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The World’s 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them)

Posted in Art by Kurt on March 10th, 2008

The human race has been making art for thousands of years. Here, in chronological order, critic Martin Gayford chooses his 50 artistic wonders of the world (with location info). This list is of course somewhat arbitrary as many other works of art could be on such list. Still all works that Marin Gayford selected should be known by you. Other lists can be found here (100 Great Paintings), or you could also e.g. buy 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die. Or perhaps you have some suggestions ?

I have added a link to every artwork on the list so you can quickly get some more info.

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  1. [...] world’s 50 best works of art and where to go to see them. Random Knowledge has links to all the art so you can check them out virtually in less time and for less [...]

  2. Husky said, on March 14th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    Since 49 of the 50 links in your list lead to Wikipedia i made a gallery of all these works with pictures that are available on Wikipedia. Note that many of these pictures are in the public domain or under a free license, so you can also use them for many purposes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Husky/The_World%E2%80%99s_50_Best_Works_of_Art

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  4. Kurt said, on March 14th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Thank you Hay.

  5. squashi said, on March 14th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    you’ve definitely got the wrong aluminum boxes by Judd. The ones on the list are outdoors, in marfa, tx. I think these are them: http://www.townandcountrytravelmag.com/vacation-ideas/best-vacations/marfa-texas-10-07

  6. squashi said, on March 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    er– i meant to say– they are lit by the outdoors, not actually situated outdoors. And they are the third photo in that link– not the first.

  7. Kurt said, on March 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Thank you squashi - have corrected the link.

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