# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/41 "2000-02-19T03:32:00Z")
Dali - Swans Reflecting Elephants. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) Clerks - Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/42 "2000-02-19T03:36:00Z")
Dali’s Last Supper. * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/43 "2000-02-19T04:04:00Z")
What, nobody here likes Matisse? Renoir, Monet, Dali, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh. . . and several dozen other artists whose names escape me at the moment. My absolute favorite is M. C. Escher. . . though that’s not technically painting. – Sylence * * * If a bird doesn’t sing, I’ll wait until it sings. - Tokugawa Ieyasu ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/44 "2000-02-19T04:32:00Z")
I second Sylence on Escher, and above H. Bosch in my office hangs Gaudere’s Beast from the ‘Could you believe ?’ thread in GD. ---
**Author:** ![ScottyMo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@ScottyMo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScottyMo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/45 "2000-02-19T05:08:00Z")
Gericault’s _Le Radeau de la Méduse_ (Raft of the Medusa). I have a halfway decent repro hanging in my office, and it consistently elicits befuddled stares. [Here’s a link to a small JPEG.](http://www.pariserve.tm.fr/globe/louvre/radeau.htm) ---
**Author:** ![deathawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@deathawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deathawk)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/46 "2000-02-19T05:15:00Z")
The Starry Night - Van Gogh Nude Descending a Staircase - Duchamp Ectasy - Parrish And while it’s not technically a painting, Miyukichan in Wonderland, CLAMP Also something I saw a print of once & was never able to track down again, I think it was by Salvador Dali. Close up, it was a view of the crucifixtion, but when you backed away several feet, it became a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. One of the most fascinating things I had seen. ---
**Author:** ![CatRimbaud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@CatRimbaud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatRimbaud)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/47 "2000-02-19T05:39:00Z")
My favorite would have to be _Daddy Longlegs at Midnight…Hope_ by Salvador Dali. ## Closely following would be anything else by Salvador Dali. I have a soft spot in my heart for: El Greco Renoir Georgia O’Keefe I have included a certain amount of filth to please the gentlemen of the press. –Baudelaire ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/48 "2000-02-19T05:56:00Z")
Who originally painted the dogs playing poker? Studi * * * When I grow up, I want to be the Minister of Silly Walks. ---
**Author:** ![TaleraRis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@TaleraRis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaleraRis)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/49 "2000-02-19T06:01:00Z")
I can’t say I have a favorite painting, but I do have favorite authors. I like Monet, Van Gogh and Renoir. Two years ago I was lucky enough to be in Chicago when Renoir’s collection came to the Art Institute and I saw everything firsthand. They’re even better right there up close and it was a very happy day for me. Btw Gaudere (think that was it) - how long is that exhibit here in Chicago? I might have to try to get back to the Institute to see it * * * When are you going to realize being normal isn’t necessarily a good thing? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/50 "2000-02-19T07:17:00Z")
Have you heard about the artist Vincent Van Gogh? He loved color and He let it show… The best painter since Jan Vermeer! “Vincent Van Gogh” – Jonathan Richman That being said, give me a good ol’ fashioned Norman Rockwell anytime. * * * Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/51 "2000-02-19T07:23:00Z")
PSYCH! Actually, We’re kind of Maxfield Parrish fans too, round here. We’ve got two big MP prints on the walls. Vermeer, Rembrandt Winslow Homer Kind of a Picasso fan, too. Matisse is good. We had a local impressionist painter, Paul Sawyier, who I’ve always liked. Also a big fan of the Zen landscape painters, tho’ I don’t really know much about them. Georgia O’Keefe. I just have so much trouble coming up with a “favorite” anything. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/52 "2000-02-19T07:44:00Z")
[QUOTE] Originally posted by Sylence: \*\*What, nobody here likes Matisse?/B]/QUOTE] (Raising hand and waving wildly) I do! I do! Also Rothko, Dubuffet, Klee, Haring, Malevitch, Cassat, Stuart Davis and Jack the Dripper. ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/53 "2000-02-19T17:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Studi: > \*\*Who originally painted the dogs playing poker? > \*\* Cassius Marcellus Coolidge did the dogs playing poker paintings… * * * ``Beware of elaborate telescopic meat; it will find its way back to the forest.’’ – William S. Burroughs, Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/54 "2000-02-19T17:53:00Z")
It’s so hard to pin down just one, but the one that made me stand with my mouth agape in awe and amazement was _A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of Grande Jatte_ by Seurat. An utterly amazing masterpiece. And I’m with you, Eve, on liking the very early portraits a **lot**. I can’t name any of them in particular (I’m really bad at remembering most artist’s works), but I could just stare at some of them for hours - they seem to really be alive. * * * “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/55 "2000-02-20T06:05:00Z")
Hmm, if I HAD to come up with a SINGLE painting, it would be “Starry Night” also. I love the impressionists. I don’t care for Picasso, and El Greco, the first time I saw anything significant of his (in Toledo – Spain, folks, not Ohio) I was too young to appreciate him, just thought he was dark and dreary, although I did like “the Infanta.” I confess that I like modern folk art, too (so shoot me). Norman Rockwell, Charles Wysocki (I own a bunch of Wysocki prints). I like Steve Lyman’s nature prints, too – the man has (had, sadly he died in an accident a few years ago) an awesome way of portrating light and fire. -Melin * * * Siamese attack puppet – California Still neglecting and overprotecting my children ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/56 "2000-02-19T21:09:00Z")
Matisse never rang my bells…too jolly and bright, I guess. I’m not big on any of the Fauvists. I’m very big on the Pre-Raphaelites Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Millais, Holman Hunt…lots of expiring Ophelias and Ladies of Shalott), and their heirs, the Symbolists (Redon, Khnopff, Toorop, Ensor, Munch, Rops). Did you guys hear that Paul Cadmus died a couple of weeks ago? I LOVE some of his stuff…THE FLEET’S IN, THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS, BAR ITALIA. And his partner in arms, the OTHER gay master of figurative mid-20th century weirdness, George Tooker, creator of SUBWAY, GOVERNMENT BUREAU, and WARD. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/57 "2000-02-19T22:16:00Z")
I really like Caravaggio – this site has lots of his work. [http://www.ocaiw.com/carava.htm](http://www.ocaiw.com/carava.htm) My favorite is “The Incredulity of St. Thomas”. I also like Monet; a print of “Asters” is hanging over my dining room table. * * * “There are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.” – Dr. Morgenes, _The Dragonbone Chair_ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/58 "2000-02-20T06:31:00Z")
Salvador Dali, especially his religious paintings, the crucifixions, the Last Supper. On a lighter note, American primitive folk art, portraits of ancestors. Also farmyard animals painted on barn boards, with teeny heads and huge bodies. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/59 "2000-02-20T19:05:00Z")
My favorite is “Ophelia” by John Everett Millais. It’s in the Tate in London. A picture of it is found at this URL: [http://www.webmagick.co.uk/prcoll/artists/millais/index.html](http://www.webmagick.co.uk/prcoll/artists/millais/index.html) Unfortunately, this doesn’t show it well. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003/60 "2000-02-20T21:24:00Z")
Personally, I’m a fan of a particular **Egon Schiele** picture, but the name seems to vary between texts… [Sitting Woman With Legs Drawn Up (1917)](http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/schiele/schiele.sitting-woman.jpg) * * * I never touched him, ref, honest! [Crusoe Takes A Trip](http://www.kilcast.freeserve.co.uk/) / [Don’t Look Down](http://oldham.cjb.net) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-painting/14003.md?page=4)