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Post by where_is_my_mind on Aug 21, 2014 17:05:00 GMT 2
Do you have one?
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Post by where_is_my_mind on Aug 21, 2014 17:30:25 GMT 2
I've been to a couple museums and exhibits that have blown me away but none so much as accidentally visiting a Caravaggio exhibit in Amsterdam. As a young art student I heard the name Caravaggio and Chiaroscuro thrown around but the depth and warmth of these paintings never hit home for me until seeing them in person wow. I'm not sure I have a favorite piece of art though. I do love this sculpture at our local museum in Minneapolis. I've seen a few like it but it's the one I can visit - I'd love to know what other people like. Looking for some inspiration this morning.
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Post by pizzawheel on Aug 21, 2014 20:01:44 GMT 2
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Post by where_is_my_mind on Aug 21, 2014 20:33:45 GMT 2
love it
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Post by sophie on Aug 21, 2014 23:42:38 GMT 2
My taste in art is rather eclectic, but I still remember standing in the Tate my first time in London (I was 21) in front of my first Turner and being completely overwhelmed. I had only ever seen prints of his work, and was completely unprepared for the size and scope of the full size painting.
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Post by Voy on Aug 22, 2014 0:55:27 GMT 2
Sophie - that's how I felt the first time I drove across Holland - until I actually SAW the sky over that flat land I thought the Duch landscape painters were making it up! uttelry blown away
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on Aug 22, 2014 1:29:28 GMT 2
I am beyond obsessed with the Fabergee work. I find it brilliant, art and technology. Sophisticated, elegant and beautiful.
In paintings any Picasso, Xul Solar, Vermeer, MarC Chagall etc.. quite eclectic in my taste.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Aug 22, 2014 2:32:17 GMT 2
Any artist that depicts the Lake District UK, I thought the colours were weird until I saw the real colours and they were exachery as depicted.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Aug 22, 2014 2:33:26 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 22, 2014 11:53:26 GMT 2
let me come back to this on a month or so... fantabulous thread. love what you're all sharing on here.
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Post by candy on Aug 22, 2014 13:57:26 GMT 2
A triptych we were given as a wedding present. It's a combination of Islamic and Catholic iconography and came from a very old friend whose father was Persian but was educated at a convent on Britain. She died a couple of years ago, so it's become a poignant reminder of our friend.
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Post by slowcoach on Aug 22, 2014 14:23:46 GMT 2
At this moment probably "Torso in Metal" (The Rock Drill) by Epstein.
But I am not sure exactly how to bestow favour between that, and lets's say, a Goya and a Walter De Maria?
Recurrent favourites would be works by De Chirico, Tanguy, Magritte, and so on.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 24, 2014 1:04:31 GMT 2
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on Aug 24, 2014 1:24:43 GMT 2
Pierce, Liam, Hugh, they certainly qualify for a Sotheby's auction!
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Post by sophie on Aug 24, 2014 2:17:37 GMT 2
I love almost all art and installations at this place www.malba.org.arWent tent with itsa..and by myself.. Twice in a week was worth it!
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Post by Tilly Star on Aug 24, 2014 2:19:46 GMT 2
Rodin's The Kiss. Not my favourite piece of art, but in this setting it was the piece of art I've seen that most blew my mind. This picture doesn't do it or the setting justice. Not art as such, but the exhibition piece that most blew my mind was looking into the tiny face mirror that Queen Elizabeth I used in her bedroom. Looking at my face realising she had looked that her own reflection in that same piece of glass was quite something.
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Post by Ria on Aug 24, 2014 5:22:54 GMT 2
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 24, 2014 5:52:03 GMT 2
Oh, I can't possibly pick just one. I'm a huge Kandinsky fan but don't have a particular favourite. The Pompideau centre in Paris has about 10 of his works and I used to go almost every week to look at them. Here's one that I used to sit and look at for ages: I went to the Louvre regularly during my Paris stint too, and I loved a sculpture that reminds me of wimm's, and also a pieta, because of the expression on Mary's face. It looks like real sorrow to me, captured.
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Post by Scrubb on Aug 24, 2014 5:53:30 GMT 2
Hmmmmmm. Not sure what happened- pics didn't attach. Trying again.
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Post by shrjeff on Aug 24, 2014 6:53:05 GMT 2
almost any sculpture by rodin...
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Post by tzarine on Aug 24, 2014 7:53:11 GMT 2
rodin is heartbreakingly beautiful
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Post by Voy on Aug 24, 2014 15:08:32 GMT 2
I love really looking at Breugels - to see ALLLLL the things going on in them, but I'm not sure I'd want one on my wall. For that I'd like a nice Hudson River one...I think. or one of Winslow Homer's sea ones... or... or... ( hey better than that: and! and! and!)
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Post by mapletree3 on Aug 24, 2014 21:01:53 GMT 2
I'm fascinated by Monets use of light and water reflection in his watercolours. I loved spending time at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris getting lost in the water lillies.
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Post by pizzawheel on Aug 24, 2014 23:14:20 GMT 2
Monet is my favourite painter, and surprisingly not just because of the pun value.
His gardens were a nice visit on the way to Paris once.
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Post by itsasmallworld1 on Aug 24, 2014 23:24:19 GMT 2
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Post by katje on Aug 25, 2014 2:02:19 GMT 2
My favorite piece of art is a limestone sculpture by a local artist in Detroit. I bought it at an art show there and it lived in my garden for years. I couldn't bring it with me when I moved to Guatemala. I gave it to a friend so I still get to see it when I go back to Detroit for a visit.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Aug 25, 2014 3:44:19 GMT 2
I'm fascinated by Monets use of light and water reflection in his watercolours. I loved spending time at the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris getting lost in the water lillies. I never know mapes when you are taking of the piss or being serious.
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Post by mapletree3 on Aug 25, 2014 6:14:17 GMT 2
I am being completely seious, wino. Monet's water lillies are amazing. I would have loved to visit Monet's garden.
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Post by outside cat @wino on Aug 25, 2014 6:27:43 GMT 2
I am just a Palestine mapes......
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Post by shrjeff on Aug 25, 2014 6:28:38 GMT 2
one of the nice things about the gardens is that they are magnificent in any season as different flowers bloom...
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