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What's your favourite painting?

Zdzislaw Beksinski

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Apart from the beautifully crafted art itself, the thing that strikes me is the cold and hardened expression of a broken, breaker of souls.

I have thousands of favourites, and always discovering new ones, each awesome in their own way, the above is just one, which seems to be apt in these times of great global unrest, if your a miserable sod.
 
Maybe this one:

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or this one:

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or this:

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or this:

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I also like Guernica and Van Gogh's Starry Night.
 
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Have large prints of both in my flat..........and some other pre-raphelites....


also,


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Just love the feel and colours of Klimt........
 
Impossible to choose... If I could have any to hang on my wall it would probably be Guernica though (I might need bigger walls mind you).

The ambassadors is good, prob not my favourite, but deserves to be thrown into the mix.

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I love loads of paintings for different reasons. I adore the bird in the air pump and the Lady Jane Gray pics that have already been posted and am a massive fan of Caravaggio - wouldn't want one in my house though!

If I had to choose a couple:

This because it's just mad - check out the holy spirit piercing the wall like laser beam from a flying saucer...
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And this because it's just gorgeous and do want this in my house...(apologies for crap colour reproduction - it's not quite as garish in reality)
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Dog in snow by franz marc and most by pierre- auguste renoir except the japonese one it sucks, all mary cassatt she very good, winslow homer , albrectht durer, claude monet, but the best one in all styles The master,is vincent of the one ear he was the best.
 
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Have large prints of both in my flat..........and some other pre-raphelites....


also,


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Girlfriends-Klimt-L.jpg



Just love the feel and colours of Klimt........

I loe the lady of shallot with my whole heart. I love it even more because of teh relaionship with teh Tennyson poem. They both move me in immeasurable ways.
Also love Klimt, especially that danae
The pre-raphelites also appeal to the egotist in me, i'm convinced i was destined to be somebody's muse....
There are so many paintings i love. will be back later
 
This is an old favourite of my by John William Waterhouse. Probably because deep under my bitter, callous, witch like exterior I'm a deep romantic at heart.

The Lady of Shalott

Yeah, I've got a soft spot for the onion lady. Don't tell anyone.

Last time I saw it (in Tate Britain?) it was hung really high up and hard to see properly, unfortunately.
 
For me (at risk of being a bit cliché) it's probably John Constable's Hay Wain. Something about this idyllic snapshot of rural England in a bygone time seems so naturally bought out by this painting. I don't think I know of another one I'm more fond of actually.

So people of urban, tell me which painting does it for you, and why?

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When I was a little kid we had a biscuit tin with this on.
 
Main section of Van Eyck's 'Adoration of the Lamb' in Ghent

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You can't really get it across at all like this, but the whole thing is breathtaking.

Stanley Spencer's 'Resurrection at Cookham' is fab as well.
 
Annoyingly, I can't find a picture of mine on the internet.* It's in the National Gallery, to the immediate right of The Supper at Emmaus. Just a small picture of three grieving women next to a dead body, but the most powerful evocation of a human emotion I've ever seen. I can't bear to look at it for any length of time, tbh, but it's still my favourite.

* Not least because I don't know what it's called or who it's by. :o
 
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I adore Klimt, would be hard pushed to find anything of his I didn't like.
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Nude decending staircase, Marcel Duchamp

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Modigliani - I love his eerie portraits.

I could go on all day:o
 
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