Great Works of Art

Allow the painting to speak for itself, and you will understand its brilliance.

Insert some kitschy Warhol here.

Alex Colville - Couple on Beach

Maurice Quentin de La Tour self portrait

Edward Hopper, not Nighthawks

I'm obsessed with Otto Dix' autoportrait. There's something about the pathetic look in his eyes and that awful bowl cut that I find very unsettling and unforgettable.

Here's another painting I really like. Even though it was painted in the 1910's it looks very modern and almost pop art-y.

Osias Beert

Frans Hals

The Merry Drinker

I'll answer the same as in the last thread with this same topic: Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man.

Hopper

Miro

Rothko

Hikari

Of course, R10. Not everyone has been on DataLounge for the past 15-20 years and seen every art thread in that time. I'm sure new people find this website all the time.

Matisse - Dance

Anything by Escher

Can someone post some Dali.

Freuds portrait of the painter Frank Auerbach

Dali

Klee

Picasso

Alexandre Cabanel - Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners

Not a great painting but love the melodrama

Monet

Froanna, the artist's wife by Wyndham Lewis.

It's a gorgeous piece, more so in person. The actual work exudes warmth - note the use of red and brown - and it's usually seen side-by-side in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery alongside *another* piece supposedly about love: Regina Cordium. Or, as my sister calls her, Nasty Resting Bitch-face Lady.

I've always liked Rooms by the Sea by Hopper and Christina's World by Wyeth. I like the color and light in them.

Dali

R26 here

Seurat

Modigliani

Centipede

Thomas Hart Benton

Sargeant

I find DaVinci's paintings of John the Baptist intriguing and gay.

I find this self-portrait by Thomas Hart Benton, kinda hot because he looks like my ex-bf

Metropolis by Otto Dix

David Hockney

Renee Magritte

I don't like the modern rubbish, but I do like a frame that doesn't gather dust. H. Bucket

Modern surrealistic art today.

Klimt

Schiele

Millais

Juan de Pareja, Diego Velázquez

Fragonard

Lichtenstein

More Hopper: Miss Tessie Tura.

Thomas Eakins, The Swimming Hole.

You all call THIS art?!

Moroni's The Tailor

The Floor Planers

John Bellany 1988

I've always loved Leon Bakst's poster art for Afternoon of a Faun. He did a lot of these for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, but this is my favorite. Diaghilev had great taste. Picasso even did some of his background sets.

I've always loved Leon Bakst's poster art of Najinsky dancing in Afternoon of a Faun. He did many of these for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, but this is my favorite. Diaghilev had great taste and had some of his background sets done by Picasso and Matisse.

I love that R50 suggested Moroni's Tailor. So many wonderful artists - not just in the present - seem to get little attention from the public and Moroni did some beautiful things.

My favorite Moroni and one of my favorite paintings is his portrait of Don Gabriel de la Cueva, who became the Duke of Alburquerque (not NM). The textures and color are wonderful, and the portrait - sexily unsympathetic.

Don Gabriel gets my vote for hottest no-nonsense daddy of the later Renaissance!

r55, I visited London last year and spent two days at the National Gallery, which was during the strike so I wasn't able to see everything, but The Tailor was on display and caught my eye. I spent awhile looking at it since it's such a good work.

Toulouse-Lautrec

John Singer Sargent's Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller speaks to me.

Bellows

Another boxing painting for the gays ...

The greatest painting will always be Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights."

Stanley Cursiter, "The Tea Room." Some kind of tension going on here.

If you are in New York, do not miss this utter gem at the Met. It is a room - it is incredible to step inside. Like another world. Everything you see is made of slivers of wood inlaid on flat surface - amazingly early example of the use of perspective. Probably one of my favourite pieces of art in the entire world.

The Gubbio Studiolo

A different sort of Dali from a different sort of view

A little Neo-Impressionist color from Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon

Always surreal -- Mary spanking Christ in front of three witnesses

I'm not exactly a fan of her art but I appreciate Allee Willis - fascinating story - she's written so many famous songs....and she's also a bit of an outsider visual artist, too.

Vermeer, self portrait:

tom Of finland

Later De Kooning,

Windows in the West by Avril Paton. I love the little slices of life going on in each apartment.

still life

Storm King on the Hudson by Samuel Colman

William Bailey

Goya

Manet

Chagall

Cezanne

Alex Katz - Blue Umbrella #2

R5 - is that Chop Suey?

I think R5 is "Automat".

Amazing surrealist photos, R40.

America's most well known and widely collected artist should be noted. Thomas Kinkade.

American Girl in Italy

Erte.

And nothing else.

I'm attracted to this abstract painting.

Keith Haring

Eww.

Robert Mapplethorpe's Jack walls, #863.

Degas

Anything on velvet, extra points for red, blue or gold velvet.

Does it have to be a painting?

Performance art: Ziggy Stardust

The skill of duplicating the athletic male body in detail is impressive. Couldn't copy my fav so I'm linking the whole page.

Raphael

Caravaggio

Another Caravaggio ...

Prodigal Son by Rembrandt

The Return of the Prodigal Son - Tissot

A treat from the mid-eighties.

But is it art?

Jars Pats. Jars.

Barbara Hepworth

Jim Dine

Inka Essenhigh

bump

Charles Addams, who else?

Thanks, R105. I hope more people post something.

Dosso Dossi c.1530 Allegory of Fortune (Fortuna sitting on a giant soap bubble.)

Great. Keep it going please.

The Death of Chatterton

The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse

Kandinsky

I love some of the thoughtul selections in this thread - the not so popular artists of the canon. The rest of these are soooo predictable and widely known / popular classics.

Nothing wrong with the classics, but they've been seen so many times. That's why I love the lesser known choices in this thread.

True. Anyone who has skimmed through an art history book is already familiar with the really great works of art. You have to choose lesser known works to avoid offending DLers. I love the paintings I discover on this and similar threads.

R113 - you're right - I did make a scrunched up face when I saw some of the art work posted here. It was a bit offensive - too common. But a lot of really great other posts.

Yeah, those of us who posted actual works of art really appreciate the assholes who criticize but don't offer any of their own choices. I'm talking about you, last three posters.

True, some people took the title of the thread too literally.

It's been a year and a half break since R100, so hopefully there will be more people with fresh ideas.

[quote]Yeah, those of us who posted actual works of art really appreciate the assholes who criticize but don't offer any of their own choices. I'm talking about you, last three posters.

Lol. I've made plenty of posts on this thread. I appreciate everyone's contribution.

I wonder if you're a troll from my hometown, R115.

All you cunts need to die in a grease fire for not posting any works of sculpture, such as Rodin's Defence

Tomas Nemec

Warhol's Woman in Blue (After Matisse)

Trippy Warhol I'd never seen before

I don't know how to post pics, but I'll submit Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase "....

Here

Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio

Franz Marc

Whistler's famous Peacock Room

Balenciaga

Madame Grès

The Barberini Faun

R52 was that painting destroyed in the Dresden bombing?

R59 I've never seen that painting before. Stunning.

R130 here . The Planers is safe in Paris

My Lonesome Cowboy by Takashi Murakami

Bosch 4ever

Everything Velazquez

Lascaux

Hiroshige

Lempicka

Diane Arbus

O'Keefe

Hurrell

Dali

I love that painting, R119. I've never seen it before. Thanks.

Hopper

Erte

"Glamour"

Turner Wreck Of A Transport Ship

The Ambassadors

Jesus by Holbein

Any Bernini

....

Francis Bacon

Yes! That Francis Bacon painting is brilliant and horrifying.

Rainbows for teh gays

Grant Wood caught the dark side of the bucolic Midwest.

He did many of Sinclair Lewis' illustrations as well as the iconic "American Gothic."

This is "Appraisal."

More Church

Grant Wood -- Arnold Comes of Age

Botticelli - Portrait of a Woman, possibly Simonetta Vespucci

man wearing laurels, js sargent, lcma

Joan Mitchell

The Three Brides by Jan Toorop

El Greco, Laocoön

Lorenzo Quinn, Force of Nature II. And many other contemporary public sculptures.

Alexander McQueen, 2010

St. Michael by Crivelli

Nocturne in the Park Royale has always been a favourite of mine. It doesn’t photograph well; seeing the painting in person, it shimmers. Really stunning.

Michelangelo’s “Slaves” are breathtaking. Seeing these make figures breaking out of these huge stones is like an electric shock. I love them so much.

Canaletto - Bacino di San Marco

The lesser Wyeth - Jamie

Gerhard Richter. Some more interesting than this but hard to find images

Ric Best

Performance art, bitch!

R168 I love Richter. His website has an extensive archive.

Danish painter Else Alfelt, Green and Blue Image, 1942.

I'm so glad that someone revived this thread. I confess that I know almost nothing about art. But it's great to see the choices of the DL population. Some are beautiful. Some, not so much. But I'm happy to look at all of them.

Please post some works of art that you like, R173.

Barbara Kruger

Any of the male nudes drawn by Jacopo Pontormo, and there are many. He was himself a beautiful oddball.

yoko, haha

i'll show you performance art

I really like that statue, R161.

Frazetta

Anselm Kiefer

Van Eyck- The Annuciation

Anything by Jacob Van Ruisdael

Giger

“Sand Storm” - Agnes Pelton

Andreas gursky

Géricault

Love Inuit art

Your link doesn't work, R180.

R162 If we're talking art + fashion you have to include Iris van Herpen (who interned for McQueen). Her clothes are incredibly inventive and the level of detail in some of the pieces is mind boggling.

R180's choice:

The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck

R180's other choice:

Wheat Fields by Jacob van Ruisdael

Thanks for adding my links guys!

Chicago Board of Trade II by Andreas Gursky

Isn't that a photograph, r191?

Why can't photography be art? I found it in an art history book -- The Visual Arts: A History by Honour and Fleming.

Oh, it can be, r193, I suppose.

Because anyone can take a picture. It's like asking, "Why isn't auto-tune art?"

That photograph was on sale in the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. Not everyone can take a photograph that's good enough to be sold in a gallery.

Right, only people with useful connections can get their photo put in a gallery. That has fuckall to do with it being art or not.

I take photographs and a lot of them are really mediocre. You have to have talent and patience to take a great photograph -- from the right angle and under the right lighting. You have to compose a good photograph. I have taken photographs of flower beds in public gardens and many of them are quite boring because there is no clear object of focus or no sense of direction in the pic.

I think this is art. Art Forms in Nature by Karl Blossfeldt.

Della Robbia's terracotta, Noli Me Tangere….(at the Bargello in Florence)

For me, the beautiful and expressive of this favored scene of artists....

Damn! Looks like I goofed, This should work...(click for larger picture)

Isn't the artist Giovanni Rustici, R201?

I've seen attributions to both Rustici and Della Robbia. It's certainly in the latter's style and conjecture is Rustici worked in DR's atelier (or its Italian equivalent).

Why I love this representation and how it differs from others is...

...the Christ is less severe and forbidding in his command, He inclines his body to the Magdalene in loving, gentle remonstration...and Mary's face is wracked with pain and love. So, so beautiful....

I love the watermelon on the angel's wing in r188.

OMG, yes, r149! The Bernini Daphne and Apollo! It makes you wonder how any human could have created this incredibly magnificent work!

Any ceramic by Picasso...

[quote]Because anyone can take a picture. It's like asking, "Why isn't auto-tune art?"

The Gursky photograph is part of the collection of the Tate museum in Britain. Are you saying the Tate doesn't know what art is? Every major art museum has a collection of photographs.

Something More #3 by Tracey Moffatt

Freischwimmer 78 by Wolfgang Tillmans

Jeff Koons

Putti by Jacques Sarazin in the Chateau de Maisons. Adorbs

If you care, look up the wikipedia article on Jacques Sarazin.