What's your favorite piece of art, GAF?
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It's mesmerizing listening to The Tea Party's Heaven's Coming Down while watching this tour of Bruegel's Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562)
If wanting to check it out start the Tea Party video first then the tour(mute the tour). As the drums kick in there should be a close up, that's got the timing. Works out really well.
You surrender. Love under will.
If wanting to check it out start the Tea Party video first then the tour(mute the tour). As the drums kick in there should be a close up, that's got the timing. Works out really well.
You surrender. Love under will.
ThatStupidLion
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very difficult question
one of my favorites is: The Nightmare
one of my favorites is: The Nightmare
Squirrel Killer
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In terms of painting, these two have really enthralled me:
JMW Turner - Sun Setting Over Lake (c. 1840)
Definitely love his later, more impressionistic work.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874)
Yes, that Whistler, I just love the fleeting glimpses that the painting imparts.
There's also several photographs that I adore:
Edward Steichen - The Pond—Moonlight (1904)
Very early example of color photography using different light sensitive gums. You'd have a hard time convincing me that Rebecca Guay's Swamp Magic the Gathering art wasn't inspired by this.
Andres Serrano - Piss Christ (1987)
We all know this one, I even did a "response" to it in one of the old photo assignment threads. I also love his America series, taken individually, they're masterful portraits, but as a series it's a portrait of... well... America
David duChemin - Impressions of a strand of snowbound birches, taken in Hokkaido, Japan, 2013 (2013)
Not really known enough to get his own Wiki article, but I love his style and this photo always blows me away. I haven't seen him talk in depth about this one, but I'm fairly confident he used a technique called ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) to get it and I'm itching for a chance to try it out (really just need to get off my ass.)
#listomania
JMW Turner - Sun Setting Over Lake (c. 1840)
Definitely love his later, more impressionistic work.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler - Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874)
Yes, that Whistler, I just love the fleeting glimpses that the painting imparts.
There's also several photographs that I adore:
Edward Steichen - The Pond—Moonlight (1904)
Very early example of color photography using different light sensitive gums. You'd have a hard time convincing me that Rebecca Guay's Swamp Magic the Gathering art wasn't inspired by this.
Andres Serrano - Piss Christ (1987)
We all know this one, I even did a "response" to it in one of the old photo assignment threads. I also love his America series, taken individually, they're masterful portraits, but as a series it's a portrait of... well... America
David duChemin - Impressions of a strand of snowbound birches, taken in Hokkaido, Japan, 2013 (2013)
Not really known enough to get his own Wiki article, but I love his style and this photo always blows me away. I haven't seen him talk in depth about this one, but I'm fairly confident he used a technique called ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) to get it and I'm itching for a chance to try it out (really just need to get off my ass.)
#listomania
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EverydayBeast
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I quit studying art and knew actual artists (picssso, miro etc.) I remember really liking Dali
triplestation
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i don't have a favorite but this one comes to mind
i love that people back in the day were having such metal ideas
i love that people back in the day were having such metal ideas
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MaestroMike
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MaestroMike
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GAMETA
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Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl "The souls of Acheron"
Wow, I had never seen this one. Holy shit, it's amazing!
INC
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Pretty much this
mcz117chief
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So much meaning and symbolism in this painting. It honestly is the first thing that comes to my mind when someone says art.
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AlteredForms
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We actually had a print of this in one of the hallways at the primary school I attended. Could be the first painting I ever laid eyes upon and a chose a good one to begin with.
Hunters in the Snow 1565 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, got a copy of it hanging in the living room.
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
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Michelangelo's Pieta (1498-1499)
en.m.wikipedia.org
He was 24 when he finished this!
Pietà (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia
He was 24 when he finished this!
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Whoateallthepies
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Beauty is on the eye of the beholder. Score one for the Brits with my favorite piece of art.
No apologies. Not the artsy fartsy type.
Algan
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This film is quite different and tells the story of a man who ends up with his girlfriend and starts working during the early hours of the morning in a supermarket. The protagonist has the ability to stop time and enjoy it in a unique way, observing all the details and the real beauty of things.
Reality Czar
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Postmodernism ended the possibility of making art. It's all political power structures or self referential jokes at this point.
Dadaists definitively killed art around 100 years ago. After you sign a toilet and put it in a museum as art there is nowhere else to go but down.
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Bonfires Down
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Nighthawks
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Reality Czar
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I saw that Dali one irl as well! The painting is huge. I think the canvas is almost 7 feet tall.
Torrent of Pork
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The Hagia Sophia
This building is an absurdity of engineering genius considering the time it was constructed.
This building is an absurdity of engineering genius considering the time it was constructed.
NeoIkaruGAF
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Rome, the Pantheon. That vault is incredible.
Albrecht Dürer, Study of a man aged 93. The detail is out of this world.
Johann Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue in D Major. Maybe my favourite piece of music, ever.
Reality Czar
Banned
On second thought, might have to change my answer to the mask of Tutankhamun:
The mask is 54 cm (21 in) tall, 39.3 cm (15.5 in) wide and 49 cm (19 in) deep. It is fashioned from two layers of high-karat gold, varying from 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) in thickness, and weighing 10.23 kg (22.6 lb). X-ray crystallography has revealed that the mask contains two alloys of gold: a lighter 18.4 karat shade for the face and neck, and 22.5 karat gold for the rest of the mask.
It contains inlays of coloured glass and gemstones, including lapis lazuli (the eye surrounds and eyebrows), quartz (the eyes), obsidian (the pupils), carnelian, feldspar, turquoise, amazonite, faience and other stones (as inlays of the broad collar).
A protective spell is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs on the back and shoulders in ten vertical and two horizontal lines. The spell first appeared on masks in the Middle Kingdom, 500 years before Tutankhamun, and was used in Chapter 151 of the Book of the Dead.
en.wikipedia.org
The mask is 54 cm (21 in) tall, 39.3 cm (15.5 in) wide and 49 cm (19 in) deep. It is fashioned from two layers of high-karat gold, varying from 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) in thickness, and weighing 10.23 kg (22.6 lb). X-ray crystallography has revealed that the mask contains two alloys of gold: a lighter 18.4 karat shade for the face and neck, and 22.5 karat gold for the rest of the mask.
It contains inlays of coloured glass and gemstones, including lapis lazuli (the eye surrounds and eyebrows), quartz (the eyes), obsidian (the pupils), carnelian, feldspar, turquoise, amazonite, faience and other stones (as inlays of the broad collar).
A protective spell is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs on the back and shoulders in ten vertical and two horizontal lines. The spell first appeared on masks in the Middle Kingdom, 500 years before Tutankhamun, and was used in Chapter 151 of the Book of the Dead.
Mask of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia
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Grand Theft Scratchy
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I don't have a specific favorite piece but generally anything by Akira Toriyama and Akihiko Yoshida. Beautiful and unique art styles.
Hoya Destroyer
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This is my favorite piece of classical music. It has a real darkness and power to it.
I remember the ad about the guy boxing his own shadow, from Australian TV too. Im not sure how well known it is overseas.
I remember the ad about the guy boxing his own shadow, from Australian TV too. Im not sure how well known it is overseas.
The Lunch Legend
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Ballthyrm
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I sincerely think it's there already, it's just buried under all the garbage.
Julius Ibidus
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The Dispatch-Bearer
1879
Giovanni Boldini
The natural ambient light and tones are masterful. Just the perfect balance of realism and abstraction in the brushwork.
The contrast from the wet spot on the dusty sidewalk is my favorite bit of detail. Especially with those faint strokes making out the reflection.
1879
Giovanni Boldini
The natural ambient light and tones are masterful. Just the perfect balance of realism and abstraction in the brushwork.
The contrast from the wet spot on the dusty sidewalk is my favorite bit of detail. Especially with those faint strokes making out the reflection.
Radioskugga
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John Bauer (1882-1918) from Sweden. Drowned at the age of 36 in a steamboat accident (along with his wife).
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Bonfires Down
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How can a sidewalk get that dusty?The Dispatch-Bearer
1879
Giovanni Boldini
The natural ambient light and tones are masterful. Just the perfect balance of realism and abstraction in the brushwork.
The contrast from the wet spot on the dusty sidewalk is my favorite bit of detail. Especially with those faint strokes making out the reflection.
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
The Roses of Heliogabalus
This 1888 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema is probably my favourite painting of all time.
The scene shows the Roman Emperor, Elagabalus, with his entourage at a feast while getting swamped by a tide of pink rose petals.
The painting does a fantastic job of showing the grand opulence of a casual feast hosted by the Roman Emperor. However, it's the detail that really makes this painting come alive.
When I zoom into any part of the painting, I'm still blown away by the level of detail in this masterpiece. Some of the human details look photorealistic, the details in the petals, even the intricate details in the table legs are incredible.
Exquisite
This 1888 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema is probably my favourite painting of all time.
The scene shows the Roman Emperor, Elagabalus, with his entourage at a feast while getting swamped by a tide of pink rose petals.
The painting does a fantastic job of showing the grand opulence of a casual feast hosted by the Roman Emperor. However, it's the detail that really makes this painting come alive.
When I zoom into any part of the painting, I'm still blown away by the level of detail in this masterpiece. Some of the human details look photorealistic, the details in the petals, even the intricate details in the table legs are incredible.
Exquisite
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Quasicat
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This film is quite different and tells the story of a man who ends up with his girlfriend and starts working during the early hours of the morning in a supermarket. The protagonist has the ability to stop time and enjoy it in a unique way, observing all the details and the real beauty of things.
This was one of the first indie films I watched and fell in love with the whole concept, especially when he includes her at the end, just incredible.
More on topic,
I always loved the painting Sunday in the Park with George since I saw Ferris Bueller's Day Off when I was 10. I have always wanted to go to Chicago to see it.
I saw this painting on Animal Crossing and did so much research on it as the woman is just mesmerizing. I realized that the artist did a clothed and nude version of the same painting. Not sure about nude art on GAF, so use your imagination or favorite search engine:
Putonahappyface
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Pawel Kuczynski
Men_in_Boxes
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Orion2
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I have seen hundreds of TV Shows, hundreds of anime, hundreds of Movies, plenty of cartons, played hundreds of games, read a lot of comics, manga and other stuff
and as far as "art" is concerned, the most impressed I am by the unique art style of the cartoon show "Kim Possible" I have never seen another show that has such a fluid, timeless, quality style
I also find Livio Ramondelli's take on Transformers to be fantastic art
and as far as "art" is concerned, the most impressed I am by the unique art style of the cartoon show "Kim Possible" I have never seen another show that has such a fluid, timeless, quality style
I also find Livio Ramondelli's take on Transformers to be fantastic art
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