What are some of your favorite paintings?

[Random Variable]

I like van Gogh's Night Cafe and Raphael's The School of Athens.

 

[pyonir]

i can't say i am all that experienced in the world of paintings. i don't know what they are named most of the time. like i have this one at home...and i love it. but as for historical paintings, i have always been impartial to Michelangelo.

 

[StinkyMeat]

<< i can't say i am all that experienced in the world of paintings. i don't know what they are named most of the time. like i have this one at home...and i love it. but as for historical paintings, i have always been impartial to Michelangelo. >>



Big fan of the Last Judgement by Michelangelo. Also stuff by Caravaggio. If you know him.

 

[deerslayer]

i like landscape paintings in general if they are realistic, i like VanGogh's "The Sower" and the other stuff he did that had that style, can't remember what it's called

 

[Wallydraigle]

Van Gough is freaking awesome! Starry Night is my favorite, but some of his other landscapes and florals are great too. I like Rembrandt too, but I can't think of anything in particular, I just like his style.

 

[dOrKuS]

<< Big fan of the Last Judgement by Michelangelo. Also stuff by Caravaggio. If you know him. >>



Caravaggio's paintings are unbelievable. He led quite the interesting life too. If I recall correctly, he was a murderer, and on the run for awhile.

 

[StinkyMeat]

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<< Big fan of the Last Judgement by Michelangelo. Also stuff by Caravaggio. If you know him. >>



Caravaggio's paintings are unbelievable. He led quite the interesting life too. If I recall correctly, he was a murderer, and on the run for awhile. >>



Good memory. Stabbed a guy with a sword after a game of tennis-badmitton-volleyball type game. Ran away. Went to Malta to join an order of Knights of St. John

 

[UofI]

Van Gough and Michelangelo have superb pieces of paintings.

 

[dOrKuS]

my favorite Caravaggio, at least the ones that I've seen, is the Conversion of St. Paul

 

[StinkyMeat]

<< my favorite Caravaggio, at least the ones that I've seen, is the Conversion of St. Paul >>



Yep. It's good. But some of the anatomy is a little unbelievable. Try The Crucifixion of St. Peter.

 

[Fausto]

A few I like:

"The Kiss" - Gustav Klimt

I like almost everything Georgia O'Keefe ever did, particularly her flowers (yes, yes, they're terribly vaginal....we're all had that pointed out to us at one time or another).

I'm also a big Rembrandt fan, particularly his portraits. I visited Holland a few years ago and toured the Rembrandthuis and some of the museums there. You really don't get an appreciation for what a genuis he was with the use of light until you see his stuff in person. Some of the paintings almost appear to be lit from within.

Also something of a Vermeer fan.

There are plenty more, but I'm getting tired of looking through Google to find links.

Fausto

 

[woodly6]

Michael Parkes is my favorite artist, and his paintings Gargoyles and The Juggler are amoung the ones I have hanging in my house.

 

[Random Variable]

The most impressive painting that I have actually seen in person, though, would have to be either Seurat's A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte or Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day.

 

[ohtwell]

I like Van Gogh's Starry Night.

 

[Geekbabe]

<< The most impressive painting that I have actually seen in person, though, would have to be either Seurat's A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte or Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day. >>




Excellent choices !!!!

 

[Random Variable]

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<< The most impressive painting that I have actually seen in person, though, would have to be either Seurat's A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte or Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day. >>




Excellent choices !!!! >>


I never liked the latter all that much until I saw it in person. The canvas Caillebotte used is humongous.

 

[RigorousT]

Edvard Munch's The Scream and Dali's paintings are cool.. School of Athens is top of the list too..

 

[kgraeme]

Let's see, so many to choose from.

I like Francis Bacon His Man with Dog is really nice. His Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X is fantastic.

Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon always comes to mind.

Random pieces by De Kooning work in a pinch.

Seeing a Robert Motherwell in person is an awe-inspiring experience. At least to me.

There are so many more, but these are a nice start.

 

[Lars]

I like most paintings by Caspar David Friedrich. some examples

 

[kgraeme]

Dali was a hack.

 

[zeon]

<< Dali was a hack. >>



yes... and i'm sure your a master of impressionism... i for one think Dali is an amazing artist... i saw a work of his (name forgotten) in New Brunswick that was absolutly stutting...

 

[KeithP]

Not so much a single painting, but I really like the work of Ralph Steadman

 

[luv2chill]

Heh, I think everyone can relate to Munch's "The Scream". I have it on my mousepad at work. Saw tons of great art in Europe two years ago... I like the Renaissance stuff for its realism... but I'm more of a fan of impressionism and later artistic periods.

My favorite painting of all time is by Rene Magritte called l'Empire des Lumieres (Domain of Lights). I could sit and stare at it for hours.

l2c