List 05: 100 Great Artworks To View

Hey everyone! So here I am with another list - this time about the wonderful world of ART!! In creating this list, I had a couple of prerequisite pieces that I obviously had to see - I mean, can you imagine making a list such as this and not adding something like The Starry Night, The Venus de Milo, or The Mona Lisa?! I mean, my cousin has seen The Mona Lisa, and has told me that it is somewhat overrated, but still - it's The Freaking Mona Lisa. To compile this list without some of these pieces would be a crime against culture.

One observation that I did make whilst searching for ways to beef up the list is that there are a lot of religious pieces out there, and it seems that every person on the face of the planet with an opinion about which artworks I view believes that my life is incomplete until I've born witness to them. One of the most ludicrous additions to said lists was a seemingly incessant demand for me to head to Texas to see The Rothko Chapel. Now, I'm not saying that all modern art is high-wankery (a term I highly endorse), but for someone to list it alongside The Sistine Chapel on a list of 20 of the most important artworks one could see in one's lifetime is just...well...I can't find words to express what that makes me feel, but I'm sure it has something to do with being pretentious...

Anyway, here is my list - if you have any other suggestions then please add them! I am loving how many suggestions I'm getting from you guys!!

1. The Madonna Of Chancellor Rolin - Jan van Eyck
2. The Burial Of St. Lucy - Caravaggio
3. Aristotle With A Bust Of Homer - Rembrandt
4. Mont Sainte-Victoire From Les Lauves - Paul Cezanne
5. Moses - Michelangelo
6. The Adoration Of The Magi - Leonardo da Vinci
7. The School Of Athens - Raphael
8. Nympheas - Claude Monet
9. One: Number 31 - Jackson Pollock
10. Funerary Mask Of Tutankhamun
11. Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo
12. The Scream - Edvard Much
13. The Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh
14. Guernica - Pablo Picasso
15. Las Meninas - Velazquez
16. The Dance II - Henry Matisse
17. The Elgin Marbles
18. Danae - Titan
19. The Mona Lisa - Leonardo DaVinci
20. Aphrodite of Milos (The Venus de Milo) - Alexandros Of Antioch (Potentially)
21. Nighthawks - Edward Hopper
22. Improvisation 30 (Cannons) - Wassily Kandinsky
23. Painting With Green Center - Wassily Kandinsky
24. Nude Under Pine Tree - Pablo Picasso
25. L'Homme Qui Marche I - Albert Giacometti
26. The Old Guitarist - Pablo Picasso
27. The Child's Bath - Mary Cassatt
28. Jacques And Berthe Lipchitz - Amedeo Modigliani
29. Day Of The Gods - Paul Gauguin
30. Greyed Rainbow - Jackson Pollock
31. Tanktotem No. 1 - David Smith
32. Bathers By A River - Henri Matisse
33. In The Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
34. Portrait Of Balzac - Auguste Rodin
35. The Red Armchair - Pablo Picasso
36. Seated Woman - Pablo Picasso
37. UNESCO Reclining Figure - Henry Moore
38. America Windows - Marc Chagall
39. A Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatta - Georges Seurat
40. The Thinker - Auguste Rodin
41. David - Michelangelo
42. The Gates Of Hell - Auguste Rodin
43. The Death Of The Virgin - Caravaggio
44. Three Black Cats - Maud Lewis
45. The Brooklyn Bridge - Joseph Stella
46. Dempsey And Firpo - George Dellows
47. Meditative Rose - Salvador Dali
48. Tournee du Chat Noir - Steinlen
49. Nudge Descending A Staircase - Marcel Duchamp
50. The Angelus - Jean-Francois Millet
51. Washington Crossing The Delaware - Leutze
52. Orange And Yellow - Mark Rothko
53. Christina's World - Andrew Wyeth
54. Irises - Vincent van Gogh
55. The Peaceable Kingdom - Edward Hicks
56. The Horse Fair - Rosa Bonheur
57. Femme - Pablo Picasso
58. Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose - John Singer Sargent
59. Human Proportions (Vitruvian Man) - Leonardo da Vinci
60. Soft Watch At The Moment Of Explosion - Salvador Dali
61. The Persistence Of Memory - Salvador Dali
62. Sunflowers - Vincent van Gogh
63. Three Musicians - Pablo Picasso
64. The Lady Of Shalott - Waterhouse
65. Three Flags - Jasper Johns
66. View Of Toledo - El Greco
67. Blue Nude - Pablo Picasso
68. Cafe Terrace At Night - Vincent van Gogh
69. Master Bedroom - Andrew Wyeth
70. The Young Martyr - Paul Delaroche
71. Figure Five In Gold - Charles Demuth
72. Campbell's Soup Cans - Andy Warhol
73. Blue Poles - Jackson Pollock [Recommended By A Tall Dark Stranger]
74. Summer At Carcoar - Brett Whitely [Recommended By Hopstar72]
75. Self Portrait In The Studio - Brett Whitely [Recommended By Hopstar72]
76. Possessed - Albert Tucker [Recommended By Hopstar72]
77. The Ecstasy Of Cecilia - Mark Ryden [Recommended By Hopstar72]
78. Waldspirale - Friedensreich Hundertwasser [Recommended By Hopstar72]
79. Nerang River Pool - William Robinson [Recommended By Hopstar72]
80. Painting 1946 - Francis Bacon [Recommended By Hopstar72]
81. First Letter Of St. Paul IV - Peter Gardiner [Recommended By Hopstar72]
82. Solarization - Man Ray [Recommended By Hopstar72]
83. Madonna - Edvard Munch [Recommended By Hopstar72]