What is your favorite drawing?

[mcastillo356]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_–_The_Great_Western_Railway

 

[phinds]

Huh ???

 

[fresh_42]

Paintings:
Skrik, Munch
Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône, van Gogh

Drawings:
Der Feldhase, Dürer
Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels, Dürer

 

[berkeman]

https://www.researchgate.net/figure...atomical-drawings-of-the-upper_fig1_324468491

 

[Bystander]

Picasso's Don Quixote.

 

[berkeman]

Huh ???

I'm not familiar with that drawing. Could you upload a copy (use the "Attach files" link below the Edit window) and be sure to include a link to the source so we obey copyright laws.

 

[phinds]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_–_The_Great_Western_Railway

Well, if you had spelled Turner right in the OP I might have got it. You had "rain, steam, speed, Tiurner. Clearly other's did, I admit.

 

[pinball1970]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_–_The_Great_Western_Railway

So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.

 

[pinball1970]

Assassination of Marat. Jacques David. 1793
The Arnolfini portrait. Jan Van Eyck. 1434

There is another from Gombrich, 18th or 19th century that made my jaw drop when I saw it. Cannot remember the artist or the subject matter! I just remember the wow. I will see if I can grab a copy.

 

[mcastillo356]

So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.

Oops...! Painting, I meant painting.
Best wishes!

 

[fresh_42]

So drawing or painting? That is a bit like picking your favourite album or piece of classical music, quite tough.

Yet, Beethoven, Bach, and Berry made it all onto the Golden Record.

 

[Hornbein]

Drawings:
Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels, Dürer

Justin Bieber has a reproduction of the image tattooed on his left leg.

 

[Hornbein]

Drawings : I'd go with George Grosz.

 

[fresh_42]

Justin Bieber has a reproduction of the image tattooed on his left leg.

If you only knew, it is far worse than that.

 

[Klystron]

While difficult to reconcile the enigmatic beauty of Mona Lisa with the anatomical detail of Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in post #4, plebe that I am, I suggest Mona Lisa as Monna Vanna as a favorite drawing and painting.

The painting in photographic reproduction:

Excerpted Monna Vanna:
https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images...na-lisa-restricted.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill/f_webp

From the article:

...Deldicque said. “It (the charcoal drawing) is a work of very great quality done by a great artist.”

“It is almost certainly a preparatory work for an oil painting,” he added.

Note: I insert a picture of Mona Lisa as so popular and recognizable to avoid copywright confusion. La Monna Vanna article belongs to CNN. The drawings?

 

[Klystron]

Assassination of Marat. Jacques David. 1793

This painting led me to study Existentialism and eventually see Peter Weiss's brilliant satire Marat/Sade on film. IMS German language with English subtitles except when the Marquis quotes his own writing.

Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.

 

[pinball1970]

Yet, Beethoven, Bach, and Berry made it all onto the Golden Record.

Glad Bach got three in. The missing B is obviously the Beatles.
I checked NASA site. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/
That's not a comprehensive list though is it?
For the sake of the thread I suppose we should check images on Voyager and see if they include art?
I will look tomorrow, difficult to crop properly on this device.

 

[pinball1970]

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This painting led me to study Existentialism and eventually see Peter Weiss's brilliant satire Marat/Sade on film. IMS German language with English subtitles except when the Marquis quotes his own writing.
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Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.

Agree absolutely. Once I discovered art history I was absolutely hooked. I only did this in earnest for 12 months age 15-16 but I still remember the landmarks and the Marat painting was one of them.

 

[Hornbein]

Education provides a slippery slope, see a painting, read some authors, enjoy a play. Next thing you will be discussing Art at the forums.

Get back to work.

 

[pinball1970]

Paintings:
Skrik, Munch
Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône, van Gogh

I was never a fan of Van Gough until I saw this, The Potato eaters 1885.

It is not one of my favourite paintings but is one of the biggest surprises and I do like the painting very much.

I cannot really tell that it is him, unlike his style if you think of the more famous ones.

 

[fresh_42]

I was never a fan of Van Gough until I saw this, The Potato eaters 1885.

I generally agree. It is more the coloring with a deep blue, which is why I like La Nuit étoilée sur le Rhône. I'm a fan of so-called winter colors.

Munch's Skrik doesn't have these colors but I like it for its common interpretation. As I searched for its true title, I found out that this interpretation (despair, depression) was questionable.

(Norwegian Skrik, German originally also Geschrei [Shouting])

On the other hand, the Norwegian page cites Munch's diary ...

I cross the road with friends – only I don’t – I felt as if I were afraid – The skies are turning bloody red – I stand, laid low, and ready to die – see out the flaming skies as blood and black over the blue fjord and by – My friends will go away – I am overcome by fear – and feel a very strange and terrible feeling towards nature.

... so Angst might have been the better title.

 

[BWV]

Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)

 

[mcastillo356]

Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)

Yes, fortunate indeed. I`ve been googling, because it's the first time I see a work of him. Still impressed by the painting.

 

[fresh_42]

Max Ernst is probably my favorite painter, fortunate to live near one of the best collections of his work (the Menil)

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I had forgotten that I love Dadaism. All our lists were probably longer the longer we think about it.

Here is a poem by Ernst Jandl that I count as Dadaism although it has been later (1963).

ottos mops​

ottos mops trotzt
otto: fort mops fort
ottos mops hopst fort
otto: soso

otto holt koks
otto holt obst
otto horcht
otto: mops mops
otto hofft

ottos mops klopft
otto: komm mops komm
ottos mops kommt
ottos mops kotzt
otto: ogottogott

 

[BWV]

Also my avatar

Max Ernst. Surrealism and the Omnipotence of dreams​

 

[symbolipoint]

Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.

Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.

 

[mcastillo356]

Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.

Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world (Source: Wikipedia)

Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.

 

[pinball1970]

Not honestly any of my favorites but just I say, somebody should at least be able to mention M. C. Escher.

Other than that, favorite drawing I recognize is the rectangular graphical or pictorial which goes with the showing of Completing The Square for quadratic equations.

Penrose was a big fan.

 

[mcastillo356]

Penrose was a big fan.

Penrose, a great

 

[fresh_42]

We live in a modern world, and there have been electronic pictures long before AI generated politeness to the real outlook of celebrities. One of my favorites is a screenshot I generated in the 90s from a log file to check results. It was a linear text file in XML format. And it has been still the world of mainframes, so I have chosen a green-on-black coloring. I still like it, probably for the nostalgia it represents. On the other hand, we still use XML, don't we? (Sorry for this off-topic excourse.)