Post a piece of artwork you like & tell me why you like it

[stellabelle]

Starry Night.
I've always loved this painting and it just reasons with me. I especially love that he includes the moon in the corner, which has always been one of my favorite things. Van Gogh also had a lifelong struggle with mental illness, which I feel a lot of us can relate to. Overall I think it's a beautiful painting, it brings me peace and relaxes my mind.

 

[stellabelle]

Not anything sophisticated, but...

I'm very fond of this one in particular! It's been imbued with a lot of positive memories. I bought the 1000-piece puzzle on a whim while I was walking around downtown with my ex-girlfriend, I think we were there to see the New Year's fireworks display a year or two ago.

I remember working on it alone at first and I struggled a great deal with it... gradually, everyone I knew started working on it with me. My friends would come over just to work on it. My dad and brother would help on occasion and would ask how it was coming along daily. I even remember how ceremonious it was to fit the last piece in with my friends, brother, and ex-girlfriend.

I have the puzzle framed in my room. It brings out positive feelings still, but mostly regret nowadays

Anyway, it's called "Pooh's Afternoon Nap"

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I love these Disney art puzzles, they're so gorgeous. I had one that I was working on alone, and nobody would help me with it. Eventually I think it was thrown out :[ I'd like to find another one, especially because I really love Disney. Excellent choice.

 

[Jupiter]

I like Expressionist Franz Marc. The paintings are powerful.

The Fox:


The Tower of Blue Horses:

 

[therhydler]

Thanks so much to everyone who's shared something. Anyone else? :)

 

[crova]

I used to contemplate and enjoy art more in my better years. I had many favorite pieces and artists.
But If I had to chose just one, the one I've carried through my life it would be Lascaux cave painting
I saw first time when I was very young; and it's still with me:

 

[Burbank]

I really adore Lucas David's work. He's a young Mexican artist, who paints celebrities. His style is really unique and recognizable. I've taken a lot of inspiration for my own work from him. Apparently even Courtney Love bought some of his work and he has made made work for various other Musicians ( Kim Petras, Alice Glass etc). My profile pic is actually one of his works.

here's his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucasbavid/?hl=en

 

[CJM]

I just wish I could draw to be honest. Stick figures? Easy. Anything else? Let's not get carried away!

I guess it's practice but also some people just get it.

 

[azucaramargo]

I like the body positivity in Botero's art. I also like his subjects' short, round, distinctive statures. And, finally, I am fascinated by how he captures the behinds of people with less-than-Grecian physiques. SO accurate. Also my younger sister, from whom I'm now estranged, used to have this print framed and hanging above her toilet, which -- in my unartistic mind seemed infinitely clever & creative.

 

[Chlo]

Grief - Miles Johnston (2017)

Pretty self explanatory, a really cool representation of what if feels like to lose someone.



Le Lit/The Bed - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1892)

It's just a sweet painting of two lovers with a rather heartbreaking twist when you learn it's by an artist who suffered with many different disabilities, and because of them developed fatal alcoholism, only finding companionship and acceptance in affairs with sex workers. My facts may be wrong, but that's what I've read.

 

[Hopeless_soul]

Manet. Le Suicidé.

 

[NoOneKnows]

I really adore Lucas David's work. He's a young Mexican artist, who paints celebrities. His style is really unique and recognizable. I've taken a lot of inspiration for my own work from him. Apparently even Courtney Love bought some of his work and he has made made work for various other Musicians ( Kim Petras, Alice Glass etc). My profile pic is actually one of his works.

here's his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucasbavid/?hl=en

Love this, had to google him to see more .Thank you for sharing it <3

 

[anelakapu]

Its called Ghost by Hu Jun Di. I saw this at a gallery in sedona on my way to the grand canyon. Its a woman coming out of an urn, i like how it ironically looks burned. His art is very dreamy and airy and everytime i see any, it feels like its sweeping me away.

 

[NumbItAll]

Self explanatory... two cats sitting on a branch, watching the moon. Adorable! Looks like it was made for this painting tutorial.

@Final Escape

 

[oldgregg187]

me praying until I rotted away

 

[GinaIsReady]

"Around Her" by Marc Chagall, 1945.
(credit: Centre Pompidou)

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Bella Rosenfeld met Marc Chagall in the summer of 1909 on a visit to St. Petersburg. Marc was an aspiring artist, in the throes of creating his now famous oeuvre. Bella, the daughter of a successful jeweler, was in the midst of her studies and acquiring a taste for writing. Their meeting was the beginning of an artist-muse relationship that would inspire some of Chagall's best work, including 1945's "Around Her." The painting is one of the most moving homages to his love for her, as well an expression of grief over untimely death.

Bella and Chagall.

The couple married on July 25th, 1915. For almost 30 years, they were an inseparable duo – it said that Chagall would never "sign off" on a painting's completion without her input. So when Bella died in 1945 from a viral infection, it was as if the author's world came to a halt. He stopped painting entirely for nine months.

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His mourning ultimately found expression in his craft, with paintings like "Around Her" immortalizing their love in his tender brushstrokes. The right side of the painting depicts a distressed Bella with a couple representing a traditional Jewish marriage ceremony hovering over her. Chagall paints himself to the left – grief-stricken and blue, the color that sets the melancholic mood for the painting – his head inversed. Vitebsk, the city where their marriage took place, is depicted in the center.

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The work is not only an exercise in grieving but a telling portrait of death's complicated repercussions: we see Chagall's love and unwavering admiration for Bella, who is depicted beautifully, donning a vibrant dress. We see his need to hold onto their past, as well as the sadness it brings him to remember it.

 

[not_a_robot]

Manet's Olympia.
The lounging prostitute with her cat, being presented with flowers from one of her many lovers. The critics' hatred ("dead eyed whore!"), the fact that Manet called her a goddess, and the model was not only prostitute but also his equal, a painter in her own right who had bigger shows than him at the time (a common story among prostitutes and artists). Hanna gadsby described it best. Have a listen.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hannah Gadsby: Arts Clown, 1. Edouard Manet's Olympia

Hannah explains what makes Manet's Olympia a cornerstone of modern art.

www.bbc.co.uk

Manet. Le Suicidé.

This was surely what he painted when "Olympia" stopped seeing him. It must be. Now I have to look it up.

 

[Pilum Muralis]

Martin Wittfooth. I love how he weaves life and death, nature and machines, to create these beautiful dystopian images.

 

[not_a_robot]

well shit.

Crap let me try again.....

Isn't this just fucking awkward...

 

[Kuolema]

Tom of Finland. All of his work. Sorry to be crude, but some of my earliest sexual memories were masturbating to his artwork. Also he's part of the reason why I love Finland so much.

 

[262653]

well shit.

Isn't this just fucking awkward...

LOL, I thought the little black dots are scratch marks and that vertical thing at the center is a mega mecha dick and it's different shades of gray represent... well, shading.

 

[not_a_robot]

LOL, I thought the little black dots are scratch marks and that vertical thing at the center is a mega mecha dick and it's different shades of gray represent... well, shading.

lol no just a metaphor for her shattered spine, like a smashed Roman column. I'm getting a tattoo with that quotation in my profile, with her eyebrows from that painting copied to make a bird-flying shape on one side and a copy of one of the nails on the other.
like, how corny, i know, to get a tattoo implying suicide instead of just do.it but what can I say, I am a coward.
"mecha dick" lol like a H.R. Giger alien.
I'm gonna make Mecha Dick my signature

 

[Sanguinius]

- what suicide means to me -
soft, honest, dark, warm... taking me with it to the kingdom of nothingness...

 

[GinaIsReady]

Tom of Finland. All of his work. Sorry to be crude, but some of my earliest sexual memories were masturbating to his artwork. Also he's part of the reason why I love Finland so much.View attachment 12956

I love his work!!

 

[Oyoy]

William Wigan. This is one grain of sand.