Favorite Painting of All Time

This painting is in the collection of my local gallery. I have been able to view it regularly over many years. Wonderful painting, very moving.

 

Angélique Mongez - "mars and venus"



Themistokles von Eckenbrecher - "view of laerdalsoren in sognefjord"



Thomas Brooks - "guy fawkes day, 'please to remember' etc."



Marie-François Firmin-Girard - "flower market" (le quai aux fleurs)



Marie-François Firmin-Girard - "sunday in bas-meudon" (le dimanche au bas-meudon)

 

Hendrick Avercamp - "winter landscape with ice skaters"



Federico del Campo - "venice"



Manuel Cabral Aguado Bejarano - "at the torrijos pilgrimage" (en la romería de torrijos)



W. Etienne - "the theatre group makes a short stop" (kurze rast der theatergruppe)



Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau - "for spain and for the king, gálvez in america"

 

Galvez in America-Thanks for the history lesson.

 

5 paintings by American painter Tom Lovell (1909-1997)

(Tom Lovell died in a car crash in New Mexico on 29 June 1997, aged 88. His 48-year-old daughter Deborah was also killed in the accident.)

Tom Lovell - "love on the nile"



Tom Lovell - "up the staircase"



Tom Lovell - "day of yellow flowers"



Tom Lovell - "shot in the dark"



Tom Lovell - "surrender at appomattox"

 

The Triumph of Death - Wikipedia by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

 

5 paintings by Dutch-Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - "netherlandish proverbs"



Pieter Bruegel the Elder - "children's games"



Pieter Bruegel the Elder - "the tower of babel"



Pieter Bruegel the Elder - "the hunters in the snow"



Pieter Bruegel the Elder - "landscape with the fall of icarus"

 

About "The Fall of Icarus:

A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight ":

 

Such an iconic painting.

It's located in the city where I live and I always feel immense emotions when standing next to it. Often the term "sadness" is associated with the piece of work, and whilst obviously I can understand that, I always feel power and strength in the way the literal and symbolic leg is put in front in terms of protection.

 

Let me quote some info from Wikipedia about this beautiful painting:

"The painting depicts a distraught ewe bleating in grief, her breath freezing in the cold air. The mother sheep is standing over the dead body of her lamb, a trickle of blood running from its mouth into the white snow, in a scene reminiscent of a pietà. The pair of sheep are encircled by a murder of black crows that crowd ominously around under a dull grey cloudy winter sky, waiting for an opportunity to scavenge the carcass. The painting's muted tones – almost monotone shades of white, grey, brown and black – reflect its despairing subject matter. Dr Tedd Got, a senior curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, has suggested that the work may have taken inspiration from the 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, in which Charles Darwin argued emotions have biological originals, and that animals have similar emotions to humans. It has also been interpreted as a commentary on the cruelty of society, represented by the crowd of opportunistic crows.

The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1878, under its French title Angoisses, and then in London the following year. It was engraved by Charles Maurand in 1878 for the French periodical L'Art, and by Tiburce de Mare in 1879. The painting was bought by the London art dealer Agnew's and then sold to the National Gallery of Victoria. It arrived in Australia in 1880. It retains its original gilt frame.

Schenck reversed the scene in his c.1885 painting, "L'Orphelin, souvenir d'Auvergne" ("The Orphan, memory of Auvergne"), now held by the Musée d'Orsay, in which a lamb stands above the body of its dead mother, before a line of black crows waiting on a wooden fence."

 

This is the later variation of "anguish". (It can be found in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France)

August Friedrich Schenck - "l'orphelin, souvenir d'auvergne" (the orphan, memory of auvergne) (c. 1885)

 

Lawrence Alma-Tadema - "the roses of heliogabalus"



Jasper Francis Cropsey - "starrucca viaduct, pennsylvania"



Carsten Henrichsen - "frederiksborg castle seen from the edge of the lake"



Adolph von Menzel - "traveling in beautiful nature" (auf der fahrt durch die schöne natur)



Albert Anker - "the school walk" (der schulspaziergang)

 

Again, tears well in my eyes.

 

5 paintings by French painter Horace Vernet (1789-1863)

Horace Vernet - "italian brigands surprised by papal troops"



Horace Vernet - "the battle of valmy"



Horace Vernet - "battle of somosierra"



Horace Vernet - "invalid handing a petition to napoleon at the parade in the court of the tuileries palace"



Horace Vernet - "the lion hunt"

 

5 paintings by Russian painter Ilya Repin (1844-1930)

Ilya Repin - "reply of the zaporozhian cossacks to sultan mehmed IV of the ottoman empire"



Ilya Repin - "barge haulers on the volga"



Ilya Repin - "religious procession in kursk governorate"



Ilya Repin - "ceremonial sitting of the state council on 7 may 1901 marking the centenary of its foundation"



Ilya Repin - "what freedom!"

 

5 paintings by English painter John Martin (1789-1854)

John Martin - "the great day of his wrath"



John Martin - "pandemonium"



John Martin - "the fall of babylon"



John Martin - "the destruction of sodom and gomorrah"



John Martin - "seventh plague of egypt"

 

5 more paintings by John Martin:

John Martin - "belshazzar's feast"



John Martin - "the destruction of pompeii and herculaneum"



John Martin - "macbeth"



John Martin - "the last judgement"



John Martin - "the plains of heaven"

 

"The Dog" by Goya

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5 paintings by American painter Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012)

Thomas Kinkade - "a peaceful retreat"



Thomas Kinkade - "clocktower cottage"



Thomas Kinkade - "cobblestone bridge"



Thomas Kinkade - "hometown bridge"



Thomas Kinkade - "main street celebration"

 

5 more paintings by Thomas Kinkade:

Thomas Kinkade - "beacon of hope"



Thomas Kinkade - "amsterdam café"



Thomas Kinkade - "french riviera café"



Thomas Kinkade - "beauty and the beast falling in love"



Thomas Kinkade - "snow white dancing in the sunlight"

 

Easter Monday by Willem de Kooning

it is huge and transcendental

 

I was looking for "Dogs Playing Mahler", but...the closest I could find, was apparently Debussy.

 

This painting's name is "richard gallo and his dog at petit gennevilliers" (richard gallo et son chien dick, au petit-gennevilliers)

It was created in 1884 by Gustave Caillebotte who was a member and patron of the Impressionists.

 

5 paintings by French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825):

Jacques-Louis David - "the death of socrates"



Jacques-Louis David - "oath of the horatii"



Jacques-Louis David - "portrait of madame récamier"



Jacques-Louis David - "the death of marat"



Jacques-Louis David - "napoleon crossing the alps"

 

5 paintings by Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900):

Ivan Aivazovsky - "the ninth wave"



Ivan Aivazovsky - "battle of sinop"



Ivan Aivazovsky - "view of constantinople and the bosphorus"



Ivan Aivazovsky - "ship on stormy seas"



Ivan Aivazovsky - "view of the odessa harbour with ships"