Favorite Peices of Art!

Mydriasis · 08-14-2009, 09:03 PM

I'm sure this thread has been done before but, I couldn't find it using the search function so... SHABAM.

Post pictures or videos displaying your favorite pieces of art and artists.

Here's some of mine!

Alex Grey - Wonder

Alex Grey - Theologue

Salvidor Dali - Cannibalism in Autumn

PICASSO, Pablo
The Guitar Player

Mafoo · 08-15-2009, 12:13 PM

alex gray is such a talented painter/ artist. if you like his more recent stuff, try looking up his old performance art stuff he did. very trippy but also very symbolic and cool.

ill post some when i get my hard drive back in order

catastrophe · 08-15-2009, 01:21 PM

Great thread !

Evelyn De Morgan, Angel of Death

Shiva Vishnu Sudarshan Chakra

Alex Grey?

Madnesia by SXD GFX

Undiscovered Sky by SXD GFX

The Day I Saw Her 4 Seasons by EN

Alli's Vanity

Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth

Surrealism in Motion, Salvador Dali

The Burning Giraffe, Salvador Dali

Venus de Milo with Drawers, Salvador Dali

Galatea of the Sphere, Salvador Dali
"To Dali, this was the "paroxysm of joy", an "anarchic monarchy", "the unity of the universe..." Whatever the case, it is a technical tour de force which teaches a pinnacle of purity and delirious ecstasy on the mystical plane. As with Mozart, one seems to hear the "music of the spheres to which the sirens are dancing,"

Raphaelesque Head Exploding, Salvador Dali
"Dali transcends the limits of knowledge: "More powerful than cyclotrons and cybernetic calculators, I can penetrate to the mysteries of the real in a moment... Mine the ecstasy!... Mine, St. Teresa of Avila!... By reviving Spanish mysticism, I, Dali, shall use my work to demonstrate the unity of the universe, by showing the spirituality of all substance,"

I have a book about Salvador Dali and his life story and how each of his paintings incorporated in his life. I absolutely love Dali's style, I had the wonderful privilege of going to Paris and got to tour the Dali museum, it even had a twelve piece set of his rendition of scenes from Alice in Wonderland.

Mydriasis · 08-15-2009, 02:19 PM

I'm a huge fan of dali, I just don't understand how he paints so well, things that only exist in dreams.

**kitch** · 08-15-2009, 02:22 PM

Dali IS drugs.

catastrophe · 08-15-2009, 02:45 PM

Dali is dreaming on drugs

Jonas · 08-15-2009, 06:54 PM

cat, i am soo jealous...

i saw an exhibit a few months back at the National Art Gallery (ofcanada) that was called 'The New Man' which featured artists from Dali's era (also including Dali). it was good but by far the best paintings in that exhibit for me were done by Dali.

edit:

right now i am into paintings that most people think are painted by some grade 2 kid but when viewed under the 'right eye' have soo much depth. when viewed upclose they dont seem to be much, then you take a few steps back and it hits you like WOW! take David Milne for example:

my_scatterheart · 08-15-2009, 07:47 PM

Dali's shit up close is astounding, especially since a lot of the pieces you see in books you don't take the time to look at the dimensions... but I really dug a lot of his sketches.
I'd post a lot of the big shit that everybody knows and loves that I ended up being enamored with after seeing in front of my face. Guernica, Las Meninas, etc. but it's all pretty obligatory.

Mario Martinez

Brendan Monroe

[the obligatory] Steadman (I still urge anyone who can find a copy of The Curse of Lono around to buy it if for nothing else, Steadman's illustrations)

Rob Polidori

Andy Goldsworthy

eh i gotta stop or I'll go on forever

Mydriasis · 08-15-2009, 07:51 PM

Dali does have such a nack for detail it's literally incredible.

If those Brandon Monroes are paintings I am incredibly blown away.

I envy people who can paint really well, I struggle controlling colors

but these are so lovely! keep them coming!