Post a pic of your favorite painting

[L A Woman]

The Janitor Who Paints by Palmer Hayden. Fantastic.

[XemaSab]

1. .

[L A Woman]

2. I forgot to mention...

Thomas Kinkade is banned from appearing in this thread! :-)

[Sequoia]

14. AH GREED !!!

He paints a depressing dark world.

[ThomCat]

43. *choke*

okay, that's just wrong.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

66. This painting would be perfect

with few dead fish floating in the pond

[slybacon9]

79. a perfectly good thread.... ruined.

[RedG1]

3. almost anything by Jim Warren...

http://www.jimwarren.com

[asthmaticeog]

4. Thomas Kincade's "Gas Grass or Ass, Nobody Rides for Free"

KIDDING. This is Cy Twombly's "Autumno."

[Radio_Lady]

71. Oh, I thought that was painted by an elephant, y'know -- with his trunk!

Looks like his pen set exploded in his luggage all over his white T-shirt!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. A painting by my daughter......she paints professionally now.

It is of course much more luminous in real life.....

[L A Woman]

7. WOW, that is great!

Very impressive, indeed!

[djeseru]

6. On the Europe Bridge

...by Gustave Caillebotte.



My apologies for the poor scan...it has a stronger impact when you see him in person.

[asthmaticeog]

8. Where does that hang?

I think I've seen it, but I can't place where.

[djeseru]

13. At the Kimbell in Fort Worth.

A nice great big canvas to get lost in too.

[asthmaticeog]

18. Ah, then I haven't seen it.

Must be thinking of something else.

Thanks.

[Radio_Lady]

62. I've taken a liking to Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927)

He's an American Impressionist. I like most of what he's done.





Maybe because I always see an older sister and a young brother (my children are in that order).

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

42. OY VEY - Caillebotte! MY MAN!

:hug:

[progmom]

9. this is one of them

[Beaverhausen]

32. Get out!!! I was just going to look for that painting on the web

I love love love love love Chagall!

[progmom]

41. yay!!

glad i'm not alone! :hug:

[Beaverhausen]

51. My calendar at work is Chagall

Here is the painting for May:

[miss_american_pie]

10. Mary Cassatt

Louise Feeding her Child

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. My sentimental side likes this:

Sargeant:


My surreal side likes Mark Ryden:


My angry side likes Basquiat:


My awed side likes El Greco:


My 80's side likes Keith Haring:


My "these days" side likes Mars 1:


and Doze Green:


In short - there's no answer to this question.

[seemunkee]

24. I have the Mars-1 figures

Their very well done. Hope he puts out some more.

[Fenris]

12. Favorite at the moment

[djeseru]

17. If I'm wrong, please tell me.

Is that Egon Schele? I was trying to read the signature in the corner...

Wow, this is having a huge emotional impact, thanks for sharing it.

[Fenris]

29. Yes it is.

"Death and the Maiden"

[arwalden]

15. Although she put on a brave face, Alice was not happy...

Although she put on a brave face, Alice was not happy with her bootleg dentures.

[RandomKoolzip]

36. That's beautiful, but it's missing a volcano.

[EstimatedProphet]

73. That picture is somehow very disturbing

[_testify_]

16. A Friend in Need

Yes, this is the kind of art I like. :)

[kay1864]

19. This Monet

Vetheuil, 1901. Turns out Monet did several paintings of Vetheuil, but I saw this one at an exhibit in Atlanta, and fell in love with it.

Sadly, they had no prints of it in the gift shop. It's from the Pushkin museum in Moscow. Maybe I should contact their gift shop--do they have those in Russian museums?

(right-click and Show Picture if you see a red X)

Or click here (dang hotlinks...)

[SteppingRazor]

20. Anything by Sas Christian...

(I own a print of this one)

Check out all her stuff at http://www.hotboxdesigns.com/

[malta blue]

21. the kiss... klimt

[Jean Louise Finch]

64. I also love Klimt

But my favorite isn't the Kiss, it's the Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence series. When I was living in Europe, my girlfriends were so lovely as to get me for one birthday a trip for all of us to Vienna, with the express purpose of seeing these amazing works of art:

It wasn't until after they'd booked the tickets and I had done some more research that I realised they had all been destroyed!

p.s. sorry for the size -- I can't find a bigger one.

[vikegirl]

22. Dali

Swans Reflecting Elephants:



Edit: Damn typos!

[Left_Winger]

23. Kandinsky - Black and Violet

[seemunkee]

25. Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley

[Jara sang]

58. That reminds me of Winslow Homer's

The Gulfstream Another one of my favorites.

[Jara sang]

59. ...and it reminds me of "The Raft of Medusa"

[Cobalt Violet]

81. Have you seen that one in person?

It's in the Museam of Fine Arts in Boston. It's awesome and huge.

[seemunkee]

84. Yes, I saw it last summer

Most impressive.

[0007]

26. Great pictures....all of them

Ship of Fools

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

27. Triumph of Death- Brueghel the Elder

[GumboYaYa]

46. I like that.

I thought it was Hieronymos Bosch at first.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

49. Both Flemish masters.

Bosch certainly inspired Brueghel's "Fall of the Rebel Angels."

[DancingBear]

52. I have it on an album cover - does that count??

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. 'Master Bedroom' by Andrew Wyeth

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. My dear Oeditpus Rex!

Wyeth is my second favorite painter...after my daughter, of course!

And this is certainly one of his most beautiful pictures.....

GREAT choice!

:toast: :bounce: :bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

44. Wyeth is one of my favorite artists!

"Christina's World"

[GumboYaYa]

82. That's one of my favorite paintings also.

I love Wyeth and Hopper.

[applegrove]

78. Love that one!

[Richardo]

30. "Boston Common at Twilight" by Childe Hassam

I saw this at the Denver Art Museum in 1986 or so. It is an enormous painting and the colors are amazing.

[Jean Louise Finch]

67. Speaking of huge paintings related to Boston

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, they have this Singer-Sargent that is just magnificent:



on edit: I should explain the connection. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in Boston, and this particular painting is huge -- takes up a whole wall -- and is just emoting off the wall with its color and passion.

[ghostsofgiants]

31. A few...

Salvador Dali


Luke Chueh


Audrey Kawasaki

[swag]

33. This self-portrait by Francis Bacon is pretty good, I think.

[RandomKoolzip]

35. At the moment, it's this one by Donald Roller Wilson:

The full title of this painting is:

THE DOG BY THE LAKE ON THE WALL OF MY ROOM
HAS NO THOUGHTS OF A HIGH HEELED SHOE
WHICH COMES UP FROM BEHIND ON THE FOOT OF A GHOST
WHO WAS PIERCED BY A FRUIT—(SOME WOULD FEAR)

BUT I LOOK THROUGH EYES OF THE FACE OF A LION
AND THE DEER LOOKS THROUGH EYES OF A DEER
WHILE BARBARA LOOKS INTO A ROOM OUT IN FRONT
AND WAITS FOR HER SOUL TO APPEAR

WHILE SHIRLEY LOOKS INTO A BELL GLASS JAR
AND WAITS FOR HER SOUL TO APPEAR
Donald Roller Wilson, 1975

[Zhade]

37. Someone should do a "paint a pic of your favorite posting" thread.

:D

[Puglover]

38. Un dimanche apres-midi a Ille de la Grande Jatte

Gotta love pointallism.

[atomic-fly]

39. this one is powerful

[WeRQ4U]

76. That's Picasso's Guernica isn't it?

That thing is huge. I've never seen it in person though. That would be powerful.

[atomic-fly]

83. yes it is....they have a copy of it at UN building.

Of course they covered it up when they were lying to the public
to justify attacking Iraq.

[Tikki]

40. "Twittering Machine".....1922...

Paul Klee

[SeattleGirl]

45. "The Starry Night" -- Van Gogh. One of my favorites.

[ironflange]

63. Another vote for Starry Night

I have a framed print and a coffee mug, and it's also my desktop wallpaper.

[SeattleGirl]

70. I have a one-of-a-kind of Starry Night

When MrSG was in art school, they had an assignment called "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words." They could do anything they wanted for the assignment. He made a faux poster for the Seattle Arm Museum. The picture on the poster was Starry Night. It was done with colored pencils, and the entire thing was made up of the words do Don McLean's "Vincent" ("Starry Starry Night"). It's an amazing piece of work. From regular viewing distance, you can't really tell what the picture is composed of, but step a little closer, and you can read the words.

[u4ic]

47. Sisley's "The Seine at Suresnes"

[GumboYaYa]

48. Tough question, this changes all the time for me.

It's tough to pass on some of Picasso's work. "The Night Watch" is an amazing work and I love Rembrandt, but today I am going with my favorite American artist:

[SeattleGirl]

50. I don't know if this exactly fits the category, but this is my

favorite Mucha piece:

[Jade Fox]

53. Breton...Song of the Lark

Also, the Kiss by gustav Klimt, but someone already has that.

[NNadir]

54. Delvaux, Phases of the Moon II

It's about not seeing, I think.

[bridgit]

55. i like that one, i like many genres & schools, but i like this one too...

eh, and a dali for balance :thumbsup:

[Jara sang]

56. I like these two:

Portrait of Andy (Warhol) By Jamie Wyeth


Portrait of Jamie (Wyeth) with Tan Background By Andy Warhol

[bridgit]

57. i love andy...

:-)

[hyphenate]

60. I'm into fantasy art a lot

And so I have many "favorites."

Among the artists I enjoy a great deal are Rassouli (http://www.rassouli.com)

Just a few Examples:




Josephine Wall



Schim Schimmel





and others


I also enjoy Edward Hopper. One of my favorite pieces of his is this one:
Rooms by the Sea




I also enjoy a few other artists, including the group of Seven from Canada--there are actually more like 20, not 7, because through the years, the artists often changed; Paul Peel, another Canadian, who died very young, but painted in a very old fashioned, traditional manner; and perhaps a fairly long list of artist we're all familiar with: DaVinci, Monet, VanGogh, etc.

[bedpanartist]

61. Chick Deny is fabulous as Tupak Shakur

[Marshall McClueless]

65. I'm rocking out to some Tom Thomson right now.

Northern Lights, 1915.



Wildflowers, 1916.

[crispini]

68. Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie

[wovenpaint]

69. ok...Kandinsky

one of many favorites. He was a genius!

[Haole Girl]

72. Irises, Vincent Van Gogh

I was absolutely enchanted when I saw this painting at the DeYoung Museum, I had no idea it looked so blue to the naked eye.

The colors are spectacular!

[EstimatedProphet]

74. Some of my favorites-the sign of a troubled mind

Bacon-'Head with Sides of Beef'


Goya-'Saturn Devouring his Children'


Van Gogh-'Wheatfield with Crows'

[SmileyBoy]

75. Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks"

[Aristus]

77. Mine is kind of an odd choice:

'Office In A Small City" by Edward Hopper. I first saw it in an art appreciation book geared for kids under 12 or so. It has stayed with me ever since.

[ScreamingMeemie]

80. The Arnolfini Marriage...I am old school Humanities...

:)



I fell in love with all of the symbolism. Is she or isn't she? ;)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

85. The Van Eycks are my absolute favorites