Favorite Painting of All Time

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Gallileo, Jul 20, 2013.

  1. Luke The Drifter

    Luke The Drifter Forum Resident

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    George Bellows: Dempsey and Firpo (1924)
     
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  2. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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  3. AFOS

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    Lovely - Van Gogh was a master.

    And I'm curious if anyone has mentioned the Mona Lisa?
     
  4. jupiterboy

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    Earlier in the thread, I believe.
     
  5. sidewinder572

    sidewinder572 Senior Member

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  6. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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  8. testikoff

    testikoff Seasoned n00b

    ^^^ Already posted earlier in this thread... ;)
     
  9. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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    Never hurts to see a great painting again!
     
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  10. Vens

    Vens Member

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    Stuart Sutcliffe-Untitled.

    There. Now it's a Beatles thread.
     
  12. carrick doone

    carrick doone Whhhuuuutttt????

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    This is an amazing story painting. Very complex in composition, beautifully executed in this realist style. Characters are fully described down to the writer in the centre of the painting. The artist has drawn my eye to the centre and the point of the story and then described the story and coloured it with all of these other characters. Everything works because of the composition and the actions of the performers. You can see that the artist used one model several times which makes this painting more interesting to me. It is like a play in painting.
     
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  14. SBurke

    SBurke Nostalgia Junkie

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    There was an excellent Bellows retrospective at the Met. last year. This painting is in the catalogue, but oddly I don't remember seeing it. Anyhow, it is a good painting, and it's interesting to compare it to Bellows's earlier boxing paintings (1907-09), which I think partly because of the faceless anonymity of the fighters have a special raw power.

    Here is "Stag at Sharkey's," probably the best known.

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  15. smilin ed

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  17. SMcFarlane

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    Some really fantastic posts here of art of all kinds. Something really grabs me about John Singer Sargents' Cashmere
     
  18. Electric

    Electric The Medium is the Massage

    Just saw these two in Madrid. Velazquez and Bosch.


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  19. Electric

    Electric The Medium is the Massage

    What is art?



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  20. Faceman

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    Andrew Wyeth Winter 1946

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  21. zobalob

    zobalob Senior Member

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    Regarding John Singer Sargent, a great painter, here are two portraits that he made of a great author, Robert Louis Stevenson, first in August of 1885 and then seated in 1887.

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    A preparatory sketch ia also a favourite of mine.....

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  22. sidewinder572

    sidewinder572 Senior Member

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    Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio - The Betrayal of Christ

    We saw this in Dublin recently.
     
  23. Figbert

    Figbert Forum Resident

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    At the Louvre, there are two wonderful paintings by Raphael (Castiglione) and Titian (Man with a Glove) that are near the Mona Lisa. There can be scores of people looking at the Mona Lisa and hardly anyone looking at these two great paintings.
     
  24. brew ziggins

    brew ziggins Forum Prisoner

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    Y'all should see Tim's Vermeer, in which a obsessed man with too much money and time and no painting experience tries to recreate The Music Lesson and solve a mystery in the process. Produced by Penn and Teller, directed by Teller. Do see it in the theater to appreciate the brushwork detail.

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  25. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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    Godfried Schalcken - Lovers Lit by a Candle
     
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