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    I'm curious what works of art (painting, song, sculpture, photography, poetry, prose, architecture, any) have most moved you in your life?

    For me one is Picasso's Guernica--his depiction of a town decimated by the Nazis. I'm impressed with his courage, also: when the Nazis came into Paris, a Nazi officer looked at Picasso's gigantic Guernica canvas and asked "Did you do this?"

    "No," Picasso said. "You did."

    I love the work of Renoir--I feel, looking at his "Ball at the Moulin de la Gallette, Montmartre," that I've fallen through the painting into history. Renoir said there are two qualities to art: "it must be indescribable...and it must be inimitable."

    I love some of Springsteen's lyrics, also (I won't quote right), as when his fallen character, speaking to a state cop, says, "you've got kids and a wife, and the only thing I've got I've been running from all my life..."

    -- and Springsteen's portrait of desire, "at night I lay with the sheets all wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head..." great stuff.

    So what moves you?
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    Theres too much to list.

    it can be something simple as a picture or painting, to song lyrics, to sports (yes if you watch sports in motion and see the person/people vs the other team as well as going against themselves it can be very artistic and emotional).

    I've always had a soft-spot for Impressionism after I went to Monet's home in Giverny France.

    As well as some classical music, someone posted that Paul Potts youtube ting a few months ago. Below is a link to an OK video, but the music is there, its Smetana's Vltava in which he composed the pieced based on his home-land (Czech Republic) and the major river in the country. He beings from the mountains with the snow melting to small streams to a small river to a large river passing towns, and the final piece is the river emptying in the the Danube I believe with a majestic castle at the end....

    OK enuf of me being a nerd...

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    I'll be a nerd with you, G-Real. Vltava is amazing--shows me that you're absolutely right: there are too many to mention. There is certainly a great deal of inspiration all around us, always waiting, if we're smart enough to reach for it when we need and want it.
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    Oveall art does not have to be emotional, but, rather make a person react/think.

    The Guggenheim has a good exhibit when I ws there acouple of months ago; they had light-up dance floor that itself was an exhibit of contemporary art, whcihc poeple were allowed to walk ok, take pics, etc. You go 1 floor up and there is a small balacony overlooking the floor, and rather than the the floor being the sole artwork, the artists also incorporated the poeple who react as part of the piece of art as well.

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    I had such fun in the Louvre this spring, and the Tate Modern...

    My favourite painter is Vermeer. So beautiful and emotional. It's like looking in on such personal moments.

    But I'm a huge girl about 'emotionally moving art'. I cry for movies ALL the time. Good movies, not the dorky ones...but like Brokeback Mountain for example? I was such a mess. My friend was laughing at me. I was just SOBBING in the theatre. All these people were like "woah, pull it together girl". Haha. I kept saying "It's...just...so...sad and beautiful!"

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    I'm in love with Vermeer also--it seems amazing to me to look in on those personal moments and realize that they happened centuries ago: to me, it is like having a window into history.
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    I LOVE folk art. There's an artist named "Kiki" with a painting called "A veces la vida nos da sorpresas." I have a print hung in my kitchen. OK, it's a framed postcard but I love it! (English: Sometimes life hands us surprises.)

    I'm almost always inspired by Haitian folk art too.

    Classical stuff -- Monet.

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    I love a lot of folk art too--your post made me think also of Frieda, whose art, like so much folk art, came directly from her soul and pain. What a hero she was. I also love your inscription--that we're not here to find ourselves, but to create ourselves. Wonderful. I'm going to look for Kiki. Thank you.
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    If you find Kiki art, let me know. I've googled and googled and have found nothing. I discovered her over a decade ago and have kept that little print (postcard) for THAT long.

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    Music and photography. I can be driven to tears or explode with happiness from music especially. And no, it doesn't even have to have words. Even classical can be quite moving.

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    Definitely Music the most. Rachmaninoff is awe inspiring. How can any human be that good at anything?

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    ahmeerah, is there any chance it's Kiki Smith? That's where my mind instantly went. I'm sure you've run across her before in your searchings, and while her work isn't technically Folk, her style has been described as being influenced by it, so I just thought I'd throw that out there just in case. Primarily known for sculpture, but still did a lot of print work too.
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    I've always loved Edgar Allen Poe's writing.
    My grandma used to play Native American flute music while we slept when I was little. It's the most soothing sound ever.
    I also love the sound of classical guitar and piano (my dad is a guitarist and I, a pianist).

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    I was going to say the Guernica as well. I first saw it as a slide on the wall in a History of Art class - pretty lame - and it still took my breath away and made me cry. I see prints of it sometimes and it chokes me up. There's just so much emotion and turmoil in it, and that bull standing quietly watching just horrifies me to no end.

    Also, To Live, a Chinese film by Zhang Yimou. I first saw it as a teenager in the mid 1990's and it changed my life. That was when I realized the potential for cinema as an art form, and how it could unite humanity around our same feelings and hopes and dreams, despite our different cultures. That movie *is* the human experience, in a nutshell. It is universal and it should have changed the world.

    The Todd Solondz film Happiness, and his film Palindromes, have also affected me greatly. Todd Solondz is the kind of filmmaker I aspire to be. He is the most underrated genius in the history of cinema.

    Helmut Newton's photography blows me away, and so does the music of Tchaikovsky.

    That's an extremely limited list. I love art.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    That's an extremely limited list. I love art.
    See, I know just what you mean. Any list of mine would be limited. I don't even know where to begin.

    Art is a huge part of my life and always has been - listing four or five things would seem bizarre to me, when there literally are hundreds amd hundreds of others, in all kinds of media, all affecting me differently, but how do you quantify?

    Just starting with a recent piece as a point of departure - experiencing the Sistine Chapel in person was profoundly moving, but so was the experience of witnessing a Bill Viola self-immolation video. Listening to the second movement of Beethoven's Ninth makes me weep, but so do some 20th century pop artists. Spalding Grey (RIP, sniff) forever changed what I thought a modern monologue was capable of, and yet new interpretations of Shakespeare's monologues continue to amaze and astonish me. Mark Morris just continues to blow my mind with every step he choreographs.

    So, me too. I like art. It's just easier for me to start out with some narrowing down. But I know the idea is to share new things with others, jhuka. If I had to recommend ONLY ONE THING, assuming the form is open: "Baraka" is a film I think everyone on planet Earth should see at least once. Never have I been at once so humbled and so proud to be even a tiny part of this world.
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    Thank you, you guys--so many great suggestions here that I'll go after, starting with "Baraka" and "To Live" -- I've got access to a good film library, and these should be there. What a great memory, Lucki, of the native flute music. Thank you all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RoseWhite View Post
    ahmeerah, is there any chance it's Kiki Smith? That's where my mind instantly went. I'm sure you've run across her before in your searchings, and while her work isn't technically Folk, her style has been described as being influenced by it, so I just thought I'd throw that out there just in case. Primarily known for sculpture, but still did a lot of print work too.
    Nope, it's not Kiki Smith.

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    Documentaries about hardships in life, in the world. I'll never forget the statement uttered by a Mexican woman living in poverty when the documentary interviewer asked her about her situation. "How do I FEEL?" She said, with tears brimming in her eyes. It's possible no one ever asked before.

    Also when Lisa Ling went to Haiti and Afghanistan for "Oprah" to document children living in war zones and ghettos. The Haitian kids inferred she was stupid for not understanding what was "normal" to them, and a Afghani kid pointed a semiautomatic gun at her in jest and laughed. So she cried for them.

    LIFE magazine- though now in the internet age, moving photos and photojournalism is more readily accessible through many online libraries.

    As for pretty art, it's like masturbation for me, a nice thing, but a little selfish joy.

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    I'd have to say just about anything by Georgia O'Keefe and Dale Chihuly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaigeDWinter View Post
    Dale Chihuly.
    Oh lord. Chihuly is amazing. The Missouri Botanical Gardens had a HUGE Chihuly exhibit last year. Unfortunately, it was during the summer when St. Louis had that huge windstorm that knocked out most of the city's power and the wind destroyed almost everything. It was a shame.

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