Greatest artwork by an artist

[cliveh]

What do you consider the greatest artwork by an artist you have ever seen? For me it has to be a self-portrait by Van Gogh.

[Allen Friday]

My current favorite: Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli of circa 1483-1486. It is displayed at the Louvre. I have a photo of a section of the fresco as the background on my laptop. It inspires me every day.

That Van Gogh guy's not bad. Not bad at all.

[Darkroom317]

J.M.W Turner's later works. He was ahead of his time and the work is amazing. I really do enjoy Van Gogh's work as well.

[desertratt]

I was working the day watch as a news photog out of a major wire service's Manhattan office and they sent me to the Dick Cavett TV talk show to shoot some images with my trusty Nikon F. He had borrowed some fine art pieces for a show. Afterwards I went by the loading dock at ABC TV and saw a truck driver tossing the art works into the back of a truck. I expressed amazement at that and he said it was no big deal. Then he said, "you wanna try it?" I declined but he persisted so I picked up a Van Gogh oil painting and tossed it gently into the back of the truck. That's my favorite Van Gogh because it survived even though it was quite old at that time, around 1970. Just the facts, M'am.

[semi-ambivalent]

What do you consider the greatest artwork by an artist you have ever seen? For me it has to be a self-portrait by Van Gogh.

Rembrandt's self-portraits as an old man. Those are the eyes of someone who knows his end is more than a rumor.

[Michael R 1974]

Impossible for me to choose one single work. Too many media. Even within a given medium I would have a hard time. And in the end, if I were forced to choose only one great work of art, it would be a piece of music.

Strange. I wonder how many of us photographers and photography lovers would actually choose a photograph as the greatest work of art.

[jnanian]

i don't know

Moholy Nagy - light space modulator ( and its film black white and grey )
Man Ray - le cadeau
Marcel Duchamp -LHOOQ
Bob Burden - Flaming Carrot ( #8 )
Le Corbusier - Chapelle à Ronchamp
banksy recent lance a ...

i don't really have a favorite, but i have a few more i can list ...

[flash26c]

Sistine Chappel; some guy named Mike something

[MattKing]

Las Meninas (or the Family of Philip IV) by Diego Velazquez comes to mind, even though I saw the original over a 1/3 of a century ago: http://www.diegovelazquez.org/Las-Me...-57-large.html

[darkosaric]

For me biggest positive shocking experience was visit of Picasso museum in Vienna.