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What Are The Top 5 Most Recognisable Paintings In The World?
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i was reading a bok, and i couldnt visualiseall the ones the character was saying
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Van Gogh is rightly recognised for the Sunflowers and Starry nigh pieces. Possibly ... my favourite of his though is the Café Terrace At Night. The light from the café is sublimely done with the night sky showing the constellations with the paved road highlighted. It also hints at his exclusion from or his loneliness as others socialise. Pathos and beauty in a frame.
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I find it hard to name 5 favourites. I saw a Van Gogh exhibition in New York and just stood there until my daughter tugged me away - he has to be my favourite artist. 'The Potato Eaters' is so heartbreakingly, muddily powerful. Some of the others make me want to weep.
Monet's Series paintings - yes, again I've seen them in exhibition (in London) and they are mind-blowing in size and brilliance.
The one painting I hadn't expected to hit me in the stomach was in the Uffizi, just after its restoration had been completed. It was one I knew from pictures, but they had never conveyed its power.
It was a Michelangelo (more known for his sculptures), The rondo of 'The Holy Family'. It was the sole occupant of the end wall of that gallery (it is big). I was not alone, but with my non-arty sister and equally 'ignorant' younger daughter. I heard them both gasp when they saw it.
So, I knew every painting in your original list, bednobs, and I had to grow up a lot before I could 'feel' and understand 'Guernica'. They are all wonderful, wonderful paintings.
They are probably the most recognisable/amongst the most recognisable paintings in the world. It would be wonderful if people recognised a few more.
P.S. Another favourite of mine is Durer's 'Self-portrait' (1500).
Monet's Series paintings - yes, again I've seen them in exhibition (in London) and they are mind-blowing in size and brilliance.
The one painting I hadn't expected to hit me in the stomach was in the Uffizi, just after its restoration had been completed. It was one I knew from pictures, but they had never conveyed its power.
It was a Michelangelo (more known for his sculptures), The rondo of 'The Holy Family'. It was the sole occupant of the end wall of that gallery (it is big). I was not alone, but with my non-arty sister and equally 'ignorant' younger daughter. I heard them both gasp when they saw it.
So, I knew every painting in your original list, bednobs, and I had to grow up a lot before I could 'feel' and understand 'Guernica'. They are all wonderful, wonderful paintings.
They are probably the most recognisable/amongst the most recognisable paintings in the world. It would be wonderful if people recognised a few more.
P.S. Another favourite of mine is Durer's 'Self-portrait' (1500).
So many great paintings.
I'd like to add to that which has already been said about David Hockney. I was lucky enough to grow-up and live near Saltaire (in fact I worked both in an office and in the kitchens there during school Summer holidays) and remember it well as an operating mill. So, I was acquainted with Jonathan Silver, who turned the mill into a Hockney gallery, and my first husband's cousin (Sandra if, anyone is interested) was at Bradford Art College with him. He was always short of paper and borrowed remorselessly to sketch - he always returned the used paper and she really does wish she'd kept them!
I wasn't too impressed with his earlier work - except for the amazing mix of technology with art - but I am completely bowled over by the work he did whilst based in Bridlington; paintings of the Wolds where I live. His eye pared whole landscapes down. He's doing it now in Brittany.
I have a copy of one that Hockney doesn't like (but I do) which is of the mill at Saltaire. It takes me home.
If you get the chance, go to Saltaire. I just grew up across the river from there and who'd have thought that it would be a world heritage site! The Mill is quite an experience.
I'd like to add to that which has already been said about David Hockney. I was lucky enough to grow-up and live near Saltaire (in fact I worked both in an office and in the kitchens there during school Summer holidays) and remember it well as an operating mill. So, I was acquainted with Jonathan Silver, who turned the mill into a Hockney gallery, and my first husband's cousin (Sandra if, anyone is interested) was at Bradford Art College with him. He was always short of paper and borrowed remorselessly to sketch - he always returned the used paper and she really does wish she'd kept them!
I wasn't too impressed with his earlier work - except for the amazing mix of technology with art - but I am completely bowled over by the work he did whilst based in Bridlington; paintings of the Wolds where I live. His eye pared whole landscapes down. He's doing it now in Brittany.
I have a copy of one that Hockney doesn't like (but I do) which is of the mill at Saltaire. It takes me home.
If you get the chance, go to Saltaire. I just grew up across the river from there and who'd have thought that it would be a world heritage site! The Mill is quite an experience.
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