Art that rocks you

[Pua'i Mana'o]

I keep losing on ebay because I won't pay what others will for Mark Ryden's Anima Mundi. That dude is quite the strange bird, but I am drawn to his paintings (it is a warped draw, like Dali). One of these days I am gonna have that book!

Name your favorite artwork.

[sinjin]

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My favorite contemporary painter:

http://www.forumgallery.com/adetail.php?id=207

http://members.tripod.com/assael_gal...paintings.html

http://www.lowegallery.com/steven_assael/

[alohabear]

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Robert Lyn Nelson's "leahi"
Herb Kane's " The Battle of Nu'uanu"

[zztype]

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Maybe less-known to the public, but my friend Linda Fong was well-known here through the 80s and 90s as a fine artist and illustrator.

http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_cafefall01.htm

http://irmeliholmberg.com/Fong/index.html

She works in acrylic, sometimes on three-dimensional layered plywood cutouts. She also did a series in pastel, of which one can be seen in my photos below.

She has done illustrations for many books and publications, including most major Hawaii magazines as well as for major national magazines.

I have several of her originals in my house:

http://alohatown.com/house/

She moved to San Francisco a few years ago. I still keep in touch occasionally by email.

[U'ilani]

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There is not enough time to list all of the artwork that rocks my world. Here are just a few:

Minerva Teichert--Jesus at the Home of Mary & Martha
http://cfac.byu.edu/moa/Shop_at_MOA/...jesus_home.jpg

John Singer Sargent--Madame X
http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Madame_X.htm

Olivia Bennett--[shown here on the Oprah show]
http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/2002...20711_08.jhtml
http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/2002...20711_07.jhtml

I also love sculptures. There was an amazing one that I believe is well known that I saw at the Hirschhorn Museum in D.C. last summer. I think it was a bronze sculpture of 2 women, one holding a bible or a large book of some sort, and she is aiding the other woman. The title had the words liberty and justice in it. Anyone know of that piece and who the artist is? I can't remember.

[cezanne]

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I have on my wall this poster of Picasso's Don Quixote that survived 6 years of unruly dorm life, 8 years of bachelor pad life then 12 years of sheltered tidy married life. This piece by Picasso rocks me to this day.
http://www.artofeurope.com/picasso/pic11.htm

Other masters I like: Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin.

[ahola]

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If you like Cezanne and Gaugin you must visit the Musee D'Orsay in Paris.
Monet and Degas and even Whistler's Mother,which is a huge one,are all there.
Last month I was at the Louvre and may have lucked out as they instituted a new no-picture-taking policy at the Louvre a couple days after I went there and took a gazillion pics of the Mona Lisa,Raft of the Medusa,Virgin of the Rocks,etc.I may have been one of the last people to be able to do so.The second time I was there on my last night,the guards were loudly shouting at all the tourists to put away their cameras and it was funny watching hundreds of tourists from around the world just gazing at the Mona Lisa just dying to snap a photo.
They still allowed picture-taking in the sculptures sections and the Egyptian antiquities section,but it now appears the most popular areas of the Italian and French paintings it is being strictly prohibited as well as in the Louis XV crown jewels room.
My sister was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and her ex-boyfriend was Wim Delvoye from Belgium.He's a conceptual artist who has tattooed pigs and spent over a million dollars and hired engineers to construct a human feces making machine which has toured Europe and America.That ain't real art just real fart.

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/revie...iers1-9-01.asp

[cezanne]

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Ahola... one of these days I'll make it to the Louvre. Lucky person, you.

That article you linked... that's some funny chit (literally).

[jdub]

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i'm going with van gogh on this one...it may be because i know that he was deranged, but the man did what he was born to do, and not many can say that...i did the louvre and orsee, but nothing i saw at either place struck me as firmly as the one original van gogh i've seen...i don't even remember which one it was...

i also saw a marble or maybe alabaster sculpture in the National Museum in DC that made me cry (really)...i don't remember the sculptor's name, and i should, but i do remember roaming alone in that vast repository of brilliance and being overcome by this sculpture...the original da vinci's and other works of great masters didn't make me cry...

but van gogh...my answer is van gogh...