Art that's moved you

[Art_dude]

I've never really posted in here, but I just saw another tread elsewhere about music that has brought you to tears... I thought I'd ask here about those who've had experiences with Art that has moved them deeply or even brought them to tears. I don't know how many of you actually are interested in the fine arts though.. i know most of you are more interested in manga/anime/illustrating and stuff.

I remember the most moving piece of art I've experienced thus far as Rembrandt's self portrait 1669 (his last self portrait) at the National gallery in London. Moved to tears.

Second was a Rothko in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. Though the works of David, Bernini, and Michelangelo never cease to inspire. I was thoroughly moved to tears by the Pieta and the ecstasy of St. Theresa.

[deadpie]

Basquiat has been a huge inspiration to me. One of my favorites of his is this one (http://www.soho-art.com/cgi-bin/shop/shop.pl?fid=1182401688&cgifunction=form). I do allot of things that I see in his work. I draw teeth, eyes, and crowns allot just the same way he does it seems like. So I do feel like after seeing his shit I was blown away.

[-Silence]

Doesn't exactly "move" me, but I like it.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c384/-Silence/Despair.jpg

[darkwoon]

I've never really posted in here, but I just saw another tread elsewhere about music that has brought you to tears... I thought I'd ask here about those who've had experiences with Art that has moved them deeply or even brought them to tears. I don't know how many of you actually are interested in the fine arts though.. i know most of you are more interested in manga/anime/illustrating and stuff.
Yes, though, for the most part, by relatively "minor" paintings from the XVI-XVIIIth Centuries, depicting daily lives scenes. For the most part, major ones leave me technically impressed but sentimentally cold.

One famous paint that I found moving is Children Games from Pieter Bruegel the Old (I saw it at the Art Museum of Wien) - far from the grandiloquence of many paints, that one gives an insight of the simplest moments in life with (IMO) a lot of self-experience thrown in by the artist.

I tend to be more easily moved by daily life objects of ancient civilizations - Egyptian scale models or the graffiti on the walls of Pompei were definitely what I'd call "a moving experience" for me.

Can't say I've ever been pushed to tears by art, though - but I'm hardly pushed to such extremes by anything, regardless of the media.

Just for the record, I make no difference between "fine arts" and "manga/anime/illustrating and stuff" - they are all visual arts, and I make no real separation between an advertisement of Alfred Mucha, a paint of Paul Veronese, or a Franquin's inked panel.

[TheFame]

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[deadpie]

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Good song and good video, but I don't think that's the type of art we're talking about on here. :l

[TheFame]

Oops, that was my bad. I didnt even read the post. That was stupid of me :P

[Jennifer's Ashes]

I love Renoir, i think that his paintings are very powerful in how impeccably realist they are. and in Italy when we went to see the sistien chapel (if I spelled that right XD...?)it brought both my father and myself to tears. but then again, almost all the art in italy made me cry. I agree with Alex that Rembrandt's last self portrait put me in tears. I think that the works of degas are very moving because of how incredibly tortured he was by art itself. As for music, which I consider art, beethovens ninth symphony never ceases to amaze me .(and I sob every time I hear it) there's also some old lullaby that always grips me on a personal level, which was sung by my opera singer/aunt at my great grandfathers funeral. Then, back to material arts, there's a portrait which was uncovered in the city of Pompeii of a young couple on their wedding day (which would make any sane person emotional). And, another personal one, my grandfather (who shared my birthday and died the day I was born, so on his own birthday) was also a great artist as for figurative things. There's one old sketch of his framed in my house which I can't even look at when I walk by it.
So I guess that just goes to show how incredibly artistically- minded I am- lol.