For the first Art Poll By Bob of 2009 I asked, “Which of the following wintry works is the most chill to you?” You frostily replied that Pieter Brueghel the Elder's Hunters in the Snow (1565) was the chillingest, with 19 supporters, just edging out Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea of Ice (1823-1825), which received 16 votes. Andy Goldsworthy's Icicle Star (1980s) matched the late Andrew Wyeth's First Snow, Study for Groundhog Day (1959) with 10 votes. John Henry Twachtman's Winter Harmony (1890-1900) with 4 votes and Hiroshige's Mountains and Rivers on the Kiso Road (1857), Claude Monet's Snow at Argenteuil (1875), and Vincent van Gogh's Landscape with Snow (1888) with 2 votes each rounded out the field. Thanks to everyone who braved the cold and voted.
For February’s Art Poll By Bob, I’m heating things up. Love is in the air, so in honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m asking, “Which of these famous kisses gets you in the mood?”:
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The First Kiss (1873)
Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss (1908)
Marc Chagall, The Birthday (1915)
Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (1907-1908)
Roy Lichtenstein, Kiss V (1965)
Edvard Munch, The Kiss (1892)
Auguste Rodin, The Kiss (1889)
Franz von Stuck, The Kiss of the Sphinx (1895)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, In Bed: The Kiss (1892)
None of these smooches may reach the top 5 all time, like the kiss at the end of The Princess Bride (top of post), but they come close. Grab your sweetie, pucker up, and vote!
