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!
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