What is your favorite piece of art?

BUBBAZANETTI · Dec 11, 2009

The Triumph of Death of Bruegel the Elder has held this position for me since I was about 13. I think i first came across it at a flea market when I picked up a copy of the rather rare in the US unofficial Black Sabbath Greatest Hits that featured this painting on the cover. It's not so much the subject matter that attracts me but the Richard Scarryesque busyness of the whole thing. Busy little skeletons..........

Crow18 · Dec 11, 2009

BubbaZanetti said:
It's not so much the subject matter that attracts me but the Richard Scarryesque busyness of the whole thing. Busy little skeletons..........

What do you think of Bosch?

I can't think of a single work of art that's my favorite. As far as artists, Piranesi is pretty close to the top of my list. A while back I picked up a 19-century reproduction of this one:

but it's not my favorite. I've seen photos of some of his Emissario del' Lago Albano series that I like much better. Similar to what you like about the Brueghel, I really like the overwrought little figures Piranesi sprinkles across his landscapes.

womanridge · Dec 11, 2009

BubbaZanetti said:
The Triumph of Death of Bruegel the Elder has held this position for me since I was about 13. I think i first came across it at a flea market when I picked up a copy of the rather rare in the US unofficial Black Sabbath Greatest Hits that featured this painting on the cover. It's not so much the subject matter that attracts me but the Richard Scarryesque busyness of the whole thing. Busy little skeletons..........

How cool. I saw the original when I stumbled into a museum in Vienna, Austria in 2006. Thanks for posting.

tessler · Dec 11, 2009

That's a tough one, as there are several, but I'm fairly sure that some of my favorite paintings are by American artists. Several of which are:

The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins

The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer.

Six O'Clock, Winter, John Sloan.

Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 10, Robert Motherwell.

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Rapid_Roy · Dec 11, 2009

My First Dog, Magic
by My Mother

I like Escher too.
I don't know if I have a favorite though.

BUBBAZANETTI · Dec 11, 2009

womanridge said:
How cool. I saw the original when I stumbled into a museum in Vienna, Austria in 2006. Thanks for posting.

must have been on loan, it normally resides in milan, iirc

i've yet to see it, been to milan, but only at night.

535IS · Dec 11, 2009

Well, if you're talking about paintings, I like Bosch & Bruegel, but I also like airbrush artist Philip Castle a lot. [Mott the Hoople's Rock & Roll Queen album cover, A Clockwork Orange publicity art] His favorite themes are cars, hot girls, and aircraft and, as these show, he is not shy about including all three in a single painting:

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Then again, my favorite piece of art is the 1975 BMW CSL raced at LeMans and designed by Alexander Calder:

Here it is in color:

Of course, then there's Frank Stella's '76 Turbo car ...

glenfiddich · Dec 11, 2009

The piece that really fascinated me was an unnamed, unfinished sculpture by Michelangelo that I saw in Italy as a young Marine. Florence, I think. Just a back and a perfectly formed human arm emerging from a block of marble in a back room of some dark museum. It amazed me that anyone could look at a hunk of rock and transform it like that!

Pete

statdawg · Dec 11, 2009

Montreal Street Art. Why fight the graffiti artist, just put them to work and have many examples like this in your city.

<a href="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/10617388_pnxmq/1/#738415950_QQLSo-A-LB"><img src="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/Montreal-Street-Art/738415950_QQLSo-M.jpg"></a>

or this one

<a href="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/10617388_pnxmq/1/#738428919_ofagu-A-LB"><img src="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/Montreal/738428919_ofagu-M.jpg"></a>

Raymond Quenneville does great landscapes.

<a href="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/10617388_pnxmq/1/#738415952_xwKxR-A-LB"><img src="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/Quenneville-Raymond/738415952_xwKxR-M.jpg"></a>

Marius Zabin does well with seascapes.

<a href="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/10617388_pnxmq/1/#738415982_2x6zG-A-LB"><img src="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/Marius-Zabin/738415982_2x6zG-M.jpg"></a>

My favorite BMW Art.

<a href="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/10617388_pnxmq/1/#738415986_PFX2Z-A-LB"><img src="http://berghund.smugmug.com/Other/Favorite-Art/bmw-weltrekorde-motorcycle-c/738415986_PFX2Z-M.jpg"></a>

JPONIKTERA · Dec 11, 2009

930

1978 930. this is art. jmho,,,,,,, jp

testinglogin · Dec 11, 2009

I like a lot of Picasso's work, and am lucky that there is a fair amount of it at the Toledo Museum of Art (that place has never failed to surprise people visiting here. Everyone seems shocked that we have such a great museum - currently a Chihuly exhibition going on). Anyhow, I want to travel to Spain and get a look at this one in person, the very well known "Guernica":

68820 · Dec 11, 2009

Bosch and Duchamp come to mind

I have loved the Garden of Earthly Delights (Hieronymous Bosch, 1503-04) since I first saw a poster of it in high school. It's chock full of jokes.

I also love The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (Marcel Duchamp, 1915-23). The original is part of the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sounds like a reason for a road trip.

This site has an animation of the artwork that really helped me understand it.

kbasa · Dec 11, 2009

jdmetzger said:
I like a lot of Picasso's work, and am lucky that there is a fair amount of it at the Toledo Museum of Art (that place has never failed to surprise people visiting here. Everyone seems shocked that we have such a great museum - currently a Chihuly exhibition going on). Anyhow, I want to travel to Spain and get a look at this one in person, the very well known "Guernica":

+1

One of my favorite Picassos.

I'm like van Gogh quite a bit, but Starry Night is probably my favorite. I had an opportunity to see one of his pieces when it was in Las Vegas a few years ago. It was a wheatfield with a town and the way he painted the scene was amazing. The thickness of the paint and the way he arranged each stroke was unlike anything I'd ever seen.

I greatly appreciate paintings that have strong and definitive strokes and applications of paint.

I have a painting by Sterling Strauser, who painted in a variety of styles over the years. My piece is from 1965 when he was solidly post modern. It's got really strong and dynamic brush strokes.

Our own knary paints in this fashion, as well and I really love his stuff. I've got a piece called "The Couple" that we really, really enjoy.

OUTBACKUFO · Dec 11, 2009

I got to hold in my hands once a Albrecht Duer from 1645... delivered to a client in Teleuride, CO... interesting thing was only an 8x10... then i for to package a Winslow Hommer once also... Seen so much art and even held it... still so much to see out there...

Normally i prefer japanese and chinese scrolls...
We have a part of one from this series from Heiji that was re-printed in the late 17th cent.

or Hokusai (known for the WAVE).... got a series of village scences but i always like his more spirital ones
like the Thunder God

or
one of my own that is on my desktop rotation

Current favorite is the next one i create.

kbasa · Dec 11, 2009

OUTBACKUFO said:
I got to hold in my hands once a Albrecht Duer from 1645... delivered to a client in Teleuride, CO... interesting thing was only an 8x10... then i for to package a Wislow Hommer once also... Seen so much art and even held it... still so much to see out there...

Current favorite is the next one i create.

I would be somewhat remiss if I didn't mention some excellent photography -

I have a beautiful photo from some guy named Mike Rand that needs a frame. :wave

I also have a nice photo by a guy named David Henry. He used to work for me and I bought one of his very first color photos for pocket money. He's been in Paris for 15 years anyway and is a professional photographer.

It's this photo, of a woman on Chinese New Year's: http://www.davidphenry.com/States/states01.htm

OUTBACKUFO · Dec 11, 2009

KBasa said:
I would be somewhat remiss if I didn't mention some excellent photography -

I have a beautiful photo from some guy named Mike Rand that needs a frame.

I also have a nice photo by a guy named David Henry. He used to work for me and I bought one of his very first color photos for pocket money. He's been in Paris for 15 years anyway and is a professional photographer.

It's this photo, of a woman on Chinese New Year's: http://www.davidphenry.com/States/states01.htm

Hey Dave.... :wave

Say a big HELLO to Tina for me....

Glad that you two enjoy the photos as you do... you buddy Henry has some great human interest images... i like the one of the guy with dreads eating sushi...

kbasa · Dec 12, 2009

OUTBACKUFO said:
Hey Dave....

Say a big HELLO to Tina for me....

Glad that you two enjoy the photos as you do... you buddy Henry has some great human interest images... i like the one of the guy with dreads eating sushi...

Absolutely will.

When he worked for me, we were in a copy shop. He treated the photocopiers like cameras and did all kinds of secondary manipulation on his photos with them. I've got a panorama he assembled from a number of photos, making copies and pasting them together. I should probably frame that one, too. :hide

I knew him when he was taking those black and whites around Boston. He had this little Leica and he never held the camera up to his face. He wore it on a strap around his neck and would just reach up and press the button. He developed all his own stuff.

Your work has a certain character I see in some of David's stuff. An interpetation of the scene that can almost abstract it or will focus the viewer's attention quite closely on a particular aspect, then allows the viewer to expand their view and understanding of the scene.

rocketman · Dec 12, 2009

KBasa said:
Absolutely will.

When he worked for me, we were in a copy shop. He treated the photocopiers like cameras and did all kinds of secondary manipulation on his photos with them. I've got a panorama he assembled from a number of photos, making copies and pasting them together. I should probably frame that one, too.

I knew him when he was taking those black and whites around Boston. He had this little Leica and he never held the camera up to his face. He wore it on a strap around his neck and would just reach up and press the button. He developed all his own stuff.

Your work has a certain character I see in some of David's stuff. An interpetation of the scene that can almost abstract it or will focus the viewer's attention quite closely on a particular aspect, then allows the viewer to expand their view and understanding of the scene.

Years ago in the late 70's when I was an illustrator/graphic artist we had a Xerox reproduction Camera that you operated manually. It used a changed sliver plate that was exposed to the art work held in a large glass plate affair that moved on a set of tracks, the whole thing being about 3-4 feet long. once the image was made you rotated the metal plate 180 Deg. and shook a fine black power that was in placed in a bin that held thousands of tiny metal balls that helped distribute the power on the plate which only adhered where an image had been formed. you could then use a special eraser to dab areas you wanted to remove any power. Between that and being able to control the exposure just like any camera, as it had F-stop and exposure speed settings we had a lot of fun doing B&W photographic work with it. The image was fixed by placing paper over the metal plate then running it under a set of charged wires that transferred the Xerox powder to the paper which you also had to fix so that gave you latitude to do further clean up work before heating it for final fixing. tons of fun, never seen one since thou. Amazing what one can do with a little innovative thinking as it wasn't really designed for gray scale work but rather text and line graphics, but with the right exposure settings and manner that you did the various steps we found that it would do some rather high-contrast gray scale B&W work with some interesting results.

RM

JAMESDUNN · Dec 12, 2009

I always liked Grant Wood, the painter of "American Gothic". That painting of an enigmatic farmer and his wife (?) is iconic. I have been to the house in Eldon, Iowa and taken some photographs while visiting, some with my motorcycle in the foreground. Here I have posted a lesser know Grant Wood painting. Grant Wood was an Iowa native.

JAMESDUNN · Dec 12, 2009

Manet was a leading artist of the French Impressionist movement. I studied his art while at university and always liked this one, "Luncheon on the Grass", very intriguing.

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