Your favourite artist and Painting

[toni]

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.

[DWolfman]

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:

[stlukesguild]

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.

[OrphanPip]

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.

[DanielBenoit]

Oh I curse myself for not seeing this thread sooner!

I don't have to just post one do I?

Starting with Sisley:



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:



Carrington



A perfect mix of surrealism with Boschian elements.


Uta Makura Hi



Magritte



Magritte again; this is a very personal painting for me



as is this one



I find it utterly terrifying in its nihilism.


The final scene from Othello:



Klimt; who painted some of the greatest depictions of eroticism and romantic love:





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.



Alright, that's enough for now.

[Lulim]

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I find it utterly terrifying in its nihilism.(...)

My impression was one of normal everyday things put into a doll house -- I quite like it

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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:



It's better to be seen at this link: Elsheimer (I didn't want the page to get "blown up" so much)

[DanielBenoit]

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:



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.

My painting for today is one of Motherwall's called Little Spanish Prison.



It is stunning how such emotion can arise out of such simplicity.

[DanielBenoit]

Todays one is from Alphonse Osbert, it's called 'The Muse at Sunset'.

[DanielBenoit]

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.



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.

[qimissung]

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:



I love all of his work; they are whimsical and set your imagination reeling.

[DanielBenoit]

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:

[Le_Iris]

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.

Wow, it's really amazing.

One of my favourite artists is Caspar David Friedrich.
The Sea of Ice



The Stages of Life


Another is Albrecht Dürer
Young Hare


Praying Hands

[ibelieve]

Absolutely, hands-down, my favourite piece of art is this one by Tamara de Lempicka



The (green) colour is striking and vibrant and the painting itself depicts so much mystery and adventure.

[Veho]

Does anybody know what the painting is called on this front cover? -

[Kyriakos]

Some Beksinskis with no title (i think none of his paintings have titles) :