What is your favorite painting?

Starry Night.

It's hard to choose just one.

Try, R2, try!

The Triumph of Death.

The Garden of Early Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.

I like these two. National Portrait Gallery, DC.

Eakins' "The Swimming Hole"

OP, that looks like your typical Catholic seminary.

The City, Leger.

Death and the Miser.

this one from Frida.

I love the work of Paul Cézanne, but I'm drawn to the work of Paul Cadmus.

Shore Leave:

A classic and my personal favorite.

I would love a Frederick Lord Leighton in my living room.

R5, linky stinky.

Tetsuya Ishida's Contact.

R14, is he hot? Top or bottom?

This one.

It is usually one by Mark Rothko. Today it is this one, [italic]Blue Green Blue, 1961[/italic] .

Here's another one. Blue and green are my favorite colors.

Hard to pick my fav Monet.

Love Klimt

[quote]Love Klimt

I love mine, too, I just don’t go waving it around at parties.

Adolph Menzel, [italic] The Iron Rolling Mill [/italic] -- about the industrial revolution.

The Hunters in the Snow

Judith Slaying Holofernes - Artemisia Gentileschi

Fucking female empowerment.

Gorgeous paintings. Love them all.

Anything Andrew Wyeth. Sometime after he had died there was a scathing article (NYT?) on his work, condemning it as mushy nostalgia and pathetic sentimentalism, in which the author also expressed good riddance to Wyeth's legacy. It's really sad that his work is so misinterpreted and misunderstood. His paintings are sublime in the context of a stark and profound rawness. Wyeth was anything but sentimental.

Gone 350 years in October, the colossus REMBRANDT.

^ Looks like my nana.

Caravaggio, can you find a gayer classical ?

All of them.

R26 - Artemisia painted that subject dozens of times over her life. It was cathartic for the PTSD she suffered by being raped by one of her father’s friends.

This portrait by Ingres:

My favorite is garden of earthly delights but since it was mentioned early, I'll post my second favorite-- Goya "Witches' Sabbath". Very striking in person.

Gustave Caillebotte, “Skuffs”

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp

Richard Tennant Cooper's portrait of a leper.

Who is the artist at r18?

Looks like James Buttersworth.

Wonderful light.

Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose by Spanish master Francisco Zurbaran.

Another Cadmus fan but my favorite is the Herrin Massacre.

Democratic presidents playing pool - just like the rest of us!

R30, me too.

Allegory of Fortune by Dosso Dossi, c. 1530

Fortuna on a soap bubble; Chance holding lottery tickets.

Guy Coheleach

Sorry, anything by Guy Coheleach, especially his paintings of the big cats.

Thomas Hart Benton's AMERICA TODAY would be my favorite. Back in the 1980's, I worked in 787 7th Avenue and at that time AMERICA TODAY was installed permanently in the lobby. I got to live with it for several years and examine every twist and turn. It's just a beautiful thing to experience.

the drapers guild of Leiden, Rembrandt

Lots Cabellut, Spain. This is probably more appropriate for the recent portraits thread, but still gorgeous.

Ilya Repin's Sadko.

Nighthawks. I have a framed print in my bedroom.

*Lita, not Lots

Dali’s Narcissis

Manet’s Olympia was controversial

A Sunday Afternoon

Caravaggio’s painting of Medusa

El Greco's Burial of Count Orgaz. It's even more impressive in person.

The master...Thomas Kinkade.....

Rembrandt's The Night Watch - it's a very impressive work to see in person.

Renee Magritte - The Lovers

Thomas Hart Benton - self-portrait with Rita. I like this one because he looks exactly like my ex-bf.

Caillebotte - Paris Street Rainy Day

R59, 😂

Paul Cadmus, “The Fleet’s In” (1934)

....

I used to have R. Crumb's 'Tommy the Toilet' ("don't forget to wipe your ass folks!") hanging on my bathroom wall.

After the January 2017 inauguration I swapped it for a cheap print-on-canvas of 'The Scream.'

Ladder to the Moon by Georgia O'Keeffe. She was so much more than just large flowers. Her Wisconsin barns and New Mexico landscapes amaze me.

I had trouble deciding between two Hoppers, but since R52 posted Nighthawks, I'll throw in the other here ...

Claudio Talavera-Ballon

I'm really digging this painting, of late, 'Bad Dad' by Michael Zarvos. It just communicates modern ennui in such lushness. Very Australian.

Richard Bergh, [italic] Hypnotic Seance [/italic]

I’ve always loved Christina’s World.

Along the River During the Qingming Festival, also known by its Chinese name as the Qingming Shanghe Tu, is a painting by the Song dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145). It captures the daily life of people and the landscape of the capital, Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng) during the Northern Song.

The theme is often said to celebrate the festive spirit and worldly commotion at the Qingming Festival, rather than the holiday's ceremonial aspects, such as tomb sweeping and prayers. Successive scenes reveal the lifestyle of all levels of the society from rich to poor as well as different economic activities in rural areas and the city, and offer glimpses of period clothing and architecture.[1]

The painting is considered to be the most renowned work among all Chinese paintings,[2][3][4] and it has been called "China's Mona Lisa."[5]

Three things have been accepted about the original painting:

The city depicted is Kaifeng It was painted before the fall of the Northern Song dynasty in 1127 It depicts the Qingming Festival[6]

Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth by Martin Johnson Heade, National Gallery, Washington DC

The Shipwreck.

R77, Truly a beautiful selection.

R78, Why do you and so many of the previous posters favor such dark, depressing themes?

R79, good question. I don't consider myself 'dark' in real life, but for some reason, my choice in paintings is! I guess not unlike the way some people like good horror fiction or films.

Very hard to choose but I'd have to fo with this Dr. Atl landscape.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

I've always loved Wyeth, too, R29

François Barraud with his wife and a female model.

Russian art Victor Razgluin

The Night’s Watch, Garden of Earthly Delights, Guernica, Saturn Devouring his Son, The Sleeping Gypsy

The Kiss by Klimt

......

[quote]A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Dot’s really nice!

Joaquin Sorolla's Sewing The Sail. Like Buttah!

Gas by Edward Hopper.

Reminds me of summer evenings of my youth. I grew up on a road that looks sort of like this (minus the gas station)

Salutat, Thomas Eakins

[italic] The Spotted Man [/italic], Grant Wood

^^

The work of Corey Barksdale.

I think that is Rembrandt, R40.

R5 that's "earthly."

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Manet

We, the viewers, are the mustachioed gentleman in the mirror

The Manet painting is interesting. If the barmaid is standing in front of a flat mirror the viewer wouldn't see this reflection.

Tobias and the Angel by Savoldo

R18 seems more like Turner than Rembrandt. I’m not knowledgeable about art in any way, so I’m probably wrong.

So many.

Evolution of man with umbrella.

Dance at the Moulin Rouge.

I enjoy the work of Botero.

Is that the painter obsessed with fat women?

R107, lol, yes. His men are not much slimmer.

Lá Sénatrice

R43, is that Andrew Jackson? I think the political parties, before ~1900, stood for different things. TR would be a Democrat today, and compete with LBJ for the limelight.

In real life, Carter is usually standing by himself. I don’t know why. I suspect Clinton doesn’t like him, and just like High School, Presidents gravitate to the big dog. I think Obama isn’t well liked, too, but he is highly respected.

I like Albert Bierstadts work. I have a couple of his prints in my house.

R111, Beautiful. Never heard of that artist before.

Death on the Ridge Road

R112, he seems to specialize is Western USA. A lot of his landscapes are similar in that there is a rise on the right and left with a dip in the middle.

I once ran into the original of my print. It’s much larger, and at the Portrait Gallery in DC.

This masterpiece.

James Harrington

R113, Interesting choice to present to DL.

Bror Utter, "Burlesque Queens". 1956

R114 I hope there wasn't too much damage.

John Singer Sargent anything.

R119, no one was looking so I did a George Castanza and blamed it on a Japanese kid.

Not my fav, but thought DataLounge would like it.

I was at the Musee Dorsay a few years ago, and it happened to have an exhibit on “men”. The crowd interested me, in that they looked like a average mix of people. French people.

^the soap in his hand looks like green diarrhea

John Singer Sargent - Dr. Pozzi Comes Home.

Was JSS gay? His paintings of men are beautiful.

Love all these examples.

I see painting regaining popularity now that photography has gone down the toilet thanks to Instagram.

Osiris and Isis, 1987, Anselm Kiefer.

Do you know what draws you to that painting, r126?

R124 - I don’t think it was ever definitively answered, but I know he ticked my gaydar in Art History classes.

[R127], it's huge, strange, complex, and it feels like an artifact of a lost world. The first time I saw it, I felt somehow transformed, as if I could see time through the lens of the artist.

THe meeting on the turret stairs by Frederic William Burton

Great idea for a thread OP. I am really enjoying everyone's favourites (except stinkerThomas Kinkade).

Especially loved R120. Didn't expect it to be so arresting. I will have to look up JSS, thanks!

The Horse Fair, by Rosa Bonheur

R132, The Horse Fair linked.

Thanks for posting it R117. Always been a favorite of mine.

[italic] Self-portrait with a "friend" [/italic], Raphael

I love this thread.

One of my favorites - The Wounded Angel (Simberg).

Hard to choose, i'm fond of this one : Endymion by Anne-Louis Girodet

[quote] R22: Klimt

I love the story about this painting, “The Women in Gold”. It was referred to as the “Mona Lisa of Austria” and was in their National Museum.

They made a movie about if a few years ago, staring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. [Spoiler!] IIRC, It was painted in the early 20th century. The subject is a Jewish Austrian woman. It was confiscated by either the NAZIs or Austrian State or both, without compensation.

In the 1990s, a Jewish women in California wanted it back. It was a painting of her aunt. (In flashbacks, her husband is played by the delightful Max Irons.) the Austrians refused to return it and she had no hope of wining in Austrian court. The Austrian Government is depicted as a bunch of cunts. Then one day, the painting was reproduced in a book for sale in America. This gave the woman standing to sue for the painting in the US. It went to the Supreme Court, and she won! Then, the same Austrian government figures start acting nice and asking for a “reasonable settlement”, haha. She took the painting.

Either she, or her estate, sold it to the son of Estee Lauder in 2006 for $135 million. It can be seen at his gallery right across from the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.

I remember hearing about this as it happened. I thought poorly of the woman who wanted the painting back, thinking that the past should be left in the past, until I saw the movie and my eyes were opened. It wasn’t the ancient past for her, it was her own life, actually knowing the subject of the painting!

Part of the drama also centered on a poorly made out will, and whether or not the painting actually belonged to the estate covered by the will, or not.

It was a good movie. I think I’ll watch it again tonight.

Mary Magdalene Approaching the Sepulchre, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo. When I saw it at The National Gallery in London, it stopped me in my tracks, and I stared at it for a long while.

[quote] [Italic] Christ of Saint John of the Cross [/italic]

I have a print of this 1951 Dalí painting in my bedroom. It is a depiction of the Crucifixion, inspired by a 16th century drawing by Saint John of the Cross. Usually, the Crucifixion is depicted from slightly below, or straight on. This unusual depiction is as one might imagine would be viewed from Heaven, and there is a sadness in it that moves me.

It’s in Glasgow, of all Places!

R138 you forgot to mention that DL favorite Tatiana Maslany plays the young Helen Mirren in the flashbacks!

There is a painting called the "Encounter" by Sulamith Wulfing. It just always made me think of our journey through life and then our return to from where we became. It looks like 4 children wandering through life OR it could be the same girl at different periods of her life (if it's the latter theory then I don't know why there would be that many spirts or souls returning to heaven) I just lost my young beautuiful mum a couple of months ago. It's been hard because of unresolved family conflict regarding some asshole family members...This painting or artpiece and others by her and similar artists works bring me comrfort. I will say this...I've lost people. Really close people. However, due to what some family members did to hurt the both of us will never have closure as my Mum had some crazy fast rapid alzheirmers and she was stuck in a loop feeling badly becasue she thought I was hurt over what was done...and it played out everyday all day in the last months. Right before my eyes I watched her disappear berfore my eyes into a massive stroke....and i say with her in the hospital, with my partner and little brother later that night when she took her last breath. My faith or belief is really shaken because my 'pandora's box' exploded on everyone. I always kept my mouth shut and witnessed their bullshit. I'm sorry I was successful in life. It paid for my Mom;s home and it paid for most of their mortgages....they never knew the checks my Mum was writing were backed by my bank. Now they do. And I also "divorced" my siblings and an Aunt (her crazy sister) I have no need to suffer them any longer...the thread that bound us was severed. That is what I'm hanging on to. That and stuff like this painting. I've become jaded and bitter. I wonder if I will remain this way until I die. I'm sorry for this dumb story. That's the story of what this painting brings to me these days.

The Surrender of Breda by Velasquez. In 1625 the Dutch general Justin of Nassau hands the keys of the city of Breda to the Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola.

[italic] The Spirit of ‘76, [/italic] hanging in town hall, Marblehead, MA.

My 4th great grandfather, from Marblehead, was a 14 year old drummer boy in the Revolutionary War. He served with the 1st Pennsylvania Riflemen, camped in Cambridge, under command of George Washington, while Boston was occupied by the British.

[quote] [italic] “Washington Crossing the Delaware” [/italic]

Washington crossed the East River and later, the Delaware River, under similar threat. The British were about to overrun his Army and thus end the Revolution. The British planned on a morning attack, knowing that Washington was trapped with the river to his back.

Washington had a crew who carried their disassembled boats with them. He ordered these men to reassemble their boats, silently, at night, so as not to alert the nearby British. They rowed the entire army, including horses, and canons, across to safety, while decoy campfires burned.

The crew who saved the day were General John Glover’s Regiment from Marblehead, MA. They were fishermen in civilian life and expert mariners. The British had blockaded American ports, so they could not navigate to the outer banks where they would usually spend the summer months fishing. Unemployment was an added incentive to enlist in the army. My family was not with them, to my knowledge, but they would have known the men in the outfit as Marblehead was a small town.

Angela Bandurka, [italic] Pouring Peppermint [/italic]

Egbert Lievensz van der Poel, [italic] A fire at night [/italic]

"The Jewish Cemetery", Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael, 1654 or 1655, oil on canvas..

This picture hangs in the Detroit Institute of Arts. I did a paper on it for an Art History course when I was in college.

Hiroshige's Iris Garden

A lot of painting are described as “attributed to” because they aren’t signed.

My advice to gaylings is to sign and date eveything. You never know how long you’ll be someplace and if you write, build, or otherwise create something, you should get credit for it. And years later you may want to know what year you created something.

I have an ancestor who was a painter with a lot of “attributed to” work.

Witches' Sabbath - Goya, 1798

Michał Elwiro Andriolli, [italic] “Pan Twardowski and the Devil”,[/italic]1895

Van Gogh

The Death of Chatterton (Henry Wallis, 1856)

Interesting all the Goya love, I think of him as a pretty hardcore Art Historian’s artist. And if they do like him it’s usually this one.

R151, R152, What's the attraction to such dark paintings?

[quote] I did a paper on it for an Art History course when I was in college.

So, what was the significance of the ruined Christian church, and the rainbow in the background? I think the picture is a bit grim for my taste, but to each his own.

I took Japanese art as my required art class in college, so had to analyze the story told in a scroll for the term paper.

R156, probably the effects of residual Catholicism. After being bombarded with so much Catholic imagery in the first half of my life, I have a push-and-pull fascination/repulsion with the otherness of what's considered occult and sinful. I probably find films like Rosemary's Baby interesting for the same reason.

Now that I'm starting to get sort of a complex about my preference for dark paintings, lol, here's something a little bit more joyous and pastoral.

Grandma Moses

Another.

R158, Thank you for your explanation, makes a lot of sense. That picture you just posted is a beautiful choice.

Steve Cox, Study of boy on ecstasy

I love Charles Demuth’s watercolors, and many were very homoerotic like this one.

R162, nice one.

I’ve always wanted to own an original Jasper DeKemmel.

Moorish Screen by Matisse

Alfred Stevens

The Triumph of Venus by Boucher

Alma-Tadema

Old Hunting Grounds by Whittredge

Villas in Bordighera by Monet

I just love the colours

Nonchaloir by John Singer Sargent

Man with a Guitar by Braque

Couple on Beach by Alex Colville

From an Upstairs Window, Winter by Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald

Fragonard was a dear. But he kept me in that swing for a long, long time.

One of my favorite of Velazquez ... damm, gurl!

R176 There's nothing here. Whatever you were looking for doesn't currently exist at this address. Unless you were looking for this error page, in which case: Congrats! You totally found it.

No love for Cy Twombly?

Drawbridge in Nieuw Amsterdam by van Gogh

end of..

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Auguste Renoir ... quite impressive in person, it's huge.

Ghost Town by Mark Tobey

Two Schoolboys by Edouard Vuillard

Thank you, R178, for stating the perfectly obvious. We all thank you for your diligence.

Better your energies go to lobbying Muriel for an Edit function.

R185 = Imma Kunt

The Wedding of Psyche by Burne-Jones

Goya, The Colossus.

Portrait of a Young Woman by Botticelli

Canaletto

William Bailey

Isle of the Dead by Böcklin

"The Goldfinch" by Fabritius

Interior, The Orange Blind by Francis Cadell

A Lady in Black by Francis Cadell

R193's choice.

The Robing of the Bride by Max Ernst

Serov's Girl with Peaches

Manet

Rauschenberg

Thomas Hart Benton --

In 1941 Benton was dismissed from the Art Institute after he said the typical art museum was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait." He made additional disparaging references to what he said was the excessive influence of homosexuals (which he called "the third sex") in the art world.

Dark paintings by Goya are incredibly impressive in person. There is a separate room for all of them in Prado Museum. And it's hard to forget this little room. This one is heartbreaking.

Saturn Devouring His Son is particularly troubling.

R203

Yes! It's horrific.

Golconda by Magritte

The Last King of Portugal by Paula Rego

Diogenes by Jean-Leon Gerome

The City by Fernand Leger. I know it from an old art history textbook at high school.

I also love some of the precisionist artists who echoed Leger's style.

Your link doesn't work, R208.

try this

Happy Trees, by Bob Ross.

Don't smirk bitches, you know you love him.

Girls, girls. Why do we like small photos so much?

Remedios Varo, part of the Spanish Surrealism movement back in the day

https://images.app.goo.gl/5pNWdkMAbVuZ57W36

You've put the web address in the "Comments" box instead of the "Web Site Link" box.

Hey [199] do you think that Manet was painting his penis and placed it in the center of the painting? Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but that ain’t no cigar.

This "Big Eyes" Painting

I never thought of that, R216, but the grapes do have a phallic shape and then there are the two peaches next to it. Maybe Manet was making a visual joke. I'll never look at that painting the same way again. You have a good eye.

Imagine if you had an older, very proper relative with a copy of that painting in their house and you pointed that out to them. They'd faint.

A work called "Tiforal" by R214's choice, Remedios Varo. Very talented painter, R214.

Creation of the Birds by Remedios Varo

Lady Peel by Thomas Lawrence

Pont Boieldieu in Rouen by Pissarro

R220, I love that one!

This is up there

Sons of Clovis II by Évariste Vital Luminais

sons of clovis....

Hands down, "Whistlejacket," by George Stubbs. In the National Gallery, London. I could stare at it for hours. Simply exquisite.

This is a tough one. I have been trying to find out the artist of the painting in this scene of a Ben Affleck movie "Changing Lanes". There are other paintings by the same artist in the law firm office scenes. I love this painting. Maybe someone knows who painted this. It is in this entire scene.

R228 Alex Katz?

R229! THANK YOU !!!! I LOVE YOU!

R230 lol you're welcome. I like Stewart MacFarlane (worked in Alex Katz's studio).

R226, The Sons of Clovis do not look well.

I’ve always loved the energy of Broadway Boogie Woogie.

Master Bedroom by Andrew Wyeth

Hunters in the Snow, Bruegel

R227 I always visit that painting whenever I'm in London. So beautiful.

George Tooker - The Subway

The Mountain Preacher, James R. Hopkins

R238 Wow!

Henri Rousseau

[quote]R220, I love that one!

Yes, it's very memorable. When R214 mentioned Remedios Varo, I thought I didn't know him but I did a google search of his paintings and I did recognise "Creation of the Birds". I had seen it in an art book a few years back. It's beautiful, whimsical and disturbing.

anything by odilon redon....

Psyche and Cupid by Francois Gerard

Bassano, Adoration of the Shepherds.

Dude knew how to paint booty!

[italic]Village Lawyer[/italic], Peter Brueghel:

Odd Nerdrum has some interesting pieces.

Zuma Mandela painting by Ayanda Mabulu

[italic]The Iron Forge Viewed from Without[/italic], Joseph Wright of Derby

Ascending and Descending Hero by Bridget Riley

Riley

[italic]Seated Male Nude,[/italic] Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille

Pollice Verso by Jean-Leon Gerome

Bashi-Bazouk by Gerome

The Chauvet cave paintings in France. Werner Herzog did a lovely film about them.

Ghent Altarpiece

Lately I've been noticing Louis Fratino.

Oh God, I killed this thread, like I always do. Apologies.

That's a fine painting, R257 -- I like it.

"Study of Thomas McKeller" MFA Boston

Alex Colville

beautiful and memorizing thread.

Since R35 has already listed my favorite Ingres portrait, here's another Ingres lady in blue the Comtesse d'Haussonville. The sheer technical skill required to paint the folds of fabric in these pictures so perfectly is astounding.

This one is quite nice, too.

The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse.

Memorizing, R262?

St. Roch-Forgotten by John Mccrady

Death and the Maiden by Marianne Stokes

Walter Sickert,[italic]Putana a Casa[/italic]

Forgot the painting.^^

I am an artist. And I am rather old. Thanks for the personal treasures. I will have to think on this, but mine may be "The Pregnant Madonna: Saw this in a little hilltop museo in Tuscany. Tired and cannot think, but will post more detail later. Found it - enjoy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_del_Parto

Thanks, R270.

Oh wait, this is where it is, R270. Yes, a staggering fresco by Piero di Francesco with its own museum in Monterchi. Saw it there three years ago, fortunately in the company of learned, witty people who loved it.

*Piero della Francesca" wtf?

Chuck's Close's 'Phil'

Colville

Titian portrait at the Frick Collection

Basquiat - Untitled (1984)

Not my favorite painting but it does make an impression.

Adolph Gottlieb - Vigil

Lawren Harris

Thank you for the Lawren Harris—I'm a fan of his room in the Art Gallery of Ontario. Here's South Shore Bylot Island (1931).

Another Lawren Harris - Northern Lake.

I really like that one, R280.

Red Maple by A.Y. Jackson

Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

El Greco, Portrait of Cardinal Guevara

Arab Cavalry Practicing a Charge by Delacroix

Amongst the Nerves of the World by Christopher Nevinson

John Glover

St. Martin and the Beggar by El Greco

One more try.

you got it, gurl

When I paste the url into google, the image comes up but when I try it on DL, it won't work.

Uccello

The Night Watch (common name) by Rembrandt. It is similar to a painting that my grandfather had over a sofa in his living room.

Hockney

Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434

Jackson Pollock - Male and Female

Summer Hillside - A.J. Casson

Oh, if we're on to St. George and the Dragon, I love Chicago's Martorell.

Excellent choice, R299. I've never seen this painting before.

Any Blue Period Picasso

Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Piano - Dali

Crucifixion by Dali

Oh crap. Not again.

Thanks, R300. And while we're on early modern Catalan painters, let me add another favorite of mine, the scrutinizing gaze of Jaume Huguet's Augustine as he washes Jesus' feet. Part of his altarpiece.

Love the attention to detail. Thanks R306.

Dante and Virgil in Hell by William Bouguereau

Sascha Schneider's Hypnosis is a close second

Arion's Sea Journey by Philipp Otto Runge

Great Red Dragon - William Blake

Le Sommeil - Gustave Courbet

Dali - The Persistence of Memory

Night - Ferdinand Hodler

Hydrangeas by Philip Wilson Steer

The Wave by Bouguereau

Edward Wadsworth - The Offing

No Monet love?

He was a hack compared to Manet. Just sayin'.

Madame Monet in a Japanese Kimono by Claude Monet

The Magpie by Monet

R319 To each their own, but when you actually see these paintings upfront it's quite marvelous. No the prints. The actual painting.

My comment was tongue in cheek. I like many of Monet's paintings but they're mostly beautiful landscapes. It takes a lot to keep the attention of DL's jaded queens.

Imagine if "Le Sommeil" showed two guys in bed. There'd be rioting in the streets.

[quote]To each their own, but when you actually see these paintings upfront it's quite marvelous. No the prints. The actual painting.

R322, of the Monet paintings you've seen in person, please post some of your favorites.

[quote] No Monet love?

I heard somewhere that the love of Monet was the root of all evil.

I adore Monet's series: haystacks, Houses or Parliament, Rouen and e.g. Chartres:

May as well post one of my own

Hans Hofmann - Combinable Wall I and II.

Hans Hofmann - The Gate

I saw the number 5 in gold.

Andy's Robert

Ah, Monet! How I loathe him. What a sap!

This, by Caravaggio

That looks amazing, R334. Thanks

Rockwell Kent

more Rockwell Kent

The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens - Canaletto

Inka Essenhigh

In Bed - Inka Essenhigh

no love for Chagall?

Passion Flowers and Hummingbirds by Martin Johnson Heade

Chagall isn't one of my favorites but I do love your post at R332.

Fuseli's Nightmare

Alex Katz - Blue Umbrella #2

Willem van de Velde

Wayne Thiebaud

r341 = Die Koenigin

Grant Wood -- Daughters of the Revolution

Story of Wood's DAR portrait

Stone City, Iowa by Grant Wood. Pretty voluptuous landscape.

Thomas Cole - Destruction from "The Course of Empire"

Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners (1857)

Spring Bouquet by Fantin Latour

[quote]Thomas Hart Benton -- In 1941 Benton was dismissed from the Art Institute after he said the typical art museum was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait." He made additional disparaging references to what he said was the excessive influence of homosexuals (which he called "the third sex") in the art world.

He was born in 1889 so it's not surprising he had that kind of an attitude. Sexual acts between men were probably illegal for most of his life.

Side Portal of Como Cathedral by Rudolph von Alt

Holyday by James Tissot

R342 love it!

Thanks R358. It's in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

How Thomas Hart Benton saw other artists even though he was one of three top Regionalists, two of whom were gay.

Lol, R360. I guess he thought straight men should dominate in all fields, including art.

Tree of My Life by Joseph Stella

Murillo

Blue Snow the Battery by George Bellows

At The Seaside by William Merritt Chase

The Bachelors Twenty Years Later by Roberto Matta

Ocean Life - James Sommerville

Arques-la-Bataille by John Henry Twachtman

Autumn Leaves by John Everett Millais

automat by edward hopper

Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight by John Singer Sargent

Oh crap. R371 is a download. Sorry about that.

The Sitwell Family by Sargent

The girl in red looks like a terrific snob.

A Cotton Office in New Orleans by Degas

Fun Pool by Swiss Illustrator Marcel Baumann

Very cool, R375.

Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons by Turner

whistler: "Nocturne in Blue and Silver, Venice" MFA Boston

Snow at Louveciennes - Sisley

St. Martin Canal - Sisley

Sleeping Venus by Paul Delvaux

Paul-Emile Borduas

Frank Stella

Winged Curve by Bridget Riley

Girl with Beret - Lucian Freud

Tjapaltjarri

Joe Zucker

Henry Scott Tuke

Henry Scott Tuke

Tuke

Maxfield Parrish Daybreak

Thanks for the post, R390.

Lady Violetta and the Knave by Maxfield Parrish

Parrish - Cinderella

This painting by Nebojsa Zdravkovic hangs in my bedroom and I look at it every day. I find it very reflective and soothing. Bought it years ago.

Love the painting, R393. Thanks.

Icarus and Daedalus by Frederic Leighton

Andrew Moncrief

Oh my! They're wrestling, right?

I like these. Love the fur coat.

"the sculptor" john koch, brooklyn museum

the raft of the medusa, louvre

Romans During The Decadence - Thomas Couture

The Tree of Life by Klimt

[quote]The Sitwell Family by Sargent

[quote]The girl in red looks like a terrific snob.

R373, that's the future author of "The English Eccentrics". And she should know, the father posted a sign at his home which read "“I must ask anyone entering the house never to contradict me or differ from me in any way, as it interferes with the functioning of the gastric juices and prevents my sleeping at night.”

Thanks for the interesting info, R403.

Still you would think Sargent wouldn't risk offending his patrons. The facial expressions of the parents look all right but Edith has an unpleasant, withering stare.

Oops. I just read on wikipedia that she had a stormy relationship with her parents. Maybe they wouldn't have minded that much.

Autumn with Five Crosses by Gallen-Kallela

Georgia

Picasso

Picasso - Pan Pipes

Picasso - Seated Harlequin

Ivan Albright

i like photorealism, esp. pencil drawings.

Very cool, R412.

Richard Estes' photorealistic paintings

The Tea by Mary Cassatt

Great Blue Heron by Audubon

Sleeping Child by Will Barnet

Seated Scribe by Gentile Bellini

On Reconnaissance by Jozef Brandt

Filippo Lauri - Carousels in Honor of Queen Christina of Sweden

American Interior by Charles Sheeler

Florine Stettheimer - Spring Sale at Bendel's

Cadmium Red Above Black, Adolph Gottlieb

Yu Hong - A New Century

Hans Hoffman - Song of the Nightingale

I had a poster of this up in my dorm room. I still love it, though I've never seen the original.

The Tree by Ibrahim El-Salahi

The Hinterland by Glenn Brown

100 Years Ago by Peter Doig

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri - George Caleb Bingham

Girl Running on a Balcony by Giacomo Balla

Thanks for the post, R424.

Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein

State Park by Jared French

Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau

Woman with a Parrot by Gustave Courbet

The City Rises - Umberto Boccioni

The Mountain by Balthus

Sunflowers (1887) by Van Gogh

Edward Hopper, NEW YORK MOVIE

Wrist Corsage by Lisa Yuskavage

https://imgur.com/GMheglO

El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent,

sorry, new to imgur

Third times a charm?

The Cathedrals of Wall Street by Florine Stettheimer

The Massacre at Chios by Delacroix

The Golden Age by Joachim Wtewael

Pandora by Odilon Redon

Jeune Fille au Bal - Berthe Morisot

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning

Marguerite Kelsey by Meredith Frampton

Samuel Palmer

The Citizen by Richard Hamilton

The Waterseller of Seville by Velazquez

Richard Dadd

Gwen John

Whistlejacket by Stubbs, I just love it.

"Ecce Homo" by Cecilia Giménez

If you're ever in the deepest depression imaginable, a minute with this painting will snap you out of it.

Julie Mehretu

Klee

Richard Estes's paintings of New York in the '70s of course.

Thanks for your posts, R460 and R461.

Nocturn in the Parc Royal - William Degouve de Nuncques

Van Gogh's "Trees and Underbrush" (1887)

Your link doesn't work, R463.

Goya

Argh, sorry [R464], the preview was there, and it worked when I "tested" it, but I can see that didn't last. Here's a link to the image on the Van Gogh Museum web site. I didn't use it at first because I had to demagnify it in order to see the full image and I thought that would be a nuisance if everyone had to do so (LOL).

Very beautiful painting, R466. Thanks.

Giovanni Bellini

Hammershoi

Grey Tree - Mondrian

Diego Rivera

Of course I can't just choose one, but this has been right up there since I was a wee ting. Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912).

Golden Pheasant watercolor

Hopefully this link works.

Thanks for the post, R472. I love that painting too.

Diego Rivera

And now, for a verse:

O pointy birds, O pointy pointy. Anoint my head, Anointy-nointy.

John Lillison, 'England's greatest one-armed poet'.

I like a lot of Jesse Trevino's stuff..

Traci from Young & Restless

Are you sure you're posting on the right thread, R480?

Thanks for your posts, R478 and R479.

Caravaggio

Dosso Dossi

Willem Kalf

Veronese

Joshua Reynolds

Crivelli

Yves Tanguy

Pissarro

Malevich - Black Square

pure genius

Marius Borgeaud

Roy Lichtenstein painting that sold for $43 million at Christie's New York.

Edward Hicks

The Artist and his Mother by Arshile Gorky

George Condo - Orgy Composition

Disturbing

The Great Day of His Wrath - John Martin

After Lunch - Patrick Caulfield

Gerhard Richter

Manuel Orazi

Okay, so it's a poster not a painting.

Virgin of the Rocks, Leonardo Da Vinci.

Look at that rock behind her...

Yeah, it does look phallic but he wouldn't dare do it deliberately in a religious painting.

Rabbit in a snowstorm

Wonderful thread. Mine is 'The Large Blue Horses' by Franz Marc.

Lol, R502.

Thank you for your post, R503. Please post some more.

"Centipede," a portrait of a woman with true romance and beauty

Definitely not this one -- I Love The Whole World by Agnes Martin, part of the Tate's collection. I don't understand the artistic merits of this painting.

And why Time Out considers it a must see painting in London.

Winterhalter painting the impératrice Eugénie and her girls, love the details of the dress fabric, especially the green one.

John William Waterhouse - Hylas And The Nymphs Every painting of his is a masterpiece though. Love this thread!

Love your choices, R509 and R510. I was first introduced to Waterhouse on DL - The Soul of the Rose on the portrait thread.

Yongzheng Emperor Enjoying Himself during the 8th Lunar Month

Landscape in the Moonlight - Ma Yuan

Mansions in the Mountains - Tung Yuan

Dancing and Singing - Ma Yuan

The Suitor - Edouard Vuillard

Tiepolo

Uphe - Tomma Abts

Zeng Fanzhi

Young Hare - Durer

Albert Oehlen

Young Hare by Durer

Lucy McKenzie

OP types like a slut. I'm just sayin'

Marlene Dumas

Martin Kippenberger

Grayson Perry is a work of art.

Sigmar Polke

Wrong thread, R529.

The Danger in Jazz - Lucy McKenzie

Sean Scully

Mark Grotjahn

Lee Bontecou. Untitled. 1961

Picasso

Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri

Botticelli. Perfection.

Another favorite: Bosch

Another favorite: Bosch

Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso

Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais

Little Big Painting - Roy Lichtenstein

He painted it to make fun of Abstract Expressionists.

Childe Hassam

La Toilette by Mary Cassatt

A Light in the Darkness by Sam Flores.

I think it’d be a great piece for the bathroom wall.

Not this one.

The Favourite by Omar Rayyan

[quote] “May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole earth.” – Dr. Joseph Warren, March 5, 1775

This painting shows Dr. Joseph Warren, a Son of Liberty who fomented the early rebellion alongside Samuel Adams, and who never got to see the revolution fulfilled after his tragic death at the Battle of Bunker Hill, depicted here!though the painter was not at the battle. It’s inspiring, no?

Friends or Foes? (The Scout)

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

Portrait of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent

Metropolitan Museum, NYC

Looking at R59, I wonder: Are Kinkade paintings now more valuable because he's dead or are they like Beanie babies?

Old King Cole by Maxfield Parrish

King Cole Bar, St. Regis Hotel, NYC

John Jacob Astor begged and wheedled the famous painter and illustrator Maxfield Parrish to paint the King Cole mural for his Knickerbocker Hotel, eventually offering him the unheard-of sum of $5,000; $200,000 in today's money. But the relationship between the two strong personalities was fraught from the beginning, and after much to-ing and fro-ing the gorgeous mural was delivered in 1906 with a subtle thumb to Astor’s eye. Look up at the mural today and it’s easy to believe the story is true: King Cole is said to be the sour likeness of Astor himself, and his courtiers, suppressing laughter all around him, have just heard him fart.

If he was offended, he never let on. Astor died a few years later on the maiden voyage of the Titanic

R550, or like Pokémon cards.

St. Sebastian

Katherine Bernhardt

All those with Lady Hamilton as a subject

The one over the fireplace.

Manfredi's "Cupid Chastised" at the Art Institute in Chicago.

Johann Carl Loth - 'Mercury Piping to Argus'

Edward Hopper - Compartment C, Car 293

Ancient Roman fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii

Pallas Athena by Rembrandt

Melozzo da Forli - Angel playing the lute

Le Cheval Blanc by Georges Barbier

On His Holidays, Norway by John Singer Sargent

Ensor, Christ's Entry Into Brussels

I'm looking for the name of a painting it's of a woman playing the harp as a girl dances with two other girls looking at them from around the edge of the window as if they're snooping.

Emperor Ch'in Wang Ti travelling in a palanquin

Selene and Endymion by Poussin

Matisse

Moonlight After Rain by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

Au Cafe - Jean Beraud

The Palm - Odilon Redon

Thanks, R570. Please post some more.

Après la Faute - Jean Béraud

After the Misdeed by Jean Béraud

The Soirée by Jean Béraud

Vigée Le Brun

Vigée Le Brun

R573 I have this Grimshaw print as well. He did many paintings of moonlight and water. I love his work. The first one, Moonlight After Rain, transports me right there. I can feel the air and smell the rain.

Search images of John Atkinson Grimshaw and you'll find many more fine examples of his work.

Listen to Living - Robert Matta

They're both beautiful paintings, R570 and R579, from an artist I haven't heard of. Thanks.

Peacock and Peahen by Tobias Stranovius

saw this as a kid at the Truman Library./ made a big impression TH Benton was a neighbor of my grandparents, and was over frequently in KC, Mo. An employee of my grandparents posed for one of the figures.

Thanks, R583.

Achelous and Hercules by Thomas Hart Benton, a mural made for a Kansas City department store

Florine Stettheimer - Family Portrait, II

Pine Trees, Effect of Sunlight at St. Honorat by Francis Picabia

James Tissot

Tissot

Paul Nash

Burne-Jones

William Orpen

William Orpen

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Caravaggio

Pick one.

A classic.

Gustave Caillebotte - Les orangers (1878) MFA Houston

Achille-Etna Michallon Étude

link

dammit, third time better be the charm