Dali - Swans Reflecting Elephants.
http://www.madpoet.com
Clerks - Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you.
Dali’s Last Supper.
Eschew Obfuscation
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
I second Sylence on Escher, and above H. Bosch in my office hangs Gaudere’s Beast from the ‘Could you believe ?’ thread in GD.
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.
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.
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
Who originally painted the dogs playing poker?
Studi
When I grow up, I want to be the Minister of Silly Walks.
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?
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.
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.
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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.
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
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
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
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
I really like Caravaggio – this site has lots of his work.
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
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.
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
Unfortunately, this doesn’t show it well.
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)
I never touched him, ref, honest!
Crusoe Takes A Trip / Don’t Look Down