Posted on 07/18/2008 5:24:19 PM PDT by snugs
We have had several threads on music and food but not art I thought tonight we could discuss what works of art you enjoy.
Art can be very subjective what some people love other hate, what some consider a scribble a daub on a paper other consider a masterpiece.
Then there are certain pieces of art that are universally accepted and admired.
What are your favourite works of art or type of art?
Maybe it is a sculpture or some fine art?
On the other hand maybe architecture is your bent?
Tonight's questions
What is your favourite painting?
What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose?
I've never seen a famous painting in person....but I have a favorite print of Raphael's Sistine Cherubs hanging in my office.....and an antique print of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's "Young Girl Reading".....in my bedroom.
If I could go anywhere.....I'd love to go to the Louvre... Someday...some way.....I will. :)
Interesting questions - thanks for starting this thread!
What is your favourite painting?
Rene Magritte’s “The Empire of Lights” (followed by Edward Ruscha’s pop art “Los Angeles County Museum of Art On Fire”)
What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
Michelangelo’s Moses, I guess, unless you count the Rosetta Stone as a work of art!
If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
A sculptor.
If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose
Pompeii
Glad to find someone else who likes Magritte. My favorite place in my hometown Houston is the Menil Museum, packed with his famous work since they were friends of his. I clearly remember being taken to Magritte exhibits when I was a kid in Houston - started a lifelong appreciation!
They don't look tacky whatsoever.
Hobby Lobby (don't know if you have that where you are) is where I've bought most of them. This summer though their selection wasn't as nice (the designs were not as good) as in year's past but I'm hoping next year they will have nice, well made designed ones again.
When I was looking up the name of Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (I could picture it, but not the name or artist), I was going through different pages at the Art Institute of Chicago website. They actually own Time Transfixed, but it's not on display! Time Transfixed at AIC
What is your favourite painting?
I don’t know... I like lots of paintings. MC Escher is probably one of my favorite artists, though. And I love love LOVE fractals, even though they aren’t ‘art’, they’re still amazing looking.
What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
Probably Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ in the MoMA in NY. It’s smaller than you think...
If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
Artist. Actually, I’m not half bad at art, and I really enjoy chalk pastels or charcoal, and I have a propensity for photography but not the camera for it =(
If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favourite art where would you choose?
Hmmm... right now, I really want to go to the Met to see their superhero exhibit, and I wouldn’t mind taking a look at the impressionist and design and technology section in the MoMA again, but since I can go to NYC on my own time and very limited budget, I’d have to go to the Louvre in Paris if I got the chance to go anywhere in the world. Or maybe Giza... I like the Egyptian stuff that the Met has, and I’d LOVE to see it out in its original settings.
Here a few photos
I enjoy pouring over the art work of Bev Doolittle. She makes pictures of American Indians and their environment. She does not just make a lovely picture but she incorporates images within the picture that makes you keep looking and looking and seeing more and more. One of her little series is of a cowboy shaving in the mirror on a tree and one has to watch in the mirror to see the changes. I like to go to her website and look at the galleries and click on them and study the enlargements. It is kind of a stress reliever for me once in a while. Even though I'm sure I'm older than she is, I'm just like a child and I wish I could grow up to be her! I can't half describe things so here is the link if you want to look :
That is so neat! I’ve never had a chance to travel outside the US, but the British Museum and the Louvre are places I must visit in my lifetime.
Fun memory ..
1968/69
I used to stand outside the entrance of Park Street Station in Boston, with a black cardboard "easel" and the tongue from a "Sticky Fingers" album pasted in the center ... and I had stuck small brads in the cardboard to hang roach clips I made from coat hangers ....
I advertised them verbally as "Functional Art or Unctional Fart" .. "Roach clips for the 'J' that starts your day" ...
"$1, 3 beers or a joint."
I stayed high, inebriated and had a bank account across the street. Met many interesting young ladies ...
Sigghhhhh
Fun memory.
The front of the British Museum
The National Gallery which is behind Trafalgar Square in London
I don't have a favorite work of art as there are so many I like. I like Impressionist works. Renoir, Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh, Degas, etc.
What is your favorite painting?
I like "Woman with parasol" by Monet. I also like Starry Night by Van Gogh. There was a painting at the Chrysler Museum I also liked called Heaven and Hell, I believe, but I don't remember the artist.
What is the most famous painting or work of art have you actually seen?
Not sure. I've been to the Chrysler Museum in Virginia where they have Degas, Renoir, Matisse and Gauguin and the Seattle Art Museum where they have Degas, Manet and Cezanne.
If you could choose what talent would you choose, would be an artist or sculptor or a potter?
An artist.
If someone offered you the chance to go anywhere in the world to see your favorite art where would you choose?
Musee du Louvre, of course! :~)
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At least you have memories. : ) I went to college in the early '70s. Let's just say that I went to a Grateful Dead concert and all I remember is entering the building. I bet it was a great concert, too.
That’s interesting, but I don’t think I’d hang it in my living room.
As always, your pictures are interesting. I doubt that I’ll ever see London, but I get to see parts of it through your photography.
What’s the matter? No appreciation for “edgy”?! lol ;~)
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