Your Favourite Work of Art

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:41pm

So, what's your favourite work of art?
Paintings, statues, drawings, etchings...

Mine is "Monk at the See"/"Mönch am Meer" by Caspar David Friedrich

Updated On: 7/25/06 at 03:41 PM

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:44pm

Anything by Monet.

<====== Two Sisters (Renoir).

Updated On: 7/25/06 at 03:44 PM

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:45pm

No absolute favorite, but one in the National Gallery of Art:

Jean-Louis Forain
The Artist's Wife Fishing, 1896
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
1985.64.19

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:46pm

Mine's the Scream, or the Cry, whichever you call it, by Edward Munch.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:51pm

Totall agree, Fiction Writer, The Scream is my favorite too!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:53pm

The Sistine Chapel

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:54pm

I didn't mean for it to be so big. Oops.

I have a lot more favorites (mostly Monet), but I don't feel like searching for them all.

And since we're on the topic of painters, Leonardo should be called Leonardo, instead of Leonardo da Vinci. Vinci is where he was born.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:57pm

My second favourite painting is by Edvard Munch, too!

"Young Girl on a Jetty"

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:58pm

"Poesie D'amerique" by Salvador Dali

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:58pm

So what is Leonardo's last name or doesn't he have one like Jesus or Madonna?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 3:59pm

"Starry Night"--Van Gogh

I don't know why I like it so much, but I love it.

"Music at the Tuileries"--Manet

I wrote a 10 page short story about this painting for my English class in college and I fell in love with it.

Updated On: 7/25/06 at 03:59 PM

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:17pm

All his paintings are signed Leonardo. That's what I prefer to call him.

And Starry Night didn't work.

[luvliza89]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:28pm

Rape of Persephone is one of my favorites.

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:29pm

I love Starry Night. It's always been my favorite.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:30pm

Mmm, twisted.

[luvliza89]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:32pm

I love that painting JailyardGuy. I love how it really shows the abstract and grotesqueness of war.

[blueroses]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:33pm

Marc Chagall is my favorite painter. It's hard to choose a single painting, but Bella and The Lovers are very beautiful.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:56pm

I also like The Garden of Earthly Delights by Heironymus Bosch.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 4:58pm

Chenonceau castle, Cher River, France


Updated On: 7/25/06 at 04:58 PM

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 5:01pm

Cher has her own river? SWEET!

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 5:58pm

so many!

here are some photos i took of faves in paris ...

bridge at argenteuil, by monet


ball at moulin de la galette, by renoir


young man beside sea, by flandrin (we have a repro in our bedroom)


not sure of the title or artist, but one on my fave sculptures

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 6:01pm

Ok, I found a link that worked for "Starry Night"

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 6:04pm

i saw STARRY NITE when it traveled to atlanta, but they wouldn't let me take a photo

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 6:07pm

I also love all the MOULIN ROUGE paintings by Toulouse Lautrec

[secondstar05]

Posted: 7/25/06 at 6:18pm

I have a few... I won't list Starry Night, since it's already been mentioned:



Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali



Just about anything by Mary Cassatt, particularly this one (Young Mother Sewing).



M.C. Escher is another of my favorites, and I especially love this one (Hand With Reflecting Sphere).

...Okay, I'll stop now. I'm just terrible at picking *one* favorite of anything!