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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago
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Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh
I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Our daughter is a young aspiring artist her work is so good. She did a copy of a Japanese picture called The Wave,love Jap history so would say that’s my fav picture. |
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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago
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"Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh
I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos. "
I could lose myself for days in the Museé D’Orsay! |
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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago
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"Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh
I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos.
I could lose myself for days in the Museé D’Orsay!"
It’s an amazing place isn’t it! The impressionist gallery especially. |
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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago
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"Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh
I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos.
I could lose myself for days in the Museé D’Orsay!
It’s an amazing place isn’t it! The impressionist gallery especially. "
I agree, I wasn't a fan either but have new found respect having seen the paintings for real. Mesmerising. |
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Another vote for David.
When you see it in real life it's stunning.
Especially the way Michaelangelo changed the proportions of the body, knowing that it would be viewed from below.
I might be slightly off topic here, but if we are considering man made beauty, can I also throw in the vaulted roof of King's College and the Supermarine Spitfire?
I personally consider the latter to be the single most beautiful object ever created. |
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
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"LS Lowery - matchstick men"
Haha when my son was 7 they were taken to the local gallery to look at the Lowry’s and had to write a critique. We still have his art book now. It says “ I don’t like this, it sucks the soul out of me”  |
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Various cave paintings. The ones in Bulgaria, Magura cave are great.
A portrait of Bess of Hardwick painted in 1592 by Rowland Lockey. You can look in to that woman's eyes and see her character.
A pastel landscape we got in a charity shop that just shows a telegraph pole and building |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The ukiyo-e "The Great Wave" by Hokusai. But been Italian, I could name thousands from my own country...Da Vinci's Monalisa and Botticelli's Venus, but I love nearly everything from them. Michelangelo's David is just, wow. And thousands more lol |
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Monet’s sunrise paintings especially the London one
Leonid Afremov just for the colour vibrancy
Salvador Dali as you need to look past what your eyes initially see to observe the other images that make the piece work |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Salvador Dali: Crucifixion
on display at The Met in New York
it blew me away
I stood for a good hour, literally tranfixed by it
No other artwork has ever had that effect on me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There is one hanging up in my bedroom. Given to me be my friend who is an artist. It's almost a combination of painting and sculpture as she uses texture a great deal in her art.
It's a crashing, barreling, tumultuous wave. One you could just about surf.
I hope she's reading. Thankyou, I still love it X |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I do love poster art though, especially Russian stuff
I have a coffee table book of Russian Propoganda poster art by Koretsky
I also have a book of Nazi propoganda posters
The imagery is too strong to ignore
The messages more so
They both fascinate me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'd also like to own a Grayson Perry original
It's not so much the pieces, it's the thoughts behind them, the stories, the concepts
I know he's lauded by The Glitterati now and has almost become a mainstream oddity, but I do like him
I went to one of his live shows earlier in the year  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My favourite style of art is Comic/GraphicNovel/Manga/Anime. Worth very little in comparison to some of the shit I see selling for silly money.
Its subjective though, I guess. I find art appreciates in value to me, the better connected I am to the person who made it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My favourite style of art is Comic/GraphicNovel/Manga/Anime. Worth very little in comparison to some of the shit I see selling for silly money.
Its subjective though, I guess. I find art appreciates in value to me, the better connected I am to the person who made it."
And I could not agree more...
Studio Ghibli for president lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd also like to own a Grayson Perry original
It's not so much the pieces, it's the thoughts behind them, the stories, the concepts
I know he's lauded by The Glitterati now and has almost become a mainstream oddity, but I do like him
I went to one of his live shows earlier in the year "
Back when mountain biking was in its infancy and Grayson Perry was unknown he used to race mountain bikes and donate some of his work as prizes. I'm lead to believe most people were non to keen on winning his painted pots and think most subsequently got gave away or binned!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'd also like to own a Grayson Perry original
It's not so much the pieces, it's the thoughts behind them, the stories, the concepts
I know he's lauded by The Glitterati now and has almost become a mainstream oddity, but I do like him
I went to one of his live shows earlier in the year
Back when mountain biking was in its infancy and Grayson Perry was unknown he used to race mountain bikes and donate some of his work as prizes. I'm lead to believe most people were non to keen on winning his painted pots and think most subsequently got gave away or binned!!"
They are worth thousands, if not hundreds of thousands these days
They'll be crying into their £8 Dunelm vases now  |
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
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"Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights."
I love this Meli snd not sure which panel I’d choose as my favourite. It varies depending on my mood. I did have it as my last phone cover. My current one is Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse. Not my usual go to pre raphaelite artist, that would be Edward Burn Jones, but I do love this piece.
Modern art is another of my favs. Love Hockneys and the Tate exhibition was an amazing insight into his life.
Iliya snd Emilia Kabakov have done some amazing pieces. Bill Viola I always find moving.
And Henry Moores sculptures are just so inviting I always want to touch.
That’s my take. But it does change
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
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What I like in general doesn’t really change but my favourites always do.
I’m always fascinated when I’m at a gallery by the size and the effort. The strokes the texture. I’m no critic and absolutely shit at any kind of artwork myself, which is possibly why I’m so fascinated. I remember standing looking at Rembrandt’s Nightwatch in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shortly after watching a programme about the artists apprentice. Being absolutely blown away at the size of the painting and the thought of someone making the paint by hand. Getting the colours just right and when it ran out, having to make more, grinding down the ingredients to get the exact shade.
Anyway I ramble, very unsexy I know |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
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I have a soft spot for Degas Little Dancer sculpture. I have a small replica of it and managed to get to see one of the real ones (there are several) at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool when I was there to see the Gustav Klimt exhibition.  |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
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I have also recently discovered the amazing sculptures of Ron Mueck which have to be seen up close to be believed they are so life like it’s spooky apart from they are either smaller or larger than life size |
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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago
The right place |
"What I like in general doesn’t really change but my favourites always do.
I’m always fascinated when I’m at a gallery by the size and the effort. The strokes the texture. I’m no critic and absolutely shit at any kind of artwork myself, which is possibly why I’m so fascinated. I remember standing looking at Rembrandt’s Nightwatch in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shortly after watching a programme about the artists apprentice. Being absolutely blown away at the size of the painting and the thought of someone making the paint by hand. Getting the colours just right and when it ran out, having to make more, grinding down the ingredients to get the exact shade.
Anyway I ramble, very unsexy I know "
I agree, it’s only when you go to a museum or gallery and see them that you really appreciate the size.
And it’s very sexy!
Btw, it’s not quite the same as going in person but have you seen the Google Art Project?
It uses the same technology as google street view and allows you to virtually wander round some of the worlds best museums and galleries. I have spent a few hours exploring it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My all time favourite painting is The Night Watch by Rembrandt. It's in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It's absolutely enormous and took 3 years to complete. It completely blew me away.
The Mona Lisa, however, I found disappointing. |
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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago
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"What I like in general doesn’t really change but my favourites always do.
I’m always fascinated when I’m at a gallery by the size and the effort. The strokes the texture. I’m no critic and absolutely shit at any kind of artwork myself, which is possibly why I’m so fascinated. I remember standing looking at Rembrandt’s Nightwatch in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shortly after watching a programme about the artists apprentice. Being absolutely blown away at the size of the painting and the thought of someone making the paint by hand. Getting the colours just right and when it ran out, having to make more, grinding down the ingredients to get the exact shade.
Anyway I ramble, very unsexy I know
I agree, it’s only when you go to a museum or gallery and see them that you really appreciate the size.
And it’s very sexy!
Btw, it’s not quite the same as going in person but have you seen the Google Art Project?
It uses the same technology as google street view and allows you to virtually wander round some of the worlds best museums and galleries. I have spent a few hours exploring it. "
I haven’t, I shall check it out. I do try to go to London at least a couple of times a year for exhibitions at the Tates at Royal Academy. I try and time myself so there’s something I want to see at them all. Portrait gallery isn’t my thing. I can’t be doing with pictures of chubby kids or horses and that place is full of them 
I did go to the renaissance exhibition at the RA and it made me realise most of them geezers had never really seen a naked woman at all had they? They just got their mates to lie in different poses for them and made it up. So many of those paintings are shit! Anyone it seems could get a job as a painter back in the day. Check out the perspective on some of them. I think even I could manage better. I’ll get the exhibition book out and PM you some to check out |
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I have 2, the Arnolfini wedding by Van Eyck and the milk maid by Vermeer. There was a still life by someone in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam that was so detailed the closer I got the more I saw. I almost fell into that painting. |
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"My all time favourite painting is The Night Watch by Rembrandt. It's in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It's absolutely enormous and took 3 years to complete. It completely blew me away.
The Mona Lisa, however, I found disappointing. "
The night watch is incredible. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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What a lovely thread OP!
Living in the Sculpture Triangle - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Henry Moore Institute and the Hepworth Gallery we're richly served.
Jonathan Yeo's celebrity portraits are stunning, saw them at the Lowry a few years ago. Luminous, especially the Maxine Peake.
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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago
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"What a lovely thread OP!
Living in the Sculpture Triangle - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Henry Moore Institute and the Hepworth Gallery we're richly served.
Jonathan Yeo's celebrity portraits are stunning, saw them at the Lowry a few years ago. Luminous, especially the Maxine Peake.
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I visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the first time a couple of months ago. It was actually with a friend from fab. It’s a great place. I really enjoyed it. |
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I like all sorts of art, so I couldn't choose one favourite.
Though I do particularly like the pre-Raphaelite artists and Barbara Hepworths sculpture. The Babara Hepworth sculpture garden in St Ives is wonderful. |
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