Favourite Painting

[Brendan]

Seen as we seem to be doing favourite this and that at the moment.

Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke - Richard Dadd

 

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Pure chocolate box PRB but I love "The Lady of Shallot" by John William Waterhouse - it's in the Tate.

Can't work out how to paste pictures in here sorry.

[Ant]

Oh lord, this could take a while...

Holbein's Ambassadors. Bits o' Bosch. Van Gogh I like a lot.

I'll find a few online when I've got a moment and stick 'em in here if I can.

[Fear 'n boozin]

you can't beat a bit of the ambassadors. Now this kicks ass:

http://incognitas.i-webhosted.co.uk/thebathsofcaracalla.jpg

(Alma Tadema). How do you re-size MP?

[mockney piers]

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. *

[Fear 'n boozin]

really like that. saw this at the national and thought it was pretty impressive.

http://www.artcritical.com/blurbs/russians/Russian_Landscape_W57.jpg

Isaak Ilich Levitan The Vladimirka Road 1892

[Keef]

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...

[Fear 'n boozin]

i just go with nudity and attractive women.

[Keef]

>:D

[atila the gooner]

'And when did you last see your father?' 1878

William Frederick Yeames (1835 - 1918)

[Ultraconsultancy]

The Mark Rothko panels in Tate Modern.

You can see the light, but only through the dark.

I cry, then pray, for his poor soul every time.

[downsouth]

So many to choose from but this one I studied as a wee nipper still has a lot of resonance in today's day and age:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg

[mockney piers]

Spanish civil war taking up mucho space on this thread. I grew up with that on my wall in the old family pile. Have you seen the original? It's huge!!!

[downsouth]

No not the original but a repro when we did GCSE art, that was pretty big!