What, in your opinion, is...
 

...the painting that best represents "art"?

crapola! That is like asking a mother what child she loves best!

Gonna have to think on this one:spin::dizzy::spin:

I do like to make people think.

Thinking is very sexy!!

Best represents Art/most notorious? or that I think should represent Art?

Off the top of my head, Guernica by Picasso comes to mind. Of course, there are other painters of other eras who have created incredible work but staring at that painting really affected me.

PBS has also called it modern art's most powerful anti-war statement.

C.M. Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker, to me, powerfully represents man's internal struggle between his true form and how he's expected to appear.

I wish I could post pics of my work, but photos of paintings don't show much once scanned.

Art is what each individual wants it to be. Tastes are varied. My favorite representation of art is a still life painting at The Huntington Library in California. It's called "Still Life with Flowers and Bird's Nest". The painter was Severin Roesen (1815-1871). The painters that can capture a moment in nature, (sans human beings), to me, represent the best of art.

I'll get back with you after watching Sister Wendy.

Don't know that I would name any "one" painting that represents Art as such....... there are so many I like! But, if pushed, almost ANYTHING by Salvador Dali would qualify. For me, his paintings work (and affecg me) on so MANY levels...... each to their own though, eh?

DM

Anything done in Crayola



hehehehe

Sister Wendy, eh? Funny. I don't think I'd look very well in a wimper.

The Monarch of The Glen

Actually, I thought lakritze' answer was funny. :) My sentence construction was rather poor. Oops?

the art work formed by a group of profoundly handicaped kids that was used in the wedding stationary of one of my workmates~~~~~~~~~~~nothing in the art world has or in my view will surpass this for the sheer beauty and simplicity of their joint design.

No takers for the Mona Lisa?

that is not my ideal but I think it is what springs to mind for many

and/or the statue of David

This just, validates the theory,that great minds,DO think alike!
Before reading over this thread,I had the same"wiseass"awnser,
as WI. Irish

Must be in the nick ;)

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If we are not restricted to paintings, I have to say I find some sculpture to be interesting.
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I, personally, am inspired more by bronzes than other areas of classical art
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Just off hand, I would have to say maybe something by Rodan could catch my attention.
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I enjoyed Rodin's "Burghers of Calais" when they came through Las Vegas. I think the "Thought" carving of his lover's head is interesting, too.

As a few people have said, there are soo many pieces of art - it is difficult to pick one or several and say these represent "Art".

Myself, I have always been partial to the Impressionists, particularly Renoir. His paintings speak to me in a way that many others do not.

If we are not being limited to paintings but 3 dimensional art - I also like Calder mobiles - they are very interesting.

I greatly admire the skill and technique in Reinessance and baroque type paintings. Especially when they portray a mythological theme from Greek or Christian mythology.

I am on a holy quest to collect lithogrpahs of the few paintings with Eris (Greek Goddess of Chaos) and them and have them in my home.

My computer wallpaper right now is The Judgment of Paris by Joachim Wtewael. In the forgoround it portrays Paris holding the infamous beauty contest between Aphrodite, Hera and Athena and Eris, the snubbed goddess who started all this bickering with her golden apple is in the backgorund brandishing her apple of discord.

Of course for mindfuck value M.C. Escher and pictures of fractals are really great!