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- amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21wish they had a gallery with all 50 pieces pictured... nice tho
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15My number one thing I'd like to see before I die: lab results saying "your immortality treatments have worked."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11My plan is trying not to die in the process of seeing 50 works of art.
- KragTheDigger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10dugg, even if I don't necessarily agree with all 50. The real point is: you should see art before you die. You should because that would prompt to ask yourself 'what is art?' And 'what makes /good/ art anyway ?'
Thanks for the link
~K - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Good art is not necessarily the art with the highest price tags; it is not necessarily the art created by the most notorious artists; it is not necessarily the art accepted by the professional critics. Good art is the art that I enjoy, the art that looks good to me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why will this matter to you after you are dead?
- datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I don't want to look just yet. Maybe in 60 years. I need something to look forward to.
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7http://duggmirror.com
- bebop717, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Wrong-O!
You don't see are to ask yourself "what is art?" What is defined as art is so razor thin these days, anything can be art.
Rather, you see art to question your own ideas and for a brief moment to see the world through new eyes. - pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4 * Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ (1450s), National Gallery, London
* Antony Gormley, The Angel of the North (1998), Gateshead
* Masjid-i Shah (now Masjid-i Imam) Mosque (largely 1612-1630) Isfahan, Iran
* JMW Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway (exhibited 1844), National Gallery, London
* Claude Monet, Nymphéas (1914-1926), Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
* Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah
* Tikal (AD300-AD869), Late Classic Maya site, Guatemala
* Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950, Museum of Modern Art, New York
* John Constable, The Hay Wain (1821), National Gallery, London
* The Alhambra (mostly 14th century), Granada
* Mark Rothko, The Rothko Chapel (paintings 1965-66; chapel opened 1971), Houston, Texas
* Matthias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece (1509-1515), Musée Unterlinden, Colmar
* Masaccio, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c. 1427), Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
* Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893), National Gallery, Oslo
* Giotto, Fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel (1305-1306), Padua
* Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889), Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210BC), Shaanxi province, China
* Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (1481-1482), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
* Stonehenge (2950BC-1600BC), Salisbury Plain, UK
* Limbourg brothers, Les Très Riches Heurs du Duc de Berry (1413-1416), Musée Condé, Chantilly
* The Book of Kells (c. AD800), Trinity College Library, Dublin
* Ishtar Gate (c. 575BC), Pergamon Museum, Berlin
* Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Descent from the Cross (1611-1614), Antwerp Cathedral
* Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510), Prado, Madrid
* Jan van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (c. 1435), Musée du Louvre, Paris
* Jan Vermeer, View of Delft (c. 1660-1661), Mauritshuis, the Hague
* Caravaggio, The Burial of St Lucy (1608), Museo di Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily
* Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1654), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
* Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808 (1814), Prado, Madrid
* Edouard Manet, The Dead Torero (1864), National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
* Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire from Les Lauves (1904-1906), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
* Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes (1508-1541), Rome
* Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1481), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
* Pablo Picasso,, Guernica (1937), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
* Titian, Danaë (1544-1546), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
* Raphael, The School of Athens (1510-1511), Stanza della Signatura, Vatican Palace, Rome
* Parthenon Sculptures (Elgin Marbles) (c. 444BC), British Museum, London
* Henri Matisse, The Dance (1910), Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
* Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa (1819), Louvre, Paris
* Katsushika Hokusai, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (1829-1833), series of woodblock prints, copies in major museums worldwide
* Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (1565), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
* Ice Age paintings (about 30,000 years old) in the, Chauvet Cave, Ardèche
* Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipses (1996), includes works on permanent view at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
* Jasper Johns, Flag (1954-1955), Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, The Annunciation (1335), Uffizi Gallery, Florence
* Jean-Antoine Watteau, Gilles (1718-1719), Louvre, Paris
* Hans Holbein,, The Dead Christ (1521-1522), Kunstmuseum, Basel
* Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (1656), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
* Funerary Mask of, Tutankhamun (1333BC-1323BC), Egyptian Museum, Cairo
* San Rock Art, South African National Museum, Cape Town, and at open air sites. - lordofhaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4appears to have also missed it...
- oldman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Election: Not to appear pedantic (I really am pedantic though :-)) Starry Starry Night is a Song by Don McClean. Vincent Van Gogh painted The Starry Nights.
Nice list, but barely scratches the surface... No Taj Mahal! There are THOUSANDS of Artists in hundreds of fields barely even mentioned here Rembrandt anyone? Bougerille perhaps? The list goes on - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ election
Keep your dirty fingers off the masterpiece. - pensivewombat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6agreed, just post the pics and save me the time and travel expenses!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What if you don't plan on dying?
- meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Sigh... why post a link to diggmirror if it did not get the content mirrored? That's just stupid.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4don't worry about seeing them online and ruining your experience. Also, don't mistake seeing them in a book or on the computer as an analog to seeing them in person.
Pollock is probably one of the most striking examples here. It is quite vogue to dis him, but when you are there in person it has an effect. It is something that relates to the scale. There are hand prints on the canvas. It evokes a human response. Innately you know the size of a human hand. It involves you in the scale and emotion of the work.
This summer I was in France visiting the caves. There are hand prints on the cave walls that were left as what must have been a ceremony. It is a human connection that a photograph does not convey. It hits you in the reptilian brain, and fires the good stuff right into your amygdala. - JPhilipson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What about the "Winged Victory of Samothrace"?
"Coronation of Princess Josephine"?
"Mona Lisa"?
"David"?
"Burning Man"? - andergriff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What! No Parthenon? No Roman forum? No Versailles? Please.....
- Markie1006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"expression of childhood innocence lost in a world of mass consumerism"
Bastard. Now I have to come up with something *else* deep and meaningful for my latest "masterpiece" - raisinbran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Some others to check out that weren't on the list:
Michelangelo's David
Botticelli's Birth of Venus
El Greco's Toledo
Also, there's a painting by a German artist of a funeral procession in winter around dusk at a ruined cathedral, but I can't remember what it's called... - LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4wow, dead before it hit the front page...
- Olex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I looked at first 5 pieces. All are some religious crap with no talent involved. If somebody needs to see this before he dies, then that person has a serious problem.
- johnpombrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One of the things that I found strange when I saw some of these masterpieces is how DRAB they look. I have a poster of Van Gogh's Starry night at home and I was really disappointed on how dark it looks in the real painting. The Mona Lisa is also very muddy. When they do a print, they really "restore" the vibrant colors to the work (or fake a new painting...).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I just saw them all on the Internets. Does that mean I'm allowed to die now?
- commiecat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was able to see a few of these works this past summer when we went to Italy. The art museums in Florence were incredible.
I'm kinda suprised that they didn't add Michelangelo's statue of David. It's undoubtedly one of the most breathtaking things I've ever seen. I'm a normal geek and I enjoy art but I'm far from an art fanatic/critic. The paintings were pretty impressive but seeing David was simply awesome and I mean that in the most literal sense of the word.
I'll be happy if I can get around to seeing half of those works. I certainly wish the same for all other Diggers. - sogracefully, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2oldman, not to appear even more pedantic, but it's night, not nights.
- kylesellers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Meh... I'll wait for the flickr group.
- MattL920, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@bebop:
You're right on the last point, you see art to open your eyes and view the world from a different perspective. But the question "what is art" is a valid and important one, and asking that question is how pioneering artists came up with their own individual methods that went against the orthodoxy.
Even now, a lot of people don't know how to approach "modern" art, and dismiss it a priori as crap that anybody could have thrown on a canvas. We should always question our boundaries, however stretched they may be. - mikemac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3There can be only one....
- appidydafoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3All of you better throw down $5 for mathowie! (When the site is back up and you can register, of course)
You already raped his personal blog server of bandwidth by direct linking to his video on the WiiSaber digg post earlier today, so you owe him!
I expect 10 accounts out of this, and half of you flaming out within the first week of membership. Huzzah! - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you see that right before you die, wouldn't that rather be a perfect example of irony?
- aposter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3yes.
- LustHog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2so subjectivity = unimportance? that makes no sense
- culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since the page is down, would anyone care to post their thoughts on what to see?
I would personally recommend the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. I don't know what is more amazing, the collection or the building itself. You literally don't know what to focus on because it's all so incredibly opulent and masterful.
http://images.google.com/images?as_q=hermitage+russia&hl=en&output=images&svnum=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&imgsz=xxlarge&as_filetype=&imgc=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images - raisinbran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ufia
I agree. Going to see that mosque in Iran that was on the list might be tricky these days for a Westerner. I'd save that one til the end, after you've seen all the other 49. - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You know where the place to go in London is? Forget all of the other galleries, if you like the Metropolitan Museum on the edge of Central Park in New York, you'd love the Victoria & Albert Museum on Cromwell road in London. It's filled with many different kinds of works, from metalwork to full-scale copies of great architecture (in some cases the original architecture has since been destroyed), to painting to fashion to photography. The week I was there they had a great exhibit on DaVinci, with a number of original pages from his manuscripts on display accompanied by animations showing how the inventions depicted would work (still ongoing I believe).
- bloobloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@superkendall: no, it would just be wrong
- Dustin00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Angela, Sandi, Dana, Cassie, Kelley.... bunch of others.
But why stop at 50? - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would say that for a well rounded experience, one should go see a Christo work (whenever the next one arrives). I was at the Gates in New York, and found it awesome to behold.
- satishc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1List mirror here -
http://www.shorttext.com/7cjf1 - bdbr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think what he's saying is that what people will like is totally subjective...so to say "you should see this art before you die" really means "you should see what I like before you die, even though you may not actually like it at all". Which is total nonsense.
The Louvre is great exercise, but its mostly important from the standpoint of art history; I'd take an afternoon in D'Orsay over that any day because I love impressionists. Someone else might not even want to stop by there, though. - TheThing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5The top user I don't want to see on digg anymore :
***** - shaun944, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@MattL
dugg up just for the Kantian a priori reference alone. But having graduated w/ a BFA from an art college, however, I do have to say that many artists use the "modern art" tag as an excuse to vomit on a canvas, make little effort and still produce work that sells because they come up with some deep sounding philosophical jargon to explain it.
That doesn't diminish that there are phenomenal works of modern art either, just that next time you see someone doing their best Jackson Pollock imitation splatterfest, don't necessarily buy their tagline that it was the expression of childhood innocence lost in a world of mass consumerism... - dicerandom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've seen some of these, many of them I haven't seen. As usual with art everyone is going to have their own opinion. Pollock's 'One: Number 31, 1950' at MoMA, for instance, is complete crap IMO although it features prominently on this list. Still, I suppose everyone should see it for themselves in order to make their own decisions.
Michelangelo's David isn't on that list, although I personally was blown away when I saw it. Neither is the Mona Lisa, which is over rated if you ask me but you have to see it just so that you can tell people that you have. There's also nothing by Dali, although I think he was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Long story short: Travel, visit exotic places, spend some time in the museums. Decide what you do and don't like on your own and ignore the pretentious artists. - kylesellers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ooooo... Ahhhh.... Zzzzzzz....
- 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Richard Serra sucks!!
Henry Moore is way better,
also check out the Rotko room at Tate Modern, London - halfnormalform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No Art Institute of Chicago? Boo. (And I don't even live there.)
- digival, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3well - you could go to moma for the pollock... or you could watch a contractor on some scaffolding drop paint on the tarp below... pretty much the same thing... well only he won't be violently drunk while doing it - hopefully...
i dunno... i've seen over half on the list and i feel the same as when i originally saw them in my art history classes... - reticular, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why is the list all pre-modern and modern works aside from smithson's spiral jetty?
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