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Most Amazing Work of Art You've Ever Seen? (1 Viewer)
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Black Sunshine
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My kids.
scrumptrulescent
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The very first Michigan football game I went to see in the Big House. The green grass, the marching band, the uniforms running onto the field, and most of all.....the helmets.
Magnificent.
Magnificent.
joffer
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Epic Problem
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wikkidpissah
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Las Meninas by Velasquez. - first painting i ever looked at for an hour. hypnotizing, cuz it's hard not to feel that, archaic as these individuals all are, that they wont resume what their doing the second you look away. 2) David 3) Chartres - reeeeally feels like the spaceship that will take us to heaven 4) El Greco's "Burial of Count Orgaz". 5) Corregio's "Assumption of the Virgin" fresco
pantherclub
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my poop yesterday morning after eating fajitas
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Fight The Power!
Dr. Awesome
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jamny
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I saw an exhibit in Spain featuring other artists interpretations of Las Meninas. It was pretty incredible. Tough call to name just one. A few top ones are Guernica by Picasso (my avatar), and I'm not really a Picasso fan, Francisco Goya's The Third of May , and Courbet's Burial at Ornans.Hard to top the Sistine Chapel but the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi comes close. Also love the room featuring Goya's Black Paintings at the Museo del Prado in Spain.
Ray Karpis
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Probably mine, too. Really awe-inspiring in person.'Epic Problem said:
Eviloutsider
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Great Wall of China
Fennis
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Gates of Hell - Rodin
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat I love me some dots
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat I love me some dots
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Fennis
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and here I thought I was being original
Workhorse
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BobbyLayne
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Paintings - Pollock retrospective a few years ago @ the Whitney.
Antiquity - the Terra Cotta soldiers.
Pyramids were cool to x off the bucket list, but slightly underwhelming to be honest.
Vatican was incredible, but sheesh the scale of everything is over the top.
Antiquity - the Terra Cotta soldiers.
Pyramids were cool to x off the bucket list, but slightly underwhelming to be honest.
Vatican was incredible, but sheesh the scale of everything is over the top.
Wrigley
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Horses Mouth
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I just saw the Parthenon for the first time a few weeks ago and it was incredible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Parthenon_in_Athens.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Parthenon_in_Athens.jpg
Bonzai
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jamny
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Gotta get there before the exhibit is gone. Less than 30 days left I think.
pittstownkiller
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I've seen King Tut's treasures have been to the Louvre, the British Museum, Rome and Florence, but I was really taken back by Dali's work in his museum in St. Petersburg. David was awfully impressive though.
PlayaHata
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Just got back from 3 weeks in Europe and saw lots of amazing art - Paris, Rome, Florence, Milan, etc.
Michelangelo's David was the most impressive to me. I was shocked at how big it is in person, 17ft tall if my memory is correct.
After that was the Vatican museum ceiling that looked three dimensional until they told you that it was all just painted to look that way.
Michelangelo's David was the most impressive to me. I was shocked at how big it is in person, 17ft tall if my memory is correct.
After that was the Vatican museum ceiling that looked three dimensional until they told you that it was all just painted to look that way.
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flysack
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One of the things I want to do before I die is see Goya's Black Paintings.The two most impressive artworks I've seen in person are -
1. It's overexposed ad nauseum, but I saw the original at The Met and was blown away.
2. I also saw a post-cataract version of Monet's Japanese Footbridge. That link was what most versions look like. Later in his life, Monet had serious cataract problems and underwent eye surgery. It saved his sight, but screwed up his vision, giving everything a reddish hue. The version I saw at LACMA was painted after the surgery: It's like the same painting in hell.
Ditto on David.Just got back from 3 weeks in Europe and saw lots of amazing art - Paris, Rome, Florence, Milan, etc.Michelangelo's David was the most impressive to me. I was shocked at how big it is in person, 17ft tall if my memory is correct.After that was the Vatican museum ceiling that looked three dimensional until they told you that it was all just painted to look that way.
The older parts were really impressive. I am kind of indifferent on how they are finishing it off.
PlayaHata
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Good call. We saw lots of cathedrals on our trip too (Notre Dame, St. Peter's, St. Mark's, Florence Duomo), but La Sagrada Familia was my favorite. Most of the pictures in the Wikipedia article don't really do it justice, but the one looking up to the ceiling from the nave gives a sense of how incredible it is.
jamny
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seeing them all together in one room is really impressive. Can't imagine how shocking they must have been when they found them.
DA RAIDERS
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They're closing this? :(
Battles
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jamny
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Ursa M
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chet
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wikkidpissah
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DA RAIDERS
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atta boy
Judge Smails
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I just got back from my Europe trip. We went to the Louvre and Musee de Orsay in Paris, Uffizi and Accademia in Florence, and the Vatican, Sistine Chapel and Borghese in Rome. I must say that some of the best art I saw anywhere were in the many churches/Duomos. Simply amazing. But as far as a work that just mesmerized me, more than I ever thought it would, I would agree is was Michaelangelo's David.
Judge Smails
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Wow - switch out Milan for Venice and it sounds like we had the same trip! Loved Paris and Florence the best, then Rome, then Venice.Just got back from 3 weeks in Europe and saw lots of amazing art - Paris, Rome, Florence, Milan, etc.Michelangelo's David was the most impressive to me. I was shocked at how big it is in person, 17ft tall if my memory is correct.After that was the Vatican museum ceiling that looked three dimensional until they told you that it was all just painted to look that way.
Judge Smails
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Fascinating work - loved the Borghese....
jamny
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Those can't be from the NY exhibit.you went to the actual site?
nice.
Seeing it in the city will probably be the closest I'll ever get.
On The Rocks
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This is like asking which of your children is your favorite.
We I saw "The Coronation of Napoleon" I was struck by the detail and the size (about 30' wide by 20' tall) and I remember standing in front of it and just staring at one section for a very long time. Then beginning to walk away and noticing another detail and staring at another section. And the went on for about 45 minutes.
Mt. Rushmore in person is a differnet kind of impressive - but very impressive nontheless.
We I saw "The Coronation of Napoleon" I was struck by the detail and the size (about 30' wide by 20' tall) and I remember standing in front of it and just staring at one section for a very long time. Then beginning to walk away and noticing another detail and staring at another section. And the went on for about 45 minutes.
Mt. Rushmore in person is a differnet kind of impressive - but very impressive nontheless.
Apple Jack
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Guernica
Golden Gate Park
NY Philharmonic, Mahler's Symphony No. 5, Avery Fisher Hall, April 2011
Spiritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, RCMH, July 2010
Golden Gate Park
NY Philharmonic, Mahler's Symphony No. 5, Avery Fisher Hall, April 2011
Spiritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, RCMH, July 2010
