I’m partly curious as to what people’s favourite works of art are, and I’m partly hoping to discover something new. All art is welcome. Music, painting, sculpture, architecture, performance, video, litterature, plays etc. Everything goes!

While impossible to make a definitive personal list, my best attempt at a top 5 that live in my head rent free at the moment is:

  1. Danse Sacrée by Victor Ségoffin in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

  2. Wheat Field with Cypresses at the Haute Galline Near Eygalieres by Van Gogh

  3. The Jack Pine by Tom Thompson (Group of Seven)

  4. The G’psgolox totem pole.

  5. The Meenakshi Temple, Tamil Nadu, India.

What are your top 5?

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    1·
    10 minutes ago

    Hmm, so much to choose from and so much I don’t even know about…

    Visually, Beksinski has been one of the few that really triggers a resonance somewhere inside me.

    The works of Jim Henson are also amazing, though I don’t know how one would ever categorize them. Part writing, part performance, part musical, part sculptural, part visual, and yet still other elements.

    There’s a great deal of very good music as well, but one of the few where the music felt like ‘art,’ in a way I have some difficulty expressing, is Lorn. Something about it has a sense that it’s trying to say something in a language I feel like I’m supposed to understand, and almost can, but only almost.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    41·
    5 hours ago

    “Oh, you’re a Beksiński fan? Name five of his works.”

    “Untitled?”

    “That’s on me, I set the bar too low.”

  • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
    2·
    5 hours ago

    An impossible question, but some that came to mind.

    The frescos of the Hospicio Cabañas, by José Clemente Orozco

    This statue of the goddess Coatlicue

    Bernini’s David

    John Martin’s destruction of Pompei and pandemonium

  • WILSOOON@programming.dev
    5·
    8 hours ago
    1. Clair de lune by Debussy, chefs kiss, always calming, perfect for waking up
    2. House of leaves. One of the most confusing books ive ever read.
    3. Beserk by kentaro miura, singlehandedly the greatest manga ive ever read. And i will not spoil it
    4. Noita, by nolla games. 2d finnish wizard pixel art game where every pixel is simulated. Feels like cbt to play through but its absolutely fantastic
    5. Meteora by linkin park, has lived rent free in my head.

    Honourable mentions: Ultrakill, doom eternal, Blame! By tsutomo nihei, bach Brandenburg concerto No. 4 by Bach, the old testament in the bible, i consider this fiction, fight me, gris, the king in yellow, song of ice and fire,the Antwerp station and anything made by antireal, bach, heaven pierce her, mozart and keygen church

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
    1·
    11 hours ago

    Oh man… top five…

    • Building: The Guggenheim museum NYC.

    The building just looks incredible on the outside the the circular gallery is so awesome.

    • Painting: The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

    There is something about the sheer power that painting illustrates.

    • Picture: The Vulture and the Little Girl

    Somebody get that fucking bird away from her

    • Movie

    Jaws

    • Broadway Play

    Hamilton

  • [object Object]@lemmy.world
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Visual arts:

    Music:

    For performance, perhaps Meredith Monk’s ‘Turtle Dreams’, shot by Ping Chong. But I’m not an aficionado of the form.

  • jela@lemmy.today
    3·
    15 hours ago

    As you mentioned in your post, it’s almost impossible to pick just 5 favorite singular works… so here are some of the top active artists that I currently adore (in no particular order)

    … this list will probably change by next week

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    12·
    21 hours ago

    I love Art, but I am a degreed musician, so I’ll offer one painting, and four musical masterpieces.

    1. Picasso: Guernica - I saw it decades ago, when it was still at MOMA, before it went back to Spain. I was already a fan of great art, but seeing Guernica in person, made me hard-core. I have seen many museums and masterpieces since then, but never had a more visceral response to any other painting.

    2. Beethoven: Symphony #7 - the 9th may be the greatest musical work ever composed, but I love the 7th, a perfect little jewel. I don’t think there is any other musical work that makes me feel such warm affection for it.

    3. Bach, JS: Brandenburg Concertos - Nearly every musical mood is illustrated with possibly the most exquisite sparkling music ever composed.

    4. Pink Floyd: The Wall - IMHO, simply the best composed, performed, and produced rock album of all time. Literally perfect. David Gilmour gives a master class in virtuosic guitar playing, in what is probably the greatest guitar album of all time. It deserves to stand alongside the greatest musical masterpieces of the 29th century, in any genre.

    5. Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Film, 40th Anniversary remastered version) - the greatest live rock album and and film ever produced. Incendiary performances, better than the original studio versions, captured on film by Jonathan Demme. One mesmerizing performance after another.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    5·
    24 hours ago

    Maybe not the top five, but five top-tier pieces I can name right now:

    • Milton Horn’s sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake

    • The Carbon & Carbide Building

    • Philip K. Dick’s novella Galactic Pot-Healer

    • Longfellow’s poem “The Village Blacksmith”

    • The Magnetic Fields’ song “If You Don’t Cry”