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What’s your all-time favorite piece of a...
What’s your all-time favorite piece of art? That piece you tell everyone they *must* see.
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cee
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Artistry
nick cave sound suit
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There are variations of the sound suits but they are soo cool in person. I’ve seen four of them so far!
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Kaylan
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The Spiral Jetty
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Tough to choose one piece as I have endless recommendations, but something has always called to me about The Spiral Jetty; its theme, materials, location, and humble presence. I’ve been fortunate to see other Smithson pieces around the world, and I plan to pilgrimage to Utah in my lifetime to visit this one.
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Katherine
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Art
Bernini’s “Abduction of Proserpina”
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Photos don’t do it justice! Walking around this sculpture feels like going inside a movie and walking around a freeze frame.
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AZ
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Watch Picasso Make a Masterpiece
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Mesmerizing!
xdudx
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Calida Rawles
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The Name We Praise but really anything by Calida Rawles
Andrei Marinescu
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The Girl with the Pearl Earring
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AMB
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Art
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
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I don’t know if this is necessarily my favorite painting I’ve ever seen (what a daunting task to pick just one!), but I saw this not too long ago and it stopped me in my tracks.
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John Gruber
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Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ
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Painted in 1602, it portends the art of cinema.
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Ali
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The New York Earth Room
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as otherworldly as it is this-worldly
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Daniel Menegaz
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Nerd Shit
Literally Any Hayao Miyazaki Imageboard, Storyboard, or Background Painting
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breathtaking. seeing them in person was legit moving
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Jess
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Arts & Farts
Kerry James Marshall
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Years ago I went to see a show of his at a museum. His work is so powerful it moved me to tears. I don’t have one specific painting to recommend, his entire oeuvre is phenomenal.
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Geren
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Maman (sculpture)
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Maman or any of the other spiders by Louise Bourgeois go stand under one as often as your life crosses their paths.
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Analisa Burns
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Joaquín Sorolla's "Fiesta Valenciana en la Huerta" (1899)
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my favorite scene in the world, a backyard dinner with dancing <3 this whole collection is stunning, Sorolla was a true master of light & color
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Casson
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The Clock (2010)
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Mesmerizing art film by Christian Marclay. I always end up watching for so much longer than I originally anticipated.
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Ross Chait
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Pietà (Michelangelo)
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Michael Bolognino
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Things I like to look at
Hélène Vanel from her performance at the International Exhibition of Surrealism in Paris, 1938
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I was at the Picasso Museum Barcelona a few years ago and this image stopped me in my tracks. So much so that I now have a tattoo of Helene in this pose on my left arm. I love the idea of her putting on a wig and doing a live performance at the Surrealism Exhibition all the way back in 1938. There's something so punk about how she is part of the still life, grabbing at herself, and the masculine/feminine energy she is exuding. And that stare! From Wikipedia: Hélène Vanel was a dancer, sculptor, and painter affiliated with the Surrealist movement of the 20th century. Not a great deal is known now of Vanel, though she was quite famous during her time.[1]
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Michael Sippey
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Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors
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Wonderfully meditative video installation on the nature of art and community.
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Richard Mason
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Bernini’s Rape of Proserpina
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The illusion of fleshlike compressibility in the marble is really something
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D
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art
Francis Bacon, “Painting”
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Francis Bacon changed my life. This early work, “Painting,” was the entry point to his oeuvre.
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Mary Kathryn Paynter
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the weather project by olafur eliasson
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Experiencing this at 19 just re-wired my brain (and led to huge life changes). Not only was the spectacle of artificially creating natural phenomena absolutely breathtaking, the way it changed the interactions between viewers in real time was profound.
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Leslie
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Jacques Louis David
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honestly anything by Jacques Louis David is just so incredible to see in real life. The scale of this piece is something you can only understand when you’re standing face to face with it. AI could never. Perhaps not the best character but damn the guy could paint.
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Sky Fisher
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Baddie Club
Judith Beheading Holofernes
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hashtag girl power. After studying this piece for 10 years, I stumbled into it by perfect accident on my way out of the Uffizi in Florence this January. Rembrandt is my favorite artist, but Gentileschi painted my favorite work
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Londyn Harris
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John Singer Sargent - Fumée d’ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris)
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My fave. Big inspo for colors and layering when I went to Morocco a couple years back.
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Hannah Cassidy
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Thorne Miniature Rooms
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Teeny tiny, beautifully designed rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago. I could spend hours there, and would during my years living in the city.
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Megan Huntz
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Art
Collezione Peggy Guggenheim
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A most intimate look into the world and life of Peggy Guggenheim, and her personal collection of Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. Set inside her home at the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice, the collection reflects the artists she championed, many of whom she had close relationships, making the experience deeply personal. Don’t miss: Landscape with Red Spots No. 2 by Wassily Kandinsky, Birth of Liquid Desires by Salvador Dalí, Alchemy by Jackson Pollock, Woman, Moon, Birds by Joan Miró, and The Antipope by Max Ernst—five works that were deeply personal to Peggy, that reflect both her early support of avant-garde artists and the intimate, experimental spirit of her collection. (My favorite museum in the world.)
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Very Carrie
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For the goings.
Eames House
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Another one for you... In grad school for architecture I flew to LA to see the Eames house in person. I sobbed in the driveway. Magical.
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Marika Clemow
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Guernica (Pablo Picasso)
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The first painting that moved me to tears IRL. Learnt about its history at art school. Saw it in the Reina Sofia in Madrid. Was moved by the scale, the composition, the nod to past masters, the fact it boarded safely in NY until Spain was restored, and the sheer the pinch me moment of standing in front of it. Still gives me chills.
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samael
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The Visitors - Ragnar Kjartansson
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can kinda see it now :) wander around the room, get comfortable, and follow what catches your attention. and maybe this layout is easier to follow:
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Ailene deVries
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joyce wieland’s ‘o canada’
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embroideries of wieland’s mouth singing o Canada. Such a lovely and humorous commentary on language, politics, nationalism. Huge influence of mine
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Coco Quizon
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My art collection if MOTHERL...
Young Peasant Having Her Coffee by Camille Pissaro
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Camille Pissaro is one of my favorite painters from the Impressionist movement. But foremost, I love this painting because, “it me.”
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heaths moon
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everything Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, James Turrell
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Amalia
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"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) - Félix González-Torres
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always moving forward together, but not always in sync.
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Very Carrie
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For the arts.
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present (2012)
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It was a live event, and I was lucky enough to have been there in person… awestruck.
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heaths moon
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The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David (1793)
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just stunning
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Marian
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Primavera by Rafael Miranda San Juan (2015)
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Huge and breathtaking sculpture, right on the malecón in Havana
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David
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Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane - Someday My Prince Will Come
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The picture is just an album cover. This is my all-time favorite piece of art to HEAR. And the backstory is incredible. See the youtube comment for some of it. This is the last album John Coltrane and Miles Davis ever played on together. John Coltrane's solo is near the end. Hank Mobley is the listed tenor played on the album, but for this particular take, Coltrane just showed up during the recording and nailed it cold.
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