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GatoNegro13 · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2001 5:22 pm

What is your ultimate favorite peice of art? That one picture or sculpture that you could stare at for hours?

Heres mine. Its called restrictions by John Pitre. He is my favorite artist.

Lunatique · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2001 5:56 pm

Ahhhh. Good idea for a post. Here's mine.

Never heard of John Pitre, but I did a search and he's awesome! He's kinda like a fine art guy who once saw Boris Vallejo's work.

Here's one of my favs. I don't have an ultimate since there are just too many.

This one's by J W Waterhouse.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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roundeye · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2001 7:12 pm

anything by ryden, but maybe this one moreso:

http://www.markryden.com/

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LinaBo · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2001 7:24 pm

there's a very beautiful old religious sculpture that I absolutely love...darnit, I can't remember the name of it or the artist (probably a famous sculptor)
it's very old, though, and quite exquisite. I'll have to look it up and post back later.

Anthony · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2001 7:39 pm

Well it's hard, because I've only seen a small portion of the world's great paintings in person(and in person a good painting can impress more than a great painting), but from what I have seen I'd have to pick Leonardo's Genevra d'Becci. http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/d/Da_Vinci_Leonardo/large/Portrait_of_Ginevra_Benci_EUR.jpg

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Ahcri · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2001 8:50 pm

It's called "The Old Guitarist" by Picasso. I just love his blue period paintings so much. I have a poster of the same painting in my room and it's worth every dollar.

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Bg · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2001 2:21 am

This is a painting I like very, very much:

(the painter is Jean-L�on G�r�me)

Speve-o-matic · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2001 1:58 pm

One of my favourites . . . It's a Lord of the Rings illustration by John Howe. I just love it.

- Steve

Norling · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2001 1:59 pm

Hans Reudi Giger. No doubt about that. No other art gives me as strong feelingd as giger's work. Hard to pick a favourite though....I really like the enviroments and matte-paintings he did for the alien-movies....But after all, i think i like his women most. This is one of giger's paintings of his former partner Li. I love the way he merges the face background, Like if it was interacting with all the biomechanical stuff, but still he manages to keep her buetiful.
Li ended her life with a bullet becouse of depressions...That may explain some of the shapes of the background.

LinaBo · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2001 2:25 pm

Suny: I've seen that piece, I love the expression, as well

balistic · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2001 3:44 pm

Because he does so much with so little:

"Buzzing" by Jeremy A. Engleman
http://art.net/~jeremy/cg/inf_cg.html

I couldn't say that I have an overall favorite piece of artwork though . . . I enjoy looking at art, but to me its always been something that was merely communicative, and not something to be marveled at.

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Well, there's something about Roger Dean's work that I've always admired.

I like this one in particular. The background seems lifeless and cold... and yet the foreground is green and lush.

Image linked from www.rogerdean.co.uk

suny · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 12:39 am

girl with a pearl earring, by Johannes Vermeer.
I love the girl's expression, and the fact that the rendering of the hat is almost impressionistic.

S.

SoMK · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 7:21 am

My fav actually is the "Ugly Princess" by E. Fortescue Brisckdale.

even if the original rocks 10000 times more.

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Sumaleth · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 8:24 am

Wow, some really great choices here (the Giger and John Howe would be high up my faves list too).

But this one is my all-time fave painting;

Jim Burn's cover art for Peter F. Hamilton's epic scifi novel, The Reality Dysfunction. It's effect on my probably has something to do with my love of the book.

Row.

Jucas · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 9:50 am

Leonardo Da Vinci had always been my favorite artist.

mucha · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 10:17 am

anything from the pre-raphaelites

sacrelicious · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 1:59 pm

Suma- Reality Disfunction is pretty awesome.

As for favorites- can't pick. Sue me.

eyewoo · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 2:06 pm

Just about anything by Vermeer...

...a Vermeer clickable map...

GatoNegro13 · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2001 3:37 pm

Wow.... Im glad I posted this thread! By seeing everyone's favorites youre getting the best of art...everything is beautiful!

Norling · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2001 12:57 am

I really like this good old howe-painting. Sam versus the shelob.

Ahcri · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2001 2:17 pm

zaar: Thanks for sharing, I've never seen any paintings by these artists before and I'm impressed. I especially like the self-portrait of Helene Schjerfbeck, it's simple and effective. I love paintings like that.

zaar · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2001 12:49 am

Right now my two favourite artists are Anders Zorn and Helene Schjerfbeck. I had a hard time finding any of my favourite paintings by Helene on the internet. But I did manage to find selfportraits by both of them. Here they are:

more by Helene Schjerfbeck:
http://www.turuntaidemuseo.fi/im/schjiso.jpg
http://www.turuntaidemuseo.fi/ im/hskeinu.jpg
http://www.turuntaidemuseo.fi/im/kotoniso.jpg
http://www.fng.fi/fng/pic/huge/art/collecti/29/A0029500.jpg

And a bunch of Zorn stuff:

http://www.algonet.se/~mgus/zorn/portraits/tof189.jpg
http://www.zorn.se/bilder/azvarg_st.jpg
http://www.algonet.se/~mgus/zorn/other/zm84.jpg
http://www.algonet.se/~mgus/zorn/other/tof147.jpg
http://www.algonet.se/~mgus/zorn/nudes/tof284.jpg
http://www.algonet.se/~mgus/zorn/portraits/tof205.jpg

UBB is killing me =/

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