<p>I know it’s hard to cut it down to five, but here goes:</p>
<li>Nike of Samothrace (aka Winged Victory)</li>
<li>Gustav Klimt- The Kiss</li>
<li>Salvador Dali- Masochistic Instrument</li>
<li>Kasimir Malevich- Painterly Realism of a Football Player</li>
<li>Jan Van Eyck- Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife</li>
</ol>
<p>hmm off the top of my head in no particular order</p>
<ol>
<li>Salvador Dali- The Metamorphosis of Narcissus</li>
<li>Marc Chagall- Birthday</li>
<li>Vincent van Gogh- Starry Night</li>
<li>John Singer Sargent - Ambergris Smoke </li>
<li>Michelangelo - Pieta</li>
</ol>
<p>Very generic, I know, but I love them. :)</p>
<p>anything by dali is sick</p>
<p>This is much too hard to answer :confused:</p>
<p>My head is spinning, I love so much!</p>
<p>Van Gogh - Starry Night
Munch - The Scream
Seurat - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Kandinsky - composition VIII
and a modern art piece that is sitting in my friend's house (can't remember the artist)</p>
<p>vermeer- view of delft
callibotte- a rainy day in paris
rain, steam, and speed- turner
water lillies- monet
unique forms of continuity in space- boccioni</p>
<p>Picasso - Guernica
Chagall - Man with 7 Fingers
Seurat - Sunday Afternoon</p>
<p>Those are the top 3, after that I love soo soo many...</p>
<p>I have been waiting for a post like this for a while. These are some of my favorites. I love Sargent and Freud, I would kill to be able to paint like them, sadly, I must practice some more--paintings aren't quite at that level yet.</p>
<p>Sargent - Gassed
Sargent - Madame X
Freud - Man in a Chair
Eakins - Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
Hopper - Early Sunday Morning</p>
<p>You know you're not doing anything, go to artchive and look at these, they are beautiful paintings.</p>
<p>David by Michealangelo.</p>
<p>There is nothing better, nothing even comparable. </p>
<p>I could look at that ALL DAY LONG.</p>
<p>dali-the elephants
giacometti- lotar III
giacometti- the nose
most anything mark rothko
and some ad reinhardt stuff</p>
<p>most byzantine art.</p>
<p>Coronation of Napolean</p>
<p>Ed Hopper - Nighthawks
Rothko - anything
De Chirico - The Red Tower</p>
<p>mark rothko
antony tapeis
jackson pollock
kiefer
warhol</p>
<p>wow. like the only major art work ive ever seen is the guernica by picasso in madrid when i was there. it truly is impressive in real life, the lines and hugeness and all.</p>
<p>White on White is my all-time favorite
I love performance artists as well as Surrealism and Avant Garde pieces too.</p>
<p>-the sistine chapel. michelangelo's skin, flayed and emptied in the last judgement.
-venus di milo, headless and armless, perfect woman.
-michelangelo's pieta
-rodin's gate of hell and his many, many sculptures of lovers and hands
-mapplethorpe's ajitto or ken moody</p>
<p>umm, venus de milo isn't headless. ?</p>
<p>-the prayer hands sculpture
-pretty much all the 'I Spy' pictures
-same with 'Where's Waldo'
-the funky pictures where if you stare at them cross eyed, you can see something 3D
-anything by escher</p>
<p>haha owned by nervous</p>
<p>anyways, i can't believe only 1 person has said night hawks, that painting is so kickass</p>
<h2>here are my top 5</h2>
<p>night hawks - hopper
christina's world - wyeth
on the terrace - renoir
card players - cezanne
i and the village - chagall</p>