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?
Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights
Francis Bacon - Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
Giovanni Boldini - Portrait of Lady Colin Campbell
Antoni Gaudí - Parc Güell
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.
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.
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.