What Art Would You buy?

[Coach]

If you had unlimited funds, and were to buy a piece of expensive art, what would you buy? BE SPECIFIC
Allowed: Any traditional medium: Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Drawings (animation and cartoons too), Furniture, Theatre, and Film.
Not allowed: Cars, Guns, Architecture, or Performance Art.
I was looking at some paintings today..and oddly enough, I always liked this one:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_023.jpg/774px-Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_023.jpg

[jafter]

I have always loved Dali.


http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/03/moma/art/dali.jpg

[midwestjeff]

The original manuscript of "On the Road."

[SatCam]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Nighthawks.jpg/800px-Nighthawks.jpg

[jauble]

Like jafter I've always been a fan Dali. I've been to the museum in St. Pete a couple of times. One of my favorites is "The Eye" that he did in 1945.

http://www.blog.artthailand.net/wp-content/uploads/Dali_The_Eye_1945.jpg

[Annie Waits]

art garfunkel

[djjd]

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bruegel/icarus.jpg

Bruegel, Pieter
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
c. 1558
Oil on canvas, mounted on wood
73.5 x 112 cm
Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels

[Stankfoot]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/Warhol-campbellsoup.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/Warhol-Brillo-and-Dollar_b.jpg

[djjd]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/stankfoot/Warhol-campbellsoup.jpg

now i'm starving, earl we got any tomato soup back there

[IamPixie]

Only one? Don't make me choose.


http://www.humanitiesweb.org/gallery/28/1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Otto_Dix_Sy_von_Harden.jpg
http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/new_images/judith6.jpg
http://www.mnartists.org/uploads/news/584e7720ac13229b2636bcb0af8ba481/584e7720ac13229b2636bcb0af8ba481.jpg

[Bulldogcakes]

"We have cameras now, we don't need artists anymore"-Ron Bennington

[One Dead Fred]

I'd buy Fred's work at his opening on May 17th! (http://www.lastritesgallery.com/)

[Fallon]

http://i23.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/e1/f8/96cb_1.JPG

Got it!

[smiler grogan]

Wow Pixie, your choices are diverse. From renaissance era to contemporary K. Walkers stuff is really powerful.

Who is the artist of the second painting.

[Badinia]

http://www.munch.museum.no/images/Madonna%20ny.JPGEdvard Munch's Madonna
http://collections.dallasmuseumofart.org/media/full/1950'87.JPG
Jackson Pollock's Cathedral- a piece from the Dallas Museum of Art that I know like the back o' my own hand
http://siteimages.guggenheim.org/gpc_work_large_212.jpg
Joseph Beuys' Lightning with a Stag in its Glare, that we saw in London.

I heart art.

[Caseyelan]

http://www.kozyndan.com/main.php

I only own one piece... but I would LOVE to own everything on this site.

http://www.kozyndan.com/assets/March_illus/GR_28_cover.jpg

Got this


want:

http://www.kozyndan.com/assets/September_2004/tokyo2_panoramic.jpg
http://www.kozyndan.com/assets/Usa_chan.jpg
http://www.kozyndan.com/assets/May2004_illus/small_town_lovers.jpg

[Badinia]

If you had unlimited funds, and were to buy a piece of expensive art, what would you buy? BE SPECIFIC
Allowed: Any traditional medium: Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Drawings (animation and cartoons too), Furniture, Theatre, and Film.
Not allowed: Cars, Guns, Architecture, or Performance Art.
I was looking at some paintings today..and oddly enough, I always liked this one:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_023.jpg/774px-Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_023.jpg

Third of May is awesome, but I'll bet you can get the less famous Second of May for lots cheaper!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Goya_-_Second_of_May_1808.jpg/773px-Goya_-_Second_of_May_1808.jpg

[IamPixie]

Wow Pixie, your choices are diverse. From renaissance era to contemporary K. Walkers stuff is really powerful.

Who is the artist of the second painting.

otto Dix :)

[Sarge]

Anything by Dali.

[Gvac]

Casey's an Asian art fan too? NICE!

As far as classic European paintings, I've always been partial to Boucher.


http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s109/GregRotten/MarieLouiseOMurphy.jpg

[JustJon]

I'd buy Fred's work at his opening on May 17th! (http://www.lastritesgallery.com/)

Will there be an opening/reception?




And my choice:

http://unpopulartruths.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/dogs-playing-poker.jpg





Eitehr that or I've been really into Murakami since seeing his show at the Brooklyn Museum a few weeks ago.

[paracetamol flanders]

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/images/kult_big.jpg

Olafur Eliasson's prism bridge would lead to a room full of

http://www.cranbrookart.edu/museum/images/bertoia/bertoia3e.jpg

Harry Bertoia sound sculpture's collected under a ceiling graced by

http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/images/piano.jpg

Rebecca Horn's exploding and contracting upsidedown kinetic piano sculpture. Flanked on one wall by

http://www.spamula.net/blog/i08/grunewald-thumb.jpeg

Matthias Grunewald's Temptation Of St Anthony, and on another wall by

http://um-buraco-na-sombra.netsigma.pt/fotos/48/MaxErnst-Approachingpuberty1921.jpg

Max Ernst's Puberte Proche and on a third by

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/846/zeppelinivwm2pd6.jpg

There would be no 4th wall (alluding, of course, to Warhol's famous statement on fame) and the whole lot would be housed on a "mystery spot" where gravity felt weird.

[WampusCrandle]

someone already put up "night hawks." i'm a massive fan of Norman Rockwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Hopper, and i actually own a Keith Haring original. if possible, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, saw it and it was breath taking.
http://webexhibits.org/colorart/i/abstract/Jackson-Pollock,-Autumn--01.jpg
Jackson Pollock
http://stillsearching.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/jasper-johns-flag.jpg
by jasper johns
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georges_Seurat_-_Un_dimanche_apr%C3%A8s-midi_%C3%A0_l%27%C3%8Ele_de_la_Grande_Jatte.jpg/400px-Georges_Seurat_-_Un_dimanche_apr%C3%A8s-midi_%C3%A0_l%27%C3%8Ele_de_la_Grande_Jatte.jpg
by Georges-Pierre Seurat
http://thismoneyguide.com/apical/images/balaumoulin.jpg
by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Velazquez-Meninas.jpg/526px-Velazquez-Meninas.jpg
by Diego Velázquez
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Lastjudgement.jpg/476px-Lastjudgement.jpg
by Michelangelo

[badorties]

i'd love any keith haring

but there's something about there two sonic youth album covers that slay me

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/416RZX%2B88OL._SS500_.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Sonic_Nurse.jpg

[Coach]

I also would like The Night Watch by Rembrandt:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/RembrandtNightwatch.jpg/720px-RembrandtNightwatch.jpg
And Three Musicians by Picasso..http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/Picasso_three_musicians_moma_2006.jpg/666px-Picasso_three_musicians_moma_2006.jpg

[Freakshow]

El Greco--he was a surrealist 300 years before anyone else, except maybe Bosch.

http://www.penwith.co.uk/artofeurope/el_greco_view_of_toledo.jpg

Kandinsky

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Kandinsky_WWI.jpg

Man Ray

http://www.moma.org/images/collection/FullSizes/00043074.jpg

And Guernica so I can run it over with a monster truck.

[Ritalin]

http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/2006summer/ISP213H/art/ModernImages/abstractionists/ROTHKO03.JPG
Mark Rothko

http://www.acrstudio.com/projects/word/queeringmoma/Sherman_Untitled.jpg
Cindy Sherman

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1188/807493954_1800f48464_b.jpg
Damien Hurst (you have to see it in person to get the full impact - it's at Lever House on Park Ave.)

[Phil_Nubbs]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Nighthawks.jpg/800px-Nighthawks.jpg

Nighthawks is a great choice, but I'd go for lots of Thomas Kinkade...the "painter of trite".

[epo]

I'll take Chagall's "Flying Carriage".

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1421/939906303_5308578a5e.jpg?v=0

I'll be looking for it by mid-week. Thanks, you guys are the best.

[IamPixie]

someone already put up "night hawks." i'm a massive fan of Norman Rockwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Hopper, and i actually own a Keith Haring original. if possible, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, saw it and it was breath taking.
http://webexhibits.org/colorart/i/abstract/Jackson-Pollock,-Autumn--01.jpg
Jackson Pollock
http://stillsearching.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/jasper-johns-flag.jpg
by jasper johns
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georges_Seurat_-_Un_dimanche_apr%C3%A8s-midi_%C3%A0_l%27%C3%8Ele_de_la_Grande_Jatte.jpg/400px-Georges_Seurat_-_Un_dimanche_apr%C3%A8s-midi_%C3%A0_l%27%C3%8Ele_de_la_Grande_Jatte.jpg
by Georges-Pierre Seurat
http://thismoneyguide.com/apical/images/balaumoulin.jpg
by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Velazquez-Meninas.jpg/526px-Velazquez-Meninas.jpg
by Diego Velázquez
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Lastjudgement.jpg/476px-Lastjudgement.jpg
by Michelangelo


wampus i'm diggin your picks! I saw las meninas at Guggenheim in bilboa. it's fucking HUGE! and speaking of norman rockwell... I definitely want this http://www.sufficientscruples.com/blog/Problem.gif

[BoondockSaint]

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/0bc/ef5/0bcef536-cd2a-4ba1-b487-535695c8ce58

http://gonzostore.com/images/memorialprint_large.jpg

[weekapaugjz]

http://www.vggallery.com/painting/f_0415.jpg

van gogh - seascape at saintes-maries - i stared at this painting for over 20 minutes when i was in amsterdam. i currently have a framed print of in it my place.

[WampusCrandle]

wampus i'm diggin your picks! I saw las meninas at Guggenheim in bilboa. it's fucking HUGE! and speaking of norman rockwell... I definitely want this http://www.sufficientscruples.com/blog/Problem.gif

aw, shucks, pixie. thanks. i really really love art, and, at one point, was going to become an art historian, but realized there aint lots of jobs that i could get. but i still love art.

Here's a list of some artists that i like that i think that you might like:
Antonello da Messina
Sandro Botticelli
Andrea Mantegna, specifically Lamentation over the Dead Christ

i'll edit and add more later!

[Badinia]

I like Pepperjack's and Ritalin's picks!

Luckily, a lot of the others you can get as posters from the local college bookstore. Save your money for some
http://www.cinnamonhearts.com/HamEggs.gif

[Landblast]

Larry Fuente "Game Fish"

<img src="http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t224/pbr_/199161_1a.jpg"width=600>

Here's a link (http://americanart.si.edu/collections/interact/zoom/game_fish.cfm) where you can zoom in on it.

[Chigworthy]

http://drugs.uta.edu/fairy.jpg
Maignan's "The Green Muse"

http://img.blogcu.com/uploads/gorseldil_00.JPG
Anything by Jacek Yerka would be cool, particularly if it has water in it.

http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-10/giger_450.jpg
Maybe overexposed, but I still find Giger's biomechanical stuff to be right out of my daydreams.

[One Dead Fred]

http://drugs.uta.edu/fairy.jpg
Maignan's "The Green Muse"

http://img.blogcu.com/uploads/gorseldil_00.JPG
Anything by Jacek Yerka would be cool, particularly if it has water in it.

http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-10/giger_450.jpg
Maybe overexposed, but I still find Giger's biomechanical stuff to be right out of my daydreams.

Wow, that's really interesting. I like the other ones too. Everyone seems to be in to some nice art.

[JPMNICK]

http://www.poster.net/escher-mc/escher-mc-hand-with-globe-7400026.jpg

http://www.poster.net/escher-mc/escher-mc-bond-of-union-7400018.jpg

http://www.artwallpapers.net/art/mc_escher/03/mc_escher03.jpg

[drjoek]

http://www.thevelvetstore.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/ve038-1.jpg

[Bellyfullasnot]

Original Guy Harvey paintings. I have the t shirts, but I've always wanted an original Marlin or Blue fin tuna.

[RhinoinMN]

Maxfield Parrish.

Daybreak
http://americanart.si.edu/eyelevel/images/parrish.jpg

Dinky Bird
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/0e/260px-Dinkybird.jpg

[Freakshow]

Marco Almera
http://www.gigposters.com/posters/783.jpg
http://www.gigposters.com/posters/795.jpg

http://posterpop.com/images/artists-shows/ma-origs/MA%20Chica%20Peligrosa.jpg