What is your favorite painting?

eldorado99

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My favourite piece of art:
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Aww you changed the title!
 
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SlitheryDee

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I think it was called "Teen Nympho Ass Party 2000". Not really something you could put on your wall though.

Edit: Ok ok, serious thread response.

Very little art has ever caught my attention, but I have found myself utterly transfixed by the work of Zdzislaw Beksinski. I look at some of his work and I can't stop my mind from trying to go to the otherworldly realms he depicts.

Example:

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It's often very dark and morbid, but it never fails to elicit an emotional response from me. The detail and style is so accurate that you almost think you're looking at something real, yet it's so obviously a product of a fantastic and macabre imagination. This is a win in my book.

Another:

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FelixDeCat

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Almost anything by Rembrant, particularly his The Syndics of the Clothmakers' Guild,1662

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As the inventors of a lot of today's capitalist tools, this portrait reminds me of a time when it was fashionable to speculate in markets, and do so with old world class.

Long live the spirit of the Dutch traders.
 
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KeithTalent

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I do not know a tonne about art, but there was a Pollock on display at SF MOMA when I was there a few years ago that I was completely transfixed by, but I can't recall the name of it right now. :hmm: I loved the texture on the canvas.

I really like Egon Schiele, not all of the creepy self-portraits, but the city paintings. I also love Klimt's frieze, which included The Kiss, when I saw it in Vienna. It's not necessarily my favourite piece, but the way it was displayed completely blew me away and we stared at it for what felt like forever.

A local photographer I love is Jeff Wall:

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Seeing his pictures in person, in the light boxes, is awesome. Seeing them flat here is not the same.

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Iv'e got a Klimt and a few Art Nouveau pieces hanging around the house - my favorite (semi-traditional) artist is Alfons Mucha but then I veer more towards illustrations than paintings.
 

Leros

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The Great Wave might be my favorite piece of art, but its a woodcut print and not painting.
 

chusteczka

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My favorites are oil paintings, mainly the following:

The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses (1884-1889) by the French painter Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/81566

Cupid Chastised (1613) by the Italian painter Bartolomeo Manfredi.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/59847

Impressionist paintings that involve the outdoors and flowers.
http://www.google.com/images?q=impr...g-s2g8&aql=&oq=impressionism&gs_rfai=&start=0

The dark oil paintings of Caravaggio.
http://www.google.com/images?q=caravaggio+paintings&gbv=2&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=Caravaggio&gs_rfai=
 

chusteczka

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Edvard Munch - The Scream

I do not understand why people like this painting. Sometimes it seems that people just say they like it because it is fashionable to say so, and they probably have no idea why. To me, it is unpleasant in an unnatural way.
 

SlitheryDee

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I do not understand why people like this painting. Sometimes it seems that people just say they like it because it is fashionable to say so, and they probably have no idea why. To me, it is unpleasant in an unnatural way.

I think that's a good reason to like a painting. It's so difficult to find any art that stimulates me that I'm pleasantly surprised even when the effect is strange and borderline negative. One "Holy shit, that one makes me feel...I don't know what that makes me feel" is worth a million "Bah, another pretty woman with flowers in the background".
 

chusteczka

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I think that's a good reason to like a painting. It's so difficult to find any art that stimulates me that I'm pleasantly surprised even when the effect is strange and borderline negative. One "Holy shit, that one makes me feel...I don't know what that makes me feel" is worth a million "Bah, another pretty woman with flowers in the background".

Good point, thank you.
 

ManBearPig

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The Great Wave might be my favorite piece of art, but its a woodcut print and not painting.

Good point. I changed the thread title from piece of art to painting, and now i dont know what to change it to so that i can accurately get my point across without people posting cars and stuff.
 

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Steve hanks-Shelter for the heart
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William Bouguereau-Nymphs and satyr
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Jeff7

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Painting....either the FSM as God in the Creation of Adam painting, or else the Star Wars cast in The Last Supper.
Yeah, I'm big on fine art. :D



William Bouguereau-Nymphs and satyr
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Torgo finally got some lovin', eh?


If my picture of Jesus' penischest was NSFW then this definitely is :p
And of course, since it's a satyr, and thus not technically human, it's heading toward bestiality territory. :awe:


(Incidentally, interspecies relations on sci-fi shows like Star Trek: Would that technically count as bestiality?:eek:)
 
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JechtShot

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I do not understand why people like this painting. Sometimes it seems that people just say they like it because it is fashionable to say so, and they probably have no idea why. To me, it is unpleasant in an unnatural way.

I chose to write a 20 page essay in college on Edvard Munch so I've grown to love all his artwork. Yes it is depicting unpleasantness. If you knew Edvard's life and his reasons behind his paintings, then you'll understand. People have opinions and different tastes. The world would be such a boring place if we all liked the same things wouldn't it now.