you enjoy looking at, or admire for one reason or another?
2006-09-07 14:16:50 · 19 answers · asked by Jess 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
I was looking at an exhibit of Davincci's sketches on display with my brother who has no training in art. I was stunned. After a while he said something to me about being impressed by my reaction to them. I tried to explain that we were looking at the man's doodling, and by that measure they were totally awesome. It was a humbling experience for me as an 'artist' to see.
Good question, thanks
2006-09-07 14:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by Rockvillerich 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite work of art is Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. It is beautiful to look at, yes, but I also associate it with a very happy time, possibly the best time I've ever had by myself. I hadn't seen, nor have I since, such a rich variety of colors and textures in one structure--one side of the exterior showing scenes from the nativity had stone that looked like frothy seafoam; another side had sculptures of the Stations of the Cross in a very different angular style. I don't know what it looks like now, but at that time (ten years ago), the ceiling was completely open, and you could go as high up on the towers and spires as possible and romp as you wished. There were also small penned and pencilled graffiti marks in the stairwells; normally I would be outraged at this desecration of a sacred space, but in that context, I felt that it showed that the church belonged to everyone.
2006-09-07 21:28:00 · answer #2 · answered by babybakya 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MMMM, that is a tough one. I fell deeply in love with Bernini's statue Daphne and Apollo, it is truly moving.
Picasso, there are so many pieces that I enjoy I can look at them for hours and hours.
Matisse has a woman with green face that is captivating. I am amazed at how powerful his brushstrokes are, and the use of color is so different.
Renoirs' work is beautiful with all the light that emmanates from his paintings.
Van Gogh Cypress tree is moving, very expressive, and you can see the wind.
I enjoy Calder, Miro, and Tamayo.
And some of the works of Munch, like the black and white stallion are truly amazing.
I find it hard to pin point an all time favorite.
2006-09-08 01:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by avll 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
IF someone creates a piece and then I feel I connect with it beyond what is obvious that fine. But some things are asthetically pleasing also. I like when I make something becuase obviously it has personal relevance or explores a interesting theme. Also art is a loaded word too.
2006-09-07 21:26:56 · answer #4 · answered by Tones at 1K and 10K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Guernica by Pablo Picasso. I had the opportunity to see it in NYC at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in 1976, before the painting was shipped back to Spain. Very impressive, done in monochromatic scheme, about the bombing of a Basque village in WWII. A work of art protesting the atrocities of war.
2006-09-07 21:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by Dulcinea 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sappho
By Charles-Auguste Mengin in the Manchester City Art Gallery, U.K.
This dramatically sensual, partially nude portrait of Sappho (c. 600 BC), the prolific and much-admired Greek lyric poetess, was created by French painter, Mengin (1853-1933). Heavy with naturalistic sallow skin tones and robust browns, Sappho is depicted rife with the unrequited love which legend says caused her to throw herself from the Leucadian rock to her death.
This is a little blurb from a magazine that I found the Painting in. it's one of my favorite paintings. I always feel captivated by it. Not that I'm about to go throwing myself from any rock or such thing but guess I can relate to her on many levels. So yes it is personal.
2006-09-07 21:28:02 · answer #6 · answered by Happychick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think is depends if the art speaks to you in someway. I have a few that I admire, but I do have a favorite, but I do not know the name of it! Here is a picture of it...
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i291/o_optimus_prime/zzgladyrelaxingbig.jpg
I always wanted a copy of it for my place, but then I realize that the picture would be pointless in a sense because it did not mean a thing to me. So instead, I would rather have my girlfriend pose like that in our bed and allow me to take a picture of her like that. Then it would mean alot more to me...
2006-09-07 21:27:21 · answer #7 · answered by Optimus P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rubens's *Judgement of Paris* in the Prado. But since so many people here like *Guernica,* maybe I should choose Rubens's *Allegory of War* on which Picasso's painting is based (in reverse).
Rubens--greatest painter ever. Picasso knew that.
2006-09-07 21:48:48 · answer #8 · answered by Eliza 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel a connection with all of Marc Chagall's art work. I have never seen it in real life but if I did, I would probably be so overwhelmed that I would cry.
2006-09-07 21:23:26 · answer #9 · answered by Hanky 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the colors and style of the art work can all create a different mood, i enjoy toulouse lautrec, his paintings are often bright and cartoon like, but under that lies a darker theme
2006-09-07 21:21:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋