Share your favorite great works of art, specifically visual art; paintings, sculptures, etc. Show off your tasteful knowledge of art!
Allow the painting to speak for itself, and you will understand its brilliance.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 1 | 01/27/2016 |
Insert some kitschy Warhol here.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 2 | 01/27/2016 |
Maurice Quentin de La Tour self portrait
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 4 | 02/13/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 6 | 02/13/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 7 | 02/13/2016 |
I'll answer the same as in the last thread with this same topic: Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 10 | 02/13/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 15 | 02/13/2016 |
Can someone post some Dali.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 18 | 02/13/2016 |
Freuds portrait of the painter Frank Auerbach
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 19 | 02/13/2016 |
Alexandre Cabanel - Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners
Not a great painting but love the melodrama
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 23 | 02/13/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 25 | 02/13/2016 |
I've always liked Rooms by the Sea by Hopper and Christina's World by Wyeth. I like the color and light in them.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 26 | 02/13/2016 |
I find DaVinci's paintings of John the Baptist intriguing and gay.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 34 | 02/14/2016 |
I find this self-portrait by Thomas Hart Benton, kinda hot because he looks like my ex-bf
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 35 | 02/14/2016 |
I don't like the modern rubbish, but I do like a frame that doesn't gather dust. H. Bucket
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 39 | 02/14/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 53 | 02/14/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 54 | 02/14/2016 |
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!
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 55 | 02/14/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 56 | 02/14/2016 |
John Singer Sargent's Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller speaks to me.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 58 | 02/14/2016 |
Another boxing painting for the gays ...
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 60 | 02/14/2016 |
The greatest painting will always be Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights."
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 61 | 02/14/2016 |
Stanley Cursiter, "The Tea Room." Some kind of tension going on here.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 62 | 02/14/2016 |
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
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 63 | 02/14/2016 |
A different sort of Dali from a different sort of view
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 64 | 02/14/2016 |
A little Neo-Impressionist color from Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 65 | 02/14/2016 |
Always surreal -- Mary spanking Christ in front of three witnesses
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 66 | 02/14/2016 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 67 | 02/14/2016 |
Windows in the West by Avril Paton. I love the little slices of life going on in each apartment.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 71 | 02/14/2016 |
Storm King on the Hudson by Samuel Colman
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 73 | 02/14/2016 |
R5 - is that Chop Suey?
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 80 | 02/14/2016 |
I think R5 is "Automat".
Amazing surrealist photos, R40.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 81 | 02/14/2016 |
America's most well known and widely collected artist should be noted. Thomas Kinkade.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 82 | 02/14/2016 |
I'm attracted to this abstract painting.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 85 | 02/14/2016 |
Eww.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 87 | 02/14/2016 |
Robert Mapplethorpe's Jack walls, #863.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 88 | 02/14/2016 |
Anything on velvet, extra points for red, blue or gold velvet.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 90 | 02/14/2016 |
Does it have to be a painting?
Performance art: Ziggy Stardust
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 91 | 02/14/2016 |
The skill of duplicating the athletic male body in detail is impressive. Couldn't copy my fav so I'm linking the whole page.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 92 | 02/14/2016 |
The Return of the Prodigal Son - Tissot
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 97 | 02/15/2016 |
But is it art?
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 99 | 02/15/2016 |
Jars Pats. Jars.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 100 | 02/15/2016 |
bump
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 104 | 08/07/2017 |
Thanks, R105. I hope more people post something.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 106 | 08/07/2017 |
Dosso Dossi c.1530 Allegory of Fortune (Fortuna sitting on a giant soap bubble.)
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 107 | 08/07/2017 |
Great. Keep it going please.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 108 | 08/07/2017 |
The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 110 | 08/07/2017 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 112 | 08/07/2017 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 113 | 08/07/2017 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 114 | 08/07/2017 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 115 | 08/07/2017 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 116 | 08/07/2017 |
[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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 117 | 08/07/2017 |
All you cunts need to die in a grease fire for not posting any works of sculpture, such as Rodin's Defence
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 118 | 08/07/2017 |
Warhol's Woman in Blue (After Matisse)
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 120 | 08/08/2017 |
Trippy Warhol I'd never seen before
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 121 | 08/08/2017 |
I don't know how to post pics, but I'll submit Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase "....
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 122 | 08/08/2017 |
Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 124 | 08/08/2017 |
R52 was that painting destroyed in the Dresden bombing?
R59 I've never seen that painting before. Stunning.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 130 | 08/08/2017 |
R130 here . The Planers is safe in Paris
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 131 | 08/08/2017 |
My Lonesome Cowboy by Takashi Murakami
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 132 | 08/08/2017 |
I love that painting, R119. I've never seen it before. Thanks.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 142 | 08/08/2017 |
Yes! That Francis Bacon painting is brilliant and horrifying.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 151 | 08/09/2017 |
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."
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 153 | 08/09/2017 |
Botticelli - Portrait of a Woman, possibly Simonetta Vespucci
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 156 | 10/20/2018 |
man wearing laurels, js sargent, lcma
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 157 | 10/20/2018 |
Lorenzo Quinn, Force of Nature II. And many other contemporary public sculptures.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 161 | 10/21/2018 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 164 | 10/21/2018 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 165 | 10/21/2018 |
Gerhard Richter. Some more interesting than this but hard to find images
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 168 | 10/24/2018 |
R168 I love Richter. His website has an extensive archive.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 171 | 10/24/2018 |
Danish painter Else Alfelt, Green and Blue Image, 1942.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 172 | 10/24/2018 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 173 | 10/24/2018 |
Please post some works of art that you like, R173.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 174 | 10/24/2018 |
Any of the male nudes drawn by Jacopo Pontormo, and there are many. He was himself a beautiful oddball.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 176 | 10/24/2018 |
yoko, haha
i'll show you performance art
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 177 | 10/24/2018 |
I really like that statue, R161.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 178 | 10/24/2018 |
Anselm Kiefer
Van Eyck- The Annuciation
Anything by Jacob Van Ruisdael
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 180 | 10/24/2018 |
Your link doesn't work, R180.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 186 | 10/25/2018 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 187 | 10/25/2018 |
R180's choice:
The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 188 | 10/26/2018 |
R180's other choice:
Wheat Fields by Jacob van Ruisdael
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 189 | 10/26/2018 |
Thanks for adding my links guys!
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 190 | 10/26/2018 |
Chicago Board of Trade II by Andreas Gursky
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 191 | 10/29/2018 |
Isn't that a photograph, r191?
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 192 | 10/29/2018 |
Why can't photography be art? I found it in an art history book -- The Visual Arts: A History by Honour and Fleming.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 193 | 10/29/2018 |
Oh, it can be, r193, I suppose.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 194 | 10/29/2018 |
Because anyone can take a picture. It's like asking, "Why isn't auto-tune art?"
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 195 | 10/29/2018 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 196 | 10/29/2018 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 197 | 10/29/2018 |
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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 198 | 10/29/2018 |
I think this is art. Art Forms in Nature by Karl Blossfeldt.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 199 | 10/29/2018 |
Della Robbia's terracotta, Noli Me Tangere….(at the Bargello in Florence)
For me, the beautiful and expressive of this favored scene of artists....
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 200 | 10/29/2018 |
Damn! Looks like I goofed, This should work...(click for larger picture)
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 201 | 10/29/2018 |
Isn't the artist Giovanni Rustici, R201?
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 202 | 10/29/2018 |
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....
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 203 | 10/29/2018 |
I love the watermelon on the angel's wing in r188.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 204 | 10/29/2018 |
OMG, yes, r149! The Bernini Daphne and Apollo! It makes you wonder how any human could have created this incredibly magnificent work!
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 205 | 10/29/2018 |
[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.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 207 | 10/29/2018 |
Freischwimmer 78 by Wolfgang Tillmans
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 209 | 11/10/2018 |
Putti by Jacques Sarazin in the Chateau de Maisons. Adorbs
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 211 | 03/11/2020 |
If you care, look up the wikipedia article on Jacques Sarazin.
by Ongo Goblovian, art collector | reply 212 | 03/11/2020 |