The Best Painting on The Planet and Why?!

[SethBedeGB]

:steph:

09th July 2008

RE: The Ultimate "Mona Lisa"?!

Dear Forum,

Can we Take This question Seriously?... Dead or Alive Artist?..

Hooplah with the Greatest Work of Art?!

Any Takers?!

SBGB

Best Wishes...

:carnifex:

[B u r l]

There are thousands of amazing works out there, all of different styles, which move people in different ways. Everyone also has their own definition of what "great" is when it comes to art, so it's impossible to single out 1 piece.

The Mona Lisa also sucks ass IMO. :asslick:

[Blue]

Try not to stare directly at this masterpiece, for the sheer radiance of perfection might burn your very soul. Truly, there is no greater achievement in the artistic world, nor shall there ever be.

[kev ferrara]

My vote is:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_zMsg9U8UoyM/SGxSAXnKMPI/AAAAAAAABx8/9P0tLpQ15d0/s1600-h/Everett+003.jpg

[butchmapa]

Kev-- who did that?

Like Burl said, there're so many great art pieces out there-- but when it comes to pen and ink work, I think some of Alfredo Alcala's Voltar pieces can't be beat.

http://www.alanguilan.com/museum/alfredo8.html
http://www.alanguilan.com/museum/alfredo1.html

[waranghira]

Kev-- who did that?

Like Burl said, there're so many great art pieces out there-- but when it comes to pen and ink work, I think some of Alfredo Alcala's Voltar pieces can't be beat.

http://www.alanguilan.com/museum/alfredo8.html
http://www.alanguilan.com/museum/alfredo1.html

yay for flips!

Blue: do you know the author of that?

[Blue]

Blue: do you know the author of that?
Her name is Susanne Jakobsen. Truly stunning. http://www.elfwood.com/fanq/s/u/susisane2/susisane2.html

[Musselfarmstudios]

Thomas Kinkade . . . I love the way he mastered light and how his paintings touch my soul in a deeply religously erotic way! It's like God is personally guiding each and every little mark that he makes . . . Thomas Kinkade is a true genius! . . . really though I'm for any painting that you can buy on a home shopping network!

[kev ferrara]

butchmapa... Walter Everett (aka Walter Hunt Everett, or Walter H. Everett)

[dark eagle]

I'm going to be ver vague here and say the blank canvas of an artist is and always will be the best painting in the world. Because you can do anything with it.

Those who interpret that right will understand it try not to mock me. I know what I'm talking about on this one.

Those of you who are lazy that phrase means that the question in hand doesn't differ from the question "who is the best artist in the world". Impossible to decide because we cant go to past and see every drawing the caveman did of himself, maybe they could be like the best rendering time has ever seen which were then degraded by weathering.

Who-ever beleives they have an answer to that question, is lying to themselves.

[SethBedeGB]

09th July 2008

:mod:

RE: The Best Painting....

Dear Forum,

Mona Lisa is Dull... Agreed.. (Well it's Ok but purely through Fashion)

I Stood in Front of "The Nightwatch" by Rembrandt Van Rijn

at the RijksMuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

I cannot put into words what the Experience was like and this was completely Despite at least Three people obstructing my View!

I don't know if Anyone can find an URL for It?

When the RijkMuseum in Amsterdam is fully re-opened, some of you could try walking up to the work and have the Courage to open, like, 5% of your Artistic Eyes..

Again... You just Can't put the Experience into Words...

So that is One Answer from Me... I may follow with further banter...

Regards...

SBGB

Best Wishes etc. etc.

:carnifex:

[SethBedeGB]

So All the Answers here ARE gonna be Totally "Unbiased", then?!

Regards

SBGB

[Ilaekae]

Seth', I'm gonna stuff you in a pickle jar with no air holes and toss you off the 9th Street Bridge to see if you can make it all the way to Yucatan...





:hugsmile:

[SethBedeGB]

Well... You'll Have to Visit The National Gallery in London, England First!

And you can Probably answer some of these Brainteasers at the Same Time!!

SBGB

[B u r l]

Yeah The Night Watch is an amazing painting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Nightwatch_by_Rembrandt.jpg A pity it knocked his reputation down at the time.

I'd love to visit the RijkMuseum some day to see Rembrandt's work in person.

[SethBedeGB]

Ok.. So the Train's going at about 5mph now... I would also Have to mention Any of The Series Paintings by Claude Monet... The Two Royal Academy Special Exhibitions of 1991 and 2000 reminded me how Fantastic These Are?.. Just One view of One of the Whole collection can leave you breathless.. Anyone agree? Or is Monet just The Populus Gimick?! Someone said that but I disagree.. SBGB.. Laters....

[Stoat]

I find this post icon really distracting :blahblah: Does anybody else hear it when they see it? It goes buh-BAH-buh-bah-BAAAAH, buh-BAH-buh-bah-BAAAAH.

It makes me tired.

[Ilaekae]

Try hitting them with your bunny shoes...

I used to use 'em for target practice, but my better half refuses to get me any more monitors...or bullets...

[Elwell]

It goes buh-BAH-buh-bah-BAAAAH, buh-BAH-buh-bah-BAAAAH.
Appropriate, don't you think?

[Stoat]

Heh.

Who designs CA's emoticons, by the way? They're really well done. It ain't easy to get ideas across at 16x16 (I've been roped into designing icons before, and I hate it).

[jrr]

This has to be the greatest meeting of the minds here at conceptart.org since davi dined here alone.

[Ssimulacral]

Too many to decide from but off the top of my tired and worn-out head:

Edward Hopper “Summertime” (1943) - because it incorporates everything that makes that Hoppep trademark : subtle eerieness, chilling atmosphere, solitarity, hope, despair - the sinsiter in the mundane. He was, addmitedly not a "great painter" of people but the atmosphere his work creates is quite remarkable.

[SethBedeGB]

Cool, Dude! Someone get us a Link for Edward Hopper, "Summertime".. Generally you just get the George Gershwin Porgy and Best Version!

[Anid Maro]

Heh.

Who designs CA's emoticons, by the way? They're really well done. It ain't easy to get ideas across at 16x16 (I've been roped into designing icons before, and I hate it).

I think I saw somewhere that it was/is Prometheus|ANJ? Dunno for sure, my memory can be pretty faulty sometimes.

[Ssimulacral]

Cool, Dude! Someone get us a Link for Edward Hopper, "Summertime".. Generally you just get the George Gershwin Porgy and Best Version!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~herzlich/divers/images/hopper16.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/~herzlich/divers/images/hopper.html&h=584&w=800&sz=106&hl=en&start=2&sig2=GOOL5kmkRTvGKo1_n7rA5Q&um=1&tbnid=l7I0mLwyHA4CFM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=143&ei=2WB3SLbKJJfAggLbq9neCA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsummertime%2Bedward%2Bhopper%26um%3D1 %26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

What is George Gershwin Porgy!?

[CCThrom]

What is George Gershwin Porgy!?

George Gershwin was a famous composer.
"Porgy and Bess" is one of his most famous works... an opera.
"Summertime" is the most well known song out of that opera. (Summertime... and the livin' is easy...)

Seth EITHER just made a very clever pun... OR he's just saying that if you google "summertime" you don't get paintings by Hopper, you get music by Gershwin...

[Dorkthrone]

I don't really think there truly is a greatest painting in the world. It depends on your perception of the medium.

In this case, I nominate either:
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9679/insectbattless4.jpg
or:
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/484/shadowthehedgehogbychasgi4.jpg

Both true masterpieces.

[SethBedeGB]

Mate! Wicked! My "Nightwatch" by Rembrandt Van Rijn is OUT of the Ball-Park! (okish, tho') SBGB....

[davi]

The original post in this post seriously rip the fabric of my mind into tiny shreds... What makes it worse is that people willingly kept replying to it like it did make sense...

thanks for the kennedy quote jrr :>

[Dorkthrone]

The original post in this post seriously rip the fabric of my mind into tiny shreds... What makes it worse is that people willingly kept replying to it like it did make sense...

thanks for the kennedy quote jrr :>

But those pictures I posted are the best in the world!

[VulgarDragon]

Seth, have you ever punched yourself in the face repeatedly?

I think it would do you some good... Really.

No, I'm serious. Punch yourself in the face repeatedly.

Go ahead, we'll wait.


Best,
kev

Yeah...just like this:

[tomwaits4noman]

09th July 2008

:mod:

RE: The Best Painting....

Dear Forum,

Mona Lisa is Dull... Agreed.. (Well it's Ok but purely through Fashion)

I Stood in Front of "The Nightwatch" by Rembrandt Van Rijn

at the RijksMuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

I cannot put into words what the Experience was like and this was completely Despite at least Three people obstructing my View!

I don't know if Anyone can find an URL for It?

When the RijkMuseum in Amsterdam is fully re-opened, some of you could try walking up to the work and have the Courage to open, like, 5% of your Artistic Eyes..

Again... You just Can't put the Experience into Words...

So that is One Answer from Me... I may follow with further banter...

Regards...

SBGB

Best Wishes etc. e

:carnifex:

yes The Nightwatch is amazing to see, it is also puzzling to see how badly treated it has been from a crazy person throwing acid at it to to the I believe the curators cutting off part of it so it to make way for a door, however in terms of best paintings I saw in Amsterdam would have to be Van Goghs Cherry Blossom triptych, while he is technically not the best painter by a long stretch he captures a certain energy and emotion in the canvas especially in those paintings, violent yet beautifully.

btw the best painting in world has yet to painted.

[SethBedeGB]

Isn't that a Tiny Bit of a Contradiciton?! SBGB... Regards... etc. etc.

[tomwaits4noman]

depends on the merits you use to judge a painting, where it is purely based on technique or detail or capturing a particular emotion.

Again its all personal preference.