2006-06-22 06:50:18 · 10 answers · asked by littleblanket 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
To me there is nothing more beautiful than the way the sky looks at sunset. There is something about the sky...even when it's cloudy..sometimes it looks like somebody took a paint brush and used sporadic strokes to create this beautiful masterpiece in the sky.
2006-06-22 06:55:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that I can pick one that is the best. How do you compare Monet's Water Lilies with Van Gogh's Starry Night? How do you compare Mona Lisa with that incredible Titian that is just opposite it that no one other than me seemed to be looking at?
There are a few pieces -- like Whistler's Mother (Study in Black and White) or Rembrandt's Night Watch or Picasso's Guernica that are so much more impressive in person than they are in pictures.
But I remember being most moved by a bust in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Raffaelo Monti. Look at it & judge for yourself
2006-06-22 17:00:44 · answer #2 · answered by Ranto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about "best"--I've seen a lot of art! But one of the most inventive and memorable was an installation called "Whispering Room" by Janet Cardiff at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
2006-06-22 14:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci and
Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
2006-06-22 13:53:44 · answer #4 · answered by Nirbhaya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damien Hirst - The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), his infamous tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde shown at the Saatchi Gallery.
2006-06-22 13:54:53 · answer #5 · answered by vrocampo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sistine Chapel is truly amazing. Also, Michelangelo's statue of David--I've seen it in so many books and magazines, but when you're standing there right in front of it, you're absolutely amazed by its size and detail, and then you read the Michelangelo sculpted it from a flawed piece of marble...?!?! wowie!
2006-06-22 15:51:14 · answer #6 · answered by nancina 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sistine Chapel
2006-06-22 13:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by shoelace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humanoid 1 by H.R. Geiger
It's a very moody piece that to me, reflects the pain and sorrow of the modern deformities that we subject ourselves to.
It's kind of sad and creepy and sexy at the same time.
2006-06-22 13:59:53 · answer #8 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Tamara de Lempicka, George Grosz, or Otto Dix. Grosz and Dix were two of the most influential German Expressionist painters ever.. And Lempicka's work is most often the "face" of the Art Deco era...
Examples:
Lempicka: http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/lempicka/Tamara-de-Lempicka-Green-Turban.jpg
Dix: http://www.ekrs-steinheim.de/Kunst_2002_1/Bilder/Dix_Otto_1.jpg
Grosz: http://www.loustal.nl/Groszr_and__loustal__01.htm
2006-06-22 13:58:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Gutenberg bible is pretty impressive...
2006-06-22 13:54:16 · answer #10 · answered by Jennifer H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋