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Your favourite piece of art

CaptainRobbo
CaptainRobbo Posts: 661
edited August 28 in Not Sports Related
The fighting Temeraire
JWM Turner
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,599
    Other than a photo taken by myself (a shot I captured at Chrome Hill in the Peak District last year), I'd have to say as artwork, would be a shot of an Avro Lancaster at dawn on the ground.

    I cant find a version of it, but its on my parents wall at home, as they saw it in a Gallery once, didn't buy a print and regretted it, a few years later I was walking around in Dartford whilst at College, saw a version and brought it for them, as a Christmas present.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,507
    https://youtube.com/shorts/sU8E1Sn6ai8?si=6ZUZkwTVI6rdCvOC
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,722
    "The Hay Wain" - simple view that I always find myself being immersed in.
  • jose
    jose Posts: 644
    There are way too many.

    Perhaps Jackson Pollock Summertime 9a 1948 would last a long time on the wall before I wanted a change.

    Anyway the best I could hope to be able to afford would be a decent full size print.

     
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,625

    Percy Wyndham Lewis (the artist) as Tyro.

    Our art teacher took us to the Portrait Gallery and as soon as I saw it I was transfixed. I've always been better at portraits, they fascinate me & I love doing them when I have the time.
    He's my favourite artist too.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,751
    I’ve never really ‘got’ art. 
    If I visit a gallery I generally fly round it in a short period of time and spend about 20 seconds looking at each piece. 
    Mrs SA gets the bollock ache as I’m usually hanging around in the gift shop for ages while she is still looking at the paintings. 

    The only exception to this was a few years ago in the art institute in Chicago where I came across “That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)” by Ivan Albright. 

    I was totally transfixed by it and probably spent 30 minutes looking at it. 

    Therefore, by default, this is definitely my favourite piece of art. 

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,054
    So so many. Louise Bourgeois' Maman springs to mind as a possible fave, but I could lose myself for hours staring at Eschers. 
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,389
    I don't really have a favourite art piece, but the Soviet period is great. On the surface, all the paintings had to glorify the state, workers, leaders, etc. because there was only one sanctioned art style: 'Soviet Realism.' But there is a quiet sense of protest in a lot of the paintings, and a tension between what's being depicted and how the artist feels about it.



  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,507
    I've shared her on here before, but Doreen Fletcher’s work is amazing - some of her paintings take me straight back 30-odd years. If you know the places, they might spark the same memories for you too. -

    https://www.instagram.com/fletcher.doreen?igsh=MTN4M2FwcnNvdmg2cg==
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,861
    edited August 28
    So many.

    Probably my two favourites (but would change daily - e.g. to include Turner's 'Rain, Steam and Speed')

    Dali - Metamorphosis of Narcissus 

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    Picasso - Guernica

    Guernica 1937 by Pablo Picasso




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  • Diebythesword
    Diebythesword Posts: 328
    edited August 28
    Anything Edward Hopper ever did. The insular loneliness of his subjects speaks to me and feels a way of portraying how it feels being a bit neurodiverse and/or depressed in a way I’ve never felt from any artist before. 
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,721
  • gringo
    gringo Posts: 603
    Roy Lichtenstein
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,757
    edited August 28
    The Bayeux Narrative Embroidery 

    https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeux-tapestry/discover-the-bayeux-tapestry/tapestry-or-embroidery/
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,354
    Edward Ruscha Standard Station 1966 MoMA

    Ed Ruscha - Standard Station
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,219
    This has my head in a spin and I’m sure I’ll change my mind as soon as I have posted my comment but;

    Wassily Kandisky Composition VI and Malevich’s Black Square and the White on White painting.

    The Raft of Medusa by Théodore Géricault in the Louvre.



  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,901
    edited August 28
    CaptainRobbo said:
    The fighting Temeraire
    JWM Turner
    Check out a £20 note if you still carry cash
    Love that. I've got it on my wall at home. (it's the original - just don't tell anyone!}
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,345
    Solidgone said:
    This has my head in a spin and I’m sure I’ll change my mind as soon as I have posted my comment but;

    Wassily Kandisky Composition VI and Malevich’s Black Square and the White on White painting.

    The Raft of Medusa by Théodore Géricault in the Louvre.



    I am so pleased someone mentioned this.  It's an incredible depiction of an even more incredible experience.  Utterly mesmerising.  The story of the Medusa is horrifying - look it up if you don't know it.  But the definitive version of the events is in Julian Barnes' book, the History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters.  

    146 men and one woman had set off on the raft, when the frigate Medusa was wrecked, thirty miles off the coast of Senegal. Twelve days later only fifteen frightened, lost souls, facing almost-certain death, remained. In the distance, on the horizon, on the right, you can just make out the ship Argus on the horizon, by which those on the raft thought would be saved.  It disappeared from sight minutes later.  


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    Off_it Posts: 28,901


    Derek Riggs

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  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,327
    OLAFUR ELIASSON‘S The Weather Project in The Turbine Hall at Tate modern. Just it’s scale and setting was perfect.

  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,931
    Yeah anything Dali or Escher for me, the Dali museum in Barcelona where he's buried is incredible. Am also a huge fan of Os Gemeos the Brazilian twins.


  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 661
    Off_it said:
    CaptainRobbo said:
    The fighting Temeraire
    JWM Turner
    Check out a £20 note if you still carry cash
    Love that. I've got it on my wall at home. (it's the original - just don't tell anyone!}
    Lend us a score will ya?
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,931
    Been lucky enough to purchase some nice Art over the years including this Grayson Perry Tapestry and a Hirst Cherry Blossom piece.






  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,271
    The Supper at Emma's- Carravaggio. You can see it in the National gallery. Amazing use of light.

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  • 3G
    3G Posts: 736
    Probably the dogs playing pool
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,212
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    Nocturne in Black and Gold
  • heckington_reds
    heckington_reds Posts: 727
    Going to the match by Lowry, very simple but brilliant in my opinion 

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