What's your favourite piece of art?
Discussion
As per the title, curious to know what PHers hold in high esteem, as art is so beautifully subjective as are our favourite cars and so on.
To kick off, I was about 16 years old and on a trip to New York - as a GCSE student I got turned on to the world of street art and went down a rabbit hole of the origins or graffiti and such like, which culminated in an obsession with Basquiat. By sheer chance, wandering the streets of lower Manhattan with our school group, an unassuming doorway revealed one of those pokey 'white cube' rooms within which was a collection of his works - originals I might add - some on display for the first time in decades.
Proudly displayed in eye-shot of the doorway, at the back of the virtually empty room, was this:
Untitled (Angel), 1982
Its not particularly technical, or even one of his most prominent works, but it gives me 'the feels' decades later. Nobody else in the group particularly cared, so my art teacher and I popped in for a mooch and a moment I'll never forget.
Runner-up, you ask? This - Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
..because its mental, frankly.
So, what about you? Is yours an obscure, no-name artwork that just resonated? Or perhaps a really established, universally regarded choice? Are you lucky enough to own your fave? Shoot!
To kick off, I was about 16 years old and on a trip to New York - as a GCSE student I got turned on to the world of street art and went down a rabbit hole of the origins or graffiti and such like, which culminated in an obsession with Basquiat. By sheer chance, wandering the streets of lower Manhattan with our school group, an unassuming doorway revealed one of those pokey 'white cube' rooms within which was a collection of his works - originals I might add - some on display for the first time in decades.
Proudly displayed in eye-shot of the doorway, at the back of the virtually empty room, was this:
Untitled (Angel), 1982
Its not particularly technical, or even one of his most prominent works, but it gives me 'the feels' decades later. Nobody else in the group particularly cared, so my art teacher and I popped in for a mooch and a moment I'll never forget.
Runner-up, you ask? This - Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
..because its mental, frankly.
So, what about you? Is yours an obscure, no-name artwork that just resonated? Or perhaps a really established, universally regarded choice? Are you lucky enough to own your fave? Shoot!
Roofless Toothless said:
Good choice, Manet's last masterpiece is studied in depth in this edition of Radio 4's Moving Pictures. The programme offers the opportunity to study artworks in great detail, zooming into super high resolution images to study the brushstrokes. The narrative offers insights into the time and place.... and the syphilis.
Bass Beer bottles, the refection of the reflection and the trapeze artiste's green boots. Fascinating stuff, it's one of my favourites too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001dn6v
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/a-bar-at-t...
Lots of other great and interesting works covered in that programme too.
loughran said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Good choice, Manet's last masterpiece is studied in depth in this edition of Radio 4's Moving Pictures. The programme offers the opportunity to study artworks in great detail, zooming into super high resolution images to study the brushstrokes. The narrative offers insights into the time and place.... and the syphilis.
Bass Beer bottles, the refection of the reflection and the trapeze artiste's green boots. Fascinating stuff, it's one of my favourites too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001dn6v
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/a-bar-at-t...
Lots of other great and interesting works covered in that programme too.
Resolutionary said:
Rumblestripe said:
Dora Carrington - The Farm at Watendlath
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