Spookymuffin said:

someday i'm going to see all the pieces i love

evenstar3 said:

how many times have I heard that one...

Spookymuffin said:

The latest artist that caught my attention was Tenmyouya Hisashi:



















I love the way he uses traditional techniques to create ultra-modern images. The clash - or union, if you will - of the old and the new is Japan in a nutshell.

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applekisses said:

Me three. I have quite a few Giger books actually.

I love Gaugin!

jone70 said:

i remember seeing the whole collection at a gallery in Ottawa, Ontario back in September... something about it i just loved, when i saw them i was like "YES!"

applekisses said:

I like the 'Little Boy Blue' one

applekisses said:

My boyfriend loves his stuff too. It looks high tech and organic at the same time.

I love love LOVE John Singer Sargent! I did a project in college based on a couple of his paintings. I was very captivated by the portrait of this girl from Capri. I love how he captured her expression.







Andrew Wyeth is another painter I admire. His paintings tell such vivid stories. Christina's World is the one most people recognize. Christina could not walk, so the only way for her to explore her farm was to drag herself along using her arms.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

I like cheese.

Here's another of my favorite photos, this time by Lois Greenfield.

http://www.di-maccio.com/...hp?lang=en

UCantHavaDaMango said:

That's why he calls those particular paintings "biomechanoids".

I'm also a fan of Frida.



This one is so painful and sad, but I can't help staring at it. It's so honest.

mc escher






chuck close


hopper

Takashi Murakami (村上 隆 Murakami Takashi, born February 1, 1962) is a Japanese artist. He studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He is the founder of the Superflat movement, a postmodern art style influenced by anime and manga which comments on otaku culture and lifestyles. His inspiration for starting the movement was in a variety of eccentric Ukiyo-e artists and Yoshinori Kanada's dragon sequence in the anime film Harmagedon (1983).

His signature and most infamous works are "Hiropon" and "My Lonesome Cowboy". "Hiropon" is a fiberglass sculpture of an anime-style female, taller than average, with gigantic breasts and wearing an undersized bikini top which fails to cover her adequately. A stream of milk, which she is squeezing from one of her nipples, wraps behind her to into her other nipple being squeezed by her other hand, resembling a jump-rope. "My Lonesome Cowboy" is a similar of a nude male holding his penis as he ejaculates a stream of semen which he guides with his other hand to swirl upward, resembling a lasso. "Hiropon" prompted Gainax producer Toshio Okada to dub Murakami the "Ota-king" after the character in his own Otaku no Video. Both pieces of work are said to be a comment on the rate of overly-sexed anime.

Murakami typically conscripts artisans whose backgrounds run closer to model and kit-based hobbyists rather than fine-arts craftsmen to design and execute his works. Another "low-art" aspect of Murakami's oeuvre is the decidedly commercial spirit in which his works are presented to the public, as his pieces are sold as mass-produced consumer items.

In 2004, "Mr. Pointy," otherwise known as Tongari-kun, took the form of a 28' sculpture installed at Rockefeller Center in New York.

In 2003 he collaborated with Marc Jacobs at the luxury brand Louis Vuitton and masterminded Louis Vuitton's Monogram Multicolore canvas range of handbags and accessories. Which is the monograms of the standard Louis Vuitton Monogram Canvas, but in 33 different colors, on a white or a black background, instead of gold monograms on a brown background. As well as inspiring the "cherry blossom" logo; which can be found as smiling faces in pink and yellow flowers sporadically placed atop selected pieces, in Monogram Canvas by Louis Vuitton. In 2005 he inspired the creation of the cherry monogram "cerises monogram". Which are cherries with faces on them logos placed over selected Monogram Canvas pieces by Louis Vuitton

MarySharon said:

Tori!

Chuck Close is awesome!

UCantHavaDaMango said:

I loved this painting when I first saw it in art history class. But once I found out Christina couldn't walk it ruined the painting for me for some reason. I think in my mind it was more "romantic" that she was in the field looking towards the house lovingly. With the knowledge that she is crippled, the painting becomes more sinister. How did she get there? Why isn't there anyone helping her? Does anyone even live in the house? (And notice the birds/bats flying out of the barn.)



The actual painting is at the MoMA and even when I see it in person it makes me sad now.

I love it because its not a pipe.

LleeLlee said:

C'est quoi, alors?

retina said:

C'est une peinture d'une pipe.





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may be boring, but I love this painting

jone70 said:

Vraiment? Je serais dit que c'est un peu plus que ca. Evidemment, c'est un peinture d'un objet qui veut devenir quelque chose sexuelle; quelque chose pour la chambre secret de LleeLlee où personne ne peut aller... Elle est un peut étrange, tu sais, et le peinture est certainment un message pour tous dans l'org. Elle veut expliquer qui elle est en verité...une femme sans aucun inhibition!

Pardon my French. Oh la la...

Okay this is the multi-media/female edition:

Jenny Holzer's Truisms...these are usually installed on scrolling LED marquees:


or projected on buildings:


A video by Iranian artist, Shirin Neshat called Turbulent.
Here is a synopsis of the video:




And Cindy Sherman as Bacchus for evenstar3 & HereToRockYour World: