Topielce" from Slavic tradition, a myth of spirit people in the water (who passed away by drowning).

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Young Mother Sewing, by Mary Cassatt
Really like this one, I think because how real it feels.

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Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon, Caspar David Friedrich
I love how dark it is.... :)

Maayan

05-27-2009, 08:59 PM

I wish to revive this amazing thread. Presenting the Deluge by French artist Gustave Doré...

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Henry

05-27-2009, 09:06 PM

I'm partial to Goya and Beksinski myself. Both oddly make me feel better.

MikeC

05-27-2009, 09:06 PM

^nice.

I personally prefer surrealist art, particularly Monet's later stuff.

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SongofSeptember

05-27-2009, 09:12 PM

Manet's Berthe Morisot:
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Also, one of my favorite digital paintings:
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Aronnax

05-27-2009, 09:15 PM

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My tastes change as I get older but I've always loved Starry Night.

Cincinnatus

05-27-2009, 09:56 PM

One piece that sticks out in my mind at the moment is Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan: November 16, 1581. The painting gets to the point and the sheer emotion is front and center. Wonderful, wonderful piece.

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LPM

05-28-2009, 08:14 AM

Cool thread. I love art. My favorite is French Impressionism. Monet, Renoir especially.

Infinite Grey

05-28-2009, 08:14 AM

Xanthippe

05-28-2009, 03:31 PM

There are really too many works to list, but here are a few favourites:

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Edit: Thanks, Aronnax. Image number three is working for me, though...

Edit #2: The first one is actually a Friedrich painting.

Stratego

05-28-2009, 04:25 PM

Great pictures, great taste, everyone. I have a few favorites to share.

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Bordando el Manto Terreste, (1961):
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Creacion de las Aves, 1959:
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But I also greatly love chiaroscuro, and painting's like:

Caravaggio's Saint Jerome, 1605-6:
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And The Taking of Christ, 1602:
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Baccara

05-28-2009, 05:48 PM

Hard decision; I like so many works of art. I tend to prefer realistic, mood-evoking artwork, however, over more abstract themes. This one's on my wall.

Jack Vettriano - The Billy Boys
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This is the only Van Gogh piece I like, though I have a great respect for him as an artist. His characteristic contrast between light and shadow doesn't seem as overwhelming in this context.

Van Gogh - Night Cafe
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I stumbled over this last one in a collection of random paintings. In a book of mostly stiffly posed or idealized portraits, the girl's relaxed, almost bored expression jumped out at me.

Sir Henry Raeburn - Little Girl carrying Flowers
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Doppelbock

05-28-2009, 05:54 PM

Rodan's "The Thinker" is my favorite sculpture. You can see it on my <shameless plug alert> blog, The Thinker (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

UPDATE: matter of fact, I think I'll change my avatar to it!

Merle

06-01-2009, 01:16 AM

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This statue always tugs at me just a little bit. The delicacy of Chatsworth workmanship is exquisite.

This is really very lovely.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Chatsworth workmanship" though? I think this is by Raffaelle Monti...
I would imagine Chatsworth (big posh old estate in Derbyshire) is the house where it is displayed... (?)

Dolores

06-01-2009, 02:32 AM

The Lady of Shalott - John William Waterhouse

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Infinite Grey

06-01-2009, 12:52 PM

This is really very lovely.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Chatsworth workmanship" though? I think this is by Raffaelle Monti...
I would imagine Chatsworth (big posh old estate in Derbyshire) is the house where it is displayed... (?)

You might very well be right. Honestly, I went looking for the work but didn't know who the artist was. One site I found listed Chatsworth next to the title of the work, so naturally I assumed that that must be the artist since nothing else was offered. However, thinking back, It would make sense that that would be the name of the place where it is located. Regardless, whoever it was (Raffaelle?), kudos to him.

Brion

06-01-2009, 01:21 PM

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BlackOp

06-01-2009, 03:48 PM

Hieronymus Bosch is pretty great...considering these are around 500 years old. Nice combination of warmth and surrealism.

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Cocoa

06-01-2009, 03:52 PM

Loose, he paints hell if I'm not mistaken. :) I like it tho.

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This statue always tugs at me just a little bit. The delicacy of Chatsworth workmanship is exquisite.

I absolutely love this one... really really love it. Great post.

rara avis

06-01-2009, 03:52 PM

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Cocoa

06-01-2009, 03:55 PM

The Lady of Shalott - John William Waterhouse

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OMG, totally had an "Anne of Green Gables" moment!!! :)

This video will explain. It's an excerpt from the movie:
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Cthulhu

06-01-2009, 04:15 PM

Flaming June - Frederic Lord Leighton
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Birthday - Marc Chagall
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And just about anything by Klimt, Seurat or Hopper.

BlackOp

06-02-2009, 01:34 AM

Probably my favorite...no introduction needed.

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Merle

06-02-2009, 04:49 AM

If we're headed in thatdirection I am so there:

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and

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I am also fairly obsessed with Paolo Soleri, his book "Arcology : The City in the Image of Man" is stupendous and the drawings are incredibly beautiful:

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Xanthippe

06-02-2009, 06:39 AM

I tend to gravitate towards cozy little Tudors with lots of carved wood and embroidery, but strangely enough I love Frank Lloyd Wright as well. I love how his buildings seem to rise out of the earth as if they'd always been there.

lambpox

06-02-2009, 07:25 AM

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When I first saw this @ the MET, I fell in love..."Soap Bubbles" by Thomos Couture.

I also love Klimt. One of my favorites is "The Three Ages of Woman".

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