What piece of art has most inspired you?

Answer 1

I am Canadian and love some of our home-grown artists, especially the ones of the past 100 years or so--the Group of Seven, Tom Tompson, Emily Carr, and our aboriginal artists such as Norval Morriseau, Pitseolak, and Kenojuak. I love their interpretations of the beauty of the natural landscape of Canada, its animals, and its folklore.

My favourite of these is probably Emily Carr--a woman who would become an artist, a profession seemingly dominated by men, and thoroughly devote her life to this calling. I love her "The Big Raven" which illustrates the common threads found in her art--the aboriginal culture of Canada's West Coast and, of course, the massiveness of the land of British Columbia. It is simple in its lines and yet shows strength--the same strength of the wonderful artist who created it.

Answer 2

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-four bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, in which a number of people variously estimated between 250 and 1,600 were killed and many more were injured.

A huge mural had already been commissioned from Picasso by the Spanish Republican government to decorate the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition (the 1937 World's Fair in Paris). Picasso's first sketches were done on May 1st, a week after the bombing. Picasso said as he worked on the mural:

“ The Spanish struggle is the fight of reaction against the people, against freedom. My whole life as an artist has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against reaction and the death of art. How could anybody think for a moment that I could be in agreement with reaction and death? ... In the panel on which I am working, which I shall call Guernica, and in all my recent works of art, I clearly express my abhorrence of the military caste which has sunk Spain in an ocean of pain and death.[1]

Answer 3

Beethoven Op. fifty 3, Op. 109, Diabelli ameliorations Brahms Handel ameliorations, Op 118 Klavierstucke, Piano Sonata a million Bach Goldberg ameliorations, English Suite #2, nicely Tempered Clavier Liszt Piano Sonata Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata 2 Medtner Piano Sonata Op. 25 night Wind Chopin Op 10 etudes, Op 25 etudes, Scherzo #a million, #2, #3, Ballade #a million, #3, #4 Prokofiev Sonata #2, #7 Schumann Op sixteen. Kreisleriana Schubert Op. ninety, Piano Sonata in Bb substantial

Answer 4

It's a piece by an italian, Massimo Tamburini. The Ducati 916 is engineering as art.

Answer 5

This...


http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/

Answer 6

This is a very deep question for an artist! I am just blocked right now and cannot think of an answer. This could be answered in so many words with so many different artists and works!! This is a wonderful question, sorry no answer! Maybe I'll think of a specific and add it in!! Thanks for the good question!

Answer 7

The Eye of Silence - Max Ernst

http://artchive.com/artchive/E/ernst.html

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I've seen the original at Washington University in Saint Louis. There aren't any online copies of it that do it justice.

Some of Bellmer, Tanguy or Munch's work might qualify as well. ...Van Gogh ...Bacon ...etc

Answer 8

Wheat field with crows, by Vincent van Gogh... I think that piece reflected the most how melancholic and alone he felt.

Answer 9

There is nothing nicer (or harder to paint) than a naked human body. Unfortunately I don't have any model(s) for the time being, and I must do with photographs.
La Joconde, if that's what you were asking.

Answer 10

My teacher painted a painting that I just call 'The Tuba Painting.' He used vermilion, yellow ocher, black and white and got so many colors. It's absolutely gorgeous and it's just him holding a tuba. I think about that painting a lot. If I had money that would be the first painting I would track down and buy.