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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    10 days 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
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        10 days 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.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    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.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      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.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
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        11 days ago

        I’m not a huge anime person, but Lain is great. I have it on DVD, even.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    11 days ago

    I love Art, but I am a degreed musician, so I’ll offer one painting, and four musical masterpieces.

    1. Picasso: Guernica - I saw it decades ago, when it was still at MOMA, before it went back to Spain. I was already a fan of great art, but seeing Guernica in person, made me hard-core. I have seen many museums and masterpieces since then, but never had a more visceral response to any other painting.

    2. Beethoven: Symphony #7 - the 9th may be the greatest musical work ever composed, but I love the 7th, a perfect little jewel. I don’t think there is any other musical work that makes me feel such warm affection for it.

    3. Bach, JS: Brandenburg Concertos - Nearly every musical mood is illustrated with possibly the most exquisite sparkling music ever composed.

    4. Pink Floyd: The Wall - IMHO, simply the best composed, performed, and produced rock album of all time. Literally perfect. David Gilmour gives a master class in virtuosic guitar playing, in what is probably the greatest guitar album of all time. It deserves to stand alongside the greatest musical masterpieces of the 20th century, in any genre.

    5. Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Film, 40th Anniversary remastered version) - the greatest live rock album and and film ever produced. Incendiary performances, better than the original studio versions, captured on film by Jonathan Demme. One mesmerizing performance after another.

  • jela@lemmy.today
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    10 days ago

    As you mentioned in your post, it’s almost impossible to pick just 5 favorite singular works… so here are some of the top active artists that I currently adore (in no particular order)

    … this list will probably change by next week

  • noretus@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Top 5 is hard but I’ll give my favorite:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him

    I heard of it the first time in relation to it being a haunted painting. Not that I believed it but the next night, I had a nightmare about it, which is extremely rare for me. It’s so incredibly eerie. I’ve been going back and forth on if I wanted a print of it but I get legitimate fear at the thought. I feel like I’d be inviting something in my home that I shouldn’t. I mean yes, probably just psychology but I’ve experienced some weird things in my life so… I’ll go with my gut and admire it from afar only.

    Besides that, I love Caravaggio.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    Oh man… top five…

    • Building: The Guggenheim museum NYC.

    The building just looks incredible on the outside the the circular gallery is so awesome.

    • Painting: The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

    There is something about the sheer power that painting illustrates.

    • Picture: The Vulture and the Little Girl

    Somebody get that fucking bird away from her

    • Movie

    Jaws

    • Broadway Play

    Hamilton

  • WILSOOON@programming.dev
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    11 days ago
    1. Clair de lune by Debussy, chefs kiss, always calming, perfect for waking up
    2. House of leaves. One of the most confusing books ive ever read.
    3. Beserk by kentaro miura, singlehandedly the greatest manga ive ever read. And i will not spoil it
    4. Noita, by nolla games. 2d finnish wizard pixel art game where every pixel is simulated. Feels like cbt to play through but its absolutely fantastic
    5. Meteora by linkin park, has lived rent free in my head.

    Honourable mentions: Ultrakill, doom eternal, Blame! By tsutomo nihei, bach Brandenburg concerto No. 4, the old testament in the bible, i consider this fiction, fight me, gris, the king in yellow, song of ice and fire,the Antwerp station and anything made by antireal, bach, heaven pierce her, mozart and keygen church

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        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.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        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.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    “Oh, you’re a Beksiński fan? Name five of his works.”

    “Untitled?”

    “That’s on me, I set the bar too low.”

  • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    An impossible question, but some that came to mind.

    The frescos of the Hospicio Cabañas, by José Clemente Orozco

    This statue of the goddess Coatlicue

    Bernini’s David

    John Martin’s destruction of Pompei and pandemonium