The Blender Survey Question

What is your favorite painting or artwork, and who is the artist?
Ali See...I have two...'The Lady of Shallot' by John William Waterhouse. And 'The Accolade' by Edmund Blair Leighton...
*smile*

B.K. There is a picture of "Joan of Arc" done by Jules Bastien-Lepage in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that I swear her eyes almost burned holes in me. It was like she came alive and her eyes were luminous energy. I have to go and look at her every time I am in NYC.
Misti Ali, I agree with you on The Lady of Shallot. For a long time (from fifth grade up until a few years ago) my favorite was View of Toledo by El Greco. There's also a Dali that I absolutely love but I don't know the name of it. A naked woman is leaning on a post with her head thrown back. Her roses are bleeding.
BlueDenim The Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Dali. Mind-bending.
Just Some Girl Self-portrait(Tamara in the Green Bugatti) by Tamara de Lempicka
Rhetoric I am very partial to photography (black and white, of course) as my favorite artistic medium. Some of my faves artisits are: Jock Sturges, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, Imogene Cunningham, Mark Watson, and too many more to list here. However, one of my favorite photos is a black and white horizontal torso, taken by a local West Virginia artist of his wife. It hangs on my wall at this very moment.
Kirk The Cleveland Free Stamp, a giant giant public sculpture of a rubber stamp that would stamp the word "FREE", by Claes Oldenburg. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/OHCLEstamp.html
chris "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth. A painting of a girl set against the vastness of Great Plains. Some farmhouses in the distance, some dry earth, lots of sky. The piece raises far more questions than it answers: Is she content in that world? Why does she seem to be grasping, yearning, longing, for something just out of reach? And what is she reaching for? (Etc.) But to me it symbolizes most of all the pain and promise that was and still is the American West. She may be in a Nebraska wheatfield, but one gets the unmistakable impression that she's looking West. A quintessentially American work.
Laurel Ahlfeld Gotta love Van Gogh's Starry Night
deevaa at the moment mine is a painting I'm working on to hang in the house Argyle and I are going to buy mid-2002. It has been on my easel for about 3mths now and it feels like it'll never be done, yet I still love it.

Runners up are Forget me Not, Dive, the Dancer and tumble by me, anything by waterhouse, klimt and Chagall... I like semi-erotic work.
~*Truelies*~ Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is quite a favourite of mine. And almost anything by Dali.
scqueen 'And The Moon Listens...' my one and only Deeva piece. I get lost in it.
TJ Holland Crystal Przybille. She's INCREDIBLE! Just come home to North America from a stint abroad (having painted the sails...ACTUALLY painted artwork ONTO the SAILS!...of a working flour windmill in Rotterdam, and had the local Dutch flocking to the countryside to see it and all her other works). She uses a vast array of mediums and every piece has a profound impact on the veiwer. DAMN, but she's good!
Mark McNabb "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali
kevin urenda My favorite paintings are "Whites" by Davena Abioye, which I only wish I owned, and "Plughole," which I do. I also wish I had a scanner so I could share...


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