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Yahoo! Image Detail for www.art-palazzo.de/klimt/images/klimt-kiss.jpg

this is my favorite painting of all time. I'll post up more later

I like Klimt, never seen that one. This is one of my favorites:
http://ideiasemdesalinho.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/The Embrace_detail_Gustave Klimt.jpg

And of course everyone knows the tree of life.

My favorite Van Gogh: http://albatros.blog.kataweb.it/photos/uncategorized/van_gogh_cafe_1.jpg

Art Deco is one of my favorite movements: http://members.shaw.ca/martisart/small/artdecowoman.jpg
 

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I wouldn't call that Art Deco. That looks like Matisse, who isn't usually very Deco. Nazi and Soviet monumental architecture of the 1930s is Art Deco. Cubism is often Art Deco. Gaston Lachaise's Standing Woman is pretty much Art Deco. The Chrysler Building, especially the eagle gargoyles about a third of the way up, are Art Deco. Clayton Frye's The Spirit of Power, on the front of the Niagara Mohawk building, is mega-Art Deco.
 

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I studied art history in University, but nothing beats experiencing the originals in RL.
Some of my favourites are:

La Guernica by Picasso
The Dream by Henri Rousseau
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Gatte by Georges Seurat
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years by Edgar Degas
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
Great American Love by Robert Indiana
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow by Piet Mondrian
Marilyn by Andy Warhol
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney

And one day I hope to own something by Bratsa Bonifacho
If anyone would like to buy me one please holla :wink:
 

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ME!!! My favorite artwork is by ME!!

No, really...

Edward Hopper, Vermeer, and Ed Ruscha, and Dorothea Lange spring immediately to mind, but I've had the opportunity to work with many brilliant artists over the years that no one here has probably ever heard of because they aren't famous.

I have to say that some of my favorite art is commercial art done over the years that rarely has a name attached to it-- labels, ads, old postcards, etc.

At the moment, there are two exhibitions going on in the Boston area that I am dying to get to:

EDWARD HOPPER
PEM | Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
 

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Clayton Frye's The Spirit of Power, on the front of the Niagara Mohawk building, is mega-Art Deco.

That's really cool, I've never read anything about that building before. Yeah, my example was a long shot, I was going to use the Chrysler Building as an example but I decided to stick to paintings.