Favorite Pieces of Art (Paintings and Sculptures)

[Brazoo]

Single pieces rather than artists? Hm, that's tough. I'm always stumped when questions like this come up. Too much to choose from, too many varieties of art.

Marcel Duchamp was always important to me when I was in art school, he kind of blew my mind and screwed me up as an artist for a long time. I'd own this if I had a lot of money. It's kind of his greatest hits in miniature form. But that's kind of a cheat.

http://nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Images/LRG/64922.jpg

Wow - what is this collection? How much is it?

EDIT: Okay - I never heard of this piece before or I'm too dumb to remember it. i assumed it was some kind of mass produced published thingy.

[Brazoo]

Claes Oldenburg's work is amazing - but I can't pick one particular piece - I really like his blueprint drawings and I always think he must have influenced Chris Ware a lot.

[megoscott]

This Claus Oldenburg sculpture in San Francisco always makes me think of Green Arrow. His oversized objects are like props in a 1950s Gotham city.

[megoscott]

This pre-Raphaelite image of Ophelia was always a fave.



I learned about it at a lecture in school by Ed Ruscha, the LA pop artist I also admire a lot. This is one of his.

[megoscott]

Nice thread, by the way, the images you cited were great, I also like Richard Estes, if only for the amazing views of the 1970s.

But who's this, you didn't label? It's hot!

http://www.outregallery.com/images/products/elsewhere-small.jpg

http://yayeveryday.com/images/post_i...1246242953.jpg

[megoscott]

One last one. I really loved the wonderful cinematic of the Beatles Rock Band Video game and now I'm a fan of the painter/animation designer who did the opening paintings for that. Albert Mielgo

Beatles Rock Band Cinematic

[Hector]

http://terresdefemmes.blogs.com/phot...d/guernica.jpg

Picasso's Guernica is my all time favorite painting.

I love it so much in fact...that I bought a small canvass replica measuring 2 feet by 4 feet...it's on one of my bedroom walls...



It was also my father's favorite painting.

[Brazoo]

It's a great painting, maybe the most important of the 20th century, but personally I would find it a little disturbing to look at every day. That looks like a really nice print though!

[HardyGirl]

I love the art of Christian Reese Lassen.

http://www.lassenart.com/

[Hector]

It's a great painting, maybe the most important of the 20th century, but personally I would find it a little disturbing to look at every day. That looks like a really nice print though!

Thanks!

Yeah...good quality canvass...I paid pretty good money for it as well.

I just love the horror and chaos of that painting...courtesy of Hitler and Franco...right up my alley...

[highquality]

I'm fascinated by Photorealistic artists.

These are all painted by Ian Hornak, who's more of a contemporary artist and hung in crowds with Warhol.







My interest in this artist isn't by accident. I own an Artist's Proof of this Painting signed by Hornak....



My Mom left it to me after she passed.

[toys2cool]

anything in the sisteen chapel

[WannabeMego]

[UnderdogDJLSW]

If we are going back a-ways, this Vermeer has always struck my fancy because of the map in the background. It looks like it has tons of detail, but it is slightly out of focus because the figures are his main subject. Very cool to me.

[kingdom warrior]

Japanese Printmaker and painter Kitagawa Utamaro- His work has had a profound influence on my artwork



Also Henri Toulouse Lautrec