Most Amazing Work of Art You've Ever Seen? (1 Viewer)

[pittstownkiller]

In addition to David, for me, would be St. Peter's Basilica in the the Vatican; the sculptures here a as good as anything in the world. The Pietà and Truth are stunning. The Pietà is an emotional of an experience you'll ever have viewing art and Truth is breathtaking if for no other reason than the living feeling of the cloth that she is sitting on, carved out of marble.

Pietà:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietà_(Michelangelo)

Truth: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Truth,_by_Morelli_and_Cartari_in_Monument_to_Alexander_VII.JPG#section_1

 

[jamny]

I don't know why I don't get the same emotional connection to a sculpture as I do to a painting.

 

[Annyong]

i don't know where to start or begin. I've only been to the Museum in Chicago

Picasso Old Guitarist

Van Gogh series Haystacks

####, almost all of the Van Gogh's at that exhibit were awesome.

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

there's so many more. i need to go back.

 

[jamny]

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

Love Caravaggio. Heading back to Chicago in a few weeks. Can't wait to check out the museum again.

 

[Fennis]

Antiquity - the Terra Cotta soldiers.

Gotta get there before the exhibit is gone. Less than 30 days left I think.

They're closing this? :(

sorry, should have been more specific. They have an exhibit in NYC that will be ending soon.

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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.

Yes, my wife and I went to China in 2008. We went to Xian as part of the trip, which is the city where the Terracotta Army is. It was pretty cool, there are thousands of those things in varying conditions.A trip to China is pretty affordable in winter.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

Love Caravaggio. Heading back to Chicago in a few weeks. Can't wait to check out the museum again.

Caravaggio is my favorite artist. To me, his paintings are as crisp as a digital photograph, and to think he did his work in the late 1500's - early 1600's is simply amazing. Toss up, Bernini and Michelangelo have to take top honors for sculptures for me.

 

[jamny]

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

Love Caravaggio. Heading back to Chicago in a few weeks. Can't wait to check out the museum again.

Caravaggio is my favorite artist. To me, his paintings are as crisp as a digital photograph, and to think he did his work in the late 1500's - early 1600's is simply amazing. Toss up, Bernini and Michelangelo have to take top honors for sculptures for me.

There's a great video series called Simon Shama's Power of Art. It's only 8 episodes but each one focuses on a specific artist. The Caravaggio one is especially good as his life story is pretty crazy. It's amazing how lifelike his work is compared to his contemporaries. Right up there with Courbet in his realism.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

Love Caravaggio. Heading back to Chicago in a few weeks. Can't wait to check out the museum again.

Caravaggio is my favorite artist. To me, his paintings are as crisp as a digital photograph, and to think he did his work in the late 1500's - early 1600's is simply amazing. Toss up, Bernini and Michelangelo have to take top honors for sculptures for me.

There's a great video series called Simon Shama's Power of Art. It's only 8 episodes but each one focuses on a specific artist. The Caravaggio one is especially good as his life story is pretty crazy. It's amazing how lifelike his work is compared to his contemporaries. Right up there with Courbet in his realism.

reserved it at the library...Thanks for the tip

 

[joffer]

I don't know why I don't get the same emotional connection to a sculpture as I do to a painting.

same here

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Schlichter. He is a real piece of work.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Schlichter. He is a real piece of work.

 

[medstudent]

I 've been to the Louvre and seen the Mona Lisa and Winged Victory. and I have been to some of the best Art Museums in the US. I am usually drawn to the Van Gogh paintings.

But the the one that always stood out for me was Guernica in Madrid. It is a terrifyingly moving piece of Art that really made an impression on me.

 

[jamny]

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

Love Caravaggio. Heading back to Chicago in a few weeks. Can't wait to check out the museum again.

Caravaggio is my favorite artist. To me, his paintings are as crisp as a digital photograph, and to think he did his work in the late 1500's - early 1600's is simply amazing. Toss up, Bernini and Michelangelo have to take top honors for sculptures for me.

There's a great video series called Simon Shama's Power of Art. It's only 8 episodes but each one focuses on a specific artist. The Caravaggio one is especially good as his life story is pretty crazy. It's amazing how lifelike his work is compared to his contemporaries. Right up there with Courbet in his realism.

reserved it at the library...Thanks for the tip

whole ep on youtube

 

[eoMMan]

I see it everyday when I look in the mirror.

 

[The Future Champs]

1. It's overexposed ad nauseum, but I saw the original at The Met and was blown away.

This was one of my first thoughts as well.

 

[Fennis]

I 've been to the Louvre and seen the Mona Lisa and Winged Victory. and I have been to some of the best Art Museums in the US. I am usually drawn to the Van Gogh paintings.But the the one that always stood out for me was Guernica in Madrid. It is a terrifyingly moving piece of Art that really made an impression on me.

Mona Lisa is way overrated.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I 've been to the Louvre and seen the Mona Lisa and Winged Victory. and I have been to some of the best Art Museums in the US.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.

 

[Apple Jack]

1. It's overexposed ad nauseum, but I saw the original at The Met and was blown away.

This was one of my first thoughts as well.

Starry Night is at the MoMA, but a resounding hell yes.

 

[Slapdash]

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

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.

Guernica is just stunning to see. I actually like the Second of May by Goya quite a bit too.The room in the Prado with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch and The Triumph of Death by Bruegel is also pretty awesome. I could stare at those paintings all day.

 

[Instinctive]

Can I pick all of Italy and the Louvre? Finally got to Study Abroad at the start of this summer...

Standouts:

The David is amazing. My #1.

School of Athens is awesome in the Museui Vaticani, as is (of course) the Sistine Chapel.

I would say the David is bigger than expected, and the Chapel was smaller.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

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

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.

Guernica is just stunning to see. I actually like the Second of May by Goya quite a bit too.The room in the Prado with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch and The Triumph of Death by Bruegel is also pretty awesome. I could stare at those paintings all day.

All excellent choices

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

Can I pick all of Italy and the Louvre? Finally got to Study Abroad at the start of this summer...

Standouts:

The David is amazing. My #1.

School of Athens is awesome in the Museui Vaticani, as is (of course) the Sistine Chapel.

I would say the David is bigger than expected, and the Chapel was smaller.

Disputation of the Holy Sacrament also by Raphael is also awe-inspiring.

 

[The Future Champs]

1. It's overexposed ad nauseum, but I saw the original at The Met and was blown away.

This was one of my first thoughts as well.

Starry Night is at the MoMA, but a resounding hell yes.

details, schemtails

 

[tri-man 47]

i don't know where to start or begin. I've only been to the Museum in Chicago

Picasso Old Guitarist

Van Gogh series Haystacks

####, almost all of the Van Gogh's at that exhibit were awesome.

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

there's so many more. i need to go back.

I love going there ...I also enjoy the garden area on the south side of the museum as well.I'm always in awe of the big murals. While visiting my daughter recently, I went to the impressive Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney. It's like a mini-Louvre the way rooms are stacked with paintings and sculptures. I was quite struck by Poynter's The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (link didn't work).

An incredible place for viewing art is The Cloisters on NYC's upper west side - great setting on a ridge overlooking the Hudson, and just awesome pieces inside, especially the triptychs.

 

[Battles]

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

Love Caravaggio. Heading back to Chicago in a few weeks. Can't wait to check out the museum again.

Caravaggio is my favorite artist. To me, his paintings are as crisp as a digital photograph, and to think he did his work in the late 1500's - early 1600's is simply amazing. Toss up, Bernini and Michelangelo have to take top honors for sculptures for me.

There's a great video series called Simon Shama's Power of Art. It's only 8 episodes but each one focuses on a specific artist. The Caravaggio one is especially good as his life story is pretty crazy. It's amazing how lifelike his work is compared to his contemporaries. Right up there with Courbet in his realism.

reserved it at the library...Thanks for the tip

whole ep on youtube

Good series. I watched Bernini and Caravaggio on youtube. The sound is off on the Caravaggio one so I switched to the one that breaks it down in 4 parts. Better audio and video.

 

[jamny]

Carravaggio Judith Beaheading Holofernes

Love Caravaggio. Heading back to Chicago in a few weeks. Can't wait to check out the museum again.

Caravaggio is my favorite artist. To me, his paintings are as crisp as a digital photograph, and to think he did his work in the late 1500's - early 1600's is simply amazing. Toss up, Bernini and Michelangelo have to take top honors for sculptures for me.

There's a great video series called Simon Shama's Power of Art. It's only 8 episodes but each one focuses on a specific artist. The Caravaggio one is especially good as his life story is pretty crazy. It's amazing how lifelike his work is compared to his contemporaries. Right up there with Courbet in his realism.

reserved it at the library...Thanks for the tip

whole ep on youtube

Good series. I watched Bernini and Caravaggio on youtube. The sound is off on the Caravaggio one so I switched to the one that breaks it down in 4 parts. Better audio and video.

I actually watched it again and switched to the other one as well. Notice the new Spiderman in it?

 

[The Ref]

Anything Goddard

Take it easy on me, I just think his stuff is real fun. I own one of his originals.

 

[jamny]

Anything GoddardTake it easy on me, I just think his stuff is real fun. I own one of his originals.

The Most Amazing Work of Art You've Ever Seen?

 

[jimmy b]

I'm a sucker for the

CLASSIC'S

 

[sn0mm1s]

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's

Apollo and Daphne

The Rape of Proserpina

are probably the best I have seen. I thought they were more impressive than Michelangelo's David.

 

[Psychopav]

In addition to David, for me, would be St. Peter's Basilica in the the Vatican; the sculptures here a as good as anything in the world. The Pietà and Truth are stunning. The Pietà is an emotional of an experience you'll ever have viewing art and Truth is breathtaking if for no other reason than the living feeling of the cloth that she is sitting on, carved out of marble.

Pietà:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietà_(Michelangelo)

Truth: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Truth,_by_Morelli_and_Cartari_in_Monument_to_Alexander_VII.JPG#section_1

Pieta would be my first pick to see live - have never been outside the US.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Michelangelo's_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit.jpg/977px-Michelangelo's_Pieta_5450_cropncleaned_edit.jpg

Here's one of my favorite paintings: Magritte's The Human Condition, linked here with a (imo) delightful commentary by the artist himself.

 

[Mr. Ected]

In HS, went to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on a field trip. Been a while since I've been there, but I remember it being great. When we got there, our teacher (my favorite guy - AP European History.) asked another kid in my class "Hey Ed, you spell your last name the same as John Singer Sargent, you related to him?" He said, (calmly since he was like that) yeah, he is my great-great xxxx, (he was living in the early/mid 1800s). Know that ain't art I've seen, just thought it was cool.

 

[The Ref]

Anything GoddardTake it easy on me, I just think his stuff is real fun. I own one of his originals.

The Most Amazing Work of Art You've Ever Seen?

Yes. The olives move me.

 

[Hastur]

 

[Instinctive]

La Primavera is pretty amazing too.

 

[Ilov80s]

The Astronomical Clock in Prague. Built in 1410, still working.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Boobs

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Obviously doesn't compare to things like "David" and that 16th Chapel stuff but...

Most of the paintings by Ralph Goings just blow me away. I mean I know how photorealists do it but I still don't know how they do it...knowwhatimean?

Miss Albany Diner

Window(?)

Hot Fudge Sundae

Charles Bell is pretty cool too

Robert Bechtle as well.

 

[Ilov80s]

Obviously doesn't compare to things like "David" and that 16th Chapel stuff but...

Most of the paintings by Ralph Goings just blow me away. I mean I know how photorealists do it but I still don't know how they do it...knowwhatimean?

Miss Albany Diner

Window(?)

Hot Fudge Sundae

Charles Bell is pretty cool too

Robert Bechtle as well.

Those are awesome. Not at all the same but I love John Atkins Grimshaw.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/John_Atkinson_Grimshaw_Glasgow_Docks_1881.jpg

http://www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org/download-162282-Whitby-Harbor-by-Moonlight.download

http://uploads2.wikipaintings.org/images/john-atkinson-grimshaw/blackman-street-london-1885.jpg

 

[McGarnicle]

My wife's niece is probably going to be a world famous artist. At least 10 of her paintings have completely blown me away. I will try to get some links posted here.

 

[rockaction]

In HS, went to Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on a field trip. Been a while since I've been there, but I remember it being great. When we got there, our teacher (my favorite guy - AP European History.) asked another kid in my class "Hey Ed, you spell your last name the same as John Singer Sargent, you related to him?" He said, (calmly since he was like that) yeah, he is my great-great xxxx, (he was living in the early/mid 1800s). Know that ain't art I've seen, just thought it was cool.

I can relate. I have a friend who is a direct descendant of Hawthorne. This guy can write. I mean, write. And he doesn't know formal rules of grammar. At all. It's insane.

 

[Tom Skerritt]

Saw Ivan Albright's works at the Art Institute of Chicago last year. His paintings are so detailed, dark and sinister. He would paint with a single eyelash hair to get this detail. It could take up to ten years to complete. Unbelievable to see up close.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ivan+albright+paintings&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=uVV3U7-HIo6WqAb_w4GYAQ&ved=0CCUQsAQ&biw=1120&bih=617

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Winged Victory - The Louvre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace

not much of a victory if you`re missing your head

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Winged Victory - The Louvre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace

not much of a victory if you`re missing your head

 

[Mohawk]

The Joy of Life - Henri Matisse

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/henri-matisse/the-joy-of-life-1906#supersized-artistPaintings-214263

First time I saw it, the brilliant colors took my breath away. Of course the shrooms might've had something to do with that.

 

[Sand]

Apollo and Daphne by Bernini

Though David was huge, this one sticks with me, as it was incredibly intricate. This one, the Sistine and the 2000 year old equestrian bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius really stuck with me from my Rome trip.

 

[Annyong]

How in the hell did I never think to go to the Art Museum on shrooms?

 

[YSR]

How in the hell did I never think to go to the Art Museum on shrooms?

I went to the Van Gogh museum on shrooms. It was awesome.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Saw this Peter Lik photo with the wife in Vegas about 5 years back. We were both mesmerized by it... We almost bought it, but decided against.

Guy takes some amazing photos.

 

[Mario Kart]

Going to Chicago tomorrow and this thread made me think about going to the Art Museum there. Only $15 but I looked at their webpage and nothing really stuck out as "something to see". Oh well, maybe I'll go and maybe I won't.

I need to get to Paris to look at some art. I need to really get there.