# This Might Be Fun: Post A Link To Your Favorite Work Of Art **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441 "2004-07-16T16:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/41 "2004-07-17T02:50:53Z")
Who: Henri Matisse What: [Jazz](http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/guide/images/eu058001.jpg) When: 1947 Why: I adore Matisse – who shares my birthday, delightfully enough. His colors are wonderful. At the end of his life, when he was bedridden and could no longer paint, he turned to paper cut-outs – which continue to have the color and movement and exuberance of Matisses’s best work. I have a poster of this hanging in my stairwell, so I see it every time I walk downstairs. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/42 "2004-07-17T03:03:49Z")
Who: Marc Chagall What: [I and the Village](http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Chagal3.html) When: 1911 Where: Museum of Modern Art, New York Why: I love the colors and angles and all the shimmering, idealized details of village life. But what I love most is the connection between the man and the beast. I didn’t notice until I finally got to see the painting up close, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that there is actually a line connecting the eye of the man to the eye of the cow. It makes me smile every time I see it. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/43 "2004-07-17T03:17:19Z")
Who Pablo Picasso what: [Brick Factory in Tortosa](http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/picasso/factory.jpg.html). The picture is a thumbnail, click on it if you wish. when: 1909 Why: I wish I could give you some grand reason filled with $10 dollar art school words but the only one I can give is that I was at the Art Gallery of Ontario when this painting made it’s rounds. I stopped in front of it and was captivated. I stared at it for about 15 minutes. The colours are soothing and I like the contrast of the building and the palm trees and I like how the lines in the picture lead to them. I don’t really like getting into what the painting means but I have my ideas. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/44 "2004-07-17T03:18:24Z")
Who: [Lawren S. Harris](http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/docs/bio_artistid2326_e.jsp) What: [North Shore, Lake Superior](http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_zoom_e.jsp?mkey=10055) When: 1926 Where: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Why: Lawren Harris was one of the founding members of the Group of Seven artists, and in many ways the leader of it. The Group of Seven artists took a revolutionary approach in Canada to art in moving representations of the country, and particularly its landscapes away from a traditional English approach. Their paintings show wildnerness and rawness. Of the Group of Seven, Lawren Harris is my favourite artist; and this is my favourite painting. I recall seeing it for the first time at the National Gallery and being stunned by the power of it in person. It is the wallpaper on my computer and I have two prints of it. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/45 "2004-07-17T03:33:52Z")
I have a few by one artist that I can’t decide between, and I can’t figure out a way to link directly to the pictures. Who: [Stanislav Szukalski](http://www.szukalski.com/gallery.html) Why: Because Szukalski manages to tap a direct line to my Jungian subconscious. What: Struggle When: 1917 What: The Prophet When: 1919 What: Cecora When: 1927 Artist’s notes: > [@](#): > > This sculpture was done in a large piece of alabaster that I found in a stone cutter’s yard while living in May-en-Multien near Paris, where I had a home. Without a previous sketch or model in clay or plaster, I carved this work directly in the stone, working as close to the original shape so as not to lose its dimension. > > The subject matter commemorates one of the most tragic instances in early Polish history. The frequent attacks on the Polish borders by Tartars, Turks and others made vigilance a vital duty for every patriot. The country never had a standing army, but depended solely on the popular rise to the emergency. Thus, the term for war was _potrzeba_ or “necessity.” > > On one such occasion, Stanislaw Zolkiewski, one of the greatest generals Poland produced, asked for a military force. The nobles, resenting his extraordinary importance to the country, refused to help him. He went with a small army of ten thousand to fight against the chronic invaders. The vast enemy, having all of Asia behind them, surrounded his patriotic followers. > > The army of Zolkiewski formed an oblong of wagons chained together, the horses inside, and began to push back towards the center of Poland. Their plight was hopeless. Nobility still did not come to their aid, and at a place called Cecora (pron. _tesh-tsoh-ra_), the whole army of ten thousand was wiped out. The head of Zolkiewski was carried away by a galloping Tartar to be thrown at the feet of the Asian leaders. > > Here, in this life-size sculpture, a warrior drinks his own blood which drains from the wound on his forehead. It is mixed with the open-eyed tears an angel on his cheek directs into his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/46 "2004-07-17T03:41:34Z")
Who: Goya What: [Saturn Devouring His Son](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/goya/goya.saturn-son.jpg) Why: Well, my other favorites, _Starry Night_ and _Gas_ were already picked, and this one definitely made an impression on me. Everything about it is horrifying, which I don’t think is a feeling expressed much in art. Given the state of things, you’d think there’d be more depictions of this kind. THis may be cheating, but I also want to put in a word for Picasso’s [Girl Before A Mirror](http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso258.html) and Demuth’s [Figure 5 In Gold](http://www.wisdomportal.com/Christmas/Figure5InGold.html). I’ll skip the explanations, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/47 "2004-07-17T04:28:59Z")
Who: E. R. Hughes What: [Night (Sometimes called Star of Night)](http://community.webshots.com/photo/3134756/3134824gNJNSdUovM) When: I don’t know and haven’t been able to find out Where: I’m assuming it’s in a private collection somewhere Why: Her face is so serene…and the stars are done so beautifully. I really don’t know anything about this painting. I saw it on an episode of Monach of the Glen and fell in love with it. I did a Google search, but haven’t found a lot of info. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/48 "2004-07-17T04:29:58Z")
> [@Coldfire](#): > > Who: Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer > > What: [‘Het melkmeisje’ (the mild maid)](http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Vermeer_melkmeisje.jpg) > > When: ca. 1658-1660 > > Where: _Rijksmuseum_, Amsterdam, Netherlands (although it “tours” a lot, too) > > Why: It’s mesmorising. Stare at it long enough, and the milk actually starts to flow. I have never seen such a _real_ painting, so… lifelike. It’s superb in detail, colour, and simplicity. Stunning! I agree. For awhile now I’ve thought a print of it as the foundation for the design of the kitchen and breakfast area to set the tone and colors. I just love the warmth of yellow and blue. I’m really fond of [The Girl with the Pearl Earring](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vermeer/i/earring.jpg) also. When: 1665-1666 Where: Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague Why: I love the color and the softness. Much like **Coldfire** with the milk in The Milk Maid, when I look at the earring I feel the movement of it as she turns her head. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/49 "2004-07-17T14:31:51Z")
Thanks, **Abby** , for starting this thread! I’m one of those “I don’t have a degree in art but I know what I like!” types. Some of these paintaings have moved me almost to tears, particularly those in posts #2, 7, 13, 24 & 39 (the second link in post #39). ---
**Author:** ![light\_strand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@light\_strand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/light_strand)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/50 "2004-07-17T14:56:40Z")
Who: Antonio Conova What:[\* Cupid and Psyche\*](http://wso.williams.edu/~jkossuth/images/isculp06.jpg) When: 1787. Where: Louvre, Paris. Why: This is the most sensual piece of artwork I’ve ever seen. Photos obviously do not do it justice ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/51 "2004-07-17T14:59:41Z")
**Who:** Francisco de Goya **What:** [Cat Fight (Gatos Riñendo)](http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/goya/gatos.jpg) **When** : Undated (_circa_ 1820?) **Where:** The Prado, Madrid. **Why** : For the same reason I like all of Goya’s paintings - action and drama. These cats are alive, man! Some other Goya favorites: [La Maja Vestida](http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/goya/maja2.jpg) and [La Maja Desnuda](http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/goya/maja.jpg). Also [El Pelele](http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/goya/pelele.jpg) and [Los Fusilamientos del 3 de Mayo](http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/goya/fusilamientos.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/52 "2004-07-17T15:08:32Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > **Who:** Vincent van Gogh > > **What** : [Wheat Field with Crows](http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/p_0779.htm) Good choice there, **ShibbOleth**. My favorite van Gogh, and IMO his most underappreciated work. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/53 "2004-07-17T16:28:12Z")
Something a little more modern… Luis Royo [the announcement](http://www.artfan.net/jpg/art/luis_royo/imagepages/image52.php) ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/54 "2004-07-17T18:13:49Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Thanks, **Abby** , for starting this thread! I’m one of those “I don’t have a degree in art but I know what I like!” types. Some of these paintaings have moved me almost to tears, particularly those in posts #2, 7, 13, 24 & 39 (the second link in post #39). I think it’s a great idea for a thread too, but I didn’t start it, \*\*JohnBckWLD \*\* did. Thanks **JohnBckWLD**! ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/55 "2004-07-17T18:46:39Z")
Who: Albrecht Durer What: [The Knight, Death and The Devil](http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/engravings/) When: 1514 Why: I love almost everything Durer ever did and this is just the one engraving that sticks in my mind the most. ---
**Author:** ![mamakat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mamakat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamakat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/56 "2004-07-17T20:54:08Z")
I don’t know anything about art either, but I walked into a gallery and saw this hanging on the wall, and I just love it. It’s got such innocent sexiness. I’m going to buy a big one and hang it in my house when I get rich! 😉 [http://store3.yimg.com/I/gallerydirectart\_1799\_328081274](http://store3.yimg.com/I/gallerydirectart_1799_328081274) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/57 "2004-07-17T21:02:47Z")
I like Salvador Dali, but I can’t really pick out one particular as being my favourite. So I’ll link some that I just like. [http://ict2.udlap.mx/people/alfredo/personal/dali-cara.jpg](http://ict2.udlap.mx/people/alfredo/personal/dali-cara.jpg) [http://www.hayalevi.com/sanat\_galerisi/Dali/dal-1929-illumined\_pleasures.jpg](http://www.hayalevi.com/sanat_galerisi/Dali/dal-1929-illumined_pleasures.jpg) I also like [url=http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-recogn.html]M.C.Escher[/ur] p.s. My brother did a parody of one of his paintings once, with melting cassette tapes instead of clocks. (and other differences) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/58 "2004-07-17T21:06:32Z")
[http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-back.html](http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-back.html) [http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-switz.html](http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery-switz.html) ([http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/switz-bmp/LW296.jpg](http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/switz-bmp/LW296.jpg)) [http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/ital-bmp/LW278.jpg](http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/ital-bmp/LW278.jpg) (What was he on?!?) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/59 "2004-07-17T21:17:18Z")
For you Van Gogh fans, here’s a guy that does Van Gogh paintings but the way they would appear at different times of day and with different colors. He’s very good. [http://community-2.webtv.net/nightcafe/doc/](http://community-2.webtv.net/nightcafe/doc/) (Scroll to the bottom to find it all.) ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441/60 "2004-07-17T21:19:24Z")
**KarlGauss** , I like your van Eyck one. Did you see his autograph in the middle of the painting? I guess it was his way of advertising. hehehe. And in the mirror you can just see himself. Yes, Hopper is one of the best. Wasn’t there a thread where someone asked about his ‘Nighthawks’? Perhaps his most famous one. Though I like ‘gas’ better. **HeyHomie** I remember the Seurat in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’. 🙂 So: We’ve mentioned: Vermeer, van Gogh, Hieronymous [Jeroen] Bosch, van Eyck, Alma Tadema, and MC Escher. If we could do a Rembrandt and a Piet Mondriaan we’d get a nice overview of the Dutch way of painting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-might-be-fun-post-a-link-to-your-favorite-work-of-art/255441.md?page=4)