One of my favorite poems (with images added)

Museum Piece

The good grey guardians of art
Patrol the halls on spongy shoes,
Impartially protective, though
Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.

http://static.royalacademy.org.uk/im...nts-la-832.jpg

Here dozes one against the wall,
Disposed upon a funeral chair.
A Degas dancer pirouettes
Upon the parting of his hair.

http://dakotadisco.com/wp-content/up.../08/degas2.jpg

See how she spins! The grace is there,
But strain as well is plain to see.
Degas loved the two together:
Beauty joined to energy.

Edgar Degas purchased once
A fine El Greco, which he kept
Against the wall beside his bed
To hang his pants on while he slept.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/e/e...reco_peter.jpg

— Richard Wilbur

One of my absolute favorite sculptures

The Kiss. Klimt. Oldie, but a goldie (and I do mean gold, lol)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gustav_Klimt_016.jpg

I guess I'll stop my posting orgy after this, but I wanted to add the Nike (or "Winged Victory") of Samothrace. She may be headless, but she's powerful and magnificent. She's from the 3rd century BC.

http://www.fantasyarts.net/images/angwingedlg.jpg

http://www.bankofathens.co.za/home/images/nike.jpg

http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/scu...ages/nike_.jpg

Hmm...seems I still make mistakes when I put the url in the image thingie for the jpeg thingie ... anyone can pm with instructions, greatly appreciated. :blink:

im not a big art fan but...
 

while living in Philadelphia i got a chance to go to the Museum of Art there. This painting caught my attention and i have loved it since!
[IMG]http://www.peterpaulrubens.org/10122...0-11-small.jpg[/IMG]


"Promethus Bound" by Peter Paul Rubens!

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) most of his portraitures were painted in his own image...very ego maniacal

Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863) The Abduction of Rebecca painted (1846) a scene taken from Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel Ivanhoe

Vincent Van Gogh ~ Two Hands
 

Mary Cassatt ~ In the Loge
 

http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/u...opera_1880.jpg



At Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

dada
 

http://www.yellowbellywebdesign.com/hoch/tamar1.jpeg

hannah hoch
-tamar 1930

Tamar depicts a mannequin figure of a women seated, arms crossed, looking down at a sea lion. Ultimately the pose suggests a domination over the sea lion which is much smaller in scale compared to the mannequin. Yet the tamer appears to sit in a meditative pose, while the sea lion engages the viewer with a sly, uncanny gaze. Upon closer inspection the seal lion is wearing makeup, and the mannequin appears porcelain like and looks quite passive. Moreover, the eyes of both sea lion and mannequin look almost the same, unifying the two images. These contradictions promotes confusion about who really is dominant the mannequin or the sea lion.

Hoch poses the question which pair of eyes is engaging the viewer. First we see pair of eyes and then the other. In this way the viewer is confused between subject and object.. Hoch uses this confusion in terms of gender, posing

Henri Matisse ~ Woman Before an Aquarium
 

Jia Lu
 

I recently discovered her work. I love the sensuality mixed with powerful representations of women.......

Robert Frank
 

City Night ~ Georgia O'Keeffe
 

Rodin is one of my many favorites..
 

Henri Matisse ~ Blue Nude II
 

Mary Cassatt
 

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5nQV6m3uPn...t+sleeping.jpg






A long time ago I gave my late mother a card with this painting for Mother's Day. She liked it immensely. It reminder her of me and her. This is the most influential reason why I like this painting.

Favorites..??
 

chiura obata -

http://www.askart.com/AskART/assets/...opingHorse.jpg


his trees, mountains, oceans, moonlight, clouds, snowscapes, teachings, - everything -

http://www.hanga.com/artists/chiura-...ages/obata.gif