What are everyone's favourite pieces of art?

blix · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:44

What are everyone's favourite pieces of visual art, of any genre or form? List as many as you feel like, and hopefully post pics.

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to art, which is why I'm asking for examples of stuff to look into.

Dunks · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:46

Porn.

PureAppleJuice · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:47

I like modern art. Got a badass Kandinsky on my wall that I cannot be arsed to take a photo of.

Inquisitor · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:47

I've always found Beksinski's art incredibly powerful:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=beksinski&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Terrifying, but incredible artwork:

Jotun · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:50

I'm generally not a huge art fan, that said, I really like banksys stuff.

Also, in Liverpool I really liked La Machine. Partly for how surreal it was and partly given the ridiculous amount of people interested in it. Some photos by cykey here

Spyhop · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:56

Mercedes-Benz cars.

I also like tessellated and wireframe creations for some reason.

Greenlizard0 · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:58

Jotun said:
I'm generally not a huge art fan, that said, I really like banksys stuff.

Also, in Liverpool I really liked La Machine. Partly for how surreal it was and partly given the ridiculous amount of people interested in it. Some photos by cykey here

That spider was awesome.

Some of Banksy's stuff is on display in Bristol, there's a few pics on the beeb website.

dangerstat · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:58

To be honest I hate art, the closest thing I like is architecture.

JohnnyG · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:02

The Fallen Madonna With the Big Boobies :cool:

Reality|Bites · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:04

I do love a good bust

Reality|Bites · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:06

[i*g]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/FallenMadonna.jpg/776px-FallenMadonna.jpg[/img]

benwoodcock · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:08

I don't remember her as ginger...

dangerstat · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:09

Reality|Bites said:
[i*g]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c2/FallenMadonna.jpg/776px-FallenMadonna.jpg[/img]

Shopped I can tell by the pixels

mrk · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:10

Hmm so arty porn is allowed here then?

3D Street Art is the best type of art.

http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/29/top-10-3d-graffiti-artists-in-the-world/

Reality|Bites · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:10

benwoodcock said:
I don't remember her as ginger...

maybe she dyed it?

goldilocks · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:29

I have a 'pure evil' and a 'xenz' - love them both!
don't have enough graffiti to consider myself a collector, but one day...

Glaucus · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:32

mrk said:
3D Street Art is the best type of art.

http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/29/top-10-3d-graffiti-artists-in-the-world/

yeah they are awesome, also the time lapsed graffiti movie thing. Proper modern art, not a flashy light in an empty room or a bus stop.

arc@css · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:32

Inquisitor said:
I've always found Beksinski's art incredibly powerful:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=beksinski&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Terrifying, but incredible artwork:

That is just up my street. Reminds me a little of Dali.

strudey · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:42

I like this by Repin. It's what I imagine ocukers to look like.

Inquisitor · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:42

arc@css said:
That is just up my street. Reminds me a little of Dali.

Yeah, I can see why actually

strudey said:
I like this by Repin. It's what I imagine ocukers to look like.

I like this one too, having just read The Cossacks :cool: