Today is World Art Day!

Holly_Scope
Holly_Scope Posts: 1,949 Scope Online Community Coordinator
edited April 19 in Coffee lounge

This is celebrated all around the world by different cultures with a variety of styles and tastes. It’s an opportunity in a busy world, to take a moment to appreciate the beautiful things around us. 🌟

Art comes in a variety of different forms. A few examples are:

🎸 Music 🎶 📚️ Literature 📖 🎨 Paintings 🖼️

🕍 Architecture 🏛️ 💃 Dance 🕺 🎬️ Cinema 📽️ 🏺 Sculpting 🍶

A white woman with long brown hair in a dark dress. The background is a dark yellow sky and green bushes

As World Art Day is celebrated on Leonardo do Vinci’s birthday, I’ve added one of his most famous paintings “Mona Lisa”.

Da Vinci had many talents spanning a variety of fields from anatomy to botany.

He created designs for flying machines and armoured vehicles long before they were technologically feasible.

I’ve added a few links to art discussions created by our wonderful members ☺️

We'd love to hear about your talents, including any pictures! Or perhaps you have a favourite artist such as a musician/bank, or a movie?

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  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 983 Championing
    edited April 17

    I have a print of Roy Lichtenstein's 'Girl With Ball', painted in 1961 in oil on canvas. The original can be viewed in the Museum Of Modern Art in New York.

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  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 949 Pioneering

    My favourite is Pierre Auguste Renoir's, the 'Luncheon of the Boating Party' which is in the Phillip's Collection, Washington D.C. and it was one of my life's dreams to go and see the original. My (ex) husband bought me a big framed print but I gave it away after our divorce 🥲 but missed it so much and bought a small print soon after which has been on my kitchen window sill wherever I've lived ever since so I see it every day. It reminds me of me with my little dog that I had then and just connects me to a time that was very happy and sociable. Renoir didn't go to art school until he was c 21 and painted this when he was I think, 40.

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    PS The 'irony' of me loving this/feeling connected to it so much is my husbands' family are Greek Cypriot and we all used to go out to a restaurant regularly, 14 of us and there's 14 in the painting. I just love it so much, did I say that ? 🥰 I can understand why folks stand and gaze in art galleries- if I went to see this I'm sure I'd have stood for hours/days, admiring it.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 983 Championing
    edited April 17

    I have other pop art in my living room. I really like "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn by Andy Warhol (1964).

    The story behind the silkscreen "Shot Marilyns" is quite surprising; I will leave it up to anyone interested to look it up.

    It sold for $195 Million USD at Christie's New York in 2022.

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