Choosing "The Starry Night" by Van Gogh as the best work of art in the modern era
It was painted by Van Gogh while he was in a mental institution
Yesterday, a vote to choose the best work of art in the modern era ended with the victory of an oil painting painted by the Dutch impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh during his stay in 1889 in a sanatorium for patients in southern France. Talk in New York.
The painting, which was purchased by the museum from the heirs of the American Lillie P. Bliss, collector of antiques, got 44% of the votes of a campaign organized by the British Jacksons of Yorkshire in cooperation with Create, the director of art and communication programs “with those who do not usually have opportunities for creativity.” Balloon or "Balloon Girl" mural by the mysterious British artist Banksy got 42% of the vote, and ranked second.
Balloon Girl, Screamer and Thinker
The painting of the graffiti painter Banksy, many copies of which appeared on many walls in most parts of London after it was painted in 2002 as one of a series of murals of the artist whose biography Al Arabiya.net read that he is striving so that no image of him appears on the Internet or any media, and it depicts A little girl is trying to catch a heart-shaped balloon that appears in front of her, with wind swaying, and pushes it away from her grip.
naked on a rock
And what is reported in the media about the painting, whose original and copies no longer exist on any wall in which it previously appeared, except for pictures of it in the media, making it “a symbol of hope, love and freedom,” according to what they describe as “the balloon girl” whose idea “Banksy borrowed in 2005 from a checkpoint in the West Bank, as in 2014 of the Syrian refugee crisis.
Water lilies, by Monet
Water lilies painting
As for the third place, the statue of Le Penseur or “The Thinker”, which is considered the most famous work of the late French sculptor Augustine Rodin in 1917, at the age of 77, came in bronze. He sculpted it in 1904 for a young man sitting naked on a rock, with the elbow of his right hand on his left thigh, and he carries the weight of his chin on the back. his right palm.
The $20 million billboard
The rest includes other famous sculptures and paintings, including The Scream, or “The Scream”, which was sold by an auction in 2012 for $ 120 million. It is for the late Norwegian Edvard Munch in 1944 at the age of 80, and it occupied the fourth degree, followed by the fifth painting Nympheas or “Water Lilies” of the Impressionists. The late French Claude Monet, on display at the American Art Institute of Chicago.
Picasso's painting, of the destruction of Guernica caused by joint German-Italian bombing
Picasso painting
As in the rest, a famous painting by the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, which ranked 14th, for her face and chest studded with a black necklace in the form of the famous "hummingbird" of its small size, according to what Al Arabiya.net summarized in a report on the vote published by the British newspaper "Daily Mirror". Yesterday, in which a mural painted by Picasso in the middle of 1937 about the destruction caused by the German-Italian bombing by planes in the Spanish town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War of that year, occupied the 15th degree and its image above.
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