# What's your favorite painting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003 "2000-02-18T16:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/21 "2000-02-18T21:03:00Z")
This is a sadly neglected area of my life. I like paintings, I like art museums, I like books of paintings but I seldom take the time. For Mrs. Pluto it’s easy – Hopper’s “Nighthawks”. For me, I suppose it’s Picasso’s “Don Quixote” – technically not a painting, I suppose. Once several years ago I got a chance to visit the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. for about _half an hour!_ I was literally running from room to room trying to see everything (and seeing nothing of course!) There’s a Rembrandt, there’s a Titian, etc. But the one artist that made me stop and really look was Gilbert Stuart, oddly enough. His portraits of Washington and Jefferson. Maybe they reminded me of money! ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/22 "2000-02-18T21:09:00Z")
I have to classify my favorites by those I’ve seen in person and those I’ve only seen prints of. The difference between the two is so intense, there’s almost no way to compare them. When it comes to prints, I’m a big fan of Parrish, Klimt, Chagall, Marie Cassatt, Renoir, Picasso, Redon, Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh, whoever painted the Lasceaux cavewalls, and dozens more. In person, I haven’t seen nearly enough, but in San Antonio, where I grew up, there’s a small museum called the McNay, and they have about one of everything, it seems. There’s a Monet waterlily painting that I could sit in front of for hours. The colors, the brush strokes, it just swallows you whole. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/23 "2000-02-18T21:36:00Z")
Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase.” van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.” A slight hi-jack, but my LEAST favorire would be anything by Cy Twomby. The Philadelphia Museum of Art had a display of his “Ulysses” series, and I was enraged by their pretentiousness. They were everything that was awful about modern art. I don’t know the names of many late 20th century artist, but the sheer shittiness of his work made me remember Twomby’s name. Ironic, huh? ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/24 "2000-02-18T21:51:00Z")
My favorite artists are Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol. Favorite painting? Gotta be The Persistence Of Memory. I also really like Chuck Close’s work, amazing. ---
**Author:** ![eden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f9b8f/32.png) [@eden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eden)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/25 "2000-02-18T22:07:00Z")
By far my favorite painter is Sargent; I have seen three shows so far, the El Jaleo exhibit, the Polynesian exhibit (saw both of these in Chicago) and the recent (last year? '98?) Sargent exhibit at the National Gallery in DC. I don’t think I could pick a favorite painting since I love so many, but there is one painting I’m thinking of that shows the head of a girl from Capri…her earrings have glints of light and her expression is enigmantic…_sigh_ I also love Dufy, Cezanne (landscapes, don’t really care for the still lifes), Van Gogh (of course), Chagall, Kandinsky, some Vermeers, and a single Van Dyke, a portrait of some fresh young thing in this fabulous green velvet dress. I am the only person on earth who LOATHES Renoir. I don’t like his particular brand of impressionism, the bright colors and little girls with flowers, bleah. ---
**Author:** ![eden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f9b8f/32.png) [@eden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eden)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/26 "2000-02-18T22:10:00Z")
Would you EVER believe I was an editor? Enigmatic. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/27 "2000-02-18T22:19:00Z")
My favorite? It would have to be Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. Love Dali’s “Persistance of Memory” as well. ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/28 "2000-02-18T22:31:00Z")
I kinda like Boris Vallejo’s ``Andromeda’’… 🙂 * * * ``Beware of elaborate telescopic meat; it will find its way back to the forest.’’ – William S. Burroughs, Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/29 "2000-02-18T23:08:00Z")
Not my favorite but two that i find amusing and intriguing lately: [The Meat Magi by Mark Ryden](http://www.markryden.com/gallery/previous/dmaji.html) [St. Barbie by Mark Ryden](http://www.markryden.com/gallery/previous/stbarbie.html) * * * You always use violence. I should’ve ordered glutinous rice chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/30 "2000-02-18T23:32:00Z")
Sereaut’s _A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grand Jatte_. I am a Vermeer fan, Coldfire - I envy your location! I like Dali’s _Persistence of Memory_ and the sequeal _Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory_. I like Winslow Homer, but not his seascapes. I am a huge fan of Margritte. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/31 "2000-02-18T23:55:00Z")
Anything by Thomas Hart Benton, and Andrew Wyeth’s Scarecrow. ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/32 "2000-02-19T00:32:00Z")
‘The Barque of Dante’ by Delacriox ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ by Durer ‘A Sunday Afterneen on the Isle of Grande Jatte’ by **Seurat.** ( sorry Bricker check your spelling) * * * Ang ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/33 "2000-02-19T00:48:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Angkins: > ‘A Sunday After **neen** on the Isle of Grande Jatte’ by **Seurat.** ( sorry Bricker check your spelling) Now if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/34 "2000-02-19T01:28:00Z")
“Annie McGinley” by Rockwell Kent. He was an American who left the country during the hunt for communists, and spent some time in Ireland. The painting in question, considered by some to be one of the finest examples of his work, is an Irish seacoast with a young girl laying on the edge of the cliff. It was once featured in the “ART” section on the back cover of Reader’s Digest. Oh - the girl is my grandmother. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/35 "2000-02-19T01:35:00Z")
Hmm…favorite artists are Monet, Cezanne, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Albert Bierdstat (sp?), Seurat, El Greco, and George de la Tour. Favorite painting changes every week…but for right now it’s _View of Toledo_ by El Greco, which can be seen [here.](http://192.41.13.240/artchive/e/el_greco/toledo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![dansir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@dansir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dansir)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/36 "2000-02-19T01:41:00Z")
Swimming, What you said about seeing yourself is how I feel. OR something that gets a message across either to make me laugh, cry, or think. I have too many favorites to post but recently my nine year old girl and I visited a the Romanovs exhibit. All I can say is wow. They had a painting of their wedding and I swear it looked like the candle light was flickering on their faces. There was also one that was 200 ft long around the room. [http://www.angelfire.com/ma/romanov/](http://www.angelfire.com/ma/romanov/) ---
**Author:** ![Lucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/37 "2000-02-19T01:42:00Z")
My favorite, by far, is _The Floor Scrapers_ by Gustave Caillebotte. I bought a very old house some years ago and refinished the wood floors by hand. I immediately went out and bought the print and, if I ever win the lottery, I’m buying the real one. I’ve also always liked Magritte, but I love him even more after seeing an exhibit a couple of years ago. It was just so cool to see so many of his works together. * * * “I should not take bribes and Minister Bal Bahadur KC should not do so either. But if clerks take a bribe of Rs 50-60 after a hard day’s work, it is not an issue.” ----Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Current Prime Minister of Nepal ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/38 "2000-02-19T02:04:00Z")
Probably no surprise to anyone, but I find the Surrealists to be consuming. There’s a Dali exhibit in town at the moment, and the bastards are selling timed admission. I need at least three hours for each piece, and I’m going broke buying tickets from the folks in line so I can keep getting back in . . . Dr. Watson “I know all about Art, but I don’t know what I like.” (after James Thurber, I think) ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/39 "2000-02-19T02:46:00Z")
I like the Rumple Minze poster. 😃 Seriously, I really like anything impressionist. Everything else can be very touching, but the existentialism that impressionist artists convey to me is very soothing. A sort of kindred spirit sort of thing. * * * how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking… VvvV ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/40 "2000-02-19T03:14:00Z")
Damn! and I thought for a change I didn’t have a typo!! That just figures! :eek: * * * Ang [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003.md?page=3)