FabSwingers.com forum: What is your favourite painting or sculpture?

By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

Time for some culture!

As it’s almost impossible to only have one favourite, you can name a few.

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

'Double Dorsal Doppelgänger One'

- John Squire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’ve never been

But the Sistine Chapel

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

The Kiss by Rodin

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

'Slave Labour' - Banksy

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By *andyMinx_tvTV/TS
over a year ago

Leeds

Garden Path at Giverny - Claude Monet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cloud study. Constable

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh

I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos.

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By *arkb73Man
over a year ago

Cheshire/Staffs

La Pieta by Michaelagelo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

LS Lowery - matchstick men

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

David - Michelangelo too

Again another one to see in real life. It’s huge.

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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago

from Home Counties to Middle Earth

I'm a John Waterhouse fan; Lady of Shalott is one of mine, though I'm probably more associating with Pandora right now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our daughter is a young aspiring artist her work is so good. She did a copy of a Japanese picture called The Wave,love Jap history so would say that’s my fav picture.

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

"I'm a John Waterhouse fan; Lady of Shalott is one of mine, though I'm probably more associating with Pandora right now"

That always reminds me of Anne of Green Gables.

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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago

from Home Counties to Middle Earth

"Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh

I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos. "

I could lose myself for days in the Museé D’Orsay!

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

"Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh

I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos.

I could lose myself for days in the Museé D’Orsay!"

It’s an amazing place isn’t it! The impressionist gallery especially.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a big Jack Vettriano fan

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Courtyard of the old residency in Munich"..

I can't remember the artist.

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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago

from Home Counties to Middle Earth

"Starry Night Over the Rhone - Van Gogh

I wasn’t a massive Van Gogh fan until I saw some of his originals in the Museé D’Orsay. The colours are so incredibly vibrant in real life, so different to photos.

I could lose myself for days in the Museé D’Orsay!

It’s an amazing place isn’t it! The impressionist gallery especially. "

I agree, I wasn't a fan either but have new found respect having seen the paintings for real. Mesmerising.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rock drill Jacob Epstein's. Absolutely love this piece

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

‘Tommy’ at Seaham Harbour.

Awesome piece close up.

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By *eplicant JoWoman
over a year ago

Sussex countryside

The Accolade by Edmund Leighton

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By *arkb73Man
over a year ago

Cheshire/Staffs

"David - Michelangelo too

Again another one to see in real life. It’s huge. "

It really is and is worth seeing - incredible

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By *ikerdude2017Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

Melting clocks. By Salvador dali

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Da Vinci's Last Supper

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The statue a David is kind of perfect

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By *rReyMan
over a year ago

Fleet

Ze fallen Madonna wiv ze big boobies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guernica by Picasso or Summertime by Jackson Pollock both for different reasons so sort of joint favourites

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By *terobs6869Man
over a year ago

Llandudno

Another vote for David.

When you see it in real life it's stunning.

Especially the way Michaelangelo changed the proportions of the body, knowing that it would be viewed from below.

I might be slightly off topic here, but if we are considering man made beauty, can I also throw in the vaulted roof of King's College and the Supermarine Spitfire?

I personally consider the latter to be the single most beautiful object ever created.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"I'm a big Jack Vettriano fan "

We like him

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

"LS Lowery - matchstick men"

Haha when my son was 7 they were taken to the local gallery to look at the Lowry’s and had to write a critique. We still have his art book now. It says “ I don’t like this, it sucks the soul out of me”

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You OP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jackson pollocks teen bedroom

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Various cave paintings. The ones in Bulgaria, Magura cave are great.

A portrait of Bess of Hardwick painted in 1592 by Rowland Lockey. You can look in to that woman's eyes and see her character.

A pastel landscape we got in a charity shop that just shows a telegraph pole and building

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By *MP3Man
over a year ago

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Monet - San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The ukiyo-e "The Great Wave" by Hokusai. But been Italian, I could name thousands from my own country...Da Vinci's Monalisa and Botticelli's Venus, but I love nearly everything from them. Michelangelo's David is just, wow. And thousands more lol

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Monet’s sunrise paintings especially the London one

Leonid Afremov just for the colour vibrancy

Salvador Dali as you need to look past what your eyes initially see to observe the other images that make the piece work

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The girl with a pearl earring, Vermeer... Always loved the picture and now love the book too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Salvador Dali: Crucifixion

on display at The Met in New York

it blew me away

I stood for a good hour, literally tranfixed by it

No other artwork has ever had that effect on me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is one hanging up in my bedroom. Given to me be my friend who is an artist. It's almost a combination of painting and sculpture as she uses texture a great deal in her art.

It's a crashing, barreling, tumultuous wave. One you could just about surf.

I hope she's reading. Thankyou, I still love it X

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Not sure who made it but there's a great piece of rock art/sculpture outside Terminal 3 at Cairo airport

Basic but cool.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do love poster art though, especially Russian stuff

I have a coffee table book of Russian Propoganda poster art by Koretsky

I also have a book of Nazi propoganda posters

The imagery is too strong to ignore

The messages more so

They both fascinate me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hell by The Chapman Brothers

Also love Van Gogh but I think that's as much his story as it is any individual piece of art

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd also like to own a Grayson Perry original

It's not so much the pieces, it's the thoughts behind them, the stories, the concepts

I know he's lauded by The Glitterati now and has almost become a mainstream oddity, but I do like him

I went to one of his live shows earlier in the year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love anything by Van Gogh.

And I appreciate architecture.

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Jack Vettriano - Game On

Monet - Waterlillies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My favourite style of art is Comic/GraphicNovel/Manga/Anime. Worth very little in comparison to some of the shit I see selling for silly money.

Its subjective though, I guess. I find art appreciates in value to me, the better connected I am to the person who made it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My favourite style of art is Comic/GraphicNovel/Manga/Anime. Worth very little in comparison to some of the shit I see selling for silly money.

Its subjective though, I guess. I find art appreciates in value to me, the better connected I am to the person who made it."

And I could not agree more...

Studio Ghibli for president lol

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By *agenta400Woman
over a year ago

All over the shop

Any sculpture by Dale Chiluly. Going to Kew to see more soon. Stunning.

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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago

from Home Counties to Middle Earth

"Monet - San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk"

Love sunsets. And Monet.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

It's impossible to select one artist.

I'll use Keli Williams and leave you to choose between Wet Bar and Oviporous.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'd also like to own a Grayson Perry original

It's not so much the pieces, it's the thoughts behind them, the stories, the concepts

I know he's lauded by The Glitterati now and has almost become a mainstream oddity, but I do like him

I went to one of his live shows earlier in the year

Back when mountain biking was in its infancy and Grayson Perry was unknown he used to race mountain bikes and donate some of his work as prizes. I'm lead to believe most people were non to keen on winning his painted pots and think most subsequently got gave away or binned!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'd also like to own a Grayson Perry original

It's not so much the pieces, it's the thoughts behind them, the stories, the concepts

I know he's lauded by The Glitterati now and has almost become a mainstream oddity, but I do like him

I went to one of his live shows earlier in the year

They are worth thousands, if not hundreds of thousands these days

They'll be crying into their £8 Dunelm vases now

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

"Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights."

I love this Meli snd not sure which panel I’d choose as my favourite. It varies depending on my mood. I did have it as my last phone cover. My current one is Circe Invidiosa by John William Waterhouse. Not my usual go to pre raphaelite artist, that would be Edward Burn Jones, but I do love this piece.

Modern art is another of my favs. Love Hockneys and the Tate exhibition was an amazing insight into his life.

Iliya snd Emilia Kabakov have done some amazing pieces. Bill Viola I always find moving.

And Henry Moores sculptures are just so inviting I always want to touch.

That’s my take. But it does change

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I must be very old-fashioned, I consider for example any Constable painting art,

but not an unmade bed

or a pile of bricks.just my opinion.

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

I also love the work of Andy Goldsworthy. Most of his work is very temporary Sculpture made with natural materials, although he does some more permanent work in stone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like Botero’s sculptures in general

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By *ink Panther 123Man
over a year ago

Colnbrook

Georges Seurat "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

What I like in general doesn’t really change but my favourites always do.

I’m always fascinated when I’m at a gallery by the size and the effort. The strokes the texture. I’m no critic and absolutely shit at any kind of artwork myself, which is possibly why I’m so fascinated. I remember standing looking at Rembrandt’s Nightwatch in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shortly after watching a programme about the artists apprentice. Being absolutely blown away at the size of the painting and the thought of someone making the paint by hand. Getting the colours just right and when it ran out, having to make more, grinding down the ingredients to get the exact shade.

Anyway I ramble, very unsexy I know

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

I have a soft spot for Degas Little Dancer sculpture. I have a small replica of it and managed to get to see one of the real ones (there are several) at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool when I was there to see the Gustav Klimt exhibition.

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

I have also recently discovered the amazing sculptures of Ron Mueck which have to be seen up close to be believed they are so life like it’s spooky apart from they are either smaller or larger than life size

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

"What I like in general doesn’t really change but my favourites always do.

Anyway I ramble, very unsexy I know

I agree, it’s only when you go to a museum or gallery and see them that you really appreciate the size.

And it’s very sexy!

Btw, it’s not quite the same as going in person but have you seen the Google Art Project?

It uses the same technology as google street view and allows you to virtually wander round some of the worlds best museums and galleries. I have spent a few hours exploring it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My all time favourite painting is The Night Watch by Rembrandt. It's in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It's absolutely enormous and took 3 years to complete. It completely blew me away.

The Mona Lisa, however, I found disappointing.

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

I’m enjoying looking up many of the things mentioned above. It’s been great to see or be reminded of some great art.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

My father and my sister’s artwork.

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

"What I like in general doesn’t really change but my favourites always do.

Anyway I ramble, very unsexy I know

I agree, it’s only when you go to a museum or gallery and see them that you really appreciate the size.

And it’s very sexy!

Btw, it’s not quite the same as going in person but have you seen the Google Art Project?

It uses the same technology as google street view and allows you to virtually wander round some of the worlds best museums and galleries. I have spent a few hours exploring it. "

I haven’t, I shall check it out. I do try to go to London at least a couple of times a year for exhibitions at the Tates at Royal Academy. I try and time myself so there’s something I want to see at them all. Portrait gallery isn’t my thing. I can’t be doing with pictures of chubby kids or horses and that place is full of them

I did go to the renaissance exhibition at the RA and it made me realise most of them geezers had never really seen a naked woman at all had they? They just got their mates to lie in different poses for them and made it up. So many of those paintings are shit! Anyone it seems could get a job as a painter back in the day. Check out the perspective on some of them. I think even I could manage better. I’ll get the exhibition book out and PM you some to check out

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Anything by Tudor painter Hans Holbein.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Fayum mummy portraits.

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

I’ve thought of another one I really like.

Marc Chagall’s stained glass.

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By *uttyjonnMan
over a year ago

SEA

I know it's overdone but I like Chinese Girl by Vladimir Tretchikoff

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I do like a nice Gainsborough.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I have 2, the Arnolfini wedding by Van Eyck and the milk maid by Vermeer. There was a still life by someone in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam that was so detailed the closer I got the more I saw. I almost fell into that painting.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"My all time favourite painting is The Night Watch by Rembrandt. It's in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It's absolutely enormous and took 3 years to complete. It completely blew me away.

The Mona Lisa, however, I found disappointing. "

The night watch is incredible.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What a lovely thread OP!

Living in the Sculpture Triangle - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Henry Moore Institute and the Hepworth Gallery we're richly served.

Jonathan Yeo's celebrity portraits are stunning, saw them at the Lowry a few years ago. Luminous, especially the Maxine Peake.

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By *Vine OP Man
over a year ago

The right place

"What a lovely thread OP!

Living in the Sculpture Triangle - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Henry Moore Institute and the Hepworth Gallery we're richly served.

Jonathan Yeo's celebrity portraits are stunning, saw them at the Lowry a few years ago. Luminous, especially the Maxine Peake.

I visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the first time a couple of months ago. It was actually with a friend from fab. It’s a great place. I really enjoyed it.

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By *uenevereWoman
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I like all sorts of art, so I couldn't choose one favourite.

Though I do particularly like the pre-Raphaelite artists and Barbara Hepworths sculpture. The Babara Hepworth sculpture garden in St Ives is wonderful.

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By *ust ClareTV/TS
over a year ago

Settlewick!

The Scream-Munch

Garden of Earthly Delights-Bosch

American Gothic-Grant Wood

Tilled Field-Joan Miró

Debbie Harry by Andy Warhol

Reproduction Prohibited-Magritte

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