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My favorite painters are Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Edward Degas. They're all unpredictable, and leaves you craving to know more.
It's just fantastic how they put the mystery in their paintings, and there's always more to it than looking at a pretty picture.
Lima/anyone, what is this called?Quote:
Originally Posted by limajean
Its amazing.
Les Amants/The Lovers - René François Ghislain Magritte
http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibiti...k.gonzales.jpg
frank gonzales
it's not my absolute fav, but this painting makes me feel romantic
http://www.artinthepicture.com/artis...limt/kiss.jpeg
oh, and The Sonnet by William Mulready, I agree, love it! amazing!
This week (bad pic)
Entre Les Trous de la Memoire
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m...a_Memoire_.jpg
by Dominique Appia
James Jean is my favorite at the moment:
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s...kid/vanity.jpg
I want to marry his color palettes.
I love this painting, too. This summer went to poster store and bought this. It reminds me of another Magical Realism painter I like alot too, Rob Gonsalves. Check Gonsalves out when you get a chance. I think you will like him too.Quote:
Originally Posted by samercury
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_woltvyrjNw...tland-pic2.jpg
One of my favourites by Louis Wain. Not sure of the name of it, though...
http://dearheathermarie.files.wordpr...1184251640.jpg
My recent favorite of Rene Magritte. "Return"
This, in my opinion, one of Magritte's best paintings as it captures such strong emotions in comparison to his other works.
The founder of impressionism
Claude Monet
is definitely my favorite painter
and this one of his wife and son
has to be my favorite painting:
http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/8/84...nd-her-son.jpg
Monet is indeed a marvelous painter. He's an artist like Mozart... all light and color and joy dancing on the surface so that someone expecting "depth", tragedy, and profundity from their art may suspect he is but a shallow decorator... but with time I have become more and more impressed with Monet... just as I have with Mozart. Both are quite exquisite masters whose strengths is almost beyond words.
Road to Chailly by Monet is my desktop image.
It's not my favorite, but I find it very soothing when I fire up my laptop for work.
http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPi...%20Chailly.jpg
Oh I curse myself for not seeing this thread sooner! :yikes:
I don't have to just post one do I?
Starting with Sisley:
http://www.michaelarnoldart.com/snowsis.jpg
Upon first seeing this painting, I stared at it for quite a long time. A flood of memories came over me.
Matisse; perfect collection of paintings called Jazz:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ri_Matisse.JPG
Carrington
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...temptation.jpg
A perfect mix of surrealism with Boschian elements.
Uta Makura Hi
http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/..._makura_hi.jpg
Magritte
http://www.schule.de/englisch/away/bilder/magritte2.jpg
Magritte again; this is a very personal painting for me
http://www.angeloplessas.com/blog/up...tte-718005.jpg
as is this one
http://reportingfrombelgium.files.wo...nal-values.jpg
I find it utterly terrifying in its nihilism.
The final scene from Othello:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._V_scene_2.jpg
Klimt; who painted some of the greatest depictions of eroticism and romantic love:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Klimt_010.jpg
http://tawnyamarie.files.wordpress.c...9/02/klimt.jpg
I end with a desolate landscape of Casper David Friedrich, a few of his paintings which are, in my opinion, the prime equivalent to existentialism.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...he_Oakwood.jpg
Alright, that's enough for now.
My impression was one of normal everyday things put into a doll house -- I quite like itQuote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
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One of my favourite paintings is Adam Elsheimer, "Flight into Egypt" 1609. Elsheimer was the first painter to show the constellations of the night sky naturally. He died at the rather young age of 32:
http://www.orbit.zkm.de/files/orbit/egypt.jpg
It's better to be seen at this link: Elsheimer (I didn't want the page to get "blown up" so much)
Oh I love the islands of light within the darkness, the moon is quite elegant as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lulim
My painting for today is one of Motherwall's called Little Spanish Prison.
http://chrisashley.net/resources/ima...ison1941SM.jpg
It is stunning how such emotion can arise out of such simplicity.
Todays one is from Alphonse Osbert, it's called 'The Muse at Sunset'.
http://www.artmagick.com/images/cont...hi/osbert1.jpg
The Triumph of Death from the great Netherlandish painter Bruegel. Along with the uncompromisingly hellish landscape, whats also unique is that there's hardly any redeeming religious symbolism and death is represented in a rather secular way with skeletons and not demons.
http://www.fantastichorror.com/00/im...mphofdeath.jpg
This is truly one of the greats among epic Reinissance painting because it truly depicts the horrifying and merciless nature of war. The painting has also uncannily aged into our time, with the memory the Holocaust and other modern atrocities.
There is not a painting on this thread that I don't love. I must say, however, that I am awfully fond of Monet. And that one by Sisley is exquisite, Daniel!
Here is my current favorite artist, Marc Chagall:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/125000...hagall_300.jpg
I love all of his work; they are whimsical and set your imagination reeling.
Very nice qimi! I love the positions of the two subjects, and how the female's hand goes out in such a manneristic way.
Since I've just finished reading that masterpiece of human experience, King Lear, I've decided to post one of my favorite of paintings based off of the plays:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rpainting.jpeg
Wow, it's really amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by toni
One of my favourite artists is Caspar David Friedrich.
The Sea of Ice
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/...e7e49a98e5.jpg
The Stages of Life
http://static.open.salon.com/files/t...1234247382.jpg
Another is Albrecht Dürer
Young Hare
http://matthewsalomon.files.wordpres...urer-small.jpg
Praying Hands
http://www.easypedia.gr/el/images/sh...H%C3%A4nde.jpg
Absolutely, hands-down, my favourite piece of art is this one by Tamara de Lempicka
http://artfiles.art.com/5/p/LRG/20/2...fille-vert.jpg
The (green) colour is striking and vibrant and the painting itself depicts so much mystery and adventure.
Does anybody know what the painting is called on this front cover? -
http://www.medievalbookshop.co.uk/ahpics/AHC0005.jpg
Some Beksinskis with no title (i think none of his paintings have titles) :
http://www.polishforums.com/user_fil...630747_1_o.jpg
http://reapse.net/beksinski2.jpg
http://flowformed.com/life/wp-conten...ksinski-17.jpg
Cool. Reminds me of the music video for Goodbye Blue Sky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyriakos
This painting by Manet is a favourite that is on the wall above my bed.
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...bama/manet.jpg
I much prefer Manets Olympia.
Well, as this is a picture of my computer, I think Olympia would be a one too many naked females about the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/s...scan0020-2.jpg
I think it's going to be my favourite thread.
I would like to share something I like very much, I was impressed by this painting as a child.
Hope you like too.
Seated Demon by Vrubel.
http://tars.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/vrub.jpg
You should have posted it on the Name the Painting thread, I would never have got it.
I think, Brian, it would be unfair to post a picture which is not well-known outside of Russia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
I think Olympia would be a one too many naked females about the place.
Surely Brian... you can never have too many naked females about the place?:devil:
Bonnard's exquisite painting of his wife is still one of my absolute favorite paintings of all time... and actually painted in the 20th century!
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/...d04a2745_b.jpg
You should have posted it on the Name the Painting thread, I would never have got it.
I would have.:devil: But then I used to do something like this for a living.:sosp:
[QUOTE=stlukesguild;923724 Surely Brian... you can never have too many naked females about the place?:devil: [/QUOTE]
Not if you like the quiet life.:nod:
Peredvizhniki are the group of artists I like the most.
Here is one of the most famous in Russia, the reproduction of this painting can be found almost in every provincial house:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../5/5a/Rozh.jpg
Surely Brian... you can never have too many naked females about the place?:devil:
Not if you like the quiet life.:yesnod:
A new twist on the old Chinese curse? ("May you live in interesting times."):sosp:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyriakos
Do you think the boys in the boat are aware of the sinister face lurking above? The one boy with arms raised may be and in fact taunting it.
Quite majestic especially the trees. As I scrolled through the image, I noticed the swallows gliding just above the dirt road and what appear to be two threshers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olga4real
Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
A favorite that always comes to mind and it too features a girl, although she is not in her birthday suit, is Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...%281665%29.jpg
Here is another I recently discovered and grew fond of while reading “The Brother’s Karamazov”. The novel makes reference to Kramskoi’s “Contemplation”. As I was researching “Contemplation” I discovered “Portrait of a Woman”, which I found to be more appealing:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...of_a_Woman.jpg
Gilliatt
I have never seen the original painting but I can imagine that looking at it you would feel the smell of the dusty road, hear the sound of swifts and feel the heat of this almost cloudless sunny day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Here is something you might want to know about this portrait, unless you have already found it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrai..._Unknown_Woman