What's your favourite painting?

[butterfly child]

I love so many artists work though.

Kubin, anyone?

 

[butterfly child]

Lempicka?

 

[butterfly child]

Quite possibly my husband's favourite:

 

[butterfly child]

And one of my old favourites, JW Waterhouse:

 

[QueenOfGoths]

There have been some wonderful pics on here and it is very hard to chose a favourite so I have gone for two, both of which I have been lucky enough
to see in situ

Jan Matejko

Hieronymous Bosch

 

[paulhackett]

A favourite of mine is Seated Demon by Mikhail Vrubel - I can't find an image that shows the glossiness of the oil though, or its size..

 

[Yetman]

Otherwise its Joseph Wright of Derby's Experiment with a Bird in an Air Pump, which lucky Londoners can see any day at the National Gallery

Fucking hell I knew stringfellow was old but he looks the same now as he did in 1768! The old bastard hasnt aged a jot!

For me, its Ophelia by Millais

 

[trashpony]

Cecily Brown's Bacchanal.

She's my favourite living artist. Would be impossible to choose one single painting

 

[Santino]

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.

Is it Jesus? It's usually Jesus.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Hieronymous Bosch

This is probablymy favourite of all the paintings I've ever actually seen in person. It's in the Prado in Madrid: if you go, be prepared for the scrum, it can take half-an-hour before you find yourself at the front. You'll then need another hour just to start looking at it.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

This is probablymy favourite of all the paintings I've ever actually seen in person. It's in the Prado in Madrid: if you go, be prepared for the scrum, it can take half-an-hour before you find yourself at the front. You'll then need another hour just to start looking at it.

That was exactly our experience! It did mean sadly that our visit to the Prado really consisted of this painting and Goya's "Black" paintings ... though to be honest while I regretted not seeing more what we did see was just wonderful

 

[DotCommunist]

Always liked this for some reason

it was the inspiration for a bad pome.

 

[Orang Utan]

And one of my old favourites, JW Waterhouse:

Looks like she's filming with a digicam!

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Barking_Mad]

Ilya Repin - Cossacks

The letter being written was supposedly this, although it was shown to be false......

Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!

You, turkish devil and damned devil's brother and friend, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are you, that can't slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. You will not, you son of a bitch, make subjects of Christian sons; we've no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck your mother.

You Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, Armenian pig, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw your own mother!

So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding Christian pigs. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year in the book, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!

 

[dessiato]

Lempicka and two by Hopper:

 

[prunus]

Impossible task really, but here're a few:

"The Raft of the Medusa" by Gericault, just because I'm a sucker for melodrama really.

Turner's "Snowstorm" - but you have to see it in real life really, just sucks you in.

Munch's "Madonna" - just wow.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Gimme some Bruegel any day...

 

[Yetman]

You know when you get a flash of 'SHIT AM I DEAD?' for a quick second?

I just had that when I looked at that picture. Fucking hell. Good work OU.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's horrible isn't it?

 

[Dillinger4]

Some excellent pictures here, quite a few of my favourites have already been posted.

I like the ones by Edward Hopper, Munch, and Velazquez, Bosch, Klimt, and loads more. I forget.

 

[Winston Legthigh]

Group of Connoisseurs - Richard Cosway

Perhaps appropriately for this thread, it depicts a man masturbating over some great art

 

[Yetman]

It's horrible isn't it?

I cant look at it.....nor stop looking at it.....baallocks

 

[nuffsaid]

Et in Arcadia Ego

Love the pessimism of death even in paradise - also can't help feeling there's a lot more going on here than we're being told...

 

[nuffsaid]

Another Turner I love - Slave ship....grim

 

[hipipol]

Georges Seurat

Dotty as you like

Wonderful to stand it front of....

 

[hipipol]

Klimt

Big fav of Suzees

 

[nuffsaid]

Another Poussin - Landscape with a man killed by a snake

More eerie stuff....

 

[nuffsaid]

Loving this thread, by the way...good call.