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?

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    14·
    9 days 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 20th 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
    6·
    9 days 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”

  • WILSOOON@programming.dev
    5·
    8 days 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, 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

  • jela@lemmy.today
    3·
    7 days 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

  • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
    3·
    8 days 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

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    41·
    8 days ago

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

    “Untitled?”

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

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Poem - Robert Frost - Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

    Short story - Kurt Vonnegut - Harrison Bergeron

    Movie - Life is Beautiful (do not watch this if you don’t want to cry)

    Book - Carl Sagan - Contact (it’s much better than the movie)

    Anime - Serial Experiments Lain

    Honorable mention, Paper Tole - an ocean scene my grandmother did when I was a boy. She has written my name on the back of it for when she passes away. It’s the only thing I want. I hope I don’t get it soon, but she’s not young anymore.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I am familiar with all of these except the anime edit: and grandma’s stuff. I am an anime manga fan and consider Akira and Appleseed among several others to be high art. Thanks for the contribution.

  • pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 days 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.

  • noretus@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Top 5 is hard but I’ll give my favorite:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him

    I heard of it the first time in relation to it being a haunted painting. Not that I believed it but the next night, I had a nightmare about it, which is extremely rare for me. It’s so incredibly eerie. I’ve been going back and forth on if I wanted a print of it but I get legitimate fear at the thought. I feel like I’d be inviting something in my home that I shouldn’t. I mean yes, probably just psychology but I’ve experienced some weird things in my life so… I’ll go with my gut and admire it from afar only.

    Besides that, I love Caravaggio.