I've always been a big fan of Turner , his oil paintings of the ocean are so mysterious & gloomy.

I'm not sure it counts as a sculpture but The Corpus Clock spoke to something deep inside of me when I was a depressed student with deadlines desperately looking for something to do with my life

I'm quite fond of Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan by Ilya Repin. There's something about the eyes that gives me chills every time I see it.

does architecture count as art? because the kremlin saint basil's is one of the loveliest buildings i've ever seen. disney's castle wishes it was as vibrant and beautiful as this

no special reasoning though, just looked at it as a kid and went, "holy shit this is peak architecture"

I love french realism because it was basically the first dirtbag art movement. Painting beautiful portraits of drunks and whores to be displayed in the National Gallery where libs were looking to take in beauty in a guilt-free way while in Pre-commune Paris.

I’ve only made this connection for the first time right now.

First thing that comes to mind is the Thomas Burke engraving of Fuseli's The Nightmare The painting loses something in bright light. When I saw it if was almost like I felt like I wasn't alone in how scared I was of my dreams.

I've always loved zdzisław beksiński

Some really cool surreal/morbid art that's similar to H.R. Giger, but more organic than biomechanical.

I love the motifs of doorways, castle like buildings, and skulls and skeletons. All of it looks like it could take place in some weird post-apocalyptic reality.

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I don't know if the Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue series are my favorite paintings, but the story around them is so great they're definitely in my top five.

People love to jerk themselves into a frenzy over abstract art, and I love seeing people's insane reactions to it in the same way that I love going into subredditdrama to look at internet people being crazy for no reason. These particular paintings have been repeated targets of knife attacks, but what's even stranger is that despite how simple the painting seems it turns out there's subtle things going on because when they tried to restore it everyone could instantly tell that the restoration was botched. This lead to the gallery running it through a second restoration, and the first guy who restored it suing the city that owned the gallery for defamation.

Fascists in particular really love to hate abstract art, and I wonder if that's part of the reason why I'm attracted to it.

Giuseppe Penone's "born" series Got me into contemporary art:

https://twitter.com/Giuseppe_Penone/status/871505831107362816?s=20

They are basically a bunch of industrial blocks of wood where the young "tree" was carved out of the rings. I saw this in an Art Povera exhibition around 2011 and when i understood what was going on there, it just felt like everyday objects turned into poetry. It also aligned perfectly with the art Povera Manifesto of trying to rescue something beautiful from what most people would consider trash.

I've seen a lot of artwork in my lifetime so it's funny that these humble little blocks of wood just pop up in my head again and again.

This one is cool: Melancholy by Albert György

Check out Dubuffet. He spent a lot of time perfecting art that looks like a child might have done it.