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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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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