paintings (and artists) you love

[krang]

where my art lovers at?

i'm curious, indulge me please with some of your favourite paintings and artists - be it classics or contemporary.

 

[ButterTart]

Nighthawks is my absolute favourite:

 

[jivafox]

The Boxer by Konstantin Somov

 

[RJN]

Photographer, not painter, but Annie Leibovitz is my favorite artist

My parents had this book when I was a kid and I'd look through it all the time

 

[jivafox]

Pacific by Alex Colville

 

[Diddy]

I’m so very basic, I hardly dare post

 

[Lucille]

Richard Prince - Runaway Nurse

 

[Diddy]

 

[jivafox]

Madonna by Edvard Munch

 

[Lucille]

Woman with a Parrot - Gustave Courbet

 

[Lucille]

Witches Sabbath - Goya

 

[Lucille]

Speaking of Goya I also love the CAMP HORROR of ‘Saturn devouring his Son’

 

[jyxz]

Auguste Herbin tickles my fancy right now

 

[krang]

ophelia, john everett millais

always been drawn to this one. i saw it in the flesh at a pre-raphaelites exhibit in the tate some years ago.

 

[vespertine]

Probably my number one, even over The Starry Night.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

 

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[jivafox]

Not a painting but this is one of my favourites. Almost collapsed when I saw it at the Tate earlier this year.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

 

[Cerro de Casa]

 

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[wildchild]

I’m a big fan of Salvador Dali and in particular his painting Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea. Up close it look like his wife Gala and from a far just like Abraham Lincoln!

 

[jivafox]

The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius

 

[Lucille]

It’s a classic for a reason. Olympia by Manet.

 

[Lucille]

All of Rothko’s later work.

 

[Lucille]

 

[Lucille]

ophelia, john everett millais

always been drawn to this one. i saw it in the flesh at a pre-raphaelites exhibit in the tate some years ago.

STUNNING!

 

[Diddy]

But it doesn’t look anything like Wogan!

 

[Saltwater]

Gabor Gozon

 

[KindaCool]

Gosh I love so many. But ones I constantly remember are painted by the pseudonym "Monsu Desiderio". His architecture is so nightmarish.

'His' works are decadent and terrifying at the same time. And they make me sad.

 

[KindaCool]

 

[KindaCool]

And the most bizarre one: "Explosion"

 

[GNL]

Van Gogh - 420 blaze it

 

[Marilyn]

 

[GNL]

Speaking of Goya I also love the CAMP HORROR of ‘Saturn devouring his Son’

 

[lolly]

ophelia, john everett millais

always been drawn to this one. i saw it in the flesh at a pre-raphaelites exhibit in the tate some years ago.

We have a large print of that in our hallway after seeing it together at the Tate in the early days. I'd just redecorated and knew it would work.

The only other artist prints we have are a trio of Warhol Ingrid Bergmans, and two NYC Christopher Corr scenes which I have never really liked, but have pretty much tuned out now.

Other than that we have a few botanical prints and a few architectural prints about the house. Unlike Mr L I'm not afraid of a bare wall, though.

 

[lolly]

And obviously I was leaning hard into the Kylie Where The Wild Roses Grow video with the Ophelia decision, yes.

 

[lolly]

Gabor Gozon

This very much is my takeaway from this thread. Beautiful.

 

[Saltwater]

There's more artists I've meant to add here, I just keep forgetting to do it.

 

[Lucille]

I know he’s problematic but Gaugin’s Tahiti paintings are like nothing else.