This one: A Sunday Afternoon on the Iland of La Grande Jatte.
No photograph of Seurat’s is adequate. Go to the Art Institute in Chicago to see it yourself.
I like Andrew Wyeth too. My favorite is Benny’s Scarecrow.
Great thread. I’ve liked everything I’ve seen. It helps that I just finished reading a novel featuring art and painters, so I’m looking at these differently, as more than just representations. Yeah, I’m a Philistine.
Mine would have to be Village en Automne by Henri Le Sidaner. I saw a canvas transfer of it in a shop in Houston, Texas, and it has been my favorite work of art since.
My loyalties to the masters change with every museum I visit. So, in the end, I always have to say that my favorite paintings are the two I have hanging on my walls.
Hour of Silver, by Betsy Greenlee is the first picture I was ever blown away by. I was a junior in college and just wandered into an art gallery in town because a friend was looking for a mother’s day gift. I hated most of what I saw in that gallery, and then I turned the corner and saw Greenlee’s work. It took a lot of patience, but I eventually was able to purchase this piece. It’s always had a place of honor in my homes since. I just feel bad I have to move so often, and so does this piece.
The other piece I adore is this one, by Beverly Hansen. I never thought I’d own it, so I never asked if it had a title. My now ex-husband purchased this for me for our wedding. He nailed the gift utterly.
Anyway, I hope my unknowns can come and be shown in this thread. I apologize for the glare on Greenlee’s work. I’m not the best photographer out there.
No kidding. I am particularly amused by Arete, or Chuck Norris as H. Erectus, as it ought to be known.
it may be a bit obvious but I am going to say Guernica.
I must admit that ever since I saw it in the National Gallery in Washington, I’ve loved Goya’s “The Family of the Infante Don Luis.” The guy on the right with the bandaged head really makes it work.
The Forest in Winter at Sunset by Theodore Rousseau. It hangs at the Met in NYC. The picture in the link doesn’t do it justice, because it’s a very large painting IRL. It’s very dark and moody. I love the way the light plays off the trees.
Wow!
We have almost exactly the same taste in art… except I would have gone with Starry Night over Wheat Field by just a smidge…
A couple:
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent
and The White Veil by Willard Leroy Metcalfe.
Reminds me a little of Pannini’s Views of Modern Rome; one of my favorites. It looks like someone had just discovered perspective and was having a field day with it, although there is one error.
I cannot decide. (and how did I miss the poem thread? Is it a dead thread?)
Here are some:
AlfredSisley
Pissarro
MaxfieldParrish
As can be seen, I prefer landscapes to people(mostly).
Vermeer
BridgetRiley
I don’t have much time or patience with whatever art is called now–I don’t mind some of the post-modernists and like some of the Dadaists and surrealists as well.
There is an oil painting in the Art Institute that I have only seen once. I cannot recall the artist’s name (it is fairly recent). The subject is a forest/lake scene by a Scandinavian artist. It depicts a small cottage in the (I believe) birch woods. I really like it–but have never found it again.
ETA: eh, the ones I chose all seem to be “pretty colors”. So be it. (the Whistler looks bizarre. I own a print and there is no lavender in my print at all.) I like some Monet (mostly his winter stuff–Jodi, I really like The White Veil you posted), no Renoir, Van Gogh, some Ultrillo–it’s pick and choose for me.
I really like Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I also like his Irises. I am partial to Munch’s Scream as well, some days it’s just perfect for how I’m feeling.
I like Monet’s series of haystacks. The same subject captured in different light conditions. The Art Institute of Chicago has a set of these in the same room. Simply fascinating.
My very favorite painting is Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. There’s just something about the touch of the hands that gets to me.
I also love Albrecht Durer’s Self Portrait at 28, which I saw at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. I took an art appreciation class in Munich one semester and we spent a lot of time in museums. It’s one of the first paintings I ever really looked at and I just love his hair and his eyes in this.
I’m a huge Van Gogh fan, and I love his post impressionist paintings, but I really love one of his older works, The Potato Eaters. I’m not sure why, but it might be the way the light shines on the people around the table.
New York Movie by Edward Hopper.
The Corn Poppy by Kees van Dongen.
I love me some Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymous Bosch.
I can just get lost in it for a long time…almost like a place I can visit and tour. I also kind of enjoy the Dante-esque, medieval Catholic morality of it.
I like Master Bedroom
Thanks to the Brandon Bird link I may have a new favorite
Cezanne’s House of the Hanged Man has been the background on my home PC for years now. It grabbed my heart and mind the first time I saw it 20-odd years ago and still manages to take my breath away.
I just gave my folks my print of Kandinsky’s Improvistaion 23, on the condition that it comes back to me when I have the space for it. Mum loves it for the colours and forms, she and my daughter see musical instruments. Dad and I see the instruments too, but also boobies and other naughty bits. Heh.
If it ever comes up, I’d adore a copy of Binney’s Fall of the Tui, but it was never released as a print and isn’t likely to be. There isn’t even an image online, but the top picture here is a similar style.