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:

  1. Danse Sacrée by Victor Ségoffin in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

  2. Wheat Field with Cypresses at the Haute Galline Near Eygalieres by Van Gogh

  3. The Jack Pine by Tom Thompson (Group of Seven)

  4. The G’psgolox totem pole.

  5. The Meenakshi Temple, Tamil Nadu, India.

What are your top 5?

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
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    3 hours ago

    Hmm, so much to choose from and so much I don’t even know about…

    Visually, Beksinski has been one of the few that really triggers a resonance somewhere inside me.

    The works of Jim Henson are also amazing, though I don’t know how one would ever categorize them. Part writing, part performance, part musical, part sculptural, part visual, and yet still other elements.

    There’s a great deal of very good music as well, but one of the few where the music felt like ‘art,’ in a way I have some difficulty expressing, is Lorn. Something about it has a sense that it’s trying to say something in a language I feel like I’m supposed to understand, and almost can, but only almost.

      • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        It’s a link to the album, so I’m not sure which song you mean, but I know one of his tracks was used for a game trailer at one point.

        A search shows ‘His music has been used in a number of video games, movies and TV shows, including CSI, Love, Death & Robots, Silicon Valley, Furi, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Sleeping Dogs’ via wikipedia, and full OSTs for Killzone: Shadowfall and the movie Black Swan, which I hadn’t seen but now think I will have to.