Who is the artist?
What is the name of it?
Why?
2007-07-19 07:53:48 · 16 answers · asked by LifeLiveLove 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
The Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci
I really like her mysterious smile!
2007-07-19 07:56:20 · answer #1 · answered by neverdugdisco 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I really like David Hockney's "joiner" compositions. They are sort of like photgraphic cubism. He'll shoot several rolls of film on one subject, and then compose the color prints into a single image. He not only shows space the way cubists like braques and picasso did, but he also shows the passage of time, like people and things moving about. I also enjoy it because the work nearly reinvents the photography medium, using it in a way that it was never used before. I also think Hockney is more relevant, because he's still alive. This is the art that's happening today.
I must say, though I'm pleased to see people enjoy Van Gogh or DaVinci, it's a little unnerving that these are the ONLY artists people know. Pick up an art book, you're not seeing the big picture.
2007-07-19 16:11:43 · answer #2 · answered by moebiustrip 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like the Screaming Pope (series) by Francis Bacon. It's a reinterpretation of Velazquez's Pope Innocent X. Bacon reimagined the setting entirely, and makes the figure seem as if he is anguished (hence 'screaming'!). I like a lot of Bacon's stuff, and I especially like the many people/animals in tortured, terrorised, grotesque-like moods and nightmarish poses. Bacon was apparently a cheerful, generally happy kind of person, and I like that this is the complete opposite of what emerges in his work. It's interesting, and certainly different, that an artist seems to seperate work and life.
2007-07-19 22:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like anything by Mondrian. The geometric compositions are really soothing and calming to me. His landscapes and things are so ethereal and odd really, but you can understand what he is doing. There was an exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta that had a lot of Mondrian and other artists of his time and style. They had Composition XII I believe it is and I stared atit for about 15 minutes. At first I saw a bunch of lines, but all of a sudden I saw a face, it was really weird how it clicked to me. Anyways, since then art has meant something else to me, that it hasn't meant before, and so that painting is really special to me.
2007-07-19 15:19:03 · answer #4 · answered by chavito 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pink Floyd 'The Wall' It's one of the best musical collections ever put together. Telling a story with music, a very gutsy and heartfelt story. And this, at a time when it really wasn't poplular to do such a thing.
2007-07-19 14:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by LG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starry Night by Vincent van gogh
It just captures so much, you can see the wind blowing the stars around (isn't that a line from a song?)
Live well, and do good
2007-07-19 14:57:44 · answer #6 · answered by gentlesoul 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure who the artist is, but it's a lone tree in the snow with a wooden fence. It makes me feel peaceful.
2007-07-19 14:56:11 · answer #7 · answered by Alterfemego 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any art - I actually prefer photography and it'd have to be Ansel Adams. Or designer Frank Lloyd Wright homes and stained glass.
2007-07-19 14:57:26 · answer #8 · answered by magnet4trouble 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Edward Hopper
Nighthawks
It captures lonlieness, and the full effect of the Depression in one quiet street corner.
2007-07-19 15:15:31 · answer #9 · answered by Hickey 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vincent Van Gough
The hands of time
It speaks to me about how time can melt away.
2007-07-19 14:56:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋