Favorite Art?

[Tragic]

I know nothing about art. I mean, nothing. Well, other than that I don't really care for Warhol (or however you spell it). I'd love to learn a little though and having a nice piece of art or two for my room would be cool (prints obviously). Anyone have any favorite artists or favorite pieces of art?

[YellerDog]

I find that most people who "don't care for Warhol" really don't understand what he was doing. It's a lot more fun to read up on him and hate him for real.

Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic (1875) is one of my favorite all time paintings, just to start the ball rolling. It's freaky.

[Tragic]

I find that most people who "don't care for Warhol" really don't understand what he was doing. It's a lot more fun to read up on him and hate him for real.

I don't want to derail this into a Warhol discussion already but, I think I do understand what he was doing, post-modernism and all that. It isn't so much that I don't care for it as I'm just sick of it. It's all people my age ever seem to talk about art wise.

Checked out The Gross Clinic (1875), pretty creepy stuff.

[Klonoa]

Warhol was a wierd motherfucker. that's all you need to know about him.

[Revoltor]

Keith Haring looks good on any wall.

[M]

Salvador Dali (morbid, strange figures in landscapes), M.C. Esher (oo spelled right? impossible, tesselations, black and white), and that surealist but not surealist french dude.. m something. People in hats, this is not a pipe, etc.

edit. Thank you google. Name of Magritte (striking realism with that hint of weird) and Gustav Klimt. (I like his style alot. plays with color and texture in his paintings, moves the eye alot, topless women with cold faces and odd hair)

[MechDeus]

Black on Black. It's a piece of black wood on top of another piece of black wood. Part of a sixteen (IIRC) piece exhibit which is nothing but blocks of wood painted a specific color on top of other blocks of wood painted the same color. AFAIK it's still on display on the lower level of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Sarcasm aside, there was a great painting I saw of a dead angel in water with her halo floating above her head but damned if I can remember the artist or the title (not much help, I know). A couple others I've also been meaning to get prints of but I always forget the name by the time I get home. Escher is fantastic but I've been subjected to way too much of him throughout my entire time at school and I've grown rather sick of seeing his stuff.

[Sweet Daddy K]

Try checking out Baroque stuff. It doesn’t get as much attention as the Renaissance period before it or the impressionists that came after. My favorites from this era are El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) & Caravaggio


El Greco - Guy in Robes Looking at a Light . Caravaggio - Young Walken Preparing for his Role as Headless Horseman

browse through http://www.wga.hu/ they have loads of paintings...

[Revoltor]

You could also just settle for the classics:
Dogs playing poker
Crying Clown
Crying anything
Both of the above preferably painted on black velvet. (RAWR!)

[Sweet Daddy K]

! don't forget The Velvet King