I’m partly curious as to what people’s favourite works of art are, and I’m partly hoping to discover something new. All art is welcome. Music, painting, sculpture, architecture, performance, video, litterature, plays etc. Everything goes!
While impossible to make a definitive personal list, my best attempt at a top 5 that live in my head rent free at the moment is:
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Danse Sacrée by Victor Ségoffin in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
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Wheat Field with Cypresses at the Haute Galline Near Eygalieres by Van Gogh
What are your top 5?
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Maybe not the top five, but five top-tier pieces I can name right now:
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Milton Horn’s sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake
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The Carbon & Carbide Building
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Philip K. Dick’s novella Galactic Pot-Healer
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Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith”
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The Magnetic Fields’ song “If You Don’t Cry”
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“Oh, you’re a Beksiński fan? Name five of his works.”
“Untitled?”
“That’s on me, I set the bar too low.”
Oh cool find. I love his work and never knew about him. Thanks!
- Music: Hoagy Carmichael - Ole Buttermilk Sky (1953, 1946)
- Manga: Osamu Tezuka - The Ant and the Giant (1961-1962)
- Light Novel: 激辛寝具 - TSアル中悪役令嬢は破滅を御所望です (2021)
- Game: Nintendo - Splatoon 2 (2017)
- Animation: Aardman - The Coconnut - Shaun the Sheep Season 3 (2012)
Poem - Robert Frost - Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Short story - Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron
Movie - Life is Beautiful (do not watch this if you don’t want to cry)
Book - Carl Sagan - Contact (it’s much better than the movie)
Anime - Serial Experiments Lain
Honorable mention, Paper Tole - an ocean scene my grandmother did when I was a boy. She has written my name on the back of it for when she passes away. It’s the only thing I want. I hope I don’t get it soon, but she’s not young anymore.
I am familiar with all of these except the anime edit: and grandma’s stuff. I am an anime manga fan and consider Akira and Appleseed among several others to be high art. Thanks for the contribution.
I like a lot of Marc Davis’ work.
In particular
Visual arts:
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‘Happy Person Having a Pleasant Conversation in Public’ by Randy Ortiz
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Jackson Pollock’s ‘One: Number 31, 1950’
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works by Aidan Hughes aka ‘Brute!’, namely his album covers for KMFDM and in particular ‘Split’
Music:
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nearly everything by Mamaleek: try the albums ‘Diner Coffee’ and ‘Vida Blue’ (gotta note that I have no idea what the lyrics are, but what I deciphered of their other songs is somewhat abstract, so eh)
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Last Exit at Deutsches Jazzfestival, Frankfurt, 1986 (with my favorite musician: bassist and producer Bill Laswell)
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Nurse With Wound’s ‘Homotopy To Marie’
For performance, perhaps Meredith Monk’s ‘Turtle Dreams’, shot by Ping Chong. But I’m not an aficionado of the form.
Hey man, I said top FIVE. You’re cheating! ;) Kidding, of course. Thanks
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I remember this. Lovely.
An impossible task!
Minoan snake goddess figurines
Don’t bite the sun by Tanith Lee
https://youtu.be/rWqQ9uwqQxk Lullaby Loreena McKennitt
Resident Evil 4
Danae by Klimt
Bit of a titty theme in there. The minoans knew what they were doing. Why RE4 in particular?
The Wii mechanics are fantastic. It’s to me a perfect balance of offrails without total free world which I’ve discovered I hate. It managed to genuinely scare me. And you get to kill Ashley so many ways 😺
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Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Francis Bacon - Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
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Giovanni Boldini - Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell
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Antoni Gaudí - Parc Güell
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Vincent van Gogh - Café Terrace at Night
#1 was in my top 10 and Bosch’s Death and the Miser are top 25. Fantastic choices.
I’m grateful for #4 as this is completely new to me. I am going to sit on this one for a while. Thanks for sharing.
I spent 2.5hrs at the Prado, drinking in The Garden of Earthly Delights, I love this work.
Strolling around the playful work that is Parc Güell, is just a delight.
I’ll never forget seeing the portait of Gertrude Blood in the National Portrait Gallery. Finding out later, that she went up against the Victorian state, in her divorce case, added to my appreciation of this painting.
And a good top choice of Danse sacrée.
I’m pretty sure that is another one that stopped me in my tracks at D’Orsay. At the end of one side of the Terrasse des Sculptures. Exceptional carving work.
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