Post 43 of my favorite works of art

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http://www.art.com/products/p10283885-sa-i810607/anti-motivational-challenge.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=1853&dimvals=1853&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p10283272-sa-i798749/its-a-complicated-world.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=1853&dimvals=1853&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p13215201-sa-i3728422/a-good-example.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=1853&dimvals=1853&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p10063948-sa-i751736/dining-out.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=1853&dimvals=1853&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p11730582-sa-i881338/larry-devillas-american-scream.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=1853&dimvals=1853&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p10071779-sa-i1292424/alecio-de-andrade-al-musee-du-louvre-1970.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=1853&dimvals=1853&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p14160628-sa-i2354086/afternoon-in-paris.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=26319&dimvals=26319&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p10117447-sa-i945264/charlie-waite-epernay-france.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=26319&dimvals=26319&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p12512476-sa-i1848035/mount-st-michel-france.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=26319&dimvals=26319&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p10096061-sb-i679575/kerne-erickson-waikiki.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=7438&dimvals=7438&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p13108803-sa-i1602324/katsushika-hokusai-mount-fuji.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=26316&dimvals=26316&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.art.com/products/p14015723-sa-i2831509/dmitri-kessel-billboard-advertising-coca-cola-at-outskirts-of-bangkok-with-welcoming-sign-welcome-to-bangkok.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=26316&dimvals=26316&ui=202d472d89e04ff49f1ac5aa476cc598

http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/collections/PermanentCollections.aspx

http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/collections/PermanentCollections.aspx

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http://www.art.com/asp/View_HighZoomResPop.asp?apn=12532054&imgloc=18-1889-Z00D9F2U.jpg&imgwidth=654&imgheight=917

http://www.art.com/asp/View_HighZoomResPop.asp?apn=10284703&imgloc=7-768-Z000ZSQP.jpg&imgwidth=948&imgheight=633

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http://www.art.com/asp/View_HighZoomResPop.asp?apn=15248066&imgloc=36-3639-Z00FEOUW.jpg&imgwidth=866&imgheight=693

http://www.art.com/products/p10230429-sa-i1294304/k-kobylecka-early-morning-nude-male.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5020560&ui=c42a96dafd864813bfa561ec5a7b7efa

http://www.art.com/products/p11669213-sc-i674508/timothy-sorsdahl-prairie-rain.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5020472&ui=c42a96dafd864813bfa561ec5a7b7efa

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http://www.art.com/products/p10269967-sc-i1369273/green-sorsdahl-phase-trail-of-serenity.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5020472&ui=c42a96dafd864813bfa561ec5a7b7efa

http://www.art.com/products/p13929680-sa-i2784741/frederick-leighton-flaming-june-c1895.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10066551-sa-i810072/vincent-van-gogh-fishing-boats-on-the-beach-at-saints-maries-c1888.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10091317-sa-i793634/albert-bierstadt-storm-in-the-rocky-mountains.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5001488&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10091528-sa-i853009/victor-gabriel-gilbert-an-elegant-soiree.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10059705-sa-i809875/karl-blechen-the-palm-house.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10011271-sa-i856096/charles-burton-barber-special-pleader.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10027562-sa-i819796/charles-giraud-veranda-de-la-princesse-mathilde.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p12965435-sa-i2200212/pierre-auguste-renoir-reading-woman-circa-1900.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5000774&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10289773-sa-i852949/frank-bernard-dicksee-leila-1892.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p12180995-sa-i2326829/john-singer-sargent-madame-x.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p11729559-sa-i727076/charles-james-lewis-reading-by-the-window-hastings.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10293203-sa-i1253519/gustav-klimt-the-tree-of-life-stoclet-frieze-c1909.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24620-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

http://www.art.com/products/p10083753-sa-i853360/edward-hopper-summer-evening.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5000050&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

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http://www.art.com/asp/View_HighZoomResPop.asp?apn=10022942&imgloc=7-789-Z000IE5K.jpg&imgwidth=889&imgheight=675

http://www.art.com/asp/View_HighZoomResPop.asp?apn=10032525&imgloc=6-662-Z000CCVP.jpg&imgwidth=692&imgheight=866

http://www.art.com/products/p13218630-sa-i2324080/vincent-van-gogh-starry-night-over-the-rhone-c1888.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=24619-207227&ui=bf862b98635b4bda84205ea1401f3e07

A striking blend of physical tension and contemplative removal. Like the battle friezes from the pediments of the Parthenon, this sculpture portrays the triumph of cool rational detachment over the impulses and flurry of nature. Artemis, goddess of the hunt, is an atheletic and very physical presence here, yet she bears her head with the placid calm the High Classic Athenians attributed to the immortals. The Roman copyist certainly possessed virtuosity in getting the folds of her chifton down. This work has rightly been prized as one of the Renaissance’s most important rediscoveries from the treasures of the ancients.

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Nighthawks
Edward Hopper, 1942
Oil on canvas
84.1 cm × 152.4 cm (33.1 in × 60 in)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

I find something so beautiful and so melancholy about this painting… I think it is the idea of loneliness and isolation that Hopper plays with. Maybe it is the gloominess of the night and the city outside of the diners lights. Each patron seems so inside themselves, lost to the night inside their own heads. I would love to see this painting in person one day.

Who’ll save the poor little girl?
Henry Darger, Henry Darger
Who’ll save the poor little girl?
Henry, Henry
Oh Henry Oh
Henry, Henry

Who’ll tell the story of her?
Henry Darger, Henry Darger
Who’ll tell it to all the world?
Henry, Henry
Oh Henry Oh
Henry, Henry

Who’ll buy the carbon paper now?
Henry Darger, Henry Darger
Who’ll trace the lines of her mouth?
Henry, Henry
Oh Henry Oh
Henry, Henry

Who will conquer foreign worlds searching for the stolen girls?
Princesses you’ll never fear the patron saint of girls is here!
Who will draw the cavalry in and risk his very own precious skin
To make our Angelina a free and peaceful land again?

Who’ll love a poor orphan child
Henry Darger, Henry Darger
Lost, growing savage and wild?
Henry, Henry
Oh Henry Oh
Henry, Henry..

(lyrics by Natalie Merchant)