I've been doing a bit of cultural anthropology on museums this semester and that in concert with my trip to back to the Van Gogh museum has had me thinking a lot about pieces of art I really enjoy.

I'm a very, very naive individual insofar as art goes. I don't know much, and could best be classified as a "noob."

That being said, my favorite painter is Picasso, and these are my three favorites from him:

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Guernica (The history of this one in particular is very interesting to me - but that's for another time)



And his reimagining of Las Meninas



You guys?

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I have a few, but the one that springs to mind is Dali's 'The Hallucinogenic Torreadore"

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Originally posted by RJT Guernica (The history of this one in particular is very interesting to me - but that's for another time)

Thats my favorite Picasso as well.

I would say my favorite artist is Van Gogh.

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I like Munch's Scream:



I used to have a "mini-gallery" in my Orkut profile with many other paintings but this is by far my favourite... I really like expressionism, even in its most abstract forms:



(That's Franz Marc's Rehe im Walde)

ps.: Both paintings are featured in Wikipedia's entry on Expressionism

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this is way too hard i'd have to think about it a lot

for some reason i never think about these 'favorite things ever'. people ask me what my favorite book is - no fucking clue, movie, etc.

music would be even more difficult


the worst is when someone asks me who my favorite architect is, since that's what I do. they just don't get it when I shrug my shoulders. i guess i've been exposed to a lot of architecture so on one hand i have too much to choose from, and on the other hand i am really critical


with painting, i have a lot of art history and gallery visits, etc behind me but i still feel like i have not seen nearly enough to choose

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"I think the scientific and the artistic spirit have something in common. The scientist wants not only to learn the facts, but to understand how they cohere, fit together and make a whole. He even uses criteria such as beauty and symmetry to help decide which theory he wants.

The scientist cannot capture the whole cosmos in thought. In his mind he makes a kind of microcosm, which we see as an analogue of the cosmos. In this way we try to get a feeling for the whole. The artist, I suppose, gets a feeling for the whole some other way.”

David Bohm in “Art, Dialogue and the Implicate Order”, published in On Creativity RC (Routledge Classics)

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i like the one with the clocks melting, dunno what's its name

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Originally posted by nefardec the worst is when someone asks me who my favorite architect is, since that's what I do. they just don't get it when I shrug my shoulders. i guess i've been exposed to a lot of architecture so on one hand i have too much to choose from, and on the other hand i am really critical

What if I ask you what your favourite school/style is?

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Originally posted by Palladium i like the one with the clocks melting, dunno what's its name

Relojes blandos, Melting watches.

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Originally posted by Palladium i like the one with the clocks melting, dunno what's its name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Memory

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