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Am a complete sucker for Goya, his Tres de Mayo (3rd of May) is such a powerful piece and has extra resonance with my own family's struggle in the 30s, with their loss, imprisonments and exile, but is sadly a timeless piece.

However I give you Un Perro (a dog), it's just so beautiful and mournful



* no biggie on the resizing in this thread i reckon. If someone wants to appreciate art, let the page take a while to load I say. Let's not sueeze the pictures into thumbnails. *

I don't "know" much about paintings, and always worry that if I say I like something I'll be a philistine. Reminds me of the Crash Test Dummies song


When I go out with artists

They talk about language and the cubists and the dadaists

And I try to catch their meanings

And I try to keep up with all of the martinis

I don't know which should be my favorite painitings

If I could see, if I could see, if I could

See all the symbols, unlock what they mean

Maybe I could, maybe I could, maybe I

Could meet the artists, and get to know them personally

If I were David Byrne

I'd go to galleries and not be too concerned

Well I would have a cup of coffee

And I'd find my surroundings quite amusing and

People would ask me which were my favorite paintings

What if the artists ran the TV?

All the ads would be for find scotch whiskey:

Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, the whole single malt famlily

The artists of the future

Will make up new things and different nomenclatures

And they'll stand amonst their pictures

And they'll sing and laugh and quote from scriptures and

When they go home they'll dream of brilliant paintings


I will find some that I do like and see how I go...

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