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by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 9th, 2007

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How many famous works of art (painting/sculpture etc) can you name off the top of your head?

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  • by Anonymous on March 9th, 2007

    Anonymous

    Guernica, Mona Lisa, Death of Sadat, American Gothic, Munch's The Scream, Water Lillies, The Peasant, Irises, Self Portrait With Bandaged Ear, David, The Kiss, Ballet Dancer, Sunrise over the Coast of Labrador, Comin' Through The Rye, Blue Boy, The Swing, Two Dancers on a Stage, The Absinthe Drinker, Capri, The Birth of Venus, The Annunciation, St. John The Baptist, Virgin of The Rocks, Venus and Adonis, Death and Life, Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Camille, The Tribute Money, The Milkmaid, Persistence of Memory.

    PS: Have studied and collected art and my best male friend owns a very fine gallery. Good question. At least it wasn't asking what my favorite flavor of lollipop was or something!

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  • by mitziuk on September 29th, 2008

    mitziuk

    im lost but please can i ask a question here?
    my neice is at art college and has to descibe a peice of scuplture, is there a term used for say for instance, its solid peice, but has holes in it, simlar shape to an apple, im usless at descibing things but she has got herself so stressed trying to do her homework on this particular peice...any help would be much appreciated...sorry for butting in here

    regards

    michelle

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  • by Someguy on March 9th, 2007

    Someguy

    Triumph of Death - breugel
    the fight between carnivla and Lent -breugel
    portrait of an old man - el greco
    toledo - el greco
    At the Mulin Rouge - Toulouse-Lautrec
    Mike's David
    the thinker
    black and violet - kandinski
    Year of Peril - Thomas hart benton (check his stuff out if you like real american art)

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  • by quack is whack on March 9th, 2007

    quack is whack

    (Not counting the above, which are all very cliche and well-known):
    Madonna of the Rocks
    School of Athens
    Christina's World
    Madonna (Donatello)
    The Scream
    The Rape of Lida
    Crack the Whip
    The Cotton Pickers

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  • by Icebox April on March 9th, 2007

    Icebox April

    let's see...The Mona Lisa, Starry Night, The Scream, The Black Square, The Statue Of David, Waterlilies, The Last Supper, The Thinker, The Creation Of Adam, Medusa, I don't know that the Sistine Chapel would count...so at least 9. I'm drawing blanks here....

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  • by GBPackersfan on March 9th, 2007

    GBPackersfan

    2: monalisa and stary night

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  • by Final_Starman on March 9th, 2007

    Final_Starman

    Eight.

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  • by Midgardsormr on March 14th, 2008

    Midgardsormr

    Donatello's David
    Rodin's The Thinker
    Leonardo's Mona Lisa
    The Last Supper
    The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
    Munch's The Scream
    Whistler's Portrait of the Artist's Mother
    Wood's American Gothic
    Rockwell's The Runaway
    Van Gogh's Starry Night
    Dogs Playing Poker. I don't recall who painted that one.
    Boticelli's (sp) Birth of Venus
    Michelangelo's David
    The Nike of Samothrace, sculptor unknown
    Raphael's The Entombment of Christ
    Michelangelo's Pieta

    I should be able to remember more. There are dozens I can see in my head, but I can't remember their names. I can remember the artists for a lot of them if I try hard, though.

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  • by Nick on March 15th, 2008

    Nick

    Warhol's Marilyn, Rodin's Thinker, Michelangelo's David, Brueghel's The Blind Leading the Blind, Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, Böcklin's Toteninsel, Jeff Koons's Rabbit, Constantin Brancusi's Endless Column, David Hockney's Ossie Clark and Celia, claude Monet's Waterlilies, Picasso's guernica, Goya's Caprichos, Piranesi's Carceri, Raffael's Sistine Madonna, Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, Velazquez' Rokeby Venus, the Venus of Milo, Titian's Portrait of Leo X, Holbein's Ambassadors, Dürer's Self Portrait, Grünewald's Altar at Colmar, Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Jackson Pollock's Number 32, Matisse's Red Studio, Jacques Louis David's Murder of Marat, Gericault's Derby at Epsom, Whistler's Mother, Grant Wood's American Gothic, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, Rodin's Porte d'enfer, Picasso's Old Guitarist, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Gutzon Borglum's 4 presidents, Edouard Manet's Bar aux Folies Bergère, Niki de Saint Phalle's HON, Jasper Johns's Flag, Robert Rauschenberg's Red Painting, Naum Gabo's Kinetic Construction, Rodchenko's Triptych in Flat Colors, Tatlin's Monument to the 20th International, Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, Alex Katz's Red Smile, Monet's Haystacks, Monet's Cathedrals,
    I stop now, but I could continue for hours...

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  • by Firebrand on March 15th, 2008

    Firebrand

    A lot I have visited most of the top galleries in Europe. I cannot type fast enough to put them all down.

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  • by Nninee on March 14th, 2008

    Nninee

    Mona Lisa, Statue of David... I don't know the names

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