What would be your favourite artworks then?

[LastAstronaut]

I’ve been through a lot of these, and while some are OK, a LOT of you need to get a LOT better at appraising art, please.

So to quote the OP, What would your favourite artworks be then?

[BodyInTheThames]

Tulio Crali’s ‘Nosedive into the heart of the City’ has been a favourite of mine ever since I saw it in the ‘Art & Power’ exhibition at the Hayward way back in the mid 90s

the real thing is huge and takes up an entire wall - it’s (literally) awesome

big fan of his Italian Futurist style

[ninetyeightytwo]

Yeah, love the LOOK of futurism, but not the whole glorifying war aspect. That the First World War hadn’t happened yet is no excuse.

[foppyish]

That’s why I quite like this

[BodyInTheThames]

well yeah, there is the Fascist association and Crali was mainly painting during WWII and after (he lived 1929-2000)

but for me it really sums up the fetishisation & seduction of speed & technology with the nightmare shadow of destruction

Crali’s best paintings always seem to be ambiguous about whether the viewer/protaganist is about to unleash death or whether they’re about to be blown to smithereens themselves- I really like that drama and tension

I have this one - ‘Before the parachute opens’ - as my screensaver

[BodyInTheThames]

sorry - 1910 - 2000

[ninetyeightytwo]

They’re undeniably stunning. And as Xylo’s issues with Lowry prove, you can strip art from intention and interpret them from your own perspective.

[ericthefourth]

Not sure jelly babies packaging counts as ‘art’

[andyvine]

tea stain > damian hirst’s dot paintings > biscuit thing > all other damian hirst

[Raanraals]

Sorry, can’t imagine that.

[silentcommand]

[andyvine]

Just remembered I’ve got a compilation album somewhere with that tea stain as the artwork. Iirc it’s a compilation of 50 tracks that are all about a minute long. I’ll see if I can find it @aboynamedgoo

[shrewbie]

Best thing I’ve seen recently is a load of Saul Leiter photos

[shinymcshine]

I have that. But despite being a medium, it is distressingly snug. Makes my tits look amazing though.

[sarahispi]

Romaine Brooks is a firm favourite of mine. She started off painting things like this:

but eventually she became too ill with her mental illness and could only draw line drawings like this

I think I might get that as a tattoo

[Cervantes]

That’s pretty amazing. As striking and proficient as the earlier work is, the other is is just imagination untamed. The trade off in nuance is kinda worth it! I really like schizophrenic art - it becomes more and more obsessively geometric until there’s a total degradation of ability.

[andyvine]

Slightly different, turns out.

[Cervantes]

Ivan Albright! Humanity is so grotesque!

[wasted]

was pretty blown away when I saw Mucha’s Slav epic - the sheer scale of these paintings is overwhelming:

[shrewbie]

actually it might’ve been that Lili Orszag thing in budapest
huge range of styles and then loads of this stuff in a maze type arrangement at the end:

really like them all individually and the effect of them all together blew me clean over