What are your favorite paintings?

Well, here are some of mine:

Casper David Friedrich-"Wanderer above the Sea of Fog"





Th?odore G?ricault-"The Raft of the Medusa"





Frederick Edwin Church-"Rainy Season in the Tropics"





Hasegawa Tohaku-"Pine Trees"

the 3rd one is so peaceful & calm...

and actually a beautiful picture

He looks like his in a kung-fu stance...

Wow, I really like the first painting Yama posted.



"Disrobing of Christ" by El Greco

Typical El Greco style ; the people are elongated and really bright colors. People tend to either love it or hate it; I love it. Plus he was a progressive painter (notice the women in the foreground, and next to Jesus 😛; unheard of for his time.)

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let's say fave PICTURES so we are not limited to just one medium...I like lithographs and woodcuts too...ink is good...

another version of munch's madonna...I like the other one better though

Van Gogh
Starry Night
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Laverne Ross
Angels Wings
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Laverne Ross
Angels Wings
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Van Gogh
Starry Night
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Sorry about that. My links aren't working properly.

how do you post a pic——

well... i'll give this a go...

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Jupiter and Thetis

Jupiter fell in love with Thetis, but once he learned that her offspring would one day supercede his father, he would not take Thetis as his wife and lover. This picture shows him imploring him... touching his chin. something that at the time (of the painting?) was kind of taboo... very intimate thing to do. i like the tensions of this painting.

*This picture shows HER imploring him*

Gustav Klimt: The Kiss


Very symbolic and very passionate... her dress adorned with circles (feminine symbol), his with rectangles ('rods'... masculine).

Gary Baseman: Happy Idiot, Pervasive Art, Unattainable Beauty series


it's (his words)"...allegory about desire, longing, sex, the acceptance of man's attraction to unattainable beauty"

Gary Baseman is the man behind the artwork for the Cranium games and the cartoon 'Teacher's Pet'.

Francisco De Goya: Saturn Devouring His Son


His late work... probably the freakiest piece of his career. What can i say... i have a morbid side and i appreciate the tortured psychology in it.

Mine is also Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night...so tangible!!! I am also keen on Monet and Dali...but i like some the new age fantasy artists...very nice!

Have a look see here

www.josephinewall.co.uk

Some stunning stuff she does!

Yummy, i've seen her artwork on notecards... very very cool... the bounty of femininity. imagine a her work as a mural on a wall in your livingroom... ooooooh 🙂

Leda and the Swan

Ok. I give up. I tried to post the link again and it didn't work.

Here are more of my favorite paintings

LaShun Bell
Red Rose

Tim Ashkar
Beauty of Color
Visiting Grandpa

Alix Beaujour
Dancers

Hey I really like this thread how do you attach files

for those of you who want to know how to post a picture...

http://www.ibdguy.com/posting.shtml<BR>
scroll down just a lil on that page and there's an html tag that you can copy, paste, insert the url for your image in-between the quotation marks, and presto... happy posting!

My idol.

My favorite painter is Hundertwasser. You can see the Klimt and Schiele influences in his work. Both whom I adore.

I also love Modigliani.