Your favourite painting

[Eleonora Flynt]

I searched a thread similar to this and as I haven't found one, so I've opened it myself.

I think it would be interesting posting our favourite paintings, the ones we like most. I'm a little interested in paintings, although I'm not an expert and I'm not to able to draw a thing!
I'll start by posting two of my favourite paintings.

This is Millet's Angelus:

And this Waterhouse's The Lady of Shalott (I had to check the name of the author; see?, I'm not an expert!):

What about yours?

I like The Lady of Shalott painting. Really very nice.

 

[Octavia Beckham]

Vasilyev’s Wet Meadow

 

[Stevie B]

I like The Lady of Shalott painting. Really very nice.

I've never seen this one before - it almost looks like a photograph has been inserted into a painting.

 

[cauldbairn]

Since everyone else is posting more than one....

John Martin -- On the Great Day of His Wrath

Gustave Moreau -- Jason and Medea

Charles Sims -- I am the Abyss and I am Light

 

[acheter]

I've never seen this one before. Great painting.

 

[john1565]

Since everyone else is posting more than one....

John Martin -- On the Great Day of His Wrath




Gustave Moreau -- Jason and Medea

Charles Sims -- I am the Abyss and I am Light

Can anyone explain this picture to me? What the artist wanted to convey?

 

[Purple Ink]

A wonderful, if not well-known painter (outside her home country): Anna Ancher (1859-1935). Wiki bio here.

I find these two paintings immensely moving and psychologically acute: Sunshine in the Blind Woman's Room and A Blind Woman in Her Room.

 

[kevlevrone]

Hi everyone. I am not so good in paintings but I really like John Martins works. This one (John Martin - On the Great Day of His Wrath) especially.

 

[jia28]

Hi,
My favorite are heart of snow by Edward Robert Hughes
and starry night by Van Gogh. Very beautiful!

Dafont Showbox Adam4adam

 

[childeroland]

Right now it's The Houses of Parliament or Haystacks or The Four Trees, but that might be because I just saw them at the Met. Seeing them there live is breathtaking.

 

[Bartleby]

One of my favourites is Munch’s The Sun

 

[Corswandt]

Diego Velázquez - Portrait of Pope Innocent X

Heady and fulfilling moment seeing it at its own special room at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome.

 

[Bartleby]

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Diego Velázquez - Portrait of Pope Innocent X

Heady and fulfilling moment seeing it at its own special room at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome.

I prefer Bacon’s interpretation of it

 

[Liam]

@Bartleby: what's the name of the painting that you suddenly began using as your avatar?

 

[Bartleby]

@Bartleby: what's the name of the painting that you suddenly began using as your avatar?

It’s “Green and Gold”, by Henry Scott Tuke, patron of the Male beauty, innocence, and idyllic naivety. Some will see eroticism in his works but I don’t.*



*Nothing wrong if it were there or if some saw that tho

 

[Liam]

Thanks, he has some really lovely paintings.

From Wikipedia: "Here he could indulge his passion for painting boys." ?

Not sure about full-blown eroticism, but his stuff is definitely sensual.

 

[Bartleby]

Thanks, he has some really lovely paintings.

From Wikipedia: "Here he could indulge his passion for painting boys." ?

Not sure about full-blown eroticism, but his stuff is definitely sensual.

And isn’t every good piece of art (and the appreciation of it) ?

 

[Liam]

Some will see eroticism in his works but I don’t.

I don't know, my friend, I just google-searched his art and all I keep seeing is young men's delightful posteriors,

 

[Bagharu]

I like this guys paintings, my favorite would be The Critics. Yes, they are quite sensual, but when i realize they might be underage my brain auto-shutdowns any sensuality detection mechanism, kind of sad i guess

 

[Liam]

Hmm, I guess "sensual" doesn't have to equal "sexual." Like in all those Renaissance paintings of the cherubim--all those childlike angels--they are definitely sensual (the pink skin, the flaxen hair, etc) but sexual? Not really. That would be super weird.