What’s the most beautiful art/architecture you’ve ever seen in person?
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I read that as "in prison".
i think it may be the inside of a church.. cant recall which one it was but i do remember being impressed
also mosks
beehive vibes
I don’t have a great answer to this…it might be gold and jeweled objects in the Worcester Art Museum just because it was very early on and it caught me by surprise that I liked them so much? It took about 11-12 years to come back to that kind of work and appreciate it.
At that time I had blinders on and could only think of art in terms of oil paintings. So it was a gradual process to appreciate that all of these other mediums could be compared to each other and bring different things to the table.
Probably Sevilla cathedral, in fact Sevilla has a lot of really impressive architecture, the bullring is quite intimidating when you are standing in the middle if it (Real Maestranza de Caballería).
La Sagrada Familia
Duomo di Milano.
Banksy’s stencil art rats
It’s a tie between Romare Bearden - Summertime & Salvador Dali - Santiago El Grande
I am probablt biased but I love the painting by Swedish painter Carl Gustaf Hellqvist; 'Valdemar Atterdag brandskattar Visby', finished in 1882.
It's a gargantuan painting covering a full wall at the National Museum in Stockholm and I can recommend seeing it in its full size.
Hellquist, the son of a shoe-maker, was awarded a gold medal for this painting in Wienna the same year. Alas he was plagued with headaches in the years after, which obviously wasn't cured by the electro-shocks he received as 'treatment'. He passed away 8 years after he finished his masterpiece, in 1890.
This is beutiful in my opinion
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So many, Barcelona, Istanbul, Florence, Vienna, London, York, Singapore, Paris.
The desert
Never experienced anything like nature has to offer.
The Gherkin
Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Socorro y San Pablo Apóstol. It's located in Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico. Built in the XVI C. under the order of the Augustinians; according to Kubler (1943) it's one of the portentous examples of gothic architecture in Mexico.
In the outside is colossal. Augustinians had this custom of being ambitious over their architectural enterprises —as oposed to Franciscans, whom buildings were more humble. This ambition sometimes lead to failure so for they didn't care about context, say, planned everything that big in size that sometimes both materials and workforce was scarce. Yet Yuriria's convent went prosperous thanks, in part, because of Yuriria's lake natural resources.
