Art (possibly NSFW)

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Use this thread to show your favorite Art Work. Include the title, artist, a brief description, and I know that not all art is work-safe, so if it is blatantly open or breaks tables, link it.



Link (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Caspar_David_Friedrich_032.jpg)

The wanderer above the sea of fog
Caspar Friedrich

To me, this painting encompasses the feeling of adventure and exploration that dominated Britain between the mid-19th century and died out with the beginning of the first World War.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Dali_Temptation_of_St_Anthony.jpg


Temptation of St Anthony
Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí is perhaps my favorite artist. At first glance, one sees the rearing horse and parade of elephants carrying building on their backs (symbolizing the ease with which societies can be over-turned). However, bearing closer scrutiny, the skull at St. Anthony's feet is apparent as well as the robed figure holding a cross to someone approaching in the background.

[John Travolta]

The Battle of Alexander at Issus
By Albrecht Altdorfer.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/altdorfer/battle-issus/battle-issus.jpg

Possibly the most detailed, most badass painting that I have ever seen. Every soldier has facial expressions and unique clothing and considering the fact that there are about a thousand soldiers in the painting it must have taken ages to finish.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/altdorfer/battle-issus/detail1.jpg

[abbey]

I really love Rene Magritte's work. Here are a few of my favourites:

The Son of Man
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/en_easyart/lg/1/3/The-Son-of-Man-Rene-Magritte-134151.jpg

Reproduction Prohibited
http://www.geocities.com/s_j_darcy/magritte.jpg

Golconde
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/magritte2.jpg

[GIO]

I really love Rene Magritte's work. Here are a few of my favourites:

The Son of Man
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/en_easyart/lg/1/3/The-Son-of-Man-Rene-Magritte-134151.jpg

Reproduction Prohibited
http://www.geocities.com/s_j_darcy/magritte.jpg

Golconde
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Surrealism/magritte2.jpg




I LOVE RENE MAGRITTE SO MUCH! He is one of my favourite painters and surrealism is one of my favourite art movements.


The Red Model

http://nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur/Images/magritte.redmodel.jpg


The Lovers

http://wahooart.com/A55A04/w.nsf/OPRA/BRUE-5ZKELV/$File/Magritte%20-%20The%20Lovers.jpg



However, I don't think I could ever decide which artwork in particular is my favourite, so I'll keep posting my favourite artworks along the way. :biggrin:

[Hats of!]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Velvet_Underground_and_Nico.jpg

Andy Warhol made the cover for Velvet Undergrounds first record. I love it. I like most of Warhols stuffs, like the Brillo Boxes etc.

[abbey]

I like Andy Warhol's stuff too. The pop-art and all. But he was an asshole.

Another good pop-artist: Roy Lichtenstein. Most of his stuff looks like it was ripped right out of a comic book from the 70's.

For example, this one's called BLAM.
http://hans.presto.tripod.com/products/royl_blam350x300.jpg

[GnR]

Berlin Streetscene by George Grotsz

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5351/berlinstreetscenemc2.jpg

I don't know much about the painting. In fact, it took me a while just to find it. Couldn't find it in any of the galleries of Grotsz.

I love his style.

[John Travolta]

Rene Magritte is too monotonous.

[Veeduck]

I positively adore Salvador Dali. I will go through hours and hours of just looking at his paintings. The Christ of St John on the Cross ( Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Christ_of_Saint_John_of_the_Cross.jpg) ) is my favourite by him. It's certainly not the most provocative work he has done, but it shows a level of mastery that just blows me away. Also his Last Supper is a close second as far as favourites go. It's my desktop and cellphone wallpaper. But I will stare at anything and everything he's done, I will (and have) read all his writing, and read biography after biography about Salvador Dali. He just fascinates me.

I also adore Michelangelo Buonarotti, and Robert Bateman in particular. But I'm a fan of anything Modern or older. I can't really wrap my head around most post-modern or contemporary stuff, with exception for Robert Bateman. I'm a huuuge art history nerd, though I can't stand learning it in university.

[Fodniethan]

Some of my favourite artists aren't very famous, but here are a few:
Fabian Perez, who does a lot of sultry women and gangster-ish men
http://i26.tinypic.com/2afeumw.jpg

Penny Warden with her dancers
http://i31.tinypic.com/mb2wwo.jpg

Phillip Gray who paints seascapes. These don't look so good in photos but the real paintings are huge and awesome
http://i28.tinypic.com/wgqqgl.jpg

I like loads of different styles of art, but especially expressive works.

[GIO]

Rene Magritte is too monotonous.

Albrecht Altdorfer is too gloomy. :flamewar:


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And what about Egon Schiele? I love how raw his drawings and paintings are.

Dead Girl

http://www.southern.com/southern/band/RACHL/pics/315-5.jpg


Freundschaft (Friendship)

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~svb/Images/freundschaft.jpg

[Cristo]

I have to say that John Constable is one of my favourite artists.

He mainly painted the English landscape but he did it absolutely beautiful. I love how he truly captures the scenery's colours and the vivid details as well. Just amazing.

Here's an example:

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files/JohnConstableTheWhiteHorse.jpg

I'd post more but none I could find where of high enough image quality to do him justice.

[MSB]

Irvine Peacock is definitely my favorite artist. I could stare at his paintings all day long. So fascinating!

Some of you might recognize the painting below, as it is commonly sold in poster form:

'The Courtyard'
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/20/WAG2152.JPG

My favorite work of his is probably 'Arcadium'. (see below)
http://www.portal-gallery.com/store/Admin/Displayimage.aspx?productid=699


I'm not really sure why I'm drawn to his work so much. I guess it's just because they are so interesting, and if you keep looking for a while, you notice things that you may have missed on first glance.

[abbey]

The top one is a lot like M.C. Escher's "Up and Down", the same scene from above and from below.
http://skeptically.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/escher-up-and-down.jpg.w300h712.jpg

And the other one kind of reminds me of Escher's "Rind".
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/M.C.Escher/2/escher-cover.gif

[MSB]

The top one is a lot like M.C. Escher's "Up and Down", the same scene from above and from below.
[/IMG]

Ahh, I forgot about Escher. I love his Drawing Hands picture. :smile:

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW355.jpg

[BeneBreadstick]

Kathe Kollwitz is hands down my favorite artist. She lived in Germany through both world wars; she did prints, and drawings of the death and suffering during that time.

Woman and Death
http://www1.bucknell.edu/img/assets/12049/Kollowitz.jpg

Hunger
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_115183_302448_kathe-kollwitz.jpg

and heres a self portrait.
http://spaightwoodgalleries.com/Media/Kollwitz/Kollwitz_Wdct_SelfPortrait3.jpg

[PyroOwned]

BANKSY! I can't believe none of you lot have mentioned them.

http://weblog.evasee.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/BANKSY%20AGAIN.jpg
Their most recent (I think).

http://www.weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/banksy-stencil-guerilla-street-art.jpg
A small collection of their works.


The thing I love about Banksy is the fact the art they do is completely illegal. It's all stencils so they can do it in less than 5 minutes, without getting caught by the police. All their work is either randomly funny or a political stand against something.

[abbey]

I really like Banksy as well, but Banksy is just one person, not a group.

Here's his website. It's got pictures of tons of his work. http://www.banksy.co.uk/

[PyroOwned]

Actually, Banksy used to be just one person, now it's many. He sends people off in a group, then they all split up, one person with the stuff they need for the piece. The police get confused and follow different people, etc.

Of course, he still does all the stencils and such.

[Halucinagenia]

"The thing I love about Banksy is the fact the art they do is completely illegal. "

Well to a degree i suppose, this guy (or guys) sells his work at auctions for thousands of pounds and yet the police have not really made any attempt to catch him. and he does videos of his work all the time, it can't just be a coincidence that no policemen are around when he does this.

but i love banksy aswell, what a legend. i also love Sickboy and graffiti as a whole. if done right it is just gorgeous.
http://i27.tinypic.com/9gef6u.jpg
http://i29.tinypic.com/mv10nl.jpg Banksy
http://i32.tinypic.com/zr2b5.jpg
http://i31.tinypic.com/6egchz.jpg
Sickboy

oh and btw. this is possibly the only picture of banksy "in action"
http://i27.tinypic.com/209oztc.jpg

edit: sorry about the size, but im clueless when it comes to resizing. D;

[BlackHood]

Actually, all the Banksy stuff at auctions is nothing to do with him. Check out his website, it goes against what he believes in to sell his art.

[Tyler_Legrand]

Albrecht Dürer. He has a neat signature.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Durer_Young_Hare.jpg/540px-Durer_Young_Hare.jpg

Fluffy!

[MSB]

Julian Beever.

He does his artwork in chalk, out in public. He makes these amazing scenes, that when viewed at the right angle, appear to be 3D.

Some examples of his work:

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/images/dungeon.jpg

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/images/batman.jpg

http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/images/waterfall.jpg

[paper dreams]

I love Georgia O'Keefe's work.
Gorgeous colours and its just so....flowing.
Her paintings are huge too, like 6ft tall canvases.

Red Canna
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Georgia_Okeeffe/red_canna.jpeg

Jack in the Pulpit no. IV
http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/Doctrines_Injustice/O'Keefe.jpg

Poppy
http://www.globalgallery.com/prod_images/sw-70010.jpg

New York at Night
http://www.geocities.com/moondarlin/images/radiatorbuildingnewyorknight.jpg

[Xambesi]

I have this on my wall and it's been my favourite artwork for the longest time.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/1863_Alexandre_Cabanel_-_The_Birth_of_Venus.jpg
The Birth of Venus, Alexandre Cabanel

I think it's the best depiction of Venus in history, and it blows Boticelli's right out of the water.

[charcoal]

Jack Vettriano is my favourite at the moment, particularly Elegy for a Dead Admiral

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ARG/20110~Elegy-for-a-Dead-Admiral-Posters.jpg

I also really like Egon Schiele's work for its rawness. It's almost art brut, really.

I always get the feeling that Magritte's style was heavily influenced by his total inability to draw faces..

[elsunchips]

Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore'http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii250/k-hallowseve/Paradise_Lost_12.jpg

[Krabby]

I'm not much into art, but I love Escher's work - the impossibilities can have me staring at them for ages trying to figure out how he drew it.

Fav: Waterfall
<Click here> (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/e/escher/escher_waterfall.jpg)

[abbey]

Okay I'll be the first to mention Picasso.

We were studying aesthetics in my philosophy class when my teacher showed us this painting.

http://www.kle.nw.schule.de/hanna-heiber-schule/picasso-pablo-dora-maar-seated-2802675.jpg

At first I really didn't get it. She's yellow and her face is messed, not to mention her mangled fingers. But then my teacher explained what Picasso was trying to do: show the woman from different perspectives. For example, you can tell he painted her right eye when he was sitting to her right.

Sorry if this is common knowledge to everyone. I just found out a couple months ago and thought it was interesting.

[Liteboy]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c53/spartantribute/SamKPark.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c53/spartantribute/samK.jpg
he's not my favorite but i really like Sam Kaufman. who's pretty much a graphic designer and i see him do a lot of things for bands.
the second is for Cosmonaut ( which i've seen as just the head but when it comes to shirts they make things busier) and the first is clearly for PARK

i love the park especially, that face is so beautiful

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[History]

Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi (early 17th century).

http://www.initaly.com/regions/artists/artemisi/arte002.jpg

Last year I went to the "Women in the Arts" museum in Washington DC, and their featured collection was "Italian women artists from Renaissance to Baroque". I saw this painting up close and personal, and it really just stood out to me. I love the look on Judith's face (blue dress).

Edit: I wanted to add to this because I find it interesting, and this painting deserves some more background info. During the time period the only women that could really be painters were the ones who had fathers as instructors, otherwise women could not take classes. The artist, Gentileschi, was raped when she was young by one of her father's pupils. Well they took him to court and Artemesia was humiliated by the opposition. The women that guided our tour of the museum hinted that this painting is so strong for this reason. Judith may represent the artist herself taking revenge on the man that raped her. Another reason why I love the look on her face, it's very determined.

[Idioteque]

I don't know why, but this painting captured my interest from the first time I saw it.
The colors are so vivid, and the expression of anguish on his face is just heart-wrenching
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/munch.scream.jpg

[abbey]

It's actually not called the Scream because of the man. He wrote somewhere that it was the scream of nature. So he's not feeling anguish at all. I think he's just covering his ears.

[timbot]

I like Andy Warhol's stuff too. The pop-art and all. But he was an asshole.

Another good pop-artist: Roy Lichtenstein. Most of his stuff looks like it was ripped right out of a comic book from the 70's.

For example, this one's called BLAM.


Lichtenstein is really cool. He did what may be my favorite work of art. It's actually a Van Gogh redux
http://nabas44.no.sapo.pt/Lichtenstein.jpg
I saw this when I was at the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. and thought it was just so cool. I really liked the bold lines of the bed, and the texture of the work. Unfortunately, you can't see the texture on a computer screen. Sadly, it's impossible, as far as I can tell, to get a poster print of it.

Here's the Van Gogh
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/expressionism/images/VincentVanGogh-The-Bedroom-1888-89.jpg

[Fodniethan]

-Stuff about Salvador Dalí-



I like Salvador Dalí's work, but when I went to his museum I was actually disappointed by a lot of it.


At first I really didn't get it. She's yellow and her face is messed, not to mention her mangled fingers. But then my teacher explained what Picasso was trying to do: show the woman from different perspectives. For example, you can tell he painted her right eye when he was sitting to her right.

Sorry if this is common knowledge to everyone. I just found out a couple months ago and thought it was interesting.

I love Picasso, and the museum of his work in Barcelona is really great because it shows him go from realistic through to cubism and all the different styles he tried. There are also loads of his random sketches there, and the first plans of some of his most famous paintings, which I found interesting because it makes him seem more like a real person.

[Hats of!]

I can't belive I forgot an artist in my post here... John Bauer.

John Bauer is an Swedish illustrator with some outlandish-fame, some. He mainly illustrated stories and "sagor", rughly translated to stories about folk-lore (no, I don't mean fairy-tales). Y'know, trolls and such.

http://www.hellefors.se/kommun/cloudberry/images/JohnBauer.jpg

http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-04/bauer_450.jpg

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Bauer/bauer8.jpg

http://www.trolska.se/foton/john.jpg

[Mricpx]

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

I've always loved this painting, but I've never been quite sure why.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/hopper/images/nighthawks_home.jpg

[timbot]

Isn't Night Hawks inspired by a poem? Or maybe a poem was inspired by it. Have you ever seen this painting in real life? It looks even better for real. I suppose that's true of all paintings, though.

[Zebbs]

I think Escher's been mentioned in this thread. This is my favourite work from him and the one which I studied for my GCSE.

http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/escher/escher9.jpg

[ahlfy]

I personally don't have a favorite artist, but I do love Dali, Bernini, Caravaggio, O'Keefe, Rothko, and Goya.

I absolutely love by Bernini the "Ecstasy of St. Theresa" How he did that one as a rebound (you could say) piece of artwork after his failure in the cathedral's bell tower. Also, where his inspiration came from the book that St. Theresa wrote about her experience with God.

With Caravaggio's, my favorite was the "David with the Head of Goliath." How he painted himself as Goliath, to repent with the Roman Catholic Pope. It's amazing

With Goya, his dark painting are just amazing. It's kind of scary that he painted gruesome paintings on his wall, like "Saturn Devouring his Son," which if memory serves me, he painted it in his living room wall. The reasoning for those pictures was to battle his demons.

With Rothko, Dali, and Georgia O'Keefe, I just love all of their artwork. They are all very different, but awesome. From Rothko's, abstract simplicity, to Dali's bizarre surrealism, and to O'Keefe's extremely sharp lines and closeness of things. They are all awe inspiring to me.

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[xkittenxsocksx]

I have early memories of Lowry so I like his work.

http://www.artland.co.uk/Lowry_Coming_Home_from_the_Mill_SPQ456.jpg


I have to say that John Constable is one of my favourite artists.

He mainly painted the English landscape but he did it absolutely beautiful. I love how he truly captures the scenery's colours and the vivid details as well. Just amazing.

Here's an example:

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files/JohnConstableTheWhiteHorse.jpg

I'd post more but none I could find where of high enough image quality to do him justice.



ha my parents have two of his paintings hung up in the living room

[BlackHood]

Dali is by far my favourite artist at the moment, though my parents have discovered this autistic guy who does portraits, which are mindblowing. My dad showed me an original he got for £10,000 and I simply couldn't believe how amazing they are. I'll get some pictures to post here soon, but they are amazingly vibrant, like a mix between Warhol and Photoshop. He paints with huge amounts of texture, with just dabs of colour; we've got one which is Hugh Laurie (House MD to Americans) and his eyes are electric blue. We're even paying him to do a commission of Obama.

It blows everything else we own out of the water, even stuff that cost three times the amount.

[paraskeet]

Jack Vettriano is my favourite at the moment, particularly Elegy for a Dead Admiral http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ARG/20110~Elegy-for-a-Dead-Admiral-Posters.jpg

http://www.vettriano-art.com/Prints/InThoughtsOfYouL.jpg

In Thoughts Of You has got to be my all time favorite work of Jack Vettriano.

http://remue.net/IMG/jpg/Fragonard_Le_Verrou_1778.jpg
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - The Bolt
One of my all-time favorites in general, I really love how this painting captures that feeling of desire and lust. The lighting is beautiful, and every detail is amazing. From the woman's facial expression to the way her dress falls. I don't think I'll ever forget seeing this in person!

[Ikin]

Nobody's mentioned van Gogh? He's the one that got me interested in art.
Personally, I like this lesser-known work, Starry Night over the Rhone

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/vincent-van-gogh-paintings-from-arles-1.jpg

My other favorite is Wheat Field With Crows, which I'll link to 'cause it's really wide.

http://www.heliosfera.blogger.com.br/Vincent%20Van%20Gogh%20Wheat%20Field%20with%20Crow s%201890.jpg

[isaidso]

Christopher shy does some pretty amazing pieces, done is several different mediums.
http://www.artshrine.com/shy/csdi16.jpg

You can find several examples of his work at http://www.studioronin.com

Also, Joel Witkin. Disturbing, and not for everyone I suppose. But brilliant none the less.
This is one in particular, I love. It is titled "The raft of George W. Bush (2006)"
http://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk/public/2007/09/joel-peter_witkin.jpg

More at http://edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm

[Hats of!]

Gerald Scarfe!
For crying out loud I can't believe in my two post I haven't mentioned him.
www.geraldscarfe.com
He has worked with Pink Floyd, Disney (for Hercules), The New Yorker and various scene designs. He is my god.

[azunder]

I've been looking into Andy Goldsworthy for this term's project, he's got some interesting work that he produces solely from the materials in the environment around him.

Leaves (http://lhlefevre.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Cherry-Leaves.jpg)

Reconstructed Icicle (http://http://lhlefevre.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/Reconstructed-Icicles1.jpg)

The work of Christo (no not the douche) is absolutely immense too. He drapes vast amounts of cloth over buildings and valleys, he and his wife sell the development studies for the project's, just so they can afford to do them.

NYC (http://http://www.artthompson.com/uploaded_images/christo_in_nyc2-741140.jpg)

Valley Curtain (http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/vc.shtml)

Just the studies are astonishing to look at.

[Claudio]

Use this thread to show your favorite Art Work. Include the title, artist, a brief description, and I know that not all art is work-safe, so if it is blatantly open or breaks tables, link it.



Link (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Caspar_David_Friedrich_032.jpg)

The wanderer above the sea of fog
Caspar Friedrich

To me, this painting encompasses the feeling of adventure and exploration that dominated Britain between the mid-19th century and died out with the beginning of the first World War.



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Dali_Temptation_of_St_Anthony.jpg


Temptation of St Anthony
Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí is perhaps my favorite artist. At first glance, one sees the rearing horse and parade of elephants carrying building on their backs (symbolizing the ease with which societies can be over-turned). However, bearing closer scrutiny, the skull at St. Anthony's feet is apparent as well as the robed figure holding a cross to someone approaching in the background.

I usually don't like these kinds of art, but they're great!

[Claudio]

But, Van Gogh (However you spell it) is still my favorite.

[Claudio]

Nothing beats Stary Night