Do you have a favorite painting (or any work of art)?

[Lavender Brown]

I like going to see John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Madame X at the Met.

It caused an uproar when it was first unveiled in Paris, so Sargent painted the diamond strap back on her shoulder. This is a photo of the painting as it originally looked:


What are your favorites?

[Bertha Venation]

1. I like Van Gogh--the one of the bedroom, w/ the yellow chair. And

I like Georgia O'Keeffe an awful lot. (No lesbian jokes, please.) :)

[redqueen]

2. Van Gogh - Starry Night over the Rhone

Edited to include a pic:

[DenverDem]

3. Anything by Yves Tanguy.

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[Lavender Brown]

5. Ooh

Cool. :)

[SarahB]

4. Mary Cassatt's Sleepy Baby

[Longgrain]

29. I remember the title to this one by Cassatt...

but how about bathing baby...

[AlCzervik]

6. i love this one

The engagement ring by Renoir

And i once saw a print of "The Scream" only it had Daffy Duck in it, i should have bought it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. DALI!

I'm lousy with painting names, so bear with me:

- Persistence of Memory (but that's too beaten);
- The one with Gaia about to be woken up by two tigers;
- Jesus crucified on a tesseract;
- The Last Supper (with the dodecahedron).

And lots more I surely forget.

[redqueen]

9. Gaia and the Tigers

I adore Dali... a truly great artist.

[CatBoreal]

23. I have an unsigned Dali Lithograph

in my living room.

He did a bunch for the a production of the Divine Comedy but died before he finished the commission.

Some of his work weren't signed, so we were able to pick one up at auction.

[vikegirl]

31. I love Dali too!

My fave: Swans Reflecting Elephants

[Placebo]

8. God yes, too many to name or post!

Andy Warhol's entire flower series (or anything by Warhol for that matter):



The list goes on! Magritte, Rembrandt, Dali, Degas, (Francis) Bacon...

[Lavender Brown]

15. Sure!

It's impossible to have just one. I'm just into this one right now because I'm reading (fiction) about the subject of the painting. Plus it's local and I can see it whenever I stop at the Met. There are so many painters I love... including the one in my sig.

Gotta love Warhol. :)

[short bus president]

10. I like the dogs playing poker

or something tastefully done in blacklight-reflective tones.

;-)

[SarahB]

12. On Black Velvet?

That's the best. I keep that in the Rumpus room while I save my best Thomas Kincade sofa sized original in the living room for all my guests to see.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. It is impossible to have a favorite for me. I like too many in different

ways. There's St Anthony receiving the Stigmata at the Fricke (as well as the Vermeer, the Ingres - see what I'm sayin'?)

[redqueen]

13. My favorite by Dali - The Invisible Man

[Gildor Inglorion]

14. Anything by Adolphe William Bouguereau...

how could one NOT love his work?

[Richardo]

16. Childe Hassam - Boston Common at Twilight

I'm not sure why...I've never been to Boston. But the light-work is phenomenal.

[Lavender Brown]

18. That is used as the cover of a book I'm reading...

William Dean Howells. It takes place in Boston. :hi:

[johnnie]

17. Anything done on Spirograph

Simply beautiful.

[Tikki]

19. Klee's 'Twittering'...

Tikki

[arwalden]

20. Nighthawks

[Lavender Brown]

22. Yes! I also love this one by Hopper

New York Movie - I always feel sympathetic for the woman.

[arwalden]

26. I Wonder What The Story Is?

Was she stood-up? She's still wearing what looks to be an overcoat, so she hasn't yet been to her seat. She's leaning on the wall as though she's been waiting. Her hand held up to her face is a sign of stress. It hints that she's trying to hide her sadness, or perhaps that she's worried.

Or maybe she's just an usher (usherette?) and she's just weary from standing on duty, and she's just bored as she's waiting for the movie to end.

[TN al]

25. Nighthawks too...

...but then anything by Hopper. Here is another one I like.

[CatBoreal]

21. My top two are...

The Kiss - Gustav Klimt. I have a framed poster on my wall by the bed. Hubby bought it for me.



Starry Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh

Plus anything done by my daughters (aged 5 and 2)

[CornField]

24. Dorian Cleavenger

He has done lots of fantasy/erotic works: (caution: some are graphic)





My direct links won't work, but here is a link to his page: http://www.dorianart.com/

[Longgrain]

27. Other than my own....;)

Of course I love Gauguin...even if he was a jerk in real life...

My fave...which I've spent hour looking at when I was an art student in Boston...

[Samurai_Writer]

28. Le Juene Martyre by Paul Delaroche

My mom bought me a daily calendar book from The Louvre when she went to Paris back in 1995, and a print of this painting was featured. I fell in love with it instantly. I bought a print of it from art.com. Here it is hanging on my bedroom wall.

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. Gorky

Liver is the Cock's Comb.....the color, the motion, everything going on in it. First time I saw it I was blown away.

[Lavender Brown]

34. I can see why

:thumbsup:

[n2mark]

32. Monet or Renoir

[BurtWorm]

33. Ancient Roman painting is intriguing

Like the frescoes at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. They're so sophisticated and delicate, compared to the painting Europeans did in the millennium right after:

[ffm172]

35. Michelangelo

his David amazes me every time again



also his Pieta



and all his other sculptures and paintings and drawings. He is one of my favorite artists