Post your favorite painting.

[terrya]

This is my favorite. It's at the Art Institute here in Chicago.

[Perry Logan]

1. Max Ernst, "The Eye of Silence"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

82. Wonderful!

[Crazy Dave]

2. That's a hard on as I like everything Velázquez did

But I guess this one. I've been to the Prado and saw it in person and the spinning wheel looks real.

[RetroLounge]

13. I think you mean a hard "one"

:rofl:

RL

[Capn Sunshine]

76. It's the Lounge. He knows what he's talking about

:hi:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. Speaking of the Prado,

and when you close the doors, the cover painting on the doors



Funny that we could just walk up to it and close the doors, then open them. But this was a long time ago, they probably have it more secure now.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

81. Bosch=The original surrealist

I'd never seen the outside of the triptych before!

[Westegg]

128. Thanks. Work of genius I'll always love.

[Wetzelbill]

3. Vermeer "View of Delft"

One of my favorites anyway, I can't say I have a favorite favorite. :) Oh yeah, and "Nighthawks" forever!!!!

[Heidi]

4. Here's my favorite painter, standing with one of his beautiful works.

Cy Twombly, at the Cy Twombly Gallery in Houston, with "Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor."

[asthmaticeog]

11. !!!

Here I was about to post "Fifty Days at Iliam" and I see more Twombly already! Cool!

This is a Flash tour of the ten canvasses:
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=twombly+illiam&bSuggest=1&searchNameID=&searchClassID=&searchOrigin=&page=0

I could spend an hour in that room, easily. I need an excuse to go to Philadelphia again to see it again, in fact, it's been more than a few years.

:hi:

[Heidi]

18. Thank you sooooooo much for that link!

:thumbsup:

(And nice to see you! :hug: )

[Westegg]

129. I'd never seen that Twombly before. I like him more now!

[Callalily]

5. That Turner is one of

my favorites too. I visit it every time I'm go to the Art Institute.

Here's another one of my favorites.

[elleng]

66. Which Turner

do you mean?

http://www.j-m-w-turner.co.uk/artist/turner-marine.htm

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. i didnt ever think this would be my favorite painting, but when i saw it in florence, it literally

brought me to tears. i am still not sure why

[Wetzelbill]

7. sometimes things of beauty

are so resplendent that they make you well up with emotion. They can hit you so hard, your heart will literally ache for them.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. yes, it must have been that. i didnt think i could come to tears because of a painting, but i sure

did :)

[Wetzelbill]

10. I once was reduced to tears by a Kurosawa film

It wasn't overly sad the part that got to me, in lesser hands it would have been something I would have laughed at even. Because sometimes films will try to make something emotional so fakey that when it's poorly done it makes you want to laugh. But in Kurosawa's hands, it was a thing of beauty. :)

[elleng]

64. Ditto!

Absolutely wonderful/astonishing/captivating!

[fishwax]

83. it really is a beautiful painting

it was very moving to see it. I can understand why it brought you to tears :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

119. I had the same reaction!

Surrounded by such beauty (a room full of Botticellis!), and they're so HUGE. It was like being in the mothership after studying so much art history! :D

[demmiblue]

9. The Hallucinogenic Toreado

[EstimatedProphet]

16. They have that at the Salvador Dali museum in St. Pete FL

[demmiblue]

20. That is where I first saw it.

I remember sitting in front of the canvas, neck craned, and trying to see the toreador (easy to see on a small picture, but not so much on a huge canvas). Now, it is the first thing I see.

[Rhythm]

23. I could have lived in there... too much to see in one or two visits...

The sheer size of Dali's masterworks are testament to his genius...
How else could someone craft such intricate multiple images into something that size?

I always worry when a hurricane looms over the Tampa Bay area...
What wondrous works would be lost should the most unfortunate happen?!

[EstimatedProphet]

24. I agree

For those who haven't seen the originals, it comes as a shock to realize that Dali paintings were often 15 feet or more tall.

[Auggie]

27. Does anyone remember when that was in a private collection in Cleveland?

I swear that's where I saw it. Early 1970's...

[demmiblue]

30. Could be possible...

According to wikipedia, Dali worked on the piece from 1968-1970.

Also from wikipedia:

"Until 1971, the Morses displayed their collection in their Cleveland, Ohio, home. When they loaned over 200 pieces to a Dalí retrospective in 1965, they realized that 25 years of collecting produced a mini-retrospective that needed a permanent home.

In 1971, with Dalí presiding over the opening, the Morses opened a museum adjacent to their office building in Beachwood, Ohio. By the end of the decade with an overwhelming number of visitors, the Morses decided to again move their collection."

[Auggie]

50. Yes! Thank you!

I saw it in Beachwood.

[many a good man]

108. I saw it too

It was in a little office building in Beachwood. Had no idea Dali himself once stopped by.

[swag]

12. Francis Bacon, Triptych 1973

[EstimatedProphet]

14. It's one of my favorites too! I wanted to see that last time!

We ran out of time before we could get to the museum though.

[terrya]

22. Well, next time you're here, you should make it a point to see it!

Although, to do the Art Institute justice, you should spend at least an afternoon there.

[Orsino]

15. Picasso's The Old Guitar Player (1903)

[EstimatedProphet]

17. Disturbing, but one of my favorites

Goya's Saturn Devouring His Children

[Richardo]

19. In addition to the Seurat posted above, I've always liked Childe Hassam's Boston Common at Twilight

I saw it at the Denver Art Museum in the 80s and it really stunned me.

[wain]

105. Stunning is the right word

There are certain painting that can capture you and hold you as you admire the talent, hard work, detail, perspective and interpretation given to the painting by the artist.

[EstimatedProphet]

21. Also, one of my favorites:

Dali's Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Bruegel's "The Wedding Dance"

Don't know if it's my favorite, but I like it

[Auggie]

28. Since "Nighthawks" was already posted I'll post this:

Also by Edward Hopper

[Blue-Jay]

29. I do so love the classics...

[Arugula Latte]

39. And, let's not forget the Great Master ... Thomas Kinkade:

Oooh, the cozy little cottages have smoke rising from their chimneys. Isn't that just precious?!?!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

84. Call me tasteless...

I love that stuff! :rofl:

[Westegg]

131. Dunno much about art, but THAT'S art!...

...and while I've heretofore been confused generally by what you call yer Abstract Impressionism, what I see in this painting, quite clearly for the first time, is a white dog slipping a brown dog the Ace of Spades. You may well protest: "Westegg! How can you glean that from the mere abstract slashes of paint on this canvas here?" Yet I tell you true, I see amidst this random chaos images of canines partaking in a game of chance, and one dog trying to help another out (perhaps they are in cahoots as to the outcome of the game?). Such is the artistic mind (like my own) inspired by mere squibbles and splotches on a canvas to see a scene, indeed a whole story, from what looks to the common man as mere gibberish.

Once again, I applaud myself.

[BarenakedLady]

31. The Washerwomen - Léon-Augustin Lhermitte

It is here at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester. The on-line picture doesn't do it justice. It is his use of light that I admire. The sun hitting the shoulder and neck of the woman standing. I go at stare at it. For some reason it speaks to me. :shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

107. Here is a song about washerwomen

To honor it. :hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akb0Oq7MHOk

[charlie and algernon]

32. This religious painting gives me chills

It's the Annunciation scene when the angel Gabriel tells Mary she's pregnant.

[cynatnite]

45. That is incredible....

I love it and I'm an atheist.

One thing can be said...religious artwork can be incredibly moving.

[charlie and algernon]

47. it's her facial expression that does it

it's how I would picture a 14 year old girl hearing the news that not only is she pregnant, but pregnant with a kid EVERY. SINGLE. HUMAN. at the time is looking for.

[ebdarcy]

73. That is absolutely gorgeous.

Who is the artist?

[Aristus]

33. I love Edward Hopper, too. This, oddly enough, is my favorite of his:

But this is my all-time favorite:



Vermeer's 'The Milkmaid'.

[lumpy]

116. Vermeer's The Milkmaid is one of my favorites.

It reminds me of my mother; the gracefull figure, the pose, the bread and milk, the whole scenario.

[dropkickpa]

34. I love this one

It's here in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie. Every time I stand in front of it, I get this overwhelming sense of peace.
Claude Monet - Nympheas

[Sweet Freedom]

46. I used to have this in my office at work.

Then I was moved to another building and had to leave it behind. I miss it!

[dropkickpa]

98. That stinks!

[elleng]

68. When in London years ago

National Gallery had an exhibit, and spent many hours gazing.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=monet+water+lilies&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

[dropkickpa]

99. Until I saw them in person

I'd never realized they were so big! I've introduced Dropkid to them and she actually likes to sit still and look at it for a bit, which is a miracle.

[qb]

35. Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles

[nuxvomica]

36. Henri Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy"

I contend it was the first Cubist painting, years before Picasso and Bracques supposedly invented Cubism. Note that in the movie "I Am Legend", the salvaged painting hangs on the main character's living-room wall.

[Duppers]

134. i love it too

thanks.

[Rhiannon12866]

141. I'm surprised. I expected something else, entirely...

Whatever happened to that shirt, anyway? And this was your first avatar...:D:hi:

[MrCoffee]

37. Kandinsky's Farbstudie Quadrate

[Justpat]

38. Silence and Light and Day Off by my sister Anne

[Arugula Latte]

40. I've always loved this one by Franz Marc

[XemaSab]

52. I like "Deer in the Woods"

[Arugula Latte]

55. Yep, another good one.

I love the way he saw things. Such a unique vision.

[applegrove]

41. I like this by Emily Carr of British Columbia

[Jade Fox]

42. One of my favs, by Jules Breton

[Duppers]

133. beautiful !

nt

[kentauros]

43. Genie

by Olivia De Berardinis



I actually own a litho of that and still haven't gotten it framed. Maybe this year :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

44. dude!! You are making my head hurt !! Maybe ....this one?

[BrotherBuzz]

48. Sunday Morning in the Mines

by Charles Christian Nahl

Original Painting held in Crocker Art Gallery , Sacramento, CA

[edbermac]

49. Twilight Meadow by Bos Ross.

Currently on display in Room 23 at the Motel 6 of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Just look at all those happy little trees!

[KC]

93. I 've always liked

Bob Ross

[wain]

109. Didn't he have a TV show on painting?

and that he has passed away from some illness a few years back? He was always so calming to watch.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

51. Were lacking some Klimt here

"Judith and the Head of Holofernes"

[elleng]

69. THIS one!

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--12944884/SP--A/IGID--2326786/The_Kiss_c1907.htm?sOrig=CRT&sOrigId=9&ui=263611B41C4248BAB620754CC7812936

[fizzgig]

53. some wonderful paintings have already been posted, but here are some of mine

gauguin's hail mary


david's death of marat

[otherlander]

111. Marat had it coming.

:hide:

[CTyankee]

54. Most anything by Caravaggio

but my favorite is "The Burial of St. Lucia" and also "The Calling of St. Matthew."

[Tikki]

56. One of my all-time favorites.....

Paul Klee's 'Twittering Machine'





Tikki

[Faygo Kid]

57. So many, but how about Duel After the Masquerade by Jean-Léon Gérôme?

I can't pick just one, but this one is in my office. It looks like the results of a typical day there:



Normally on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art, it's on loan to Phoenix until May.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

89. Your pic wouldn't open for me; but here's one from a different link...

[ironflange]

58. I'm really surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet

[fishwax]

87. definitely one of my favorites

Good stuff. My mom once traveled 3000 miles on a four-day weekend to get the chance to see it when it was on display in Houston. She still talks about that trip, and the painting really was amazing to see :)

[ironflange]

100. I can relate to that

When in Europe a few years ago, we hit a lot of museums. It's one thing to see a reproduction of a painting or whatever but to see the genuine article is a whole 'nother thing. It can be an overwhelming experience. Same goes for music, theatre, opera, whatever, I guess. Sports too, they're all better live.

[Fox Mulder]

97. That's my favorite too.

[steelemagnolia]

123. Love, Starry, Starry NIght eom

[SeattleGirl]

59. Not necessarily my very faves, but I love these two by Monet:

[tainted_chimp]

60. Otto Dix

His painting that is in my sig..

[yellowdogintexas]

61. I love this painting, and sat on the hillside from which it was painted

edited to add: but I love this one too:
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/243/Iris,-The.html

[wovenpaint]

62. This one fascinates me

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

Paul Gauguin 1897

Oil on canvas
54 3/4 x 147 1/2 in.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

If you visit Boston, it's well worth the time for a trip to the MFA to see this painting "for real".
It's awesome in the true sense of the word.

[fizzgig]

75. i love gauguin

his work just fascinates me

[triguy46]

63. John Singer Sargent: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

[NJmaverick]

65. From Rising Phonix

[GoddessOfGuinness]

90. That's a beautiful painting...

We're so lucky to have such talent here on DU!

[enigmatic]

67. Another Hopper: "New York Movie"

Hopper is my favorite painter, and it isn't close. "New York Movie" is the essence of Melancholy:

[fishwax]

88. I love that one too

I posted it below before I noticed that you already had. It is a really cool piece of art.

[enigmatic]

103. Hopper's paintings tell a story

It's up to the observer to write the words...

[Patsy Stone]

70. Can't have just one...

Anything by Fragonard makes me ridiculously happy. Rococo and away we go!



I love The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck:



And Kandinsky's Improvisation No. 31:



For starters, along with many of the ones already in the thread.

[fizzgig]

77. i almost posted the van eyck

i love that painting

[Patsy Stone]

101. For me, it's the shoes in the corner

among so many other elements and bits of imagery that does it. I also love the technique in The Man in the Red Turban:



And I was lucky enough to see The Annunciation at The Smithsonian in the 90s:



Too fabulous!

[elleng]

71. Bierstadt,

a favorite American artist:

http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/american_paintings_and_sculpture/The_Rocky_Mountains_Lander_s_Peak/ViewObject_enlarge.aspx?depNm=all&Title=The_Rocky_Mountains_Lander_s_Peak_Albert_Bierstadt&pID=0&kWd=&OID=20010496&vW=1&Pg=40&St=0&StOd=1&vT=1&RID=792

[leeroysphitz]

72. A little Matisse up in the hiz-ouse!11!!1

[lumberingbear]

74. terrya, I used to have this Edward Hopper Painting as my...

desktop background....



(I am a retired Pharmacist)

[PunkinPi]

78. Yes, it is an inspired image...

too bad it was co-opted by Starbucks. (Yes, I have the coffee mugs to prove it.)

this is one of my favorites (not a painting per se, but art nonetheless (sorry you have to click the link for the tour)):
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/dinner_party/

[Canuckistanian]

79. Kincade's "Meth Lab in the Woods"

There's something about the twilight glow of the sky and iridescent glow off of the front "lawn", combined with the muteness of the broken satellite dish that makes the magic here.

Easily one of his best works.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

91. ~~~

:spray:

[u4ic]

80. Sisley's The Seine at Suresnes

[fishwax]

85. nighthawks is mine as well--I like almost all of Hopper's work

I was thrilled when I got the chance to see it at the Art Institute.

Here's another of my favorites of his ...

[auntAgonist]

86. Gustav Klimt & Georgia O'Keefe

[nytemare]

92. Two from Van Gogh, one from Maxfield Parrish, and Edward Hughes

Road and Cypress


Potato Eaters - while I tend to like his more aesthetically pleasing work, something about this painting brings my heart in. You can just see how hard these people work.


Ecstasy - I love Maxfield's use of vivid color.


Night and Her Train of Stars.

[BlueDissenter]

94. Two paintings done.....

by Edgar Degas. They just take me back to my childhood when I took ballet lessons from a neighbor.

Dance Class


Ballet Rehearsal on the Set

[GoddessOfGuinness]

95. A friend of mine has some wonderful paintings...

http://www.agnescarbrey.com/showgallery.php?galid=1

Here's one I own, but the photos doesn't really do it justice:

[Duppers]

135. very, very nice

talented artist.

[Mojorabbit]

96. These are two of my favorites

[zauberflote]

102. One I like that hasn't been mentioned

Boccioni. "The City Rises." Italian Futurism.
This looks better at MOMA. When I first saw it I thought the horse was fire.

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[fudge stripe cookays]

120. Aw, ya beat me!

I love the Futurists. Not their attitudes, because they were all about war and technology, but I like the movement and dynamism in them. They had an entire exhibit at the Kimbell in Fort Worth a few years ago which I had a blast at.

[Haole Girl]

104. I first fell in love with it at the Getty Museum...

Didn't even know it was there, rounded the corner...and I exclaimed, "IRISES!!" A museum security guard immediately descended upon me. I was so embarrassed. Fell in love with the colors, more than any painting I'd ever seen...and any I've seen since. Needless to say, it looks much more vibrant in person! lol

[Xipe Totec]

106. Orozco. Always Orozco

Gods of the Modern World (1932), part of a mural located at Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire

[seemunkee]

110. They had a Hopper show here in DC recently

It was fantastic and I'm very glad to have seen it.

I love this Monet



and for some reason Watson and the Shark has intrigued me since I was in middle school

[otherlander]

112. This one

By Eric Drooker. This one was done as an illumination for Howl, I think.

"I'm with you in Rockland
where fifty more shocks will never return your soul to its body again
from its pilgrimage to a cross in the void."

[Ahpook]

113. I don't know how to post photos:)

But i remember being a young lad and seeing this painting in the Gallery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Watsonandtheshark-original.jpg

Our family visited the Torpedo Factory. There were quite a few there that got to me as well:)

[Pacifist Patriot]

114. Burial of the Count of Orgaz

Simply because of the pure visceral experience I had when encountering the painting in person when I was 16 years old.

[RedG1]

115. Jim Warren...any of his works

two examples...

Avalanche


and

Warn and Peace


here's his website
http://www.jimwarren.com/site/

[The Animator]

117. I like the work of Alex Ross... and his predecessor Norman Rockwell

Didn't know this until just now but I also like his sense of humor...
http://www.alexrossart.com/artforsale.asp?sc=ARPB3

I think I like Ross' work cause it is very similar in appearance to Norman Rockwell's work.


Course I couldn't resist the chance to plug some of my own work too.

[asthmaticeog]

118. I love that this thread is still thriving after three days!

Great weekend thread, terrya, long may it reign!

Might as well toss in some more art while I'm here, eh? Here's some Anselm Keifer:



"Lot's Frau." Fortunately for me this is in the permanent collection at the Cleveland Museum, so I can go see it whenever. It's about 11 or 12 feet tall in real life, and made largely of lead, ashes and salt. The photo doesn't do it any kind of justice, it's astonishingly beautiful when it's right there in front of you.

[terrya]

137. I'm glad this is still here also, asthmaticeog!

Some art in the Lounge is always nice.

"Lot's Frau" is beautiful...I'd like to see it in person some day.

[steelemagnolia]

121. Do Unto Others by Norman Rockwell

[hellbound-liberal]

122. Very nice, steelemagnolia. I didn't know Rockwell did anything like that!

Thanks for sharing!

[Duppers]

126. Beautiful!

touching. thanks for posting this.

[The Animator]

124. This another one of my favorite paintings.

[kentauros]

125. Theologue

by Alex Grey

[Duppers]

127. because the John Adams series is on my mind

And here are two of my favorite subjects in one painting (yeah, animals do it for me):




calm and tender, as the world should be.

[Duppers]

130. great american landscapes

[Duppers]

132. others

romantic....







and another landscape....

[mdmc]

136. infinity trial

[VenusRising]

138. A few of my favorites.

Monet - Venice Twilight


Kandinsky - Yellow, Red, and Blue


Botticelli - La Primavera


Lee Teter - Vietnam Reflections

[lpbk2713]

139. Thanks for creating this thread.

I'll bookmark it because it has so many of my favorite works of art.


Here's another of my favorites ....



"Night Watch" --- Rembrandt

[Rhiannon12866]

140. I really like that one, too. Edward Hopper. :-)

It's one of the paintings in a game we used to play, called "Masterpiece." I loved that game...:-)

Here's mine, "Portrait of Christ," by Rembrandt. I'm not the least bit religious, but this is so beautiful, and I've also seen it many times, is right here in The Hyde Collection in my hometown of Glens Falls, NY, which is also pretty impressive. They have an amazing collection.:D

[Richard Steele]

142. REVELATIONS 6, verse 5: And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say "behold"

And I looked, and I saw a black horse;
and he that sat upon it had a pair of balances in his hand.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say:
"A handful of wheat for a day's labor,
or three handfuls of barley for a day's labor; Take your pick.

Just be careful not to spill any of the valuable oil or wine
whilst thou toilest, you ignorant fucking peasants"."




That's my favorite painting right there.