What is your favourite work of art?

[ria 75]

Auguste Rodin's The Eternal Idol has been one of my favourite for a long time.
L'Éternelle idole
I have a postcard with a better angle, but this will have to do.
I have outgrown this taste, and I have more admiration for other works of art, but this piece has remained with me, probably because of the well-photographed black and white postcard that has followed me everywhere I've lived.

I think we all have one like that. What's yours?

 

[Ashu]

I have several but the first one that came to mind was Clive Barker's "The Arsonist"

http://www.clivebarker.info/arsonist2.jpg

Either that or Starry Night by Van Gogh.

 

[Shaw]

Undine Rising from the Waters (just because she is entrancing). Second would be Ferguson's "Knotted Wye" (which was a piece at the Geometry Center when I worked there and is now on display at the University of Minnesota's Mathematics Library).

 

[Trekker4747]

I don't know much about art but I know what I like.

And this?

This I like.

Can I get a Christmas ornament version of it?

 

[Michael]

I know it's kind of clichéd, but I always loved Munch's The Scream.

 

[ria 75]

I have several but the first one that came to mind was Clive Barker's "The Arsonist"

http://www.clivebarker.info/arsonist2.jpg

Either that or Starry Night by Van Gogh.

I thought I didn't like Van Gogh until I saw one for real, with the thickness of the paint and all the brush strokes and the real colours, at the Louvre.

 

[Trekker4747]

I have several but the first one that came to mind was Clive Barker's "The Arsonist"

http://www.clivebarker.info/arsonist2.jpg

Either that or Starry Night by Van Gogh.

Hmmmm....

LINK

 

[Ashu]

i would love go to the Louvre. Or even back to the Met for that matter.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I've always been fond of the work of M.C. Escher. I have a print of Relativity hanging in my living room. (And I love the fact that someone actually built it out of Lego.)

 

[Ohappydagger]

Right now it's Rembrandt's Carcass of Beef. I find it very pretty, in a kind of way. I like how the colors are so spare and dim.

 

[GodThingFormerly]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

TGT

 

[Agent Richard07]

I've always been fond of the work of M.C. Escher. I have a print of Relativity hanging in my living room. (And I love the fact that someone actually built it out of Lego.)

Here are some more M.C. Escher lego recreations.

 

[ria 75]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

TGT

Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. Of very course.
The Flemish school are favourites of mine. With a preference for Van Eyck.

 

[Winged Victory]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace

I finally got to see my favorite sculpture this summer at the Louvre. It's so beautiful. I got my user name from it, too.

 

[Captain Intrepid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

TGT

Colour me unsurprised your favourite art involves rampant debauchery.

 

[trekkiedane]

I find it very difficult to play any favorite game, I don't have top ten lists of stuff I like and the only music I play again and again and again are SciFi OST's

I did however have a lot of images flash before my inner eye when I read the thread title; Rodin was there, so was van Gogh and a few of the Skagen painters, like P. S. Krøyer;

My entire collection of printed sequential art (I think the anglo term is graphic novels -don't confuse with 'comics') also had plenty room; Pratt, Shuiten, Franquin (yes, he belongs there!)

But the one single piece of art I always seem to come back to is Fallingwater by the great US-American artist Frank Lloyd Wright:

Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the thumbnails for bigger versions of the many views of the house.

Drawn for and into the landscape, build with local materials - I think this is my 'favourite work of art'!

 

[JimCasy]

I have several but the first one that came to mind was Clive Barker's "The Arsonist"

http://www.clivebarker.info/arsonist2.jpg

Either that or Starry Night by Van Gogh.

Hmmmm....

LINK

MANOS!!

 

[RoJoHen]

But the one single piece of art I always seem to come back to is Fallingwater by the great US-American artist Frank Lloyd Wright:

Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the thumbnails for bigger versions of the many views of the house.

Drawn for and into the landscape, build with local materials - I think this is my 'favourite work of art'!

I like the idea of that house, but after I visited it, I decided I would hate to live there.

 

[trekkiedane]

^Funny you should say that; I'm not very impressed about the interior myself, possibly just because it's a bit dated though.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, it could definitely do with an update using some more modern technology.